comparativetarot: The Star. Art by Kaysha Siemens, from the Woven Path Tarot. The Star is one of my
comparativetarot: The Star. Art by Kaysha Siemens, from the Woven Path Tarot. The Star is one of my favorite tarot cards, and I’m so thrilled I got to paint her. Overall I stuck with fairly traditional imagery and symbolism: 8 stars in the sky, one of them prominently large; a scarlet ibis in the tree; flowering roses. The shore is of stones (one of the few hints of hardship in a card that generally has little but positive, or at least gentle, readings), and her outstretched foot is not in the water so much as on its surface. She pours water, one stream into the pool, and one onto the land beside it, splitting into five rivulets. The changes I made are that rather than fully kneeling, she is gracefully bending toward the water, and instead of the traditional pair of pitchers, her hair catches the starlight and pours from her hands as water. The piece is painted in an intentionally decorative and even slightly stiff manner, to evoke tapestries and early Renaissance artwork.The Star is by and large a card of hope, renewal, and light after tragedy (as it follows immediately after the Tower in the major arcana); it can also indicate a loss or theft, but I do not believe this necessarily requires a reversal (I don’t think it necessary to read reversals in general, as all cards contain all their meanings already, and context is what makes the difference), as the Star is traditionally strongly associated with Persephone, and both theft and renewal are cyclically contained in her story. -- source link