Rider Waite Tarot
The Star
A great, radiant
star of eight rays, surrounded by seven lesser stars--also of eight
rays. The female figure in the foreground is entirely naked. Her left
knee is on the land and her right foot upon the water. She pours Water
of Life from two great ewers, irrigating sea and land. Behind her is
rising ground and on the right a shrub or tree, whereon a bird alights.
The figure expresses eternal youth and beauty. The star is
l'étoile flamboyante,
which appears in Masonic symbolism, but has been confused therein. That
which the figure communicates to the living scene is the substance of
the heavens and the elements. It has been said truly that the mottoes of
this card are "Waters of Life freely" and "Gifts of the Spirit."
The summary of several tawdry explanations says that it is a card of
hope. On other planes it has been certified as immortality and interior
light. For the majority of prepared minds, the figure will appear as the
type of Truth unveiled, glorious in undying beauty, pouring on the
waters of the soul some part and measure of her priceless possession.
But she is in reality the Great Mother in the Kabalistic
Sephira Binah, which is supernal Understanding, who communicates to the
Sephiroth that are below in the measure that they can receive her influx.
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