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XVII - the Star
( Jupiter in Aquarius as a symbol for long-sightedness and confidence; or Venus in Pisces standing for the desire for the inscrutable )
Zodiac: Aquarius (ruled by Uranus - 0. the Fool)
Tree of life: From Chokmah to Tiphareth
Element: Air (Hot and Wet - Sanguine)
Number: 17 as the number of hope, expansion of the 7, cross sum is 8
The Star is the trump of hope and trust, for the sensitive understanding of cosmic coherence, the intuition that everything is in balance and harmony. It is related to the Adjustment (the cross sum of 17 is 8), but while the Adjustment keeps the balance deliberately, the Star keeps it with feeling.
The Star is also called the 'Guiding Light', and is taken as a symbol of the deep realization that the chosen way is the right one, that the end of this way will be a good one, and that there is perfect harmony between the psychical feeling and the physical doing.
In a negative position the Star can tell when there is a mistake in the code, some error in our feeling, that the way we feel so sure about isn't quite right. This is what makes this trump so kind - even in its most negative aspect it just gives us a gentle warning.
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Drive: The guiding light, living the moment, confidence in nature and life
Light: Creative hopes, optimism, trust
Shadow: Destructive hopes, illusions
( source: www.corax.com/tarot/cards )
Hope. Unexpected help. Clarity of vision. Spiritual insight. Dreaminess. Disappointment.
Every form of energy in the card is spiral; this is in anticipation of the present Aeon, that of Horus, the crowned and conquering Child, successor to the "dying god," Osiris. The departing Aeon is shown in the rectilinear forms of energy issuing from the lower cup. These forms stand for the now abandoned Euclidean geometry. The figure of the goddess may be taken as a manifestation of the surrounding space of Heaven.
Aquarius. Daleth. This is built up as a design on a spiral to show the rising force of a new age. The woman holds two cups, the north and south poles of magnetic attraction. Above her a new star is rising, beneath her are the crystallizing dogmas of a former Age.
( source: Aleister Crowley's Thoth tarot deck booklet )
Coming Soon! --- ( source: Aleister Crowley's Book of Thoth )
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