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Originally Posted by Sobekneferu
The thing is, the ground next to a pool (of earth) will grow on its own. It doesn't need to be watered individually. Watering it will most likely just make a big old sink hole -- and it is quite a waste of effort if you've been bringing the water from far away."
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Literally, maybe yes. But it's a symbolic picture, and the SYMBOLISM is that the Star gives water to those that need it, both the dry, dry, dry, dry earth that cannot grow without it, and that pool which will act as a reservoir for later.
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I myself grew up in LA, land of the stars
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And so did I. You don't have to lecture me about the history of water in LA, nor the need to wisely use it during drought. Nor about actors, of which I've seen--and personally known some awful, and some wonderful. But you ALSO seem to forget the native wetlands, and, as I said reservoirs needed to provide water during years of drought. THAT is what I see as the water the Star is providing. Water to keep the wetlands wet--not to create sink holes, which, come on, is stretching things don't you think? I really don't believe our Girl there is stupid. That, I believe, is the symbolism. Bringing in water, and making sure that what you do with it creates a future, maintains the wetlands, and fills up the reservoirs.
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I still see it as an extravagance, and this fits with the Rider interpretation of the star as a mostly negative card
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I beg your pardon????
"Courage, hope, inspiration. Gifts of Spirit. Improving health. Love will be given and received. Temporal nature of destruction. The meaning of life."--Waite.
That "Temporal nature of destruction" means that the Star reminds the reader that destruction is temporary, things can be "re-grown" and restored. As the Star is doing.
Also noted by Waite: "She pours Water of Life from two great ewers, irrigating sea and land. Behind her is rising ground and on the right a shrub or tree, whereon a bird alights. The figure expresses eternal youth and beauty. The star is l'étoile flamboyante, which appears in Masonic symbolism....That which the figure communicates to the living scene is the substance of the heavens and the elements. It has been said truly that the mottoes of this card are "Waters of Life freely" and "Gifts of the Spirit."
So. Exactly what is this "
mostly negative" interpretation of which you speak for the upright star? Even with a negative or two tossed in, the upright of this card would seem to be overwhelmingly positive.
And here is Crowley from the Thoth deck which I think is just beautiful:
"Pour water on thyself thus shalt thou be
a Fountain to the Universe.
Find thou thyself in every Star.
Achieve thou every possibility.
Hope, unexpected help, clearness of vision, realization of possibilities, spiritual insight, with bad aspects [reversed], error of judgment, dreaminess, disappointment.
The Star is one of the great cards of faith, dreams realized."