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Major Arcana XVII

The Star

Hope, renewal and openness

  • hope
  • renewal
  • opening
Card of a black cat next to a fountain under a large star and seven smaller ones, with two vessels, violet flowers and an ibis on a tree
Major Arcana XVIIThe Star

Reading the card

After weathering the storm, choosing to trust again can be a concrete act.

The Star appears when it is no longer necessary to pretend that nothing hurt to look forward again. It proposes caring for a humble hope: offering resources to what can grow, accepting support and allowing clarity to return little by little.

The Star arrives after The Tower and changes the tone without erasing what happened. The vessels return water to the earth and the stream, a repeated gesture that repairs without grandiloquence. This card invites you to identify a hope linked to possible actions: rest, ask for help, resume a practice or care for a secure bond. Realistic trust does not require guarantees; it is fueled by small proofs that resources, beauty and companionship still exist.

Documented iconography

Symbols to look slowly.

We separate the motifs inherited from the Rider-Waite-Smith system from any artistic decision of Cat Omens.

  1. RWS Tradition

    The eight-pointed star

    The main light and the seven minor stars create a broad orientation after the breakup of The Tower.

    The Pictorial Key to the Tarot · Part II
  2. RWS Tradition

    The two vessels

    The water offered to earth and current expresses shared renewal between the inner world and the environment.

    The Pictorial Key to the Tarot · Part II

Origin

What we inherit and what we interpret.

The symbolic structure belongs to a published tradition; the reading and the feline adaptation are an editorial creation of Cat Omens.

Reference system
Rider-Waite-Smith
Editorial layer
Original Cat Omens

Sources consulted