Ingrid Pollard’s work is a case of visual intimacy meeting a panoramic mind. She is a photographer, media artist and researcher. Pollard’s art has the viewer often focuses on a vignette that holds the reverberations of history and the physical/social landscape that history inhabits. You can look at the landscape as a working environment that’s very managed and not natural at all. The very romantic, nostalgic view expresses more about society’s understanding of what’s important, what to preserve. It’s also [connected to] relationships to other landscapes across the sea and how that’s changed in the last 500 years. You’ve got to look at landscape in the wider sense. (from an interview in Frieze, April 4, 2019.)
In these times this view of the wider context is vital if we want to change our intimate exchanges. For systemic change we need to see our history, how we got here, and like Ingrid points out in her work why we kept what we did and do. It will be awkward, but it is essential in seeing the present we must look at bigger picture both longitudinal in the society and culture and latitudinal in time and space.
P.S. Signs with an * it a big week for you. Cancer this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year. And Capricorn it is your halfway mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check in now is the time.
May light be on you, around you, and within you,
Nina
Aries
*Justice – Another high energy week for you. Last week was about evolution and awakening to your divine nature. Asking the question am I fulfilling my purpose or calling? Hopefully, you have answered that question for this week you are called to align your purpose, integrity and plan your next steps. In essence, wake you that you hold the responsibility for your actions.
Taurus
Seven of Swords – Last week, the energy around you was dripping with creation. And reminding you that with the power of love anything can flourish. The energy has shifted what once was abundant is now slightly off. Pieces of the puzzle feel as if they are missing. Do not look for trickery but be aware that the future is shifting. If you keep to your integrity and calm your emotions, this wobble will pass. You will re-find your path, by creating and moving with small steps.
Gemini
Three of Cups – Take this week to hang with friends. You are needing imbibement in some truth, honesty, and vulnerability that only your soul group can give you. Time to empty and refill your emotional cups and maybe some real cups too.
Cancer
Three of Wands –The energy of crumbling systems is still resonating this week. As you build new structures, boundaries, and schedules to access this next part of your journey, realize things are also working behind the scenes. All the pieces can not be seen or dealt with this week. This is a time to ponder and dream while the future continues in its reconstruction.
Leo
Two of Swords – Indecision and a feeling of being lost surrounds you this week. The key to working with this exercise in free choice is to hone your intuition skills. If you pause, you will feel the strings pulling you to a direction. The challenge is realizing this journey is more about the trip then the destination.
Virgo
Two of Wands – Now is the time to step out of your past and into your potential. This week’s energy is encouraging you to take a few steps into the future you have been planning and dreaming of. The challenge is actively being present in taking that first step.
Libra
King of Coins – Creating prosperity is a skill this energy is wanting you to practice this week. It is a great time to ie: rework your budget, find ways to increase your credit score, access the wealth you need to live the life you want… Getting a firm foundation around your finances, allows you to start accumulating the material abundance that you require for a comfortable future.
Scorpio
Nine of Swords – Worry and fear add to the stressful energy this week. This can make you vulnerable and might end up with you not getting a good night’s sleep. The skills you need to work on this week are putting your worries to bed before you. A good exercise is writing them all down on paper about an hour before bed and then tuck all but two in. Then ask your subconscious to work on the chosen pair while you sleep. You will be amazed when you wake up your mind often sorts it out while you get a solid night’s sleep.
Sagittarius
*Fool – Your muse this week is the explorer on the physical, mental, or spiritual plane. Time to get in your car or bike and feel the wind whistle past your ears. You need to feel movement and newness. And when you do partake in them your wanderlust and/or stagnation will subside. Take advantage of head in the cloud’s kind of days, for inspiration awaits upon your arrival.
Capricorn
Ace of Cups – The energy this week wants you to find new ways to connect to your emotions. Your emotional depth is found in acts of creation. This energy asks what would your heart want you to start on this week? What can you create that will have your heart figuratively skipping a beat?
Aquarius
Eight of Cups – Simplification and cutting off what is not useful is needed this week. What is not working for you anymore? What steps need to happen for you to heal? After you have dumped the spoiled contents of these cups what will you fill them with? For some of you, you will need to walk away and for others you will need to stand your ground for your emotional well-being. Either way this is a week where the new paradigm is waiting to happen you just need to walk to it unhindered.
Pisces
Nine of Wands – You are almost at the end of a cycle. Take this week to tie up loose ends, follow through and meet your goals. Use this week’s energy to maintain your boundaries so you can check things off your list. The challenge is to not give up; you have the energy and are prepared for this push.
*Judgement – This week’s energy is about evolution and awakening to your divine nature. Time to allow self-compassion and forgiveness to leave the past in the past. The question to ponder this week is am I fulfilling my purpose or calling? If not, this is the time to start creating the parameters to allow your evolution. If you are, take it to the next level.
*Empress – The energy around you is dripping with creation. With the power of love anything can flourish: plants, children, creativity… You have the seeds in your hands. What will you plant? What will you nurture and grow? Your only challenge is not to control all the expansion. Just be in tune with your big bang heart and give to the energy of creation.
4 of Coins – Savings is in the air around you. What do you need to feel financial safe? What on the material plane do you need, to feel you have your own back? A new car? 6 months savings? Now is the time to make sure you know what you require and start to save for it. Your challenge is to remember though it is always nice to have and build more they are not the only essentials for joy.
*Hierophant – The outdated systems are crumbling around you. Hollow out by a loss of integrity or alignment to who you are now. What will be the systems you put into their cavities? What new structures need to be built to access this next part of your journey? New structures, boundaries and schedules need to be created.
5 of Cups – Emotions like grief, sadness and hurt are lingering around you, and this energy wants you to feel into the feelings. Dive deep with empathy and process them, and when you get to the bottom you will find a reservoir of love, laughter, and hopefulness. Your challenge is processing is a process.
Queen of Wands – This week’s energy invites you to engage with inspiration. Follow your internal compass, exploring places in nature or things that create awe. A Muse is waiting there to entice, support and sprout originality and creativity. The challenge is pushing your boundaries around concepts of self-acceptance, courage, and leadership. Color outside the lines.
Knight of Coins – The energy around you is about diligence and work. The challenge is relaxing into the tasks you love and find meaning in the tasks you do not. This is not a week to future trip or think of goals but to keep a steady pace forward.
Ace of Coins – The energy this week is expansion and growth on your material plane. Look in your environment for seeds to plant and what roots to grow. This is a time for new opportunities.
7 of Coins – This week’s energy could slow time for you. This plateau of pause if perfect for the 3 R’s: reflect, review, and reassess especially around work, projects, your physical environment, and anything on the material plane. Your harvest is around the corner take this time to prepare and tweak what is not just right.
Four of Cups – The energy this week has a tendency to be self-indulgent by being self-deflecting. The challenge is seeing your own self-worth. You are here for a reason yes, but literally part of that reason is you being you. Reflect on your unique qualities that you bring to the table and focus on strengthening them.
5 of Coins – The energies around you are working with you and your relationship to money and prestige. Who you are has little to do with what you own or your work that makes you money. You know that, but you are losing your concept of self-worth with only what you do on the material plane. Take this week to reflect on what people love you for.
6 of Wands – Last couple of weeks had you seeing the depth of your energy-well and how to manifest on the material, mental and people planes. This week the energy level dials back just a little. You are in the spotlight of success this week. Can you see it? Can you see how far you have come to creating the future you wanted? Take this week to sit in that dusting of confetti celebration. Be proud of all that you have done and take this week to prepare for the battles and victories yet to come.
6 of Cups – The key to this week’s energy is the playfulness and joy of an ideal childhood. Your work is to find a moment in your past that was all rainbows and lollipops and bring that feeling forward. It has been a tough three months and you do not need to disregard what has been going on, but it is that quality of hope that is very much needed to carry on.
8 of Coins and 6 of Cups – First read Aries above because you got that card too. The other concept this week is work. You need to get back into your game. Drop any aspect of perfectionism and just do what you do. You have all the tools and knowledge to go, so you do you.
5 of Swords – Reconciliation and compromise are the keys to this week’s energies. However this is not about surrendering your ideals. A path can be found were both parties end up happy. Also for you twins, those two parties can be your two warring selves. For example: how can the extroverted you also make the introverted you happy?
8 of Wands – Lots of information is in the air, almost to the point of sensory overload. Do not panic you will be able to access what you need, but only by stepping outside of the whirlwind and slowing down. You need to fly outside of the flock to see its murmurations.
Queen of Swords – Last week’s energy asked you to break down structures mostly on the material plane to give yourself some freedom. This week you will need to do this on the mental plane. You have built up walls that should come down. Yeah it’s going to bring up emotional stuff. The challenge is not letting bitterness win.
3 of Coins – This week disharmony and dissension are lingering around you, and this leads to apathy for your part. Collaboration and teamwork are the only way any learning and forward movement can happen. It is time to unfurl fists and start holding hands, so work can get done.
2 of Cups – Relationships are the focus this week. Where there is disharmony, harmony is needed. Where there is distrust, trust needs to be built. Where there is tension, there needs to be a release. This is all about balancing. Lucky for you this is your jam.
9 of Cups – The last couple of weeks had you overloaded and unbalanced so emotional outbursts were necessary to vent and recalibrate. Then with opportunities knocking you still needed to finish the old to make way for the new. This week is welcomed relief. The energy to focus on is contentment. Be grateful for and imbibe in all that is good around you.
Ace of Swords – The last two weeks had you spotlighting things you want to do and opening portals to the soul. So your higher being could have some face time with you and do some personal Socratic Q&A. Well the energy continues around this thought and inquiry. It is here to help you cut through the chaos and gain clarity. The trick is to keep meditating, exercising your brain, day and night dreaming.
Knight of Cups – Time for some romance in your life. This is a hard one for you Cappies, you are so practical. But the energy this week is pleading with you to get that imagination going and dive a bit deeper into intimacy. Your all are charmers and great hosts, use these skills with those that you love.
Four of Wands – Finally, you have a week without the big energies pushing and pulling you to do things. This week taps into being a homebody and reconnecting with your intimate community. The only thing on your to do list is tidying up your personal space and then enjoying it.
*Emperor – Last week hopefully reinforced that you have a deep well of reserve energy which, though you have been dipping into a lot, the universe is also refilling. This week’s energy is now calling you to manifest. When working with the material plane, its best done with a hands-on approach. When working with ideas, do it with a sense of focus and authority. While working with people, use your charm and give the strength and support of a loving parent.
Two of Wands – You are in the land of in between. Caught between the past and the future. To use this energy, it is about being very present. Seeing each moment for the preciousness bit of life it is.
Three of Swords – Last week the energy was used hopefully in finding the pearls in your world. However, the challenge was in answering: Are you flexible enough to know when to let it go if it isn’t working or allowing it to evolve into an unknown ending? This week the energy has shifted to heart break. You are feeling the World’s pain and having a hard time figuring out what to do with it. If you met last week’s challenge (re-read the first two lines) finding flexibility and letting go, then you realize evolution and healing are done in small steps and they start within. So, this week has a lot of heart work in yourself and in your world. Don’t force it. Feel and tend the way to rebuilding.
Eight of Wands – Movement is the energy you need this week. Get out of the house if you can, ride a bike, walk, turn the music up and dance, play an instrument, paint with big broad stroke, etc…. You are holding in energy and it needs to get out, or you will sink more into lethargy and/or nervousness. This week let your body move, so your soul can soar.
Page of Wands – This week has aimless energy. You are feeling the world’s energy and it is painful. This brings on setbacks which lead to procrastination. First, realize that the majority of people are or have felt this energy in the past couple of months, and so can you. Then to get you out of the morass go into your shell and dive into your imagination. Find things on the web, TV, books, art, nature, etc… that let you have a bit of escapism but it must also tap into your sense of wonderment. You need to recharge, and childlike wonder and curiosity are a great ways to get there.
*Hierophant – This week energy is around structures. Now is the time for you to break them down. You need more freedom and a bit of rebellion to do it. What structure in your life just isn’t working? Look to the physical plane first. It could be when you go to bed, when you wake up, where you work, how you work, how you let people step on you… By deconstructing the structures on the material plane, you will give your spiritual self the space and freedom to rebuild.
Queen of Wands – You are creative, courageous and fierce. Now your challenge is to believe it. Release your self-doubt and go get what you want.
Eight of Swords– Self-acceptance is the key to this week. Allow yourself the ability to have foibles – we all do. The key is accepting these perceived quirks and converting them to your superpowers. Be compassionate with your heroine/hero character you are creating and ignore what others perceive it to be. Then re-write your narrative.
*World – Another high energy week for you. Last week the energy overloaded and unbalanced you, so emotional outbursts were necessary to vent and recalibrate. The key was purposely vent before the pressure made you burst. Hopefully, you got that out of your system, for this week you are called into the World. There is a mass of opportunities for you to try out this week, but you need a sense of completion to move on. Your challenge is to finish the old to make way for the new by the end of the week.
*Beyond – Last week, the energy asked you to spotlight your focus on things you want to do – not things you had to do. The energy this week adds to that force of optimal growth by opening portals to the soul. Take this week to meditate, be philosophic, find some awe, and dream day and night. Your higher being is asking for some face time with you. Time to listen and do some persona Socratic Q&A.
Four of Coins & Five of Wands – The last two weeks’ energies have you now moving with a more natural pace, in a more comfortable place, and your mind has disseminated and cleansed the what ifs scenarios. For with that skill set you can navigate this week’s two-sided energies. One side is chaos and drama and the other stability. Though the former might have you feeling too conservative or greedy with your resources. So the challenge this week is fine tuning your skills at healthy boundary making, so chaos can happen but in a safer play-pen arena.
Three of Cups and Emperor – The month of May was full of big energy. It started with summoning you to take control over your destiny by showing up. Then you dealt with the concepts of refinement, the grey areas of fairness and harmony and final, self-determining change. So now you are given a choice of paths. You can continue the high energy ride with the Emperor. This energy is about manifesting things on the material plane. It is a great time for all things around business and culture. Or you can take the second route, having fun with friends and filling up your emotional cups. Hopefully, you can do both, but don’t be surprised if one the roads whisks you away.
*Strength – The energy that surrounds you and is within you is fortitude. You have a deep well of reserve energy which, though you have been dipping into a lot, the universe is also refilling. So, if you are having self-doubt, know you are supported by the cosmos not as a crutch but as a comfy blanket when you need it. Your task is realizing you can call on your power at any moment needed or not.
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