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This is tarot, a different tradition from astrology. The card is drawn at random: nothing in the sky chooses it. It is a prompt for reflection and it predicts nothing.

How tarot is handled here

XVIIThe Star
Tarot cardMajor Arcana

Traditionally read as hope after difficulty: calm, renewal and a sense of direction returning. It is associated with openness, generosity and trust in a slower kind of recovery.

  • hope
  • renewal
  • calm
A question to sit withWhat gives me a steady sense of direction, even a small one?

Reversed

What the tradition associates with this card when it falls the other way up.

Reversed, traditionally read as hope that is hard to reach for a while: discouragement, weariness, a sense of being cut off from what usually restores. The tradition reads this as a dimming, not an absence.

  • discouragement
  • weariness
  • dimmed hope
A question to sit withWhat used to restore me that I have stopped making room for?

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