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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of March 21, 2021

March 21, 2021 Nina

The artist this week is Leilah Babirye. Babirye’s art guides us into ponderings about ancestors, history, and societal groups. Her sculptures are constructions of wood or ceramic adorned with found objects. Part new, part past and part the living history around her. Her titles and inspirations come from her personal story where ancestral lineages are essential though her ancestral present does not serve her. Babriye comes from Buganda a kingdom of Uganda however, she had to leave six years ago because of homophobic death threats.

In Uganda members of a clan create kinships. They consider themselves siblings or an interconnected family inconsequential to their bloodline. Babriye incites us to see that we can reestablish kinship when our historical structures fail us. With this series she creates ancestors from Kuchu Clan. Kuchu being a secret endearment used within the queer community in her native land. We classical define clans as the principal social unit of a tribal organization which is descended from a common ancestor. Babriye’s art shows us our need for connection, and if the system or social construct cannot support us, we can make our own.

Ponderings for the week: With the Pope and therefore the Catholic Church again condemning same sex relationships as a sin. We still have a lot of prejudice to weed out of our institutional systems. Where do your belief systems support biases? How can we honor our heritage but also allow it to evolve with our collective conscious? Who would your chosen ancestor be? Is it time to re-cite your story?

Planets: Venus goes into Aries today. This can be a very playful and action filled week, however; on Tuesday, March 23 there are some funky planet configurations. Be kind and watch that you don’t jump into situations that cause more trouble then good.

P.S. 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.

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

Nina

Aries

Leilah Babirye, Omumbejja Sangalyabongo (The Only Daughter of Nagginda, The Wedded Queen of Buganda

*Temperance – The first card of your birth month is The Muse of the Middle Path. This year is a lesson in balancing excess and blending binaries. There will be no absolutes this year which is hard for your sign in general. You like definitives. However, cooperation, blending, and balance is essential to create forward movement that does not look like a zig zag pattern. You are also challenge this year not to over-do, over-exert, and over-emote. Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making synthesis of them, achieving balance- Taisen Deshimaru

Taurus

*Moon – The Muse of the Moon is here to remind you softness is needed this week. A time for reflection- to dive into the subconscious either through dreams, meditation, or aimless ponderings. You might feel slightly disconnected and not as grounded, but this allows you to connect with the flow of energies and emotions that need tending to. By softening your gaze, you will see the periphery with more clarity.

Gemini

Seven of Wands – The Muse of Attentiveness reminds you to focus on one thing at a time. This week’s energy will be bombarding you with inquires and attention seeking people. Your challenge is to push all that aside and focus on what needs to be done. She suggests you write your goals down before you walk out the door each day. Or even better if you pull out a sharpie and write the one item with the highest priority on your hand.

Cancer

*Wheel – This week is a moment when you will feel a major energy shift. You understand acutely what goes up must go down, for you are in tune with the cycles of not only the moon but also life. Your challenge this week whether the fate is fortuities or failure, is the pendulum will swing in the opposite direction again. So, it is valuable to seek the seeds of serendipity. There are lessons and gifts in each swing.

Leo

Leilah Babirye Omugole omukyala namirembe kaddulubale peaceful bride of mwanga

Two of Coins – The Muse of Balance has come to help you sort through this week. First, she advises you do some grounding exercises: yoga, bury your feet in sand, or visualizing growing roots into the ground. Next, she has you practice balancing on one foot while figuring out what your two top priorities are this week. Then she suggests you take on only those two objectives until they are complete or as complete as they can get. Of course, the trick is doing the above while eating balanced meals, drinking eight glass of water, and sleeping at least 8 hours. It takes concentration but you can do it.

Virgo

*Justice – The Muse of Justice has come to work with you around the concepts of fairness as well as inequity. The challenge with this week and these energies are that the answers are not an easy yes/no, good/bad kind of ruling. For true justice to happen a thorough deliberation must be done. So in all decisions you must look at the why things happen and then align that to your integrity before you can come to a verdict.

Libra

Ace of Cups – Love is in the Air. Connect to the people you love, engage in activities that you love, and share the love. Plant seeds of affection wherever you go this week. Open doors, smile with your eyes, and savor good food and good company. Love is one of the elixirs of life – Fill your cup.

Scorpio

Two of Wands – Time to future gaze. This week’s energy is all about planning the next steps of your destiny. This Muse asks you to include at least one of your passions and one adventure into the next phase of your plans. By the end of the week, you might feel her urging you to also make the first step.

Sagittarius

Leilah Babirye Omulangila Jjunju (Prince of The Buganda Kingdome)

Five of Cups – The Muse of Spilled Milk is here to tweak your concepts of mistakes. Look around you and see areas where you are floundering or making missteps. These areas need to be re-done. You need to sift out what is working. This is not a totally re-do but it is a restart. Work with what is working and leave the rest of the mess behind.

Capricorn

Leilah-Babirye-Namakula The Mother of All Artists

*Hermit – This week take time to pull yourself out of the world to gain some perspective and regroup. This Muse comes to guide you to higher ground so you can see the bigger picture. If you remain in the entanglements of the now, you will be swallowed by its urgency and complexity. By stepping back, you begin to see the pattern of the dance so when you rejoin you do so with ease and joy.

Aquarius

Leilah Babirye Namasole Nakatya Queen Mother of Ssekababka Mwanga II

*Hanged Muse – This Muse advises to come at this week with patience and a new perspective. The patience part is that this week time is just not on your side or at least you are dealing with it as an enemy instead of a beloved friend to hang with. Thank the delays you encounter. They are lining you up to be more in sync with the natural order. And while you are in idle take this time to ponder a new perspective on an aspect of your life that feels as if it is roadblocked. It is, but that does not mean you cannot figure out a new way around it. The key is new.

Pisces

Five of Coins – The Muse of Lost Things is knocking at your door. She would like to come in and sort out that feeling that something just is not right. She asks can you be helped preferably from a professional? Part of that feeling un-rightness is not having the resources or knowledge to solve it, but help is there if you just look for it.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of March 14, 2021

March 14, 2021 Nina

Happy Spring Equinox. The zodiac wheel completes another turn on Saturday March 20th. The sun moves into Aries and all the planets are in direct motion until end of April so great time to get things done and started. But remember relaxation should be part of your equation. The new norm is innovation that has us working smarter not harder.

This week’s artist is Cecil Kemperink @cecilkemperink. One first comes to her work above as a minimalistic piece. She uses one material clay and one shape a circle. However, Kemperink then interlinks these clay circles and we begin to see how something as simple can become a complex “organism.” That through connection these pieces can be reformed into a variety of shapes while emitting a soul-chorded sound. We now see that this simple circle when linked to each other becomes more versatile, strong because of the connection. Kemperink explains Motion is a key part of the expressiveness of my sculptures. The movements show the importance of each circle of the object. Every ring is essential and influences the other: because they are all connected.

Note: this article will not do her pieces justice. Please go to her Instagram page and watch not only her process but also the motion and sound of her pieces.

Your ponderings for the week: As we move into a new season, see, and appreciate your connections, for they confirm your existence, purpose, and make you stronger.

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

10 of Cups – The Muse of Bliss is here to help you step into your birth month with a gleeful stride. This week enjoy by inserting some merriment into each day. Swap stories that create chuckles, watch comedies that make you laugh, tell Dad jokes that get you giggling. Don’t you think this is the perfect time to laugh out loud, big belly laughs or snort even? Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. – Victor Hugo

Taurus

Seven of Cups – The Muse of Dreams would like you to dream bigger. She nods with all your counterarguments about being grounded, vigilant and staying in the here and now. But she reminds you that taking a dream break feeds the soul, expands the heart, and is a place where innovation is born.

Gemini

Page of Cups – The Muse of Play is here to loosen you up. Yep, your juices need a refresh and no better way to do this then to play. Crayons/fingerpaints out, doodle during boring meetings, take pictures from a 5-year-olds perspective, or reinvent the PBJ. This muse reminds you play is a gateway to imagination and creativity.

Cancer

Nine of Coins – The Muse of Alone Time has left you a note. Your solitude will be support and a home for you, even in the midst of unfamiliar circumstances and from it you will find all your paths – Rainer Maria Rilke. Find time this week for alone-time you will get more done then in the company of others.

Leo

Five of Wands – The Muse of Chaos is here, and it is your choice whether to open the door and let her in or ignore her insistence this week. This energy comes to remind you chaos is an aspect of creation though uncontrollable and transient. So, you can do little about it, except sidestep its path or join in it’s dervish dance.

Virgo

Three of Cups – Connection is what you need. Find ways to link up with your friends this week. If you can mask up and social distance yourself a hang. If not, then get on a phone and have a virtual beverage together. You need a good chinwag with people who care about you. One reason is to vent; the other to refill your emotional cups.

Libra

Eight of Cups – The Muse of Closet Cleaning has come for a visit this week. She comes when you have outgrown an emotion, purpose, copping mechanism, or your style. There is something or someone that no longer is helpful in your life and it is time to shed it. This muse recommends get you in the mood and thought pattern go through your closet or junk drawer. Throw away all the items that are no longer useful or the style you are trying to convey. Motto: cleanse the trivia to get to the substance.

Scorpio

Knight of Swords – The energy is fast paced this week or at the very least feels as if you should be trying to keep up with something. The Muse of Slowing Down has come to remind you to look both ways before you step out into the metaphorical and literal street. This week it is important to be mindful of your thoughts, words, and steps. No rushing.

Sagittarius

King of Wands – Another good week for you all. This is a week where that Sagittarian good luck is working in your favor. Whether that is getting a parking space, a vaccine appointment, or following synchronicities like homemade sour dough breadcrumbs, it is all gold. Also, by following your intuition, you can bring together many moving parts into a cohesive apparatus. You are like Elizabeth in Queen’s Gambit. A step or two ahead of all that you do, once you are in the zone (If you haven’t seen it on Netflix – please do).

Capricorn

Knight of Coins – Last week the Muse of Leaps came to help you out of a rut you may not have realize you were in, by having you play around with your routines. This week you get to implement some of the things you discovered back into your regular schedule. The one key is making your pace appropriate to your path. If the way is rocky slow down, but if it is open road you can put the pedal to the metal.

Aquarius

Four of Coins – This week your resources – energy, time, money and space – are limited. The key to this week is quality over quantity. Make sure ever minute is used wisely that includes getting enough sleep, putting good food in your belly, and taking some “me time” to relieve some of the push you-pull me stress. Make sure your needs are dealt with first before your wants.

Pisces

Page of Wands – The last card for your birth month is innovation. You already know that organic change is a big theme this coming year. Advising you to have something in the works to change every season. But another essential is this cannot be the same old rodeo with new costumes. You have this year to play around with trying new things/ways to innovate the who, what, how and where and possible why in your life. Nothing must be written in stone this year, so have fun experiment. Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before. – Alexander Graham Bell.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of March 7, 2021

March 7, 2021 Nina

I know why the Caged Bird sings Bisa Butler

If you all have been with me for a while skip down to the 4th paragraph, I have ranted on this before. But if you are new…… I was an elementary coach for teachers and I am not fond of the emphasis and exaltation of a “minority” history months in American public schools and on Google. Before you get mad please read on. Though I understand its necessity when this movement started, back in 1926 as Black History Week by historian Carter G. Woodson. Where he saw little to none African American representation in the “white halls of history” and probably was seeing the whitewashing of the Red Summer. History week has now grown to a month, added new months for other minorities and spreading outside of America. But have we now fallen into Hallmarking ™ history? In our political correctness, lost the thread?

Textbooks and curriculum of American schools still teach basically the same history– white-male-centric – but now in February you teach about MLK, in March about Susan B. Anthony, and Native American Heritage Month in November, so you can get it close to Thanksgiving – UGH. This does the “minority’s history” an injustice. First it loses its context in history as a whole. The “minority” becomes not part of our shared history but as a parallel thing happening alongside predominately white male history or is only seen for a month in bubble in and of itself. We lose the why it came about and the reverberation of that action now.

Secondly, it supports instead of works against our biological perspective of tribalism. And we lose the perspective of the history of the individual within the collective. The acts of an individual echoing through time and space. Lastly, this undermines teaching the student not only Socratic thinking which hinges on contextual information, but also disempowers the student to see that they can change the course of the future in ways they would never imagine.

The artist this week is Bisa Butlers @bisabutler should be used as a history teaching tool. She takes everyday photos of African Americans throughout history and contextualizes them by using exquisite fabrics and an skilled illustrative thread. Take for instance the art above I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she uses a Vlisco fabric called “Michelle’s shoes” for the woman’s skirt on the far right. The fabric is inspired by West African textiles, done with and Indonesian batik and made in the Netherlands.

She vividly leads us to see the complex connected thread of these woman’s history, African roots to Maya Angelo and Michelle Obama to our multi-cultural world. She brings these “everyday” people into a contextual history. In her words: …I am telling the story— this African American side— of the American life. History is the story of men and women, but the narrative is controlled by those who hold the pen. ……..My community has been marginalized for hundreds of years. While we have been right beside our white counterparts experiencing and creating history, our contributions and perspectives have been ignored, unrecorded, and lost. It is only a few years ago that it was acknowledged that the White House was built by slaves. Right there in the seat of power of our country African Americans were creating and contributing while their names were lost to history. ………My subjects are African Americans from ordinary walks of life who may have sat for a formal family portrait or may have been documented by a passing photographer. Like the builders of the White House, they have no names or captions to tell us who they were.

Your ponderings for the week: Learn the why behind something in your own history, and see how it affects you now and would you tweak it to change the future? And the Planets: New Moon in Pisces on March 13^th great day for daydreaming.

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

Nina

Aries

*Chariot – This is the week to make change happen. The Muse of Movement is here to help grease the wheels. Momentum is not problem. The only challenge with this energy is you must drive it and have a destination to drive it to. If you do not have a focus you may run around in circles this week.

Taurus

Knight of Wands – This Muse comes to say you are in the right place at the right time doing the right thing. You may not see it, but your timing is perfect. Whether you are standing still, trotting along or in full gallop allow your spirit to guide you.

Gemini

King of Cups – The Muse of Emotional Acceptance has come to help you heal old wounds of the heart. This muse celebrates the hardest emotion that we deal with as humans: grief. There is something you need to grieve. This energy wants you to dive deeply into this emotion of loss. When we grieve, we empty the cup fully and by doing so allow the cup to be refilled.

Cancer

Ace of Coins – The Muse of Material Beginnings is here. This is a perfect week to start a new project, re-plan your garden, buy something to fix up your house or start a savings account. The key to this energy of sustainability is to create with the concept of quality over quantity.

Leo

Queen of Swords – The Muse of Details has come to help guide you through this week. This energy comes when it is important to read the fine print, plan out a project in detail, and sweat the small stuff. You can find pleasure if you pay attention to the details of your life. Time to get out that metaphorical (or literally if you must) fine-toothed comb or cleaning toothbrush and tease out the specifics.

Virgo

King of Swords – The Muse of Long-term Planning is here to set up your itinerary for the rest of the year and three- and five-year goals. This week do not get caught in the morass of minutia. Turn your gaze to the horizon and the dreams of tomorrow. Vision boards out, daydreaming on, and no boundaries in vastness of your future.

Libra

Four of Cups – Last week the Muse of Divine energy was here to grow whatever you wanted to focus on. You get another week to do just that. But this week’s Muse ask you to go back and relook over what you are working on. There is something that does not feel quite right. That thing or idea needs some more introspection. The challenge with this is after you have done a pass with your internal eye, turn outward to get another person’s opinion. Though make sure it is with someone you trust with your dreaming.

Scorpio

Ten of Coins – The Muse of Finishing is here to help you complete a project. Either find the oldest thing on your to-do list or finish up something that has been nagging at your subconscious. This is a great week to move a project forward to completion or at least a big leap towards it.

Sagittarius

Ten of Cups – The Muse of Bliss is here to point out all the good things in your life. This week sit back and enjoy all that you have worked hard to get. If you have a roof over your head start there, food on the table you are doing great; and a job that is getting your needs meet, Whoot. And if you do not have these things, help is on the way. You just need to ask and then open your door; you have friends that are wanting to pay you back some of the kindness you have given in the past.

Capricorn

*Fool – The Muse of Leaps is here to help you out of a rut you may not realize you are in. The key to this is to do the non-routine. Sleep late or get up with the sunrise, turn off all electronics after sunset for a night, eat for one day without cooking unless over an open fire, do not look at your emails for a 24-hour period. I know you all love your routines, but this week shake it up and see what new ideas sprout from the cracks.

Aquarius

Queen of Coins – The Muse of Physical Pleasures is here to help you through this week. This muse comes when you need to ground yourself. She reminds you to connect with your five senses if you can daily. Eat good food, see beautiful things, feel something textural, smell some aromatherapy, and listen to your favorite music. Enjoy the simple things in life.

Pisces

*Death – Ok so this rarely happens but the Muse of Organic Change arrives again during your birth month to remind you how important this year is to make big changes happen. And to do so you need to release, release, and release some more. And while you are doing all this releasing you are using this “stuff” to compost new soil to grow from. The challenge with this energy is having the patience and attunement with your surroundings like a gardener. You need to pay attention to the cycles of growth and harvesting. This can be a year where you are planting and harvesting each season.

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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

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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