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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Sept. 27, 2020

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Happy Birthday Libras!

Libra is the sign that governs balance, partnership, and harmony.  Libra’s motto is I relate.  Whatever house Libra resides in your natal chart is where these concepts become the place of learning for you.  With a nod to Libras this week’s artists are the couple, bonpon511 on Instagram, otherwise known as Tsuyoshi and Tomi Seki.  (when you go to their Insta account flip through the photos – they see some cool art shows.)

In May they celebrated their 40th anniversary and their third year in retirement.  They have only been matching outfits and documenting them since 2016.  As Mrs. Pon says Since we both have gray hair, we thought it’d be funny to match our fashion styles, so we started wearing clothes of the same color and patterns. We decide based on how we feel each day… They have taken what is known in Japan as Osoroi Code, where groups or couples wear matching clothes, to another level.  … it’s not just about coordinating our clothes,” said Tsuyoshi. We try to choose outfits that complement our surroundings. What makes a good partnership or harmony varies for all of us.  Mrs. Pon credits Mr. Bon for being a work center person leaving early in the day and coming home after midnight to their long and loving relationship.

Finding balance does not mean everything has to be the same.  It is about what feels right.  This concept of Osoroi Code “matching coordination” is what we should grok from Libra.  It is not just about relating to others and our surroundings.  It how it feels in its relation.  So, this month’s pondering – Am I in harmony with self, others, and my environment? Do have good partners?  And most importantly, does it make me smile? Cite

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

Osoroi bonpon511Page of Cups – Last week the energy was pushing you to finish projects.  Hopefully, you got to do that for this week is all about play.  Time to take the focus off doing and more on non-goal-oriented fun.  Play is vital for productivity and freeing your mind to discover new connections that stringent scheduling can hinder.  So pull out the Legos and crayons.

 

Taurus

Osoroi bonpon511King of Wands – The muse this week wants you to work with your inspirations.  Do your inspirations motivate your own work, or have they become distractions that no longer fit your divine purpose or soul?  If they do motivate you this is the week to focus on one and go.  Write that book, do that art project, tell your boss about that innovation you have thought of.  Believe in your visions, point of view and intellect.

 

Gemini

Osoroi bonpon511Ace of Swords – Last week was about working in the realm of the subtle.  Using your intuition as your compass to navigate the mists.  It made you sensitive to the current of your surroundings which helps you with this week decisions, inquiries, and problems.  With your finely tuned intuition and your sharpened intellect you bring much needed awareness and clarity to situations.

 

Cancer

Osoroi bonpon511King of Cups – This week’s energy can bring on your emotions.  However, you have the Muse of Emotions helping you see that this outpouring of feelings are paths to self-discovery.  That what awaits in the middle of the feeling storm is a calm place of compassion and knowing.  Dive into the whys of how you are feeling without being swept away in the currents who, what, where and how.  This energy, if used correctly with love, can heal.

 

Leo

Osoroi bonpon511Three of Cups – Last week the muses were guiding you to an awaken.  By accepting your flaws are rooted in your humanness, you began incorporating them as positive influences instead of distractions.  The muses this week will lead you through the phases of life.  You need to connect to not just people in your age group but also those above and below.  By befriending other ages, you will find connections to your past, your future and firmly ground you in your present.

 

Virgo

bonpon511*World – This week is great for finishing up projects.  You can start something new; however, it is vital that you clear off some of the debris left over from last birth year.  You do not need or want to carry useless crap into 2021.  Mars is in retrograde until November 12th and Mercury will go retro during that time, too.  You have until mid-November to tie things up, so what is seeded can start to grow without hinderance or shade.

 

Libra

Osoroi bonpon511Page of Swords – The best thing to do with this week’s energy is to come at it like a news reporter.  You find out more by asking question and doing some deep listening.  Not all information is on the surface, so inquiry and sensitivity are need to get to the real truth.   Since this is also your birth month.  Turn some of that inquiry to investigating what do you want in the coming year.

 

Scorpio

bonpon511Ten of Wands – The energy this week is about prioritizing your obligations.  This muse recommends ordering your work and then take the two lowest ranked tasks off you list.  Put them aside until next week and see if either someone else picked them up because they were not yours in the first place, or they just magically disappear.

 

Sagittarius

bonpon511Eight of Coins – More work energy this week.  This vibe is great for advancing projects to the next step.  However, is not a great time for starting something new.  If you do, it can feel like Sisyphus rolling your rock up to have it fall again.  So, stick to what you know and plow through that.

 

 
Capricorn

Osoroi bonpon511Two of Swords – Last week, the Muse of Manifestation was there to facilitate calling down your energy and to create on the material plane.  This week is more of the same; however, do not vacillate on making decisions.  Now is the time to choose.  You will find out later that the choice did not matter as much for you end up in the same place.  However, in making your choices go with the feeling and less with the logic. It is more about the journey then the destination.

 

Aquarius

Osoroi bonpon511Four of Cups – The energy continues with your work and building upon your empire.  Continue getting things off your to do list.  However, where last week’s energy was about navigating chaos, this week’s distraction comes from within.  It is fine to do some introspection but diving deep into your pondering mind will take you off course.  So, if you find yourself going down the rabbit hole, change your perspective to the outside and do something you love in the world.

 

Pisces

bonpon511Two of Coins – The energy this week is about balance.   Something in your life is out of sync.  Usually with this energy it literally means you need to work on physical balance.  Like not enough veggies or water or you need to practice yoga or Tai Chi.  And/or your work/life balance can be out of whack.  So, time for an adjustment.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Sept. 6, 2020

The artist this week is Marina Vargas.   Vargas often uses the motif of guns and the color red.  Her work can be very jarring which it is supposed to be, but it is also, as art is, very enlightening for the viewer.  With all art we as viewers bring our perspective. Of late we have been dealing with a lot of  violence and unrest.  How do we deal with it is the inquiry in highlighting her art this week.

When asked what her favorite color was, Vargas said it was difficult to pick one, but she uses red often.  As she said in a South Mag article: Although there is no doubt that in my work the most predominant (color) of them all is red. I suppose that in some way it is the color that mediates me with the rest of the colors. Red is a wake-up call, it is alertness and it is also the color that represents blood, wound, vulnerability and violence.  I suppose that to be in relation with this color is to enter fully into the control that there must be to manage between the instinctive and the rational.

These images of Vargas’ correlate with Mars going into retrograde September 9th through November 13th.  Mars is the planet of activity, sex, energy, confrontations, and war.  During this time, you should be wary of starting new businesses, projects, or litigation.  They may be exceedingly difficult to gain momentum and in the areas of law those that start “the war” may fail.  Also, be aware this time can lower sex drive and increase a feeling of malaise.  However, this period  is great to work on projects already started, organization, and planning.  It is made for crossing off old to-do lists, cleaning up your inbox, creating relaxing activities with loved ones, etc…

So, the big lessons with Mars are being aware of what irritates, frustrates and angers you.  Take note but not action.  And when you feel low energy, it is a wake up call for self-care.  This time will be filled with more uncertainty and feelings of vulnerability.  Use this alertness to enlighten and enhance your skills at how you are managing between instinctive actions based on fear and rational actions based on love and hope.

Let love and hope win.

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

Marina Vargas
Marina Vargas

*Hermit – Time to gain some perspective on your life and environment.    Something is off and you need to step back from your everyday life to do some contemplation on what it is and how to fix it.  The challenge will be finding time for yourself while also equally find time for others.  This week is about finding the balance of quiet contemplation and socialization.

Taurus

Marina Vargas
Marina Vargas

*High Priestess – The energy is asking you to tap into your intuition this week.  Look for cycles that need to be readjusted, and synchronicities to help move you forward and enlighten situations of inertia or chaos.  Your instincts are powerful guides this week.  The challenge is keeping your ears and logical mind open to your inner voice.  And have a broad enough perspective to see that fear is an emotion not reality.

Gemini

Marina Vargas

*Star – This energy comes when you need to do some healing.   You need to reignite optimism and hope in your being.  This week find time to relax in moonbeams, feel the wind on your face, watch the sunlight flicker from your windows, and acknowledge the kindness of a smile.  Finding these moments will give you the curative perspective that after each period of chaos comes a time for healing.  That everything has its season and overall, the arc is towards wholeness, healing, and love.

Cancer

Marina Vargas
Marina Vargas

Four of Cups –Well either extroverted or introverted crustaceans this week is meant for quiet contemplation.  Which for you introverted crabs is celebratory; however, this pulling in must be productive for both types of crabs.  If you find yourself getting lethargic, melancholy, or bored you will be required to step out and reconnect with society until that feeling subsides.  Then you can crawl back into your shell until the end of the week.

Leo

Marina Vargas

*World – This energy comes pushing you to complete something.  To energize your leonic procrastination that has lulled you to laze on your sunny rock this summer.  That was fine for the summer, but summer is moving into fall.  This can be as simple as crossing off the oldest thing on your to-do list.  You might even find it does not need to be done anymore. This energy wants you to do that final push, so your muse can open new doors for you.

Virgo

Marina Vargas

King of Swords – This week’s energy lends itself to long term planning. Time to pull out a blank page and write all your wishes and intentions of what you would like to accomplish in your coming birth year.  A great week to make an inspiration board, a bucket list, a brain dump page of all that you can imagine.  Then take the rest of your birth month planning on how to reach these goals.  The challenge this week is not to do but to think.

Libra

Marina Vargas
Marina Vargas

Ten of Wands – The energy this week warns that you are taking on too much responsibility.  Time to lighten your load by one or two duties, jobs, chores etc.… The challenge is not to worry or pick them back up.  The goal is to see, by next week, if someone else picks it up or you find it really did not need to be done.

Scorpio

Marina Vargas

*Moon – More internalizing with this week’s energy.   This muse asks you to dive into your subconscious, listen to your intuition, emotions, and dreams.   The challenge is that your emotions can run high this week.  Many times, this might be due to your emotional pores being open and susceptible to absorbing others’ emotions.   Therefore, your task is clarifying what are your emotions and what are others.

Sagittarius

Marina Vargas

*Devil – Last week your emotional waters were tested by aspects being hidden from you.   And you were given the option to dive deep into your shadow side to find your vulnerabilities and strengths or skip it.  This week brings with it all sorts of diversions and tests of your character and drive.  If you did last week’s work, then this week will go by with ease.  You are brushing off the devil’s diversions and strengthening your resolve.  If you did not do the work, this week might be tough.  Either way think of this week as a test of your character and will.

Capricorn

Marina Vargas

*Emperor – The energy this week is about building upon your empire.  This is a great week to do construction around how you make your money, your physical environment, and/or any hands-on work.  The challenge with this energy is to be bolder, build bigger however, be careful of hubris.   If you build for the good of many, then your work will prosper in the long run.

Aquarius

Marina Vargas

*Temperance – Balance is key this week.  An alchemy of your material and spirit goals are the subjects to adjust.  This is a good week to blend the need to survive with the need to enjoy life.  So, this muse asks are you enjoying your life?  Does the way you make money give you time and resources to enjoy your life?  Or does your work bring you joy but does not provide for you?  Your challenge is making fine-tuned adjustments to equal out your material plan with your spiritual one.

Pisces

Marina Vargas
Marina Vargas

Ace of Swords – Last week the energy was about deconstructing your environment or systems and then creating new paradigms.  The strategy being pulling everything apart to see its working and non-working components, fix, and then reassemble.  Luck for you all, you have another week to do this with this week’s energy of new beginnings and ways of thinking.  This muse hones your intellect to a sharp blade.  Allowing you to see, decipher, and reorganize with clarity.  However, your challenge is allowing your intellect to do the work and keep your heart in the passenger’s seat.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of August 30, 2020

Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh The more loving one – part one

The artist this week is Aida Muluneh.  I usually pull art from the artist’s entire work but today I am homing in on one series, The World is 9.  It centers around a phrase her grandmother would say, “The world is 9, it is never complete and it’s never perfect.”  The concept in Muluneh’s words:  In this world, we are idealists seeking perfection but living in a reality which does not afford us that balance. Life is unpredictable and imperfect – we must conquer these challenges with strength and endurance because the world within us and the world knocking on our door, bears the unknown future.

So far, this year has felt like that – unpredictable and showing all its imperfections.  And dang we have been challenged personally and socially.  But that is the beauty of grokking the world is 9.  By seeing the world’s and our imperfection, we can continue to strive – creating a better world, and at the same time let our growth be infinite.  Thus, not binding us or our world to and ending, a completion nor perfection.

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.

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

Nina

 

Aries

Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh

Page of Swords – The key to this week’s energy is to use your mind like a sharp tool.    Information is available for you, but it is either hidden or lock away by sphinx-like energy.  Pieces of information will be given if you ask the right questions to decipher the riddles in front of you this week.

 

Taurus

Aida Muleneh
Aida Muluneh

Eight of Swords – Last week the devil was in the details and details had the potential to be your biggest foe.  This energy seeps into this week as well with a “bonus” feeling of an overwhelming or a closing in.   Thus, you feel choices/decisions are demanded of you.  The key to this is again is either committing to a choice and see how it goes or saying f#$% it and go with the flow.  The goal is to stop thinking you have no choice in the matter, or there is only one right path.  This leads to circular thinking and a sense of inescapable inertia.

 

Gemini

Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh

King of Cups – The intensity of the energies finally recedes for you this week.  Though the themes stay the same.  The last two weeks were challenging you to follow the breadcrumbs of synchronicities and reimagining yourself as the beautiful spark of inspiration with flaws exposed making you shine more brightly.  This week’s energy helps guide you in an alchemization of your all your feelings happy, sad, anger, lonely etc… You need to see that all your emotions make you who you are.  Your motto the Rumi poem The Guest House.

 

Cancer

Aida Muluneh

Six of Swords – The energy surrounding you might feel a bit muddy and unclear but also has a sense of lightness.   This week is full of small transitions helped by small miracles.  Following the willow wisps will not lead you to danger but safely to a new shore.  Your motto: Follow hope.

 

Leo

Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh

Knight of Wands – The energy this week is wanting you to answer what truly inspires you in nature?  The sand between your toes, staring at fire, smelling a storm on the way, or watching the power of a lion/cat on the hunt…  Now replicate these feelings/inspirations by doing something artistic, experiencing an art form that resonates it, or mediate on it.  Embed that inspiration into your life.

 

Virgo

Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh

Nine of Pentacles – The energy this week wants you to sift your successes and see their worth as a collection.  Find contentment in the positive things you have done.  You have just one more chapter to complete this cycle.  You are on the verge of a transition.  Spend this week in moments of solitude and contemplation of your past and the last steps for this birth years conclusion.  By doing this exercise you will be prepared to move forward with solider foundation.

 

Libra

Aida Muluneh

King of Wands – Last week’s energy wanted you to pull away from society as much as possible, grounding and gaining some perspective.  Hopefully, you got to do this, can put this insight into action.  If not, luckily this energy still allows time for gaining perspective.   For this week is full of visionary thoughts and advises to look at the bigger picture for solutions.

 

Scorpio

Aida Muluneh

Two of Wands – Last week’s energy was highly active and best used in building what is already started. However, this week wants you to turn your gaze to the future.  This is a great week to let your imagination ponder where and what you will be wanting to do in 2021.  Imagining now will set the universe working behind the scenes to prep some of the roads ahead.

 

Sagittarius

Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh

*Moon – This is a perfect time to dive into your fears and emotions.  Yep the energy this week would like to test your emotional waters.   In practical matters aspects are hidden from you.  You can wait until this phase passes by the weekend (Tuesday is a Full Moon in Pisces so things will start to clear up after that).  Or you can dive into your shadow side.  The latter is harder but more productive.

 

Capricorn

Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh

Queen of Wands – This energy is best used in the act of creation and self-expression.  This muse comes to embolden you to see your courage and power.  You are the creator of your life.  Are you creating your desires or societies?  If so, this is a great week to set intentions.    If not, then time to do some heavy mirror gazing and reconnecting to your power source and intuition.

 

Aquarius

Aida Muluneh

Eight of Wands – Last week was about balancing multiple elements into a cohesive path of ease.  Hopefully, you worked on your balancing act, for this week the energy level is still busy.  So, going in with a balanced mind-set will help you navigate all the information coming at you.   This energy also recommends a game plan, while keeping your eyes and mind open as better paths come quickly into your foreground.  If you are good at racing video games, then this week you will do great.  If not, peripheral vision is vital.

 

Pisces

Aida Muluneh

*Hierophant – The energy this week is about deconstructing your environment or systems and then creating new paradigms.  This can look as simple as pulling everything out of your closet and reorganizing.  Or as complicated as doing this with a work project or relationships.  The strategy is pulling everything apart to see its working and non-working parts, fix and then reassemble.

 

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of August 23, 2020

 

Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

Happy birthday month Virgos!

The artist this week is Ed Fairburn.  He creates portraits using traditional ink, pen and pencil but with a unique canvas, old maps.  Fairburn calls this process “topopointillism, a combination of topography and pointillism.”  His pieces examined closely still contain the information of the map, but the viewer also paradoxically loses the person.  This resonates with the science inquiry of what percentage of our genetics or our environment effect who we are.  Or the philosophical inquiry that one event can define us.  We are influenced by where we inhabit and what we do in each moment.  But our life is not just as simple as the sum of its part or the how, what, when and the who.  What makes us magical and unique is the alchemy of the whole, the whys.

P.S. Signs with an * it 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.

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

Nina

 

Aries

Ed Fairburn

Eight of Wands – Last week’s energy was prodding you to produce a plethora of beauty and ingenuity.  Challenging you to allow for experimentation and mistakes while letting your imagination play.   This energy of discovery continues this week.  The task to truly playing is you must accept there is no simple yes or no.  This week is about moving forward with the unknown – without all the answers.

 

Taurus

Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

*Devil – As they say the devil is in the details and details have the potential to be your biggest foe in the coming week.  So you have two ways to choose how to deal with this.  Either to purposely dig deep into the rabbit holes and allow distraction to take you off course.  You will get to your destination at some point.  Or let go of all the details and go with the flow.  Being more flexible and permitting imperfection in.  The challenges with either choice is seeing that you have a choice and make either one more fun.

 

Gemini

Ed Fairburn

*Judgement – Last week’s energy was about changing your fortune.  And your challenge was to follow the breadcrumbs of synchronicities and serendipities.  This week is another high energy week with a reckoning at its core.  You need to see yourself as the beautiful spark of inspiration that you are.  That because of your flaws you shine more brightly.  Your motto:  There is a crack, a crack in everything.  That’s how the light gets in.  Leonard Cohen

 

Cancer

Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

Eight of Coins – The last two weeks were high energy about building and planning your future that ethically balance mind, heart, and soul.  This week is taking all that and doing the feet on the ground work.  It is a great week to get things off your to do list.

 

Leo

Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

Six of Cups – So last week the energy was to trust that the blank canvas of your coming year would have to be a paint as you go scenario, while challenging you to not repeat old patterns or keep that canvas blank.  This week you get to use the five planets in retro energy to do the 3 R’s reflect, reassess and revise.  The challenge is not getting too sentimental with the past. Use it as a resource, not your only foundation of reality.   An exercise in this is going through photo albums and just pick a couple of photos per trip that really have the feeling of the memory.  Then use the rest in art projects or creating wallpaper for your bathroom or living space.

 

Virgo

Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

Ace of Wands – This week is a great week to start anything.  The challenge is to pick something that inspires you for at least a six-month period or longer.  This energy is about planting and growing a seed now that you can harvest in 2021.

 

Libra

Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

*Hermit – This week’s energy compels you to find seclusion.  You need to pull away from society as much as possible, reground and gain some perspective.  As much as you can, turn off technology, the news and try not to answer the phone.  You need to realign your wants and needs without hearing all the hubbub around you.  Silent contemplation is your friend.

 

Scorpio

Ed Fairburn

*Emperor – The energy this week is highly active and used best in building what is already started. This project needs your guidance and you might have to call in some favors to get it moving towards completion.  Your challenge is though this endeavor needs a leader it does not need a tyrant.  Watch your bossiness. Don’t be a sheep dog wrangling its flock by nipping at their heels.  Think more like a helpful guide dog, nudging people to the right path.

 

Sagittarius

Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

Three of Wands – Last week was all about not getting distracted but realizing that part of your antsyness is that you need to schedule some fun.  Sadly, this week’s energy does not allow you as much funtastic time as your soul needs.  So, the key to another week of work is setting up plans for an everyday ritual/period of letting off steam.

 

Capricorn

Ed Fairburn

Queen of Swords – The energy this week is a no-nonsense, no-BS, and all about clear visioning.  This is a great week to do solid planning, strategically thinking, diving down to the details, and making sure your communications are clear.

 

Aquarius

Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

*Temperance – The energy this week is about balancing multiple elements into a cohesive path.  This can look like having a lot of disconnected projects or tasks, but you perfectly plan the right route to get it all done and still eat, exercise, and relax.  The key is divvying up the tasks in a way that creates ease throughout the whole week.

 

Pisces

Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

Six of Coins – The last couple of weeks’ energies felt a little like you were on a roller coaster or yo-yo.   This week’s energy calms down to a nicely balanced week.  There is still give and take, positive and negative forces, but it does not feel like you are dealing with extreme g-forces anymore.  Leaving you exhausted and feeling squished.  The only challenge this week is that energy exchange does happen.  So, the more positive energy you put out the more you get in return; however, this works for negative too.

 

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of August 16, 2020

Nina Leen
Nina Leen

The artist this week is photographer Nina Leen.  She was the first woman photographer hired by Life magazine.  However, Life only hired her for freelance, even though she contributed to the magazine for 30 years with over 50 covers and countless reports and photo essays.  Her photo style was unique for she took pictures of everyday events, but always with an added twist, a place of tension or surrealness.  

This made her photograph not only stand out but had the viewer subtly expanding their perspective.  For instance, she took the picture above the group of artists that led the 1950 fight against the exclusion of abstract expression from the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibitions .   Leen had the one woman Hedda Stern, at the shoot only 15 of the 28 signers showed up,  stand above all the other men, making the subtle statement of the bias on women in the art scene and an ironic statement of exclusion.

Her subjects were often actress, fashion models, everyday women, teens and animals.   She also co-wrote and did photography for 12 books on animals.   Some say she liked animals more than people.  The viewer can see this wry sense of humor.  With her washed kitten (see Leo) titled wet by wiser or (see Libra) where actress Joan Roberts is walking her dog at intermission.  Leen’s choice of showing the owner not in totally control of the scene lowers the glamour star status of Ms. Rivers but also makes her more relatable, more real.  Leen’s photos are even today avant garde, female positive, intriguing, and wanting us to turn the page to see more.

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

*Magician – The energy this week helps with manifesting anything creative.  You are prompted to produce a plethora of beauty and ingenuity.  You have all the tools you need to do this work.  The challenge and key to creating with ease is allowing for experimentation.  Make mistakes, color outside the lines, and let your imagination play.

 

Taurus
Nina Leen
Nina Leen

Page of Coins– This is a great week to plan, practice, learn, and discover.  Think of yourself as a student of life.  You do not have to master anything this week.  The challenge is allowing yourself to play and explore without grading your work.

 

 
Gemini
Nina Leen

*Wheel – The energy this week is about changing your fortune.  No matter where the Wheel’s cycle lands, win or loss, it is the step of trying and accepting the ups and downs of life that are key this week.  You are in the midst of an energy shift.  The way to work with this energy is follow the breadcrumbs of synchronicities and serendipities.  You cannot grab the brass ring without getting on the ride, but also the ride by itself can give you a new perspective.

 

Cancer
Nina Leen
Nina Leen

*Justice – Last week was about building your material plane and feeding your goals while lifting others; to be a steward of good.  This good stewardship continues this week, but the energy is less active.  Now is a time to reflect and revise where necessary. Look with long vision as well as with your everyday choices.  The challenge is making plans and choices that are balanced in the mind and heart and actions ethical with your soul.

 

Leo
Nina Leen
Nina Leen

*Fool – So you started your birth month with some high personal karmic energy setting you up for big growth in the coming year.  This had you tapping into your superpowers and your personal kryptonite preparing you for the future.  At the same time reminding you that relaxation and  expressing your emotions are vital in this coming journey.  Now at the end your month you receive a call from the Fool, the blank rune.  This energy asks you to jump into the unknown.  This year is a place of new beginnings, to lean into trust, things are changing, and you are one of the signs heading into it first.  The landscape is forming with each step.  You get to paint on this new blank canvas as you go.  The challenge is not singing the same song, repeating old patterns, and staying stagnate.  Time to allow this metamorphosis to begin.

 

Virgo
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Queen of Cups – Last week’s energy was around working with your monsters.  You get to continue this work but funneling your focus to only the emotional realm.  Specifically, to being more compassionate around your own emotions.  Not to see them as monsters but as signposts or bridges to a deeper understanding of your wants and needs.

 

Libra
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Seven of Cups –The energy this week is pushing you to dream bigger.  Yes, you still need to be cautious about the parameters of reality or at least the parameters of 2020 where nothing is predictable.  So, if nothing is predictable why not dream beyond your typical boundaries.  The challenge is not hanging your heart on each wish coming true exactly how you planned.

 

Scorpio
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Page of Wands – Inspiration is the energy to create ease this week.  You are stuck in some rut and need to think outside the box.  This energy advises you to find inspiration in things that make you go Ah or Oh or Oooooo.  This can be nature, music, art, and/or spiritual.  The challenge is submerging yourself enough in it that you lose your self to find yourself.

 

Sagittarius
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*Devil – The energy this week is abundant with distractions and opportunities to tempt you away from path.  The reason this energy shows up is because you have not given yourself the permission or time to have some fun for fun’s sake.  The challenge however is this is not the week to let your “restraints” loose.  So, schedule that fun-time in soon but just not this week.

 

Capricorn
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Ace of Cups – Last week you all got the Tower, change that occurs outside of your control.  Asking you to look at the “cracks” that 2020 has brought on in your life.   To make sure that even though the structures you imagining and creating look different,  you are not building on the same defective footing.  The energy this week gives you more time in that creation of the new.  This energy challenges you practical Capricorns not to forget that it is the feeling of your life that is more important then the structures.  Or another way to look at this, do your new structures support the feeling you are going for?

 

Aquarius

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Ace of Pentacles – Hmm another Ace, let us take a closer look at Ace energy.  All Aces are new beginnings.  Last week was to get inspired looking for something that has potential for new beginnings to sprout.  Hopefully, you have found this new inspiration.  Now, this Ace is about doing the steps to make that happen.  This week pull together your materials and take that first step.

 

Pisces

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*High Priestess – Last week’s energy was about taking a chance to move forward.  This week is a 180 degree turn from extroverted jumping into the outside world to introverted knowledge gathering.  This information comes from quiet contemplation and dreams.  Whether you do this by howling with the full moon on Monday, going to the desert to commune with the Milky Way, putting on headphones and listening to your music collection of shuffle, or meditating, this Muse wants you to work closer with your intuition and the Universe.  Your challenge is finding the time and keeping your mind open to see the connections and cycles.

 

 

Tarotcast

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of August 9, 2020

Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Njideka Akunyili Crosby

The artist this week is Njideka Akunyili Crosby.  Her work is about occupying two worlds both her native Nigeria and America.  Njideka does this though a weaving of her photographs, family photos and pages from popular Nigerian magazines creating a fabric like pattern throughout her work.  Her process is a layering of collage, photo transfer, fabric, acrylic paint, charcoal, and colored pencil.  This give her pieces a duality of “busy” with the patterns and serene with her choice of compositions of models and motifs.   

This complexity and layering of culture are mimicked in her native land of Nigeria and the place she now lives, America.  Both are multicultural nations trying to find a cohesion to create a country.   Nigeria is a multinational state that is inhabited by 250 ethnic groups with over 500 distinct languages all identifying with a wide variety of cultures.  The composition of American population is also is represented by almost every country in the world.  So, in her work she takes the viewer into layered landscape exploring her personal journey in inhabiting and defining what is it to be a Nigerian who lives in America.    

Are we a melting pot or a tossed salad?  This has been a debate since the 1960’s.  The melting pot metaphor used by Emerson was the concept of the fusing process of the European immigrant to melt down their heritage and reforming into a new American.  The con to this outlook is the lose of the immigrant’s individuality.  Then in the 1960’s the idea of multiculturism took hold.  This is the concept that we are a tossed salad holding on to our individual cultures with the law and the market being the dressing that binds us.  The con for this approach is that America as a whole loses its culture of what defines us as an American citizen and what we as a country represent.  This debate rings even truer today.  Maybe we need to re-examine our metaphor like Crosby does with her art.  Maybe we are a collage of cultures layered to form a single motif.  So as with Crosby’s work, when we step into look at America closely, we can see each detail and as we step back, we see us a cohesive and magnificent work of art. 

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

Njideka Akunyili CrosbyNjideka Akunyili CrosbyFour of Wands – Home is where the flow is this week.  Time to give your house some loving, and you will get it back four-fold.  Things like deep clean that bathroom, lawn maintenance, adding plants, feng shui your house, decluttering your drawers or any activity to your home that creates more comfort and ease.  This homey attention will make the rest of your life flow better. 

 

Taurus
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Ten of Swords – This week is about hurt from outside sources and learning how to deal with them.  First lesson is you learning to stop listening to your ego over your intuition and internal integrity.  A possible reason for outside sources sharp vibes is that you have played either martyr or savior instead of seeing yourself as one of them.  Second lesson, these outside people are having problems of their own.  And yes, their ugliness may squirt on you, but the challenge is not let muscle memory set in with this illusion of rejection or hurt.  Take this time to close the laceration(s) and either prepare to start anew with these outside people or forces, or if need be walk away as long as you do not do it from the place of the wounded.   

 

Gemini
Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Nine of Cups – Last week the forces where calling you to make choices.  You get more time do so with this energy’s help.  This muse reminds you that you do not need to be totally “there” to know that you are worthy of this change.  So, it asks you are you dreaming big enough?  Would the theme of these choices illuminate you if the journey got dark?  Do these choices create a sense of ease in your life?  And the first choice should be that you accept contentment over ecstasy because your gifts are on their way.    

 

Cancer
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Njideka Akunyili Crosby

*Emperor – The vibe this week is about building your material plane, protecting and feeding your goals.  This is a great week to implement ideas into your workflow, to bring your business or work to the next level.  The challenge is to not only promote and uplift yourself but also to uplift others in the process.  Look to benefiting the whole not just the individual.  Be a steward of good.   

 

Leo
Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Four of Swords – The energy this week mid-birthday month is exploring your realms of relaxation.  The duality of Leo is you have lots of energy, but also like a lion enjoy laying around soaking in the “act” of inertia.  Your challenge is exploring all the ways you relax, either active or sloth like, and then how are you going to consistently incorporate this in your life.  Your goal is to find time to unwind at the very least four times a month at the best four times a week in the coming year.   

 

Virgo

Njideka Akunyili CrosbyNjideka Akunyili Crosby*Strength – Ok, time for some beast training this week.  What are your monsters?  This energy advises to tame these demons you must work with them.  There is a mediation that embodies this practice :  Feeding your Demons.  Another way is to personify your monster into someone or thing you would not normally listen to but can be entertaining at times.  (I see my anxiety as Harlequin from Batman.)  The challenge is not fighting with your monster or killing it but accepting it and seeing when it is trying to be an ally. 

 

Libra
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Ten of Cups – The energy this week is about finding activities that bring you bliss.  Connection and love are the keys to finding ways to open your heart.  So, this can be simple extended hugs, deep conversations with friends, or having a socially distance beverage with your close ones.  However, these are hard times to connect with others.  If you are solo, this energy can be tapped into by hugging yourself, holding your own hand or dancing with your favorite YouTube/TikTok video.  It sounds strange but since we do not often do it, it tricks the mind that we are connecting with another and turns on our endorphins. So, let the loving commence.

 

Scorpio
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Two of Swords – This is your second two so quick check in with the numerology.  Two means balance.  Last week was about finding balance from the reality of your present with the plans of where you want to be in the future.  This week the challenge is making balanced choices with your head and your heart. 

 

Sagittarius
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Ace of Swords – The energy this week is all about learning something new to help you expand your understanding or perspective.    The best way to use this energy is in deep conversation, your head in a book, or ears tuned into a new podcast.  Your mind needs to be fed new ideas expanding its data and bringing enlightenment for the coming weeks.   

 

Capricorn
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Njideka Akunyili Crosby

*Tower – Every sign is having its turn with the Tower, change that occurs outside of your control.  Now is your time to make sure you are contemplating how you are going to rebuild your structure after 2020.  Take this week to look at the “cracks” that 2020 has brought on in your life.  The important aspect with this inspection is that you do not rebuild with the same fault lines in your foundation.  So even though the structures you imagine and are creating look different, make sure you are not building on the same defective footing.  This can look as simple as you have become vegetarian but not getting enough protein or you are creating a slower lifestyle but then fill in your schedule.

 

Aquarius
Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Ace of Wands – Inspiration continues this week, but this energy has potential for new beginnings to sprout.  This is a great week to start any project or go exploring.  Your soul is craving passion and newness.  Feed the fire.

 

 
Pisces
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Njideka Akunyili Crosby

*Wheel – The energy this week is about taking chances to move forward.  This year has had its ups and downs, but you must continue to spin the wheel to create fortitudinous change.  For the kernels of synchronicity wait undeveloped until they are sought after.  Now is the time to move ahead for each step this week leads you to a new era of luck and destiny.

 

 

 

Tarotcast

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of August 2, 2020

Baby Animals

Many of my clients are asking for a heads up of what is going on in with the planets for the rest of the year.  So I am taking break from art for my intro this week and doing a generalized and abbreviated dive into astrology.   If you want a more detailed and personalized  version get an appointment with astrologer.  (I use Michelle Gould.)  And while we go down that path, I thought I would share with you all my personal baker’s dozen of pictures of cuteness above and in the tarotcast.  Enjoy.

And now for astrology summary (if you just want the quickie version go to the last paragraph).

This summer has felt weird around the concept of time.  Partial this is due to Covid and our staying in, but also that theme is reflected in the sky.  Normally the inner planets, Mercury and Venus or what is called our personal planets, move within a month.  Venus has been in Gemini since beginning of April, and Mercury has been traversing back and forth through Cancer the home of home and emotions since May 28th.  And both have been in retrograde motion.

Not to mention most of the outer planets are in retrograde too.  In June and July, the only movement besides the Sun going through Gemini and Cancer and the Moon doing its rounds, was Mars who left Pisces and returned to Aries on June 27 (where it stays the rest of the year).  So, both June and July could have felt either unusually sluggish or like you were on a continuous repeat and rinse cycle.

In August we will still have 5 planets in retrograde, Pluto, Neptune, Jupiter, and Saturn and Uranus will join mid-August. Retrogrades are great times to use the 3 Rs:  Review, Reflect and Reassess.   Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus are outer planets and have to do with trends with society at large. For example, Pluto likes to dredge up all the stuff that isn’t working and Capricorn is the sign of society and personal structure and our purpose, so we, as a world, are going through those shifts and will continue in some form until 2024.

However, in August personally things start to move again.  Mercury goes through three signs Cancer, Leo and Virgo.  Our thinking and communication stats flowing again from emotional to flamboyant to orderly and detail oriented.  Venus moves out of Gemini where we are reassessing our values and how we communicate and moves into Cancer August 2nd, so now we can act on creating or strengthening emotional bonds and connections through Sept 7th.

Also, we can look at Saturn and Jupiter personally, and they are both in Capricorn until December.   Jupiter is the planet of growth and Capricorn is how we live on the material plane make money, our health, and our purpose.  Jupiter being retrograde just means things will run positively in those areas, but it will take time.  And Saturn for us personally is about boundaries and how we do our scheduling and managing our life.  That means we have the rest of the year to work on our personal structures and how we want to live to get us ready to start innovating when they both move into Aquarius at the end of 2020.

Starting in September Mars goes retrograde on Sept 9th until October 13th, so it can get a bit sluggish again.  But by the end of September both Jupiter planet of growth and Saturn planet of structure institutions, and Karma go direct.  This means that we can create more traction and action from this massive refection period to start rebuilding and restructuring.

So, what does this all mean.

If you felt like you have not gotten anywhere over the past couple of months you are just in line with the energy of this strange bit of planetary retrograde where the three Rs, review, reflect and reassess are the actions most supported.  Starting in August things will start to shift on a personal level.  And by the end of the year most of our lives will be in the place to rebuild into a lighter more enlightened future.

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

Ace of Wands – This week inspires passionate new beginnings, electrical ideas, and vibrant musings.  This is a great week to explore your creativity and imagination.  Experiment and playing with ideas is best.

Taurus

baby animalsSix of Pentacles – The key this week is about the energy exchange in giving and receiving.  And the two are not so different except in your perception and feelings in either position.  The challenge is trying to find more joy in receiving and gratitude with giving.

Gemini

baby animals*Lovers – This energy is one of your life lessons.  The Lovers card embodies the aspect of duality and choice.  Now is the time to commit to a choice or two.  The key to choosing is to let go of old panics and unhealthy decision of the past.  They are lesson learned and you will not make those mistakes again.  But to make these choices you must open your heart and trust in yourself that if needed you will see the red flags and pay heed to their warnings.  This is a time to trust your gut and make some choices.

Cancer

baby animalsKing of Cups – Last week was about letting go of the old and sloughing off the things that no longer work for you.  This releasing is generating the fodder for new beginnings, and this week you have more time to process this primordial ooze lapping at your shores.  Accepting all your emotions are key to this process of evolution.  As Rumi suggests in Guest House, you are a guest house to your emotions, treat each one honorably and be grateful, for your emotions have been sent as guides from beyond.

Leo

Queen of Cups and Seven of Cups – So this week can go into the land of disillusionment or into self-acceptance and choice.  You have one energy inviting you to self-discovery, compassion, and passion.  Where your empathy gains strength without taking on other people’s baggage, and your actions align with your heart’s choice.  The other vibe has the mind tricking the heart that there are more choices to think about.  Now is the time to make a compassionate heart choice and see it through to action.

Virgo

King of Wands – Visionary thinking will be needed to navigate this week’s energy.  Though it has positive tones this energy can burn your edges or possible crisp you to your core. BUT you are supposed to emulate the phoenix and rise again inspired and enlightened.  The key to this is you cannot do this alone.  You need your people to guard your back and bring you sustenance during your rebirth. Your task is only to fall madly in love with your new goals and aspirations.

Libra

baby animalsSix of Swords – The energy this week lends a helping hand with difficult transitions.  The challenge is seeing and following the breadcrumbs of serendipity through the mist of uncertainty.  You will find help from unexpected sources.  Eyes, ears and mind open.

Scorpio

Two of Wands – This is a great week to make plans for the distant future.  Where do you want to be a year from now?  What new experiences do you want to manifest?  By casting your line farther out in the future you will catch bigger and better fish.

Sagittarius

Knight of Coins – The energy this week is slow and steady wins the race.  This is a great week to create action and movement on any project you pick.  Relax into the tasks you have there is no rush.  The only challenge is being consistent and doing a bit every day.  While balancing it with equal time and energy just kicking back and living life.

Capricorn

Seven of Wands – You deserve this success.  This week do not let anyone dim your accomplishments.  Defend this spark and push away any darkness inflicted by others or your doubting self.  Fill your heart with joy of accomplishment.

Aquarius

Page of Wands – This week is full of inspirations, solutions, and potentials.  The challenge is rooting them into your core truths then taking action to bring them into reality.  The key is not getting over-whelmed so pick one or two to start with.

Pisces

Five of Coins – Last week your task was to ground and deepen your connection to how strong you really are.  Hopefully, you took the time to do that because this week’s energy wants you to tackle your relationship with money.  That can look like putting money into savings, asking for help, seeing that you have been through worse or raising your prices.  You can take positive actions this week to accept your worthiness and heal the rift between your wealth, self-worth and feeling financially secure.