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The Star is one of the most iconic of the major trumps of the traditional tarot deck. It is also one of the most ambiguous. A woman is shown emptying two urns of water onto the parched ground. She is flanked by nascent plant life. Shining above her are those nocturnal luminaries whose "eternal silence" so frightened the philosopher Blaise Pascal at the dawn of modernity. Are the stars pointing the way to a brighter future, or are they stars of ill omen, warning us of what lies ahead? And what does that little bird in the background signify? In this episode, Phil and JF try to get to the bottom of the starry heavens, only to find out that starry heavens have no bottom.

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REFERENCES

Our Known Friend (Valentin Tomberg), Meditations on the Tarot

\nAlejandro Jodorowsky, The Way of the Tarot

\nPink Floyd, \u201cAstronomy Domine\u201d
\nAleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth
\nAleister Crowley, The Book of the Law
\nHeimarmene, Greek goddess of fate
\nWeird Studies, Episode 121 on Mandy
\nUrsula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
\nSamuel Delaney, Dahlgren
\nJ R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
\nJuan Eduardo Cirlot, A Dictionary of Symbols
\nWeird Studies, Episode 103 on the Tower
\nWeird Studies, [Episode 114 on the Wheel of Fortune]
\nJoni Mitchell, \u201cLadies of the Canyon\u201d