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17 The Star
Karmic Tarot
UPRIGHT: Here is the 17th stop. This is the state of mind after profound
insight, mind illumined by the heavens. Fireworks. As The Tower is God’s
grace, The Star is what you do with that grace. Here is the mind’s acceptance
of responsibility for packaging and filtering spiritual input down to the Emotional
and Physical Planes, the symbolism of pitchers of fluid knowledge
pouring into water and land alike. Meaning is distilled after the fall of The
Tower. This may seem like antiseptic poured on an open wound; there can be
pain as the medicine effects its cure. There is undoubtedly major change in
the offing and you must decide how to implement it in everyday life. Hope
derives from our acceptance of the pain of the moment, which grows into an
understanding of the present situation from a broader and longer range perspective.
The Star offers hope, optimism, aspirations, productive mental
growth, dedication to an ideal, and maximum expectations. Here are outer goals, the Moon will
give inner goals. To think of our fate as being in the Stars is to say that our fate is in our highest
expectations, our highest ideals. If something can be thought of, then it is possible. The mind is
excited, active, with its taste of the future. Here you find the content of the message from a wide
assortment of sources—from dreams, spirit guides, guardian angels in the guise of friends/family
or complete strangers, synchronous events, books falling off shelves, and the list is literally
endless. Here, too, is the recognition, the fame that accompanies the talent of expression; the
embodiment of good ideas well executed. The star on earth is just so because of his or her ability
to emulate the beauty of the stars in the heavens. INVERTED: At one extreme, we have pessimism;
at the other extreme, there is over optimism. If pessimism dips low into depression,
despair, complete lack of hope, then there is need for outside help. This reading itself may be a
sign from God for the readee to seek such help. There may already be more information than you
have been able to process on your own. Such an overload, if not handled, can lead to serious
mental, emotional, and/or physical problems. Under normal circumstances, and certainly in
metaphysical matters, you do not intervene unless requested. Requests need not come in words,
and in this case an overt call for help may be beyond the person’s ability.
18 The Moon
UPRIGHT: Here is the 18th stop. You see the emotions grown up, capable
of intelligent love and compassion as the self begins to merge with the other.
Also, passions that are intricately and harmoniously woven into the overall
fabric of the lifestyle and life’s purpose. Here you have floodgates to work in
concert with the ebb and flow of The Moon’s attractiveness. Your mature
emotions help equip you for the journey of your expanded sense of Self, the
Self that has begun to feel as one with its environment and nature, the Self that
will feel the larger joys and larger pains brought to it by its larger heart. This
can indicate a sense of emotional mission. A dedicated humanitarian. Altruism.
The Moon is the cool, silver, reflective mirror of the Sun. It gives us the
ability to see ourselves and our effect on the selves of others. Here are the inner
goals to match the outer goals shown by The Star(17). “The person who has
deep compassion is not going to be bothered whether he tells a lie or the truth. All Buddhas have
lied. They have to because they are so compassionate. The whole truth will be too much.” (Indian
guru Bagwhan Raineesh.) INVERTED: The pitfall of overidentifying with humanity’s suffering. It
can indicate incomplete or inadequate accommodation of elements of the subconscious, such as
the shadow personality alluded to in the description of The Devil(15). Lack of awareness of emotions.
This would indicate an emotional “Achilles’ heel.” Behavior will be vague, erratic, illusive,
impersonal, confused, unpredictable, or uncertain. Here as with The Star(17) inverted, you may
feel a need for outside intervention.