Small cards, Disks
Eight of Disks
Prudence
Careful attention can improve a modest piece of work. Keep the detail connected to the larger purpose so diligence produces something useful rather than endless refinement.
Which detail would materially improve the result?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Sun in Virgo
- Suit element
- Earth
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Hod
- Ten-degree span
- 0-10 Virgo
Sources
The numbered cards combine a sphere, a suit element, and a planetary decan. The Ace begins at Kether; Two through Ten follow the numbered spheres. These are symbolic correspondences, not a birth chart.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 179 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Eight of Disks ↗
Spans use a starting boundary inclusive and an ending boundary exclusive. Older texts may describe the same interval with ordinal degree numbers.
Symbols
In the Book T design
Four roses touch the lower four of eight pentacles; the upper group has leaves.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 179 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Prudence.
Diligence and practical skill bring small gains. Attention can become so cautious or confined to details that larger opportunities are missed.
Thoth: Eight of Disks.
Book T’s title is shown separately from the Thoth name. The symbol note below describes the 1912 text, whose design can differ from Harris’s painting.