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Tarot-cast for March 3, 2019

The artist this week is Mandy Barker.  She combines art and science to raise awareness about plastic pollution in the world’s oceans.  “The aim of my work is to engage with and stimulate an emotional response in the viewer by combining a contradiction between initial aesthetic attraction along with the subsequent message of awareness. The research process is a vital part of my development as the images I make are based on scientific fact… I hope it will ultimately lead to positive action in tackling this increasing environmental problem, which is currently of global concern”.

Not all plastics are easily recyclable PVC, Polystyrene (which include plastic toys) and the category “other” (which include nylon fabric, compact disks, storage containers and water cooler bottles) are not.  Throughout the world most plastic items don’t get recycled, many of them end up in our oceans and at times in unusual ways, which Barker shows in her ink cartridge piece below. The cartridges fell off a ship 5 years ago and are now washing up on shore all along the European coast.  Another example is her piece (Cancer) that follows the plastic trash from the 2012 Tsunami that hit Japan and is floating towards Hawaii. These larger plastics items through time become microplastics and are now being found in microscopic ocean animals, shellfish and fish.  Which are also seen below taken out of a turtle’ stomach( Aquarius) and a bird’s nest(Aries).

Plastic is important and useful for medical and industrial use, and globally we are getting better at recycling plastics. But a better way of reducing plastics now is to stop using them in our everyday life.  Use cloth bags for everything, ask restaurants or grocery markets you visit not to use Styrofoam, and try to buy clothes that are made of 100% natural fibers.  Even doing just one of these things will help lower your plastic consumption and disposal. Just think of it this way – That plastic you don’t buy- you literally won’t be ingesting it in your food source later.

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

Aries

Ace of Cups – The Ace of Cups calls for you to create and spread love and joy.   This card reminds you that positive emotions need to be your “go to” this week even if someone pokes you to get a rise.  Your mottos:  You catch more flies with honey than vinegar, and Love conquers all.

Taurus

Mandy Barker

Two of Cups – This week relationships are in the forefront with the Two of Cups.  Take time to put energy in and share intimacies with your closest relationships.  Your cup becomes fuller the more you fill other’s cups.
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Tarotcast for Week of Feb. 24, 2019

Happy Birthday Pisces!

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

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

 

Aries

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

 

Taurus

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

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

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

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

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

 

Aries

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

 

 

Taurus

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

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

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

 

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

 

Aries

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

 

Taurus

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

Happy birthday Aquarius!

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

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

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

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

 

Aries

Lorna Simpson

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

 

 

 

Taurus

Lorna SimpsonFour of Pentacles – The Four of Pentacles brings a week where you do not have enough cash, time and/or space.  This can make you hold these things even closer and causing you to feel resentful, frazzled or ungenerous.  The challenge for this card is to learn that less can be more.
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Tarotcast for Week of Janaury 27, 2019

This week’s artist is Bordalo II.  He started off as a graffiti artist in Lisbon, where street art is popular and legal.  He re-uses trash, specifically ones harmful to wildlife like plastic, to create his graffiti-sculptures. He chooses animal images to highlight the dangers of pollution in our world.   I create, recreate, assemble and develop ideas with end-of-life material and try to relate it to sustainability, ecological and social awareness.

Plastic is so much a part of our everyday lives and important for many areas (especially medical and automotive), but we need to curb our reliance on it.  Look around your home and you will find an average of 70% of your life has a plastic part.  Around 60% of clothing has plastic in it (all synthetic fibers are plastic: polyester, acrylic, nylon). The first thing all of us can do is stop using single use plastics (even if you use them more than once).  And then just being conscious when you buy plastic toys, your clothes, or even organizing with plastic bins, try to find more biodegradable alternatives or at the very least with less plastic or recycled plastic in them.

Boradalo’s work is imaginative, deep and a needed reminder. I love to see that he also did one of a human (see Aries below)) for we are not only the cause of pollution but also a victim.  We are a species of Earth just as the pelican, elephant, snake or spider.  Once we start seeing that we are part of the larger ecosystem maybe we will stop harming our home.

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

Aries

Ten of Swords – Every week has the potential to be good or bad, but when the Ten of Swords shows up it leans toward the negative.  This week, your environment will show the prickly side of the human experience.  There are a couple of ways to deal with this card – hide or if you must show up, avoid.  Listening to your intuition will help you navigate this week.  Heed your inner voice/gut.

Taurus

King of Cups – This is your second King in a row so let’s dive deeper into the Kings.  When Kings show up, they are wanting you to master or manifest specific areas of your life.  Last week the King of Pentacles had you working on your material plane.  This week the Cups are about manifesting your emotions.   This King is not afraid to cry so all emotions are OK.  The work is having them, accepting them, learning their lessons, and then letting them go.
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Tarotcast for the Week of January 20, 2019

The artist this week, Hilma af Klint was recommended to me by one of my readers, who went to see her show at the Guggenheim recently.  Last week I hinted to Piet Mondrian one of the 3 men attributed to birthing of the abstract movement; however, Hilma beat them there by over a decade.  Where Kandisnky created abstract art from music, Malevich from intellectual purity, and Mondrain from the primary colors, Hilma and her group, the Five – all women, were inspired by spiritualism and science’s investigation into the “invisible world”.

The Five meet regularly beginning in 1856 for sessions of prayer, seance, and meditation.   On January 1, 1906 Klint wrote that a spirit known as Amaliel asked her to create paintings that would cover the walls pf a spiral temple. She switched from painting pastoral landscapes to large paintings of swirls and geometry and symbolism.   Rudolf Steiner, philosopher/architect/esoteric when he saw the pieces said to wait 50 years before showing them.  She, believing the world was not ready for her art, up to and through her death bequeathed them not to be shown until 20 years after her demise in 1944.

I find it fascinating that it is just now that the art community at large is ready to support a woman artist being the creator of the abstract art movement.  Also,that her first showing of her work in the US is at the Guggenheim, which is based on the spiral and wasn’t completed until 1959.  Hmm, makes you think maybe the there is something to this spirit thing ;).

P.S.  Remember signs with an * it a big week for you.  If you do a beginning of a year Astrological Reading I’m booked until the beginning of February.

Aries

Hilma af KlintKing of Cups – Last week the Death card had you clear some space, weed out the plants/projects/ideas that you do not want to grow this year.  And then prep the soil/mind-space/physical-space where the budding will happen.  The first seeds to plant and or tend are the ones in the emotional realm this week.  Whether this deals with work or personally, your heart wants to be part of it.  Your motto – is if it doesn’t make you feel than you ain’t doing it right.

Taurus

Hilma af KlintKing of Pentacles – Last week the Knight of Pentacles wanted you to work on your environment, your work that brings in money, your health and/or any physical project that creates a physical item.  The King of Pentacles continues this momentum.  However, he wants to see at the very least some aspect of a the product finished, so finish a project or move it to a place where you can see the end, or double down on your fitness regime.  Your motto – Do it.
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