‘ The Star of Ishtar’ is one of the most powerful sacred symbols of the ancient Near East, representing the Babylonian and Assyrian Goddess Ishtar — goddess of love, fertility, war, sexuality, and celestial power.

The Star of Ishtar represents the Akkadian and Babylonian evolution of the earlier Star of Inanna, retaining the sacred eight-pointed form associated with the planet Venus. As Ishtar’s influence expanded across Mesopotamia, the symbol became an emblem of divine sovereignty, celestial authority, fertility, love, war, and transformation. Revered as the ‘Queen of Heaven’, Ishtar was associated with both the morning and evening appearances of Venus, embodying the cycles of descent, renewal, and rebirth.

The star appeared on temple walls, seals, jewellery, boundary stones, and sacred objects as a protective and powerful symbol of divine presence and cosmic order. In contemporary symbolic interpretation, the Star of Ishtar can also be understood as representing spiritual illumination, feminine sovereignty, and the integration of dual forces — creation and destruction, love and power, heaven and earth. Through its radiant geometry, the symbol continues to evoke transformation, protection, and the eternal cycles woven throughout the cosmos.

Symbolism: Sovereignty, divine protection, celestial cycles, transformation, spiritual illumination, feminine power, and the guiding light of Venus.

Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas

20cm x 20cm

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