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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Nov. 21 2020

Claire Rosen
Claire Rosen

Happy birth-month Sagittarius!

The artist this week is Claire Rosen.  Her photography styling leans heavily on the Renaissance and Dutch master painters.  This series Fantastical Feasts is a playful rendition of the DaVinci’s Last Supper and the Pierre Subleyras The Feast in the House of Simon.  Rosen nudges the human viewer to ponder on ecology and our similarities and difference as living beings.  Her subjects are animals from a variety of habitats which she juxtaposes into human lavish environments or situations.  This series of photographs focus on the banquet instead of a quaint meal.  Banquets are elaborate, colorful, lavish presentations.  Historically the concept of feasts goes back to the Homer’s Iliad where the Gods and kings entertained each other.  These lavish occasions are now the center focus to many holiday traditions for us common folk.

We are coming up to a variety of countries’ holidays and this week in the Americas we celebrate Thanksgiving.  This holiday season will be different for many of us.  We may not be able to create the lavish banquets of 2019.  But we can have exquisitely intimate gatherings.  That might be a bit more honest, joyful, and less stressful events.  For many of us this might be a first.  And what a wonderful anomaly this could be.  No stressful holiday travels, cooking or no rush buying for black Friday. If you are alive and have food on the table, you have something to be grateful for. So, ponder on what you are thankful for this week and somehow feed it.  Send nurses flowers, donuts to EMT facility, or write love letters to your friends and family.  A banquet of love can go a long way.

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

Nina

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

Four of Swords – Just a quick dive into fours since this is your second in a row.  Fours are the cards of stabilization.  Last week the energy was trying to get you steadied by focusing on the present.  This week’s the energy is asking you to take time off and recoup.  Take your vitamins, drink lots of water, get some well needed rest and take time out of the electronic stream.

 

Taurus
Claire Rosen
Claire Rosen

Two of Coins – The energy and tasks this week can feel overwhelming.  The key to ease is to stay focus on one or two things to completion.  This is a balancing act of priorities.  The challenge is to define what is truly important and focus on that.

 

Gemini
Claire Rosen
Claire Rosen

*Hermit – The Muse of Seclusion is calling you this week.  There is an eclipsed full moon in your sign on November 30th.  You will need this week before to contemplate what needs to shift, and to do so you need to distance yourself from your life to gain this over-viewing perspective.  However, this is not a long-term visitation.  You will be called out into the world soon, so take this coming week to rest and contemplate what are your next moves as you walk into 2021.

 

Cancer
Claire Rosen

Six of Wands –The muse this week is asking you to bask in your successes.  See how far you have come in 2020 and give yourself a pat on the back for making it through such a crazy year.  You have a bit farther to go but this week is a rest for the battle weary.

 

Leo
Claire Rosen

Two of Swords – Last week the muse asked you to go behind the veil and find the connective tissue of your history and the history at large.  Answering the question Why are you here and re-ignite the work you still need to do.  If you did not do this work, this week will be full of indecision.  The challenge will be to sit down and do this contemplation now.  If you did do this work, then decisions will come more easily and you might get some time off to boot.

 

Virgo

Claire Rosen

Nine of Cups – The Muse of Contentment is asking to hang with you this week.  This energy reminds you that perfection is not tangible, and completion is terminal. You do not have to do or be perfect to be content. She reminds you that your dreaming needs to be strong enough to light the way when its dark, but no so illuminating that it blinds you and others around you.  This muse reminds you that you do not need to live an “11” or constantly get the A+ to pass the class or be heard.   Sit with her and find peace and beauty in the imperfection of life.

 

Libra
Claire Rosen
Claire Rosen

King of Wands – The Muse of Inspiration is visiting you this week.  She nudges you to add a bit of flourishes to all that you do this week and get others to join you.  For example:  get the guest/kids to write name cards out for everyone, have a gratitude tree where family hang note cards what they are grateful for,  flowers for you house that others can see in your zoom meetings/gatherings, or add marshmallows/candy canes/turmeric to your hot cocoa. This is not about going all out; this muse just helps you put a dash of spice to each of your experiences this week.

 

Scorpio
Claire Rosen
Claire Rosen

Queen of Swords– The Muse this week is a truth seeker, speaker, and decision maker.  You will be called on to take leadership roles whether it is organizing T-day and how meals will come out of the oven or calling out bullshit at the table.  The challenge is that it may come off a bit sharp.  So the keys are to speak honestly with compassion, think before you speak, and motivate people with humor.  Your motto: You can catch more flies with honey then vinegar.

 

Sagittarius
Claire Rosen

Page of Swords – This week you need to listen and align your actions with your words.  Do not promise anything that you even slightly feel hesitant about completing. The reason for this is that there is underling or hidden truths that need to be ferreted out.  So, ask lots of questions, listen to the words before you except tasks.  This can be as simple as asking one more time does anybody need anything, before I go to the store.

 

Capricorn
Claire Rosen
Claire Rosen

Seven of Coins – The energies this week are around doing the work.  The challenge is taking a breath before each action to make sure your “shoes laces” are tied before you step out of the door.  You will not trip if you have forgotten; however, the misstep will take you off your flow.  Once you are in your flow, you will have a blast.  Nothing like a Capricorn doing their thing.   So, this can look like, making sure your kitchen is clean before you cook or rechecking to make sure you have all the ingredients you need days before actually cooking.    

Aquarius
Claire Rosen
Claire Rosen

Six of Coins – Karma is the energy swirling around you this week.  The challenge is being grateful for the balance of giving and receiving that is taking place in your life.  And if you do not readily see it give some positivity out and you will see it return (though often it comes from another avenue then you sent it).  The challenge is that negativity if given can come back too.  Your song:  Be nice

 

Pisces
Claire Rosen
Claire Rosen

Page of Cups – The Muse of Innocence and Fun is knocking at your door this week.  I hope you can come out and play with her for a bit.  Remember fun?  Well now is the time to get out the crayons, pillow fight, play catch with your dog or cat, make brownies, snowpeople or play charades on zoom.  You know, get in touch with your inner child and play.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Nov. 15 2020

Irving Penn
Penn – Truman Capote

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
Irving Penn
Irving Penn

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
Irving Penn

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
Irving Penn
Irving Penn

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
Irving Penn

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
Irving Penn
Irving Penn

*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
Irving Penn

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
Irving Penn
Irving Penn

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
Irving Penn

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
Irving Penn
Irving Penn

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
Irving Penn
Irving Penn

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 Oct. 18, 2020

Charles Addams
Charles Addams

Another spooky favorite is cartoonist Charles Addams.    He created the Addams family cartoon which later became a TV series, animations, live action movies, and a stage musical.  Addams brought the ghoulish and absurd into our everyday habitats, cities, and suburbs.   He started drawing cartoons in 1935 for the New Yorker and contributed to it for more than 50 years.  However, of his thousands of cartoons, the Addams family only appears in around 50.  His humor was subtle either in the wry captions or the characters’ juxtapositions within “normal” settings.  He brilliantly added to the definition of American Gothic.

American Gothic literature was born from puritanical ethos and anxiety of the unknow wilderness of the forming United States.  This ghoulish vision of condemnation reinforced by shame and guilt was fertile ground for Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne.  Later Darwinism adding to the gothic collective consciousness the ab-human, authors like Lovecraft and Shelly having us question what it is to be human.  These themes still resonate in modern literature like Interview with a Vampire and The Shining.   The beauty and twist with Addams are he knew how to traverse the line of the macabre and the “normal.”  Inverting the battle of good versus evil and coaxing the viewer to find common ground with our darker or absurd side of the psyche.  In essence he makes the viewer ponder the American Gothic that lies in all of us.

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
Charles Addams
Oh I couldn’t make it Friday …I’ve so many things to do. It’s the thirteenth you know

Four of Pentacles – Last week’s energy was pushing you to harness your emotions and start creating momentum.  Using this Mars energy to your advantage to get a head start on 2021. This week the energy lessens but still the goal is the same. Make sure you allocate your finite resources to continue laying down the foundation for 2021 projects.  And be careful this week not spending money or time in frivolous endeavors.

Taurus
Charles Addams

Queen of Wands – The energy this week is about creation, inspiration, and leadership.  Your tasks are to reflect and revise your mission statement.  What is your purpose?  What are you trying to convey?  Use this retrograde energy to recalibrate your goals to your message.

Gemini
Charles Addams
Nevermore

Ace of Wands – Fresh starts this week are in abundance.  This muse asks you what would you do if your slate was clean?  Your answers will help define your next steps.

Cancer

Eight of Coins– The muse this week is here to help you hone your craft.  This can be how you make your money and/or what you do with your hands.  The more you focus on the details of your skills and tweak how you do things the easier your work begins to flow.

Leo
How many times have I told you…always read the labels

*Magician – You all are just banging out the karma and dharma cards the past 3 weeks.  So, you have been and will continue (if needed) working with energies about blocks, so you can jump with the elegance of a sleek black cat not knowing where exactly it will land.  If you have done the work, then you realize each jump lands you in the arms of the next Magical Muse.  This muse creates space for experimentation and creation.  She helps you pull the divine down into the material world.  This can look as simple as you taking your hobby to the next level, or as complicated as starting a new business/job.  The key is allowing and experiment with your tools to move you to the next stage of growth.

Virgo
Charles Addams
I think you know everybody

Three of Coins – Collaboration and teamwork are the energies of ease this week.  Finding people with your common goal not only uplift you but also have vital information for you.  By fusing your energies, you create something more then you could attain this week on your own.

Libra
Charles Addams
Charles Addams

Four of Swords – Last week your year card of beginnings and endings foretold what 2021 will hold.  This week is about rest.  This is about spending your last week of your birth month, luxuriating.  Time for bubble baths, spa days, reading a novel, and lazing in the sun.  Your mind needs time to rest and reset for the coming year.  Turn off electronics for at least a day and relax.

Scorpio
Charles Addams
I give up Robert What does have two horns, one eye and creeps

*Devil – What an interesting card to start off your birth month. This energy is one of your karmic energies for your sign.  This coming birth year will have a lot of distractions and potholes.  However, if you use your incredible Spidey sense you can navigate it all with ease.   You can read a room well when you tune in, and you can see someone’s weakness and strengths in a glance.  These aspects will be tested this year, so one thing to do this month is have a mirror talk with yourself and ask what do you really want out of 2021? Write down your response so when a distraction pops up you can pull out your map to stay on your path.

Sagittarius
Charles Addams
It’s the children, darling back from Camp

Five of Swords – Last week’s energy was about mortaring up holes in your physical realm’s foundations or dealing with an issue hanging around since May.  This week’s muse gives you another week to shore-up work.  The challenge can be your sensitivity is high with all the posturing that can is going on around you.  You cannot ignore the problems, but you also should not engage.  Your motto:  Not your monkeys, not your circus- Polish proverb.  But if they are your monkeys cleaning up after them is your responsibility.

Capricorn
Charles Addams
Dinner time, Webster

*Temperance – This week’s energy is about harmony.  The key to this energy is understanding that balance is not about equal it is about appropriate amounts for a harmonious flavor.  This week work on the components and amounts of  hardship, work, play, purpose, thriving, enjoying, and healing to blend into a savory dish of life.   Your song:  A Spoonful of Sugar.

Aquarius
Charles Addams
I think you know everybody

Nine of Wands – This energy is about meeting your goals and follow-through.  You might have to put on blinders and lock yourself in the room, for the world is very willing to distract you this week.  So, staying diligent and putting up strong boundaries is necessary to get things done.

Pisces
Charles Addams

Seven of Wands – Ok time to fortify your defensives this week.  No joke this Mars and Mercury retro is making people just not a their best and this week you are ultra-sensitive to it.    The challenge is not taking it personally and protect your inner light from outer negativities.   This is a great time for pillow forts, ice cream, or anything lovely that can get you through this week’s negativity.

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

pipe dream Stella Snead
pipe dream Stella Snead

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 6th 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

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
Stella Snead
Stella Snead

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
Tornado Stella Snead

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
Stella Snead
ladies from afar Stella Snead

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
Flood Dance Stella Snead

*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
Deadlock Stella Snead

*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
Stella Snead
Ecstatic cows Stella Snead

*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
Stella Snead
smothered city Stella Snead

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
Stella Snead
Capture Stella Snead

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
Eye to horizon Stella Snead

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
Stella Snead
Advancing Monuments Stella Snead

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
Stella Snead
From the Grotto Stella Snead

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
Family Portrait Stella Snead

*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. 13, 2020

Meghann Riepenhoff
Meghann Riepenhoff two waves and salt scattered and poured

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
Meghann Riepenhoff
Meghann Riepenhoff water poured and silt scattered

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
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
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Meghann Riepenhoff 23 minutes in a tidal stream

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
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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
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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
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Meghann Riepenhoff three waves buried and flooded

*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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Meghann Riepenhoff

*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 Sept. 6, 2020

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

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

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

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

Let love and hope win.

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

Nina

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

Aries
Marina Vargas
Marina Vargas

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

Taurus
Marina Vargas
Marina Vargas

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

Gemini
Marina Vargas

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

Cancer
Marina Vargas
Marina Vargas

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

Leo
Marina Vargas

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

Virgo
Marina Vargas

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

Libra
Marina Vargas
Marina Vargas

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

Scorpio
Marina Vargas

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

Sagittarius
Marina Vargas

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

Capricorn
Marina Vargas

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

Aquarius
Marina Vargas

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

Pisces
Marina Vargas
Marina Vargas

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

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of August 23, 2020

 

Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

Happy birthday month Virgos!

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

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

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

Nina

 

Aries
Ed Fairburn

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

 

Taurus
Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

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

 

Gemini
Ed Fairburn

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

 

Cancer
Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

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

 

Leo
Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

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

 

Virgo
Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

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

 

Libra
Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

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

 

Scorpio
Ed Fairburn

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

 

Sagittarius
Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

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

 

Capricorn
Ed Fairburn

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

 

Aquarius
Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

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

 

Pisces
Ed Fairburn
Ed Fairburn

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