I choose the artist Gerhard Richter for this week because of his technique of using photography, painting and blurring. He creates in the real and then manipulates it to the abstract. He plays with line and focus. He says in his book Writings. I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsman like but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.
I think of December as that month of in-between and it has a sense of blurring. There is something ether like and magical with this month. Yes, this month can be the most hectic, but it also has its moments which slow to molasses like states of comfort. Where we can hang with family and/or friends and savor. A time where we are letting go of the old year while starting to think about the new year’s promise. It’s like the lines of time are blurred and fluctuating. Where we hopefully bring into focus what is important and let the unimportant blur into the oblivion.
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Aries – Queen of Swords
The last two weeks the cards have been asking you some heavy questions like: What cycles are you beginning?What ideas or projects do you want to store or work on next year? What do you want to let die or finish before spring? What do you need to heal, so you can move in to 2019 with a lighter load? And if you could hope for an outcome what would it be? Now the Queen of Swords arrives and wants you to spend this coming week to start planning and integrating those answers for 2019.
Taurus – Seven of Wands
The Seven of Wands challenges you to deal with this week like a Zen master. You need all your senses turned on to practice your skills with the complexities of statements like: Instead of calling it work, realize it is play. The practice is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something. The menu is not the meal.
Gemini – Five of Swords
Last week the Tower came and for some of you the lesson was how to ride the waves of change that you have no control over. For others it was just a tiny tremor, a warning, to get your “house” in order. Either way you all were supposed to check and reinforce the foundations in your life, like health, relationships, monetary savings or any other place you feel queasy about. Luckily you all have another week with the Five of Swords which helps you by suggesting that you glimpse into your past mistakes. The challenge is not to wallow in the regrets but to see the lessons that these mistakes hold and move forward with that knowledge.
Cancer – Ten of Swords
The Ten of Swords can go two ways, either you carry around all that negative energy or you can let it go. It is best to let go of the ego and navigate the world with your intuition. This week logic is not your friend.
Leo – Eight of Swords
The Hermit last week suggested you stand back and gain perspective- the bigger picture. The Eight of Swords continues this theme but warns you that you have the tendency when pulling back to get caught up in the web of your thoughts. So that is your challenge to think without binding yourself up in your negative or repetitive thought patterns. Free your mind
Virgo – Ten of Cups
The Ten of Cups is just a perfect card for the best part of this season – sharing the love. Your challenge is to do just that. Make this week about bliss and joy. Let the good times roll, and if you can’t find it – make your own.
Libra – King of Swords
The King of Swords is about communication, philosophy and big ideas. The challenge is about getting your ideas across without force or anger. Best advice is listening as much as you are talking this week.
Scorpio – Eight of Pentacles
The Lovers last week suggested collaboration to be your focus to create original and creative outcomes. The Eight of Pentacles continues this theme. The only changes are that collaboration is more important at work than any other place, and you can split the time working with others with working alone. The harder you work this week the better prepared you will be for the end of the year.
*Sagittarius – The Hanged Man
Another Karma card for your year going forward, the Hanged Man. The Magician called for creation and the Hanged Man calls for new and unique perspectives. For some of you this might mean next year you all will take some literally and figurative side roads for inspiration. For others the Hanged Man ask you to take a sabbatical to help another gain their goals or for your own spiritual growth. Please re-read the past two weeks cards, 2019 is looking like a big year for you and we still have one more card to go.
Capricorn – Knight of Wands
When the Knight of Wands arrives, he is telling you that you are on the right path, at the right speed,doing everything you need to do. It should be an easy week if you continue doing what you are doing. So, keep on keeping on.
Aquarius – Four of Swords
Another 4 card, so remember 4 cards mean stability. Last week, the Four of Pentacles wanted you working smarter not harder. This week the Four of Swords focus on your mind and thoughts. The challenge is slowing down or simplifying your thoughts. The more methodical and logical you are the less you will fret. Oh, and get some rest.
Pisces – Eight of Wands
The Eight of Wands is the messenger card and exchanger of information. The challenge is with all the signals you are getting which ones to follow, listen to, and send out. Well the interesting thing with this card is you don’t have to manage or make decision on all the messages coming in. It is more about the action. The more arrows you shoot towards a target the more likely you are to hit something. And in the opposite direction only listen to things that strike home to you, the rest let pass.
May light be on you, around you, and within you,
Nina
The Page of Swords comes to advise that you need to uncover information that is hard to find without inquiry and a bit of sleight of hand. The Page of Swords is the card of the spy. So some sleuth work is needed before you make any decision or move forward this week.
The past two weeks the World wanted you to finish up the old to create room for new, and then the Lovers card wanted you to start creating with others. Now the energy shifts to the Two of Pentacles, the card of balance and juggling. This card advises you to juggle just two things this week and get very secure with your balance between these two items before you add another item or project into your hands.
The Page of Cups comes when you need to be reminded about the joy in life. This card wants you to see, hear, and touch with the senses of a child. This is week get out your coloring books, Playdough, Legos, or your favorite toy and play.
Last week, the Fool challenged you to acknowledge and let go of the excess so you can pack lighter for the road ahead. The Lovers continues this theme. Its challenge is for you to pick companions on this journey. Take this week to make sure the ones around you support you. This can be as simple as making sure you have the right people to work on a project or as complex as evaluate the broader community around you. Your motto: Love is my guide.
Last week, the Empress wanted you to find something that you truly love doing and do it bigger and better. The Queen of Swords continues this theme but has you hone in on the strategic part of your plan. This week stay in your mind and plan than worry about actions of the future.
The theme continues with more building and growing with the Sun, last week the Magician called in new ideas and processes to continue building on what you started. This week the Sun not only continues this theme but ignites it with energy. Your challenge is how to harness this energy and use it like a laser. Your motto: Keep growing and expanding.
The Ace of Pentacles is the last card of your birth month and declares this year as a year of planting seeds for projects to grow until 2020. So take this week to figure out what seeds you want to plant and tend in your garden for the coming year.
The King of Wands challenges you this week to be more creative and passionate about what you are doing. The conundrum comes when what you do brings no passion into your life. If this is so then this week might be the time to make some changes in what rules your daily life.
The Four of Cups is the card of disenchantment or not seeing what is offered is pretty darn spectacular and ultimately what you feel is missing. The challenge with this card is getting into and enjoying the rhythm of the everyday emotional tides or currents. By seeing the paradox of stability in motion or ” emotional flow” and then devoting yourself to it gives you the last piece of your puzzle. Motto: In the ordinary I see the extraordinary.
The Knight of Pentacle is the card of methodical and thoughtful movement. The challenges with this card are pace and the movement forward. This week all your activities should move you forward at a slow and steady pace. If they are not this is the week to get rid of or adjust them so they do.
The Wheel is the card of change of karma and fate. When this card shows up it means this is a turning point in your life that no matter what it feels like your fortune is changing. The challenge with this card is to see the only control you have is to spin the wheel. You cannot control the spin or pick the price. What comes this week is your gift how you use it is up to you. Your motto: Doesn’t hurt to try.
Last week, the High Priestess challenged you to pull into your inner-scape and plug into your intuition; you will be able to sync yourself with your life path. Now we know why, the World has shown up to challenge you to close old doors and open new ones. You got the World almost to the date last month, so you get another crack at it. This week take this energy and finalize some old projects or people and at the same time go out and look for new projects or people. The World wants to help your challenge is you will need to go to new haunts to greet it. Your motto: I am open to the new.
Workers are fixing a pothole outside my house and they had to stop multiple times because it began to rain. A paradox of mine is I hate the smell of an asphalt roads being laid, but I am also fond of the smell of rain hitting asphalt. During my urban sojourns, it was a sign of a respite from the summer heat. Both these experiences are unique to the modern world and drew me to the photography of Franco Fontana’s asfalti. He is famously known for his 
The Three of Swords continues the theme from the Moon card last week. This week this card advises to continue working with only three of the hidden thoughts you have discovered. This card also advises that these beliefs be not only removed but destroyed. They are based in negative triggers placed in your thought patterns by others.
Messages are the theme for this week. Keep your eyes and mind open. There is a lot of important information coming at you that you will need in the near future. Be the sponge.
Science says that rest is a valuable component of your health regime and the Four of Swords recommends you will need it. The Four of Swords also challenges you actually to not push anything through this week.
The Two of Cups recommends applying your energy to deepen your close relationships. Our emotions are set into memory with our senses. So look in your love ones’ eyes, breathe in their scent, touch them with love, and listen to their feelings behind their words. 
The last two weeks, the Emperor and the Empress challenged you to use your creative energy. This week the Page of Swords tells you to step off doing and to listen. This card foretells that there is some information that you need to find. Your challenge is to ask questions but in the most subtle of ways. It is not words that will be telling you what’s going on but subtle body cues.
The Chariot brings change that you are in control of. This week is all about moving forward with balance. This in its simplest form tells you to check your tires or eat a more balanced diet, but in its complex this is seriously doing something about imbalances in your life.
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