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
Four 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
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
*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
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
*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
*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
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
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
*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
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
*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
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.
Two of Wands – You are in the land of in between. Caught between the past and the future. To use this energy, it is about being very present. Seeing each moment for the preciousness bit of life it is.
Three of Swords – Last week the energy was used hopefully in finding the pearls in your world. However, the challenge was in answering: Are you flexible enough to know when to let it go if it isn’t working or allowing it to evolve into an unknown ending? This week the energy has shifted to heart break. You are feeling the World’s pain and having a hard time figuring out what to do with it. If you met last week’s challenge (re-read the first two lines) finding flexibility and letting go, then you realize evolution and healing are done in small steps and they start within. So, this week has a lot of heart work in yourself and in your world. Don’t force it. Feel and tend the way to rebuilding.
Eight of Wands – Movement is the energy you need this week. Get out of the house if you can, ride a bike, walk, turn the music up and dance, play an instrument, paint with big broad stroke, etc…. You are holding in energy and it needs to get out, or you will sink more into lethargy and/or nervousness. This week let your body move, so your soul can soar.
Page of Wands – This week has aimless energy. You are feeling the world’s energy and it is painful. This brings on setbacks which lead to procrastination. First, realize that the majority of people are or have felt this energy in the past couple of months, and so can you. Then to get you out of the morass go into your shell and dive into your imagination. Find things on the web, TV, books, art, nature, etc… that let you have a bit of escapism but it must also tap into your sense of wonderment. You need to recharge, and childlike wonder and curiosity are a great ways to get there.
*Hierophant – This week energy is around structures. Now is the time for you to break them down. You need more freedom and a bit of rebellion to do it. What structure in your life just isn’t working? Look to the physical plane first. It could be when you go to bed, when you wake up, where you work, how you work, how you let people step on you… By deconstructing the structures on the material plane, you will give your spiritual self the space and freedom to rebuild.
Queen of Wands – You are creative, courageous and fierce. Now your challenge is to believe it. Release your self-doubt and go get what you want.
Eight of Swords– Self-acceptance is the key to this week. Allow yourself the ability to have foibles – we all do. The key is accepting these perceived quirks and converting them to your superpowers. Be compassionate with your heroine/hero character you are creating and ignore what others perceive it to be. Then re-write your narrative.
*World – Another high energy week for you. Last week the energy overloaded and unbalanced you, so emotional outbursts were necessary to vent and recalibrate. The key was purposely vent before the pressure made you burst. Hopefully, you got that out of your system, for this week you are called into the World. There is a mass of opportunities for you to try out this week, but you need a sense of completion to move on. Your challenge is to finish the old to make way for the new by the end of the week.
*Beyond – Last week, the energy asked you to spotlight your focus on things you want to do – not things you had to do. The energy this week adds to that force of optimal growth by opening portals to the soul. Take this week to meditate, be philosophic, find some awe, and dream day and night. Your higher being is asking for some face time with you. Time to listen and do some persona Socratic Q&A.
Four of Coins & Five of Wands – The last two weeks’ energies have you now moving with a more natural pace, in a more comfortable place, and your mind has disseminated and cleansed the what ifs scenarios. For with that skill set you can navigate this week’s two-sided energies. One side is chaos and drama and the other stability. Though the former might have you feeling too conservative or greedy with your resources. So the challenge this week is fine tuning your skills at healthy boundary making, so chaos can happen but in a safer play-pen arena.
Three of Cups and Emperor – The month of May was full of big energy. It started with summoning you to take control over your destiny by showing up. Then you dealt with the concepts of refinement, the grey areas of fairness and harmony and final, self-determining change. So now you are given a choice of paths. You can continue the high energy ride with the Emperor. This energy is about manifesting things on the material plane. It is a great time for all things around business and culture. Or you can take the second route, having fun with friends and filling up your emotional cups. Hopefully, you can do both, but don’t be surprised if one the roads whisks you away.
*Strength – The energy that surrounds you and is within you is fortitude. You have a deep well of reserve energy which, though you have been dipping into a lot, the universe is also refilling. So, if you are having self-doubt, know you are supported by the cosmos not as a crutch but as a comfy blanket when you need it. Your task is realizing you can call on your power at any moment needed or not.
Six 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.
*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!
*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?
*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.
Page 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.
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.
*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.
*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.
Eight 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.
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.
Two 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.
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.
Three of Swords – Sorrow is in the air this week. This is the ups and downs of being human. However, this kind of sadness brings with it an opportunity for forgiveness and a step to begin moving on. There are three things to learn with this suffering. Learn them and a begin the journey anew feeling lighter and enlightened.
Six of Swords – You have just gone through a rite of passage. However, the path still is in a misty haze but now is the time continue on. Don’t get stuck in the miasma. To move forward the energy suggests simplification. Even though the future is not so easily seen, the lighter your load- the simpler the solutions -the easier your journey.
Five of Swords – The aftermath of this past Mercury in retrograde still has its tendrils of chaos in your communication land. The energy this week is still full of disagreements and concealment. The best way to disengage with this dynamism is surrender and compromise. The disputes are really about ego, resentment and not worth your time.
Ace of Swords – The energy in the beginning of this week has a sharp tone to it as we navigate out of this mercury retrograde. This can lead to confusion and possible antagonism. Situations cannot be dealt with by old ways of communicating. Look for new ideas and ways to connect to bring clarity and eventually a breakthrough.
*The Tower – The energy this week is about shaking things up. Pay attention. There are some cracks in your foundation, and they need to be tended to. This can look as simple as eating better, getting 8 hours of sleep, or being more efficient with your time because you are overly critical or trying to fit into “normal” work hours. To build stronger does not always mean with stagnate forces like brick and concrete, bamboo is strong and flexible. To go through an earthquake buildings are now being built on springs. Find new ways to shore up your foundations that are more innovative and adaptable. For instance, work two days a week for 12 hours, 2 for 8 hours and then you can fit in a 3-day weekend or make a protein packed smoothie for that forgotten meal.
Five of Cups – This week’s energy has an air of regret and pessimism to it. The key to navigating this energy is realizing you can help solve the world’s problems by solving the ones in front of you first. Clean up some mess around you and be grateful for what you have that is not in disarray. The lesson is you seeing the left-over cups are half full and ready to be filled to the brim.
Seven of Cups – When was the last time you laid around just daydreaming- letting your imagination flow? The energy this week is allowing and advising you to do just that. Your challenge is letting yourself dream big enough. To help with this process, instead of thinking of dreams as illusions and fantasy, see them as seeds spreading out in the wind planting mystery plants of unknown bounty.
Eight of Swords – The energy this week highlights where you are being wronged. Whether this is self-affliction or allowing others to entrap you, this is the time for self-compassion about you allowing the harassment and strength to walk away from it without engaging in anger. The situation is like a Chinese Finger trap the more you struggle the more you are entrapped, but if you disengage in the fight you can get out of the bindings of it.
Two of Swords – Once Mercury goes out of retrograde on the 9th or 10th depending on where you are at, it will be time to make some choices. The challenge is thinking that the choice will solve the problem. However, this week is about moving out of stagnation and avoidance and walking into the journey of discovery.
Knight of Wands – This week’s energy is all about adventure. Take to the road, try new places, things to eat, look around for inspiration outside your normal environment. The more you step out of the mundane the more you will get in touch with your passion, your joie de vie.
Queen of Swords – Last week change was in the air, but it was and is slow in coming. You were advised to take time to weed and till your soul’s soil. Clearing blocks from your forward moment so the Universe has a clearer path to create the change that you are wanting and waiting for. Well, lucky you this week’s energy gives you unbiased thoughts, clearer solutions and honest ideas to do just that. The challenge is that it can come from not only your subconscious (look to your day and night dreams for clues), but it also can come from outside sources. So, ears on and mind open Aquarius. Focus on details not the big picture.
crossroads in a relationship. The energy around this week is making choices that involve, self-love, commitment and/or separation. To truly be harmonious in a relationship you must love yourself first and then work on being your best self. This is also true of the other person in the relationship. But they have free will and it is their responsibility alone to do that growth. So, this energy reminds you that relationships are work and advises love yourself and the other enough to see that creation and growth can happen, but it is up to both of you to decide whether that is together or apart.
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