Cosmic Tribe Tarot

EIGHT OF DISKS

Prudence and Permission

Prudence and permission are the parents of beauty. They know from experience that carefully tending to the work is as important as releasing themselves from the result. Prudence appreciates what is already there and how beautiful it already is. Permission guides and protects new growth with a light hand that allows it to have its own experience of the world. The dialectic between prudence and permission can apply to many experiences including child rearing, self-discipline, pet owning, and gardening. Anything worthy of careful tending is worthy of our simple appreciation.

In the card protective hands guide flowers that grow out of a lotus mandala. The lotus mandala is a meditation on the love and care required for the creation of beauty. The center is a tightly woven sphere of possibilities that when properly tended and appreciated produce magnificent results. The hands guide the stems loosely, not strictly. Prudence and permission are balanced so that creativity is neither stifled nor led astray. The result of such exquisite care is a circle of eight beautiful flowers ringed with halos and containing centers of new possibilities. These new possibilities will soon produce enough fruit to feed others who will in turn be inspired to create their own beauty by combining the wisdoms of prudence and permission.

Divinatory Meaning

Should the Eight of Disks encircle your reading, feel the gentle nurturing hands guiding your development. They are patient and wise. First they belonged to your elders and now they belong to you. With a careful fusion of prudence and permission, your hands can create beauty. Perhaps you are a parent or in the middle of a creative project or internal process that is on the verge of producing wonderful results. Stay with it. Don't wander and neglect your duties just yet. There will be time enough for play when the process is finished. While the lotus grows by itself, it requires your assistance to become aware of its own beauty.