Eileen Agar, as most woman artists, was and is overshadow by the men in her field of surrealism. However, she helped bring Surrealism from Paris to Brittan during the 1930’s. She used a variety of forms, painting, photography and collage, to investigate the subconscious and its interplay with nature but through a British aristocratic eccentric lens.
She is also one of the founders of what now is called performance art. Using her body as a canvas she brought the surrealism to the world of fashion. She was the only woman artist in the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London, where she first debut her iconic Ceremonial hat for eating Bouillabaisse. This item she wore in a variety of interviews throughout her life. It pokes fun at the British aristocratic etiquette around eating and fashion. At the same time has a tongue and cheek contemplation of the phrase “I’ll eat my hat.”
All her art embraces the organics forms of nature. She once stated: “the earliest forms of Nature to a painter are studies in pure abstract design. I must go back to these forms and create design out of what the scientist tells us.”
P.S. Remember signs with an * it a big week for you. Capricorn this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year. And Cancer 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
*High Priestess – This week you will need the knowledge found in the study of cycles and holistic ways of looking situations or projects. You can take in consideration thoughts and emotions but to find your true direction your intuition is key. The challenge is finding the time to contemplate and listen to your inner voice.
Taurus
*Hanged Man – The Hanged Man comes this week advising you to look at situations with a different perspective. Take time for contemplation with an emphasis of out-side the box thinking. The supposed challenge is you may find your way blocked. However, this is the universe saying stop and listen. The silence has more answers than the noise.
Gemini
*Star – This week calls for you to do some healing. The past couple of months have had some rough spots. Take this week to restore, relax, and wish. Hope and faith in the divine are key to your healing process. The challenge is in life the bad happens but so does the good. Take time this week to align with the positive.
Cancer
Knight of Cups – Your emotions have been through the wringer. Take this week to re-build your emotional fortitude by bathing in positive feelings like love and romance. Whether this is by pampering yourself to a bath, the endorphins from a vigorous workout or having a romantic dinner with your loved one. Vulnerability is your key to strength.
Leo
Four of Coins – Frugality is key this week. Be frugal with your time, space and monetary wealth. This is a great week to invest but not to spend on the frivolous. The goal is quality and longevity.
Virgo
Eight of Coins – This week’s energy is about mastery and hard-work. The best use of your energy is with your nose to the grindstone. This may sound unpleasant but if you can find your flow, that sweet spot, you will accomplish much this week.
Libra
Page of Cups – Love, hope and innocence are the energies that surround you this week. Your challenge is not being so skeptical that that they exist in your world. It is up to you to feed and grow these feelings through actions and forms of communication. Except and share the love.
Scorpio
*Lovers – Your energy this week is 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 week explore not only the two sides of yourself or the complexity of a relationship with your lover, but the joining of these two unique qualities/people creates a new unique hybrid energy. This energy will be needed for growth in the coming weeks and months.
Sagittarius
Ace of Coins – This week’s energy is best used by starting projects and grasping new opportunities especially in the arena of your health and wealth. Be in your body and on the physical plane. Invest time and energy into yourself and what makes you money.
Capricorn
*Empress – The concept and energy to work with this week is 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. The challenge with this growth energy is the concept sharing is caring. The end game is attending and feeding all the senses for yourself and for others.
Aquarius
Three of Wands – The energy this week is best used by setting plans into actions. New opportunities are on the horizon and your timing is perfect in preparation for them. You are moving towards your goals. Keep it up.
Pisces
Queen of Coins – The energy you are running is that of a provider. The challenge and the gift are that the universe has your back. It is rooting for you and actively working behind the scenes mirroring the work you are doing for others in the foreground.
May light be on you, around you, and within you,
Nina
This year compared to other signs was the bumpiest year energetically. (Average was 11 cards you got 18). Though the year started out slow, it gained speed by March and hasn’t stopped since. Your main theme this year, was change then build/create. You did this with 3 cycles of the Chariot card coming 3 times and the Empress or Emperor following. And since that change was solely in your hands, your Will to get things done created all the movement in your life. You had one respite in the months of July and August where you had time to catch your breath and focus on details instead of big picture. Though during that time you had 2 knight cards that continued the theme of change but with a more practical application. So in your reflection look back and see what places you made the change and progressed.
Overall your year was average in big themes, people and beginings/endings. However, this year was literally the year of ups and downs. You would have two karmic cards, high energy, to deal with, and then a month or two with your head either in the sand or buried in detail. Even your karmic energy was supporting you to pull away from society with the Hermit card dispersed throughout 2019. Hopefully you spent some of this time gathering wool of a bigger perspective about how to live your life going forward and what is your purpose. In your reflection look to places you have gained a wider or more holistic perspective on.
This year overall was average in comparison to other signs. However, karmically you started out the year with a bang and since your birthday it has been karmic point after karmic point to deal with. Also, this year you had six “9” cards. Nines are cards of preparation and signs that change is coming for the better. So, though you see glimpses of a better future, 2019 was spent working towards it. In your reflection look at all the work you have done while pondering what can be produced from it.
This year started out pretty slow. With your focus on getting things completed and starting up new projects. When you look at the average number of karmic energy cards, your sign has one of the lowest. But this big theme energy started in July, and is cramming it all in until the end of the year. While you are still trying to create the new. As sun babies you all like to particularly hibernate in the winter, but winter is calling, and you are answering it. In your reflection see all that you have accomplished and all that you have begun.
This year’s theme was finding balance especially around your emotions. The Moon card (the card of the subconscious, things hidden and emotions) showed up evenly at each changing of the seasons. Then Temperance (card of moderation) followed quickly thereafter. So at least for the first two-thirds of the year your lessons of balance and moderation turned inward. Then in October the energy shifted from inward to outward. The World card (opportunities outside of one’s self) followed your last internal journey with the Moon. In between these big shifts you also had more “6s” than other signs. Sixes represent finding ways to harmonize your mind, heart and spirt, and that small acts of karma, good or bad, reverberated through out the year. In your reflection focus on where lie your balances and imbalances.
For Libras this was a particularly low energy year. Compared to the other signs you have a below average year for having to deal with Karma, people and change. However, you also had the most Aces (new beginnings). This year had the potential to be a place where you started new relationships, projects, ideas, and investigated your purpose. To help you plant you had the most Queens than any other sign. Which is like having a green thumb in all areas of life. Your theme for 2019 was seeding creation. In your reflection see the garden you have planted.
Unlike 2018 where you all had the highest number of karmic cards-big themes (17 the average was 13), you had an average amount of karmic energy, people, beginnings and endings throughout the year. The interesting trend is that you took on two big ideas each season and worked on them before moving to the next. And within that focus and season, you dealt with one of the “5” cards. They represent chaos in each suit (thought/communication, material/wealth, spirit/purpose, emotions/love). So, though it was an “average” feeling year the trend of 2019 was finding ways in which to work through chaos or with it. In your reflection see the ways that you have made your life have more ease.
You had an average year compared to other signs within the realms of big themes and beginnings. You were the only sign that had no “10s” which are the completion cards. To add, you had six queens showing up about every two months having you focus on creation and comfort. 2019 you seem more focus on creation the completion. And with that, out of all the signs, you also had the most court cards. This means this year was a people year. So, though it was “average” you spent your time wisely connecting with friends and family and creating a personal life that is full of fun, savory-ness and a sense of home. In your reflection see the people that you love.
Though you had the average amount of higher arcane cards (karmic or big energy themes), people, beginnings and endings. You had the pairing of Justice and Judgement three times. This means that this year’s big trends where about equality/fairness, epiphanies and rebirth. Also, you had the most knight cards out of the signs. So even though you had the average amount of karmic energy, you had a year where you didn’t stop moving. The challenge with 2019 was did you give yourself enough time to do some big thinking around fairness and the progress you have made towards your rebirth? Or is it possible, you learned that by keeping on the move and the air beneath your wings made the path easier towards your awakening? In your reflection see how far you have flown.
Where 2018 you had an average amount big trends, this year you are one of three signs that had the least. And they were evenly dispersed throughout the year. You also fell within the average of new beginnings, endings and people in your life. So this year might have had the feeling of being blah; however, you all had the most pages then any sign. They started marching in right after your birth-month. Pages are the cards of learning within each suit, and you covered each suit: emotions, work, ideas, and purpose. This was a learning experience year, or I would like to call it – Your Year of the Sponge. 2019 was about absorbing new information and seeing the world with a new set of eyes. In your reflection look back and seeing all that you have learned.
To all of you in the Bahamas and on the East Coast, may you find refuge and be safe.
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