The calm after the storm, the road to recovery. The star inspires you to find the way to go now that external restrictions have been removed by the Tower card. Or you can just make a wish upon the Star. 

This makes me think the 6 of Swords has landed on the opposite shore and is resting by the water, starting her recovery. There's no obvious big star in the sky but lots of little stars both shining down and reflected in the dark waters (and in the fabric of her coat). It looks like she's made it and it's her intuition thats guided her to this place (see the little owl in the tree). Now she just has to muster up enough strength to make her way toward those twin peaks. The tiny hint of colour in this card with the nurturing green of the cup sends the strongest message, she will heal. 

This is not a deck I've ever bonded strongly with but there are a few cards that really stand out and this Star is one of them. This is a true North Star and a beautiful image showing the card will inspire the correct direction to take. The strength is in the colour, the Star really does shine brightly against the midnight sky grabbing your attention while at the same time leaving you feeling calm and reassured that everything will be okay. 

If you want to make a wish, why not make it on a shooting star? Again it's the colours in this card that make it stand out, the beautiful pinks on the horizon and the shades of blue, purple, grey and black of the forest, water and sky. This card feels like something magical is happening in it. It's an interesting energy, not the usual calm and quiet, more a direct opposition of positivity against the previous destruction of the Tower. It's reminiscent of the 8 of Wands on the traditional RWS with it's flying wands. 

Another strong North Star lighting the way through the trees, just follow the path of the river. The forest looks like it's been wrecked by the Tower with its damaged and broken trees but if you look closely the signs of recovery are there. The tiny white shoots peeking out from behind rocks and from the scorched earth and there in the distance is a pale lilac sky and just the tip of a bright moon. This is a card you can easily step into. 

It was hard to pick a favourite amongst the Star cards. However, when all is said and done, this card shows what we need to know. This panda is called Celia (after the artist perhaps?). We can follow her gaze as she wishes upon the bright yellow star and allows her bowl of water to replenish the ground beneath her tree. We don't even need to see the expression on Celia's face, we can tell just by her posture that she's comforted by the gazing at the stars. There's no signs of destruction, showing that rest and recovery are sometimes necessary even though there's been no big upheaval.

Chaos, destruction, the breaking down of limitations and structures. Losing control over the situation. Extreme discomfort leading to liberation. A period of violent upheaval. A release of intolerable pressure. 

This deck is a recent purchase but I love this card in particular. The Tower is about having the rug pulled from under your feet and this depiction shows that and the whole rest of the house going with it. One man clings to a branch but it won't be long before the whole thing comes crashing to the ground. This expands the meaning of this card for me to prompt the querent to think about the foundations of the issue and how secure things really were before they started to disintegrate. 

Another Tower card without a tower. Here they've lashed themselves to the mast of a sinking ship. The wild seas represent the situation that has impacted the querent. It's something they have no control over and the storm could start and end at any time. It will carry them along and they may survive, they may not. The small glimmer of hope is that there is something for them to cling to, something that just might help them through till the waves subside. 

You can almost feel the blistering heat as you watch its destructive powers destroying this Tower. It appears to have spontaneously combusted. And while the supportive structure is disintegrating the birds of prey circle above, waiting to feast on anyone left unprotected. This card shows the result of excess of anything, even something natural like the sun's heat, can have negative consequences and when that happens, there will be those waiting to take advantage of the situation and compound the misery.  

When your whole deck is made up of images of people, how do you depict a crumbling Tower? Well Arthur Wang has done an amazing job showing the body as a structure that is as much at risk from external or internal forces of destruction. The loss of a home or a structure that has supported us seems like the most awful thing but this card shows that the disruption of the body is as distressing as losing any material possession. The figure holds what looks like a crystal ball, reminding us that insight can be gained from this cataclysmic event. 

There are so many beautiful cards in this deck but this one is the image that drew me in initially. It's an old guard tower from a POW camp the creators grandmother was held in. The RWS Tower often strikes fear into any querent who sees it turn in their reading but in this deck, the old structure very much needed to be destroyed to release those captured and enable them to live freely. When I see this card, my spirits lift. A card of both destruction and hope.