Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Feb 28, 2021

February 28, 2021 Nina

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 21, 2021

February 21, 2021 Nina

In ode to Pisces, this week’s artist Tsubaki. With a backdrop of ebony, Tsubaki highlights the sheen of scales, graceful tails, and vibrant colors of Carassius auratus or goldfish. In Asian art, goldfish represent harmony, luck, beauty, and wealth. Tsubaki not only successfully nods to this subject portrayal in older Asian paintings but also makes a fish look like living calligraphy.

The fancy goldfish above comes from 800 years of selective breeding the common Asian carp. Carp in China were used a s a food source and kept in rice fields to fertilize it. Carp is usually gray or silver but through natural mutation can produce red, orange or gold. Around the 9^th century these carp mutations were selected to be released into Buddhist ponds as an act of fang sheng or mercy release. This tradition of setting an animal free especially if it is rare is consider a good deed. Balancing out bad deeds and upping your “enlightenment points.”

By 1162 the empress of the Song Dynasty created a pond to collect only the gold and red varieties. At this time the gold/yellow variety was only allowed to be owned by the Imperial family. A hundred years later, through human selection, variations of colors started to be recorded. By the 1600’s goldfish became popular in Japan, Portugal and parts of Europe. It wasn’t until the 1850’s that goldfish were introduced into North America. Now in China and Japan there are over 300 fancy breeds of goldfish. Bred for color, fin shape and length, eye size, head size and body shape.

The pondering for the week: What one good deed could you to do this week to balance out some of your karma? And the planets the lite version – Mercury is direct and we have a full Moon in Virgo on the 27^th. It is a great week for organizing before jumping back into work. If you want a bit more info with working with your planets or daily card pulls. Here are some I am enjoying the Chani app for astrology, @touchbytarot for daily tarot pulls and/or for both goto @thetarotlady on Instagram she does a live each morning.

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

Nina

Aries

Five of Cups – The Muse of Spilled Milk is here to help you through this week. This week’s energy has its ups and downs, but it is not up to you to clean up the mess. The only thing you need to take away from the mayhem is the positive aspects left over. Some things can not or should not be fixed. Take away what works and leave the rest behind.

Taurus

Ten of Wands – Last week, the Muse of Metamorphosis had come to help change happen from the inside out. You still have time to work on innovating the new you or project; however, to do so you will need this week’s Muse of Burdens to assist. This energy advises you to let go of three items on your to-do list and postpone them until next week. You need to complete some of your obligations this week and to do so you must create time and space to do it in. Prioritize and work down your list one item at a time.

*Gemini

Hanged Man – Last week the energy was all go and this week it is not. The Muse of Suspension is holding the energies at bay, so you can take some time for introspection. This week you will find blocks that are purposely put in your way to make you stop and think. Something you are doing is not flowing with these new times. Innovation is needed this year and you need to do some deep soul searching to find how to tap into your inspiration. Meditate, stare out the window, doodle. Turn off the inner critic to hear your inner celestial self. The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. – Carl Sagan

Cancer

Ace of Cups – The energy this week is trying to connect to love, heart, and desires. This is a great week to begin something new that stirs your emotions. If your heart could have anything what would it be? Freedom, healing, connection as long as it begins with the seed of love it is possible.

Leo

Queen of Coins – The Muse of Luxury is knocking. Yes, she is pressing you to be a little self-indulgent right now. This muse comes when you are not connected to your sense and therefore not ground. She requires you to indulge each sense this week at least once, but more is better. Have your favorite meal, buy good smelling flowers or incense, soak your feet in Epsom salts, touch something soft, watch sunsets or snow falling. The more you partake in the sensual pleasures the more you connect with who you are.

Virgo

Queen of Cups – The Muse of Compassion and Caring has arrived. Yes, events and people pull on your heart strings this week. Compassion is the art form of feeling another’s suffering and then helping them. The challenge with this card is are giving yourself the same compassion as you would another. Your motto: Please place the mask over your own mouth and nose before assisting others. – every flight attendant.

*Libra

Death – The Muse of Letting Go is here to help you. This week the energy is ripe for letting go of what is no longer working for you. She first asks you where or what has unbalanced you? Do you have control over it? If not let it go. You cannot control or balance everything. A good example is if you are trying to resuscitate something again this is the time to release it. All things have a time and season, so work with the Universe instead of against it.

Scorpio

*Strength – The Muse of Beasts asks you to have a chat with your inner beasts good and bad about working with you instead of against you. This can be as simple as visual exercises like putting your jabberwocky inner critic in the back seat. Or having a chat with that sloth who is great for vacations and combing over details but is not helping you get to where you want to be. The key is good or bad they are there for a reason. Find their purpose and send them onto their appropriate tasks.

Sagittarius

Six of Coins – The Muse of Karmic Flow has shown up this week. She comes to remind you that what flows out will eventually flow back. This is a great energy if you put out positive vibes, for she returns it back three-fold. But she also does that with negative energy. Your song: Be Nice by the Black-Eyed Peas.

Capricorn

Three of Cups and Knight of Swords – Time to hang with your besties. Your emotional cup needs some filling, and your thoughts needs some sound boarding. On a side note, you also have the Muse of Missteps visiting. This Muse tells you to slow down on the physical plane and be careful about your extremities. So, while talking to your friends maybe not try to dice onions. Or get so engaged on the cell phone you forget to watch where you are walking.

Aquarius

Ace of Wands – Last week you ended your birth month with two themes re-defining who you are and building a more innovated world grounded in reality. This is a great week to brainstorm around those themes. The Muse of Inspirational Beginnings is asking you if you could plant any seed to this year’s goals what would it be? Remember Innovation is key.

Pisces

King of Coins – So far, your Muses want you to start creating elements for goals/life/persona that you are metaphorizing in. By letting go of what is not working, planting seeds to what you want to have happen, and then having the patience and tenacity of gardener to grow it. This year is about being in tune with and working with natural cycles and seasons to make your garden flourish. This week’s energy asks you to focus on manifestation and abundance. Ground yourself and tap into this world’s plentiful energy. The more you take part in the world the more you will find your part in it.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Feb 14, 2021

February 14, 2021 Nina

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 17^th, 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 18^th, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

February 7, 2021 Nina

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

Aries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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