The Star
Major Arcana
What the The Star means — upright and reversed, with keywords.
17What this card is
After the noise, a quiet picture: a figure kneeling by a pool at night, pouring water back into it under a wide open sky. The Star is replenishment and modest, unspectacular hope, the kind that shows up after something difficult rather than instead of it. Nothing dramatic is promised here. It is about the return of the sense that things can be repaired, and about the small clear thing you want that has survived everything else that happened.
Upright meaning
KEYWORDS
Quiet faith that things are moving somewhere good, after difficulty.
Reversed meaning
KEYWORDS
Hope that's gone flat or hard to access right now.
People also ask
- What does The Star mean?
- Keywords: hope, renewal, quiet faith. Quiet faith that things are moving somewhere good, after difficulty.
- What does The Star reversed mean?
- Reversed, the keywords shift to discouragement, disconnection. Hope that's gone flat or hard to access right now.
- Is The Star a good card?
- Neither, and the question is worth resisting. Upright it speaks of hope; reversed, of discouragement. The same card is encouraging in one spread and a warning in another — what decides it is the question you asked and the cards around it.
- Where does The Star sit in the deck?
- The Star is a Major Arcana card, number 17 of the twenty-two. The Majors mark the large movements of a life rather than the week's weather, so when one lands it usually answers the question behind the question.
Combinations with The Star
A card rarely arrives alone. Each pairing below changes the reading — sometimes softening it, sometimes sharpening it into something the single card never said.