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XVII
THE STAR
(Aquarius)
“In the silence of thy Night, Thou art beautiful, my Silver One, dancing, O my Golden One, ablaze & forth pouring the unending river of the stars. Let me die in thy stream of the many, of the none.”
MEDITATION COLOR: Violet.
HEBREW LETTER: Hé, window. An aperture for allowing Light and Air into the house (Beyth) and for permitting sight. That which admits the Life-breath (Alef) and Light into the Mind. Hé is an aspirant: breath, creative spirit; and the Great Mother of Qabbalah, the Supernal Waters. Second and fourth letters of Yod-Hé-Vav-Hé, with correspondent meanings. Literally, the Hebrew definite article.
CARD NAME: An essential characteristic of a “star” is that it is self-luminous; or (whether in astronomy, art, or entertainment) is radiating or radiant. Its Indo-European root, ster-, resulted in a nearly identical word in numerous ancient languages (Greek aster, Persian sitareh, etc.).
ESOTERIC MEANING: The Constituting Consciousness. It constitutes the Substance of Creation in pure darkness. According to masters of contemplation, this is that darkness referred to in scripture, “and thick darkness its swaddling band.”
TREE of LIFE: Tifereth to Chokmah. (Links ‘Beauty’ and ‘Wisdom’; or the Ego-center and Infinite Will; or ‘the Son’ and ‘the Father.’ The Sun newly understood in the context of the entire universe of stars. Tifereth is one star’s incarnated extension; Chokmah is the fundamental Wisdom-Will that motivates it and sets its course in the universe.)
ESOTERIC TITLE: The Daughter of the Firmament, the Dweller Between the Waters
TANTRIC & ALCHEMICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Female orgasm.
DIVINATION: Hope, faith, revelation, insight, unexpected help, clarity of vision, realization of possibilities, spiritual insight. Or, if badly configured, dreaminess, deceived hope, judgment errors, disappointment, etc.
