Christmas carols are all over the radio. And one of the top ten is Hark the Heralds Angels Sing. The melody was composed by Felix Mendelssohn. Or was it? His older sister Fanny Mendelssohn was an accomplished pianist by the age of 13. Starting a year later both she and Felix received instruction in music composition. Their teacher favored Fanny over Felix; however due to the prevailing attitudes of the times her Father was tolerant but not supportive. Her father wrote to her in 1820 Music will perhaps become his [i.e. Felix’s] profession, while for you it can and must be only an ornament.
This did not stop her. She married a more supportive husband, Wilhelm Hensel (he drew the sketch of her above). During her life, she composed over 460 pieces of music, and the number is increasing. In 2010 historians found in her diary her mentioning Easter Sonata which was attributed to her brother and is now attributed to her. This wasn’t the first time her songs were misconstrued for her brother’s. In 1842 while Queen Victoria was receiving Felix at court, the Queen expressed intention of singing her favorite song of his; however, Mendelssohn had to confess it was Fanny’s. In several correspondence between the two siblings one finds that they helped each other in arranging music through out their lives. So, it is possible that Fanny had a hand in one of our popular Christmas carol.
P.S. Remember signs with an * it a big week for you. Sagittarius this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year. And Gemini it is your halfway mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check in now is the time.
Aries
Seven of Swords – The last couple of week’s energies helped you with the processes of change and building momentum. This energy decreases this week but still helps you create minor victories, however, they can test your morality and focus.
Taurus
Nine of Coins – Last week you were tested on what you stand for and keeping your focus. This week the energy turns from outward to inward. It is a great time for any work in the physical plane. Last week distractions continue but this week you have a chance creating a physical distance to help you focus. The challenge is to get any work done you need to find your secret garden and only let in those that respect your privacy in.
Gemini
Eight of Wands – Last week, the Sun card brought energy to do what you needed to, and challenging your skills of focusing the right amount of attention on each project/person. This week continues this positive vibe. Anything you aim at will hit the mark. The challenge is that you will get a lot of information back from in each inquiry. So, focusing on what is a priority can be a test.
Cancer
*Wheel – The Wheel’s energy is about changing your fortune. This dynamism arrives just before the eclipse that will affect Cancer/Capricorn. These eclipses are your battery chargers for the next 12 years. This week’s challenge is figuring out where you want to hook up your battery’s cables for the following week.
Leo
Ace of Coins – This week is great for starting projects or anything to do with your hands/body. The Aces come to pave new highways and in this case, it is on the material plane. No challenge this week – dig in.
Virgo
Nine of Cups – The energy this week is all about contentment. This is both gift and challenge. The challenge comes from feeling as if there is something missing, however, the gift is you are right where you need to be, doing what you need to do. Bliss is fleeting but contentment can be reach daily.
Libra
*Hermit – The Hermit comes when you need space to gain perspective and grounding. The challenge is finding that time and space, not only because, this is the holiday season but you all typically have a load of people around you. It would be advisable that you find alone time this week before the hustle and bustle starts over the holidays. This can look as simple as going holiday shopping alone or taking the long way home.
Scorpio
Nine of Wands – Last week’s energy was asking you to make your dreams and ideas into reality. This week continues that energy however, with a focus on preparation, gathering resources and protecting your time to do the work. The challenge might feel like an upper ward battle, but your persistence will win out in the end.
Sagittarius
Ace of Swords – This week should feel, no matter when your birthday falls, as a fresh beginning. This coming year will have a focus on communications, philosophizing, and the mind. The challenge is focusing while all your thoughts are swirling around you this coming year. Take some time this week to listen to your thoughts for new ideas are in the mix.
Capricorn
Knight of Cups – This week is all about vulnerability. This isn’t an easy card for you all because of your stoicism. Vulnerability is not wining or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when you have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not a weakness; it’s out greatest measure of courage. – Brene Brown
Aquarius
Queen of Coins – The energy last week was about building on what already exist and challenging you that what you build should help others and not come from a place of hubris. This week continues this theme of building, but it is also about the balance of working and enjoying life. This week give all your senses some time to indulge. Ie: eat for taste, smell for comfort, listen for joy, feel for love, and see for beauty.
Pisces
Ace of Coins – Last week you needed to gain perspective and some distance literally and metaphorically. Hopefully this will help guide you, for this week’s brings new beginnings on the physical plan. This is a great week to start new projects. Also, it would be great is you can do something with your body that will ground you. This can be as simple as taking a walk outside, creating something with your hands, or shoveling snow or dirt which ever hemispheres you are in.
May light be on you, around you, and within you,
Nina
*Emperor – Last week’s energy helped you with the processes of change. Telling you that, the more balanced you are with your goals the easier change can happen. This week’s energy adds builder energy to the mix. The combination of these two cards are great for building anything already in progress. Doing things with your hands and your body will help you connect to this energy of momentum. This can look as simple as rearranging your furniture or as complex as building a new product in your business.
*Devil – You roll into December feeling as if you are in mid-terms. There is a sense of completion if you could just finish your tasks. The key to getting through this week’s trials is sticking to your morals/plans. However, the challenge of that is two fold. First, you feel irritable and easily unbalanced by distractions this week. Also, you will need to listen to others this week even though you don’t agree. This energy has karmic threads tied to it, so the more tested you feel the more important it is to make sure you are on your moral ground before saying your peace. 
*Sun – The Sun brings with it the energy to do what is needed. Anything you do this week should come with ease if you focus energy on it. The challenge with this energy is focusing the right amount of attention on each project/person. Think of it like this, lasers are great for cutting away something but not so good for growth. Where a more ambient light is great for growth. Or soft light is great for viewing a landscape but sucky for details. Or candlelight is better for conversations and romance. All of these are light energy, but each has a purpose and a mood. This will be your fine-tuning challenge for this week.
King of Cups – Last week’s energy was creating opportunities in all areas, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual planes. Asking you questions like: Does this get me to where I want to be in five years? Does this feel right? Is this interesting to me? Does it connect to my purpose? This week’s energy drills down this idea of looking at your future on how you want to feel moving through it. This is a week to trust your feelings. They can feel overwhelming but that is a great time to pull back and sit in them. You don’t have to be scare of owning your feelings, and you can pull back to do that if that is comfortable for you. The big challenge is not running from them. They are opportunities of discovery.
Two of Wands – This week is best used by overall planning and designing what’s next. You can use this energy to go through emails or stuff to lighten your load, but this energy needs to be pointed towards the future. If a project is stuck let it drop and focus on the bigger picture, the details can be better handle in weeks to come.
Four of Coins – The energy this week is all about frugalness. You can do a lot during this time even though it feels as if there is not enough time, space or money. Also, this is when your sign rises to the occasion. You all are masters at making a dime stretch to a dollar’s worth. The limitation of resources brings out your creative response – use it to your advantage.
Two of Cups – The last two weeks have been high energy. The Death card’s energy was about letting something die off, and the Empress came in with strong growth energy to follow. This week the energy is lower and has the potential of being more fun. Romance and relationships are in the spotlight. The challenge is tending to the easiest of your relationships. They are the ones that feed you as much as you feed them.
*Magician – Bring the divine into the world is your task this week. Your dreams and ideas are asking you to bring them into reality. This universe is saying you are ready for the challenge. You have all the tools and lessons needed to create something new. This can be as simple as putting together a bike for your kid, or as complicated as starting the steps to bring your dream business into reality. The only challenge is you might have to hurry because even miracles take a little time – Fairy Godmother in Cinderella.
Nine of Coins – Another material plane week for you. Last week it was about enjoying the material plane with others. This week it is more about enjoying solitude. There is plenty of work to be done but this energy is best used when you are alone, or you have a finite group of people to work with. Your challenge is finding that alone time.
Two of Swords – Well last week was a decision-making time and this week follows another round of making decisions and planning. The big challenge with this energy is feeling like there are too many options and you don’t know where to go next. What this tries to teach you is that even though this feels like a crossroads, it is not. The decision or goal is not important but the journey. If it doesn’t feel right don’t do it. This is a week to follow the heart for it will guide the mind.
*Emperor – The energy this week is about building on what already exist. This is not a week to create something new. The challenge is making sure what you’re building helping others and is not from a place of hubris. My way or the highway thinking will get you nowhere. Build to create community not a regime.
*Hermit – You are at your best this week if you can gain perspective and some distance literally and metaphorically. You need time to hear yourself think and ponder. So, any quiet time you find will be vital for decision making, scheduling and planning going forward. The only challenge with this card is you must tell people you are taking time out otherwise they will think you ghosted them. Communication is vital before you take a hiatus of any kind. This can look as simple as taking a walk for 20 minutes each workday to readjust or as complex as taken a week long sabbatical.
Eight of Coins – The last three weeks you have been running with some high universe energy. The Wheel of Fortune having you trying to change your fortune. The Hermit advising pulling away from civilization and using this solitude creating, experimenting, and philosophizing. Then the Empress advising you to put that energy into a new concept/idea that will come to term in about 9 to 10 months. Luckily, you have the Eight of Coins this week to continue this process of materializing aspects of this project. The big hint is you already have all the skills that are needed. This week is just about honing those skills.
Ace of Swords – This week’s energy is about making decisions and changing mindsets to a clearer and possible new direction path. This is a great week to plan, learn, think, and communicate. The key is finding new ways of thought and communication to help clear your path.
King of Cups – The last two weeks have had you running some high energy. With the World card presenting a variety of opportunities and new beginnings. Then the Sun card focusing appropriate energies on these new areas that you have chosen. This week slows down with the King of Cups. This King asks you to work with your emotions. Practicing not only how to emote your emotions without harming others, but also accepting any emotions that come up. Vulnerability is the key to courage this week.
*Devil – Where last week was innocence this week takes on darker elements. The Devil card shows up testing you on what you stand for. Think of the trials this week as your final exams. You have learned you lessons now can you practice them? This can look as simple as you preach or complain about people being late and you end up three hours late to work. Or as complex as you lying to someone dear to you, so they don’t get hurt. This week practice what you preach. Stand in your morals do not let the outside world influence what you know to be best.
Six of Coins – The Six of Coin foretells this week is all about mini occurrences of karma. The more positive you put out in the world the more positive you get back. Of course, this works for negative energies too. The challenge is this karma takes convoluted routes and has its own timing.
*Death – The Death card shows up when something in your life needs to die off so something else can grow in its place. The great thing is the universe will be helping you make this transition. The challenge is you will have to put some energy in weeding the old and seeding the new, but the universe will help with the growth.
*High Priestess – Ok you get another karmic card to work with the coming year. Last week, the Hierophant declared that 2020 is the year to create or shore up your structures and institutions. The challenge will be dealing with self-judgment and possible judgement of others. Next year it will be vital for you to be flexible, compassionate and empathetic, so that the structures you create don’t bind but bend. Now, you can add the feminine version of the Hierophant- the High Priestess. This card suggests that working with the big picture, questions of purpose, knowledge, and spirit will also be important in 2020. This will help with your challenges from the Hierophant card. The challenge with the Priestess is finding time and space to ponder these big questions. Retreats will be as necessary as creating your civilization in the coming year.
Knight of Swords – Last week, The Fool suggested letting loose and be a more carefree. Challenging you to find new places to visit, encounter new people, roam byways less traveled. I.e. Answering the call of the wild, the mystery of the unknown… This week continues this theme of discovery BUT the Knight of Swords warns you to slow your roll and be more careful while exploring. Your warning is not to be the fool running in where angels fear to tread. Side note: always with this card I caution to be careful with your appendages.
Six of Swords –The important energy this week is simplification. Working smarter – not harder is the theme. Also, when this card shows up its always a good time to take small trips or find time to hang out around or in water to clear your mind.
Ten of Coins – Your second ten card in a row, so let’s dive into the meaning of tens. Tens are about the completion of cycles but also being in that completion. Last week, the Ten of Cups ask you to literally count your blessings, noticing and feeling your blisses that you have created. Now the Ten of Coins has you completing physical tasks. This can be cleaning out your inbox or getting ten things crossed of your to-do list. The challenge is that you will need to work but you will need equal time to relax. Motto: All work and no play – makes Jill/Jack a dull person.
Five of Swords – The Five of Swords warns this can be a week of tension especially around conversations and thoughts. This is not a good week to get into heavy discussions for they can easily turn into battles. The best way to work with this energy is to turn up your empathy knobs. Standing in others shoes this week can lower the conflict thresholds.
Page of Cups – This week is all about getting in touch with your inner child. Pull out your crayons, get out your bubble bath, play in the rain or snow. The task is about rekindling your heart. Life is about joy. This week you’re being challenged to go find it. Second star to the right and straight on til morning – JM Barre – Peter Pan
*Hierophant – Ok so this is your big karma card for the coming year. The Hierophant declares that 2020 is the year to create or shore up your structures and institutions. This can look like going back to school or getting more certifications, creating a balanced schedule of work, play and self-care, creating or building upon traditions, getting to know your personal morals, and spirit. The challenge with this year is dealing with self-judgment and possible judgement of others. The hard work is around being flexible, compassionate and empathetic, so that the structures you create don’t bind but bend. Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind – Bruce Lee
*Fool – The Fool suggest this week to let loose and be a more carefree. When this card shows up it challenges you to find new places to visit, encounter new people, roam byways less traveled. Rediscover your freedom by driving down open roads, meandering paths, moving just for the joy of moving. Your horsey side needs to run. Answer the call of the wild, the mystery of the unknown…
Knight and Three of Coins – The Knight comes to tell you that you are on the right path and challenges you to slow your pace. Slow and steady wins this week. Then the Three of Coins adds that cooperation and collaboration also ease the journey. The challenge is picking your companions wisely – only the ones that build you and your projects up. No time for naysayers this week.
Ten of Cups – This card is about noticing and bring bliss back into your life. Take this week to literally count your blessings. Put them all on a sheet of paper and hang it on your mirror to see each day. Acknowledge all the abundance that you have and have created. Life is good. If you aren’t feeling the Love, then it is time to reassess. You are idealizing or being unrealistic of your expectations.
*Wheel of Fortune – The Wheel of Fortune is the card of luck. Events, people and things will come to you this week that have the potential to change your fortune. However, there is only one challenge or aspect you can control when this card shows up and that is stepping up to the wheel to spin. The more often and wider variety of places the better your odds. This looks as simple as buy some lotto tickets, getting your self out there in the dating scene, or sending out resumes to a wide variety of jobs or places you are interested in moving to. You never know when lady luck wants to show up, but you need to step out of your comfort zone to meet her.
*Sun – When the Sun card comes, it shines an intentional light on you – wanting you to grow. The Sun gives you the energy to use, but you will need to focus it. So, the question it asks is: What do you want to cultivate in your life? Once you have decided where to aim your beam, the challenge becomes being aware of what intensity of energy each project needs. i.e. Lasers cut, ambient light comforts. This is an important test for you bulls, because when you fixate on what you want your touch can be heavy handed.
Page of Swords – This card advises you that the truth needs to be ferreted out this week. The Page of Swords shows up when you need to put on your detective hat and do some inquiry. Nothing is as it seems on the surface, but with some questioning and reading between the lines problems and their solutions can be found.
Ten of Cups – When the Ten of Cups shows up it is time to see your accomplishments especially on the how you have been dealing on the emotional and relationship fronts. This moment in time is the cumulation of hard-earned heart work. Take this week to revel in how far you have come and enjoy the bit of sanctuary that you have accomplished.
Knight of Swords – Last week, you were back on the karmic roller coaster. The Wheel of Fortune card advising you to take chances leading to lessons and profitability in the long game. This week is a 180 degree turn of energy. Last week was about taking chances. This week’s card, though your environment might egg you on to be daring, advises you to slow your roll, think before acting and look both ways while crossing the street. Be physical careful of your appendages. Watch where you walk and watch your knife when prepping food.
*World – Wow another karma card that’s three in a row. The last two weeks the Moon had you taking a deep dive into your subconscious finding pearls of wisdom. Then Justice continued the theme of behind the scenes with ideas, communications and decisions. Having you look for the reasons behind the facts to help you with decision making. And now the World card has arrived. It is the supreme card of new opportunities. This is a great week to try out new places, prospects, and people. This week represents a turning point from the past to a brighter future. The challenge with this card is discovering these new terrains. The lesson is, though you can walk through a new door, you do not have to commit until you try as many doors as you want. This can look as simple as continuing dating even though you found a nice person to hang with or continuing to the job hunt even though you have found a good job. You never know what is out there unless you open as many doors as possible.
Six of Cups– This is your second Six, so sixes are about readjusting. Last week the Six of Swords advised you to re-balance by taking a little respite from your daily life. This week the Six of Cups is about balancing the past with your present. There is some unsettled history that will re-surge. However, now is time to resolve these issues so you can move on. The challenge is seeing the growth that you have gained despite the past.
Seven of Wands – This birth year will be kinda of a Rosa Parks year for you. The Seven of Wands forecast your lessons will be around standing up for yourself and/or some worthwhile cause. The challenge is you feeling not confident and vulnerable. This year will test your resolve to be the change you want to see in the world, however, you are ready for this task.
Eight of Coins – The last couple of weeks have had some high energy fluxes. First the High Priestess having you looking to synchronicities for guidance, texts for knowledge, and your soul for cyclic behavior. And then the Lovers continuing the theme of cooperation with the Universe and with other living beings. This week, which is also the beginning of your summation month for your birth year, the card of mastery shows up. So, with all that you have learned the past couple of weeks it is time to apply it to your “work.” To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem. ― 
Five of Wands – Hmm your second five. Fives are the cards of chaos. Last week, the Five of Coins foretold the physical plane could cause disarray to your plans. And this week the Five of Wands foretells that people’s chaos can spin into your world. The only plans of action, when seeing the whirling dervish coming towards you, is decide whether to sidestep it or dance with it. Hint: They say the best way to do the whirling dervish is keep your arms open. Your right arm directed to the sky, ready to receive the universes beneficence, focus your gaze on your left hand turned toward the earth to ground you and spin.
Knight of Swords – Last week the Strength card showed you that one of your true strengths comes from your resilience. And then it advised you to contemplate on your superpowers and their corresponding kryptonite. If you did this exercise, then this week will barely phase you. However, if you didn’t, your kryptonite will show up with you unawares. The best way to work with this energy is slow down, watch where you are going and think before you act.
Four of Cups – This week has a melancholy feel to it. This can send you inward to your safe space, and that is a fine place to stay for part of the time. This reflection will show you “the why” of your quagmire. The challenge however is you will only find the solutions if you look outside of yourself.
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