The artist this week is Agnus Noyes Goodsir. After World War I an art and cultural explosion was happening in Paris and London and many Australian artists flocked there. Agnus was among this migration. There she met “Cherry” who became her model and lover. Though her sexuality and painting style at the time were not publicized in Australia, she was held in high esteem by the French. She was invited and became a member of Salon Nationale des Beaux-Arts. An annual exhibition of French artists (and now foreign artists) since 1909. Sadly, she was largely forgotten until in the 1990’s. Goodsir was reintroduced to Australia and the world by the director of Victoria’s Bendigo Art Gallery.
Above, The Parisienne, is a perfect example of the start of the movement of the “modern women”. The model clothed in masculine attire, short hair, and a cigarette in her hand accentuated the lifestyle that Goodsir had fled to Paris to find. The face is shadowed adding to the ambiguity of gender but also intrigues and pulls the viewer into the character and life of this kind of person.
At the same time does it hint that Goodsir’s true self and work was still in the shadows? Was the choice of the flat tonal background in contrast to the bold contours of the clothing emphasizing stepping out of the banal norm into a stronger cheekier life of a modern woman? Does it suggest that what a woman wears on the outside still defines her? Or is this Agnus just being a realistic painter. This is an amazing thing about art, we as a viewer can find as much insight to ourselves as the artist does in making the piece.
P.S. Signs with an * it a big week for you. Leo this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year. And Aquarius it is your halfway mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check in now is the time.
May light be on you, around you, and within you,
Nina
Aries
Three of Wands – Your to-do list is long to get from here to there, and this week you are advised to be very conscious of the concept of contingences. There is a domino effect where you do not have totally control of all the pieces. The challenge is having faith that the Universe is working with you behind the scenes while you plan.
Taurus
Eight of Pentacles – This is a great week to get your hands dirty. You have the energy to persist and preserve through the most challenging projects. The challenge with this energy is that it can only be directed at things and ventures already in motion, that you love the work, or it needs your unique talents. This is not a week to start new projects or do something outside of your skillset. Unless you want to invite in strain and resistance.
Gemini
Ace of Wands – Last week’s energy was about the creative act of bring an idea down and materialize it. Asking you about your intentions and the steps to manifest them. This week’s energy flow has less intensity but with the same focus of creation. So, continue to manifest whether big or small acts, and do so with the highest intention and integrity. However, if you feel blocked the key is to immerse yourself in what inspires you. This will re-lit your fires.
Cancer
*Death – The energy this week is about letting go of the old and sloughing of the things that no longer work for you. This releasing generates the fodder for new beginnings. The challenge is seeing the past is in the past and the present and future is in you. Remember a burial ground and a planting ground look the same and the processes are intertwined.
Leo
Nine of Wands – The last two weeks beamed the energies assigned to Leos. Let us review. They wanted you to allow three paradoxes into your personal constructs. 1) Your strength comes from dealing with your weakness. 2) Your self-doubt comes from trying to control things that cannot be tamed. 3) Your insecurity is also the root of your compassion. And once these constructs are in place, work on harnessing your power and applying outward to the correct degree where you sustain growth – not burn it all down. This week the energy has you setting up some borders so you can finish up loose ends of the past two weeks, so you can begin focusing on the future. Be aware, this might be the last week to finish off the past year before next year’s energies start pushing you forward.
Virgo
Two of Cups – Last week’s energy was hard, but this week has a lower intensity and is filled with love. Last week asked what needs to shift externally and internally to make a major outer-life change happen? Remember this is a process of a modernization of self, but you must do it a brick at a time. This week’s energy prompts you that first brick is love. What are the qualities that you want in a partner, and what do you need to adjust to become a partner to that kind of person? If you are in a relationship, reconnect with your chosen loved ones. Making sure you are open to the love they give you, as well as, showing the love you have for them. True partnership is long termed balanced acts of giving and receiving.
Libra
Five of Cups – Chaos of emotions float around you this week. The challenge with this energy is keeping positive while processing the negative with compassion. This energy reminds you not to run away from joy or sorrow; both are part of life. And it also reminds that only by truly feeling and processing your emotions can you use them for good in the future.
Scorpio
Ten of Cups – Yeah, this week should feel a lot lighter than last week. The clouds have parted. This energy is pushing you to seek your community, bathe in love and connection. You are the water signs most social and need contact. Even if you cannot do it physically. Time to spread and receive some love in any way you can.
Sagittarius
King of Coins – Last week’s energy endorsed you enacting the usefulness of inertia. Using or creating moments of pause for reflection, letting go of old patterns, and making way for the new ideas that only arises from silence. This week the energy is about grounding yourself. Where last week action happened in the ether and the mind and was great for inspiration. This week you need to burrow down into the earth hashing out those inspirations into actual labor-intensive work.
Capricorn
Ace of Swords – This week’s energy bolsters logic and reasoning. Divine inspiration comes if you focus on looking at the details in a variety of configurations. It is not that this shuffling of pieces finds the answer, but the process helps you find solutions even in to hardest of puzzles. Like fitting a square peg into a circular hole.
Aquarius
Four of Pentacles – Last week your goal was setting aside time to process what this past month or six have been about. Processing your experiences helps you gather your experiential knowledge. Hopefully, you had time to do this, for this process of standing back helps you see your authentic path and how to walk it. The energy this week focuses on your first step – looking at your relationship with money. The challenge is seeing your feeling of safety and having a financial back-up are interconnected. Do you have the resources set aside to feel secure? If not save this week, and if so, you can let go of your purse strings and give yourself a gift for taking care of you.
Pisces
*Strength – The energy this week focuses on your inner strength. Take time to ground and deepen your connection to how strong you really are. You are courageous, strong, and fierce. In the face of these uncertainty times, see that you are resilient. This week’s events show you that whether life flows to you calm waters or gale force storms, you got this. The challenge is seeing the tiger’s eye in the mirror no matter the circumstance.
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Four of Wands – Family and home life are the key for ease and your focus for this week. Honor these moments of seclusion to create deeper bonds with those you hold close and the home that sustains and protects you. Give a gift to your abode and the life-forms that live with you. These acts of gratitude will ground you and help deepen your sense of security.
Ten of Cups – Last week’s energy asked you is your life-path aligning with your integrity and your goals for the year 2021. That challenge is still on, but this week’s vibe wants you to add an extra ingredient: bliss. Somehow you have disconnected or become dysfunctional with pleasure. Pleasure is defined as a feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment. Your challenge is to adjust your plans, so they integrally aligned with you. The test is you find yourself enjoying the process, satiated by the outcome, and finding your bliss in the mix.
*Judgement – This week’s energy is about evolution and awakening to your divine nature. Time to allow self-compassion and forgiveness to leave the past in the past. The question to ponder this week is am I fulfilling my purpose or calling? If not, this is the time to start creating the parameters to allow your evolution. If you are, take it to the next level.
*Empress – The energy around you is dripping with creation. With the power of love anything can flourish: plants, children, creativity… You have the seeds in your hands. What will you plant? What will you nurture and grow? Your only challenge is not to control all the expansion. Just be in tune with your big bang heart and give to the energy of creation.
4 of Coins – Savings is in the air around you. What do you need to feel financial safe? What on the material plane do you need, to feel you have your own back? A new car? 6 months savings? Now is the time to make sure you know what you require and start to save for it. Your challenge is to remember though it is always nice to have and build more they are not the only essentials for joy.
*Hierophant – The outdated systems are crumbling around you. Hollow out by a loss of integrity or alignment to who you are now. What will be the systems you put into their cavities? What new structures need to be built to access this next part of your journey? New structures, boundaries and schedules need to be created.
5 of Cups – Emotions like grief, sadness and hurt are lingering around you, and this energy wants you to feel into the feelings. Dive deep with empathy and process them, and when you get to the bottom you will find a reservoir of love, laughter, and hopefulness. Your challenge is processing is a process.
Queen of Wands – This week’s energy invites you to engage with inspiration. Follow your internal compass, exploring places in nature or things that create awe. A Muse is waiting there to entice, support and sprout originality and creativity. The challenge is pushing your boundaries around concepts of self-acceptance, courage, and leadership. Color outside the lines.
Knight of Coins – The energy around you is about diligence and work. The challenge is relaxing into the tasks you love and find meaning in the tasks you do not. This is not a week to future trip or think of goals but to keep a steady pace forward.
Ace of Coins – The energy this week is expansion and growth on your material plane. Look in your environment for seeds to plant and what roots to grow. This is a time for new opportunities.
7 of Coins – This week’s energy could slow time for you. This plateau of pause if perfect for the 3 R’s: reflect, review, and reassess especially around work, projects, your physical environment, and anything on the material plane. Your harvest is around the corner take this time to prepare and tweak what is not just right.
Four of Cups – The energy this week has a tendency to be self-indulgent by being self-deflecting. The challenge is seeing your own self-worth. You are here for a reason yes, but literally part of that reason is you being you. Reflect on your unique qualities that you bring to the table and focus on strengthening them.
5 of Coins – The energies around you are working with you and your relationship to money and prestige. Who you are has little to do with what you own or your work that makes you money. You know that, but you are losing your concept of self-worth with only what you do on the material plane. Take this week to reflect on what people love you for.
6 of Wands – Last couple of weeks had you seeing the depth of your energy-well and how to manifest on the material, mental and people planes. This week the energy level dials back just a little. You are in the spotlight of success this week. Can you see it? Can you see how far you have come to creating the future you wanted? Take this week to sit in that dusting of confetti celebration. Be proud of all that you have done and take this week to prepare for the battles and victories yet to come.
Two of Wands – You are in the land of in between. Caught between the past and the future. To use this energy, it is about being very present. Seeing each moment for the preciousness bit of life it is.
Three of Swords – Last week the energy was used hopefully in finding the pearls in your world. However, the challenge was in answering: Are you flexible enough to know when to let it go if it isn’t working or allowing it to evolve into an unknown ending? This week the energy has shifted to heart break. You are feeling the World’s pain and having a hard time figuring out what to do with it. If you met last week’s challenge (re-read the first two lines) finding flexibility and letting go, then you realize evolution and healing are done in small steps and they start within. So, this week has a lot of heart work in yourself and in your world. Don’t force it. Feel and tend the way to rebuilding.
Eight of Wands – Movement is the energy you need this week. Get out of the house if you can, ride a bike, walk, turn the music up and dance, play an instrument, paint with big broad stroke, etc…. You are holding in energy and it needs to get out, or you will sink more into lethargy and/or nervousness. This week let your body move, so your soul can soar.
Page of Wands – This week has aimless energy. You are feeling the world’s energy and it is painful. This brings on setbacks which lead to procrastination. First, realize that the majority of people are or have felt this energy in the past couple of months, and so can you. Then to get you out of the morass go into your shell and dive into your imagination. Find things on the web, TV, books, art, nature, etc… that let you have a bit of escapism but it must also tap into your sense of wonderment. You need to recharge, and childlike wonder and curiosity are a great ways to get there.
*Hierophant – This week energy is around structures. Now is the time for you to break them down. You need more freedom and a bit of rebellion to do it. What structure in your life just isn’t working? Look to the physical plane first. It could be when you go to bed, when you wake up, where you work, how you work, how you let people step on you… By deconstructing the structures on the material plane, you will give your spiritual self the space and freedom to rebuild.
Queen of Wands – You are creative, courageous and fierce. Now your challenge is to believe it. Release your self-doubt and go get what you want.
Eight of Swords– Self-acceptance is the key to this week. Allow yourself the ability to have foibles – we all do. The key is accepting these perceived quirks and converting them to your superpowers. Be compassionate with your heroine/hero character you are creating and ignore what others perceive it to be. Then re-write your narrative.
*World – Another high energy week for you. Last week the energy overloaded and unbalanced you, so emotional outbursts were necessary to vent and recalibrate. The key was purposely vent before the pressure made you burst. Hopefully, you got that out of your system, for this week you are called into the World. There is a mass of opportunities for you to try out this week, but you need a sense of completion to move on. Your challenge is to finish the old to make way for the new by the end of the week.
*Beyond – Last week, the energy asked you to spotlight your focus on things you want to do – not things you had to do. The energy this week adds to that force of optimal growth by opening portals to the soul. Take this week to meditate, be philosophic, find some awe, and dream day and night. Your higher being is asking for some face time with you. Time to listen and do some persona Socratic Q&A.
Four of Coins & Five of Wands – The last two weeks’ energies have you now moving with a more natural pace, in a more comfortable place, and your mind has disseminated and cleansed the what ifs scenarios. For with that skill set you can navigate this week’s two-sided energies. One side is chaos and drama and the other stability. Though the former might have you feeling too conservative or greedy with your resources. So the challenge this week is fine tuning your skills at healthy boundary making, so chaos can happen but in a safer play-pen arena.
Three of Cups and Emperor – The month of May was full of big energy. It started with summoning you to take control over your destiny by showing up. Then you dealt with the concepts of refinement, the grey areas of fairness and harmony and final, self-determining change. So now you are given a choice of paths. You can continue the high energy ride with the Emperor. This energy is about manifesting things on the material plane. It is a great time for all things around business and culture. Or you can take the second route, having fun with friends and filling up your emotional cups. Hopefully, you can do both, but don’t be surprised if one the roads whisks you away.
*Strength – The energy that surrounds you and is within you is fortitude. You have a deep well of reserve energy which, though you have been dipping into a lot, the universe is also refilling. So, if you are having self-doubt, know you are supported by the cosmos not as a crutch but as a comfy blanket when you need it. Your task is realizing you can call on your power at any moment needed or not.
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