An empty crossroads on a heath at night, a leaning signpost and poppy heads in the verge.

The tarot · XVII

The Star

Daughter of the Firmament, Dweller between the Waters

The face of XVII, The Star, engraved in gold on black, with its title, Daughter of the Firmament, Dweller between the Waters.

Hope, guidance and the light of the higher self.

Upright

Renewal after the storm. Faith, inspiration and healing return. Keep giving from what you have, and let yourself be refilled too.

Reversed

Despair, disconnection or hope placed in the wrong star.

Show the spirits

The spirit work

In the Goetia, Orobas is faithful and will not let the seeker be tempted by other spirits; he answers of divinity and creation. Nuit is the star-bodied sky. A good card for a protective first draw before deeper work.

A question to sit with

What gives me hope when I stop trying to earn it?

Where the card sits

Correspondences

Path28, Netzach to Yesod
Hebrew letterTzaddi, the fish-hook, value 90
AstrologyAquarius, fixed air, ruled by Saturn
Presiding powerNuit, star-bodied queen of space
Governing angelCambriel, angel of Aquarius
RuneAlgiz, the elk-sedge: protection and reaching towards the divine
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SpiritOrobas, prince
The seal of Orobas

Appears as a horse, then a man. Answers of past, present and future, of divinity and creation; gives dignities. Faithful, and will not let the magician be tempted. Goetia 55.

The Star in the guidebookAll seventy-eight cards

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Notes on sources

The meanings, the questions and the correspondences are the guidebook’s own. The paths, letters and astrology follow the Golden Dawn’s attributions; the angels are the Shem ha-Mephorash, as the deck gives them; the spirits, shown only when you ask for them, are the seventy-two of the Goetia. Where each comes from, and what is old and what is modern, is set out in the guidebook’s Notes on sources and seals.