November 11-13, 2011: XVII - The Star
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XVII
THE STAR
(Aquarius)MEDITATION COLOR: Violet.
HEBREW LETTER: Heh, window. An aperture for allowing Light and Air into the house (Beth) and for permitting sight. That which admits the Life-breath (Aleph) and Light into the Mind. Heh is an aspirant: breath, creative spirit; and the Great Mother of Qabalah, the Supernal Waters. Second and fourth letters of YHVH, 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: Tiphereth 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. Tiphereth 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.
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Now that the Tower we have constructed has been blasted to pieces by the lightening bolt, we are left with nothing but space to create a new world (the background of this trump). The process of having our tower destroyed left us with a valuable lesson: reality is constructed and the reality we have constructed is vastly different from someone else's reality.
But the substance from which we created our reality occurs to be the very same substance another creates their reality from. So are we really different? Not quite.
If we were to consider the nature of that oneness we all seem to create our reality from it would be safe to assert that Love is the unifying factor given Love is that which unites the divided (Heptagram in the top left corner of the card).
Before we can begin to build something a new we must bring forth the possibility (Nuit) of its existence, now. This new possibility provides a space for things to show up as. Just as a stained glass window provides a tint for the light that passes through it to show up in the room as red, or blue or green etc. this new possibility we draw forth has it's own "tints" in which the this new world we create will take on and appear to us.
There is no particular color for this new world yet but we have at our disposal all of the colors in the universe to select from. If we use red for our new world and red doesn't work we can easily discard it for a new color, green perhaps. It's all a work of Love anyway...