I pulled The Star after a really hard ye

Not quite — the card is showing hope turned inward, not a turn already completed. You didn't say which way The Star was facing in your hand, so the deck turned it reversed, and that reversal is doing all the work here.

The one card — 当前指引 / the present: The Star, Reversed. Upright, The Star is renewal and quiet faith after a hard stretch. Reversed isn't "bad news" — it's the same light, pointed at yourself. Hope that's present but not being let out: exhaustion, a year where you kept the belief but stopped letting it guide anything, and a low-grade distrust that the good part is going to be taken back. After a year like yours, that's an ordinary place to be standing.

So: is it a sign things are turning around? The card doesn't answer that — and it can't, because The Star reversed doesn't describe outside conditions, it describes how the hope in you is currently being held. Which means the thing that settles this isn't another card. It's whether you can point to the turn in the actual record.

Here's the conditional. Go back through the last ninety days and list what actually changed — not what you felt, but what moved: a job or application you actually sent, a bill that got cleared, a doctor you finally saw, a person you told, a habit that lasted more than two weeks. If that list has three or more real entries, the turn is already documented and this card is just naming how tired you are at the early stage of it. If the list is thin and what you can find is mostly other people's situations changing, or mostly your own mood shifting, then The Star reversed is describing faith that hasn't been given anything to hold yet — and the work is to give it one handle, not to wait for another sign.

Try this before the day ends: open your calendar or messages for the past three months and pull ten dated entries that are evidence, not impressions. Read them in order. That list is the answer to your question in a way no draw is.

If The Star was upright in your hand and I've read it wrong-way for you, tell me and I'll read it that way instead.