Monthly Archives: February 2019

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Tarotcast for Week of Feb. 24, 2019

Happy Birthday Pisces!

Things have been a bit intense in my life, consequently I did not have time to research an artist this week.  So just a cool pic of the stars in Pisces’ constellation.

P.S.  Remember signs with an * it a big week for you.

 

Aries

Three of Pentacles – Working with others is your goal and challenge.  Collaboration is key this week for progress to happen.

 

Taurus

Seven of Swords – The Seven of Swords ask you to set your intentions.  Things done is haste or without forethought lead to isolation and possible a moral misstep.  Planning, scheduling, prioritizing, and possibly asking for help is need this week.
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Tarotcast for the Week of Feb. 17, 2019

What Next and Why Not, Joyce J. Scott exhibition at Peter Blum gallery

The above pieces were done by Joyce C Scott.  Who was just named 2019 Smithsonian Visionary Artist.   She works in a variety of mediums: quilts, print-maker, installations etc…but I am highlighting her beaded sculptures.   She uses materials such as leather, fabric, glass, found objects and thousands of seed beads.  Her pieces bring to light discussions of race, slavery, heritage, and gender.

The first beads were made about 20,000 years ago with bone and wood.  The first seed beads, small beads made of glass, were made in Mesopotamia 2430-2180 BC.  The seed bead actual starts off as a glass tube that is stretched, then cut and re-fired for smoothness and color.  It wasn’t until the Middle Ages that beads became massed produce and Venice made them a fashion statement.  Venetian glass-makers monopolized the bead industry for about 600 years by keeping their techniques surreptitious. The glass-making methods were so highly protected that a glass-maker could face the death penalty if they shared the secrets.

P.S.  Remember signs with an * it a big week for you.

 

Aries

Queen of Wands – Queen of Wands advise us to see the purpose of the variety of energies that surge through us in life.  She advises us not to try dominating or controlling them or the people around us.  Her way is that of acceptance not cynicism.

 

 

Taurus

Joyce C ScottTwo of Cups – The Two of Cups foretells that love is in the air.  This week your focus should be on intimacy in the relationships you hold dear or creating new ones.  Time for candlelight diners and walks on the beach.  The challenge is knowing your truth and sharing it.
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Tarotcast for the Week of Feb. 10, 2019

This week’s artist is Julie Methretu.  Her art seems like a contemplation of finding peace and space in our chaotic world.  At first glance, these paintings seem as random scribbles and shapes on an architectural blue print – another abstraction of reality.  But then you notice her process, layer after layer taking months to complete and then just the sheer size that she works in.  Her work is a combination of Japanese calligraphy, areas in water-color and the geometric nature of architecture and shapes.

Julie MehretuHer art represents the complexity of urban life.  The chaotic nature of sight, sound, and smell overlaying the inert backdrop of urban space: buildings, electric lines, and sidewalks.  Observe her art in layers as you would walking in a city and adding your senses one at a time.  First just with your sight taking in the backdrop of the stillness of architecture.  Next with ears and eyes closed smell, that is the layer of misty color wafting in the mid-ground.  Now, just close your eyes and listen, that communication becomes the added black lines, swirling and connecting.  Finally, when you take it all in, like her art, you see the layers of life and you begin to appreciate the chaos and beauty of its interactions.

 

P.S.  Remember signs with an * it a big week for you.  If you do a beginning of a year Astrological Reading now is the time.

 

Aries

Julie MehretuSix of Wands – Six of Wands is the card of winning a battle, solving a conundrum or a positive outcome of a task.  The challenge with this card is to soak in that victory for the war or project still has some thing to finalize.  But use this week as a respite in the race.

 

Taurus

Julie MehretuSix of Pentacles – The Six of Pentacles is the baby karma card.  What you give out, you will receive threefold back – good or bad.  This is a week where little acts of kindness or do-goodness paves the way to the pot of gold.
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Tarotcast for Week of February 3, 2019

Happy birthday Aquarius!

The above piece, a nod to you all, is called The Waterbearer by Lorna Simpson. She explained this piece was a contemplation of memories related to her father’s family tendency of relating family history, they would stop short or not fill in the blanks. In most of her pieces she makes the audience do some of that work.  I like that she is not only aware of her self in a piece but also her audience’s experience.

Simpson is a contemporary artist that is as versatile as you can get.  Her works range from paintings, collages, photography, sculptures and films.  One of the things she strives for is to have the images convey her experience not only as black woman but also as part of the collective experience of being American.  She has an expectation that her audience has to come with me, and that there is a universalism that I assume in what I am doing.

Her art explores the notion of identity is self-constructed and equally created by our imposed cultural dogma.  So self-construction becomes at times complex and contradictory.  In doing this exercise with her, her art becomes a place where we all can meet and empathize.  These concepts of who are we as individuals and as a collective is very Aquarian.

P.S.  Remember signs with an * it a big week for you.  If you do a beginning of a year Astrological Reading.

 

Aries

Lorna Simpson

Knight of Cups – This week your theme is tending to things of the heart.  Your challenge is allowing yourself to be vulnerable.  What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.  Brene Brown.

 

 

 

Taurus

Lorna SimpsonFour of Pentacles – The Four of Pentacles brings a week where you do not have enough cash, time and/or space.  This can make you hold these things even closer and causing you to feel resentful, frazzled or ungenerous.  The challenge for this card is to learn that less can be more.
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