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XVII - the Star
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A nude woman stands with one foot in a stream. She has two pitchers which she prepares to pour on the land and water. A mermaid swims by in the stream. There are three small dogs on the bank beside her, as well as a stork. Seven small stars and one large one shine overhead. The landscape is a gentle rural scene, with a water-wheel further down the stream.

My Interpretation: Your goal can be reached if you set your path and keep to it. Fulfillment of hopes and dreams. Success, critical acclaim of creative achievements. Joy, health and happiness. (Reversed: A wonderful opportunity may be missed through negativity and a pessimistic outlook)

Edit notes to self: This card is far more similar to the Rider-Waite card than my original version. Still to do - pretty happy with it.

Sources:

Base Pic: Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. cca.1440, Seligenstadt, d. 1494, Bruges); Triptych of Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation c. 1485 Oil on oak panel, 22 x 15 cm (each wing) Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg.

Stream with Mermaid: Piero di Cosimo, Italian painter, Florentine (b. 1462, Firenze, d. 1521, Firenze); Allegory 1500 Panel National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Stork: Pisanello, Italian painter (b. 1395, Pisa, d. 1455, Roma); Stork 1430s Drawing Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Jugs: Master of the Life of the Virgin, German painter (active 1460-1480); The Birth of Mary c. 1470 Wood, 85 x 109 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

Big Star: Unknown French Master; The Adoration of the Magi (Bargello Diptych) c. 1380-90 Tempera on wood, 50 X 31 cm Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.

Small Stars: Unknown Flemish Master (active around 1400 in Southern Netherlands); Calvary c. 1400 Oak, 70.5 x 141 cm Groeninge Museum, Bruges.

Parchment Text Panel: Unknown Illuminators, England; The Aberdeen Bestiary (Aberdeen University Library MS 24), written and illuminated around 1200. Aberdeen University, Scotland.

Gilt Border: Conrad Witz, Swiss painter (b. cca 1400, Rottweil, d. cca. 1445, Basel); King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba 1435 Panel, 84 x 79 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin.