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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Oct. 24, 2021

Dorothea Tanning Self Portrait

The artist this week is Dorothea Tanning.  When you play the game Having a Dinner Party, where you pick 10 people alive or dead that you would have over, I would pick Dorothea Tanning as one of them.  She is a creative.  Tanning is well known for her surreal paintings, but her endeavors include drawing, painting, sculpting, installations, costume design, set design, writing poetry….

She published a book of poetry the year before her death in 2012 at 101 years old.  The span of her work in her words is “her enigmatic versions of life on the inside, looking out.” Tanning draws us into her mind as well as her physicality.  She also often paired her work with poems from other poets, to give even more depth into her painterly ponderings.  As we view her work one feels not only acquainted with her investigations of self but also, we identify ourselves in her.  For me, I would learn more about me by my conversations with her.

Your pondering, as the veil thins this week, who would you invite to your party, dining with the dead? And I have attached a line, bolded, of Tanning’s poem All Hallow’s Eve to each of your casts.  Start with the first 2 lines here and read down.

 

Be perfect, make it otherwise.
Yesterday is torn in shreds.

Solar System highlights:  On Monday the Moon starts in Cancer– get cuddly with a partner or pet and self-care should be on the agenda. Then it moves into Leo on Oct 28th – a time to shine.  The Moon then finishes in Virgo – so you can categorize your candy haul. Mercury is in Libra– great for communication, creating networks and getting in touch with friends.  Venus is in Sagittarius asking are we feeding and nurturing our relationships enough to keep them growing?    Mars is in Libra until Oct. 30th  – the last week investigating relationships around the question are your actions following your words?  Then it moves into Scorpio – passion is in the air and a great time to finish up projects.  And lastly, Jupiter and Saturn are in Aquarius – so innovating and upping your game is their focus until end of December.

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

Page of Wands – The Muse of Inspiration has come this week.  You will find that she has hidden at least one “Easter egg” of insight in each day.  These small gifts are here to help you motivate or bring your work/life up a notch.    Lightning’s thousand sulfur eyes

 

Taurus
Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning

*Hierophant – The Muse of Structures has arrived with rulers and T-squares.  This energy comes around when you need to check the structures that support you in life.  Something is off kilter.  Whether it is your schedule, eating habits, your rules/morals, or your boundaries one of these is not aligned with your way of life.  The challenge with this energy is making sure when you do this re-structuring that it remains flexible enough that you can still grow.  Rip apart the breathing beds.   

 

Gemini
Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning

Five of Cups – The Muse of Clumsiness is here to spill liquids and disrupt emotions.  So, on a practical side, don’t put your fluids by electrical devices.  And on a heart side, be careful how you interpret emotional outburst- yours and others.  This week can also be full of fret.  Your challenge is to clean up your mess and leave others to clean up their own.  Hear bones crack and pulverize.

 

Cancerian
Dorothea Tanning Set design for Ballet Witches

*Tower – The Muse of Destruction has come with a sledgehammer to  dismantle some aspect of your life. You don’t really have any power in this deconstruction; except to lessen the chaos by finding what needs to be fix before this energy does it for you.  This can be as simple as your desk has been a mess for weeks – clean it up.  Or as challenging as leaving a job or relationship that is no longer working for you.  Look around and find out what you have pushed off for ages and know well and good that it needs to be done so do it.  Doom creeps in on rubber treads.

 

Leo
Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning

*High Priestess – The third high energy week for you.  The last two weeks advised you to pause and evaluate, then the Muses suggested remixing to balance your fabrication.  Now the Muse of Higher Purpose ask you to tap into your intuition and ask what’s next? Now this Muse is asking what the purpose is behind your next steps?  Are they leading you to where you want to go, who you want to be?  If not, time to take a hard look at your plan and re-do.  If so, you still have a few insights to round out the picture.  Intuition and asking your spirit guides are keys to unlock the secrets to the next steps.    Countless overwrought housewives,

 

Virgo
Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning

*Moon – The Muse of Unconscious is here to help with your fears.  This energy wants you to investigate the darker hidden aspects of what you fear.  This Muse reminds you that interacting with your worries as if they are friends, allows you to see that they are like helicopter Moms.  Trying to keep you from harm, but also keeping you locked up.   So, this week converse with your fears, and coax them to see that they really don’t have to save you.  You are doing just fine.   Minds unraveling like threads,

 

Libra
Dorothea Tanning

Seven of Coins – The energy this week is all about work.  Time to get things done and off your to-do lists.  The challenge is you will not see the benefits from your labors for a couple of  weeks.  Try lipstick shades to tranquilize

 

Scorpio
Dorothea Tanning

Page of Coins – Last week you started off your birth month with the Muse of Deconstruction and The Muse of Potential.  They wanted you to strip away what is not working so you can re-divine a new you and your surroundings.  Now the Page of Coins joins this duo declaring that  one of your roles this coming year is being the student.  This is a year to learning new skills on the material plane.  This can look like going back to school, learning new skills for work, or trying on different hats in the workplace.  Fears of age and general dreads.

 

Sagittarius
Dorothea Tanning

Two of Coins – The Muse of Juggling comes when you need to adjust at how you get things done.  This week is not made for multi-tasking.  This muse advises to take on one thing and do it well before adding a new something to your attention.  Sit tight, be perfect, swat the spies, 

 

Capricorn
Dorothea Tanning

Four of Cups – The Muse of Introspection has come to help you remove the metaphorical lint from your belly button. She advises that you spend ¾ of your time navel gazing, but you must spend the other fourth doing and being in the world.    Don’t take faucets for fountainheads.

 

Aquarius
Dorothea Tanning

Three of Cups – The Muse of Friendship comes when your emotional glass is empty.  She reminds you that friends can uplift your spirts the best.  Find time this week to just hang and talk shit with loved ones.  Drink tasty antidotes. Otherwise

 

Pisces
Dorothea Tanning

Queen of Coins – The Muse of Keep Calm and Carry On is here to remind you to do just that.  She advises that practicality, down-to earthiness, and compassion are the elements to work with this week.  Also, a great week to invest in your future.  You and the werewolf: newlyweds.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Sept. 5, 2021

Hung Lui Wings

This week’s artist is Hung Lui  @hungluiartist who just passed in August.  She is a painter and often created mixed-media installations around her paintings.  Hung’s style is layered not only technically but also in context.  She uses layered brushstrokes combined with washes of linseed oil to create her paintings.  Her portraits are of refuges, prisoners, prostitutes and the forgotten.  Her installations might have one piece, a broom, clock, or cup paired with the painting.  Or be a mountain of railroad tracks surrounded and leading to a pile of fortune cookies.

These items bring us into her pieces like a smell leads us to memory or an object starts a dream.  Then as we awaken and remember, we hold on to an aspect that is vivid and punctuated but the whole is blurred.  Hung’s art feels as if she is summoning ghosts.  As she says  “When I moved to the West, exactly half a lifetime ago, I carried my ghosts with me. The ghosts I carry are a burden, but also a blessing.”  Your pondering for this week:  seeing your ghosts as blessings.

Solar System highlights:  This week the Moon starts in Virgo– it’s all about organizing and cleaning until the 8th.  Then the Moon goes into Libra and a focus on relationships.  And finally, into Scorpio for the weekend- time for finding some fun.  Mercury is in Libra– great for communication, creating networks and getting in touch with friends.  Venus is in Libra until the September 10th – enjoy your relationships and work with the energy around equity.  And then it moves into Scorpio to add more positive energy to the weekend vibe.  Mars is in its last week in Virgo – clean and tidy up anything your gaze goes to.  Jupiter and Saturn are in Aquarius – so innovating and upping your game is their focus for the rest of this year.

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
Hung Lui
Blue Boy Hung Lui

*Judgment – Last week’s energy was about co-creation, and the Muse of Evolution takes it to the next level.  Time to push your self out of the same old – same old and evolve into a new you.  If you could become any type of chimerical creature, what would you be?  A Merlion? A Catantram?  Your challenge this week to answer – What are the best qualities of your peers and mentors that you want to add to you?

Taurus
Hung Lui
Mirror Hung Lui

*Hierophant – The Muse of Structure is here to help you with your Achilles heel, over- doing.  If you make a structure so airtight, you make the building and its inhabitants unable to breathe.  Or so impenetrable, you stifle creativity.  Your work this week is about balancing work with play.  All work kills creativity.  All play ends up not getting you to the goals you have set.  So, how can you build a sense of a schedule with the flexibility and spaciousness to create freely?

Gemini
Hung Lui
Dry Well Hung Lui

Five of Coins – This week’s energy can highlight a sense of lack in your life.  So, the Helper Muse has come to highlight you are not alone nor totally lacking.  Though this week is hard it is not doomed.  There are gifts to this week.  But you must reach out to acquire them.  This Muse reminds you that focusing energy on only the negative feeds it.  Her advice, starve the worry and feed the hope.

Cancerian
Hung Lui
Crane Dance Hung Lui

*Lovers – The Muse of Co-Creation recommends looking at who and/or what you are partnering with to create this part of your life.  She advises call on your likeminded friends and do some deep imagining. Or ingest some literature or music that inspires you.  Spend some time with your favorite material or tool and make something.  Bring into your life the people, things and ideas that make you a better you.

Leo
Hung Lui
Dragonflies Hung Lui

Ten of Cups – The Muse of Family is highlighted this week.  She reminds you that family are the people that support you.  They can be the ones you are born with but are also the ones you have gathered.  Time to connect with your peeps and deepen your roots.

Virgo
Hung Lui
Polly Bemis Hung Lui

*Star – Your third and Big Karmic energy to work with this year is the Muse of Healing. This year, magic is flowing around you to help restore and rediscover your purpose.   As you leave behind the past, pick up the lessons and move into a brighter future.  The lesson this Muse has is that wounds leave scar tissue, and these areas must still be tended to and stretched often.  You have all year to work with this energy, but this week spend time with your bruises and wounds and see which ones still need mending.

 

Libra
Visage VII Hung Lui

Two of Wands – The Muse of the Future is here to activate your imagination and set some goals for you to work on into 2022.  If nothing was in your way, would your goals change?  This Muse wants you to ponder obtainable and seemly unattainable goals.  She then asks you what is in your way to get to these seemly inaccessible aspirations.  Compare them to the strengths that make your obtainable goals possible.  Work on areas where there is crossover.

Scorpio
Hung Lui
America Hung Lui

Queen of Wands – The Muse of Nature is calling to you.  Animals and plants are calling you to impart their wisdom. Whether it is the resilience of a dandelion growing in sidewalk, the focus of a dog finding a scent, the joyous song of a bird, the fragile beauty of a butterfly or the contentment of a cat finding the perfect spot to rest.   Nature is giving you clues on aspects in your life that you need to work on.

Sagittarius
Refugees Woman and Children Hung Lui

Ace of Cups – The Muse of Love is here.  Whether you are in a relationship or not this energy advises you to share some part of you.  The more you joyfully fill another’s cup the more your cup will be filled with joy.  The challenge is if it does not bring the joy then you are sharing that negative energy in a loop, so try something new or quit and move on.

 

Capricorn
Chinese in Idaho Portrait II Hung Lui

*Hermit – The Muse of Hermitage has called you back to the cave.  This energy comes when you need to gain perspective by pulling back from society.  But the challenge is you can not completely withdraw.  So, your pondering becomes: How can you hang out your open sign without being bombarded by the crowds?  Think about the paradox of honesty and stealth.  Like being that spooky shop that is on some back alley.  You know it is open but it hard to get to its exact location.

Aquarius
Jongzhe- First Spring Thunder Hung Lui

*Justice – The Muse of Truth has come to help align you to your purpose or to help you find a solution to a problem.  However, this energy holds you accountable for your actions and words.  If you are aligned with your divine or searching for a truth to aid, then no worries.  However, is you are not aligned or hunting up a “good story” then be careful, for Justice is swift.

Pisces
Hung Lui
Strange Fruit Comfort Women Hung Lui

Three of Swords – The Muse of Heartache is here with tissues and a shoulder if you need one.  This week can be rough and triggering.  First be kind to yourself.  And secondly, be aware you are being triggered because something is not aligned to your heart purpose.  Either it is an old hurt or hole that needs mending.  Tend to it this week.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of July 25, 2021

Peng Wei

Happy birthday month Leo!

This week’s artist is Peng Wei @pengwei_weipeng.  Wei uses classical ink and painting techniques on rice paper.  Though as the viewer examines more closely you see that there is always a twist.  She applies them on torsos, inside shoes or presents them in “playful combinations of harmony and discord”.  For instance, her shoes are titled a Beautiful Pair and show a couple in an intimate embrace but in the next insole another figure interacting with the woman.  Or she presented her landscapes on musical stands accompanied by calligraphed translations of Chopin letters to friends with erotica played in the background.   She has the viewer questioning our surface perceptions and therefore has us questioning who we are and what the world expects us to be. Your pondering for the week what are your assumptions and how do they guide you in your perception of reality?

Solar System highlights:  Moon starts in Pisces – keep on dreaming.  Then moves to Aries on the 28th – great time to start or finish tasks.  It then ends in Taurus on 30th – this is where it is exalted- good vibes wherever you focus.  Mercury is still in Cancerian a great time to express your emotions and have deep convos with your besties.  It then goes into Leo on 27th great time for PR and making yourself shine.

Venus is in Virgo this can be a hard configuration around your relationships, so watch frustrations and critical talk – patience is key.  On the positive side a great time to weed and fertilize anything you want to grow or create space for.  Mars is in Leo until the 29th, so continue manifesting your desires, then switch focus as it goes into Virgo – time to clean and tidy up anything.  And I just want to remind everyone that Jupiter returns to Aquarius on the 28th, so until then it gives you a window into 2022, so if you do not like what you see, time to start making changes. After that it is back to the drawing board innovating and upping your game for the rest of this year.

P.S. Signs with an * it is 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
Peng Wei
Peng Wei

Eight of Swords – The Muse of Bondage has come to teach you a lesson of limiting beliefs.  You have allowed societal thought patterns to hold you back.  Now is the time to let go of those now self-restricting patterns and walk with autonomy to your true north.

 

Taurus
Peng Wei
Peng Wei

Five of Swords – The Muse of Conflict has come to your door with boxing gloves in hand.  This week is full of conflict, but also the potential for resolution to situations that have bubbling under the surface.  The key is how and what you choose to fight for.  You are advised by this muse to come at each round with a deeper understanding of your opponent’s fighting style and navigate if it worth the fight for the long game?

 

Gemini
Peng Wei
Peng Wei

*The Fool – The Muse of New Beginnings is here to divinely guide you to your next endeavor.  This is a great week to explore your surroundings, experience something new, start a class, start anything.  The challenge she poses in that you must have faith.  Even if things seem to not work out as you have planned, there is a divine scheme that is in place.   Trust.

 

Cancerian
Peng Wei
Peng Wei

Ten of Wands – Finally the Spotlight has moved off and you can go back to you doing you.  However, don’t forget this year’s theme is about creating structures that promote contentment, sustainability, and stability.   Your challenge is to remain flexible and innovative so as you grow so does your “shell.”   But this week the Muse of Burdens has come to try and knock you off course with obligations and responsibilities.  Your goal is to par down your workload to only things that are necessary to your themes above.  Let go of the obligations that society or your worrying is trying to put on you.

 

Leo
Peng Wei
Peng Wei

Three of Wands – Last week the Muse of Death had you cleaning your decks for the coming year.  Well, this week that energy continues with The Muse of Forethought.  Put your thinking cap on and start looking at the steps you will need to take to make this coming year all that it is meant to be. She also emphasis that you will need space to allow new things into your life.  So, the first step is setting up the space to think, so you can simplify your surroundings.

 

 

Virgo
Peng Wei

*Hierophant – Last week the Muse of Higher Purpose has come to remind and/or deepen your commitment to the many reasons you are here on this plane at this time using synchronicities and cycles to help guide you.  Now her partner has joined the ranks emphasizing that you need rituals and structures set up, so you doing your purpose comes with more ease.  Your challenge is to set up the constructs that support your desires and destiny.    Look at your schedules, self-care regime, and workload.

 

Libra
Peng Wei
Peng Wei

Three of Cups – Last week the Muse of Bondage came to help you find freedom.  Asking what are you “wedded” to that just feels wrong?  This Muse lovingly reminded you that these bindings were beneficial for time to soothe yourself or make it through tough times.  But now you have learned healthier ways to combat these struggles. One of these ways is gathering good friends around you.  This week it is time to cull the herd if any of them do not support the new you.

 

Scorpio
Peng Wei

Four of Coins – The last couple of weeks you have been dealing with the Kali like energy of Deconstruction.   You needed to dismantle what was no longer working for you.  Now it is time to rebuild; however, your challenge is using your resources wisely.  This week is very much about quality versus quantity and working smarter not harder.

 

Sagittarius
Peng Wei

Three of Coins – The Muse of Cooperation is here with two more friends.  This muse prophesizes that networking and bouncing ideas off colleagues will be vital to create ease on your work front or any other material plane concern. She reminds you that you do not need nor should do this week’s task alone. Also, look for triangles and threes as markers of good tidings.

 

Capricorn
Peng Wei

Page of Swords – The Muse of Investigation comes with notepad in hand.  This week nothing is clear cut.  You will need to ask questions to get to underlying issues. The challenge is crafting questions and ponderings that don’t shut down your investigation.  This week takes a lite touch and good listening skills to get at the truth.

 

Aquarius
Peng Wei

King of Swords – The Muse of Long-Term Planning asking you to ponder where you want to be in 10 years.  She does this not to get you to set things in stone, but to realign your actions to desires for your future self.  Finding what is off kilter in what you do today will ensure your tomorrow and taking the long view will help you recalibrate.

 

Pisces
Peng Wei

*Lovers – The Muse of Duality has come to your backdoor and let herself in. Her favorite pastime is to point out the paradoxes and conundrums in your life.  Like Gemini, Pisces deals with duality all the time, but instead of feeling comfortable with them working at the same time, you try to deal with them separately.  However, this is the week to start dealing with double truths, or conflicting wants like: stability and freedom, love and frustration, happy and sad etc.…Try to think of these dualities like salt and pepper; if you use both, your cuisine becomes better flavored.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of July 11, 2021

Tamara Natalie Madden
Conqueror by Tamara Natalie Madden

This week I highlight the art of Tamara Natalie Madden.  Madden’s art is richly in color and regal in tone.  Her subjects are “everyday folk” that surrounded her in her homeland of Jamaica.  Inspired by Klimt, Egyptian and West African depictions of royalty, she uses gold leaf and vibrant quilted fabrics to adorn and uplift the unseen.

“In order to fully represent the intrinsic beauty of many of these individuals, I decided to emphasize society’s fascination with materialism and splendor by using bright colors, golden washes, silk fabrics, and bold patterns.  I found that the most powerful images of our time were those that demanded attention and admiration, and I wanted these individuals to have their moment to shine, thus many of my paintings feature singular portraits.”  In many of her paintings her subjects are accompanied by a bird.  This bird signifies freedom. “The birds in my paintings are symbolic of my personal struggle with illness, and a representation of my survival and freedom from it.”

Sadly, Tamara died from cancer in 2017.  But during her the 16 years, she painted she was prolific.  She lived her art.  However, almost all her interviewers at some point highlight her struggle with sickness.   And though it was pivotal to her art and life, have we missed the point of the birds?  Do we, as a society, underline the shadow-the struggle- and make it the hero?  Instead, like Tamara’s art, shouldn’t we  uplift and shine a light on our beauty, our divineness and the freedom we obtain when we do not chain ourselves to that struggle?

Solar System highlights:  Moon starts in Leo – good time to focus on what you want to grow.   Then moves to Virgo on the 13th, a great time to get organized and clean. It then goes into Libra on 15th – all about relationships and balance and ends in Scorpio on the 17th – time to play and have some fun.  Mercury is still in Cancer a great time to express your emotions and have deep convos with your besties.  Venus and Mars are in Leo, it is all about loving the things you have around you, so time to manifest your desires if you are not feeling the love.  And I just want to remind everyone that Jupiter is in Pisces until the 28th.  This gives us a window into 2022, so if you do not like what you see, time to start making changes.

P.S. Signs with an * it is 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
Tamara Natalie Madden
Tamara Natalie Madden

*Emperor – The Muse of Building is knocking with plans in hand.  Take this energy and apply it to anything you want to build upon.  This is not a week to start new projects but to expand ones already in motion.  By working on something that has already started you create more stability and sovereignty in your life.  The challenge is making sure that you are not the only one benefitting from this project.

 

Taurus
Tamara Natalie Madden
Tamara Natalie Madden

*Temperance – Another big energy week for you.  The past two weeks, the Muse of Structures asked you to  investigate your constructs to see if they could sustain you for the long haul. Then the Muse of Divine Manifestation came to help you either to fix the cracks you found or to totally recreate a 2.0 version.  Now the Muse of Divine Balance has joined this holy triad to help you find your flow and get to work.  If you have done the past two weeks homework you will easily tap into your life force and flow.  However, if you have not done your work the past two weeks you will have no place or plan to use this energy wisely.  You can still tap in but narrow your focus.

 

Gemini
Tamara Natalie Madden
Tamara Natalie Madden

Three of Coins – The Muse of Cooperation has come and invited some people with her.   This week any major actions/decisions require at least 2 more people to get the complete picture.  Yep, three heads and six hands are better than one and two.  Your challenge is asking or accepting the help.

 

Cancer
Tamara Natalie Madden
Tamara Natalie Madden

Four of Cups – Your second four so just to highlight that.  Fours mean you are craving stability.  This is not only a theme this week but for the coming year.  Last week’s muse advised you that what, how and where you put effort into needs to profit sustainability.   And this week the Muse of Introversion adds her two-sense.  She foretells you will need the time and the space in the coming year to pull away if you become overwhelmed.   Specifically, to stabilize your emotional landscape, you will need introspection; however, your challenge is not to pull in completely.  The outside world still holds bountiful gifts.

 

Leo
Tamara Natalie Madden

Three of Cups – The Muse of Friendship comes when you need to connect to your pals.  This energy shows up when you need to fill your cup with laughter and companionship.  Find time to reconnect and share physical and emotional sustenance.

 

 

Virgo
Tamara Natalie Madden
Tamara Natalie Madden

Eight of Coins – The Muse of Mastery has come to tell you it is time to up your ante.  You have skills and those need to be enhanced.  This will create more monetary sustenance and widen your influence.  Her motto is work smarter not harder.

 

Libra
Tamara Natalie Madden

Eight of Cups – The Muse of Moving-On invited herself over to help you realign with your goals.  You have an aspect in your life that is not longer working for you.  And it is time to pack it in and move on.  Simplification is key this week.

 

Scorpio
Tamara Natalie Madden

Five of Cups – Last week the Muse of Deconstruction came inspecting your foundations and structures, because you are not paying attention to what is not working in your environment.  Luckily, you have another week to hunt for messes and mistakes.  Time to fix what needs to be repaired, clean up the mess, and move on.

 

Sagittarius
Tamara Natalie Madden

King of Wands – The Muse of the Visionary is asking you to see with holistic eyes. Events this week need a broader perspective.   The concept of  Seventh Generation should be consider in your everyday actions.  The muse asks you:  Is what you do today not only a good thing in the present, but does it resonate 140 years from now as still good?

 

Capricorn
Tamara Natalie Madden

*Justice – The Muse of Fairness has entered the sandbox this week.  If you are acting in alignment with your true purpose and higher self, then all is well; keep sifting sand and making castles.  However, if you are not aligned you will be called to make amends.  Starting with yourself and rippling out to those around you if needed.

 

Aquarius

Four of Coins – The Muse of Frugalness has come to tighten your flow of resources.  However, she also reminds you not to be pennywise and pound foolish.  She asks you to perceive how you spend your resources.  Are you too frugal that you miss profitable choices?  Or are you picking quantity over quality because you are too energy spent?  Spend wisely in all you do this week.

 

Pisces

Six of Coins – Last week the Muse of Clean Slates came to remind you that this moment is a place of beginning.  A time where you can start on a new path.  You are divinely guided but need faith so you can step into this new unknown.  For there are gifts at every step.   Well, this is another week of wandering in the new; however, you need to be a bit careful on how you step.  If you are aligned with positive vibes then more gifts will be bestowed upon you; however, if you are carelessly, then retribution comes quickly.  So Be Nice.

 

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of May 23, 2021

Jiro Yoshihara, To Martha’s Memory, 1970

This week’s artist is Yoshihara Jiro.  Was one of the founders of the Gutai Art Association, a post WW2 avantgarde art movement in Osaka, Japan.  Yoshihara wrote their manifesto basically stating Do what has not been done before. He took inspiration from the calligraphy movement Bokujinkai and Zen philosophy.  Starting his career in western art forms, abstraction, and surrealism.  The last 10 years of his life he explored the paradoxically simplicity of the circle and the complexity of inscribing,  resulting in the Circles series, highlighted here.

Yoshihara’s Circle Series represents the eclipse season so well.  We hardly notice the complexity of our system until something strange happens.  What seems simple the concept of night and day during an eclipse for moments changes the “natural” dynamic.  Our study of Astrology and Astronomy makes the demure concept of gravity become an awe-inspiring study of the clockwork of the Universe.    It stops us and makes us aware of the hidden systems we take for grant.  Eclipses shake our souls.  We start to see something deemed as simple, every day as complex and holds deeper meaning than we imagined.

Planets:  On May 26th we have an eclipsed full moon in Sagittarius.  Eclipses have a way of turning up the volume to eleven or raising some chaotic ruckus.  This is not a time for impulsively, but it will bring insight into what you have been needing more of.  Then Mercury in Gemini goes retrograde from May 28th to June 23rd.  So, remember to back up your electronics, make time and space for snafus and do the 3 R’s: Review, Reflect and Revise.  Venus also is in Gemini will help us navigate this time by promoting good vibes.  And then Jupiter (expansion) is in Pisces until July 28th giving you a heads up what your 2022 will be like and what area your growth will take place.

P.S. Signs with an * it is a big week for you.  Taurus this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Scorpio 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
Jiro Yoshihar
Jiro Yoshihara

Knight of Coins – Last week the Muse of Self Momentum came to light a fire under your chassis.  You hopefully realized you need to take totally control to get a project off the ground.  Luckily, you have this Muses little sister, the Muse of Sustainability to help in the momentum.  This energy gives you insight on how to sustain the power needed to keep your work on focus.  The challenge is you need to find the pace that works best for you.  Whether that is sprinting or marathons both forms of movement need appropriate recoup times, so also plan them into your work schedule.

Taurus
Jiro Yoshihara

*Empress – I hope you set intentions last week, because the Muse of Creation is here to fertilize the growth process.  If you by chance do not have anything to sow, you still have time to come up with something before May 27th.   (See planets for the week in intro).  Then after May 26th you can start growing a project or two.  The challenge is usually these projects take time so are you committed to nurturing something for 9 to 10 months?  If not, it is okay to put a bigger project on the backburner until you are ready, but then use this energy to mature something that is already in the works.

Gemini
Jiro Yoshihara
Jiro Yoshihara

Ten of Wands – First Happy birth month.  The first energy to work with in your coming year is the Muse of Burdens.  This year it is time to decipher which burdens are yours.  This Muse suggest you do this exercise each time you get overwhelmed or tired.  First prioritize your to-do list for the week, then take the last three items off your list and put them off to the side for next week.  Now do the items one by one down the list.  If you get blocked, then move the item to the bottom of your list and continue.  If you happen to finish the list, then you are done for the week.  Lastly, do this process the next week, re-adding the 3 things you put off and start over from the first step above.  The moral to this exercise is that the items you pull off your list you may find either someone else did them or they no longer need to be done, and you revise what you can actually accomplish in a week’s time.

Cancer
Jiro Yoshihara
Jiro Yoshihara

*Hangman – Ok the Muse of Pondering is here giving you another week to answer last week’s question, what will the new you be and what will you do in this new form?  Evolution is needed and intention is required for this creation.  Take time this week and think, or this Muse will find ways to make you stop so you can ponder.

Leo
Jiro Yoshihara
Jiro Yoshihara

Two of Coins – The Muse of Equilibrium has come to hone your skills of multitasking.  First step, stop multi-tasking.  This muse advises you to do one thing at a time until you are good at doing it or completing a task without diverting yourself.  Only after you are confident that you can get one thing done can you add another task.  Also, as a side exercise and lesson, she has you stand on one foot for a minute then switch, do daily for a week.

Virgo
Jiro Yoshihara

*Wheel – This Muse of Fortune has come to play with you.  This energy comes to switch things up.  So, pay attention when things go your way or totally don’t.  In either scenario there is information for you to glean on how to get unstuck and create momentum in your life.

 

Libra
Jiro Yoshihara
Jiro Yoshihara

Ace of Cups – The Muse of Moderation and Balance worked with you around the questions why am I not doing that one thing or doing that one thing more?   Hopefully helping you tap back into the why behind what you do.  Because this week you can now tap into the energy of new beginnings. The sky is the limit  as long as you follow your heart.

Scorpio
Jiro Yoshihara

*Fool – The Muse of Clean Slates has come after the work you did last week.  This week is great time for adventures, sights, and sounds.  This Muse is inciting you to experience the “new”.  Some great exercises she lays before you are saying yes to all invites, throw a dart at a map and travel there, try new food, and make new friends.  This week is about playing with the energy of spontaneity.

Sagittarius
Jiro Yoshihara

Nine of Cups – Last week, the Muse of Reflection asked you to engage in Socratic thinking and deep reflection to either re-think about what the priority/purpose is, or through this questioning have you more firmly set in the reason you are doing a task in a certain way. And now that you are on the other side, you should be stepping more firmly in what are the next phases.  This state of mind makes this week’s energy of contentment something you can now appreciate to its fullest.  If you didn’t do the work, then spend the time before the eclipse in deep reflection so you can relax after May 26th into a more content rhythm.

Capricorn
Jiro Yoshihara

Three of Coins – The Muse of Collaboration is here.  This energy advises to create ease in getting things done it is best not to do it solo.  Gather your forces and teammates and go for the gold.

Aquarius
Jiro Yoshihara
Jiro Yoshihara

Four of Coins – The Muse of Conservation has come to slow down your spending on the material plane.  This week is vital that you spend your time, cash and energy with these two things in mind. 1) Quality over quantity.  2) Work smarter not harder.

Pisces
Jiro Yoshihara

Page of Cups – Get your rose-colored glass out for the Muse of Joy is here to play with this week.  Her mission, if you choose to accept it, is to show you that life can be entertaining, funny, quirky, playful, mischievous, and joyful.  Get out crayons and/or sidewalk chalk if you need to tap into it.

Tarotcast

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of May 2, 2021

Betsey Batchelor
Betsey Batchelor

This week’s artist is Betsey Batchelor @betseybatchelor.  Batchelor is an artist’s artist. Some artists are meant to be followed not only for their art but because they are willing to show their process.  Batchelor, maybe because she is a teacher, lets us into her process.  She allows the viewer to see through her posts not only the finished piece, but a blank canvas, scraps of paper pinned to a wall, under sketches, daily practices, detailed parts of her work, and pieces in progress.  Batchelor reminds us that art is work.  That there are sketches, experimentation, and honing skills before an artist even gets to the white void.  Then it is honed, thought over, reworked, mulled again or even abandoned.

The humanity of Batchelor’s Instagram is worth you following her, whether her posts remind fellow artists that what we love to do is messy, not just the polished perfection of a gallery exhibit or even our feeds.  And for viewer in general that each piece we see takes hours of unseen work and adds another layer to the awe of art. As an artist or a viewer, it reminds us that the work itself is the life blood of the art and the artist. That the essence of art and life is the work, not just the goals and successes.  This week ponder this quote by Aristotle.  The aim of art (and Life) is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Planets:  Mercury enters Gemini on the 3rd and stays until July 11th .  This is a place where it loves to hang so lots of evolutionary conversations can happen.  And Venus enters Gemini on 8th to help with the good vibes.  The only challenge is being careful of over-promising or saying yes to everything.

*All pictures below are from Batchelor’s Instagram posts some are completed pieces some are just her “work.”

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

Knight of Cups – The Muse of Sexuality is here to help you boost your libido.  Whether you go shopping for new toys, trying new ways to excite all your senses, solo or with a partner.  This week you should work on emotional switching on and stimulation of all kinds.

Taurus
Betsey Batchelor

*Empress – Your first big energy for your coming year is Creation. This energy is best when it is used to generate anything that nurtures, consoles, and promotes growth.  The challenge is there is growing pains but there will also be compassion and comfort waiting in the wings to support you.   And with all things that are extraordinary, it will take time to grow.  So be patient with your self and whatever you begin growing in the coming year.

Gemini
Betsey Batchelor
Betsey Batchelor

Knight of Wands – The Muse of Perfect Timing is working with you this week.  Good or bad you are in the right place at the right time doing the right thing, if you do you.  Her only requirement is not to second guess yourself, for there is much to glean from this week.

Cancer
Betsey Batchelor
Betsey Batchelor

*High Priestess – You get another week working with your Shadow side.  This Muse helps you see cycles and the bigger picture to work out old karmic patterns and snip their threads.  Use ritual, meditation, singing bowls… to connect with your inner knowledge and outer guides. There are breadcrumbs in synchronicities and patterns, so keep all your six senses open.

Leo
Betsey Batchelor
Betsey Batchelor

*Devil – The Muse of Distraction is here to challenge you.  She only shows up when you are near completion of a goal or learned lesson.  The key is to say no or walk away if something does not feel right or in some cases too right.  The positive consequence of this card is, if you renege this temptation, it will no longer have the hold it had before.

Virgo
Betsey Batchelor
Betsey Batchelor

Nine of Coins – This Muse has come to help you maintain your workflow and energy by keeping to yourself or only allowing a few supporters in.  She advises that you create a sacred space and time so you can ponder your thoughts without any outside influences.

 

Libra
Betsey Batchelor

*Strength – Last week the Muse of Momentum asked you to use her energy to plot out your course for the coming month.  This week, the Muse of Strength has come to help start and maintain that route. Often this energy comes to help combat apathy, misdirection, or self-doubt.  She reminds you that you have come through trials before and are stronger and more resilient.  This week is not about things being hard but about you seeing you can accomplish anything you set your heart (not your mind) to.

Scorpio
Betsey Batchelor
Betsey Batchelor

Ten of Cups– Another good week in store for you.  Last week the Muse of Optimism and Success shone on all the wonderful things and opportunities that are awaiting you, if you want them and allow yourself to glow and grow. This week the Muse of Bliss reinforces that life has these beautiful moments of heaven on earth.  The challenge with this energy is realizing that these moments are fleeting.  It is important to thoroughly bath in their light when they come and recognize that you cannot maintain that ecstasy.  So, do not to fret their passing but know they will come again. Your motto:  Aloha and Mahalo

Sagittarius
Betsey Batchelor

*Temperance – The Muse of Balance and Moderation has come to work with you.   She asks you to do a dive into what is not working and needs to be healed in both your inner and outer world.  The conduit for the energy flowing between them is clog.  So doing something like Tai chi, Feng Shu, balancing your nutrition, sweating, brainstorming, massage …will get you back into balance and a rhythm that is more suitable for you and your work.

Capricorn
Betsey Batchelor
Betsey Batchelor

Ace of Swords – The Muse of New Truths is calling on you this week.  She comes with bountiful information to help you shift or create new paradigms.  This week mind ON.

Aquarius
Betsey Batchelor

Nine of Wands – Last week the muses where all about creating things out of what seemingly is nothing or build on what already is.  Using these energies for formation, moving forward and growing outward.  This energy is still here this week to work with; however, you will need to pace yourself if you wish to accomplish anything.  So prioritize, prepare for, and only work with the items on the top of your list.

Pisces
Betsey Batchelor
Betsey Batchelor

*Hierophant – Last week the muses were here to aid you in letting go of something to enable growth.  This energy continues this week; however, you also get the assistance of the Muse of Structure. She advises that you look at and rearrange your timing and/or your priorities.  When these two energies come together often your logic is off, like you are putting your cart in front of your horse or not realized the problem of contingencies.  Step back and look at the frame/goals before painting the picture.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of July 26, 2020

Agnes_Goodsir_The-Parisienne_
Agnes Goodsir The Parisienne

The artist this week is Agnus Noyes Goodsir.  After World War I an art and cultural explosion was happening in Paris and London and many Australian artists flocked there.  Agnus was among this migration.  There she met “Cherry” who became her model and lover.  Though her sexuality and painting style at the time were not publicized in Australia, she was held in high esteem by the French.  She was invited and became a member of Salon Nationale des Beaux-Arts.  An annual exhibition of French artists (and now foreign artists) since 1909.  Sadly, she was largely forgotten until in the 1990’s. Goodsir was reintroduced to Australia and the world by the director of Victoria’s Bendigo Art Gallery.

Above, The Parisienne, is a perfect example of the start of the movement of the “modern women”.  The model clothed in masculine attire, short hair, and a cigarette in her hand accentuated the lifestyle that Goodsir had fled to Paris to find.  The face is shadowed adding to the ambiguity of gender but also intrigues and pulls the viewer into the character and life of this kind of person.

At the same time does it hint that Goodsir’s true self and work was still in the shadows?  Was the choice of the flat tonal background in contrast to the bold contours of the clothing emphasizing stepping out of the banal norm into a stronger cheekier life of a modern woman?  Does it suggest that what a woman wears on the outside still defines her?  Or is this Agnus just being a realistic painter.  This is an amazing thing about art, we as a viewer can find as much insight to ourselves as the artist does in making the piece.

 

 

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
Agnus Noyes Goodsir
Agnus Noyes Goodsir

Three of Wands – Your to-do list is long to get from here to there, and this week you are advised to be very conscious of the concept of contingences. There is a domino effect where you do not have totally control of all the pieces.  The challenge is having faith that the Universe is working with you behind the scenes while you plan.

 

Taurus
Agnus Noyes Goodsir
Agnus Noyes Goodsir

Eight of Pentacles – This is a great week to get your hands dirty.  You have the energy to persist and preserve through the most challenging projects.  The challenge with this energy is that it can only be directed at things and ventures already in motion, that you love the work, or it needs your unique talents.  This is not a week to start new projects or do something outside of your skillset.  Unless you want to invite in strain and resistance.

 

Gemini
Agnus Noyes Goodsir

Ace of Wands – Last week’s energy was about the creative act of bring an idea down and materialize it.  Asking you about your intentions and the steps to manifest them.  This week’s energy flow has less intensity but with the same focus of creation.   So, continue to manifest whether big or small acts, and do so with the highest intention and integrity.  However, if you feel blocked the key is to immerse yourself in what inspires you.  This will re-lit your fires.

 

Cancer
Agnus Noyes Goodsir
Agnus Noyes Goodsir

*Death – The energy this week is about letting go of the old and sloughing of the things that no longer work for you.  This releasing generates the fodder for new beginnings.  The challenge is seeing the past is in the past and the present and future is in you.  Remember a burial ground and a planting ground look the same and the processes are intertwined.

 

Leo
Agnus Noyes Goodsir
Agnus Noyes Goodsir

Nine of Wands – The last two weeks beamed the energies assigned to Leos.  Let us review.  They wanted you to allow three paradoxes into your personal constructs.  1) Your strength comes from dealing with your weakness.  2) Your self-doubt comes from trying to control things that cannot be tamed.  3) Your insecurity is also the root of your compassion.  And once these constructs are in place, work on harnessing your power and applying outward to the correct degree where you sustain growth – not burn it all down.  This week the energy has you setting up some borders so you can finish up loose ends of the past two weeks, so you can begin focusing on the future.  Be aware, this might be the last week to finish off the past year before next year’s energies start pushing you forward.

 

Virgo
Agnus Noyes Goodsir
Agnus Noyes Goodsir

Two of Cups – Last week’s energy was hard, but this week has a lower intensity and is filled with love.  Last week asked what needs to shift externally and internally to make a major outer-life change happen?  Remember this is a process of a modernization of self, but you must do it a brick at a time.  This week’s energy prompts you that first brick is love.  What are the qualities that you want in a partner, and what do you need to adjust to become a partner to that kind of person?  If you are in a relationship,  reconnect with your chosen loved ones. Making sure you are open to the love they give you, as well as, showing the love you have for them.  True partnership is long termed balanced acts of giving and receiving.

 

Libra
Agnus Noyes Goodsir

Five of Cups – Chaos of emotions float around you this week.  The challenge with this energy is keeping positive while processing the negative with compassion.  This energy reminds you not to run away from joy or sorrow; both are part of life.  And it also reminds that only by truly feeling and processing your emotions can you use them for good in the future.

 

Scorpio
Agnus Noyes Goodsir

Ten of Cups – Yeah, this week should feel a lot lighter than last week.  The clouds have parted.  This energy is pushing you to seek your community, bathe in love and connection.  You are the water signs most social and need contact.  Even if you cannot do it physically.  Time to spread and receive some love in any way you can.

 

Sagittarius
Agnus Noyes Goodsir
Agnus Noyes Goodsir

King of Coins – Last week’s energy endorsed you enacting the usefulness of inertia.  Using or creating moments of pause for reflection, letting go of old patterns, and making way for the new ideas that only arises from silence.  This week the energy is about grounding yourself.  Where last week action happened in the ether and the mind and was great for inspiration.  This week you need to burrow down into the earth hashing out those inspirations into actual labor-intensive work.

 

Capricorn
Agnus Noyes Goodsir
Agnus Noyes Goodsir

Ace of Swords – This week’s energy bolsters logic and reasoning.  Divine inspiration comes if you focus on looking at the details in a variety of configurations.  It is not that this shuffling of pieces finds the answer, but the process helps you find solutions even in to hardest of puzzles.  Like fitting a square peg into a circular hole.

 

Aquarius
Agnus Noyes Goodsir

Four of Pentacles – Last week your goal was setting aside time to process what this past month or six have been about.  Processing your experiences helps you gather your experiential knowledge.  Hopefully, you had time to do this, for this process of standing back helps you see your authentic path and how to walk it.  The energy this week focuses on your first step – looking at your relationship with money.  The challenge is seeing your feeling of safety and having a financial back-up are interconnected.  Do you have the resources set aside to feel secure?  If not save this week, and if so, you can let go of your purse strings and give yourself a gift for taking care of you.

 

Pisces
Agnus Noyes Goodsir
Agnus Noyes Goodsir

*Strength – The energy this week focuses on your inner strength.  Take time to ground and deepen your connection to how strong you really are.  You are courageous, strong, and fierce.   In the face of these uncertainty times, see that you are resilient.  This week’s events show you that whether life flows to you calm waters or gale force storms, you got this.  The challenge is seeing the tiger’s eye in the mirror no matter the circumstance.