Inverted asterism

[Sławomir Osipiuk]

On Thursday, 30 March 2023, 14:10:10 (-04:00), James Kass via Unicode 
wrote:
 >
 > Would this be considered a glyph variant, or a separate character? Are 
the two forms ever used contrastively in the same source?
 >

This is my question as well. Is there a semantic difference between the 
"regular" and inverted asterism? At first glance I would say this should 
just be considered a stylistic variant.