Tarot and Art-Cast for week of July 30, 2023

July 30, 2023 Nina

The artist this week is Akilah Watts @stricklyakilah. Watts’ work is as vibrant as the landscape of Barbados, but this is a point of many of her paintings. Is that she is a native and she and the people of the island are “part of the landscape” of Barbados. Most people see it as a vacation spot but for her and other local artists, this is home. As Watts says, she is trying to make a more realistic version of her home than the idealistic one of people who travel to it.

Where Watts’ previous work was about an external perspective this year she is working on a “new practice of being more in the moment, I have found myself experiencing a number of out-of-body experiences and I have been documenting the feelings of Absence that those experiences have evoked within me.” The commonality of her inner and outer art is that it conveys a vitality that resides in her as an artist, a seer, and a soul.

Your pondering for the week: Work on seeing the people in your environment like the flora and fauna of your landscape. This will help you connect to the coexistence that is always around us.

Solar System highlights

The moon begins in Capricorn – discipline is key to the beginning of the week. On Tuesday it moves into Aquarius – think outside the box until Thursday when you will need to go with the flow. Then during the weekend, the moon is in its home sign Cancer – perfect for finding your cozy spot and naps.

Mercury (communication and knowledge) is in Virgo (analyzation) for a 10 weeklong stay. So, this is around lessons with getting to the point when communicating. Being clear and concise is the goal. Mars (action) is also in Virgo until August 27^th. This combo makes getting things check off your to-do list easier. While Venus (beauty and harmony) is in Leo until October 8th. This is a four-month exploration on the question: Does your outward expression of yourself harmonize with who you are within?

Jupiter (growth) is in Taurus, an aspect that nurtures expansion of pleasure in our lives. The challenge is dipping into overindulgence while investigating this aspect. So, we have until May 2024 to work on perfecting our balance between work and play. Then Saturn (structures) is in its two-year stint with Pisces so we can make our structures elastic and responsive to change. The challenge is our boundaries can get too bendy or have gaps, so we need to work on being flexible but resilient.

And lastly Pluto (the hidden, death, wealth, and shadow) in Capricorn (work, structure, business, and discipline) until January 2024. So, Pluto is back to playing in the world of business and capitalism. This cycle started in 2008, so whatever you started back then this is the time to tie up any lose ends especially around the house and planets in Capricorn in your natal chart.

***Signs with an * it is 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. And I have a tip jar if you want to leave a gratuity for the weekly forecasts.

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

Nina

Aries

*Justice – The Muse of Responsibility is wanting you to make some decisions. The challenge is that these decisions must be for the good of all. You will need to hear everyone’s side and find the win-win situation. This Muse reminds you the this is less about blame and more about fairness.

Taurus

*Fool – The Muse of Possibilities has joined you on your journey. This is a time where beginnings happen, but these are less about planning these jumping off points and more about spontaneously discovering them. And this Muse reminds you to have faith for you are surefooted on any path you take. Think of this week like a treasure hunt or looking for Pokémon. The more you are out and about the more you find.

Gemini

*High Priestess – The Muse of Intuition would like you to tap into yours this week. You have been questioning yourself too much. Overthinking. Trying to make logical deductions and decisions in an illogical and unpredictable landscape. Follow your gut and Spidey sense this week. Also, this Muse will lead you to some interesting information, but it is hidden in synchronicities and symbols.

Cancerian

Seven of Water– The Muse of Imagination would like you to flex your daydreaming muscle. Daydreaming activates your imagination, but the challenge is sometimes your imagination can not be manifested into reality. So, if you use this week as an exercise in playfully thinking about your life and at the same time keeping your expectations grounded.

Leo

Ace of Earth – This week you are granted by the Muses a fertile field to plant your material-plane based seeds/wishes. Make a list of materials things you want to sprout in the coming year. The challenge is making both big and little wishes for the muses to work on. The Muses remind you this is a more natural variegated garden not a Monsanto genetically modified one crop field. Be diverse in your wishes.

Virgo

*Chariot – The Muse of Momentum works with our ambitions, impetus, and control. When she pulls up you need to work on the where, when, and how of this part of your journey or project. Maybe you need to check your metaphorically tires or refuel. Maybe you need to just move forward but also check your GPS and make sure you are heading in the right direction. No matter what the scenario this is about going forward not back and definitely not about making donuts in the parking lot of life.

Libra

Queen of Fire – The Muse of Outdoors would like you to go engulf yourself in some nature. Whether that is reading a book in the park, finding shells at the beach, fishing or kayaking in a river or gardening in your backyard, this week you need to breathe in the open air to reset your natural rhythms.

Scorpio

Three of Water – The Muse of Friendship comes when your emotional cups need filling. Something only besties can do well. The cool thing about this hang, other than laughter and good times, is your friends need your company as much as you need theirs.

Sagittarius

Nine of Fire – Where last week was all about movement, this week the Muse of Interludes has arrived. Take this week to refuel, restock and prepare for August. The Dog Days of summer are coming so go take a dip in a pool or nap in a hammock. This is not a week to push things through.

Capricorn

Four of Fire – The Muse of Home is advising to hang around at home as much as possible this week. Fill your home with sweet scents and sounds. Bring your house flowers to thank it for providing a haven for you. And if you are not feeling safe, this is a time to reassess and take actions to make it so.

Aquarius

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Ace of Air– More decisions this week. Where last week it was about choice, this week’s decisions are about new directions. Something doesn’t feel right, and the Muses would like to help you remedy it. The challenges are you need to decide which direction you want to begin this journey on, and this might require a new mindset. Ask the Muses for communique like signs and or new knowledge you stumble upon.

Pisces

Two of Earth – The Muse of Balance comes when two aspects of your life are not balanced. For example, this can be work and play or nutritional meals versus comfort meals. What two things are butting heads and stalling out you from moving forward. This is not about letting either one go, but more about actions steps in moderation and compromise.

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Tarot and Art-Cast for week of July 23, 2023

July 23, 2023 Nina

The artist this week is Rowena Meeks Abdy. Abdy was an American Modernist painter who primarily painted the landscapes of California. Her street scenes and landscapes in oils, watercolors and mixed-media drawings appeared in over fifty exhibitions throughout California from 1908 to the mid-1940s. She also illustrated two books On the Ohio and Old California. These are now considered examples of historical landscape that give us a peek into earlier eras of each region.

Your pondering for the week: The last 10 years of her career she stopped using the “color” white. If you had to take away a color, what would it be? For me it would be bubblegum pink. (Yeah Barbie™, I said it).

Solar System highlights

The moon begins in Libra – attending to relationships and balance are key to the beginning of week. On Wednesday it moves into Scorpio – find time for what makes your heart zing. Then on Friday through the weekend it is in Sagittarius – great for travel and jaunts to new places.

Mercury (communication and knowledge) moves into Virgo (analyzation) on Thursday for a 10 weeklong stay. So, it moves from creative expression to a more serious getting down to brass tacks tactic. Mars (action) is also in Virgo until August 27^th. This combo makes getting things done on your to-do list easier. While Venus (beauty and harmony) is in Leo until October 8th. This is a four-month exploration on the question: Does your outward expression of yourself harmonize with who you are within?

Jupiter (growth) is in Taurus, an aspect that nurtures expansion of pleasure in our lives. The challenge is dipping into overindulgence. So, we have until May 2024 to work on perfecting our balance between work and play. Then Saturn (structures) is in its two-year stint with Pisces so we can make our structures elastic and responsive to change. The challenge is our boundaries can get too bendy or have gaps, so we need to work on being flexible but resilient.

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

Nina

Aries

Seven of Water – The Muse of Daydreams is calling to you this week. When this energy shows up the universe is asking for direction to help you manifest your dreams. This Muse asks if you had no restrictions or obstructions what would you dream for? Let your imagination soar this week. There is nothing to lose when imagining; conversely, there is tons of insight to gain.

Taurus

*Justice – The Muse of Accountability comes when you are asked to choose a side or stand up for someone or yourself. This is no time to let things go. Whether this is about calling your representatives, standing with a colleague or friend, or naming your truth, this week you need to speak up. And continue doing so until you are heard.

Gemini

*Fool – This week you might need a re-do. The Muse of Clean Slates is asking you to wipe clean your mistakes, missteps, or possible mind changing and start afresh. This energy wants you to re-work a situation in a whole new light. Think innovation and step outside the box to find another way. And she reminds you don’t forget to lighten your step while doing it. Your song: Whistle While you Work.

Cancerian

*Empress and Page of Water– The Muse of Growth teams up with the Muse of Joy this week to have you start the process of bringing more joy into your life. Now these two together remind you this is a process of adding small actions into your days that bring a smile to your lips. They need to be easy and achievable actions that you can do on a regular basis.

Leo

*Tower – Last week the Muse of Manifestation asked you to confer with the celestials about what you want to manifest this coming year with the tools you have already in hand. Now the Muse of Demolition wants you to confer with the celestials about what needs to be de-constructed so you can build a new. There will be some healing in this process and the muses want you to have some say in the matter. Because if you don’t figure this out the universe will step into “help”.

Virgo

Ace of Swords – This week heralds a new beginning. But it requires a decision on your part. The challenge is you will need to elevate something. It could be literally positioning higher, or it could be a metaphorical placement. Either way innovation and new knowledge are the keys.

Libra

Five of Air – All fives herald chaos in some manner. This one is based around ego. Whether it is your ego getting in the way of a solution or another’s, this block needs to be removed. The easiest way is to talk about the facts instead of the possibilities.

Scorpio

Nine of Fire – The Muse of Preparation advises that it is key to prepare for each day this week. This means packing your lunches ahead of time, picking out your clothes for the next day, or checking if you have all the parts, you need before you start that project. As Benjamin F. said, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

Sagittarius

*Chariot – The Muse of Momentum is one of the energies you work with your whole life. This muse works with our ambitions, impetus, and control. When she arrives in your energy sphere you need to work on the where, when, and how of your journey or project. Maybe you need to pull off the road and check your metaphorically tires or refuel. Maybe you need to just move forward, or you may have to check your GPS and make sure you are heading in the right direction. Either way this is about going forward not back and definitely not about doing donuts in the parking lot of life.

Capricorn

Two of Fire – The Muse of Thoughtfulness asks you to engage in the act of pondering. She advises not only to contemplate the small stuff but also the big ideas too. Practice drill down to the micro and then expanding out to the macro.

Aquarius

Two of Swords – We all have decisions to make every day, but the Muse of Decisions wants you to look at resolving yours a bit differently this week. She advises to take the perspective of how you would feel in each decision- not to work with logic but more with your emotions.

Pisces

Five of Fire – This week brings chaos, but you have the choice to join in the whirlwind or to stand on the sidelines. The Muse of Mayhem reminds you that, if you do decide to join, you need to totally commit until the game’s conclusion. Think Jumanji.

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Tarot and Art-Cast for week of July 16, 2023

July 16, 2023 Nina

The artist this week is Simone Leigh, @simoneyvetteleigh. Leigh works in a variety of media including sculpture, installations, video, performance, and social practice to foreground black female experience. She describes her work as auto-ethnographic extracting figures and architectural forms in bronze, ceramic, and raffia that reference sources from Pan-African culture. Often, she combines “premodern techniques and materials—including lost-wax casting, salt-fired ceramics, and terracotta—with potent cultural iconographies such as cowrie shells, plantains, and tobacco. As she has written “I am charting a history of change and adaptation, through objects and gesture and the unstoppable forward movement of Black women.”

She will have a show from Nov. 3^rd 2023 to March 3^rd 2024. at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC.

Your pondering for the week: What cultural or generational icons do you identify with? How does society perceive them and then how do you? Do they move you forward or hold you back?

Solar System highlights

The moon begins in Cancer – watch oversensitivity but great for reading a room. On Tuesday it moves into Leo – great time to shine but watch boastfulness. Then on Friday through the weekend it is in Virgo – work on your to-do list.

Mercury (communication and knowledge) joins Venus in Leo (expressing who you are, light). Venus (beauty and harmony) is in Leo until October 8th. This is a four-month exploration on the question: Does your outward expression of yourself harmonize with who you are within? So, these two together would like you to do some studying, learning that will let you create more beauty in your life.

Mars (action) is Virgo until August 27^th. This combo makes getting things done on your to-do list easier. Jupiter (growth) is in Taurus, an aspect that nurtures expansion of pleasure in our lives. The challenge is dipping into overindulgence. So, we have until May 2024 to work on perfecting our balance between work and play. Then Saturn (structures) is in its two-year stint with Pisces so we can make our structures elastic and responsive to change. The challenge is our boundaries can get too bendy or have gaps, so we need to work on being flexible but resilient.

***Signs with an * it is a big week for you. Cancer this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year. And Capricorn it is your halfway mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check in now is the time. And I have a tip jar if you want to leave a gratuity for the weekly forecasts.

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

Nina

Aries

King of Water – The Muse of Emotional Maturity is asking you to be the adult in the room this week. She wants you to not only reflect on your reactions in situations but to apply empathy to the people’s circumstances around you also. This week read the room before engaging.

Taurus

Six of Earth – The Muse of Reciprocity foretells this week is all about fair exchanges. The more positive energy you put out in the world the more you get back. This works with negative vibes too. The challenge with this Muse is the path of return is not a straight route.

Gemini

Three of Water – The Muse of Friendship is visiting you. This energy shows up when your emotional cup needs a refilling that only good friends can do. So, find time to hang out with your besties.

Cancerian

*Death – How appropriate for the final week of your birth month. The Muse of Death comes not only to end old cycles but to fertilize the ground for new ones. She asks what do you need to weed out of your garden to make space for new seedlings? Remember when choosing your seedlings for a balanced garden, you need to plant nutritious vegetables as well as beautiful flowers to attract pollinators. This change wants a balance of function and form

Leo

*Magician – As you enter your birth month the Muse of Manifestation has arrived. She asks what do you want to manifest this coming year with the tools you have already in hand? The challenge is this Muse wants these manifestations to be prompted by the celestials. So, spend this week in quiet mediation, connect with the spirt realm and do some divine planning.

Virgo

*Temperance – The Muse of Moderation is here to help remix the balance in your life. Some aspects of how, what, or the why you are doing something is unbalanced. She reminds you, like a good cocktail or entrée, the ingredients are not in equal amounts. To enhance the flavor, one uses a dash of this and that to make it tasteful and unique. Somehow you have metaphorically over-salted a part of your life. Take this week to get it back into “equilibrium”.

Libra

*Wheel – This week has aspects that you balance loving Libras do not like – surprises. The Muse of Fortune comes when unexpected outcomes or aspects come into our lives. They can seem to be good or unlucky. But the amazing thing about this muse is she brings unexpected change into your life which in the long run sets you up for a win. The challenge is allowing the unforeseen and uncontrollable to happen.

Scorpio

Ten of Air – This week has all the potential for a mishap. The Muse of Instinct however is at your side. She reminds you that your gut is very good at telling you what and what not to do if you would only listen and then trust it. If you sense to not engage in something do not push through it. This week is not about facing your fear or being strong but listening to your intuition.

Sagittarius

Ace of Air – This week holds a few decisions that you need to make with your head and logic and not your heart. This is counter to what all the planets’ energy is giving out, so it may feel weird not to check in with your emotions. But this week your emotions befuddle the situation. Also Aces herald new beginnings and this one is about new thought processes, writing or knowledge in general.

Capricorn

Six of Fire – The Muse of Success is here to applaud what you have been doing. However, she also warns before you jump into a new project, you need to celebrate your success and rest in your laurels. Take this week to refresh, revive and relish the time before the next challenge or quest.

Aquarius

King of Fire – The Muse of Sovereignty advises that you take the lead this week. Not only because it is easier but also because, to be honest, you are right. You have the know-how, the smarts to know when you don’t, and the wherewithal to find the right help if you need it. Lead on.

Pisces

Eight of Water – The Muse of Cleaning is here with a broom, bucket, and mop. Yep, this week you need to clean up. Whether it’s your desk, your house, garage, inbox, or mind, clutter and debris are not your friends. The more you clean the finer your focus and the easier the work.

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Cancerian

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Virgo

Libra

Scorpio

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Libra

Scorpio

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