Tarot year card · 17
The Star Tarot Year Card
A year of renewal after difficulty: hope, healing and a clearer sense of where you are going.

A year of The Star
The Star holds a year of recovery and quiet hope. After the Tower's upheaval, the card shows open sky and water poured freely. Many people find it a year of healing, creative renewal and generosity, when it becomes possible again to imagine a future and move towards it.
What the year asks
It asks you to trust that things can get better and to share what you have without holding back. The shadow is hope without action, waiting for the future to arrive by itself.
Sitting with it
Write down what you hope for this year, in plain words. Choose a small daily practice that keeps you facing it.
Questions for the year
- What do I let myself hope for now?
- What in me needs healing more than fixing?
- Who could I share my gifts with this year?
Who has The Star as a year card
Under Greer's method, in 2026 The Star is the year card for 1 of the 366 birthdays (<1%): December 31.
Under Greer's method, in 2027 The Star is the year card for 1 of the 366 birthdays (<1%): December 30.
The card itself
The Star: full tarot card meaningThe quiet return of hope, poured out in the open.
If it is also your birth card
The Star is also a birth card for some people. In the year it comes round as your year card, the theme you were born with is the one the year brings up.
Birth cards that include The Star
- The Star and Strength · 17 · 8
Every year card
- The Magician · 1
- The High Priestess · 2
- The Empress · 3
- The Emperor · 4
- The Hierophant · 5
- The Lovers · 6
- The Chariot · 7
- Strength · 8
- The Hermit · 9
- Wheel of Fortune · 10
- Justice · 11
- The Hanged Man · 12
- Death · 13
- Temperance · 14
- The Devil · 15
- The Tower · 16
- The Star · 17
- The Moon · 18
- The Sun · 19
- Judgement · 20
- The World · 21
- The Fool · 22