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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Oct. 11, 2020

October 11, 2020 Nina

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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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Oct. 4, 2020

October 4, 2020 Nina

First, I want to thank all of you for reading my musings on art, tarot, and a bit of science. I am going into my 6^th year with this blog, and I so appreciate your support and feedback throughout the years. At times I feel as if I am writing into the void, so your echoes back help me see that this is fulfilling its purpose of entertainment and hopefully some enlightenment and ease. You all are few but mighty in spirit, love and appreciated!

And now to start off the month of spook, this week’s artist is Stella Snead. She is a surrealist painter, photographer, and collage artist. She and her father struggled with depression. Though she has few memories of her father the viewer can see her exploration of her own psychology through her artwork. Surrealism has a natural affinity towards the study of the subconscious.

Her early paintings all seemed set in a nocturnal landscape of the dreaming mind. Her depression stopped her from painting in her mid-life, but travel and photography became the mode and medium during her darker times. She began collaging her mental ponderings. By her 70’s she returned to painting and revisited images she had done in her earlier years. Themes you often see in her musings are nature’s powerful forces: volcanos, tornados geysers, containment, and using perspective to draw the eye out of the picture. These techniques and images are keys to propelling the viewer into unknown waters. But also, the opportunity that once we have traversed the unknown it becomes know, less scary and possibly a brighter freer place than what we have known.

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

Nina

Aries

Ace of Cups – This week is testing your emotional intelligence. This energy wants to unblock your heart and get your emotional energy moving. This is a great week to watch a movie that brings a tear to your eye. While balancing it with activities that make you laugh. The more you are in tune with your feelings, the more you can be there for your love ones and understand the emotional intention behind those around you.

Taurus

Six of Cups – The keys to navigating this week is linked to the past. This is a great week to share stories of your childhood, go through old photos, and read old journals. There is inspiration and answers in reminiscing this week.

Gemini

Queen of Wands – Your passion needs a focus this week. Inspiration and creativity are craving your attention, but it is up to you to take the time to let them in for a drink. Creativity takes time, pondering, mulling to find its nuance and ignite passion. Time to have a must needed conversation with your muses.

Cancer

*Star and Nine of Swords – This week highlights that the future is uncertain; however, this does not mean to worry or fret. The key to navigating the night is seeing that you are surrounded by a blanket of love and care, and the Star Muse of Hope and Faith leads the way even though the path is dark with uncertainty.

Leo

*Hanged Man – This week’s energy surrounds the concept of insightful exposure. What is driving you crazy or blocking you needs to be reexamined. However, this investigation must be done from a new perspective. You are stuck because your life stories are being played out through a lens of an old perception. To become more malleable with your thinking let go of awareness and allow your truth to float to the surface. A gestalt is forming to break you out of your stagnation, but you will need to flip and flow your mind in the quiet of reflection without judgement or logical thought.

Virgo

*Magician – Last week was about ending and cleaning out the debris from last birth year. You still have until mid-November to tie things up. But this week is about creating what you hold as divine. This is your purpose wanting some hang-time with you, so you can start plotting out how this concept will unfold. This muse reminds you that you already have the skills and tools to accomplish what you want to do. The challenge is realizing that those tools can come from other people taking over some of the everyday of your plans. Your energy needs to focus on creating the form and space for your creation to begin to grow, however, there is no need for you to do it all alone.

Libra

Six of Swords – This is your winding down month until your birthday and the energy this week helps in this transition. The challenge is that the future is clouded over. You may feel as if the mists have settled in front of you. However, the muse this week gives you the keys to traverse the unknown. The first key is simplification. She asks what is it that you most want to change or shift. The second key is faith for there will be clues along the way to guide you through these coming months as your perspective and horizons become clearer.

Scorpio

Seven of Wands – This week people can get on your nerves. The challenge with this energy is standing your ground and keeping your inner light lite. Planet-wise there are some hard aspects this week, and water signs are feeling the brunt of it. This muse reminds you even in standing your ground you can reach out with love to keep the blue meanies away.

Sagittarius

Two of Cups – The energy this week is all about positive reinforcement of relationships that you have picked in your life. Whether that is a partner, a pet, or your plants. Caring for others fills your cup as much as them caring for you.

Capricorn

Knight of Swords – This week’s energy tends to make you feel as if you need to rush to decisions and actions; however, the exact opposite is true. To deal with this hectic energy slowing down is the best solution. Be gentle with your responses for they can become defensive. Be slow in your actions for you can hurt yourself, especially your extremities. Logic and caution are key this week. Motto: look both ways before crossing the street.

Aquarius

Knight of Wands – You are in the right place doing the right thing. This week’s energy helps you accomplish anything you put your focus towards. The key is finding inspiration to keep the energy going. Whether that is seeing that this project will lead to more projects or the beginning of something new. It is vital that you see the why behind what you are doing so you can take your life to the next level.

Pisces

*Empress – The energy of creation for comfort is what generates ease this week. You are needing some positive mothering energy to sustain yourself. This can look as simple as making a scrumptious meal or get that new piece of furniture that will make your living area finally comfortable. The challenge with this energy is creating comfort not prestige. Creating things that feed your senses, that make you go ahhh, have you smiling, and that make you feel nurtured are the items you should incorporate into this week’s schedule.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Sept. 20, 2020

September 20, 2020 Nina

The artist this week is Ute Milotich. Milotich’s paintings are the collision of the real and the existential. There is a boldness to her color choices and subjects that invigorates and yet firmly grounds the viewer. There lies a duality of solidity and motion in almost all her paintings. As she says I paint to explore what it means to be human now. Everything is in motion, everything changes over time, sometimes quietly, sometimes dramatically. In my paintings, I strive to capture a glimpse of a person or a fleeting moment in the richness of human experience.

It makes sense Milotich nods to Anne Dillard as inspiration. Dillard also uses the technique of deeply seeing through the real finding the spiritual. Dillard does this to an exception in her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Deep seeing or deep listening is about staying in the moment passing through the uncomfortable to a place of new understanding. Often when doing this we find a connection or new meaning. It is interesting that Milotich pulls this quote from the Dillard’s book I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. This is what painters do they see the light bouncing off the object and then try to replicate it on the canvas, like an artistic prism. So, we as the viewer/reader ponder what to I take in and how does it beam back into the world?

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

Nina

Aries

*World – The muses keep pushing energy at you to finish projects. This week is a great time to end cycles. Success and completion are at hand. But just as vital as checking off your to-do lists is celebrating that you have. You are on the verge of new things, but old baggage needs to be dealt with to move on. Do it and raise a glass to your accomplishments and the future.

Taurus

Queen of Cups – The energy this week ask you to find places of joy. This can be dancing to music in your living room, have a stich and bitch session with friends, get rowdy and watch sports with your crew or having a pillow fight with your kids. (of course safely distancing or virtually) This energy is about in-joying your life. That place of fun that rises you above self-thought with a hint of blissful abandon at the same time connecting you to your core.

Gemini

*Priestess – Ancient ancestor wisdom is waiting on the other side of the door. This week is about working in the realm of the subtle. Use your intuition as your compass to navigate its mists. Look for cycles and synchronicities to leading you to find gems of wisdom laying behind the curtain, under your sofa, out your window or out of the mouth of strangers as you pass by.

Cancer

Nine of Wands – The muse this week advises to shore up your boundaries. You have work to do and the outside world may try to intrude. Follow through, finish up loose ends, these are the activities that are supported by the universe. Your job is to stand firm and make yourself your first priority.

Leo

*Judgement – Your muse this week is here to help your awakening. To help move you to your next step. To do so you must accept your flaws are rooted in your humanness. Find ways to incorporate them as positive influences instead of distractions. This Muse reminds you that only being honest about your blunders of the past can you use them to burst out of the cocoon of inertia and self-doubt.

Virgo

Nine of Swords – Virgo now finishing your birth month you discover this coming year a field of passionate beginnings, clearer paths, and strategies, and muses that will frolic and co-create with you a space of safety. This coming year energy is about rebirth, regeneration, and metamorphosis. But before you start your journey you need to befriend the muse of fear and doubts. This energy is not a tiger in wait but a scared kitten needing your consolation.

Libra

Eight of Swords – The energy this week can feel claustrophobic from within and without. Many of these swarming thoughts and duties when looked at closely are not yours. You have accepted them, but they are not yours to hold. It is time to let negative thought patterns go. However, part of the problem is also your need to control situations and outcomes, but you are creating codependent behavior with those around you. Let go of the control so others can learn their own power.

Scorpio

Two of Wands – The energy this week highlights being in the present. The energy feels on the onset like torpor but when looking closely and deeply you can study the subtle moments of the small. Exercises like eating a rasin, watching rain fall on a window pane for 30 minutes, watch ants going in and out of a hill or feel the subtle aspects of wash your hands for two minutes. Finding the moments between the breath in and out is to find a place of peace within the actions of life.

Sagittarius

Queen of Coins – The energy this week is still vibrating on the material plane. This muse wants you to work hard and play harder. She reminds you that the reason you work is to create. She asks are you indulging in the finer aspects of your creation. All work and no play makes Jill/Jack a dull human.

Capricorn

*Magician – The Muse of Manifestation walks with you this week. She facilitates calling down your energy and to create on the material plane. The challenge is realizing you have all you need to conjure up the divine. You have collected the material and tools you need. Use your imagination to work with what you have. It is enough and so are you.

Aquarius

*Emperor and Five of Wands – So you have two energies to work with this week. The first is about work and building upon your empire. This is a great week for projects, getting things off your to do list, working with your hands. However, the other energy is chaos and competition, which can distract you. So, you can put on your blinders and get to your work, or you can practice your skills of charm and cajoling to get what you want done. The latter route will find you more allies in the coming weeks, and the former, you will get more done. Your choice.

Pisces

Six of Wands – Last week’s energy hopefully implanted the clarity of self-compassion and self-forgiveness for a past transgression. Opening yourself to a lighter and enlighten future that is more in tune with your divine nature. This week shines a light on you. The challenge is can you except the limelight. This is not a week to hide in the shadows but step out into the light.

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

September 6, 2020 Nina

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 9^th through November 13^th. 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

*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

*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

*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

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

*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

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

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

*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

*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

*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

*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

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 9, 2020

August 9, 2020 Nina

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 Crosby Four 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

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

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

*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

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 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

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

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

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

*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

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

*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.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of July 12, 2020

July 12, 2020 Nina

Arghavan Khosravi was raised in Tehran, Iran. In her art, she weaves historical and pop culture motifs into her personal and political experiences. Khosravi invites the viewer to traverse the threads that connect and possible bind culture to personal identity. She has us pondering how, who and what has helped construct the answer to who am I. Globally we are on seeing where aspects of institutions, historical constructs and political systems are dividing us, frightening us, and hindering our civilized evolution.

Our analysis can be painful in seeing where history and culture has bound our potential, but also productive in the fact that we can break and reweave our systems to become more humanitarian, united, and better humans individually. Khosarvi’s art is vital in this process for seeing cultural influence but also her art has the viewer seeing aspects of themselves in another. She gives us strands to weave a new global perspective where there is no other just us.

P.S. Signs with an * it a big week for you. Cancer this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year. And Capricorn it is your halfway mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check in now is the time.

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

Nina

Aries

Eight of Coins – The last three weeks were high energy full of pondering, purpose, and cleansing. This week the energy drops down and becomes more practical. The time is ripe for doing things on the material plane. Focus on one project and take it to completion. The challenge is that you may have to fine tune your skills to complete the project, however that is easily within your reach.

Taurus

Six of Coins – Cause and effect are big aspects of this week. For all the positive you do, positive will return to you three-fold. This however is true for negative energy you send out. The peculiarity of this energy is that the payback comes for seemingly illogical sources. Your motto: The road to success is never a straight-line.

Gemini

Three of Swords – Interesting this is your 3^rd week of threes, so a quick check in with that numerology again. Threes are stability through expansion. First you were advised to reach out to friends to fill your cups. Then you were asked to visualize your future and faith became your stabilizing force. Now you need to heal your heart to stabilize your mind. Take time this week to honor your sorrow while not dwelling in suffering.

Cancer

Nine of Cups – This is your last birth card for the month, and it is a blessing. The past two years the eclipses have been moving and shaking in your sign causing havoc and change. The last energy for your birth month is contentment. So, your challenges for the coming year: build new structures that allow you to do you more authentically, let go of controlling everything by letting the Universe work behind the scenes in obtaining your dreams, and in your plans allowing this new life to bring you contentment.

Leo

*Strength – Strength is your power, your nemesis, and what to ponder as you finish your last week before moving into your birth month. There are paradoxes with your strength you need to be aware of. Your strength comes from dealing with your weakness. Your self-doubt comes from trying to control things that cannot be tamed. Your insecurity is also the root of your compassion. Once you allow these truths into your constructs of self – you will find and tap into your inner strength more easily.

Virgo

Ten of Swords – This week is prickly but is also an ending of a perfidy. You are caring a pain of betrayal and the energy surrounding you is here to help you cleanse it. The challenge with this energy is not to allow the cycle to start again but rising above it. Your motto: When they go low, we go high. Michelle Obama

Libra

*Death – Where last week’s energy was manifestation: a time to build and expand your empire, this week’s energy is very organic and only partial in your control. Continue to put energy in the things you want to move on the material plane, but be aware that somethings are out of your influence. This does not mean that the project you are working on is rotten or erroneous, it is just you cannot control every aspect of it. Do what you can to move things along, but the Universe has the pace in which it will happen. Your motto this week: Go with the flow.

Scorpio

Ten of Cups – Last week’s energy asked you is your life-path aligning with your integrity and your goals for the year 2021. That challenge is still on, but this week’s vibe wants you to add an extra ingredient: bliss. Somehow you have disconnected or become dysfunctional with pleasure. Pleasure is defined as a feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment. Your challenge is to adjust your plans, so they integrally aligned with you. The test is you find yourself enjoying the process, satiated by the outcome, and finding your bliss in the mix.

Sagittarius

Knight of Wands – The last couple of weeks your muse asked you to do the work by exploring your physical, mental, or spiritual plane, and enhancing attributes and circumstance that bring you that sense of Ah. This week is more of the same, but it is not all on you. Now your muse is leading you to be in the right place and right mind to do what needs to be done. The challenge is believing that. Your metaphorical motto: Green means go, red means stop, and yellow play it mellow.

Capricorn

Six of Swords – You are moving to the next level this week. It is a small but significant rite of passage. The challenge is simplifying your thoughts to get through this allegorical eye of a needle. Side note: this card also signifies messages when around water. Look for synchronicities when you come across the element or visage of water.

Aquarius

Eight of Swords – Last week, you were asked to look for the keys to enlightenment in the daily simple things – finding the extraordinary in the ordinary. Though you had to pull away from society to do it. This week that space is still needed but do not be entrapped by it. Too much aloneness and/or to far into your thoughts untethers you from reality. Your challenge is finding ways to get out of your thought and its patterns.

Pisces

*Universe – This week’s energy is a paradox wrapped up in enigma. This energy holds infinite growth with stagnation. It achieves evolution with regression. The challenge is not to try and figure it out or control it but ride the quantum wave. If any sign can do it is you my fish-friend.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of June 21, 2020

June 21, 2020 Nina

large_Portrait-Self_Portrait_of David Wojnarowicz

David Wojnarowicz came up in the New York art scene in the late 70’s doing graffiti of burning houses and falling people. Throughout the 80’s he began crisscrossing the genres of performance art, film, music, photography, and painting. He did not adhere to any one technique but keep experimenting throughout his life. Queer and later diagnosed HIV-positive he became an advocate for people with AIDS when thousands were dying due to the government’s inaction. Even with the positive Supreme Court decision, LGBTQ+ folks are still fighting today.

Art and activism can be exceptional companions. What made his art so active was in each piece you can see into his spirit. He laid it out, vulnerable, quivering and sometimes with anger, in each format he chose. And because of that it is jarring possible hard to look at but necessary to understand the pain, the questioning, and the joy. In David’s words: “To make the private into something public is an action that has terrific ramifications.”

This eclipse season, rumbling until two weeks after the July 5^th’s Lunar Eclipse in Capricorn, is our midway point in 2020, and with this week’s five planets in retrograde, it is a great time to take pause. Reflect on your past, see what is no longer important. (Take a gander back at my 2019 in review see how 2019 set us up for this year.) Review now what is. And reassess how you will continue you forward. Life has been rough for many of you. Take care of yourself, be active, make change where and how you can. And know you are loved.

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

Nina

Aries

*Judgement – This week’s energy is about evolution and awakening to your divine nature. Time to allow self-compassion and forgiveness to leave the past in the past. The question to ponder this week is am I fulfilling my purpose or calling? If not, this is the time to start creating the parameters to allow your evolution. If you are, take it to the next level.

Taurus

David Wojnarowicz *Empress – The energy around you is dripping with creation. With the power of love anything can flourish: plants, children, creativity… You have the seeds in your hands. What will you plant? What will you nurture and grow? Your only challenge is not to control all the expansion. Just be in tune with your big bang heart and give to the energy of creation.

Gemini

4 of Coins – Savings is in the air around you. What do you need to feel financial safe? What on the material plane do you need, to feel you have your own back? A new car? 6 months savings? Now is the time to make sure you know what you require and start to save for it. Your challenge is to remember though it is always nice to have and build more they are not the only essentials for joy.

Cancer

David Wojnarowicz *Hierophant – The outdated systems are crumbling around you. Hollow out by a loss of integrity or alignment to who you are now. What will be the systems you put into their cavities? What new structures need to be built to access this next part of your journey? New structures, boundaries and schedules need to be created.

Leo

David Wojnarowicz 5 of Cups – Emotions like grief, sadness and hurt are lingering around you, and this energy wants you to feel into the feelings. Dive deep with empathy and process them, and when you get to the bottom you will find a reservoir of love, laughter, and hopefulness. Your challenge is processing is a process.

Virgo

Queen of Wands – This week’s energy invites you to engage with inspiration. Follow your internal compass, exploring places in nature or things that create awe. A Muse is waiting there to entice, support and sprout originality and creativity. The challenge is pushing your boundaries around concepts of self-acceptance, courage, and leadership. Color outside the lines.

Libra

Knight of Coins – The energy around you is about diligence and work. The challenge is relaxing into the tasks you love and find meaning in the tasks you do not. This is not a week to future trip or think of goals but to keep a steady pace forward.

Scorpio

Ace of Coins – The energy this week is expansion and growth on your material plane. Look in your environment for seeds to plant and what roots to grow. This is a time for new opportunities.

Sagittarius

David Wojnarowicz 7 of Coins – This week’s energy could slow time for you. This plateau of pause if perfect for the 3 R’s: reflect, review, and reassess especially around work, projects, your physical environment, and anything on the material plane. Your harvest is around the corner take this time to prepare and tweak what is not just right.

Capricorn

Four of Cups – The energy this week has a tendency to be self-indulgent by being self-deflecting. The challenge is seeing your own self-worth. You are here for a reason yes, but literally part of that reason is you being you. Reflect on your unique qualities that you bring to the table and focus on strengthening them.

Aquarius

5 of Coins – The energies around you are working with you and your relationship to money and prestige. Who you are has little to do with what you own or your work that makes you money. You know that, but you are losing your concept of self-worth with only what you do on the material plane. Take this week to reflect on what people love you for.

Pisces

David Wojnarowicz 6 of Wands – Last couple of weeks had you seeing the depth of your energy-well and how to manifest on the material, mental and people planes. This week the energy level dials back just a little. You are in the spotlight of success this week. Can you see it? Can you see how far you have come to creating the future you wanted? Take this week to sit in that dusting of confetti celebration. Be proud of all that you have done and take this week to prepare for the battles and victories yet to come.

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