Be Prudent in Your Choice of Friends
Maybe.
Since you mention it, my impression is that it is prudent to choose carefully your influences and the people who (literally) flank you.
There's a subtle influence for good or bad in the people you hang out with. Most of us would acknowledge this in school, but as adults we tend to forget that friendships can destroy or overtake our good judgement and cause us pain, even get us in serious trouble.
Influences at work, influences in your personal life, influences on the Internet.
Either that or it means there are two or more men for every woman!!!
Edited to say: I would add that part of prudence is discretion, and when involved in creative pursuits there are sometimes saboteurs or well-meaning friends casting doubts or undermining your ideas. The picture on the card--they are all one big happy team igniting the flame--or are they?
I am reminded of a quote which came from Tarot Shadow Work by Christine Jette. She cites Julia Cameron from her book The Artist's Way: "Always remember, the first rule of magic is self-containment."
See those ephemeral "blooms" like whispy fog? Those are your ideas, your creativity, and until you get them in some sort of concrete form, be prudent fuel the flame in your own mind.
Freud would have fun with Carl Rohrig and me. "Dear Prudence, won't you come out to playyyyyy....."
(I love this deck, why didn't I get it a year ago when I first considered it? Tsk, tsk.)
