The planets: Just a heads-up Mercury is retrograde until February 18th. People are often fearful of this planet’s retrograde period. Though it is not the best time to sign contracts, buy things that have electronic components or start something new. And we need to be careful how we communicate and timing in general. This is a great time to Review, Reflect and Revise.
Now to this week’s artist, Shelley Muzylowski. Muzylowski is a glass artist. You would not know it from her pieces for they look like they are sculpted in clay instead of molten glass and fire. The movement of her work, the emotions they convey, and the depth of color is extraordinary. Muzylowski subjects are animals. The viewer can see she pulls inspiration from a wide variety of cultures, history, and art mediums. Though realistic in form her work seems to connect to the spiritual realm. They are creations of myth, magic, and storytelling.
To genuinely appreciate this art form. There is a show on Netflix called Blown Away. It will show you how much physical work in combination with artistry that this art form requires. Most glassblowers have to do their work with assistants. To obtain this level of art the artists and assistants must be in sync. Dependent on precise communication while also aware of each other’s nuances, it is like a dance. This art form reminds us that we do not do our work alone. We rely on others to help us create, live, and express our stories.
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
Justice – Justice is defined as just behavior or treatment. Someone is not aligned with their integrity. The challenge is this could also include you. Use Mercury’s retro-energy to review how you are treating people as well as how you are being treated. Take this week to make sure you are aligned with your truth and is it holistically fair before you sentence or censor others… or yourself.
Taurus
Two of Coins – Last week, The Muse of Integrity asked you to look for imbalance picking only two issues to rebalance. You get another week to work on this. However, if you now can confidently balance those two issues, you can add more. This energy advises to add one at a time. And if something feels off or you drop the ball, you have taken on one too many. Subtract and try again.
Gemini
Ace of Swords – Of course you Gemini’s can navigate this Mercury retrograde and start something new. The challenge is to make sure this new idea is an innovation and not a repeat of old thought patterns dressed in new clothes. The key is this aligns with a new emerging truth. So supple thinking is required.
Cancer
Queen of Wands – Last week the muses had you tying up loose ends. Now, The Muse of Inspiration is here to help you imagine and innovate what is next. This week commune with the ethers and nature to clear your mind and connect with the conduit of the divine. Look for synchronicities and serendipitous to help you find the “easter eggs.”
Leo
Knight of Swords – This week you will need to slow your roll. The energy around you is ginchy. This is that feeling when you are tired but also feel as if you should run or you are easily agitated. So, the best course is to slow down, take deep breathes and be aware of your surroundings before leaping. And as always with this energy on a practical level, watch your appendages and wear comfortable shoes. This energy tends to have you absent mindedly cut your fingers, twist your ankles, and stub your toes.
Virgo
Seven of Coins– This week is all about getting things done. It is a great week to check things off your to-do list, tackle that pile of paperwork, get your taxes done early, clean your inbox, etc.… Yes, this is the week to get up early and work. If you do this, the fruits of your labor will be bountiful. Not to mention raise your energy level and mental state.
Libra
Knight of Coins – The Muse of Pace is here. She comes when you are not in sync with how you like to work. There is something off kilter that is interfering with your flow. Are you getting enough sleep? Eating well? Moving enough or too much? Is your desk unorganized? Is your chair making your back hurt? This is the week to fix your material plane to help you mental and emotional one.
Scorpio
Six of Swords – The Muse of Transitions is knocking. She is inviting you on a cerebral trip, a step up and out in thinking. Certain thought patterns need to transmute, and in doing so you will find that some thought patterns are now obsolete. This is a time to simplify and begin again.
Sagittarius
Six of Wands – This is a good week. Small jewels of luck and synchronicities line up for you. Pay attention to these gems of inspiration, they are pats on the backs from the universe. Telling you that you are doing good in the areas where you find these small treasures.
Capricorn
Two of Swords – The energy this week is about making decisions; however, there is a twist. The decision is not as important as the path this decision has you taking. This muse asks you to tune into your heart and your truths. Making sure the route you take to your goals aligns with how you want to feel and your integrity.
Aquarius
King of Coins – I hope you rested last week because its back to work. Time to put energy into your material plane ie: work, home, garden. This muse is here to help you build whatever you want short or long term, and aids those projects to increase your future abundance. However, if you find a block, then it is not the time to force a project forward. This energy paves paths of ease for some work and puts up walls for things that are not timed correctly.
Pisces
Four of Wands – The Muse of the Hearth and Home has come to hang. This is a great week to put time into your home and family (adopted or born with). Make your abode more comfortable and then bring out the board games and hot chocolate. Connect anyway you can to your inner community and solidify the foundation of your relationships with care and comfort.
Two of Wands – Last week, the Moon’s reflective light revealed the fact or fantasy of your fears, and helped you finesses navigating by your intuition and feelings without letting them overwhelm you. This enlightenment on one’s fantasy and fears should have readied you for the action of the Two of Wands this week. For this week is the time to strike out on your own and discover some new places and people. This week expand your world and don’t let last week’s fear stop you.
Eight of Coins – This is your second eight so let’s look at 8s for a sec. Eights are the cards of expansion and contraction. The Eight of Cups last week had you contracting by doing some spring cleaning. The Eight of Coins wants you to expand by growing your skills. This week is all about work, but it isn’t all about how hard you work. It is about using your skill-set to work smart. This combination of cleaning and efficacy should give you a sense of accomplishment by the end of week.
King of Wands – The King of Wands is about spirituality, passion and creativity. He wants you to understand and work with not only parts of yourself but your destiny that ignites it. This life is to be lived with gusto, so do something every day this week to kindle your spirit, passion and creativity and it will lead you to a brighter destiny.
Ace of Cups – Ace of Cups foretells new beginnings or insights in relationships. This week spend some time with someone new or reignite an old relationship. This can be with our love partners, but it also is just about spreading love to any living thing – earth, plants, animals and humans. Because ultimately –Love is all there is.
*Temperance – Double whammy weeks, last week the Hierophant advised you to work on structures and efficiency. Then Temperance doubles down reminding you that structure is great but does not last without balance and moderation. So, with your work there must be play. With your happiness there is also sadness. With hatred is love. The challenge is how to do the balancing. Not as reactive equilibrium act – falling to one side and rebalancing the other in a teeter-totter fashion – but as a proactive act of accepting the paradoxes and mixing a new cocktail. Think if it like cooking without salt but getting the satisfaction of saltiness by using a mixture of spices and herbs.
Five of Coins – The Five of Coins is the card of loss, despair or loneliness. No joke this can be a hard week with mishaps and misdirection; however, the lesson with this card is realizing you are not only resilient but also not alone. Your challenge is asking for help. No shame, this is not only beneficial to you but a way for the people around you helping someone who has helped them.
*Chariot – The Chariot gives you energy to do some moving and shaking of your own this week. Take this time to do activities that will move you closer to your goals. The only challenge with the Chariot is all movement is up to you this week. It’s not exactly that you must do this solo, but it is essential you do all the driving.
Page of Swords – The Page of Swords is the card of the investigator and hidden information. There are clues and messages you need, but you will be required digging for them this week. Ask lots of questions, read between the lines, digger deeper, keep your ears, eyes and mind open.
Nine of Swords – The Nine of Swords is the card of worry and over-thinking. This card makes sense with the past two weeks of heavy lifting in your mind. The challenge and work with this card are finding ways to turn off the mind by giving it a break or diverting it with playful thoughts. You can do this with a bout of binge-watching TV (no commercials), escape into a good book, day dreaming, or meditating to quiet the monkey mind.
*Judgement – Judgment is the card of evolution. It is time to shed your skin, molt your feathers, or wrap up in a cocoon. The shift of your paradigm has happened. The question is: have you evolved to survive in it a healthier way than the previous phase of your life? If not take this week to be tender with yourself, you are still in your soft-shell phase of your evolution. Take this week to harden your shell/skin, grow in your feathers, grow your wings. The only thing you should be doing this week is figure out what you need to grow/obtain in this new phase.
*High Priestess and Ten of Swords – The High Priestess is here to help with the Ten of Swords. The Ten of Swords is the card that foretells that the World can be a triggering place. One reason we get trigger is we let our reactive ego do the driving instead of more kind conscious mind. The High Priestess steps in with her cool thoughts sitting on her lofty seat seeing the bigger pictures and cycles. She challenges you to stand back from the World and not react – just watch. You will find that observation and not confrontation will bring you more enlightenment in situations this week.
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