Tarot Of The Day July 9, 2018 - Day 21: The Raven’s Prophecy Deck - The Star
I have begun the creation of an 89 day tarot course in a group I am a member of on Facebook ('A Kaleidoscope of Magical Perceptions' is the name of the group, please feel free to request membership - it is full of fun people and really great posts about all manner of topics) and I thought I would cross post the information here to this blog as well. Once the initial 89 days of the course have passed, it will start over using a different tarot deck. The text of the twenty-first session follows.
In the Rider-Waite deck, The Star is shown as a maiden, nude, bearing two pitchers or vessels of water, which she is pouring out - one onto the shore where she rests her knee, the other in to the pool of water one of her feet is in. In the sky above her, eight stars shine, one more so than the others. Behind her, a phoenix is in a tree on the horizon.
Symbolic of hope and creativity, after the calamity seen in The Tower, The Star card indicates not only the feelings of loss after such upheaval, but also that good things are coming, though you must work hard to get them. The Rider-Waite booklet offers the following keywords for The Star: loss, theft, privation, abandonment, although another reading suggests hope and bright prospects in the future, (upright,) arrogance, impotence, and haughtiness (reversed.)
Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven’s Prophecy deck depicts the Star card as a starlit shore, the waves themselves reflecting the light of the stars. She writes: “The meaning of the Star - hope, new possibilities, positivity - can seem somewhat frothy if you read it without considering the cards it follows in the major arcana. All that inspiration is nice, but it’s not really..an action item. But if you think about how the Star follows the brutal Death, Devil, and Tower cards, the positivity represented in it is a pretty stunning accomplishment. Everything has changed for the person holding this card, and yet this complete turnaround hasn’t broken them down. In fact, the opposite. The searing experience of complete personal transformation has left them a new creature, wide-eyed and wise, lighter for having shed their personal demons and false beliefs. The world is a hopeful place to the Star, and she is generous with her experience, freely telling the story of her transformation to those who are just beginning their own journeys.”
Maggie’s keywords for The Star are hope, inspiration, self-esteem, and generosity.
Tomorrow - The Moon
***TOTD will cover the entire 78 card Raven’s Prophecy Deck alongside the Rider-Waite deck for comparison. In order to not completely burn out, this course of lessons will be 89 days long, so that every Saturday I can break the lessons up by doing a practicum lesson. Practicum lessons will take the form of a layout or spread that I will walk you through the steps of interpretation for. After the first 89 day session ends, we will start over with a one day break for a poll to be done to see what deck everyone wants to see next round. ***
I have begun the creation of an 89 day tarot course in a group I am a member of on Facebook ('A Kaleidoscope of Magical Perceptions' is the name of the group, please feel free to request membership - it is full of fun people and really great posts about all manner of topics) and I thought I would cross post the information here to this blog as well. Once the initial 89 days of the course have passed, it will start over using a different tarot deck. The text of the twenty-first session follows.
In the Rider-Waite deck, The Star is shown as a maiden, nude, bearing two pitchers or vessels of water, which she is pouring out - one onto the shore where she rests her knee, the other in to the pool of water one of her feet is in. In the sky above her, eight stars shine, one more so than the others. Behind her, a phoenix is in a tree on the horizon.
Symbolic of hope and creativity, after the calamity seen in The Tower, The Star card indicates not only the feelings of loss after such upheaval, but also that good things are coming, though you must work hard to get them. The Rider-Waite booklet offers the following keywords for The Star: loss, theft, privation, abandonment, although another reading suggests hope and bright prospects in the future, (upright,) arrogance, impotence, and haughtiness (reversed.)
Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven’s Prophecy deck depicts the Star card as a starlit shore, the waves themselves reflecting the light of the stars. She writes: “The meaning of the Star - hope, new possibilities, positivity - can seem somewhat frothy if you read it without considering the cards it follows in the major arcana. All that inspiration is nice, but it’s not really..an action item. But if you think about how the Star follows the brutal Death, Devil, and Tower cards, the positivity represented in it is a pretty stunning accomplishment. Everything has changed for the person holding this card, and yet this complete turnaround hasn’t broken them down. In fact, the opposite. The searing experience of complete personal transformation has left them a new creature, wide-eyed and wise, lighter for having shed their personal demons and false beliefs. The world is a hopeful place to the Star, and she is generous with her experience, freely telling the story of her transformation to those who are just beginning their own journeys.”
Maggie’s keywords for The Star are hope, inspiration, self-esteem, and generosity.
Tomorrow - The Moon
***TOTD will cover the entire 78 card Raven’s Prophecy Deck alongside the Rider-Waite deck for comparison. In order to not completely burn out, this course of lessons will be 89 days long, so that every Saturday I can break the lessons up by doing a practicum lesson. Practicum lessons will take the form of a layout or spread that I will walk you through the steps of interpretation for. After the first 89 day session ends, we will start over with a one day break for a poll to be done to see what deck everyone wants to see next round. ***
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