Hello and welcome to Terrell Bites. I'm Theresa Reed the Terrell Lady. I am the author of the Terrell Coloring Book and I'm your host for this podcast series. This is episode 27 of Terro Bites. The

podcast where I dish out short entertaining bite-sized lessons on how to retero. For today's episode, our topic is the star. Let's

begin. So the star card follows the tower and symbolizes hope and peace returning.

Now you'll notice that in the tarot sequences there is often a disruptive card

followed by another one that suggests healing.

For example, we have temperance following death, and in the minor O'Connor we have the

Forest Swords, which is the classic card recuperation, and rest, following the heartbreak

of the three of swords. Why am I pointing this out? It's because there are cycles in the

tarot cards much as there are cycles in life

We build breakdown rebuild you see this theme again and again in tarot and I find those patterns really fascinating and also also terror reading is much about

studying the patterns, looking for clues, and finding the connections or

disruptions. And from there we tell a story.

Got it?

Anyhow, I just wanted to point that cycle out

before we get cracking on the symbols in the star.

So let's start by talking about those stars of this card. Stars are a symbol of hope and guidance.

If you look at the stars of this card, you'll notice that there are eight stars in this card. You'll notice that there are 8 stars and each star also has 8

points. Now if you add up 17 which is the number of the star card, it becomes 8 as well.

So according to Rachel Pollack and 78 degrees of wisdom,

this is a reference to the strength card, which is number 8 in the major

O'Connor. Rachel says this, the star's strength raised to a higher level

with the lion of desire no longer simply tamed but transformed into light and joy.

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