Monthly Archives: March 2025

Tarotcast

Tarot and Art-cast for March 30 – April 12, 2025

Vasilisa Romanenko
Vasilisa Romanenko

The artist highlighted is Vasilisa Romanenko @vasilisa.romanenko. Vasilisa Romanenko is an illustrator, designer, and fine artist. “She creates paintings and drawings inspired by botany, natural history, and textile design. Her artwork depicts the mystery, beauty, and fragility of nature using botanical elements, intricate patterns, and vivid colors. Vasilisa sees her paintings as windows into a magical world, much like the one she enjoyed getting lost in as a child while reading fairy tales. She creates artwork using both traditional and digital mediums.”

Your pondering: My favorite childhood stories were about people being able to talk to animals or understand them. Dr. Doolittle was the big one for me.  What were your favorite fairy tales or stories as a child?  Did they have a common element?

Solar System highlights

On Monday the Moon moves into Taurus – keep yourself and projects moving.  On Wednesday it goes into Gemini – communication is highlighted.  On Friday it is in Cancer – get snuggly with the ones you love.  On Sunday April 6th the moon moves into Leo – your time to shine.  On Wednesday April 9th it goes into Virgo – keep things tidy and organized.  And on Friday the moon enters Libra – another weekend to hang with the ones you love.

Mercury is back into Pisces for round two figuring out how to communicate your dreams.  Also, it is in retrograde until April 6th, so remember to use this time to recharge, reflect and redo. Venus has also retrograded back to Pisces until April 30th.  This is your second chance to work with your dreams, art and creativity. Mars is in Cancer, so movement forward still takes alternate routes to get to your destination.

Our longer aspects: Jupiter, the planet of abundance and growth, is in Gemini until June.   This placement helps us to work with opportunities to grow and succeed through intellectual, verbal, and written pursuits.  However, we must also watch its challenging aspects: not following through, gossip, too much information and fickleness.   Saturn is in Pisces until May 25, wanting us to learn how to be more fluid and inclusive in our structures. And it is the last time it will work with Venus (love, beauty, creativity and art) for another 28 years, so it is a good idea to work on inking in some Venusian activities into your daily schedule.

 

EXTRA

*Signs with an * it is a big week for you.   Aries this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Libra it is your halfway mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check in, now is the time. `

**** I have a tip jar if you want to leave a gratuity for the tarot & art-casts.

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

Nina

 

 

Aries
Vasilisa Romanenko
Vasilisa Romanenko

Six of Fire – The Muse of Jubilation is working with you for the next two weeks.  This is quite appropriate because it is your birth month.  She would like you to celebrate all that you have worked so hard at doing for the past year.  Yeah, she acknowledges that there were challenges, but you have overcome them if you are reading this.  She also wants to remind you how amazing and unique you are, and now is the time to celebrate the you that you have become.

 

Taurus
Vasilisa Romanenko
Vasilisa Romanenko

*High Priestess – Okay so for these next two weeks the muses have given you a divine task(s).  The key with this energy is knowing that you were put on this earth to bring your divine unique presence into this world and these two weeks that are especially highlighted.  To do so you must be your most authentic self – that beautiful human flaws and follies included.  This is good practice for considering what you want to do with your new birth year.  What do you aspire to even when you are perfectly imperfect?

 

Gemini
Vasilisa Romanenko
Vasilisa Romanenko

Eight of Air – The Muse of Bondage comes when you are being held back by old thought patterns that no longer work for you.  These thoughts were put there by other people and you took them on as yours.  Possibly to fit in or you didn’t have the knowledge of experience and grabbed the first thing you could, to protect yourself.  Now is the time to release them, to fly and be free of others’ expectations and rules.

 

Cancerian
Vasilisa Romanenko
Vasilisa Romanenko

Seven of Water – The Muse of Imagination would like to work with you for the coming weeks.  She suggests you do exercises to expand your dreams.  Pondering what if scenarios that do not have boundaries or limitations.  Then she would like you to decipher the feelings behind those dreams and from those feelings create a wish list/vison board.  An example, you want a new car, the feeling behind it is freedom, so freedom becomes the wish.

 

Leo
Vasilisa Romanenko
Vasilisa Romanenko

*Fool – Your second round of big energy. Last week the Muse of Manifestation reminded you that you have all the tools to manifest your desires, you just need divine inspiration and focus to manifest them.  So, I hope you did some goal setting, for now the Muse of Exploration would like you to experience new things without judgement.  This challenge is to make sure your manifestations are not a rehash of old ideas or outdated means to materialize them. Clean off your workspace and start with a proverbial new canvas and just play around.

 

Virgo
Vasilisa Romanenko

*Emperor – The Muse of Building is working with you for the coming weeks.  This muse suggests only working on projects that are already in process.    This energy likes to build onto whatever is already in existence but needs adding on to make it more lucrative and efficient.  The challenge is building in durability as well as building for the common good.  This is a quality or over quantity vibe.

 

Libra
Vasilisa Romanenko
Vasilisa Romanenko

Nine of Fire – The next couple of weeks are going to present some challenges that will be hard for you as a justice loving sign to deal with.  The Muse of Boundaries suspects that an aspect in your environment will try to test your endurance and resilience. The key to navigating this energy is to know where you stand before you go into a situation.  And if you are called on to deal with something immediately at the very least take a moment before you engage.  This is not a time to fight so don’t cross others’ boundaries while at the same time being very clear where yours are.

 

Scorpio
Vasilisa Romanenko
Vasilisa Romanenko

*Temperance – The Muse of Mixology would like you to recalibrate aspects of your life.  Imagine your life as a bread recipe.  There are main ingredients (flour and water) that all lives are made of.  But depending on the bread you make, add some yeast to make it airier or bananas and chocolate to make it sweet and moist, the quality and tastes are different.  So, this muse would like you to figure out/tweak, what are the ingredients for your good life?  And in what quantity do you need each element to be to feel balanced?

 

Sagittarius
Vasilisa Romanenko
Vasilisa Romanenko

Three of Fire – The Muse of Endeavors would like you to use this retrograde time to reflect, restore and redo.  This is not a time to start new projects but to stand back and gain perspective on projects that are in the works now.  See this as a time of preparation.  A time to refuel and possibly rethink better mechanisms and routes to get what is in progress to the next stage.

 

Capricorn
Vasilisa Romanenko

Seven of Earth – Nothing like a Capricorn to use a time where you should be pulling back to work harder moving forward.  The next two weeks the Muse of Work is with you helping you make progress on things that you are focusing on.  However, she also challenges you to take at least a few days off to rest and restore your body and mind.  Yes, this can be a working vacation, but you also need to have some fun without goals, a schedule or a payout.

 

Aquarius
Vasilisa Romanenko

Eight of Earth – The Muse of Mastery is hanging with you for the next two weeks.  She would like you to tweak a skill you have mostly mastered.  So, think along the lines of, if you do woodworking, learn a new way to join wood without nails.  Or if you love baking, tweak your favorite recipe.  The challenge is to know what you are good at and then make it a bit better or be able to do it more efficiently.

 

Pisces
Vasilisa Romanenko

*Emperor – The Muse of Realization would like you to take a project you have on the backburner and bring it forward.   Look around your environment or work and see what needs to be done.  Maybe it’s getting an ergonomic chair, fixing the squeaky door, or that art project that has sat there for months. The challenge is working through the blocks.  You have got this, you know how to swim upstream.

Tarotcast

Tarot and Art-cast for March 16-29, 2025

Hiroo Isono
Hiroo Isono

The artist highlighted in this tarotart-cast is Hiroo Isono @awe_of_cold_water.  He is an illustrator, painter and worked in the digital realm of gaming.  Isono is known for his depictions of forest and landscapes in vibrant colors.  His images not only are saturated in color but also the subject itself.  He easily conveys the variety of flora and fauna in untouched ecospheres, while helping the viewer see the forest as a singular cohesive subject in and of itself.

Your pondering: Go ponder in some nature this week.

Solar System highlights

On Tuesday the Moon moves into Scorpio – follow your passion.  On Friday it goes into Sagittarius – adventure time.  On Sunday it is in Capricorn – energy that will help you prep for the week.  On Wednesday March 25th the moon moves into Aquarius – great for innovating processes.  On Friday the 27th it is in Piscis – time to daydream.  And we have the second eclipse on the March 29th in Aries – lay low if you can.

Mercury is in Aries – great for using communication to move things forward. The challenge is realizing compromise is the only way to do it.  So, watch “my way or the highway” kind of thinking.  Also it is in retrograde until April 6th, so remember to use this time to recharge, reflect and redo.

Venus is also in Aries.  This is not one of Venus’s favorite spots. But it does teach us to take Aries’ “go for it” energy to make the world a more loving place.  Just watch for stubbornness or over reaction.  Lead with curiosity and create win-win situations that move you and others forward not backwards. And then on March 27th they both move into Taurus.  This should help to soothe and stabilize some of the eclipse energy.

Mars is in Cancer, so movement forward still takes alternate routes to get to your destination.

Our longer aspects: Jupiter, the planet of abundance and growth, is in Gemini until June.   This placement helps us to work with opportunities to grow and succeed through intellectual, verbal, and written pursuits.  However, we must also watch its challenging aspects: not following through, gossip, too much information and fickleness.   Saturn is in Pisces until May 2025, wanting us to learn how to be more fluid and inclusive in our structures.

 

EXTRA

*Signs with an * it is a big week for you.   Pisces/Aries this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Virgo/Libra it is your halfway mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check in, now is the time. `

**** I have a tip jar if you want to leave a gratuity for the tarot & art-casts.

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

Nina

 

 

Aries
Hiroo Isono
Hiroo Isono

Nine of Water – The Muse of Contentment is with you for the coming weeks.  She asks you to ponder the things you are grateful for and support aspects and relationships that fulfill you.  She advises practicing letting go of perfection and judgement.  This is about embracing the flaws and mishaps.  Remember not everything has to be at 11.

 

Taurus
Hiroo Isono
Hiroo Isono

*Strength – Hopefully the last two weeks you have been dismantling what doesn’t work.  Because now the Muse of Inner Strength is wanting you to rebuild from the inside out.  She advises pondering your superpowers and then utilizing them to combat the shadowy sides of your world that are happening right now.  By doing so you are improving your poise. Poise is defined as finding your equilibrium and strengthening your inner core.  You can shore that up with exercises like meditation and acknowledging your resilience, so you can go out in the world and be the change you want to see.

 

Gemini
Hiroo Isono
Hiroo Isono

Ten of Fire – The Muse of Burdens comes when you have signed up for too much.  This muse advises prioritizing what needs to be done in the coming weeks and then highlighting the ones that only you can do.  Next, take the last two items and cross them off.  There are three reasons for doing this exercise- seeing where you overcompensate for others, seeing there is only so much time in a day and asking for help.  You are not alone, nor do you need to do it all on your own.  Your sign is a sign of community so start utilizing yours.

 

Cancerian
Hiroo Isono
Hiroo Isono

Heart of Air – These next two weeks the muses would like you to be uber-observant.  To come at all things with curiosity and hold off any judgements or decisions until this period is over or possibly until the end of this retrograde.  Ponder the why behind why you do and feel things, making sure you do so without judgement.   Use this time to do your research.  Make use of your therapist skills when dealing with others.  The challenge is not to come off as an integrator.  Lead with curiosity and practice making your “touch” like a light breeze.

 

Leo
Hiroo Isono
Hiroo Isono

*Magician – The Muse of Manifestation is in your corner for the coming weeks.  She reminds you that you have all the tools to manifest your desires.  However, the challenge for these manifestations to flow freely is you will need divine intentions.  She asks what is your divine calling?  How do your creations benefit the greater good?  Without a focus this energy will dissipate into the atmosphere instead of powering your will. So, is your focus tuned in enough to direct your energy?  Focus and goals are key to navigating this retrograde period.

 

Virgo
Hiroo Isono

Two of Air – Decisions loom around you these coming weeks.   Yes, we make decisions all the time, but during this period the muses advise that your decision should be based on how you want to move forward instead of defined goals.  During this period your key to fruitful decisions is more about the journey than the destination.

 

Libra
Hiroo Isono

Spirit of Earth – The Muse of the Senses is your companion for the coming weeks.  She challenges you to engage all your senses every day.  This challenge is all about being mindful and slowing down so you can enjoy the life you are creating.   So do activities like eating new foods, getting a new scented soap or candle, go to a concert, go to a museum, fiddle with your loved one’s hair.  Doing these things will ground you into the life you desire.

 

Scorpio
Hiroo Isono

Three of Water – These next two week the Muse of Friendship is partying with you. She challenges you to hang out with your friends.  However, if by chance you are feeling alone now is the time to go and make some new friends. The amazing thing about this activity is not only do you need to dip your emotional cup into the support of those you love, but they also need some quality time with you.  This is about mutual appreciation and gratitude for the community you have/are creating.

Sagittarius
Hiroo Isono

*Moon – Another high energy couple of weeks for you.  This time the Muse of Emotions is hanging out with you.  This muse challenges you to do a deep dive into your emotional landscape to reconnect with the why behind what you are doing. If your emotions and reasoning are aligned, then this investigation will strengthen your resolve. However, if your emotions are not jiving with what you do, then you need to reassess either your goals, your work choice, or check your ego. Because something is off. This muse reminds you that your heart is a lot smarter during this period than your mind, so follow the feels.

 

Capricorn
Hiroo Isono

Nine of Air – The Muse of Overthinking comes when you could spend too much time in your thoughts and not in your body or tuned what could be instead of what is. Your challenge is to stay in the present and work only on issues that you have control over.  The rest lay aside until the time is right to tackle them.

 

Aquarius
Hiroo Isono

Five of Cups – The Muse of Spilled Milk is collaborating with you for the coming weeks. She comes when you need to find the silver lining in the clouds.  She admits that life is a bit challenging, chaotic and demanding your attention. However, she advises spending this retrograde period giving your time and attention to the things that are positive.   To leave the negative on the ground at least for right now.

 

Pisces
Hiroo Isono

Four of Fire – The Muse of Happy Home comes when you need to put some positive hang time into your abode.  This can look like redecorating, cleaning, fixing the little things that make life easier and more comfortable in your home.  So, when you walk in you feel invited, cozy and relaxed.

Tarotcast

Tarot and Art-cast for March 2- 15, 2025

Bennu and Futuraheliopolis, Rithika Merchant

The artist highlighted in this tarotart-cast is Rithika Merchant @rithikamerchant. Merchant’s work “explores the common threads that run through different cultures and religions. Similar myths, stories, and ideas are shared by cultures all around the world; her paintings explore this concept while also featuring creatures and symbolism that are part of her personal visual vocabulary.”

Using collage, painting, drawing and geometric paper folds, she gets the viewer to perceive and examine our connections between the mind, body, and Earth. And perhaps ponder that we have similar pieces that make us relatable to another, but it is how we put these pieces together that makes us unique. As she stated in an interview for Colossal: “I think there is something powerful in taking whatever scraps you can find and putting them together to create something meaningful.”

Your pondering: I have always been intrigued by our use of symbols, especially those that we see cross cultures like the image of an eye or the sun.  Symbols are often simple and at the same time hold a larger content.   What symbols or images would you use to represent you?    

Solar System highlights

We begin with the Moon in Taurus on Monday – great energy to get things done.  On Thursday it moves into Gemini – communication and information exchange are emphasized.  On Saturday it moves into Cancer – do things around the house.  On Monday March 10th  the moon moves into Leo – your time to shine.  On Wednesday the 12th it moves into Virgo – great for organizing.  We have an eclipse on the 14th lay low if you can.  Then on Saturday the 15th the moon is in Libra – relationships take priority.

Mercury is now in Aries – great for using communication to move things forward. The challenge is realizing compromise is the only way to do it.  So, watch “my way or the highway” kind of thinking. Mars is retrograde in Cancer, so movement forward still takes alternate routes to get to your destination.

Venus is still in Aries.  This is not one of Venus’s favorite spots. But it does teach us to follow through with our actions and to take this Aries “go for it” energy to make the world a more loving place.  Just watch for stubbornness or over reaction.  Lead with curiosity and create win-win situations that move you and others forward not backwards.

Our longer aspects: Jupiter, the planet of abundance and growth, is in Gemini until June.   This placement helps us to work with opportunities to grow and succeed through intellectual, verbal, and written pursuits.  However, we must also watch its challenging aspects: not following through, gossip, too much information and fickleness.   Saturn is in Pisces until May 2025 wanting us to learn how to be more fluid and inclusive in our structures.

 

EXTRA

*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. `

**** I have a tip jar if you want to leave a gratuity for the tarot & art-casts.

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

Nina

 

 

Aries
Quantum Fluctuations, Rithika Merchant

Six of Air – The Muse of Tiny Transitions will be traveling with you this week.   She challenges you to make little doable changes in your life that will move you to a clearer more efficient headspace.  For example: wanting to get up earlier, she advises just starting to set your alarm in 10-minute increments until you get to the hour you are wanting to rise at.  Look for small simple ways to make your life and thoughts more efficient and your daily life easier.  And on a side note, this muse says water is an important element to make this transition.  Whether that is going to the beach or lake or taking a bath, this exercise is a great way to hear yourself think.

 

Taurus
Deliverance, Rithika Merchant

*Tower – The Muse of Deconstruction comes when you need help seeing what isn’t working in your life.  This can be something like physically not taking care of your body, mentally not taking care of your mind, being in the wrong vocation, or as simple as oiling a hinge that’s squeaking and is driving you crazy.  The key with thus energy is not ignoring the cracks or wishing away the irritants that can be fixed.  So, look at what in your daily life resources you and dismantle what does not.

 

Gemini
Plant Medicine, Rithika Merchant

Nine of Earth – The Muse of Discernment challenges you to see what and who you are dependent on.  Are you being realistic with your expectations of them? Are you taking action instead of being reactive?  This Muse reminds you that relationships are important to your well being, but they also can be a detriment if interdependence changes to dependance.

 

Cancerian
Halcyon Days, Rithika Merchant

Body of Earth – The Muse of Pace advise during the next two weeks to watch your pace as well as move at the appropriate one.  These coming weeks need a slow and steady movement to gain ground. This may seem contrary to Mars being in your sign.  For most people this aspect of working on sideways movements to gain traction is hard, tries their patience but is meant to help see alternatives to the narratives.  However, this is old tromping grounds for crabs. You all by instinct can find alternative solutions to any problem.

 

Leo
Midnight Sun, Rithika Merchant

Spirit of Water – The Muse of Compassion is working with you for the next two weeks.  She advises that kindness and sincerity are not only useful to get things done with others but also will tame your inner lion(ness).  These challenge times bring out the protective side of you all and most of the time this is helpful and appreciated.  Who doesn’t want a big cat in your corner.  However, this muse recommends for the next two weeks to be more kitten-like, cute, playful and if they scratch, they are easily forgiven.

 

Virgo
Providence, Rithika Merchant

King of Fire – The Muse of Vibrancy is challenging you this week.  Vibrancy is defined as the state of being full of energy and life.  This muse wants you to be the beacon in helping us, as a community, to become more vibrant in our own lives as well as others.  So, this muse tasks you to help others become more of who they are instead of who they should be.  So, the muses ask you to shine in your uniqueness to inspire others to shine in theirs. Your motto: I am the change I want to see in the world.

 

Libra
Rithika Merchant
Panorama II, Rithika Merchant

Body of Fire – The Muse of Adventure would like you to do two things.  One to see your life as an adventure full of curiosities to discover and puzzles to unravel.  And secondly to take a real-life adventure.  It can be a day trip or a weekend.  The where is less about the destination and more about the journey there.

 

Scorpio
Rithika Merchant
Altered Destiny, Rithika Merchant

*Magician – These next two week the Muse of Experimentation is hanging with you.  She would like you to experiment with some part of your life where you are trying to manifest or conjure up something new.  The key is that this new aspect’s what, how and when need to be played around with to manifest something truly unique and useful.  So, she challenges you to let go of expectations and work on bringing the divine (excellent; delightful) into the world.

 

Sagittarius
Rithika Merchant
Rithika Merchant

*Lovers – The Muse of Relationships is working with you for the next two weeks.  She challenges you to be more intimate with people.  Maybe of late you have pulled away or felt the need to be independent and freewheeling, for this is your natural state.  However, this muse is asking you to engage more deeply with the people around you.  You all are the philosophers of the zodiac and easily see how all things are interconnected, but the Muses are challenging you to take actions to prove it.

 

Capricorn
Mothership II, Rithika Merchant

*World – The Muse of Integration is choosing to walk with you in the coming weeks.  This energy shows up when you are in an alpha and omega moment.  Where aspects of your life are coming to an end while simultaneously things are beginning. You are here at this moment because of all your hard work and therefore ending a chapter.   While simultaneously you are walking into a new cycle of evolution.  She advises that you let go of the past as you finalize it, so your arms are open to embrace the future.

 

Aquarius
Panorama III (Aether), Rithika Merchant

Mind of Earth – The Muse of Building comes to give you energy to build upon what already is in existence.  This is a great time to finish off things on your to-do list, and to bring projects that were on the backburner to the front.  This muse suggests using this Mars in Cancer energy to find alternative ways to get past the blocks you might have with unfinished projects.

 

Pisces
The Inner Sanctum, Rithika Merchant

*Hanged One – The Muse of Suspension comes when you need to put things are hold so you can contemplate new perspectives.  This energy’s mythology is based on Odin hanging from the Tree of Life and discovering the runes.  The key to this story is him discovering the runes not that he created them.  There is a little quantum theory with this energy.  It is the concept that everything already exists, and we just need to align ourselves with that thing’s frequency to tune into it.  So, use this time to sit back and just ponder – let your mind wander and see what it discovers.