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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Nov. 15 2020

November 15, 2020 Nina

This week’s artist is Irving Penn. He was a photographer, painter, and inventor of the platinum printing process. His style whether portraits or still life often leans towards minimalism and emotes a feeling of rawness. At this unique point in time, our collective experience and personal emotions seem to directly resonate with his series Portraits in a Corner. Where we all are having this vague feeling that something has changed but still finding ourselves isolated in our small section of life possibly feeling restricted. Our reptilian amygdala stressed and fearful. Is it possible that we can switch our mindset to finding the space comforting, a place of intimacy, and a place to engage with ourselves?

Penn started this series in 1948. He pushed two studio flats together to create a sharper than 90-degree angle. The floor covering an old piece of carpet with the detritus of the photography process still on it. As Penn says “a very rich series of pictures resulted. This confinement, surprisingly seemed to comfort people, soothing them. The walls were a surface to lean on or push against. For me, the picture possibilities were interesting: limiting the subjects’ movement seemed to relieve me of part of the problem of holding on to them.” The amazing thing the viewer can see in these portraits is the “character” of the portrayed becomes more defined.

Can we use this this time to lean into our severely defined space? To find more intimacy and realness with our-selves? Imagine if we were more aware and secure with who we are. When it is time to turn the corner into the world again, we would be more prepared with our actions and interactions. More grounded to who we are, more determined with what needs to be done, a better I to contribute to a better We.

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

Nina

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.

Aries

Four of Cups – The energy this week can make it hard to see the beauty that surrounds you. The fire signs more than others are feeling the miasma of the future. The challenge for you is to see the beauty in the minor things in life, the here and now. Appreciating and highlighting these smaller moments you will start to see the patterns and puzzle pieces of the bigger picture.

Taurus

Seven of Cups – The energy this week might be challenge for you all if you want to get things check off your list. Forward movement will feel like you are swimming up stream. But if you can play and daydream this is the week for you. Play or doing things for the joy of doing them without goals helps your mind and imagination create outside the lines. While at the same time breaks down walls around intimacy with others and tunes you into your soul’s purpose. Taurus has the kindest hearts if they can put aside their practicality and “I’m the only one that can keep things going” motto. Find that fun persona you have hidden lately. The world might get a bit messy while you are playing but you can tidy it up next week.

Gemini

Six of Swords – Last week the muse of change was at your door. Coaxing you to let go off the old to make room for the new. Luckily, you have another week to get rid of what no longer works. While you are unloading your “boat” be open to transitions or transactions that come from unexpected places. Maybe its an invite to join an online class, going to a zoom dance party, talking to a friend you haven’t talked to in ages, or a new work project pops-up in your inbox. These occurrences are the universe sending out flares of hope. Though this transition can be hard, your too tired to do more or you cannot see into the future because of the mist, there are still new adventures to be had.

Cancer

Three of Wands and Three of Swords– The last couple of weeks have been big energy weeks. The energy was best used tapping into your inner strength and cocooning as you metamorph into a new you. This week will be a bit of a roller coaster ride of emotions and inspirations. You got a set of threes. These energies test the duality of stabilization and flexibility. You will need to flow with your emotions to heal some heart wounds while at the same time be patient with prosperous possibilities that are on the horizon. Your challenge is to stay with the down time to heal and strengthen your core and not jump into anything until it feels right.

Leo

*High Priestess – This is last week’s energy of intuitive creation on “11.” We have multiple reasons to be on Earth at this time and place. This muse asks you to investigate purpose as you are in the act of creation. Whether it is your reason for existence, others or more likely both, go behind the veil and find the connective tissue of your history and the history at large. Answer the question Why are you here and re-ignite the work you still need to do.

Virgo

Ace of Wands – Mark this period in the sands of time. This week is a place to start a wiser new beginning. The challenge to light this fire is to imagine if you only had a year left to live and only could pick one thing to do. What would you do? This is the universe trying to get you to take your laser pointer and focus on one thing fully. Maybe it is focusing on your child, starting a business, or writing a novel. Now is the time to focus on your legacy. No more thinking this is inspirational doing.

Libra

Page of Swords – Things are not what they seem on the surface this week. If you need information you are going to have to dig for it. The challenge is asking the right questions the right way and then listening. Listen to the nuances for the truth. People are not trying to hide things from you. It is more of a cause of ignorance than malice.

Scorpio

Irving Penn *Death– Your final birth month card and it is another big energy card. So, you will have three muses to work with in the coming year. First, the muse of dreams and synchronicities helping you intuit how 2021 and your purpose will unfold. Then, the Muse of releasing old ideas, creating new story lines (remember new map – new ship) And finally, the Muse of Death or organic change. This is also your sign’s life card, which means this is your super-power, but you must do the work to make it so. This muse helps you see that the old is fodder for new growth and helps you work with the cycles and seasons. This is change that happens with some help from you and some from the universe. Your challenge is to tune yourself to the ebbs and flow of your environment, find new ways to traverse it and slowly guiding change. This coming year is a new chapter – What are you going to write?

Sagittarius

Eight of Wands – This is the last week of your birth year and it is full of information. The challenge is trying to sort it. A better way to deal with all the incoming messages is to think of it as a brainstorming session with the universe. Write it all down and do not judge it. This week is about inspiration and possibilities.

Capricorn

King of Cups – The muse advises you to come at the days ahead quietly and calmly. However, you may run through an array of emotions this week, but you will find you are also in control. As a friend use to say You can let your emotions play with the radio, but they cannot drive the car.

Aquarius

Four of Wands – The energy this week is about the happy home. Usually this comes up when you need to ground yourself and do some nesting behavior. Take time to enjoy your home. So, make your favorite meals, curl up on the couch with loved ones and watch movies, eat by candle light, tidy up areas of your house that you hang in the most, hang your Christmas lights early etc… This week is about cozy and comfort.

Pisces

Ace of Cups – The last couple of weeks have been high energy. The muses had you looking at outdated systems that are no longer working. In essence looking at your map for 2021 and assessing and adjusting structures, morals, rules, and regulations to get “your boat” to the next harbor. This week the energy is around love and happiness. They are what drives your mortal coil. So, make sure love has a place in your intentions. Now is time to focus on how your heart gets a say in the planning.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Nov. 1, 2020

November 1, 2020 Nina

This week’s artist is Anna Agoston. Her mode is macrophotography, but her eye leans towards design, form, and emotions. Agoston takes the us on a Lilliputian trip into an intimate viewing of plant structure.

Much like O’Keefe by taking us close to the subject we lose the concept of the item and begin to see it with a new perspective. We have now lost the common constructs of the subject and are left with our subconscious giving it a new thought form or emotion. As Agoston says “What also compels me is the satisfaction of being able to say precisely what I am feeling. I took a picture of a gingko biloba leaf because I loved the simplicity in form, the shape, and the way it hung from the branch. I felt grace and sensuality and needed to convey that. I felt satisfied when I was able to express this with a picture.”

The world is feeling a lot right now, and a lot of it is in the form of suffering. This might lead us to give up on hope and beauty. Agoston’s art reminds us if we sit still, take time and focus more intimately, we can find all our emotions in these smaller moments. And they all have a place or function in the grand design.

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

Two of Wands – Now is the time to take that Mars energy and point it towards the future. You get a jump start before the rest of the signs begin to hop on the bandwagon after November 12^th. Your challenge is to investigate and take those first steps onto new paths. Mars the planet of action is in your sign until the first week in January 2021. You have until then to create the necessary energy to shoot into 2021.

Taurus

Knight of Wands – This muse sprinkles inspiration all around you this week. Your challenge is not speeding past the gifts. You are in the right place at the right time. There is fodder to feed your purpose. So, soak in the good and the bad, for it will help you see more clearly why you are here and what still needs to be done.

Gemini

Seven of Coins – The energy this week is best used for getting things done. It is a great week to cross off items on your to-do list. However, it is not a beneficial to start anything brand new. So, head down and keep plugging along the path you are on right now.

Cancer

*Strength– Tapping into your inner strength this week helps create ease both within and without. As the “feelers” of the signs you will have an array of feelings; however, you are also ok with all of them. You have tamed your inner beast with compassion while allowing it to express itself without harming others. Calmness is needed and you have the strength to radiate it.

Leo

Nine of Wands – Lets dip into nines for this is your second. Nines are cards of preparation for completing a cycle. Last week your muse advised you to assimilate what you have been working on since your birthday. The challenge was working smarter not harder. This week you continue taking thoughts and projects to their next level. The challenge is you will not get anything finished but you will be able to put a dent in it. The challenge this week is prepping before starting the day and putting a do not disturb sign up when needed.

Virgo

*Lovers – This muse is asking you to re-commit to passion, love, and intimacy. To take yourself to the next love level, or allow it back in. Time to let go of the fear of feeling. The challenge is you will get hurt along the way that is a given, being human. But also, the things you can create when your heart is open, using passion and love as your main ingredients is dazzling.

Libra

Eight of Pentacles – The energy this week is great for working on anything on the material plane. You need to keep grounded by doing things with your body and how you make your money. The goal is to work smarter not harder. The challenge is staying out of your head as much as possible. Therefore, the more you can lean on the rhythm of your day and tweak how you are working or the work itself the better you will feel.

Scorpio

*High Priestess– Your second big energy card for the coming year. This muse will give you dreams and synchronicities to help you intuit how 2021 and your purpose will unfold. The challenge with this energy is finding and navigating the information with only your intuition. Your purpose on earth will come in play in a big way in the coming year and the Universe is here to help, but you will need to suss-out an updated map and ship to sail in. Spend the rest of your birth month making sure you are on the right ship to sail into 2021.

Sagittarius

Four of Coins – Your resources are scarce this week. Pay attention to where, when, and how you tire, get frustrated, resentful, envious and/or hungry. The challenge is not thinking this is a permanent situation. All these are signs that you need to pull back and restock soul, mind, bank account, or frig.

Capricorn

Five of Coins– The last two weeks have been big energy weeks. First the muses had you working with balance and harmony. Then they reminded you are to see your path and tasks like you are working with a blank canvas. This week has a lot less energy. It might feel like you are overwhelmed and depleted at the same time. So the challenge is finding that place of balance two weeks ago and remembering that this moment in time is a blank canvas – no need to redo outdated horrors and fears of the past.

Aquarius

Six of Cups and Eight of Wands – Ok three paths for you all this week. You choose. You can tie up loose ends of the past, run head long into the future gathering intel as you go, or a bit of both. Either way there is a bunch of information for you to decipher. You can find solutions to problems in the now either from past experiences or experimentation moving forward. It is up to you which way to cast your gaze, backwards or forward, but either way work in the now.

Pisces

*Chariot – Change is in the air. The challenge is the oars/sails are in your hands this week. You will need a solid plan to catch this energy and use it wisely. This week is a prequel to the winds of change that begin around November 13^th. Are you ready to catch the wave? Make this week a practice run for 2021.

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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. 27, 2020

September 27, 2020 Nina

bonpon511

Happy Birthday Libras!

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

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

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

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

Nina

Aries

Osoroi bonpon511 Page of Cups – Last week the energy was pushing you to finish projects. Hopefully, you got to do that for this week is all about play. Time to take the focus off doing and more on non-goal-oriented fun. Play is vital for productivity and freeing your mind to discover new connections that stringent scheduling can hinder. So pull out the Legos and crayons.

Taurus

Osoroi bonpon511 King of Wands – The muse this week wants you to work with your inspirations. Do your inspirations motivate your own work, or have they become distractions that no longer fit your divine purpose or soul? If they do motivate you this is the week to focus on one and go. Write that book, do that art project, tell your boss about that innovation you have thought of. Believe in your visions, point of view and intellect.

Gemini

Osoroi bonpon511 Ace of Swords – Last week was about working in the realm of the subtle. Using your intuition as your compass to navigate the mists. It made you sensitive to the current of your surroundings which helps you with this week decisions, inquiries, and problems. With your finely tuned intuition and your sharpened intellect you bring much needed awareness and clarity to situations.

Cancer

Osoroi bonpon511 King of Cups – This week’s energy can bring on your emotions. However, you have the Muse of Emotions helping you see that this outpouring of feelings are paths to self-discovery. That what awaits in the middle of the feeling storm is a calm place of compassion and knowing. Dive into the whys of how you are feeling without being swept away in the currents who, what, where and how. This energy, if used correctly with love, can heal.

Leo

Osoroi bonpon511 Three of Cups – Last week the muses were guiding you to an awaken. By accepting your flaws are rooted in your humanness, you began incorporating them as positive influences instead of distractions. The muses this week will lead you through the phases of life. You need to connect to not just people in your age group but also those above and below. By befriending other ages, you will find connections to your past, your future and firmly ground you in your present.

Virgo

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

Libra

Osoroi bonpon511 Page of Swords – The best thing to do with this week’s energy is to come at it like a news reporter. You find out more by asking question and doing some deep listening. Not all information is on the surface, so inquiry and sensitivity are need to get to the real truth. Since this is also your birth month. Turn some of that inquiry to investigating what do you want in the coming year.

Scorpio

bonpon511 Ten of Wands – The energy this week is about prioritizing your obligations. This muse recommends ordering your work and then take the two lowest ranked tasks off you list. Put them aside until next week and see if either someone else picked them up because they were not yours in the first place, or they just magically disappear.

Sagittarius

bonpon511 Eight of Coins – More work energy this week. This vibe is great for advancing projects to the next step. However, is not a great time for starting something new. If you do, it can feel like Sisyphus rolling your rock up to have it fall again. So, stick to what you know and plow through that.

Capricorn

Osoroi bonpon511 Two of Swords – Last week, the Muse of Manifestation was there to facilitate calling down your energy and to create on the material plane. This week is more of the same; however, do not vacillate on making decisions. Now is the time to choose. You will find out later that the choice did not matter as much for you end up in the same place. However, in making your choices go with the feeling and less with the logic. It is more about the journey then the destination.

Aquarius

Osoroi bonpon511 Four of Cups – The energy continues with your work and building upon your empire. Continue getting things off your to do list. However, where last week’s energy was about navigating chaos, this week’s distraction comes from within. It is fine to do some introspection but diving deep into your pondering mind will take you off course. So, if you find yourself going down the rabbit hole, change your perspective to the outside and do something you love in the world.

Pisces

bonpon511 Two of Coins – The energy this week is about balance. Something in your life is out of sync. Usually with this energy it literally means you need to work on physical balance. Like not enough veggies or water or you need to practice yoga or Tai Chi. And/or your work/life balance can be out of whack. So, time for an adjustment.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Sept. 13, 2020

September 13, 2020 Nina

The artist this week is Meghann Riepenhoff. Her process is cyanotype. Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost way to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. She is not the first person to use it for art. Anna Atkins would be the first, using it to “photograph” seaweed. (Atkins will be highlighted soon.) Riepenhoff has taken Atkin’s process of creating static images to creating a dynamic photograph of an action or interaction. She collaborates with the elements of rain, snow, ocean, salt, and sediment. She drapes her “canvas” over objects in the environment which adds the aspect of the terrain that then collides with these elements. These interactions are recorded on the cyanotype.

The two series represented here and below are Ectone and Littoral Drift . Ectone is a region of transition between two biological communities. Litoral Drift is a geological term describing the action of wind-driven waves transporting sand and gravel. Riepenhoff is illuminating that these edges of water, air, and land blur in their interaction, becoming something new and occupy an everchanging space. Thus, having us as the viewer pondering where, when or if we begin or end.

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

Ten of Coins – Last week’s energy was cluing you into something being off in your life and you needed to gain perspective to find solutions. This week the energy shifts from contemplative to active. So, if you found solutions, now is the time to use them. If you found that everything is balanced and moving smoothly then do not dally, for now is the time to move things into the done box. This is a great week to finish projects and bask in your success.

Taurus

Meghann Riepenhoff two waves poured dawn to dusk

Three of Coins – Last week the energy was asking you to look for cycles that need to be readjusted, and synchronicities to help move you forward, enlightening situations of inertia or chaos. This week wants you to take those enlightenments and utilize them in the world. The challenge is you need the help of others to lift what you are doing to a new level. Time to get your besties on the phone and brainstorm.

Gemini

Ten of Cups – Last week’s energy wanted you to reignite optimism and hope in your being. Luckily, you get another week to find moments that give you the curative perspective that after each period of chaos comes a time for healing. You need to heal and bask in love, so this week engage in activities and people that fill your cups. Joy is key. Find or create it.

Cancer

Meghann Riepenhoff.
tidal pools dipped and buried

Ace of Swords – The energy this week is great for planning, research, philosophy, and problem solving. Your mind is your best tool. Your emotions can play with the radio, but your mind must do the driving.

Leo

Page of Coins – You got another active energy card. So, if you still need another week to finish up old projects do that. But if you did that work last week this is a great week to start a new project. The challenge is taking tiny steps, because big leaps will have you in a tangle of minutiae or chasing your own tail.

Virgo

*Death – Your first big energy card for your coming birth year. This energy is about rebirth, regeneration, and metamorphosis. The energy this year is about rising from the ashes of old. The challenge is making sure that you are not holding on to dreams you have outgrown. This Muse has come to aid you in seeing the parts of you and your life that have been decaying and need to be buried. That the seeds of change are just below the surface being feed by the aspects you are now laying to rest. When you step back you will see that this burial ground is also a place of planting and future growth.

Libra

Meghann Riepenhoff. rainstorm one hour and 47 minutes

Knight of Swords – This is not a week to rush anything. Though you may feel antsy or anxious do not jump without thoroughly looking both ways and figuring out your plan before you step onto your path. This card can also mean to be careful of injuring your extremities. So cut your vegetables with care and watch where you step.

Scorpio

Meghann Riepenhoff
rain through a tree canopy

Queen of Swords – Last week’s muse asks you to dive into your subconscious, listen to your intuition, emotions, and dreams. The challenge was that emotions could run high. And you had to decipher which emotions were yours and what were others. Emotions are still riding high this week. To combat this, this muse suggests only taking in the logical details to see the correct channel through these emotional waters. Your motto: head over heart.

Sagittarius

Knight of Coins – The last two weeks had you deep diving into your shadow side to find your vulnerabilities, strengths and testing your character and will. You can use this insight now to really dig into your work. The key is your pace. You are now less likely to be distracted and will find that slow and steady wins the race.

Capricorn

Queen of Coins – Last week’s energy was about building upon your empire. This week you can continue your construction, but you must add indulging in the finer aspects of your physical environment. This muse knows how to work hard but also can fully indulge in her bounty she has created. Your challenge is to follow her lead and realize play, comfort and pleasures are as important as work.

Aquarius

Seven of Coins – Last week’s muse wanted you to adjust your material and spirit goals, blending the need to survive with the need to enjoy life. This energy bleeds into the beginning of this week. The first few days are best used as a pause between the past and future. This is a moment where rethinking, reestablishing, and redirecting is need before you push forward. By the end of the week you will be in full nose to grindstone mode, but the challenge is a plan and adjustment is needed before going ahead.

Pisces

*Judgment – The muse this week is pulling you above the clouds to a personal clarity. A reckoning is needed. You have made a mistake from the past which you have not forgiven yourself for. This week’s energy is implanting the clarity of self-compassion and forgiveness into your sight for self. This muse ask you to truly forgive yourself for this past transgression, so you can open yourself to a lighter and enlighten future that is more in tune with your divine nature.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of August 30, 2020

August 30, 2020 Nina

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

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

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

Nina

Aries

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

Taurus

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

Gemini

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

Cancer

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

Leo

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

Virgo

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

Libra

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

Scorpio

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

Sagittarius

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

Capricorn

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

Aquarius

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

Pisces

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

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of August 16, 2020

August 16, 2020 Nina

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

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

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

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

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

Nina

Aries

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

Taurus

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

Gemini

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

Cancer

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

Leo

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

Virgo

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

Libra

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

Scorpio

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

Sagittarius

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

Capricorn

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

Aquarius

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

Pisces

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

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