Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of March 1, 2020

March 1, 2020 Nina

Marc-Le-Cornu_Infinity-Eight-Aerial photography — Marc LeCornu Infinity-Eight

This week I continue the theme of flying with a glimpse into aerial photography. Aerial photography not only open ours eyes and mind to a unique perspective but it gives us a sense of awe of how we and our world are part of a bigger construct.

The highlight of this genre is the Drone Awards, which are now looking for submission for 2020. This is a worldwide competition about aerial photography that is now on its third year. This competition though called Drone Awards includes a variety of platforms, fixed wing aircraft, helicopters, balloons, blimps, rockets, kites, parachutes and drones. The winners are showcased at the exhibition Above Us Only Sky held in Siena in October.

Aerial Photography has been around since the 1860’s when James Wallace Black photographed Boston from a hot-air balloon. The first drone or at the time called quadcopter was created by Jacques and Louis Bregut in 1907. However, its limitations of being unsteerable and requiring 4 men to steady it, it only lifted two feet off the ground. The first pilotless winged craft came about 10 years later and of course was evolved for warfare. However, by 1960 with the breakthroughs in transistor technology decreasing the size of RC planes, unmanned aircraft became big with hobbyists. By 2010 the AR Drone released by the French company Parrot, where the drone is controlled via WIFI using a smart phone. This breakthrough has created a boon in amazing aerial photographs and videos.

P.S. Remember signs with an * it a big week for you. Pisces this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year. And Virgo 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

Aerial photography — whale sharks-by-Bachir Moukarze

King of Wands – This week’s energy is boosting your abilities of envisioning a brighter future and the intentions that you will need to lay the foundation to manifest it. However, we are still not out of the woods with Mercury in retrograde which slows creation, but by the end of the week you can start moving your visions into manifestations.

Taurus

The Messenger – Where last week the world was harsh and unsupportive, this week the messenger comes with divine signs to guide your way through the chaos. The other perk with this energy is it will protect you from the turmoil if you don’t jump into it. Remember you always have choice, but at least the best choice will be well lit.

Gemini

Seven of Coins – The energy this week is all about perseverance. If you keep your nose to the grindstone and do your due diligence you will reap your just rewards. However, if you don’t do the preparational work, you will increase your workload and cause delays throughout this week.

Cancer

Yevhen Samuchenko 2 people-2 dogs and 4 shadows

Knight of Coins – Slow and steady is the energy to work with this week. Go after your responsibilities one step at a time. Patience is key. Don’t rush; find a comfortable stride and continue on.

Leo

Four of Cups – Well Mercury is still in retrograde until the 6^th so last week’s Hanged Man, low or inert energy, is still hanging around with the Four of Cups – withdrawal and meditation. So, this is another week to catch up on anything already in progress or contemplate your next steps. The skill you are honing is acceptance and utilization of the low energy weeks as much as those fiery energies you so love to dive into.

Virgo

Seven of Swords – This week’s energy has a hazy deception in the air. First you need to realize that Mercury is still in retrograde, so miscommunication and an inertia prosper during this time. Second, this energy has nothing to do with you, if you don’t get involved in other’s drama or even let your own pessimism get in the way. You do not have to be the moral police 24/7. This energy is best dealt with by seeing the small victories instead of everything looking like a hundred-year war.

Libra

King of Cups – Compassion is key to this week’s energy. And here are some key points to remember. You can not control everything. You and most people are doing the best they can. Situations and problems do balance out in the long view. And finally go with the flow with an open heart.

Scorpio

Page of Cups – This is your second page so let’s look closer at the page energy. Pages represent learning or coming at situations with a more open viewpoint. Last week your passion needed reigniting so finding new ways to light your soul was key. This week the Page of Cups wants you to view the world with more curiosity and love. Seeing the world with rose-colored glasses actually open up more opportunities for you this week.

Sagittarius

Seven of Cups – The energy this week is murky and full of illusions and misconceptions. This is mostly due to Mercury still being in retrograde, so misinterpretation and self-misrepresentation still abounds. This is not a week to make any decisions, but it is a great week do delve into fantasies and dreams. However, beware that you don’t try to bring your fantasies into the light of day. These visions are just for enjoyment and expanding your mind to otherworldly possibilities. They can plant seeds of potential for the future but not probability of the present.

Capricorn

Ningtai-Yu_Love-in-the-poem — Ningtai Yu_Love in the poem

Nine of Swords – This week’s energy is all about letting go. Letting go of controlling every aspect of your life. This is a hard one for you Capricorn especially because this year is so full of forward momentum. But to cope with all the possibilities, all the positive energy, and all the hope, you must stop trying to control it all. Worry will get you nowhere – not this week nor this year.

Aquarius

*Death – Change is in the air, but it is slow in coming. Mercury is still in retrograde until the end of the week. You cannot rush the universe, nor do you want to. As they say there is a season… Take this time to weed and till your soul’s soil. Trying to rush the change is due to a fear or a resistance on your part. Take this week to look at your possible blocks and clear those from the road so the Universe has a clearer path to create the change that you are wanting and waiting for.

Pisces

Three of Swords – Mercury is still in retrograde until the end of the week. This energy feels as if you are bound to the assignment of Sisyphus – rolling a rock up a hill to only see it roll down time after time. This week feels as if you are in a seemingly endless cycle of triumph and sorrow. The key to working with this energy, if you feel stuck, move on to the next task and come back to “the rock” another day.

May light be on you, around you, and within you,

Nina

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Feb 23, 2020

February 23, 2020 Nina

Faith Ringgold Tar beach — Faith Ringgold Tar Beach

We all at some point in our lives have flying dreams. Dream experts believe that flying dreams represent control, new perspectives, freedom and/or escape. One of my favorite children’s book is Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold. It is about an eight-year-old girl, Cassie, in Harlem. Not only does this loosely autobiographical book give the reader a glimpse into Harlem circa 1939 but it inspires us to transcend and soar. As Ringgold writes it’s very easy, anyone can fly. All you need is somewhere to go that you can’t get to any other way.

Ringgold is an accomplished artist and activist. She started in tradition oil paintings but by 1970 she began experimenting with painting acrylic on unstretched canvas with fabric borders, much like the Tibetan Thangkas (silk paintings with embroidery). She expanded this technique to her painted narrative quilts which she is now most famous for. Her pieces are usually heavy in symbolism and full of historical references of African American culture.

Aries

Five of Cups – Last week’s energy came to help you destroy the edifices that bind you, and strengthen your resolve to create new structures (time, space and how use your energy) that will sustain the work that needs to be done. You are going to need those structures to ground you this week from the chaotic emotional energies whirling internally and externally. The goal to traversing these waters is within each wave of churning emotion is a pearl of wisdom and truth.

Taurus

Ten of Swords – Well Mercury is in retrograde and you might be feeling the barbs. This week’s energy can bring on confrontation if you are not mindful of your intuition warning you to duck. If the hairs on the back of your neck raise up or you get a tingling feeling not to broach a subject or walk down that street, follow that warning. People and your environment can be sharp this week. Your challenge is to be aware of your triggers and avoid the clashes.

Gemini

Four of Swords – The energy this week is all about rest and healing. This energy warns you that your immune system, soul and mind needs rest. Take time to pull away from the maddening crowd (this includes social media) and relax.

Cancer

Two of Swords – Making choices or at least feeling as if you must are in the air this week; however we are in the midst of a Mercury in retrograde. The key to this week is not focusing on the decisions you feel you need to make, but about faith in yourself. Whatever you decide or not decide you will end up where you should be. This week go with the flow.

Leo

*Hanged Man – With Mercury in retrograde you might find it difficult to go forward. But this week that will work in your favor. This is great energy to catch up on anything already in progress or contemplate your next steps. A break in the action when used correctly can feel like a breakthrough.

Virgo

King of Swords – The energy this week is best used by planning for the long term. Though it doesn’t actively move you into the future it does want you to gain perspective and/or a clear focus on the future and how to get there. This is a great week for planning out the rest of the year or five.

Libra

Six of Cups – This energy is best used in play. Get down on the floor with a child and challenge your perspective of time, work and space. This isn’t about being naïve but about being open to seeing the world with a more inquisitive viewpoint.

Scorpio

Page of Wands – Your passion needs reigniting. When this energy shows up it is telling you that your soul’s spark, the reason you get up in the morning- i.e. your purpose(s), is waning. Take this week to do things that set your soul on fire. Nature and the arts are great venues to help you re-discover why you are here.

Sagittarius

Page of Swords – The last two weeks the energies have been around freedom, newness and metamorphosis. Now with Mercury fully in retrograde you are giving this time to decipher what has been going on in your outer life and inner mind. This energy foretells there is information to help you solve a problem or two. But it will take subtle and persistent inquiry to find it, for the truth is hidden by half-truths and denial. The key is being kind with your queries both to yourself and to others.

Capricorn

Faith Ringgold, Coming to Jones Road Part II: Our Secret Wedding in the Woods, photography by Benjamin Westoby

Four of Wands – Last week the energy was about expanding your horizons by integrating your inner and outer worlds. Diving into the energy and concept of interconnectedness. You are building on the old world and creating a new paradigm. So, to move to this new music you must let the composition enter you, let your body and soul find the new rhythm, and then dance. That energy is still reverberating through this week. But this energy focuses you on creating a foundation that is more fluid and more accepting of stress. Think of being more like bamboo then like an oak.

Aquarius

Faith Ringgold Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles

Eight of Wands – Now that you know that 2020 is about igniting new passions, new ways of being on the physical plane, and bringing the divine down into reality. That definition of divine is of, from or like God, excellent or delightful. So, 2020 will be a year where new not only grows, prospers but lifts others with delight. This week is about starting to send out those messages and inquires to the world. However, since this week Mercury is in retrograde, its not about starting these new projects but more like sending out feelers to see what might bite. The more arrows you let fly the more likely you will hit upon illuminations.

Pisces

Five of Swords – Mercury in retrograde is creating chaos and you with a few other signs are being affected by it. Chaos has a way of being attracted to you this week, so the challenge is not reacting to other people’s yuckness. Your hackles can easily be triggered. The solution is putting on soothing music, light some incense/sage and escape when necessary.

May light be on you, around you, and within you,

Nina

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Feb 16, 2020

February 16, 2020 Nina

Poetry has its own way of inspiring visuals. This week I am adding to your sign’s forecast a line from the poem To a Dark Girl (1927) by Gwendolyn Bennett. To read the whole poem just read the first line in bold for each sign.

Bennett was an influential person and contributor in the Harlem Renaissance Movement. She was a painter, poet, and writer in a variety of journals and anthologies such as NAACP’s The Crisis and Caroling Dusk, and she published a monthly column called The Ebony Flute. For more on her history and work read Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond

The Harlem Renaissance was centered in Harlem New York during the decade of the 1920s. It was an intellectual, social, and artistic eruption. This era was a turning point in American black cultural history. This congregation and congruence of African American writers and artists created the momentum to gain control over their representation of black culture and experience and was the beginning of these artists and thinkers to be recognized in Western Art world.

P.S. Remember signs with an * it a big week for you. Aquarius this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year. And Leo 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

I love you for your brownness,

*Hierophant – What structures in your life are holding you back? The energy this week helps you destroy the edifices that bind you, and it strengthens your resolve to create new structures (time, space and how use your energy) that will sustain the work that needs to be done. This can look as simple as waking up earlier to eat breakfast, or as complex as getting your job to let you work from home once a week.

Taurus

And the rounded darkness of your breast,

Nine of Cups – Last week’s energy wanted you to bring the divine down into the world. Tapping into your spirit and calling it into action. The energy this week continues this theme of the divine, but it asks you is your work ethic getting in the way of your spirit and joy? Your contentment? Don’t forget the divine has you here to work your purpose, but following your joy sustains you.

Gemini

I love you for the breaking sadness in your voice

Seven of Wands – Last week’s energy was best used in building on what already is existing. This week you will have to defend your boundaries to get anything done. Work still needs to happen, so put up you do not disturb sign and get back into your groove.

Cancer

And shadows where your wayward eyelids rest.

Six of Coins – Karma is the key energy this week. Take heed in your actions and reactions. For all the positive you give, positive will return; however, this energy flow happens with negative forces too. The trick with this card is that the return energy does not always come back directly from the intended source. So watch for curve balls, lower expectations and be nice.

Leo

Something of old forgotten queens

Six of Swords – You need a bit of distance to gain some perspective this week. So, when meeting a challenge, step back, dissect the issue, simplify and go back in. The main take away to handling this week is physical space even if its just an extra 5 minutes in the bathroom.

Virgo

Lurks in the lithe abandon of your walk

Three of Wands – Last week the energy was about organic change. Asking you to start on your spring cleaning, getting rid of things that are dead weight in your life. And, it asked you to plant some seeds by tasking you to write down 50 things you wish for, big or small. Lucky you, you get another week to do this prep work. The only challenge this energy is thinking bigger and broader horizons in your wishing.

Libra

And something of the shackled slave

Ace of Swords – With all that heart work last week the energy has done a 180 degree turn from your heart to your mind and ways of thought. Hopefully, now that you have reconnected with your emotions you can clearly see the direction you need to take this week with problems and their solutions.

Scorpio

Sobs in the rhythm of your talk.

Queen of Cups – Last week’s energy was rough and hopefully you got to dodge most of it. But you might find yourself a bit tender and vulnerable. However, this is not to week to hide in the shadows. Go out find solace in your friends and people who love you. Refill your cup.

Sagittarius

Oh, little brown girl, born for sorrow’s mate,

*Judgment – Last week the energy circled around freedom and newness. Reminding you that exploring the world is part of what drives your soul. Discovery is key to bringing new ideas and stimulating your sensualities. If you did well with that task last week, you are ready to deal with this week’s energy of metamorphosis. If you didn’t investigate new avenues you might find this week has growing pains with your evolution. This can be as simple as you found a new route to work which gives you 10 more minutes in the morning to eat breakfast. Or it can be as complex as not finding that new avenue which stops you dead in your tracks, and you hang upside down spinning a large cocoon around yourself until you solve your challenges and changes.

Capricorn

Keep all you have of queenliness,

*World – The energy this week is about expanding your horizons by integrating your inner and outer worlds. Dive into the energy and concept of interconnectedness. You have just completed a major work and/or turned a significant corner in your life and now you need time integrating this accomplishment into your consciousness. You are building on the old world and creating a new paradigm. So, to move to this new music you must let the composition enter into you, let your body and soul find the new rhythm, and then dance.

Aquarius

Forgetting that you once were slave,

*Magician – Ok this is your last birth month card and the Magician has shown up to add to the energy of the Aces, new beginnings. So, let’s review, 2020 ignites new passions and new ways of being on the physical plane. Then the Magician steps in adding its big energy of bringing the divine down into reality. This energy begs for you to start new projects/jobs, create, imagine, and experiment in the coming year. The big challenge is that these creations must have an aspect of the divine. The definition of divine is of, from or like God, excellent or delightful. So, 2020 will be a year where new not only grows, prospers but lifts others with delight.

Pisces

And let your full lips laugh at Fate!

Ten of Coins – The energy this Ten brings is satisfaction from the work you have completed. This week is a transition of completion and new beginnings. This week spend time just enjoying the gifts that you have worked so hard to get. Set your gratefulness into your bones to strengthen positive reverberations for the next cycle to ride.

May light be on you, around you, and within you,

Nina

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Feb 9, 2020

February 9, 2020 Nina

Australian animals — Grey headed flying fox

Above are Grey-headed flying foxes and they are suffering due to climate change ie fire and summers temperatures over 100 degrees. As you know the fire season in Australia has just begun. Luckily due to some rain the raging fires of January are subsiding, but now the area needs help in rebuilding the habitats of Eastern Australia. Above and below are some cute baby pictures of native Australian animals that are endangered due to the fires.

Many of these animals are unique to this continent. Seventy percent of our marsupial cousins and all monotremes are found only in Australia. Marsupials are mammals that give birth to relatively undeveloped babies therefore carrying them around in pouches to nurse them. Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs but still suckle their young.

If you want to help here ae places you can donate to: WorldWildlifeFund, RSPCA, WIRES, Kolas in Care, INC,

Aries

Seven of Coins – Last week, the Star brought with it a lovely, calming, healing energy. This week that energy will carry into to all that you do. You needed time to rest and now refreshed, you can see your work with new eyes. So, this week is great for planting and growing whatever you put your will to.

Taurus

*Magician – The energy this week is bring the divine down into the world. This energy asks you to find ways to manifest your purpose on this plane of existence. The challenge is thinking to much about it. This dynamism is about tapping into your spirit and calling it into action. Logic often blocks this, so experimentation is key. Do without goal setting and magically the goal will be reached.

Gemini

*Emperor – The energy this week is used best in building on what already is existing. Get out of your head and get your hands dirty. It is a great week to check items off your to-do list. Fix that cabinet that squeaks, expand on that project you are working on, and/or materialize your dreams. This energy is a great motivator. Just direct the energy and go.

Cancer

Three of Coins – Collaboration is key this week. The more eyes, minds and hands you have to bounce ideas off of the more you will get done. Take time to ask for input and/or help. Different viewpoints are needed not so much to change your mind but to have more surer footing and clear insight on what you are thinking and constructing.

Leo

King of Coins – Last week the energy of change was asking you to dig deep, turn things over, throw out the stones in your path and plant the seeds for things to come. Well this energy continues with the King of Coins. His moto is just do it. Keep moving, keep producing, keeping going – you are on the right path in building upon the material plane. You GO!

Virgo

*Death – The energy this week is organic change. Time to start on your spring cleaning, getting rid of anything that is dead weight in your life. Doesn’t fit, doesn’t’ work, old emails, books you will never read but carry around, clothes that don’t fit, etc…Dump it. However, this energy is clearing space for planting too. So, take time this week to write down 50 things you wish for, big or small. This energy of change is not sudden but organic, so save that paper and see what has sprouted in a year.

Libra

Knight of Cups – The energy to work with this week is vulnerability and your emotions. Are you giving enough space and time to your emotions? Letting off some steam, opening up to someone you feel safe with, asking for cuddles, quality companion time, or bitching to your bestie is all good this week.

Scorpio

Ten of Swords – This week the energy is gnarly, and you can be easily triggered by it. People are just not getting you, so best to walk away from situations when you feel the tension. Defend yourself if you must. However, the more you let yourself get triggered, the more pokey conversations and actions will be on both sides.

Sagittarius

*Fool – The energy this week is freedom and newness. This energy reminds you that exploring the world is part of what drives your soul. Discovery is key to bringing new ideas and stimulating your sensualities. This process of newness keeps you from feeling bored or being in a rut. Say yes to things this week especially if you never been there, eaten that, done it. The world is yours to enjoy and discover.

Capricorn

Ten of Pentacles – This week’s energy is about completing projects and basking in your accomplishments. This is not a week to start anything new, so each time you check off an item off your to-do list – celebrate.

Aquarius

Ace of Coins – The energy of beginnings continues for your birth month. This week the focus turns from passions to grounding them into reality. What schedule fits your circadian rhythms? List the foods that empower and refresh you. What are your skill sets? What new skill sets will you need to make your dreams come true? By answering these questions, you can fertilize the seeds to create more opportunities where your passions can flower. This is another great card to begin your new birth year. So far 2020 will be a year where new not only grows but prospers.

Pisces

Knight of Coins – The energy this Knight brings is stability and pace. This week is about applying structures that support you going forward. So, look to your sleep cycle you getting enough or too much? Look at your eating habits? Are you exercising at least 4 times a week? Is your home relaxing? This week is about tweaking your physical reality into shape for the long haul.

May light be on you, around you, and within you,

Nina

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Feb 2, 2020

February 2, 2020 Nina

The beginning of 2020 has been a bit rough with fires, plague, a variety of governments in turmoil and corruption. The art of Eva Camacho brings many of these injustices to the forefront, but she also gives us hope. The piece above, A Golden Ray of Hope, and her words below are just what my soul and maybe yours needs to hear to carry on.

“Worry, loss, sadness, injustice, desperation, tears, incredulity, uncertainty and pain can sap us of our will to carry on. A golden ray of HOPE keeps us going, striving, moving, laughing, breathing, loving and surviving. It binds us to each other and roots us to the ground. It is the current that jolts through our hearts and brightens are eyes. HOPE nourishes us and guides us from darkness towards peace, justice, and love. This piece visualizes a golden ray of HOPE that can help us all carry on.”

Camacho started out as a designer of felted garments and gave it up to hone her skills into conceptual art pieces mostly around social and environmental justice. Even though her pieces take on heavy injustices, the technique she uses, and her designs show us that even in the presence of hardship that we can mend bind together and grow. She has combined her felting wool with the process of Joomchi. Joomochi is an centuries old Korean technique working with Mulberry fibers to create sculptural paper. The pieces below are just close ups of her stuff please click to her site to see the full display.

Aries

*Star – The Star brings with it a lovely, calming, healing energy to this week. Take time to just be. Allow yourself the time and space to connect to the positive flow of the Universe. If you are quiet enough you can tap into your north Star, your guiding light. This process will help you realize you are not alone in your quest, and that you can heal not only your wounds but some of those in the world too.

Taurus

Two of Cups – The best use of this week’s energy is focusing on the ones you love. These are relationships you choose. There is a need to re-balance these relationships. The challenge is finding the time to create the intimacy that fills both your cups by just being with each other.

Gemini

Seven of Swords – Small victories abound through out this week, and you are due these successes. However, the challenge is to be careful not to allow in the energy of tit for tat or retribution. Your battles are being won but the war continues, so play fair and win with good sportsmanship.

Cancer

Queen of Wands – Taking time this week to be creative and be in nature will help you focus on the tasks that need to be done. I know this sounds counterintuitive or makes you feel like you are goofing off. But taking the time to reconnect with your soul is as important to your work as checking things off your to-do list.

Leo

*Death – Change begins this week. The energy is the combination of letting go of things that don’t work and learning from that process what to focusing on or plant next. It will be a slow process and a very organic one. This energy is very cyclic in nature. The more you empty your cup – the fuller you can re-fill it. The more you till the soil – the more fertile the ground. Dig deep, turn things over, throw out the stones in your path and plant the seeds for things to come.

Virgo

Ace of Swords – The energy this week is buzzing around thoughts and communication. Do PR, answers all those emails, and take time to contemplate new ideas. The more you think about and communicate the more seeds you will plant for the coming month.

Libra

Two of Coins – The energy to work with this week is balance. Not only doing exercises that hone your physical balance, but also balancing work and play is vital. The challenge with this is that you can’t juggle more than one thing. So, if working, focus on the job at hand, and if playing, focus on the fun.

Scorpio

Two of Wands – Betwixt and between is the energy to work with this week. This is not the time to start new things. It is more of a time for preparation and reflection. The best exercises to do with this energy is examining your past for lessons and imagining your future with out restrictions.

Sagittarius

Eight of Wands – The Universe is full of communications and information for you this week. The soul’s flow is trying to ease your path and it does it with synchronicities and signs. You can also ask for more directed help and the more you ask for the more hits you will get. Though you will have to sift through all messages to find them. The challenge with this energy is sometimes the Universe believes it knows what you want better than you do. And lol that may be true.

Capricorn

Page of Swords – To get to the truth this week will be tricky. The challenge with this energy is to truth-find you will have to do some digging and deep listening. Ask questions that slowly peel away the layers. Go at your life and your problems like a therapist with inquiry, compassion and patience.

Aquarius

Ace of Wands – The energy this week is about planting the seeds for future passions. What makes you get up in the morning other than the alarm? What is your driving force? By answering these questions, you can start planting the seeds to create more opportunities where your passions can flower. This is a great card to begin your new birth year.

Pisces

King of Wands – The energy this King brings is manifesting creativity and passion. This King heralds this is the time to create many aspects of your world. The challenge is picking the ones that bring you joy and then scheduling them into your life. This energy advises that work is fine, but you must have things in your life that stimulate you at every level.

May light be on you, around you, and within you,

Nina

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Jan 19, 2020

January 19, 2020 Nina

RaeSwon hat

Two weeks ago I highlighted the art of Eileen Agar a surreal artist that was the first to merge surrealism and fashion with her ceremonial hats. This week’s artist RaeSwon resonates Agar’s wit in her felted hat creation. The first know hat was found on Otzi, a bronze age man dated around 3250 BC. Hats were believed to be worn to cool or heat a person. However, only 50 years later in an Egyptian tomb painting, a straw hat was worn for status or ceremonial reasons. Now hats are worn for protection from weather conditions, safety, status, rank, ceremonially and/or fashion.

Felting and hats have a long history that started in ancient Greece, the pielus. Felting from wool is the oldest known textile. There are two ways to make felt. Wet felting is applying hot water to layers of animal hair and then agitating and compressing the fibers, so they hook together. This method causes the scales on the hair to open up and the agitation latches them together. Where needle felting is done by stabbing a barbed needle into animal fibers to tangle and hook them together. RaeSwon uses both techniques to make her very imaginative millinery.

Aries

RaeSwon hat Four of Swords – This week rest is needed. Your immune system is weak and only rest and a bit of self-coddling will set it right. Go to bed early, eat well, and try to find time to relax into a thoughtless stupor.

Taurus

RaeSwon hat Six of Coins – Karma is the resonation this week. What you do for others and to others comes back three-fold. The trick with this card is the payback good or bad is unpredictable in timing and does not always come from the source it was given to. Your song: Be Nice by the Black Eyed Peas

Gemini

Ten of Coins – Get things off your to-do list and finish up projects that have been around for a while. This week’s energy is about work and completion, so don’t start anything new. Now is the time to clear your plate of the old so the new has room to grow.

Cancer

RaeSwon hat Seven of Wands – Last week, the energy was about experimentation with the tools and skills you already have in your arsenal. Creating without purpose and exploring what comes from it. This week to continue doing that, you are going to need to defend your rights to experiment, create and explore. Stand up for yourself. Your mantra: I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say ‘Can I be of help? – Maya Angelou

Leo

RaeSwon hat Ace of Wands – This week you get to switch gears from all work to the act of creation. Inspiration and ambition is lite by your passion. This is a great week to start new projects, play in nature, and inspire your spirit. Use your natural fiery temperament to ignite what is listless and dark. Your song: Light My Fire by the Doors sung by Shirley Bassey.

Virgo

King of Wands – After last week’s chaos you are stronger and wiser which helps this week’s energy: public relations. This is a great week to meet and greet, send out resumes, beef up your social media page, and be as charming as you can be. You have Pied Piper energy around you. The challenge is figuring out where you want to lead your throngs.

Libra

Four of Coins – Resource stability is the energy this week. Great time to start doing your taxes, contributing or starting a savings account or IRA, and/or scheduling in “me-time” or more family time. The challenge is feeling as if you need to do it for fear of losing resources, time, money or space. However, this energy is really about saving in case of, so you don’t have to spend precious time worrying about a lack of those resources in the future.

Scorpio

*Fool – Adventure and new beginnings are the energies to work with this week. Itch feet? Go wandering. Bored? Partake in something you have never done. Melancholy? Watch silly movies all week. Feeling old? Go swing on a swing set or have a snowball fight. Feeling naïve? Go learn something new. This week newness is the key to rekindling your faith and joy of life.

Sagittarius

RaeSwon hat *Hermit – This week’s energy is getting some much-needed alone time. You need space and perspective. And the only way you are going to find it is setting up a sacred space and time. It would be great if you could do a little retreat from your life. But if you can’t do that. This can be done simple by taking the long way home, taking the bus instead of your car, going on silly errands solo, turning off your phone for 2 hours, or eating outside for lunch. The key to obtaining this is telling people that you are turning off your phone from 2-3 hours each day, going to be late coming home, or gone for the week. Because if people don’t see your proverbial do not disturb sign on the window, they will bug you to find out why.

Capricorn

Knight of Wands – Ok I warned you. I hope you rested last week because the energy this week is getting on your horse and riding it the next destination and doing it with some flair. First this energy says you are in the right space at the right time all this week, if you can work with this fiery energy. You must willfully reign in your aspirations and steer them to your desired goals without extinguishing your passion.

Aquarius

RaeSwon hat Knight of Pentacles – Last week’s energy was about saying yes to opportunities coming at you from unexpected places and learning that saying yes doesn’t mean forever. This energy likes you to try out new things so you can find what best fits the new you. This week’s energy continues the theme of moving forward into new worlds. However, staying open is now focusing down to only areas of work, how you make your money and/or hands-on projects. This is a great time to work on to-do lists and to get far with any plans, while being open to new input. The challenge this week is working this as a marathon not a series of sprints. So, hydrate and feed yourself at regular intervals.

Pisces

Queen of Swords – Details are the focus this week. This energy is best utilized by examining the specifics of situations and boning up on your communication skills. If you come up to a block, asking questions, deep listening and overall communication will lead you out of any maze.

May light be on you, around you, and within you,

Nina

Tarotcast

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Jan 12, 2020

January 12, 2020 Nina

Tawny Chatmon

This week’s artist is Tawny Chatmon. She creates the most beautiful portraits. As she states they are ‘loosely inspired by art from the 15^th-19^th century with specific intent of bringing to the forefront faces that often under-celebrated in this style of work.” She believes that “our memories and our experiences are directly responsible for who we become.”

So, if we want equality, freedom and peace for all people, we need to experience all of our faces as commonplace and in positive light. Look around in your environment and see if you are expanding your creations, experiences, memories – who you are – wide enough to encompass all of you, humanity, and the world.

P.S. Remember signs with an * it a big week for you. Capricorn this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year. And Cancer 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

Tawny Chatmon

Ace of Wands – Last week, you were tasked with the study of cycles and holistic ways of looking situations or projects. This knowledge hopefully inspired you, for this week is a great time for beginning new projects or growth in places of purpose and inspiration.

Taurus

Tawny Chatmon Nine of Cups – Last week, the Hanged Man advised you to look at situations with a different perspective. Taking time for contemplation with an emphasis of out-side the box thinking. This energy of out of the box thinking is needed this week, to explore the concept and your actions around your feelings on contentment.

Gemini

Tawny Chatmon

Three of Cups – Last week called for you to do some healing and take time aligning with the positive. This energy continues this week if you hang out with friends as part of the process. The Three of Cups comes when your emotional wells are needing to be filled, and the people who know you well can help.

Cancer

Tawny Chatmon

*Magician – The energy this week is experimentation with the tools and skills you already have in your arsenal. Take time now to tap into your intuition and pull out some ideas to play with. Create without purpose and explore what comes from it.

Leo

Tawny Chatmon

Eight of Coins – Another week that is all about business. This week’s energy is all work, but you are also totally prepared and skill for all you must do. The only challenge is to run this week like a marathon not a sprint. Keep hydrated along the way and by the weekend you can fully relax.

Virgo

Tawny Chatmon Five of Coins – Chaotic energy is prevalent this week. Be careful this does not send your head spinning into loss and feeling as if you have scant resources. Your read on this energy is right; it is not a week to invest into new projects. So the challenge is realizing that you are not alone, nor lost, nor poor. Your wealth and help lies in the family, friends and/or the community at large.

Libra

Tawny Chatmon

Eight of Cups – It is time to let go of emotional baggage that you have been carrying. The energy this week is about releasing. The challenge is letting yourself do it without guilt.

Scorpio

Tawny Chatmon Queen of Pentacles – Last week, the energy was about creating harmony while still maintaining a duality in your nature and/or with others. Your challenge is connecting with the ones you love without losing either’s selfhoods, and/or harmonizing your own masculine and feminine energy. This process will help you with this week’s energy of being a provider and comforter. The challenge in being both is having a solid foundation built on your own needs and allow others to maintain their freedom while you nurture theirs.

Sagittarius

Tawny Chatmon Page of Swords – The energy this week is about information lying hidden. The goal this week is finding truths that are hidden or disguised. Start asking subtle but leading questions to the answers you want to find. The challenge is hearing what is said and then discerning which avenue to take to discover the information at its fullest. The truth is there but you are going to have to dig for it.

Capricorn

Tawny Chatmon Four of Swords – Last week your energy work was gardening and growth. Create and design. Plant and nurture. Tend and weed. And finally, balance the work with the pleasures that you have reaped from that work. That last task is extended to this week. Your challenge is slowing your roll and being still. Learning how to rest is a needed skill to practice this week. This is a big year for Capricorns. So, with all that cosmic activity you will be dealing with (from January 2020 until December 2020), this is the only week with Mercury in your sign that your personal needs are easily heard. After the this your purpose and will take front stage. So, I must repeat take this week to relax, talk and physically listen to your body and soul.

Aquarius

Tawny Chatmon World – This energy shows up when opportunities are at your doorstep to take and other doors can be closed. This is a great time to start something new. To say yes to things that you wouldn’t normally say yes to. The challenge around this card is feeling as if you say yes means that you can’t back out of it, and/or you might close doors you are not ready to. Oh contre mon ami. This energy likes you to try out new things so you can find what best fits the new you. So any closed door can be open again, but you might find the new landscape better fits who you are now.

Pisces

Tawny Chatmon

Ace of Cups – New beginnings on the emotional front are this week’s energy. Manifesting joy and love is the energy form to work with. The challenge is truly feeling you deserve it.

May light be on you, around you, and within you,

Nina

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