Today's
TarotReading

The Star carries the energy of the sacred first-star-pouring-mother — the woman who kneels beneath the night sky after a long darkness and pours fresh water freely, trusting the light above her. She is the seventeenth card of the Major Arcana, and she comes after the hardest passage of the journey: after the Tower falls, the Star appears. She is renewal, healing, and quiet faith in the future.

The Star does not, faithfully, mean naive optimism. Her hope has been through the dark. She kneels unclothed in the card’s traditional image not from carelessness but from openness: nothing left to hide, nothing left to prove. She simply pours, and the land and the water receive what she gives.

The Star belongs to Aquarius, the water-bearer — and today the waxing gibbous Moon travels through Aquarius, growing brighter each night. The card and the sky are speaking the same language.

A woman kneels at the edge of a quiet pool beneath a great eight-pointed star, with seven smaller stars shining around it. One foot rests on the water; one knee rests on the earth. From two clay jars she pours water — one stream into the pool, the other onto the land, where it runs in five small rivulets. On a far hill, a small bird rests in a tree. A sprig of lavender grows by the water’s edge.

The great star is the guiding light, the vision she follows. The seven smaller stars are the lights that accompany it. Her foot on the water and knee on the earth show her balance between feeling and practical life. The two jars pour into both, nourishing the inner and the outer. The five streams on the land are the five senses, refreshed. She gives without counting, because she trusts the source.

The Star on Mars’s own Tuesday asks the sovereign feminine one small tender question: what star am I following, and am I letting its light renew me?

A vision is not only something to work toward. It is also something to be nourished by. The Star pours, and in pouring, she is refreshed.

The Moon’s opposition to Mars and Jupiter in Leo adds courage and generosity to the reflection. Your vision does not have to be small or cautious today.

And because the Full Moon is only days away, the reflection asks: what is ripening in you that the full light will soon reveal?

Hope, softly poured, is not foolish. She is the sovereign feminine kneeling beneath her guiding star, giving freely, renewed by the very water she offers.

I kneel, softly, as the Star kneels — beneath my own guiding light, pouring freely into my inner and outer life, trusting the source that never runs dry.

1. What is the guiding star in your life right now — the vision or value you are walking toward?
2. What dark season have you come through that makes this hope feel earned?
3. Where are you pouring your energy, and is it nourishing both your inner and outer life?
4. What would it feel like to give freely, without counting, because you trust the source?

Sara Teasdale — born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1884, a quiet and often sheltered child who found her voice in lyric poetry; who moved to New York and became one of the most widely read American poets of her generation; whose collection Love Songs won the prize that became the first Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1918; and who died in 1933 — wrote these lines as the close of “Stars,” a short poem published in her collection Flame and Shadow (1920).

And I know that I am honored to be witness of so much majesty. The poem begins with the speaker alone at night on a dark hill among the pines, looking up at a heaven full of stars. It ends not with fear of how small she is, but with gratitude for being there to see it. Teasdale turns the old human feeling of insignificance under the night sky into a sense of honor — the privilege of being the one who looks up and sees.

Today’s Star lives in Teasdale’s words directly. The star-pouring-mother does not feel diminished beneath the vast sky. She feels honored to be there, witness to so much light — and that honor is where her hope begins.

“Wishing on a Star” — Rose Royce (from In Full Bloom, 1977)

Rose Royce — the Los Angeles soul band known for their work with producer Norman Whitfield, fronted by the singer Gwen Dickey — recorded “Wishing on a Star” for their 1977 album In Full Bloom. Written by Billie Rae Calvin, the ballad rose into the top three of the British charts in early 1978 and has been recorded by many artists since.

Today’s Star moves gently in this song. It is a tender wish sent up into the night, hoping that what the heart longs for will come true. Gwen Dickey’s voice carries both the ache and the faith of the wish — the same blend of longing and trust that the star-pouring-mother holds as she kneels beneath the sky.