From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
The Star
Meanings
A shining path. Dreams realised, hopes fulfilled. Great joy. Good health, happiness and success on many levels. Acclaim for your creative accomplishments.
Reversed (?)
An obstacle on your path. Success and happiness are so close – but there is a block to their fulfillment. Clear the block and reach your true potential.
Description
A young woman sits beside a stream in a state of undress, as though preparing to bathe. Water pours from a large terracotta jar onto the earth, and she pours water into the stream from a smaller terracotta jar. Her golden hair is loosely tied, and her robes are of rich silk and fine linen. A crown of stars circles above her head and a shooting star appears in the sky. In the distance, a heron fishes in the stream.
Artwork
- Star halo, sky: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel, Immaculate Conception, c.1628, Museo del Prado, Madrid.
- Nude: TIZIANO, Vecellio (Titian), Sacred and Profane Love, 1514, Galleria Borghese, Rome.
- Shooting star: Master MS, The Adoration of the Magi, 1506-10, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille.
- Plinth: BADALOCCHIO, Sisto, Susanna and the Elders, c.1609, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota.
- Pouring water, jar: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel, The Union of Earth and Water, c. 1618, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
- Jug: BOSCH, Hieronymus, The Temptation of St Anthony, 1505-06, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon.
- Stream: GENTILESCHI, Orazio, Landscape with St Christopher, 1605-10, Staatliche Museen, Berlin.
- Nipple: EYCK, Jan van, The Ghent Altarpiece: Eve, 1425-29, Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent.
- Stork: RAFFAELLO, Sanzio, The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, 1515, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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Planet in the background now. You can see water on the bottom right side.