In love, wounds are healing. Mention of a past partner no longer stings the way it did, and you laugh easily even with someone you have just met. It is not a time when things speed up, but meetings that put each other at ease are budding. The more you open your heart without pretence, the more smoothly the relationship unfolds.
A card where strength returns
The Star: Card Meaning
The Star: Card Meaning
Reading It Upright and Reversed
The Star · Major Arcana No. XVII
The Star shows a figure kneeling by a pond, pouring water from two jugs, with a large star above. Upright, it means recovery, as strength slowly fills back up after a long ordeal, and a quiet hope.
In card 17, a figure settled by a pond empties the jugs in both hands. One foot is in the water and one knee on the ground; one stream mixes back into the pond while the other water spreads in five channels over dry soil.
In the sky, seven small stars surround one large star, and a bird rests on a tree behind. The naked figure shows a state with nothing left to hide. It is a clear night after the storm has passed, so the whole picture reads not as noisy good luck but as a calm process of recovery.
I got the Star card. When will things get better?
It is not a card that arrives by turning everything over in one night. Like water soaking into dry ground, recovery often comes little by little over several weeks, in the order of sleep, mood and relationships. So looking only at today, it may feel as if nothing has moved. Compare yourself with a month ago and you will find the change is already under way.
The Star: Love
Upright
Reversed
Even when a good person comes close, the thought that you are not good enough comes first. In the end you pull back first or dig behind their kindness. This time, instead of studying the other person, listen to the words you use to describe yourself. When the way you speak to yourself softens, the relationship gains room too.
The Star: Money
Upright
Your finances do not grow all at once, but they have hit bottom and are slowly climbing. Overdue payments come in, or a support programme or refund you had forgotten about helps. Savings opened around now keep going without a break even if the amount is small, so set up one new small automatic savings transfer.
Reversed
The numbers have improved a little, but the anxiety will not settle. You keep opening your banking app and only wear down your nerves. Limit balance checks to once a day, and instead write your monthly fixed costs on paper, and vague worries shrink. Worry swells the more you do not know.
The Star: Work
Upright
At work, a time to get back on track without strain. It suits returning to work after a break or starting to study an unfamiliar field. Even if results do not show right away, what you learn stays with you, and the reputation you build now brings good people and opportunities later. At times like this, persistence is your most reliable weapon.
Reversed
Your skill has grown, but you rate yourself low. You see an opening you like and close the window because you fall short of one line of the requirements. List the work you have handled so far and the list is longer than you think. Set yourself beside who you were six months ago instead of beside others, and you will clearly see where you stand now.
| Card | The Star — Major Arcana No. XVII |
|---|---|
| Astrology · Element | Aquarius |
| Major Arcana | It is number XVII of the 22 cards, from 0 The Fool to 21 The World. Major cards point to the big currents you are going through these days rather than small day-to-day matters. |
| Upright Keywords | Hope · healing · a gentle light |
| Reversed Keywords | Lost confidence · vagueness · low energy |
The Star Upright
Hope · healing · a gentle light
The upright Star is close to a sign that you have already passed through the darkest stretch. Your body is still weary, but sleep slowly deepens, your eyes turn again to work you had let go, and the wish to see friends quietly sprouts. It may not be a dramatic reversal, but the arrow clearly points upward.
The Star adds one more thing. As in the picture of emptying two jugs separately, caring for yourself and sharing with others go side by side. It is a period when giving and receiving help both feel natural, and the record of the time you endured becomes real strength for someone passing through the same tunnel.
The Star Reversed
Lost confidence · vagueness · low energy
The reversed Star is less the light going out than your eyesight for recognizing that light growing weak. Your circumstances have clearly improved, yet you feel nothing has changed. Time spent comparing yourself with others on social media grows, you brush off what you did well as luck and chew vividly over your mistakes. Much of what drains your strength is this kind of arithmetic.
A sense of being lost also comes from this side. When the question of what you want gets no ready answer, the road ahead is faint too. At such times, rather than setting a grand goal, pick one small task you could finish in a week. A single result you can touch becomes the brick that rebuilds confidence.
Something to Try the Day This Card Appears
Write down in your notes three things you finished well today. They need not be grand achievements. Getting up with the alarm, making the phone call you had put off or not skipping a meal is enough. In a period of recovery, a record of what you have already done gives far more strength than a to-do list.
Cards from Other Groups
Major Arcana: 22 Cards
The Magician
The High Priestess
The Empress
The Emperor
The Hierophant
The Lovers
The Chariot
Strength
The Hermit
Wheel of Fortune
Justice
The Hanged Man
Death
Temperance
The Devil
The Tower
The Star
The Moon
The Sun
Judgement
The World
The Fool
A card read on its own means something slightly different from one placed beside other cards. If something is on your mind these days, pick four cards to read on, and if you are curious about your inborn nature, open a Saju reading as well.