This is spooky month but with spook comes fantasy. This week I will be reading from the Tarot of the Divine who uses fairy tales and myths from around the world for the imagery. Fairy tales and myths have similar qualities. They usually convey a moral or a lesson. The characters may vary but there is usually a hero, villain, and a friend/mentor. There is some magical or otherworld element. And the heroine/hero usually has some task or problem they need to solve to overcome evil. These stories were told to not only impart knowledge but for the readers to contemplate their own story. So this week ponderings are: What is your story, how have you vanquished your monsters, what tasks do you still need to accomplish to reach your “happily ever after” and please remember for a full life story you need sequels and multiple happy endings.
This week’s artist Kinuko Craft pulls from the realm of the fantastical. Her art is meticulous and highly detailed. Since the 90’s she focuses on illustrating fantasy book covers, opera posters, and her amazing fairy tale books. Each piece shows her love for art history and fine art itself. I recommend going to her site to see these up close the detail and layering is amazing.
May light be on you, around you, and within you,
Nina
P.S. Signs with an * it is a big week for you. Libra this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year. And Aries 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
*Chariot – Time to harness your emotions and start creating momentum. The places that you have once floundered are no longer a hindrance, for you have learned from your mistakes. What lays before you is the known. Now you have the experience to avoid the potholes on your path. So get a move on this week. Use this Mars energy to your advantage and get a head start on 2021. Your tale: The Three Princess of Whiteland, Norway.
Taurus
Knight of Cups –The energy this week resonates with love, kindness and standing up for who and what you believe in. The challenge is that you might need to befriend a dragon or put others needs ahead of your own. However, these challenges and sacrifices do work in your favor in the long run. Your tale: Halibu the Hunter; Mongolia.
Gemini
Nine of Wands – This week ‘s energy is a bit of a battle. The key to navigate these trials is to be vigilant while maintaining hope. Your tasks are honing your resilience and being prepared. This can look as simple as carrying snacks and water with you this week to sustain your energy. Your tale: Vasilisa the Beautiful, Russia.
Cancer
Knight of Coins– Last week was about keeping hope alive and spending time to heal. This week’s energy is about action. This is a great week to slowly and steady do what needs to be done. Persistence is key. Your tale: Heitsi-Eibib, Khoikhoi, South Africa
Leo
*Fool – Last week’s energy surrounded the concept of insightful exposure of what is driving you crazy or blocking you. However, this was to be done with a new perspective. If you did your work, you are ready to take the next step into the unknown. If not, then you can fall into the doldrums and feel the path is hopeless. So the key now is to take the step knowing that even if you fail you will not fall. Your tale: The Little Mermaid, Denmark
Virgo
Page of Wands – Last week’s energy was about creating the divine on to the material plane. This energy bleeds into this week but with a focus more about the playful energy of creation. If you are not having fun creating the world you are in – why are you doing it? And if you are stuck in a world you have not totally created you can still pull out crayons and color outside the lines. Your tale: Mwindo, Republic of Congo.
Libra
*World – This is your first big energy card to start off your birth year. This is the card of happily ever after endings following a difficult journey. You have gone through the trials, and now it is time to wrap up the old story so you can start anew. This year brings it endings as well as beginnings. Spend this week writing a list of what needs to be finished. And then start building a vision board for what you want next. Your tale: Hinemoa and Tutannekai, Maori, New Zealand.
Scorpio
Three of Coins – Where last week people may have gotten on your nerves, this week they are vital to your success. Collaboration and recognizing other’s gifts are part of finding solutions and ease. The challenge is you may need to come at projects and problems with humbleness not hubris. Your tale: Banjhakri and Banjhakrini, Nepal.
Sagittarius
*Tower – This is the second time you got the Tower this year. What have you not dealt with that is not working in your life? If this is the same thing that was not right back in May, get it fixed now because the third time around tends destroy to create movement. If you dealt with the May issue, then look for small cracks in your foundations. These usually have to do with the material plane, like not having a solid exercise regime, not liking your job, not have 6 months of savings or still in debt. You might need to make some sacrifices to mortar up the holes, but it is worth it in the end. Your tale: Rapunzel, Germany.
Capricorn
Four of Cups – There is something in plain sight that needs your attention. You are not seeing because it is not being the squeaky wheel or bursting fireworks. This week look for simple solutions, and basic pleasures. What is most “mundane” may be the most useful. No reason for extravagance. Your tale: The Nightingale, Denmark.
Aquarius
King of Coins – This energy is about digging in deep and holding steady. You can help others with their hopes and dreams this week. However, the challenge is acknowledging when you need to pull in your energy. Conservation is key for preservation. Do not worry, if you are honest, the people around you will support you as much as you support them. Your tale: Hah-nu-nah, The world Turtle, North American Iroquois.
Pisces
Two of Cups – Last week the energy of creation for comfort was key. You needed some positive mothering energy to sustain yourself. The energy this week resonates with this sense of comfort and love. Though the focus is more on equality and partnership. Your inner circle must fill your cup as well as challenge you in your growth. Take time to connect to those that you love and separate from those that only take or hurt. Your tale: Enkidu and Gilgamesh, Iraq, Sumerian.
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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.
*Death – Change is in the air this week if you would just let go of trying to force it to happen. This energy wants you to work with the ebbs and flows of natural cycles. Though this downturn in energy feels like stagnation, it is actually waiting for you to sort out what you fear will change. Take your hand off the wheel and let the universe drive. 
*Judgement – Again big energy and I know you might be feeling wiped out. All of March was a roller coaster of forces guiding you through your triggers, compassion for the universe and yourself, challenged you to weed to find room for the new, and then asked you to connect deeply with your spirit to gain more information on how to lead by example. And now this week’s energy is about rebirth. Your challenge is to answer what has this past month taught you? What has awakened you to be closer to your calling and the understand of it? 
*Hanged Man – You are resisting using this time as a moment to gain perspective. You are percieving this energy delaying you, but it challenges you by asking delaying you from what? This is big energy and has the potential for you to stockpile this inert energy like a pulling back a rubber band. This time is just a pause a place to reset or to reimagine your destiny. Take this time to gather your strength and gain perspective on where to you want to go after this pause. 
Nine of Swords – Last week you were feeling the chaos like energy of the worldwide change. And you had to wrestle with the idea of not having control over these big outside forces of change. The forces advised controlling only your small sphere and then allowing the rest to wash over you like a wave. This week you are still grappling with letting go. Worries still needle you like tiny gnats. The energy this week advise you to focus on hope instead of hopelessness. 
Six of Coins – Last week you needed to heed and hone your inner voice. Looking for the hidden truths, the synchronicities and cycles. Your discoveries have you feeling as if you do not have enough resources to deal with this week’s energy. However, if you put selfcare first, you don’t have to be stingy with the rest of your energy. So, heed the phrase put the air-mask on yourself first before helping others with theirs. But keep in mind they do need help and you can expend yours. 
Ace of Coins – The energy of grounded beginnings is rumbling under you. This is a great week to start a new project. Do not loss this opportunity even though you may be staying at home. All seeds are started in the dark. This is a time to water some ideas and see what sprouts in the coming weeks. 
Messenger – There are messages all around you this week. Your spirit guides are in your midst, protecting and divining to you what is and isn’t important. You will get some straightforward clues but also look for hidden meanings in synchronicities. 
Nine of Coins – This week energy is about abundance and finding ways to reward yourself and others. However, luxuries have a new meaning at this time. What were you taking for grant that now this week has become a luxury? And how can you share and enjoy them with yourself and others? 
Four of Cups – The energy this week continues your need for mediation. Where last week you needed to pull away from the everyday to gain perspective, this week you will need to occasionally look to your outer sphere to gain a fuller picture. Try to divide your time in to ¾ introvertive behavior and the last 1/4 as an extrovert. 
Three of Coins – Relationships and creation are again the resonating energy this week. However where last week your investigation where in the notions of contentment and choice respectively. Putting energy into relationships that bring serenity and envisaging the implementation of creating is based in choice. This week there is less contemplation and more active collaboration. Even if you are stuck inside take time to zoom, skype or face time with others. You need people as bouncing boards and to challenge you to get to the next level, not to mention some playful banter to liven your spirits. 
Page of Cups – This week’s energy is about looking for the brighter side of things. Your sign is the one that inspires humanity and raise us up to the next level. So, use your curiosity and rose-colored glass envisioning you and us a brighter future. 
Page of Wands – Pull out your paintbrushes, crayons, pencils, scissors, glue, wood tools and create. The challenge with this creative energy is not about having a goal but about investigating your mediums. This energy is best used in discovery and exploration. Doing so will bring you closer to a place where movement can happen. 
Queen of Wands – The energy of courage has your back this week. Your environment needs your fierce take-charge energy right now. Do not doubt yourself or worth to others at this time. However, watch that you let people have their independent thoughts. This will stop them and you feeling overbearing. As I once heard someone say, don’t push me but you can lead me. San Diego Zoo 
*The Beyond – Taurus out of all the signs you have had to deal with a lot of energy coming at you. The past weeks have triggered your self-doubt and insecurities. But also guided you to self and universal compassion. And last week embodied the energies of change and transitions asking you take time to, figuratively and/or literally, weed and plant anew. You are the sign that grounds the world and represents the more maternal part of nature. In some ways your sign is feeling this pandemic the most, because as the first earth sign you are feeling the tremors of change in our collective deeper ground. This week the Beyond has shown up calling upon you to believe and seek higher meaning from your higher power. If you can find ways to connect with your spiritual plane, then you plow the way for others to find it too. Remember this isn’t about doing others work this is about doing yours. Lead by example. 
Four of Wands – The energy this week is the celebration of the small things. The little things that bring community and harmony into your life. Host a virtual beverage party with a few friends. Hang with your pet in your favorite spot in your abode. Talk to your indoor plants. Map the sun as it goes through your house and make sure you have a sunny spot you can hang in. These little things are what balances you more than then big events and changes. 
*Tower – You would think that you all would love all this home time. But you are also feeling the chaos like energy of the worldwide change that is happening. The best way for you deal with this is first realize you have no control over these big outside forces of change. And second do what you can within the breadth of your crabby claws to make ease in your small sphere. There is an awakening happening, dig in and allow it to wash over you like a wave. 
*High Priestess – This is a week to heed and hone your inner voice. Your intuition and subconscious are working overtime. However, this is a land of metaphoric formations. Look for the hidden truths, the synchronicities and cycles. By sifting through the inner planes, you will see a clearer path in the outer one. 
Four of Pentacles – The energy this week is about conservation. Let go of anything that feels in excess, unused or no longer working. Take this time to declutter your space, time and mind. This is about using your resources carefully. Energy goes where the focus goes. This week will help you focus it in more constructive places. 
Knight of Wands – This week is filled with antsy energy. The best way to work with this is to get active and creative. Sing at the top of your lungs, dance while vacuuming, go through old magazines and collage. This action does not need a goal it just needs release. 
Five of Cups – Last week you were in the mists and now the fog has cleared. Acceptance and forgiveness are the keys to moving on. Do not let pessimism or regret come into play. Find the positives, give them your energy and leave the negatives behind. 
*Hermit – Another week of self-discovery is in store for you. Get some alone time to do some much needed soul searching. The challenge with this card is that you can hermitize but not isolate yourself. Being the hermit gains you enough space from civilization to get a deeper and broader perspective on your life and where it is going. By the end of this week answer the questions: Am I ready for another year of this life? Or is it time to start to envision the changes I need to make to gain the life I want? 
*Lovers – Relationships and creation are key components to focus on this week. And the heart of this investigation lies within the notions of contentment and choice respectively. Put energy into relationships that bring serenity and envisage the implementation of creation is based in choosing. Then see how these applications of serenity and choice feels in the broader picture. Think and do more like an abstract painting. Look how the colors and brush strokes feel next to each other. It is less about technique and more about emotional experimental mixing/creating. The challenge is you won’t know the painting is done until it is. 
Page of Wands – Last week, the task was finding moments of silence, synchronicities and moon beams to guide you to opportunities and solutions that were hidden in the light of day. Luckily you get another week of discovery and exploration. The challenge is how to be a free spirit when the world is “stay in place.” A hint, follow your passions and your imagination. 
Four of Cups – To make it through this week you need to find time and space to mediate. Now the challenge is when you try stopping your mind you end up going down rabbit holes of questions. Which end up with you withdrawing into self-loathing or other negative thought patterns. So, the key is working on the skills of contemplation. The definition of contemplation is the action of looking thoughtfully at something for a long time. So, when you are thinking, no questions, judgements, or what ifs, just utilize only certainties and the action of acceptance of what is. 
King of Swords – See the broader picture of situations and champion those that are being bullied. Watch for people taking advantage of or manipulating those that are more misfortunate around you. You can solve these predicaments as simply as sharing your toilet paper or getting the elder down the street groceries, so they don’t have to go out.
*Death – Another energy packed week. The past couple of weeks have triggered your self-doubt and insecurities. Then the energy shifted trying to guide you towards self and universal compassion, so you could believe in you and the world at large. This week the energy embodies change and transitions. Things need to end so there is room for new projects/ideas/people. Take this time to, figuratively and/or literally, weed and plant anew.
Queen of Pentacles – Last week, the energy surrounding you was materializing the divine. Advising that conjuring for the greater good brings more ease to finding solutions. This energy continues through this week; however, you will have to let go of trying of controlling the entire materialization process. Watch the line between nurturing and smothering people and projects this week. Whatever you create needs to work without your constant guidance and support to succeed and not suck all the energy out of you.
Ace of Pentacles – Opportunities, abundance and prosperity are the energies to work with. This week has the potential of creation in it. Think of this energy like a seed – this is a beginning. What seed will you pick to plant and water as you go into this spring season. What one thing can you hone your focus and energy into?
Ten of Swords – Normally this energy is harsh, but you seem to rise above the morass by getting out of your head and being there for others. This week’s energy of regeneration and recovery lifts you above the banal and the suffering to a place that feels lighter and more hopeful.
Knight of Swords – To be truly courageous and unstoppable it is best to slow down. You can easily be triggered into impulsiveness. So, take a breath and survey your surroundings before you step into any situation this week.
Nine of Pentacles – Last week’s energy was about walking into your destiny. And, the lessons were about when your luck is favorable grab it and when it is unfavorable let it go. While realizing neither outcomes had anything to do with you. This destiny energy continues this week and adds that while things may look advantageous or not, that you need to watch overextending and/or overcompensating. So, take only what you need and let go of what doesn’t work.
Two of Swords – The mist that surrounds you is making decisions hard and/or is adding undue confusion to situations. So come to terms you are at a stalemate this week and it is best just to sit and wait out the bad weather. The fog will lift, and the road will be clear soon. Just not this week.
Two of Pentacles – Take this week’s energy to slow down the spinning plates. This is a time to look at what overwhelms you and where you are over committed. You have the time to contemplate what are your true priorities and where can you be flexible in your commitments. Life is a balancing act, and this is a good week to regain some of your balance and dexterity.
Four of Cups – Meditation and retreat are key elements to your week. And the atomic structure of this energy lies within the concepts of apathy and acceptance. How do you allow acceptance into your life without feeling apathetic? Contemplating on that goatfish will lead to avenues of ease.
*High Priestess – Listening to your intuition is vital this week. However, figure out what your subconscious is trying to convey is hard to hear through all the static of everyday life. So, find moments of silence, synchronicities and moon beams to guide you to opportunities and solutions that are hidden in the light of day. For example: There is a new Moon in Aries March 24; it’s a great day to start things.
Three of Cups – The energy this week is about independence. Your close ones and friends are important, but it must be balanced with some alone time. And this energy whether with friends or alone is best utilized doing the activities you love to do. This week is about filling your emotional cup.
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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