Cosmic Tarot - 8 of Pentacles

tink27

Wow! What a different contrast from the 7 of pentacles, where the lands were bleak and desolate, now we have a rose centered within a bush, surrounded by 8 pentacles.

The Sun in Virgo is the astrological sign for this card. This is makes me think, is this woman looking lovingly at the rose or deeply and mentally absorbed by its detail and beauty?
http://www.angelpaths.com/decks/cosmic/pents/eightofpents.html

From an inward turn of enduring, rethinking, rehashing and fine tuning our thoughts, is this a turning point where we’ve discovered (have a feel for) our soul’s passion, our soul’s longing to manifest something into the world? Is our awareness and our perceptions so acute now, that we are able to listen to our ideas and insights to whatever goals and plans we have in sight? This does seem to be a time where we burst with brilliant creativity and inspirations….we are so grounded, we notice everything! .

This card has a ring of A.D.D. in it…nothing else matters, except that rose!

My son had A.D.D., and when totally absorbed in something he truly loved, could sit for hours and hours focusing on it. The house could be burning or shaking apart….and there he’d be, researching, analyzing and reanalyzing his quest to know everything about that rose…..to make sure he had it just right!

But sometimes he couldn’t see the forest for the trees, his mind went on overload, he was so immersed in the present, he couldn’t see the future…this is when he’d get really irritable and overwhelmed…..from adding, subtracting, pasting and deleting....as far as he was concerned, getting no where with it. This is when we pulled him back from his point of view and showed him the bigger picture. Ahh! He’d say, now I see it! And back he’d go, into it again!

tink :love:
 

star-lover

this is one of the most beautiful cards in this deck

it just exudes confidence, surety, devotion, love

that woman knows what she is creating, she knows what she is creating or looking at is very good, what the future holds and is all focused on it

she is in control and knows how things are going to work out

its such a beautiful image

i think this card is about knowning a good thing when you see one though its not instant or given - you have to work for it and work for it willing she is

shes putting her all into whatever the project because its so worth it - a card of quality!
 

Myrrha

A woman looks intently at a thriving rosebush. There are nine blooms on it, eight of them represented by pentacles. The bush seems very healthy because there are so many leaves and they are a rich green. It is late in the season (near to harvest time) because there are lots of rosehips on the bush and they are red.

Strangely for a Pentacles card there is a real atmosphere of thought about this card. The eight pentacles look more like ideas of roses than actual roses. Also, the woman's expression is thoughtful, her hand is near her face as if thinking "hmmmm". The "spotlight" illumination that comes from near her head to shine on the roses could also represent thought.

The title of the card is Prudence and the astrological attribution is Sun in Virgo. The Sun is beneficent, warm, life-giving and Virgo is a fertile earth sign. Like all the Eights this card takes place in the kabbalistic sphere of Hod which is associated with Mercury and has to do with thinking and mental processes. Mercury happens to be the ruler of Virgo and this connection helps to make it a positive card. The various influences are all comfortable with each other.

The influence of Hod explains why the card seems to be about thought rather than activity. It isn’t about working or producing but about thinking about how you work and produce. Evaluating your harvest and deciding what strategy to take in the realm of work, spending and saving.

Prudence; skill; thrift; working hard to get ahead; hoarding; worrying too much about thrift; being greedy; being lazy.
 

Fostha

star-lover said:
this is one of the most beautiful cards in this deck

it just exudes confidence, surety, devotion, love

that woman knows what she is creating, she knows what she is creating or looking at is very good, what the future holds and is all focused on it

she is in control and knows how things are going to work out

its such a beautiful image

i think this card is about knowning a good thing when you see one though its not instant or given - you have to work for it and work for it willing she is

shes putting her all into whatever the project because its so worth it - a card of quality!
Thats exactly how i see this card,whatever she creates is to her satisfaction only,she worries not about onlookers,as she can see the beauty thats at the centre of it,even when others dont.She's quite capable and knows of the hard work needed to produce that rose at the centre,but then we see her in the 9,and shes got that rose garden right beside her,and a look of real inner happiness.