Lodestar By Deane Barker • May 21, 2022 • Definition: a star that guides; a goal to achieve; a future plan “Lode” is Middle English for “course.” So, literally, it means “a star that shows the course.” Why I Looked It Up In The Covenant, in discussing a family’s history in England: But each brother knew there would be no revisiting, not for them. But for their children’s children, [England] would always be a lodestar.