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The Star Tarot Card Meaning
The Star is card XVII of the Major Arcana. Upright it speaks of hope, inspiration, healing; reversed, of despair, disconnection. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's Jungian archetype and its astrological correspondence.
Major ArcanaAirAquarius
Upright meaning
“Loss, theft, privation, abandonment; another reading says — hope and bright prospects”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: hope, inspiration, healing, renewal, faith in the future.
Reversed meaning
“Arrogance, haughtiness, impotence”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: despair, disconnection, loss of hope.
The archetype
Hope as the soul renewed — guidance after collapse; the quiet star of the anima mundi.
Astrology
Correspondence: Aquarius.
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