Between Yesod and Netzach, The Moon and Venus. That's like two different levels of intuition. Between dream and emotion. This one is going to be abstract by nature and difficult to describe in ordinary language. I think this path may have less to do with The Star as in the Hollywood sense or even of stars directly, so much as space, void, and the open night sky in which the stars actually lie. Open, distant, unfathomable, yet beautiful. Something we can stare into forever and never know the full story of, for its depths are greater than our ability to perceive, let alone comprehend.
Yet it is in this depths that the stars shine. They guide the traveler who knows how to read them, they inspire us with wonder, their constelations map our legends in writing stories on the heavens themselves, they keep us company on the darkest of nights that we feel we are not alone, and if we watch them long enough we discover secrets of the workings of the universe itself. As the magician observes the mind and depths of subconscious seeking patterns and understanding, we observe the stars to seek understanding of the mind of God.
The Star lies opposite of The Sun on the tree, just as they do in nature. As the sun is central and fore, they are the humble background. The sun dominates all attention with its brightness. The stars are cold and tiny, but beautiful and endless in number. The Star then is but one among many. Here, the "every man and woman is a star" line fits in an unexpected way, as when you see yourself as just one person among and endless number of others who are just about as bright, one can not help but find a sense of humility. Yes, you are special and beautiful in your twinkling, but so is everyone else. Get over it.
To steer back to the traditional interpretation, the Star is a perfect and beautiful thing that is very far away. They guide and inspire, and offer hope that we might one day reach to their height. It is the tantalizing dream of greater things beyond us that we can aspire towards, and a perfection and rightness in their order that inspires us to become more perfect ourselves. |
