Poetry has its own way of inspiring visuals. This week I am adding to your sign’s forecast a line from the poem To a Dark Girl (1927) by Gwendolyn Bennett. To read the whole poem just read the first line in bold for each sign.
Bennett was an influential person and contributor in the Harlem Renaissance Movement. She was a painter, poet, and writer in a variety of journals and anthologies such as NAACP’s The Crisis and Caroling Dusk, and she published a monthly column called The Ebony Flute. For more on her history and work read Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond
The Harlem Renaissance was centered in Harlem New York during the decade of the 1920s. It was an intellectual, social, and artistic eruption. This era was a turning point in American black cultural history. This congregation and congruence of African American writers and artists created the momentum to gain control over their representation of black culture and experience and was the beginning of these artists and thinkers to be recognized in Western Art world.
P.S. Remember signs with an * it 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
I love you for your brownness,
*Hierophant – What structures in your life are holding you back? The energy this week helps you destroy the edifices that bind you, and it strengthens your resolve to create new structures (time, space and how use your energy) that will sustain the work that needs to be done. This can look as simple as waking up earlier to eat breakfast, or as complex as getting your job to let you work from home once a week.
Taurus
And the rounded darkness of your breast,
Nine of Cups – Last week’s energy wanted you to bring the divine down into the world. Tapping into your spirit and calling it into action. The energy this week continues this theme of the divine, but it asks you is your work ethic getting in the way of your spirit and joy? Your contentment? Don’t forget the divine has you here to work your purpose, but following your joy sustains you.
Gemini
I love you for the breaking sadness in your voice
Seven of Wands – Last week’s energy was best used in building on what already is existing. This week you will have to defend your boundaries to get anything done. Work still needs to happen, so put up you do not disturb sign and get back into your groove.
Cancer
And shadows where your wayward eyelids rest.
Six of Coins – Karma is the key energy this week. Take heed in your actions and reactions. For all the positive you give, positive will return; however, this energy flow happens with negative forces too. The trick with this card is that the return energy does not always come back directly from the intended source. So watch for curve balls, lower expectations and be nice.
Leo
Something of old forgotten queens
Six of Swords – You need a bit of distance to gain some perspective this week. So, when meeting a challenge, step back, dissect the issue, simplify and go back in. The main take away to handling this week is physical space even if its just an extra 5 minutes in the bathroom.
Virgo
Lurks in the lithe abandon of your walk
Three of Wands – Last week the energy was about organic change. Asking you to start on your spring cleaning, getting rid of things that are dead weight in your life. And, it asked you to plant some seeds by tasking you to write down 50 things you wish for, big or small. Lucky you, you get another week to do this prep work. The only challenge this energy is thinking bigger and broader horizons in your wishing.
Libra
And something of the shackled slave
Ace of Swords – With all that heart work last week the energy has done a 180 degree turn from your heart to your mind and ways of thought. Hopefully, now that you have reconnected with your emotions you can clearly see the direction you need to take this week with problems and their solutions.
Scorpio
Sobs in the rhythm of your talk.
Queen of Cups – Last week’s energy was rough and hopefully you got to dodge most of it. But you might find yourself a bit tender and vulnerable. However, this is not to week to hide in the shadows. Go out find solace in your friends and people who love you. Refill your cup.
Sagittarius
Oh, little brown girl, born for sorrow’s mate,
*Judgment – Last week the energy circled around freedom and newness. Reminding you that exploring the world is part of what drives your soul. Discovery is key to bringing new ideas and stimulating your sensualities. If you did well with that task last week, you are ready to deal with this week’s energy of metamorphosis. If you didn’t investigate new avenues you might find this week has growing pains with your evolution. This can be as simple as you found a new route to work which gives you 10 more minutes in the morning to eat breakfast. Or it can be as complex as not finding that new avenue which stops you dead in your tracks, and you hang upside down spinning a large cocoon around yourself until you solve your challenges and changes.
Capricorn
Keep all you have of queenliness,
*World – The energy this week is about expanding your horizons by integrating your inner and outer worlds. Dive into the energy and concept of interconnectedness. You have just completed a major work and/or turned a significant corner in your life and now you need time integrating this accomplishment into your consciousness. You are building on the old world and creating a new paradigm. So, to move to this new music you must let the composition enter into you, let your body and soul find the new rhythm, and then dance.
Aquarius
Forgetting that you once were slave,
*Magician – Ok this is your last birth month card and the Magician has shown up to add to the energy of the Aces, new beginnings. So, let’s review, 2020 ignites new passions and new ways of being on the physical plane. Then the Magician steps in adding its big energy of bringing the divine down into reality. This energy begs for you to start new projects/jobs, create, imagine, and experiment in the coming year. The big challenge is that these creations must have an aspect of the divine. The definition of divine is of, from or like God, excellent or delightful. So, 2020 will be a year where new not only grows, prospers but lifts others with delight.
Pisces
And let your full lips laugh at Fate!
Ten of Coins – The energy this Ten brings is satisfaction from the work you have completed. This week is a transition of completion and new beginnings. This week spend time just enjoying the gifts that you have worked so hard to get. Set your gratefulness into your bones to strengthen positive reverberations for the next cycle to ride.
May light be on you, around you, and within you,
Nina
Four of Swords – This week rest is needed. Your immune system is weak and only rest and a bit of self-coddling will set it right. Go to bed early, eat well, and try to find time to relax into a thoughtless stupor.
Six of Coins – Karma is the resonation this week. What you do for others and to others comes back three-fold. The trick with this card is the payback good or bad is unpredictable in timing and does not always come from the source it was given to. Your song: 
Ten of Coins – Get things off your to-do list and finish up projects that have been around for a while. This week’s energy is about work and completion, so don’t start anything new. Now is the time to clear your plate of the old so the new has room to grow.
Seven of Wands – Last week, the energy was about experimentation with the tools and skills you already have in your arsenal. Creating without purpose and exploring what comes from it. This week to continue doing that, you are going to need to defend your rights to experiment, create and explore. Stand up for yourself. Your mantra: I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say ‘Can I be of help? – Maya Angelou
Ace of Wands – This week you get to switch gears from all work to the act of creation. Inspiration and ambition is lite by your passion. This is a great week to start new projects, play in nature, and inspire your spirit. Use your natural fiery temperament to ignite what is listless and dark. Your song: 
King of Wands – After last week’s chaos you are stronger and wiser which helps this week’s energy: public relations. This is a great week to meet and greet, send out resumes, beef up your social media page, and be as charming as you can be. You have Pied Piper energy around you. The challenge is figuring out where you want to lead your throngs.
Four of Coins – Resource stability is the energy this week. Great time to start doing your taxes, contributing or starting a savings account or IRA, and/or scheduling in “me-time” or more family time. The challenge is feeling as if you need to do it for fear of losing resources, time, money or space. However, this energy is really about saving in case of, so you don’t have to spend precious time worrying about a lack of those resources in the future.
*Fool – Adventure and new beginnings are the energies to work with this week. Itch feet? Go wandering. Bored? Partake in something you have never done. Melancholy? Watch silly movies all week. Feeling old? Go swing on a swing set or have a snowball fight. Feeling naïve? Go learn something new. This week newness is the key to rekindling your faith and joy of life.
*Hermit – This week’s energy is getting some much-needed alone time. You need space and perspective. And the only way you are going to find it is setting up a sacred space and time. It would be great if you could do a little retreat from your life. But if you can’t do that. This can be done simple by taking the long way home, taking the bus instead of your car, going on silly errands solo, turning off your phone for 2 hours, or eating outside for lunch. The key to obtaining this is telling people that you are turning off your phone from 2-3 hours each day, going to be late coming home, or gone for the week. Because if people don’t see your proverbial do not disturb sign on the window, they will bug you to find out why.
Knight of Wands – Ok I warned you. I hope you rested last week because the energy this week is getting on your horse and riding it the next destination and doing it with some flair. First this energy says you are in the right space at the right time all this week, if you can work with this fiery energy. You must willfully reign in your aspirations and steer them to your desired goals without extinguishing your passion.
Knight of Pentacles – Last week’s energy was about saying yes to opportunities coming at you from unexpected places and learning that saying yes doesn’t mean forever. This energy likes you to try out new things so you can find what best fits the new you. This week’s energy continues the theme of moving forward into new worlds. However, staying open is now focusing down to only areas of work, how you make your money and/or hands-on projects. This is a great time to work on to-do lists and to get far with any plans, while being open to new input. The challenge this week is working this as a marathon not a series of sprints. So, hydrate and feed yourself at regular intervals.
Queen of Swords – Details are the focus this week. This energy is best utilized by examining the specifics of situations and boning up on your communication skills. If you come up to a block, asking questions, deep listening and overall communication will lead you out of any maze.
Nine of Cups – Last week, the Hanged Man advised you to look at situations with a different perspective. Taking time for contemplation with an emphasis of out-side the box thinking. This energy of out of the box thinking is needed this week, to explore the concept and your actions around your feelings on contentment.
Five of Coins – Chaotic energy is prevalent this week. Be careful this does not send your head spinning into loss and feeling as if you have scant resources. Your read on this energy is right; it is not a week to invest into new projects. So the challenge is realizing that you are not alone, nor lost, nor poor. Your wealth and help lies in the family, friends and/or the community at large.
Queen of Pentacles – Last week, the energy was about creating harmony while still maintaining a duality in your nature and/or with others. Your challenge is connecting with the ones you love without losing either’s selfhoods, and/or harmonizing your own masculine and feminine energy. This process will help you with this week’s energy of being a provider and comforter. The challenge in being both is having a solid foundation built on your own needs and allow others to maintain their freedom while you nurture theirs.
Page of Swords – The energy this week is about information lying hidden. The goal this week is finding truths that are hidden or disguised. Start asking subtle but leading questions to the answers you want to find. The challenge is hearing what is said and then discerning which avenue to take to discover the information at its fullest. The truth is there but you are going to have to dig for it.
Four of Swords – Last week your energy work was gardening and growth. Create and design. Plant and nurture. Tend and weed. And finally, balance the work with the pleasures that you have reaped from that work. That last task is extended to this week. Your challenge is slowing your roll and being still. Learning how to rest is a needed skill to practice this week. This is a big year for Capricorns. So, with all that cosmic activity you will be dealing with (from January 2020 until December 2020), this is the only week with Mercury in your sign that your personal needs are easily heard. After the this your purpose and will take front stage. So, I must repeat take this week to relax, talk and physically listen to your body and soul.
World – This energy shows up when opportunities are at your doorstep to take and other doors can be closed. This is a great time to start something new. To say yes to things that you wouldn’t normally say yes to. The challenge around this card is feeling as if you say yes means that you can’t back out of it, and/or you might close doors you are not ready to. Oh contre mon ami. This energy likes you to try out new things so you can find what best fits the new you. So any closed door can be open again, but you might find the new landscape better fits who you are now.
Ace of Cups – During this intermediary time and space this energy nudges you to contemplate emotional beginnings. This is a great week to start new relationships or take a relationship to the next level. Share the love you have with the lens for relationships to grow they must have a solid foundation to grow in and the freshness of air and water to sustain them.
Eight of Coins – As the years switch your contemplation is around mastering your skills. You have achieved much this past year. Going forward is less about learning something new and more about fine tuning skills or projects you already have mastered. What do you want to work on in the coming year? What do you want to take to the next level.
*Devil – As you transition from one year to the next, the cards have you look at how you successfully passed tests of 2019, and contemplating if you had to be tested on something for 2020 what would it be. You see once you pass a test you do not have to do it again. Contemplate the freedom of that.
Ten of Wands – Your transitional contemplation is the area of burden. What do you carry that you do not have to? Does the sense of obligation, expectation or ego make you do more than you need to? You do not need to do it all in 2020.
Ace of Swords – As the world turns for another year the cards have you pondering. Pondering is great if you are learning, communicating and making decision. The time for pondering for pondering sake is done. In 2020 new thought moving to new action is required.
Eight of Wands – Your transitional mediation is around information. When you look back what information do you load your quiver with for the coming year. And then with that information what positive outcomes would you launch into 2020. What would be the prize at the end of those arrows arc? Shoot for the stars.
Nine of Coins – This transitional week’s contemplation is about prosperity and isolation. For the sign that is all about relationships, this is a come to Jesus moment that you do better work with fewer people around. And if this is impossible your mediation is on creating a sacred space where you can prosper and have control on who gets in for 2020.
Two of Swords – This transitional energy for your musing is about making decisions. What decisions would you have changed last year or didn’t make because you felt you didn’t know which was the right one? With that information, in 2020 make decisions that go more for how you want to feel and less about the outcome or goal.
Four of Swords – Did you get enough sleep? Are you eating well? Have you taken care of yourself? These are the questions that you need to contemplate in this transitional period. In 2020 you will need to be in tip top shape, but it is up to you to take the time to take care of your body, mind and spirit.
Six of Swords – The energy during this transition of time is about simplification. 2020 will hold a lot of motion and for you to sail smoothly, you need to carry less cargo and have a narrower focus. Your contemplation is around what do you need that is vital to you going forward and put your energy into that.
Two of Cups – Your interim contemplation is around harmony and cooperation in your close relationships and with yourself. Do you feel like your relationships were emotional balanced in 2019? Was there enough romance? If yes or no feeding those bonds of love are vital. You all tend to pull back or stay in the air to cope and concentrate. Love is what grounds you. Invest in it in 2020.
*Hanged Man – Your contemplation is the concept of suspension. Are you ever truly inert? Is there a mind-space where you can stop your thoughts? Can you just be? Why does the feeling of not “going” bother you? Can you find peace in a moment? Just think, if you allowed yourself the time, space and belief to brainstorm, ponder and think outside the box, what 2020 might feel like. Meditation is the key to 2020.
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