atddta 32: the Star in Tarot/ AE Waite

[grladams at teleport.com]

THE STAR
Doctrine Behind the Veil  XVIII  

A great, radiant star of eight rays, surrounded by seven lesser stars--also
of eight rays. The female figure in the foreground is entirely naked. Her
left knee is on the land and her right foot upon the water. She pours Water
of Life from two great ewers, irrigating sea and land. Behind her is rising
ground and on the right a shrub or tree, whereon a bird alights. (remember
the part when Lew and her go down closer to the river and after he asks her
if she knows any German, the peacock makes a loud sound?) The figure
expresses eternal youth and beauty. The star is l'etoile flamboyante, which
appears in masonic symbolism, but has been confused therein. That which the
figure  communicates to the living scene is the substance of the heavens
and the leements. It has been said truly that the mottoes of this card are
"Waters of life Freely" and "Gifts of the Spirit."

The summary of several tawdry explanations says that it is a card of hope.
On other planes it has been certified as immortality and interior light.
[Dally glows later on you know] For the majority of prepared minds, the
figure will appear as the Type of truth unveiled, glorious in the undying
beauty, pouring on the waters of the soul some part and measure of her
priceless possession. But she is in reality the Great Mother of the
Kabalistic Sephira Binah, which is supernal understanding, who communicates
to the Sephiroth that are below in the measure that they can receive her
influx.


>From Waite's Tarot book: P.136

Chapter: The pictorial Key to the Tarot, Outer Method of the ORacles. p. 286
The star--Loss, theft, privation, abandonment; another reading says--hope
and bright prospects, Reversed: Arrogance, haughtiness, impotence. 

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