The woman depicted has a sweet and beautiful face; it pours the burning contents of a golden urn into a pond which revives the putrid water and onto the earth the fresh, fertilizing water placed in a silver urn. Lucifer, the bearer of light, also called Venus, is the great star of this blade, made up of eight golden rays from which green fires rise.
The stars are the symbol of the luminosity that guides man lost in a desert of the matter: the earth. There are eight stars in this image, perhaps the Pleiades, because 8 is the emblem of justice, universal order, and infinity.
The seventeenth arcane indicates hope, light, love; a spiritual and romantic love. It is a promise of serenity, calm, harmony, peace, good advice, divine help. It signals a propitious moment, excellent possibilities, passion for art, artistic success and an invitation to faith and spirituality. The stars symbolize mediumistic faculties, omens, dreams, birth, fecundity, immortality; destiny, positive astral influences, occult protections; sensitivity, charm, beauty and goodness; intelligence, optimism, confidence; realization of efforts made, satisfaction, contentment, abundance, prosperity; engagement, marriage, motherhood.
They indicate a woman with a beneficial role, a devoted, adorable person, a couple of lovers, an artist, a fashion creator, and are connected to white magic, astrology, and talismanic art. This arcanum promises healing and good health.
It corresponds to full spring, the beginning of autumn, and Friday. It also relates to the element of air, the planets Venus and Mercury, and the zodiac signs of Gemini, Virgo and Aquarius.
In the negative: the Stars announce the end of a favorable period, a difficult moment, the lack of strength, sincerity, and affection. They indicate lust, libertinism, levity; obstacles, cheating in work; tendency to alcohol and drugs; sterility, imprudence, frustrated hopes, disappointments, lack of opportunities; stubbornness, inertia; wishes not yet fulfilled. The stars correspond to the kidneys and negatively presage poor health, weakness, accidents, or a difficult, dangerous pregnancy.
The advice of the arcane
Don't give up hope.
Pairings
- Next to the Lover: true love.
- Next to the Cart: important meeting during a journey.
- Preceded by the Hermit and the Wheel of Fortune: expectation crowned with success.
- Near the Wheel - next fortune.
- Followed by the Force and the Empress - health, optimism, energy. For a woman - complete success.
- Accompanied by Death: serious illness.
- Near the Moon: intimate tension, pain caused by deception.
- Next to the Sun - lucky birth, idealism.
- Near the Fool: unsatisfactory conclusion.
- Combined with any arcanum of Wands: pleasant professional proposals.
- Next to any Cups card: reciprocated love, happy pregnancy.
- Accompanied by any Arcanum of Pentacles: economic expansion, fulfilled hopes.
- Near a blade of Swords - struggle crowned with success, overcoming of penalties.
