Blue Rose Tarot - Eight of Wands
Created by Paula Gibby
Published by Soul Guidance

Description:
The setting is a cityscape, a canyon of skyscrapers. The sky is fiery orange. The base of the city looks like a giant clock. A man dressed for business rushes frantically back and forth across this city canyon, in some places looking like he's riding on paper airplanes.

From the book:
"...the man in the business suit is driven by one thing; the thing that is at the very foundation of the image - time. It ticks the seconds away, driving him forward, faster and faster. His entire focus become meeting his goal as quickly as possible. He forgets whatever gameplan he had so carefully conceived and put together. He no longer drives his creative product. It drives him.
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Maintaining momentum - particularly in the suit of creativity and inspiration - is a necessary and vital thing. But in any fast moving 'vehicle' the driver must always be in control, carefully monitoring his pace."

My thoughts:
When I see the Blue Rose 8 of Wands, I immediately thing of a snippet of song from the Disney cartoon version of Cinderella. It's the scene where Cinderella's mouse friends are trying to help her finish a ball gown she's been trying to sew, only she hasn't been able to finish because of her stepmother piling one chore after another onto her schedule. And as the mice work, they lament her situation, singing "She keeps going 'round in circles, 'til she's dizzy, dizzy, dizzy...."

This version of the 8 of Wands would remind me that as I rush toward a goal or idea, I should make sure I don't get so caught up in the momentum that I lose sight of what I'm doing or why I'm doing it. Is everything I'm doing really necessary or could some of it be delegated or forgotten entirely? Does it need to be done NOW or could I slow the pace a bit and still achieve my objective? Are my actions leading me forward on the path toward my goal or am I spending a lot of effort to go around in circles?

Deb R.