This tarotcast is an experiment with my casting for the week and art. Usually I pull cards and then cast about for the art to go with the general energies of that week. This week I am going in the opposite direction and letting the art take the lead. I think the arts were born under the sign of Gemini. Gemini is the first sign in which we work on how and why we communicate with the world. Art is a place where we try to create, experiment and communicate with something outside ourselves to convey what is going on inside ourselves.
So this tarotcast I’m going to let the art solely express your goals, challenges, energies that surround you. I will add a tidbit about the painting that I find relevant to the piece or energy of your cast. This is exercise in mindfulness, of truly experiencing a piece of art. I challenge you to dive deep into each piece and ask how does this makes me feel and see what thoughts it brings to the surface. Like the sign of the Gemini where the twins peer at each other, looking for similarities and differences, so does the exercise of experiencing art. The artist is the twin to the piece and then the piece becomes the twin to the viewer. Art challenges us to look in to it and truly see ourselves – our common humanity through time and space.
P.S. I have also put links for each piece if you want to dive deeper into the art or artist. Please share.
Aries- Ginervra de’ Benci by Leonardo da Vinci 1475
On the back side of this portrait he painted VIRTVTEM FORMA DECORAT (“beauty adorns virtue”)
Taurus– Portrait of Paolo Morgia by Fede Galizia, 1595
Fede was well-known as a portrait painter by the age of twelve. She was meticulous in her attention to detail look at the reflection of the glasses in his hand, they reflect a window not seen.
*Gemini – Portrait d’une negresse by Marie-Guillemine Benoist 1800
Six years previously slavery was abolished in France, though short-lived, so this image became the symbol for woman’s emancipation and black people’s right.
Cancer – Early Moonrise, Florida by George Inness 1893
Inness was known for interpreting rather than recording natures views, moving away from the Hudson River School artists’ transcriptions of nature. According to Inness “you can suggest reality…you cannot paint reality.”
Leo – Stay High 149 aka Wayne Roberts 197?
He was a superstar in the underground up and coming graffiti scene of the 1970’s. This piece is a parody on the British television show The Saint.
Virgo – Dulle Griet by Pieter Bruegal the Elder, 1565
Dulle Griet also known as Mad Meg, in Flemish folklore who leads an army of woman to pillage Hell. Her mission refers to the proverb “She could plunder in front of hell and return unscathed.”
Libra – Le Pont del Europe by Gustave Caillebotte, 1881
The three prominent characters in this portrait are theorized as a representation of the three classes of Parisians who normally not met in society but do on this bridge.
*Scorpio – Carousel in Santa Monica by David Michael Hinnebusch 2006
In 2006, a friend of the artist, who didn’t like Hinnebusch’s art on found materials, took him shopping at the art store. He bought $2,000 US worth of Golden Acrylics, brushes and 10 large canvases and this is one of the painting that came out of that excursion.
Sagittarius – Personnages aux Chevaux, Characters with Horses, by Marcelle Cahn 1935
Was one of the few female artist in 1930’s associated with the movement Abstraction-Creation, which was a counteract to the Surrealist movement.
Capricorn – Closed Gallery by Robert Barry 1969
Closed Gallery consisted of three invitations to gallery shows in Amsterdam, Turin, and Los Angeles printed on simple white cards. They informed the recipients that during the exhibition, the gallery would be closed. “It’s the purest form of this notion of what the physicality of art is and what art is really all about. One doesn’t need to even have the gallery space”, said David Platzker, who sent out numerous announcement cards worldwide, each saying simply “During the exhibition the gallery will be closed”.
Aquarius – La Rue du Soleil, Port Vendres by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1926
Charles started his career as an architect and was influential in the Art Nouveau and Secessionism. He abandoned it later and focused solely on painting watercolors later in life. Though like the reflection of the buildings in the water you can still see buildings are still in his mind.
Pisces – Summon Up by Frederick Hammersley, 1958
He wrote that “hard-edge is often very hard to take, coming to the cold or even to the practiced eyed.”
May light be on you, around you, and within you,
Nina
Last week the Tower challenged you to let go of needing to control change and to subtly navigate it by shifting your stance. This week the Six of Cups continues the theme by having you look back in to your history for clues on how to deal with this change.
The Nine of Swords is the card of worry. Worry can be helpful when you use it to prepare for the future or to re-think about your past. However, the challenge with this card is to know when worry becomes nothing but thoughts that have no objective or conceives a useful action. This week be aware where your worries take you. 
Mother’s Day… I’m thinking about all the people who Mother’s Day maybe hard to celebrate. I’m thinking of all the mothers who have lost children. I’m thinking of my friends and others that have lost their mothers. I’m thinking of those people who have a hard relationship with their mom, or mothers that have tense relationships with their children. I’m thinking about all of those that have chosen not to be a mother, like myself. You should be celebrated too because you choose an alternative way to give that energy. And I’m also sending energy for all those who want to be mothers. May you find mothering with ease.
I see why you needed your rest last week, you got the Tower card for this week. The Tower’s challenge is about change in which we have no control over. The best way to deal with this card is to react as if you are either surfing or kayaking white waters. Know you cannot stop the force of the water but you can navigate it without danger by subtly shifting your stance or dipping in your oars.
The Four of Pentacles challenges you to save your resources this week. Whether that is your time, space, or money, you can identify what is precious with how it feels when you are limited by it. It is a great time to start saving but be aware not to be miserly to those close to you.
The High Priestess challenges you to work on your intuition skills. You will gain more insight when you step back and look at the big picture then to focus on details.
The Ten of Cups is the party card of the deck and it doesn’t come up too often. This card challenges you to have a good time.
The Hanged Man is the card of stagnation, side projects and spiritual quests. Take the down-time this cards brings to you to go off the beaten path and tend to your spirit to find peace and stillness. This can look like mediating at a Zen garden, or taken a left turn when you want to go right.
Be careful of melancholy this week. When the Five of Cups shows up it challenges you to find two things good in every “bad” thing that happens. There are lessons for you in losses this week.
Last week, the Wheel gave you the choice of changing your fortune by saying yes to opportunities. The Emperor continues this by having you build on things you said yes to and found that you like it. This can look as simple as building a friendship that started last week, or as complex as building on that new business idea.
This week is all about your choices. Last week you had two big karma cards of Judgment-evolution and the Star – healing and hope. The theme of choosing to heal the past to pave the way to the portals of evolution continues this week. For those of you that choose or are chosen for the Tower, you still will have to deal with healing but you will have released the pace or outcome of that change/evolution. For those who choose to take the slower more controlled path the Nine of Pentacles challenges you to pull back from the world and contemplate what to do next.
The Six of Pentacles continues the theme of last week’s World card looking for opportunities that lead to the next phase sometime after mid-July. Remember last week challenging you to make your micro-cosmos represent your macro-cosmos. The Six of Pentacles challenges this at a karmic level. For all the good little deeds you put out in the world, they will come back to you three-fold in your macro-karma however so does the negative. So this week open doors for people, say thank you, or make someone cookies just because it is a nice thing to do. Be careful not to purposely offend someone, flip someone a bird on the road, or in general be aware of your material, spiritual and emotional footprint.
The King of Cups wants you to master your emotions. This King has you look at how you emotional deal with the outside world. Your challenge – to open up and reveal a bit of yourself to acquaintances.
The theme of last week’s Magician card bringing in the divine to the material world continues this week. Refine your focus to your home and home life, so this week your challenge is to focus on projects at and about your home. You will feel more at ease and accomplished in the outside world if your home is in order.
Science says that rest is a valuable component of your health regime and the Four of Swords recommends you will need it. The Four of Swords also challenges you actually to not push anything through this week.
The Two of Cups recommends applying your energy to deepen your close relationships. Our emotions are set into memory with our senses. So look in your love ones’ eyes, breathe in their scent, touch them with love, and listen to their feelings behind their words.
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