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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of March 7, 2021

Bisa Butler
I know why the Caged Bird sings Bisa Butler

If you all have been with me for a while skip down to the 4th paragraph, I have ranted on this before.  But if you are new…… I was an elementary coach for teachers and I am not fond of the emphasis and exaltation of a “minority” history months in American public schools and on Google.  Before you get mad please read on.  Though I understand its necessity when this movement started, back in 1926 as Black History Week by historian Carter G. Woodson.    Where he saw little to none African American representation in the “white halls of history” and probably was seeing the whitewashing of the Red Summer.  History week has now grown to a month, added new months for other minorities and spreading outside of America.  But have we now fallen into Hallmarking ™ history? In our political correctness, lost the thread?

Textbooks and curriculum of American schools still teach basically the same history– white-male-centric – but now in February you teach about MLK, in March about Susan B. Anthony, and Native American Heritage Month in November, so you can get it close to Thanksgiving – UGH.   This does the “minority’s history” an injustice.  First it loses its context in history as a whole.  The “minority” becomes not part of our shared history but as a parallel thing happening alongside predominately white male history or is only seen for a month in bubble in and of itself.  We lose the why it came about and the reverberation of that action now.

Secondly, it supports instead of works against our biological perspective of tribalism.  And we lose the perspective of the history of the individual within the collective.  The acts of an individual echoing through time and space. Lastly, this undermines teaching the student not only Socratic thinking which hinges on contextual information, but also disempowers the student to see that they can change the course of the future in ways they would never imagine.

The artist this week is Bisa Butlers @bisabutler should be used as a history teaching tool. She takes everyday photos of African Americans throughout history and contextualizes them by using exquisite fabrics and an skilled illustrative thread.  Take for instance the art above I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she uses a Vlisco fabric called “Michelle’s shoes” for the woman’s skirt on the far right.  The fabric is inspired by West African textiles, done with and Indonesian batik and made in the Netherlands.

She vividly leads us to see the complex connected thread of these woman’s history, African roots to Maya Angelo and Michelle Obama to our multi-cultural world.  She brings these “everyday” people into a contextual history.   In her words: …I am telling the story— this African American side— of the American life. History is the story of men and women, but the narrative is controlled by those who hold the pen. ……..My community has been marginalized for hundreds of years. While we have been right beside our white counterparts experiencing and creating history, our contributions and perspectives have been ignored, unrecorded, and lost. It is only a few years ago that it was acknowledged that the White House was built by slaves. Right there in the seat of power of our country African Americans were creating and contributing while their names were lost to history. ………My subjects are African Americans from ordinary walks of life who may have sat for a formal family portrait or may have been documented by a passing photographer. Like the builders of the White House, they have no names or captions to tell us who they were.

Your ponderings for the week:  Learn the why behind something in your own history, and see how it affects you now and would you tweak it to change the future?  And the Planets:  New Moon in Pisces on March 13th great day for daydreaming.

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

Nina

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

*Chariot – This is the week to make change happen.  The Muse of Movement is here to help grease the wheels.  Momentum is not problem.  The only challenge with this energy is you must drive it and have a destination to drive it to.  If you do not have a focus you may run around in circles this week.

 

Taurus
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler

Knight of Wands – This Muse comes to say you are in the right place at the right time doing the right thing.  You may not see it, but your timing is perfect. Whether you are standing still, trotting along or in full gallop allow your spirit to guide you.

 

 

Gemini
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler

King of Cups – The Muse of Emotional Acceptance has come to help you heal old wounds of the heart.   This muse celebrates the hardest emotion that we deal with as humans: grief.  There is something you need to grieve.  This energy wants you to dive deeply into this emotion of loss. When we grieve, we empty the cup fully and by doing so allow the cup to be refilled.

 

 

Cancer
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler The Princess

Ace of Coins – The Muse of Material Beginnings is here.  This is a perfect week to start a new project, re-plan your garden, buy something to fix up your house or start a savings account.  The key to this energy of sustainability is to create with the concept of quality over quantity.

 

Leo
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler Asantewa

Queen of Swords – The Muse of Details has come to help guide you through this week.  This energy comes when it is important to read the fine print, plan out a project in detail, and sweat the small stuff.  You can find pleasure if you pay attention to the details of your life.  Time to get out that metaphorical (or literally if you must) fine-toothed comb or cleaning toothbrush and tease out the specifics.

 

Virgo
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler

King of Swords – The Muse of Long-term Planning is here to set up your itinerary for the rest of the year and three- and five-year goals.  This week do not get caught in the morass of minutia.  Turn your gaze to the horizon and the dreams of tomorrow.  Vision boards out, daydreaming on, and no boundaries in vastness of your future.

 

Libra
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler

Four of Cups – Last week the Muse of Divine energy was here to grow whatever you wanted to focus on.  You get another week to do just that.  But this week’s Muse ask you to go back and relook over what you are working on.  There is something that does not feel quite right.  That thing or idea needs some more introspection.  The challenge with this is after you have done a pass with your internal eye, turn outward to get another person’s opinion.  Though make sure it is with someone you trust with your dreaming.

 

Scorpio
Bisa Butler To God and Truth

Ten of Coins – The Muse of Finishing is here to help you complete a project.  Either find the oldest thing on your to-do list or finish up something that has been nagging at your subconscious.  This is a great week to move a project forward to completion or at least a big leap towards it.

 

Sagittarius
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler Broom Jumpers

Ten of Cups – The Muse of Bliss is here to point out all the good things in your life. This week sit back and enjoy all that you have worked hard to get.  If you have a roof over your head start there, food on the table you are doing great; and a job that is getting your needs meet, Whoot.  And if you do not have these things, help is on the way.  You just need to ask and then open your door; you have friends that are wanting to pay you back some of the kindness you have given in the past.

 

Capricorn
Bisa Butler The Equestrian

*Fool – The Muse of Leaps is here to help you out of a rut you may not realize you are in.  The key to this is to do the non-routine.  Sleep late or get up with the sunrise, turn off all electronics after sunset for a night, eat for one day without cooking unless over an open fire, do not look at your emails for a 24-hour period.  I know you all love your routines, but this week shake it up and see what new ideas sprout from the cracks.

 

Aquarius
Bisa Butler Daughter of the Dust

Queen of Coins – The Muse of Physical Pleasures is here to help you through this week.  This muse comes when you need to ground yourself.  She reminds you to connect with your five senses if you can daily.  Eat good food, see beautiful things, feel something textural, smell some aromatherapy, and listen to your favorite music.   Enjoy the simple things in life.

 

Pisces
Bisa Butler Africa The Land Of Hope

*Death – Ok so this rarely happens but the Muse of Organic Change arrives again during your birth month to remind you how important this year is to make big changes happen.  And to do so you need to release, release, and release some more.   And while you are doing all this releasing you are using this “stuff” to compost new soil to grow from.  The challenge with this energy is having the patience and attunement with your surroundings like a gardener.  You need to pay attention to the cycles of growth and harvesting.  This can be a year where you are planting and harvesting each season.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Feb 28, 2021

Nancy Fouts
Nancy Fouts

The artist this week is Nancy Fouts.  Fouts is a visual punster.  Her humor, imagination and mischief-making reconnects us to our own playfulness while challenging our conventional mindset. She has the viewer repurposing and expanding what is the traditional known.

Fouts reminds us that art and life can be lighthearted as well as thought provoking.  That is what humor does; it lightens our heart.  It relieves the burdensome mind of worry.   Prompting us that life can be fun without losing our hard-fought wisdom. In fact, humor when done well makes our minds sharper and more innovative, which is so needed at this time.   The pondering for this week – how can you sharpen your mind through your wit?

The planets:  Mars is in Taurus (great for getting things done but need to watch hard headedness) and Venus is in Pisces, (great for emotional work can be overly touchy).  Well, they square off this week.  This brings our relationships in focus – love and hate can be illuminated, and on a grander scale has us working on binary thinking in general.   Remember absolutes are great for stability but suck at innovation.  And they are rarely 100 percent true, so be careful that this or that thinking does not define you or your actions.

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

Nina

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

Five of Swords – This is your second five card so let’s dive into that for a sec.  Fives signify that there is chaos in your life that either needs to be tamed or avoided.  Last week was to avoid and not take on responsibilities that was not yours.  This week the chaos is yours.  Your ego is causing turmoil.  This Muse is here to help you see that your ambition/social standing is making decisions not your integrity.

Taurus
Nancy Fouts
Nancy Fouts

Two of Wands – The Muse of Adventure is guiding you this week to expand your horizons.   This energy is begging you to go out and experience other parts of the World.  This might be hard to do right now, but this Muse reminds you the internet can expose you to musings from all over.  Here is a fun link to get you started.

Gemini
Nancy Fouts
Nancy Fouts

Ace of Wands – Last week the Muse of Suspension was holding the energies at bay, so you could take time for introspection and innovation.  I hope you could do this pondering so you can start this week dabbling with those innovations in the real world.  These is a great week to start anything new.  If you were not able, this energy still allows for ruminations, but make sure you have some plans drawn up by the end of the week.

Cancer
Nancy Fouts
Nancy Fouts

Six of Coins – This week is all about the flow and movement of energy.  The more aware you are of this dance the more momentum you can obtain.  This Muse reminds you when all parties are served, seen, and appreciated the energy balances and flows with more ease.

Leo
Nancy Fouts
Nancy Fouts

Ten of Coins – This week signifies you are in the midst of a chapter closing within the material plane.  The Muse of Completions is here to help you be mindful of how hard it was for you to get here.  And before you move on to the next, enjoy being in this moment.   Be present this week to see and partake in your accomplishments.

Virgo
Nancy Fouts
Nancy Fouts

Page of Cups – The Muse of Play is calling you to come out and enjoy the simple things in life.  Laying in a sunbeam and imagining you are a plant, fishing for Moby Dick, digging to China (or America depending on where you are at), air-conducting the London Philharmonic, or air-guitar/drums for your favorite band.  This Muse wants you to revisit when you thought anything was possible and you could be anyone you wanted.  This exercise is allowing you to stretch who you are today.

 

*Libra
Nancy Fouts

Sun – Last week the Muse of Letting Go was here to help you release what is no longer working for you. Hopefully, this has now provided room for this week’s Muse.  The Muse of Divine energy is here to grow whatever you want to focus on.  This Muse asks you if all your needs were meet what would be the first thing you would want? Then she prompts you to put that on your mirror and repeat it every time you see it.

 

Scorpio
Nancy Fouts
Nancy Fouts

Nine of Cups – The Muse of Contentment has arrived to help you find a place of peacefulness.  She asks you to lay down your need or perception of perfection.  She reminds you that 75 percent is still passing.  This is not about being perfect but being ok with things being slight not okay.  She reminds you that contentment is easily obtained when not pushed to 10 (or 11 for you Spinal Tap peeps).

Sagittarius
Nancy Fouts

Six of Wands – The Muse of Successes is here to remind you that small steps get you to the same goal as large leaps.  Look for these small successes to lead you to paths of ease this week.  Now is not the time to begin anything new or push something through.  If it is working, go with it, and if difficult, hold off.

Capricorn
Nancy Fouts
Nancy Fouts

Two of Swords – This week is a simple yes or no kind of week.  Your time is best spent doing then mulling.  If you come to a place of indecision, this Muse suggests pulling out a coin and flipping it.   Whatever lands will have a useful lesson in its answer and keep you moving forward.

Aquarius
Nancy Fouts

Knight of Cups – This week your emotions are on the surface or at least they should be.  Brenne Brown explains this energy well.  …We associate vulnerability with emotions we want to avoid such as fear, shame, and uncertainty.  Yet we too often lose sight of the fact that Vulnerability is the birthplace of joy, belonging, creativity, authenticity, and love.  Be open to your love ones.

 

Pisces
Nancy Fouts
Nancy Fouts

Nine of Pentacles – The themes for this birth year are big (letting go and metamorphizing), and last week was about taking part in the world so you could find your place in it.  But this week you can put all that momentous stuff aside and just enjoy the simple things in life.  The Muse of Refuge reminds you to balance all that extrovert-ness with your innate introvert-ness.  This can be as simple as beautifying or tidying your personal space to make it into an oasis of calm, and then enjoy.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Feb 14, 2021

Brooke Didonato
Brooke Didonato

Happy Love day!  Single or Partnered this day is meant to celebrate Love.  Love is desperately need in this world right now.  Self – Love as well as Love for Gaia and all her inhabitants.  When you step back, it’s pretty magical and amazing.

Onto the planets – Almost all of 2021 (except for mid-August to September) Saturn and Uranus are challenging each other.  However, on February 17th, the first of three, Saturn is exactly square with Uranus.  This is boundary loving Saturn challenging freedom loving Uranus.  But the intriguing thing is Saturn is in progressive Aquarius and Uranus is in conservative Taurus.

What this means is all of 2021 society as a whole and personally if it effects your natal chart will be dealing with testing our need to be free and innovative versus our habits, structures, and stability.  Ideally the best way to work with this energy is striking a balance between the old structures and the new innovations.  Setbacks are usually temporary and lead to new creative paths if you do not fall prey to frustration.   This year is not about revolution but reinvention.  Also, Mercury is still in retrograde until February 18th, so continued to Review, Reflect and Revise until then.

Now to this week’s artist, Brooke Didonato (@brookedidonato).  Didonato portraits feel incredible relevant as we deal with being homebound as a collective, and the push and pull of freedom and stability.  Her art is whimsical vignettes of self-exploration in the spaces we live and in our intimate relationships.  She has her viewers pondering about the trappings of societal self in our personal spaces as well as the entangling though life giving elements of our intimate relationships.

We spent 2020 facing who we are in a more intimate world.  We cannot travel, party, or socialize to escape ourselves.  In fact, many of us brought our outer world to our intimate space.  These interactions hopefully made you more aware of what makes you tick or have ticks.  Whether you have mastered baking or woodcraft, or now cannot eat another loaf of bread and have a partial constructed table.  This year has been a lesson on learning what our inner boundaries, needs and wants.   Where either we have run up against or finally feel comfortable in our nests.

Light and Love

Nina

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

Four of Swords – Your well is near empty and you are not realizing it.  This week you need rest and relaxation.  Your muse advises you to pour a bath or a beer and listen to some soothing music.  Take time this week to tune out, so you can tune in with more ease.

*Taurus
Brooke Didonato
Brooke Didonato

Judgment – The Muse of Metamorphosis has come to help you with your itch for planting/harvesting off season.  She advises there is no time like the present to start this change.  However, this transformation takes time, for there is an internal transformation that needs to happen first.  Find moments where you can spend time with your “pupa.”  Ask it what new innovated form it wants to transform into.  How can you create a “you” or project that tells a new story, modernizes the world, lives a new life?  Patience is key this week.  Motto: Change happens from the inside out.

Gemini
Brooke Didonato
Brooke Didonato

Ace of Wands – The Muse of Inspiration is here.  You can start any project this week especially creative ones.  Inspiration will gush if you can get yourself to sit down and let it flow.  Think, color and/or dance outside the box this week to connect with this muse.

Cancer
Brooke Didonato

Ten of Wands – How much responsibility are you carrying?  The Muse of Burdens is here to help you with that load.  She advises to put down at least three items on your list and leave them for next week.  Prioritize the rest, and lastly do one thing to completion.  Unless you hit a roadblock, then put that item last on your to-do list.  You will find that the tasks you let go might be picked up by someone else or lose their urgency.

Leo
Brooke Didonato
Brooke Didonato

Three of Coins – Last week the Muse of Healing and Hope proved you some easter eggs of positivity.  They showed you the world is not totally lost, and you are not broken, a misfit or “an ugly duckling.”  This healing vibe continues this week with the Muse of Foundations.  Take this week to still re-coup but this energy also nudges you to feather your nest and set of some foundational work to maintain your health and heart.  Physically this means tend to your body like sorting out your diet/exercise, emotionally this could look like re-establish connections with friends and mentally creating space and time to rejuvenate.

Virgo
Brooke Didonato

King of Swords – The Muse of Long-term planning is here with calendar in hand.  Take this week to do a check in with your plan for a year, 3 years, and 5 years from now.  Is what you doing today setting you up for where and who you want to be in 2026?

 

Libra
Brooke Didonato
Brooke Didonato

Queen of Coins – The Muse of Lavishness is here.  Lavish is defined as to bestow in great amounts.  This Muse reminds you that life is meant to be lived with zest.  This week make sure you indulge all your senses.  Your motto:  Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death! So c’mon live! Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame

 

Scorpio
Brooke Didonato
Brooke Didonato

Page of Wands – This week the muse of innovation is peeking over your shoulder egging you on to be more you.  To let your freak flag fly without censorship or guilty.    She reminds you that you are unique, and that uniqueness is need on Earth at present.  The World is creating new structures this year, this week it is vital you are part of that change.

Sagittarius
Brooke Didonato

Ten of Swords – This week can be filled with nastiness, roadblocks, and failings.   The key to navigate this energy is to listen to your intuition.  If it is hard to get out the door, wait 15 minutes before leaving.  You feel the back of your neck hair’s raise up, don’t’ go down that street.   Or people are being rude, walk away. Think of these incursions as a boot camp for intuitive thought.

Capricorn
Brooke Didonato
Brooke Didonato

Five of Coins – This week’s energy could have you at a loss.  This can be a literal loss – like you cannot find your keys or you lose money, or it can be a metaphysical loss.   Either way the challenge is not to make it any loss an existential crisis.   Think of this more as a short lived pause and an exercise on asking for help.  Whether that help comes from outside or inside it will decrease the struggle if you ask for it.

*Aquarius
Brooke Didonato
Brooke Didonato

Emperor–  Your second higher Arcane card for your birth year. The first was the Muse of Temptation testing your integrity and how you define yourself.   This correlates with Jupiter- planet of expansion and Saturn planet of structures interacting with your sun pretty much all year.  Think of it like your final exams for old structures and constructs – things you have already experienced but now are being tested on what you have learned.  Once you finish you can innovate into your next reincarnation with the Muse of Building and Expanding.  This second energy supports construction in the coming year.  The key to this energy is to have a good blueprint and budget for what you want to build.  Innovation grounded in reality.

*Pisces
Brooke Didonato

Death – Last week the Muse of Awakenings  wanted to image your goals and self going forward.  The challenge was not focusing solely  on the material plane wants, but what you want to metamorphize into.  She advised getting in touch with your spirit guide/animal and having a conversation on transformation.  Or creating a vison board composed of only colors and feelings.  Luckily, you can continue that exercise to support your first energy for this birth year – the Muse of Organic Change.  This year your Muses want you to start creating elements for goals/life/persona that you are metaphorizing in.  The keys to working with this energy are letting go of what is not working, planting seeds to what you want to happen, and then having the patience and tenacity of gardener.  This year is about being in tune with and working with natural cycles and seasons to make

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Feb 7, 2021

Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

The planets:  Mercury is retrograde until February 18th.    This is a great time to Review, Reflect and Revise. There is a new Moon in Aquarius on the 11th, a great time to daydream the future and innovatations.

Now to this week’s artist, Kilian Schoenberger  (@kilianschoenberger).  Schoenberger’s hashtag is fogpants and for good reason.  His portrait of this atmospheric phenomena is otherworldly.  Each photograph seems staged for a fairytale or period piece horror flick.  His artistic ability of capturing sunlight, fog and snow has us entering another world, where time and space extends into the ether.

Fog forms when something warm and moist meets something cold.  The most common is radiation fog when the Earth radiates stored heat into the night’s cool air.  This fog sits and doesn’t move.  Advection fog is driven by warm moist air across cold surfaces like snow or water, and it flows.   Ultimately fog is a cloud on the ground.  In Schoenberger’s depiction of this phenomena, it becomes less of an embodiment of the unknown.  A place where we can lose our way or where scary monsters lurk.  Instead, he invites us to enter a dimension where we can walk on clouds.

Light and Love

Nina

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

Three of Wands – Last week’s energy was about reviewing if yourself and/or others were being unjust or not aligned with their integrity.  This exercise of tuning into integrity will help with this week’s energy of alignment.  This Muse helps you see that your timing/action-taking is perfect even if it seems you are not moving forward.  The world is behind the scenes aligning things while you wait to enter the into the act.  Motto: have patience until it is the right moment to pounce.

 

Taurus
Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

Four of Coins – The Muse of Thriftiness is here. Resources (time, money and/or space) are tight this week. She reminds you of ways you can be more frugal.   Whether that is only going out to shop once this week or stretching your food budget by going deep into the freezer and eating what is there.  The key is time and money is precious.  So, what do you want to spend your precious resources on?

 

Gemini
Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

Three of Cups – The Muse of Friendship is knocking.  She prompts that connection is important to keep up your spirits.  Take some time this week to reconnect with your BFFs.  Your emotional reserve is emptier than you think, and your friends are a quick refreshment in joy.

 

 

Cancer
Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

Six of Swords – The muse of small transitions is here to help move things along.    She reminds you that small simple movements forward are needed to move ahead.  So, take your to do list and break down each item into smaller chunks, or prioritize the simpler projects to create momentum.

 

*Leo
Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

Star – The Muse of Healing and Hope is here for you this week.  You may feel a bit war-torn, or not feeling like you or anything fits, kinda like the little the ugly duckling.  However, this muse is here to nestle you under her wings and show you that the world has some bright spots just for you. She will lead you to easter eggs of hope if only you open your heart and mind to them.  Whether that is someone opening a door for you, a sincere thank you, or someone giving you an eye-crinkle masked grin.  These glimpses of positivity are here to show you the world is not totally lost, and you are not broken, a misfit or “an ugly duckling.”

 

Virgo
Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

Knight of Cups – This week’s energy migrates your heart from chest to sleeve.  This is not a totally bad thing.  It is great for flirting and for deep meaningful conversations with ones you love.  However, be aware you can be overly sensitive and take things too much to heart.  Remember Mercury is in retrograde and people can say things they do not mean or can hear incorrectly.  It is a bit of a telephone game, so act accordingly.

 

Libra
Kilian Schoenberger

Ten of Coins – The energy this week surrounds successes.  This is a great week to finish off projects and then indulge in the aura of your achievements.  Abundance is in the air, your work is to grab these brass rings and enjoy the gifts that come with your hard labor.

 

Scorpio
Kilian Schoenberger

Page of Swords – The Muse of Sleuthing is here to help you dig out the truth.  Things are not what they seem this week, so you will have to do some investigating.  Since the truths are not on the surface, you will have to ask questions in a variety of ways to find the facts.  So ears open and a nonjudgmental mind will help you discover the information you need.

 

Sagittarius
Kilian Schoenberger

Seven of Coins – Work is the focus this week.  This is a terrific time to get done whatever you set your mind and hands to.  The challenge is getting started.  However, once you begin there is no stopping you.

 

Capricorn
Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

Page of Coins – The Muse of Study is here to help you.  You have something to learn this week that will be extremely useful in the coming months.  So, time to don your student hat and open your mind to the new.  Motto:  Learning is fundamental to my growth.

 

*Aquarius
Kilian Schoenberger
Kilian Schoenberger

Devil – This is your first higher arcane card for your birth year.  So, this is a theme to revisit throughout the year.   This Muse’s energy is about testing your integrity and how you define yourself.   This correlates with Jupiter- planet of expansion and Saturn planet of structures interacting with your sun pretty much all year.  In a way this year is like your final exams.  Old structures and constructs – things you have already learned will come up again.  Your challenge is enacting what you have learned.  Once you finish you can innovate into your next reincarnation.

 

 

*Pisces
Kilian Schoenberger

Judgment – During your final month before your new birth year the Muse of Awakenings has arrived.  This Muse wants you to start imagining what you want you to be in this coming year.  The challenge is this is not about what you can obtain on the material plane, but what you want to metamorphize into.  This can look as simple as getting in touch with your spirit guide/animal and having a conversation on transformation. Or as complex as a vison board composed of only colors and feelings.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Jan 31, 2021

Shelley Muzylowski
See Swan Shelley Muzylowski

The planets:  Just a heads-up Mercury is retrograde until February 18th.  People are often fearful of this planet’s retrograde period.  Though it is not the best time to sign contracts, buy things that have electronic components or start something new.  And we need to be careful how we communicate and timing in general.  This is a great time to Review, Reflect and Revise.

Now to this week’s artist, Shelley Muzylowski.   Muzylowski is a glass artist. You would not know it from her pieces for they look like they are sculpted in clay instead of molten glass and fire.  The movement of her work, the emotions they convey, and the depth of color is extraordinary.  Muzylowski subjects are animals.  The viewer can see she pulls inspiration from a wide variety of cultures, history, and art mediums.   Though realistic in form her work seems to connect to the spiritual realm.  They are creations of myth, magic, and storytelling.

To genuinely appreciate this art form.  There is a show on Netflix called Blown Away.  It will show you how much physical work in combination with artistry that this art form requires.  Most glassblowers have to do their work with assistants.  To obtain this level of art the artists and assistants must be in sync.  Dependent on precise communication while also aware of each other’s nuances, it is like a dance.  This art form reminds us that we do not do our work alone.  We rely on others to help us create, live, and express our stories.

Light and Love

Nina

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

Justice – Justice is defined as just behavior or treatment. Someone is not aligned with their integrity.  The challenge is this could also include you.  Use Mercury’s retro-energy to review how you are treating people as well as how you are being treated.  Take this week to make sure you are aligned with your truth and is it holistically fair before you sentence or censor others… or yourself.

 

Taurus
Shelley Muzylowski
After Europa Shelley Muzylowski

Two of Coins – Last week, The Muse of Integrity asked you to look for imbalance picking only two issues to rebalance.  You get another week to work on this.  However, if you now can confidently balance those two issues, you can add more.  This energy advises to add one at a time.  And if something feels off or you drop the ball, you have taken on one too many.  Subtract and try again.

 

Gemini
Looking Glass Shelley Muzylowski

Ace of Swords – Of course you Gemini’s can navigate this Mercury retrograde and start something new.  The challenge is to make sure this new idea is an innovation and not a repeat of old thought patterns dressed in new clothes.  The key is this aligns with a new emerging truth. So supple thinking is required.

 

 

Cancer
Shelley Muzylowski
Run Rabbit Shelley Muzylowski

Queen of Wands – Last week the muses had you tying up loose ends.  Now, The Muse of Inspiration is here to help you imagine and innovate what is next.  This week commune with the ethers and nature to clear your mind and connect with the conduit of the divine.  Look for synchronicities and serendipitous to help you find the “easter eggs.”

 

Leo
Shelley Muzylowski
Scent Stag Shelley Muzylowski

Knight of Swords – This week you will need to slow your roll.  The energy around you is ginchy.  This is that feeling when you are tired but also feel as if you should run or you are easily agitated.  So, the best course is to slow down, take deep breathes and be aware of your surroundings before leaping.  And as always with this energy on a practical level, watch your appendages and wear comfortable shoes.  This energy tends to have you absent mindedly cut your fingers, twist your ankles, and stub your toes.

 

Virgo
Cloud Bear Shelley Muzylowski

Seven of Coins– This week is all about getting things done.  It is a great week to check things off your to-do list, tackle that pile of paperwork, get your taxes done early, clean your inbox, etc.…  Yes, this is the week to get up early and work.  If you do this, the fruits of your labor will be bountiful.  Not to mention raise your energy level and mental state.

 

Libra
Shelley Muzylowski
Muse Shelley Muzylowski

Knight of Coins – The Muse of Pace is here.  She comes when you are not in sync with how you like to work.  There is something off kilter that is interfering with your flow.  Are you getting enough sleep?  Eating well?  Moving enough or too much?  Is your desk unorganized?  Is your chair making your back hurt?  This is the week to fix your material plane to help you mental and emotional one.

 

Scorpio
Shelley Muzylowski
Between Darkness Shelley Muzylowski

Six of Swords – The Muse of Transitions is knocking.  She is inviting you on a cerebral trip, a step up and out in thinking.  Certain thought patterns need to transmute, and in doing so you will find that some thought patterns are now obsolete.  This is a time to simplify and begin again.

 

Sagittarius
Otter Shelley Muzylowski

Six of Wands – This is a good week.  Small jewels of luck and synchronicities line up for you.  Pay attention to these gems of inspiration, they are pats on the backs from the universe.  Telling you that you are doing good in the areas where you find these small treasures.

 

Capricorn
In the Morning Light Shelley Muzylowski

Two of Swords – The energy this week is about making decisions; however, there is a twist.  The decision is not as important as the path this decision has you taking.  This muse asks you to tune into your heart and your truths.  Making sure the route you take to your goals aligns with how you want to feel and your integrity.

 

Aquarius
Outfox Shelley Muzylowski

King of Coins – I hope you rested last week because its back to work.  Time to put energy into your material plane ie: work, home, garden.  This muse is here to help you build whatever you want short or long term, and aids those projects to increase your future abundance.    However, if you find a block, then it is not the time to force a project forward.  This energy paves paths of ease for some work and puts up walls for things that are not timed correctly.

 

 

Pisces
Chariot Shelley Muzylowski

Four of Wands – The Muse of the Hearth and Home has come to hang.  This is a great week to put time into your home and family (adopted or born with).  Make your abode more comfortable and then bring out the board games and hot chocolate.  Connect anyway you can to your inner community and solidify the foundation of your relationships with care and comfort.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Jan 17, 2021

The Dark Abyss Never Seemed so Bright Michaela Yearwood-Dan
The Dark Abyss Never Seemed so Bright Michaela Yearwood-Dan

This week’s artist is Michaela Yearwood-Dan (@artistandgal).  Yearwood-Dan’s art is rich in texture and dense in color and meaning.  She explores the genre of abstraction using oil paint, collage, and traditional techniques from Western, Japan and China art forms.  Her pieces often bring the viewer into the center of the work.  At times it is a vortex of a singular hue at others a truth to ponder.

As the viewer steps back, we can see that the void, space, or text is surrounded by color and life.  She leads us to realizing any concept or feeling is surrounding and part of the context of how and what we live in.  So, this week’s pondering is how this moment, where we have been forced into void and slammed into truths, has created an experiential contrast.  Making us more able to feed and savor the richness of life.

Light and Love

Nina

P.S. Signs with an * it is a big week for you.  Capricorn this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Cancer 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
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
Come on Ol’blighty Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Chariot – The energy this week is about effort and change.  The only way to get things moving this week is for you to take charge.  And the key to creating ease in this is to have a clear destination for this impetus.  Time to set your goals, start your engines and go.

 

Taurus
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
My Honey Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Ace of Cups – Your muse this week wants you connecting with your emotions.  Yep, you and all your emotions need to get reacquainted.  The challenge is seeing them as your allies.  Your canaries in navigating your environment.  Time to listen to what your heart is saying, so you can drive your bus safer and healthier.

 

Gemini
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
You Look Good in Green Michaela Yearwood-Dan

King of Coins – The Muse of abundance is knocking at your door.  They come knocking looking for a partner to build avenues to success and plenty.  Now is the time to construct on the material plane.  They key to work with this energy is to build not only for your success but also lift others with you.

 

*Cancer
Breathe Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Star and Five of Wands – Two muses are working together this week. One is chaos and the other healing.  Sometimes the universe must stir the pot, so we can see are wounds and new ways to heal.  So, if things become chaotic sit calmly and carry out non-judgmental observation.  Once you see the information you need, step out of the chaos, and take time to reset.

 

Leo
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
The First Time Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Nine of Swords – The muse this week is here to help you get out of your mind.  You are overthinking and not in your body like you need to be.  When you find that an earworm has taken over your mind – ground.  This can be as simple as doing a few jumping jacks or putting a rubber band on your wrist to snap you back into your body.  It does not have to be a strenuous or long grounding exercise though it might have to be often.

 

Virgo
No Words Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Page of Coins– The muse this week ask you to go back to the drawing board.  Something in your plans is not fully thought out.  Take on the role of the student.  Review the basics and look to new sources for inspiration.  This week an open mind is a fruitful mind.

 

Libra
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
Mon Triste Ami Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Two of Wands – This week’s energy is best used by plotting out your course for the next 3 to 6 months.  Putting energy into future planning will be well worth your while.  The clearer idea you have of where you are going the easier it will be to pick the right roads/projects/people as they come into view.

 

Scorpio
Solstice Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Eight of Wands – Imagine this week’s work as two-fold.  One is there is a ton of incoming information downloading into your life.  This can be a lot to sort through so just gather them and ponder them next week.  Second, imagine if you had eight arrows to shoot into the future what would you like to “bag”.  Set those intentions and let those arrows fly.

 

*Sagittarius
Join me unitl the Bitter Finale Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Fool – The energy this week is great for starting any new adventure.  The key with this energy is once you start – let go of your goal, be in each moment mindfully and follow the winding path.  For the muse of serendipity wants to help but you got to let go of any expectations to meet up with her.

 

Capricorn
Give She Life Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Five of Cups and Five of Coins – These are your final cards for the trends in this coming birth year.  Your themes are narrow your focus, contentment, pace and with this week’s energies a sense of things being off.  If you can put your energy to the first three, the latter two will be less of a pain in the butt.  The first energy that can throw you off your game is tying self -worth to either material wealth and/or quantity of product.  The second is worrying over the negatives and not putting your energy into the positives.  Your motto: feed what you want to grow.

 

Aquarius
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
The Stone Rose Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Ace of Coins – Last week’s energy was all about pondering and overhauling your structures and boundaries. I hope you had time to do this.  For this week is great for starting projects, investing money, moving, anything new on the material plane you want to focus on will root well.  The stronger your structures and boundaries the stronger and deeper this new thing can root.

 

Pisces
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
Good For Now Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Six of Pentacles – The muse this week is karma.  The important concept she tells you is for every action there is a reaction.  So, the more positive you put out the more positive returns.  Of course, this works for the negative vibes too.  The twist karma many times is not a straight line from A to B.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Jan 10, 2021

Ruby Silvious
Ruby Silvious Better Days Are Coming

This week’s artist is Ruby Silvious.  Silvious artistic journey involves the consideration of what can be used as a canvas and therefore what is art.  The transformative aspect of her work is her uses of everyday ephemera and elevating it to an art form.  This has been done before but Silvious dives deeper and longer in her investigations then others.  An example of this is the series where she created an art piece a day for 363 days using teabags for her canvas.   She later published this collection as 363 Days of Tea.

The art shown in this blog is the product of Silvious specific and our collective times.  Silvious explains, inspired by Picasso during his Blue Period, this series uses found materials around the house/yard as canvases over a 14-day self-isolation period during the coronavirus pandemic, 2020.  All in monochromatic shades of blue.

Every one of us has gone through our own blue period with Covid.  Hopefully, this series has us collectively sighing, smiling, and pondering how can we raise the energy of our everyday experience into something sacred and precious.

Ruby Silvious
Ruby Silvious Frontliners

Light and Love

Nina

P.S. Signs with an * it is a big week for you.  Capricorn this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Cancer 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
Ruby Silvious
Ruby Silvious Wash your Hands

Eight of Cups – This week’s muse advises you that you need to either turn away from a project or person at least this week, possibly longer.  Consider this advice as the avenue to simplifying your life.  If you continue in this old pattern you will be allowing the drama of old models to get in your way to a lighter brighter future.  Time to figuratively clean out your junk drawer.

Taurus
Ruby Silvious
Ruby Silvious Six Feet Apart

Page of Swords – You will need to keep your thinking cap on and vision board up on for this week also.  Last week was about long-term planning and figuring out what you will be focusing your energy on in 2021.  This week your energy is best spent doing some research on how to make that happen.  Again, many insights will come from out-side sources, so reporter/researcher hat on.  Inquiry is your Muse. 

Gemini
Ruby Silvious
Ruby Silvious Personal Protection Gown

Ace of Swords – New ideas and ways of thought are key this week.  The more innovated your ideas the more prepared you will be in the coming months.  Brainstorming is your Muse’s energy.  Also, very practically at the end of the month Mercury is going retro so if you need new electronics now is the time to buy.

Cancer
Ruby Silvious Shelter in Place

Knight of Wands – Last week the muse asked you to free yourself of old stories that have bound you to past recollections of self and take control of your new narrative.  You may continue this process with this week’s energy.  However, this energy invites you to be more creative and playful with parts of your narrative.  This muse frees your passion and purpose to explore new storylines.

Leo
Ruby Silvious Shelled Shock

Five of Wands – This week the Muse of Chaos has invited herself in.  Her goal is to liven things up and keep you from getting stuck in routines and boredom.  However, she can be very messy with this process.  The best way to work with this energy is to allow the chaos to ensue without trying to control it.  When you do not feed the energy, it putters out quickly.

Virgo
Ruby Silvious Emergency Preparedness

Page of Wands – Inspiration and creative energy continues this week.  This muse reminds you that all work and no play makes jill/jack a dull person.  Go find and play with things that make you zing.  This can look like deep listening to an album, re-reading your favorite book, camping…  Do what you love and be with it intently.

Libra
Ruby Silvious
Ruby Silvious Flattening the Curve

Queen of Wands – Last week you may have had times that seem to take every ounce of strength you had to persist, BUT the universe gave you moments to refresh your spirit.  This week’s muse energy continues to re-fill your courage, confidence, and joy.  The key to connect with this energy is to follow your desires and aspirations.  You are worthy of the light.

Scorpio
Ruby Silvious Social Distancing Fashion

Seven of Cups – Last week the muse was asking you to let go of 2020’s bindings.  I hope you did, for this week the Muse would like you to dream.  Dream outside your old boundaries.  Go ahead ask for what you want.  There is no hurt in trying.  The key is to not to focus on the goal but imagine the how that goal would make you feel.  This gives the Universe space to gift you in ways your mind may not be able to predict.  Dream big.

Sagittarius
Ruby Silvious Hunkered Down

Three of Wands – This week things are on the move behind the scenes.  For you this might feel like a standstill, but you still need to put energy towards your goals for the future.  Think of this time like you are in a holding pattern waiting to land.  This is not the time to turn back or use your energy for useless worrying.  Let things take their natural course.

Capricorn
Ruby Silvious
Ruby Silvious Self Isolation

Knight of Coins – Pace is key this week.  Somethings take time, and some done quickly.  This Muse has you playing with how to lump/space your projects together and create a pace to your work.  Do you like to do all the quick jobs at one time?  Emails in the morning or on Mon, Wed, and Fri?  Find your natural rhythm.  To move forward she suggest this mantra:  I set the pace for the horse; the horse does not set the pace for me.

*Aquarius
Ruby Silvious Deemed Essential

Hierophant – This energy is best used in pondering and overhauling your structures and boundaries. First make sure you have some goals set to shoot for.  Then take time reorganizing and streamlining to create more ease to obtain those goals.  This can look as simple as rearranging your room, schedule, diet.  Or this can look as complex as finding useful and innovative mentors that can help you in that reformation.

Pisces
Ruby Silvious Peace, Love and Good Health

Ace of Wands – Last week the muses had you balancing inequalities and re-focusing your life to your truths.  This week you can continue these ponderings; however, this energy also wants you to think of ways to innovate your life.  This year has the possibility to create new opportunities.  Take this week to lift your wand and start casting some spells that will mature in the summer.