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Major Arcana · Trump XVII
The Star
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightHopeRenewalQuiet faith
↓ ReversedDiscouragementFaith mislaidPride refusing help
What it means
↑ Upright
Hope, of the calm kind. Under a great star and seven smaller ones, a woman sits at the water's edge and pours from two jugs, onto the land and back into the pool: renewal after strain, given freely. Take in what restores you, give without keeping count, and hold a distant aim in view.
↓ Reversed
The star still shines; what is missing is the looking up. Discouragement says nothing can change and pride says you need nobody's help, and each leaves you powerless in its own way. Lower the bar for what counts as progress, accept one kindness offered, and look for a single reason to keep going.
What's on the card
The great star has eight rays, and so, in Waite's account, have the seven lesser ones around it, commonly read as the seven planets of the ancients. Here she sits on a rock at the water's edge with one foot in the pool (Waite has her kneeling, one knee on the land), and she gives to land and water alike. Waite names two mottoes for the card: the water of life, given freely, and the gifts of the spirit. On the tree behind her a bird has alighted, commonly taken for the ibis, sacred to the Egyptian god of wisdom.
Waite's meaning, 1910
Upright
Loss, theft, privation, abandonment; another reading says—hope and bright prospects.
Reversed
Arrogance, haughtiness, impotence.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.