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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of March 28, 2021

penguin

Yep, it is time for another round of cute animal pictures to raise our spirits.  The end of March is the also the end of the yearly migration of the Emperor Penguin and the beginning of a new generation of penguins.  If you have not seen the March of the Penguins, please do it’s an amazing documentary about Emperor Penguins and their breeding season.  There are 17 to 20 species of penguins (the debate is still on with scientists).   So far, the biggest known species is extinct and stood at the height of 1.77m/5’ 10” and weighed over 91kg/200 lbs.

The above is the tiniest, lesser know and only blue feathered penguin, the Little Blue Penguin, Fairy Penguin or kororā in Māori. It is found on the coastlines of Australia and New Zealand.  They are 33cm/13in in height and weigh about 1.5 kg /3 lbs compared to the Emperor who can reach almost 1.1m (3ft 7 in) tall and weigh 35kg (77 lbs).  Most penguin species eat krill, squids, and small fish.  Ten of the species are considered endangered from varying reasons of weather pattern, climate change, declining food sources, or increase in predation.

Planets and Ponderings: Full Moon in Libra.  This moon is about harmony, peace and love however, for the next couple of days Venus planet of love and Chiron the wounded healer are in the opposing warrior and action sign, Aries.  So be aware relationships and communication can be a bit at odds, old wounds can re-open so try not to push anything to fast into action.  The best way to navigate this time is to be patient, listen with compassion and speak from a place of love.   And if you are feeling angst do something active with your body.

P.S. Signs with an * it is a big week for you.  Aries this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Libra 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
Mutation of a King Penguin

*Sun and Knight of Swords – Last week your first energy for the coming year was about balancing excess and blending binaries.  This week you have two Muses to aid in that balancing act.  The first is the Muse of Energy.  This year is full of growth and light.  You will be able to cultivate anything you aim your energy at.  However, the second energy the Muse of Slowing Down warns that you need to buffer your intensity and slow your pace so you can think things through.  This is a year to actively expand but balance and moderation are your prim directives.

Taurus
penguin
Chin Strap Penguin

*High Priestess – The Muse this week is the partner to last week’s energy.  Last week was a time for reflection- to dive into the subconscious either through dreams, meditation, or aimless ponderings to connect with the flow of energies and emotions that need tending to.   By softening your gaze, you see the periphery with more clarity. That peripheral vison while be needed again this week.   When this muse shows up, she is calling you to dive into the information around and about your higher purpose.  Last week was a modification of self this week is a tuning of why you are here.  Look for clues in synchronicities and cycles.

Gemini
penguin
Magellenic Penguin

Nine of Coins – This is a great week for working on anything on the material plane. However, to maintain your focus you need more time alone then in the company of others.  Take moments to go into airplane mode and put out the do not disturb sign, and only let in people who have your back.

Cancer
penguin
Gentoo Penguin

Page of Cups – Last week a shift happened, the pendulum is on a new swing cycle.  And you were advised to seek the seeds of serendipity, knowing that there are lessons and gifts in each swing.  This week that energy is still in motion.  However, The Muse of Innocence is here to help guide you with a fresh set of eyes.  Though that vision is rosed color in tint, it is more adept at seeing the silver linings in your week.

Leo
penguin
Macaroni Penguin

Five of Wands – You are going to need last week’s lesson in balancing this week, for it is full of chaotic energies.  And harder for you because what cat isn’t attracted to the flicker and flutter of something in motion or distress.  It is your choice to jump into the game of cat and mouse.  But if you do, know it will be hard to keep your focus and goal in mind with all that movement.  Conscious focus and innovative side-stepping will be the key to success.

Virgo
King penguin chicks

Knight of Wands – Last week the Muse of Justice came to work with you around the concepts of fairness as well as inequity.  Challenging you that for true justice to happen so must deliberation.  This week is a whole lot smoother with the Muse of Perfect Timing at your side.  If you follow your integrity, you will be in the right place and the right time.  So good or bad there are hidden gems for you at ever turn.

 

Libra
Gentoo Penguin

Knight of Coins – Learning the right pace for the right job are the lessons this week.  If slow and steady is your speed, then work like you are running a marathon.  Hydration and nutrition are key.   If you work better in short quick sprints, then make your workflow mimic that pace.

Scorpio
penguin
Rock Hopper Penguin

*World – The Muse of Tying up Loose Ends is here to help you complete something.  This is a great week to tackle anything that has been on your to-do list the longest and/or has just one more step to completion.  This Muse is the forebearer to new beginnings, so she is here to help you create space and time for that new thing to take root.

Sagittarius
Adelie Penguin

Queen of Coins – The Muse of Living is here to help you combine getting things done with enjoyment.  Her first lesson is if you are not having fun while you are working then you are not doing it right.  And her second is if you are not savoring all your senses each day then you are not enjoying this time you have on Earth in this body.   If you do the second lesson the first becomes easier.

Capricorn
penguin
Emperor Baby

Four of Cups – Last week the Hermit Muse advised you to take yourself out of the world to gain perspective and regroup.  You get another week with this energy with her younger sister the Muse of Introspection.  Again, your best thinking is done in seclusion from the hustle and bustle of the world.   However, if you find yourself having circular thoughts then it is time to turn outward for clues and inspirations.  Which you can take back to your reverie.

Aquarius
Emperor penguin

Six of Coins – Last week the muses advised patience to gain a new perspective.  This week the energy shifts to more action.  The only caveat is that what you give out will reverberate back to you.  So, this is great if you are emitting positive energy.  But if you are being judgmental or just plan mean this will also echo back to you.  So, watch your P’s and Q’s.

Pisces
Rock Hopper baby penguin

Six of Cups – The Muse of the Past is wanting to go through photo albums and/or your attic/basement with you.   Why?  Because your past has answers and hidden treasures that will be useful in your near future.

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Feb 7, 2021

Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

The planets:  Mercury is retrograde until February 18th.    This is a great time to Review, Reflect and Revise. There is a new Moon in Aquarius on the 11th, a great time to daydream the future and innovatations.

Now to this week’s artist, Kilian Schoenberger  (@kilianschoenberger).  Schoenberger’s hashtag is fogpants and for good reason.  His portrait of this atmospheric phenomena is otherworldly.  Each photograph seems staged for a fairytale or period piece horror flick.  His artistic ability of capturing sunlight, fog and snow has us entering another world, where time and space extends into the ether.

Fog forms when something warm and moist meets something cold.  The most common is radiation fog when the Earth radiates stored heat into the night’s cool air.  This fog sits and doesn’t move.  Advection fog is driven by warm moist air across cold surfaces like snow or water, and it flows.   Ultimately fog is a cloud on the ground.  In Schoenberger’s depiction of this phenomena, it becomes less of an embodiment of the unknown.  A place where we can lose our way or where scary monsters lurk.  Instead, he invites us to enter a dimension where we can walk on clouds.

Light and Love

Nina

P.S. Signs with an * it is 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
Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

Three of Wands – Last week’s energy was about reviewing if yourself and/or others were being unjust or not aligned with their integrity.  This exercise of tuning into integrity will help with this week’s energy of alignment.  This Muse helps you see that your timing/action-taking is perfect even if it seems you are not moving forward.  The world is behind the scenes aligning things while you wait to enter the into the act.  Motto: have patience until it is the right moment to pounce.

 

Taurus
Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

Four of Coins – The Muse of Thriftiness is here. Resources (time, money and/or space) are tight this week. She reminds you of ways you can be more frugal.   Whether that is only going out to shop once this week or stretching your food budget by going deep into the freezer and eating what is there.  The key is time and money is precious.  So, what do you want to spend your precious resources on?

 

Gemini
Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

Three of Cups – The Muse of Friendship is knocking.  She prompts that connection is important to keep up your spirits.  Take some time this week to reconnect with your BFFs.  Your emotional reserve is emptier than you think, and your friends are a quick refreshment in joy.

 

 

Cancer
Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

Six of Swords – The muse of small transitions is here to help move things along.    She reminds you that small simple movements forward are needed to move ahead.  So, take your to do list and break down each item into smaller chunks, or prioritize the simpler projects to create momentum.

 

*Leo
Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

Star – The Muse of Healing and Hope is here for you this week.  You may feel a bit war-torn, or not feeling like you or anything fits, kinda like the little the ugly duckling.  However, this muse is here to nestle you under her wings and show you that the world has some bright spots just for you. She will lead you to easter eggs of hope if only you open your heart and mind to them.  Whether that is someone opening a door for you, a sincere thank you, or someone giving you an eye-crinkle masked grin.  These glimpses of positivity are here to show you the world is not totally lost, and you are not broken, a misfit or “an ugly duckling.”

 

Virgo
Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

Knight of Cups – This week’s energy migrates your heart from chest to sleeve.  This is not a totally bad thing.  It is great for flirting and for deep meaningful conversations with ones you love.  However, be aware you can be overly sensitive and take things too much to heart.  Remember Mercury is in retrograde and people can say things they do not mean or can hear incorrectly.  It is a bit of a telephone game, so act accordingly.

 

Libra
Kilian Schoenberger

Ten of Coins – The energy this week surrounds successes.  This is a great week to finish off projects and then indulge in the aura of your achievements.  Abundance is in the air, your work is to grab these brass rings and enjoy the gifts that come with your hard labor.

 

Scorpio
Kilian Schoenberger

Page of Swords – The Muse of Sleuthing is here to help you dig out the truth.  Things are not what they seem this week, so you will have to do some investigating.  Since the truths are not on the surface, you will have to ask questions in a variety of ways to find the facts.  So ears open and a nonjudgmental mind will help you discover the information you need.

 

Sagittarius
Kilian Schoenberger

Seven of Coins – Work is the focus this week.  This is a terrific time to get done whatever you set your mind and hands to.  The challenge is getting started.  However, once you begin there is no stopping you.

 

Capricorn
Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

Page of Coins – The Muse of Study is here to help you.  You have something to learn this week that will be extremely useful in the coming months.  So, time to don your student hat and open your mind to the new.  Motto:  Learning is fundamental to my growth.

 

*Aquarius
Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

Devil – This is your first higher arcane card for your birth year.  So, this is a theme to revisit throughout the year.   This Muse’s energy is about testing your integrity and how you define yourself.   This correlates with Jupiter- planet of expansion and Saturn planet of structures interacting with your sun pretty much all year.  In a way this year is like your final exams.  Old structures and constructs – things you have already learned will come up again.  Your challenge is enacting what you have learned.  Once you finish you can innovate into your next reincarnation.

 

 

*Pisces
Kilian Schoenberger

Judgment – During your final month before your new birth year the Muse of Awakenings has arrived.  This Muse wants you to start imagining what you want you to be in this coming year.  The challenge is this is not about what you can obtain on the material plane, but what you want to metamorphize into.  This can look as simple as getting in touch with your spirit guide/animal and having a conversation on transformation. Or as complex as a vison board composed of only colors and feelings.

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Sept. 13, 2020

Meghann Riepenhoff
Meghann Riepenhoff two waves and salt scattered and poured

The artist this week is Meghann Riepenhoff.  Her process is cyanotype.   Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print.  Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost way to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints.  She is not the first person to use it for art. Anna Atkins would be the first, using it to “photograph” seaweed.  (Atkins will be highlighted soon.)  Riepenhoff has taken Atkin’s process of creating static images to creating a dynamic photograph of an action or interaction.  She collaborates with the elements of rain, snow, ocean, salt, and sediment.  She drapes her “canvas” over objects in the environment which adds the aspect of the terrain that then collides with these elements.  These interactions are recorded on the cyanotype.

The two series represented here and below are Ectone and Littoral Drift .  Ectone is a region of transition between two biological communities. Litoral Drift is a geological term describing the action of wind-driven waves transporting sand and gravel.  Riepenhoff is illuminating that these edges of water, air, and land blur in their interaction, becoming something new and occupy an everchanging space.  Thus, having us as the viewer pondering where, when or if we begin or end.

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

Nina

P.S. Signs with an * it is a big week for you.  Virgo this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Pisces 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
Meghann Riepenhoff
Meghann Riepenhoff water poured and silt scattered

Ten of Coins – Last week’s energy was cluing you into something being off in your life and you needed to gain perspective to find solutions.  This week the energy shifts from contemplative to active.  So, if you found solutions, now is the time to use them.  If you found that everything is balanced and moving smoothly then do not dally, for now is the time to move things into the done box.  This is a great week to finish projects and bask in your success.

Taurus
Meghann Riepenhoff two waves poured dawn to dusk
Meghann Riepenhoff two waves poured dawn to dusk

Three of Coins – Last week the energy was asking you to look for cycles that need to be readjusted, and synchronicities to help move you forward, enlightening situations of inertia or chaos.  This week wants you to take those enlightenments and utilize them in the world.  The challenge is you need the help of others to lift what you are doing to a new level.  Time to get your besties on the phone and brainstorm.

Gemini
Meghann Riepenhoff
Meghann Riepenhoff 23 minutes in a tidal stream

Ten of Cups – Last week’s energy wanted you to reignite optimism and hope in your being.  Luckily, you get another week to find moments that give you the curative perspective that after each period of chaos comes a time for healing.  You need to heal and bask in love, so this week engage in activities and people that fill your cups. Joy is key.  Find or create it.

Cancer
Meghann Riepenhoff.
tidal pools dipped and buried

Ace of Swords – The energy this week is great for planning, research, philosophy, and problem solving.  Your mind is your best tool.  Your emotions can play with the radio, but your mind must do the driving.

Leo
Meghann Riepenhoff.
Meghann Riepenhoff snow, salt draped against a window

Page of Coins – You got another active energy card.  So, if you still need another week to finish up old projects do that.  But if you did that work last week this is a great week to start a new project.  The challenge is taking tiny steps, because big leaps will have you in a tangle of minutiae or chasing your own tail.

Virgo
Meghann Riepenhoff
Meghann Riepenhoff three waves buried and flooded

*Death – Your first big energy card for your coming birth year.  This energy is about rebirth, regeneration, and metamorphosis.  The energy this year is about rising from the ashes of old.  The challenge is making sure that you are not holding on to dreams you have outgrown.  This Muse has come to aid you in seeing the parts of you and your life that have been decaying and need to be buried.  That the seeds of change are just below the surface being feed by the aspects you are now laying to rest.  When you step back you will see that this burial ground is also a place of planting and future growth.

Libra
Meghann Riepenhoff. rainstorm one hour and 47 minutes

Knight of Swords – This is not a week to rush anything.  Though you may feel antsy or anxious do not jump without thoroughly looking both ways and figuring out your plan before you step onto your path.  This card can also mean to be careful of injuring your extremities.  So cut your vegetables with care and watch where you step.

Scorpio
Meghann Riepenhoff
rain through a tree canopy

Queen of Swords – Last week’s muse asks you to dive into your subconscious, listen to your intuition, emotions, and dreams.   The challenge was that emotions could run high.  And you had to decipher which emotions were yours and what were others.  Emotions are still riding high this week.  To combat this, this muse suggests only taking in the logical details to see the correct channel through these emotional waters.  Your motto:  head over heart.

Sagittarius
Meghann Riepenhoff
Meghann Riepenhoff rain sleet snow draped on a log

Knight of Coins – The last two weeks had you deep diving into your shadow side to find your vulnerabilities, strengths and testing your character and will.  You can use this insight now to really dig into your work.  The key is your pace.  You are now less likely to be distracted and will find that slow and steady wins the race.

Capricorn
Meghann Riepenhoff
Meghann Riepenhoff two waves dipped

Queen of Coins – Last week’s energy was about building upon your empire.  This week you can continue your construction, but you must add indulging in the finer aspects of your physical environment.  This muse knows how to work hard but also can fully indulge in her bounty she has created.  Your challenge is to follow her lead and realize play, comfort and pleasures are as important as work.

Aquarius
Meghann Riepenhoff
Meghann Riepenhoff five waves

Seven of Coins – Last week’s muse wanted you to adjust your material and spirit goals, blending the need to survive with the need to enjoy life.  This energy bleeds into the beginning of this week.  The first few days are best used as a pause between the past and future.  This is a moment where rethinking, reestablishing, and redirecting is need before you push forward.  By the end of the week you will be in full nose to grindstone mode, but the challenge is a plan and adjustment is needed before going ahead.

Pisces
Meghann Riepenhoff
Meghann Riepenhoff

*Judgment – The muse this week is pulling you above the clouds to a personal clarity.  A reckoning is needed.  You have made a mistake from the past which you have not forgiven yourself for.  This week’s energy is implanting the clarity of self-compassion and forgiveness into your sight for self.  This muse ask you to truly forgive yourself for this past transgression, so you can open yourself to a lighter and enlighten future that is more in tune with your divine nature.

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of July 19, 2020

Jason deCaries Taylor This week’s artist is Jason deCaries Taylor.  Jason’s has created throughout the world Land Art installations.  These pieces highlight social and environmental issues of the area.   This week I am only highlighting his underwater installations.  With each project he works with scientists and local people to create these underwater art shows.  Even the statues themselves are model from the people of the area. Many of his ocean installations provide foundations for the begins of reefs.

Above is a newer sculpture the Ocean Siren part of the Museum of Underwater Art in the Great Barrier Reef.  The statue itself is modeled after 12-year-old girl Takoda Johnson.  She is a member of the local Wulgurukaba people one of the two traditional owners of the local land.  The sculpture is solar powered and changes color according to the water temperature in the reef.  Consistent dark red colors warn of potential coral bleaching.  Coral bleaching is an effect of climate change and is endangering one of the most diverse reefs in the world, The Great Barrier Reef.  The other part of this project Coral Greenhouse was finished in December of 2019 (see Aries).  It is not only a piece of art but also functioning laboratory, measuring salinity, pH, and coral growth.  Its opening was postponed due to Covid but will have guided underwater tours hopefully starting in 2021.

Land Art is a form of art which uses either the materials from a location or highlights a location.  The emphasis on the art is usually around the concepts of social issues, poverty, ecology, conservation, etc… where the art becomes a form of activism.  This movement started in the late 60’s but many believe locations like Stonehenge, Nazca Lines in Peru, the Chalk drawings in England could be older styles of this art form.

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

Jason deCaries TaylorFour of Wands – Family and home life are the key for ease and your focus for this week.  Honor these moments of seclusion to create deeper bonds with those you hold close and the home that sustains and protects you.   Give a gift to your abode and the life-forms that live with you.  These acts of gratitude will ground you and help deepen your sense of security.

Taurus
Vicissitudes_Grenada_portrait_coral-feathers_Jason-deCaires-Taylor_Sculpture

Six of Swords – Your second 6, so let us dive into numerology for a second.  Sixes are the cause and effect cards.  Last week’s energy was around karma and your actions on the material plane.  This week’s cause and effects energy is around your thoughts.  When they are clear – you feel directed and focused; however, when they are muddy – you stagnate.  The key this week is simplifying your thoughts by traveling their branches to the main source, and then work with just that.

Gemini
Reclamation_Mexico_Jason-deCaires-Taylor_Sculpture

*Magician – The energy this week is about the creative act of bring an idea down and materialize it.  This energy asks what is your intention?  How will you manifest this desire?  The key with this energy is knowing you have the skills and tools already to create into the material plane.  Big or small manifestations, your challenge is materializing them with the highest intention and aligned with your inner integrity.

Cancer

Jason_deCaires_Taylor

Five of Swords – Winning or losing is not the goal.  Now is the time to stick to your integrity and humanity.  Do not let society’s ambitioned rat race lure you in.  If you are aligned with what truly matters, you will traverse this week’s chaotic waters with less strain on your mental state.

Leo

Jason deCaires Taylor
Jason-deCaires-Taylor

*Sun– Wow both of your sign’s cards back to back.  One ending your birth year with the power and nemesis of Strength and the other starting the new year with your other power and nemesis the Sun.  Let us review last week’s energy.  It wanted you to allow these three paradoxes into your personal constructs.  1) Your strength comes from dealing with your weakness.  2) Your self-doubt comes from trying to control things that cannot be tamed.  3) Your insecurity is also the root of your compassion.  The Sun’s energy is that it sustains life as does your power when projected out into the world.  The Sun’s and your nemesis are that too much of this power can cause harm or kill.  It is all in its application.  This coming year is about you working on how to harness your power and then applying its powerful force outward to the correct degree that you sustain growth and not burn it all down.

Virgo

Jason-deCaires-Taylor
Jason-deCaires-Taylor

*Tower – Ok during 2020 every sign seems to be getting this paradigm shifting energy and now it is you.  The Tower energy comes to shake up one’s life,  by taking the control away from you, so you can see the cracks in your foundations and then change the blueprints.  First take a holistic look at how these times have affected you outwardly.  What needs to shift?  This would be like the pace you live at, the place you live in, or your support group.   Secondly look at what needs to shift internally to make a major outer-life change happen?  What old patterns are not working for you anymore?  This could look like you are a day person but work night shifts, perfectionism, addiction, etc…  The best way to work with Tower energy is pick one thing to change and go through the whole healing and restructuring process.  This is a modernization of self, but you must do it a brick at a time.

Libra

Silent-Evolution_Mexico_Jason-deCaires-Taylor

Ten of Swords – The past two week’s have been about expanding your empire and finding your flow with your environment.  This week energy has the possibility to stop you in your tracks.  Be aware that outside sources are not working in your favor.  To traverse this negative energy, either pull back and take a break, or if you must move forward follow your intuition in all things.  Either way do not allow any of this negative vibe set into your muscle memory.  This is a closing of a door.  Let it close and walk on.

Scorpio

Jason-deCaires-Taylor
Museo-Atlantico_Lanzarote_Jason-deCaires-Taylor_Sculpture

Nine of Swords – This week you will need to quiet your mind.  Over-thinking can intrude into your family time or bedtime.  Worry and overthinking will not create ease or help you figure anything out.  A great exercise to do is create a ritual that ends your working day.  Some examples: If you do go out for work, stop at a tree or bush outside your house and figuratively hang up your day before entering in.  If working from home, set an alarm that rings to remind you your day has ended.  Or two hours before bed, pour all the junk of the day into a journal.

Sagittarius

Alluvia_Canterbury_Jason-deCaires-Taylor_Sculpture

*Hanged Man – The energy to ponder and enact this week is the usefulness of inertia.  This vibe comes around when you need to flip your perspective to find new pathways of thinking and doing.  Use or create these moments of pause for reflection.  Let go of old patterns, making way for the new ideas that only arises from silence.  The challenge is that this may trigger boredom or antsyness.  Sit through it, for you will find enlightenment and peace on the other side.

Capricorn

Jason-deCaires-Taylor
Vicissitudes_Grenada__Jason-deCaires-Taylor

King of Cups – Ok this might be a challenging week for you, for your emotions are on the surface.  However, this energy is wanting you to work with and through them.  Your emotions are your guides, even the moody ones.  If you are moody that is just your feelings expressing you need some alone time.  If you are giddy, then find ways to feed and share that good vibe.

Aquarius

Jason-deCaires-Taylor
Museo-Atlantico_Lanzarote_Tubular-Cactus_growth_00795_Jason-deCaires-Taylor_Sculpture

*Hermit – This week your goal is to set aside time to process what this past month or six has been about.  Processing your experiences helps you gather your experiential knowledge.  This will assist in learning how to deal with experiences going forward.  And challenge you by pointing out what skills you still need to learn or tweak.  We all need a stopping point to pull back and see our lives from a loftier place.  Try to turn off you phone and technology for a couple hours at the very least and reminisce upon all that has happened.  This will help lead you to the next steps, that are more authentic to who you want to be and where and how you want to walk on this journey.

Pisces

Man-on-Fire_Mexico_clean_Jason-deCaires-Taylor_Sculpture
Mexico Jason-deCaires-Taylor

King of Pentacles – Last week’s energy was a paradox wrapped up in enigma and challenged you to ride the wave of life without trying to control its currents.  This week’s energy allows you to put in your rudder and steer a course.  This is a great week for all things that build upon your material plane.  Aspects to focus on are how you make your money and/or working with your hands.  Or you might be called upon or see the need to take control.  The challenge is to use your power to guide or nudge rather than fully pressing people or things to your will.

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of June 7, 2020

Tyler Thrasher

This week’s artist is Tyler Thrasher.  He is an artist, plant enthusiast, and a self-proclaimed mad scientist.  One of his areas of exploration are these amazing pieces above and below where he crystallizes bugs and skeletons and then photographs them.  His work provokes reflections around the concepts of death, beauty, and time.   In his words: With an undying love for nature and its respective curiosities, there are few things Tyler’s brain isn’t obsessing over. Between his pursuits to crystallize the world, opalize everything, and hunt down some of the realm’s most unique plants, his passion to combine art and science every step of the way is his fire and fuel.

You can support him by buying his art or become a Patreon.  He also sells t-shirts where he donates to good causes.  The last t-shirt drop was for making science kits for black kids in his area.

P.S. Signs with an * it a big week for you.  Gemini this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Sagittarius 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

Tyler ThrasherTwo 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.

 

Taurus

Tyler ThrasherThree 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.

 

Gemini

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.

 

Cancer

Tyler ThrasherPage 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.

 

Leo

Tyler Thrasher*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.

 

Virgo

Tyler ThrasherQueen 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.

 

Libra

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.

 

Scorpio

*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.

 

Sagittarius

Tyler Thrasher*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.

 

Capricorn

Tyler ThrasherFour 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.

 

Aquarius

Tyler ThrasherThree 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.

 

Pisces

*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.

 

 

 

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of May 24, 2020

Alice Ball

A tiny break from art into science, because we need a collective shout out to the scientists that work every day in creating cures for thousands of illnesses.  Our society is relying on a variety of scientists around the world to understand and create a vaccine for Covid-19.  Theories aside from how it was spread, we need researchers to develop a vaccine.  Science, in general, needs to be supported now and women in particular need to be nurtured in science fields.  Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.Marie Curie

Alice Ball was the chemist that developed the first successful treatment of Hansen’s disease (leprosy).  She was also the first African American and woman to graduate with a M.S. degree in chemistry from the College of Hawaii.  Her research in the early 1900’s with oil of the chaulmoogra tree lead her to create the first injectable leprosy treatment. The previous oral use of the oil caused many uncomfortable side effects and was less effective.   Her method was so successful it allowed patients to rejoin their families free from the symptoms of leprosy.  She died at age 24.  She was not recognized for her work until 2000.

P.S. Signs with an * it a big week for you.  Gemini this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Sagittarius 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

Eight of Cups– The energy this week is about walking away from things that are no longer useful.  Your heart is telling you something is off, and it is time to take another avenue.  But to figure out what that is sometimes you need to totally disengage from it.  This isn’t about avoiding anything, it is about evaluating and simplifying.

Taurus

Nine of Coins – Abundance is in the air.  You are going to need time to do some work this week, in solitude is best.  Utilize this energy to materialize what you are wanting to grow in your physical plane.  As they say energy goes where attention flows.  So where or what are you driving to?

Gemini

Seven of Coins – The energy this week is aimless and spotted with areas of delay and inertia.  To work with this, focus and persistence is vital.  This is a nose to the grindstone kind of week.  But as in the quote by John Firth implied do not holdeth their noses so hard to the grindstone, that it clean disfigureth their faces.  The challenge is there is a line between work and being overwork.  Be careful not to step over that line.

Cancer

Queen of Coins – The last two week’s energies were about healing being needed as much as action in creating a healthier future.  Now the energy is about the balance between work and play, and for you this takes form in being the nurturer and being nurtured.  Broaden your scope of independence to find places where you can nurture yourself.

Leo

King of Swords – You are going to need your brain this week.  The challenge is using your intellect for long-term planning is more useful than getting all the details right.  Yes, it is easier getting caught in the what ifs, but that will take you off course.  So, discipline is key to taking advantage of this energy.

Virgo

Ten of Cups – Last week’s energy was calling you, to find ways to mother and not smother your creativity.  It is natural for you to nurture others but when it comes to yourself you stop.  You needed to loosen the structure and cultivate organic expression.  Well that energy continues this week by helping you cultivate the joy you find in creation.  Now is the time to be masterful and overlap that with your bliss.

Libra

Page of Coins – Learning and diligence are needed to use this week’s energy well.  The challenge is allowing yourself to be wrong.  You do not need to hold all the weight to get things done.  Delegation and assistance are key, but you must let go of the idea that your way is the only way.

Scorpio

Ace of Wands – Distraction and delays are in the air for you this week which will lead you to hesitating or off your intended path.  The key is keeping your eye on what inspires you.  If you let inspiration be your guide you will follow a creative path of ease instead of willow wisps.

Sagittarius

Eight of Coins – It is easy to do your work this week as long as you stick to what you know.  Use this week’s energy honing your skills.  You do not need to learn more.  You have mastered your craft now it is time to use it.

Capricorn

*Death – Change is in the air again.  Do not resist or fear this transformation.  Let things end so others can begin. This change is organic.  There are ups & downs and starts & stops, but overall, this push forward has you moving in a more natural pace and to a more comfortable place.

Aquarius

*Justice – Another big energy week for you.  Two weeks ago, it started with summoning you to take a bit of control over your destiny by showing up.  Then the Temperance energy suggested creating your life like a refined meal that has many notes to balance its tastes into a delectable dining experience.  This concept of balance continues this week but instead of the last week’s refinement, this week is more related to the balance that happens with causes and effects.  The challenge is that every question is not yes or no look for the grey areas to find a true sense of fairness and harmony.

Pisces

Eight of Wands – Slow down you move to fast is your theme song this week.  This week has tons of information coming at you and the feel of needing making quick decision, but to discern the information you will need to slow down and feel the flow.  Use this week’s energy to swim with the current even though it may feel too slow.

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of April 26, 2020

Hubble Telescope
 The image is nicknamed the “Cosmic Reef,” because it resembles an undersea world.

Art in Space.  The Hubble Telescope just had its 30th birthday in space.  Above the latest picture is a giant red nebula (NGC 2014) and its smaller blue neighbor (NGC 2020) part of the Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located 163,000 light-years away. The blue we see is oxygen emitting from stars.  The red is the presence of nitrogen and hydrogen.  And the wave/cloud is actually the “wind” made by those stars’ energy pulsating out.  How magnificent is this!

On April 24th, 1990 Hubble was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida attached to the Discovery space shuttle.   It has been serviced and upgraded by 5 more missions from 1993 to 2009.  To date Hubble has taken over 1.4 million observations.  Data from this telescope has helped astronomers measure the expansion and acceleration rate of the universe, study black holes, take in depth looks at planets and their atmospheres, just to name a few of the advances in astronomy.

Below are more incredible photos from the Hubble Telescope take this year and last.

P.S. Signs with an * it a big week for you.  Taurus this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Scorpio 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

Hubble TelescopeSix of Cups – Last week the World card heralded the concepts surrounding completion and triumph versus incompletion and disappointment as your coming year’s driving force.  This week’s energy has you starting that search in the past.  Look for useful models about completion in personal and/or world history to help process and expand your knowledge on how to maintain resilience no matter the outcome.

Taurus

*Universe – Another great energy for your birth month!  Last week’s energy had you ponder:  How does information from your past effect the planning of your future?  And does this process to get to the future holding you back?  Can you plan without knowing the outcome?  Now the Universe card has you looking towards a more distant future.  This energy asks you: If everything were possible and you had infinite energy how and what would you grow?  This is a call from the Universe to evolve but it can only help you if you give it some ideas.  So, think big!

Gemini

Hubble Telescope*Wheel – This is the last month before your new birth year and the universe is giving you a chance to change your fortune for the coming year.  It is pushing you to take a chance on yourself.  Yes karma, fate and luck are all part of the cosmic design, but you can and do have some control of where the ball lands on the cosmic roulette table.  Your part is to show up and make the bet to change your destiny.  Yep you got to play, so what you going to do?

Cancer

*Strength – So if anything, this time has taught you that you have control issues to work on, and that you need a lot of self-compassion to tame these inner demons.  The amazing bit about this energy work you been doing is that your inner strength is getting stronger.  This week’s energy will help you in taming your insecurities and self-doubt and make you more resilient to boot.

Leo

Hubble TelescopePage of Swords – The energy around you this week is not helping your restlessness, but you can let your curiosity tame your gitchiness.  As you let your curiosity roam more ideas start popping up.  This exercise will not only divert you but also take you on a better path than the one you are on now.

Virgo

Three of Swords – Forgiveness is key to this week’s energy of suffering and sorrow.  Stop licking your wounds and let them heal.  Now is the time to move on and take a more optimistic look into your future.

Libra

Hubble Telescope*Death – The energy this week is about transitions.  There are places in your life that need to end so others can begin.  Utilize this energy like weeding a garden.  You need more space for what you want to harvest, so something needs to give.  Let what doesn’t work go.

Scorpio

*Fool – Last week’s energy had you pondering the concepts of nurturing versus smothering, codependence versus interdependence, and growth versus obstructions.  If you did this, you are now giving yourself and others the space, time and energy to grow with just enough structure to feel rooted and secure.  Which readies you for this week’s energy of new beginnings and spontaneity.  Now you have the space to take advantage of the free spirit energy that prevails this week.  If you did not do this pondering, you may fall on a foolish path.  So think before you leap.

Sagittarius

Hubble TelescopeEight of Cups – This week is about creating some space and simplification.  You need the space to spread out your mind and body, but your environment is cluttered.  So, clean out the closet, your inbox, and/or your desk, so you can walk away from the old and into the spacious horizon of the new.

Capricorn

Ace of Wands –This week’s energy is full of opportunity and potential, but you must stoke your fires of inspiration.  Create a vision board, daydream, dig into social media platforms like Pinterest and Instagram to rouse your muses, write lists of your wishes, peer into fire and conjure visions.   Now is the time for new beginnings.

Aquarius

Hubble TelescopeTwo of Coins – Balance is key this week.  The more flexible you are the better you can attend to your priorities.  This sounds like a paradox, but it is key to not overcommitting yourself and giving away time to do not actually have.

Pisces

Page of Coins – This is a week of possibilities that lead to achievements and victories.  You will need to be diligent to make it manifest but anything you put effort to will move towards success.  This energy comes to validate that your dreams are flourishing, and you are moving towards goals you have wished and worked into being a while back.