Alternate Decks
- It is also called The Astronomer or The Navigator.
- In the "Flemish Deck" by Vandenborre, Le Etoille ("The Star") shows an astronomer seated at the left-hand corner with a tower in the right-hand corner. Above him is a large star surrounded by smaller stars. He is looking at the stars with a divider.
Read more about this topic: The Star (Tarot Card)
Famous quotes containing the words alternate and/or decks:
“Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“From the time the Englishman’s bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)