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Tarot and Art Horoscope for Week of Oct 20, 2019

Katsushika Hokusai Ghosts
The Lantern Ghost – Katsushika Hokusai

Happy Birthday month Scorpio!

The spooky artist this week is Katsushika Hokusai.  His most famous work is The Great Wave which he made in his seventies.  However, this week the focus is on the series Hyaku Monogatari (One hundred Ghost Stories) also created around that time.  He only took five of his sketches to completion, but they all represent aspects of the supernatural stories of Japanese culture and a popular Edo period game called Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai (A Gathering of One Hundred Supernatural Tales). This game is believed to have started among the samurai to prove courage but quickly spread to all the classes.

Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai was played of course after sunset. The participants would sit in a circle and light 100 candles. Each of the guests would take turns telling supernatural tales of macabre encounters.  These tales became known as kaidan. Upon the end of each kaidan, the storyteller would extinguish one light.  (Another version would have the guests in one room and 100 lanterns in another with a mirror you would look into after you blew out the one of the lanterns).  If the participants reached the one hundredth tale it was said it would create a haven for the evocation of those spirits.  Now that is some spooky storytelling.

P.S. Remember signs with an * it a big week for you.  Scorpio this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Taurus 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
oni pelted by beans

Ten of Swords – The past two weeks the Sun card lent its energy to make you and what you focus on grow.  Then the Magician took the Wand supporting you on manifestation skills.  This week the energies switches from helping to hindering.  The Ten of Swords comes advising to listen to your intuition.  You know, when you get a chill in the back of your neck, your arm hairs rise, or you feel like someone has walked over your grave.  This card says pay close attention to that.  The outside world is not helpful this week.  So, if something is telling you not to go down that street or someone is trying to pick a fight with you.  Walk away. This is one-week avoidance is advisable.

Taurus
Katsushika Hokusai Ghosts
rokurokubi

King of Cups – The King of Cups counsels you this week to see your emotions, even the ones that make you feel lonely or angry, as friends coming to help you emote who you are. Our emotions are facets of the human experience.  Do not shy from them for they have great worth.  Your motto the poem by Rumi The Guest House .

Gemini

King of Coins – The King of Coins lends his energy to any plan on the material plane.  This is a good week to start projects or finish off major items on your to do list.  The challenge is this energy can be sluggish to start, but once the fire has been lit it blazes.

Cancer
Kappa

King of Swords – Last week you got a lot of information.  This week the King of Swords advises that your time is best spent on filtering that information and doing some long-term planning.  A good exercise is setting some goals for 1 month, 1 year and 5 years from now.

Leo
Katsushika Hokusai Ghosts
Laughing demon

*Wheel – Well you are back on the karmic roller coaster this week, so I hope you had some fun last week.  It is not like you can’t continue the good times, but fate and karma have anteed into the game.  The Wheel of Fortune card comes when taking chances lead to lessons and profitability in the long game.  The challenge with this card is the more you step up and spin the more chances you have to win.  This can look like asking out that person you have been afraid to or sending out resumes to your dream jobs.  You have everything to gain and really, nothing to lose.

Virgo
a woman making a cursing ritual

*Justice – Last week the Moon had you taking a deep dive in to your subconscious finding pearls of wisdom. It was about things hidden in the dark.  This week, Justice continues the theme of things behind the scenes with ideas, communications and decisions.  The challenge is nothing is as red or green as you may prefer.  Look for the reasons behind the facts to help you with decision making.  Truth prevails but you will have to search for it.

Libra

Six of Swords – This is a great week to take a little trip. Whether that is physical – taking a walk on the beach or mental – turning off all electronics of 24 hours.  Taking a tiny respite from your daily life will gain some needed perspective and simplify matters.

Scorpio
Katsushika Hokusai Ghosts
ghost of a thousand plates

Four of Coins – This week it will be hard managing time, space and money.  The Four of Coins advises the best way to work with this energy is to spend money, space or time, only on things that will last “a life time.”  This week is about quality not quantity.

Sagittarius

Katsushika Hokusai Ghosts*Lovers – Another big energy week with the Lovers card.  Last week the High Priestess had you looking to synchronicities for guidance, texts for knowledge, and your soul for cyclic behavior.  By doing this you become more sync with your divine purpose and the Universe’s helping hands.  The Lovers continues the theme of cooperation with the Universe and with other living beings.  This week collaboration and teamwork are key to gaining momentum.  The challenge with this card is flitting from flower to flower.  This card is about quality not quantity.  This can look as simple as honing down the people you follow on Instagram so you actually have time to engage with the people that inspire you.

Capricorn
Katsushika Hokusai Ghosts
the phantom of kohada koheiji.

Five of Coins – The Five of Coins foretell that physical items can be easily lost this week.  The best way to deal with this energy is doing things like:  pay your bills so you won’t pay sur charges, check each time you use your debit card that you put it back in your wallet, change your passwords that haven’t changed in over five years,  put your keys/glasses in the same place, etc.…    Motto: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure- Benjamin Franklin

Aquarius
Katsushika Hokusai Ghosts
yurei

*Strength – The Strength card advises that this week your true strength comes from taming your inner demons.  You have been through a lot in your life.  And the amazing thing is you are still here.  One of your strengths is your resilience.  This week contemplate on your superpowers.  Name at least three.  The challenge is with every superpower there is a corresponding kryptonite. You will need to name that too.  By identifying both your strengths and weaknesses, this week will go more smoothly and be easier to plan for what is coming.

Pisces
tengu

Two of Swords – Decision making time this week.  When the Two of Swords shows up it means that you are being indecisive, and you just need to pick a path. This week is less about right or left and more about moving.  Motto: It’s about the journey not the destination.

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

Nina

Tarot and Art Horoscope for Week of Oct 13, 2019

Johann Heinrich Fussli
Johann Heinrich Fussli

The Nightmare by Johann Heinrich Fussli is eerie. The Demon sitting on the chest of a woman in the throes of a bad dream.  We have all felt that weight of waking up from a nightmare.  The word, nightmare, comes from the Old English mare, a mythological demon or goblin who torments others with frightening dreams.  The prefix of night was added to stress the dream aspect. Most of Johann’s work has that sense of creepy. His figures seem to pop out of shadowy backgrounds, as if a flash of light has revealed them out of the darkness.

To add to Fussli’s spookiness, he was famously known for being pursed by Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the founding feminist philosophers.  She died at the age of 38, eleven days after giving birth to her second daughter Mary Shelly author of Frankenstein.

P.S. Remember signs with an * it a big week for you.  Libra this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Aries it is your half way mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check in now is the time.

Aries

Johann Heinrich Fussli*Magician –Last week the Sun card lent its energy to make you and what you focus on grow and expand.  Now the Magician takes the Wand supporting you on manifesting skills.  This card foretells that the power is your hands to create the divine onto this earthly plane.  This can look as simple as, your goal was to be a better cook last week you looked over cookbooks and found that baking was the thing.  This week you practice baking pies until you make one that would make your great great grandmother proud. Or this can be as complex as you deciding to start your own business and this week you write up your mission statement.

Taurus

Eight of Swords – The Eight of Swords has you looking at what is holding you back.  This week the best use of your time is to find out why, what or who is part of your inertia, realizing why you have been holding on to these chains of the past, and then letting them go.

Gemini

Johann Heinrich FussliFour of Swords – The Four of Swords advises that you need to rest this week.  This card shows up when your energy/immune system is being drained, but you are not aware of it. The best way to handle this card is eat well, take your vitamins, get 8 hours of sleep, and avoid energy vampires.

Cancer

Johann Heinrich FussliEight of Wands – The Eight of Wands foretells a plethora of information is coming at you.  The challenge is trying to process it all.  There are two ways to work with this energy.  Either funnel it with a focus in mind or take everything in and prioritize next week. The key is eyes, ears and mind open.

Leo

Queen of Cups – The last three weeks were full of energy.   First, the Justice card came pointing out decisions that needed to be made but you needed more background information to make a justified decision.  The Devil card challenged your morality, integrity and purpose. Then Judgement pronounces it is time to act and evolve to the next level.  With the Eight of Coins advising you to up your game by honing your skills to mastery.  Finally, this week you can relax with the Queen of Cups.  She helps you find the fun in your life.  Take this week to enjoy your friends, family and/or the solitude of a good book.  Your motto:  Live and Love

Virgo

Johann Heinrich Fussli*Moon – The Moon, the card of emotions and subconscious, calls to you this week.  This card comes to tell you something is hidden from you.  The best use of this energy is taking a deep dive in to your subconscious.  When you do this exercise, you can find pearls of wisdom. These gifts help you sync up with your intuition, purpose and the universe’s flow. The challenge this week is getting lost in contemplation without a guiding light.  This light can be as simple as finding the positive within the dark or as complex as finding the dark within the light.    Your motto:  all things in the shadow are not bad but they are relevant.

Libra

Johann Heinrich FussliAce of Cups – The Ace of Cups is another perfect birthday month card.  This is your second Ace for your birthday month so this coming year will be perfect for new beginnings. Also, though your cards were all minor (this means no big karma for you this year) they stayed in the realm of the material and emotional plane.  The Ace of Cups this week added that this coming year is a place where new relationships and love will prosper and grow. The work with this card and the year is about how you feel in your skin and life.  The key to success with these four cards is making decisions and plans by how you want to feel in the physical world.  So, if something doesn’t feel right then it isn’t in the cards for your divine life.  This is challenging for you as an air sign because you usually judge things with your mind, but 2020 is all about feeling how you walk on this Earth.

Scorpio

Ten of Coins – Last week the Hanged Man advised contemplating before moving forward and helped with this process by making your surroundings inert, or at least feel like moving through molasses.  The Ten of Coins is a 180 degree turn of energy.  Where the Hanged Man wanted you to contemplate the Ten of Coins wants you to complete.   This is a perfect week to finish up projects already in process.  The challenge is not starting anything new but taking time to enjoy the finished product.

Sagittarius

Johann Heinrich Fussli*High Priestess – The High Priestess brings the energy of the sacred, knowledge of the ancients and a broad perspective for interpreting cycles. This week look to synchronicities for guidance, texts for knowledge, and your soul for cyclic behavior.  By doing this you become more sync with your divine purpose and the Universe’s helping hands.  This is a great week to ask your guides for messages.  This can be as simple as seeing a black bird meaning stop, look and listen, for there are clues and messages for you.  Or this can be as complex as looking to your ancestors for family cycles of behavior that need to be purified.

Capricorn

Knight of Wands – The Knight of Wands is telling you: you are in the right place at the right time.  When this Knight shows up, look around and know that everything around you right now is here for your enlightenment.  Your challenge is to grasp it.

Aquarius

Johann Heinrich Fussli

Knight of Coins – The Knight of Coins advises that slow and steady wins the race this week.  Pace is the challenge.  So not too fast and not too slow, find your groove and stick with it.

Pisces

Nine of Wands – The Nine of Wands portends that preparation is key this week.  So, before you leave the house make sure you have everything you need.    Before you go into a meeting look over your notes/agenda.  The more prepared you are the easier your week will flow.

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

Nina

Tarot and Art Horoscope for Week of Oct 6, 2019

Robin Isley digital collage
Robin Isley

I have been holding off on Robin Isley for some time waiting for the Halloween season.  Then with more recent research, I found an article from Hautemacabre.com and found the trouble in waiting.  These amazing digital collages have been banned from Tumblr and Isley’s website had been hacked, so I could not link to their website.  So as not to repeat, please go to the article link for An Obscurum of Secrets the Lost Art of Robin Isely. They do a lovely write up with the artist.

However, to keep this artist’s work alive in digital land, I decided like the writer at Haute Macabre, to post Robin’s work now even without a website link.  (Once Isley gets a url I will edit this post).   So not only do you get to see these lovely eerie collages but you also gain a link to a great website Hautemacabre.com  where every day is Halloween.

P.S. Remember signs with an * it a big week for you.  Libra this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Aries it is your half way mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check in now is the time.

Aries

Robin Isley digital collage*Sun –The Sun foretells this is a very positive week.  The Sun card lends its energy to make you and what you focus on grow and expand.  The challenge with this week is two-fold.  When focusing make sure you use the right intensity for each aspect of your life.  Your lessons are balancing your intensity with what you are working with.  This means laser focus with actions but not with people.  And a benevolent shine on people where that energy will not move projects forward.  Remember light can make things grow, cut things off and create deserts.  Shine wisely.

Taurus

Six of Coins – The Six of Coins is the mini-karma card.  This week is especially important to mind your p’s and q’s.   The more positive you give out the more you receive, and the more negative out will attract negativity to you like a magnetic.  Your motto this week: Play nice.

Gemini

Robin Isley digital collageSix of Wands – The Six of Wands advises to step back from projects and see your positive progress.  This is a week when wearing laurels is appropriate and justly due.  A great week to celebrate accomplishments and take a must needed rest.  The challenge with this card is though you have won the battle by the end of the week you will need to suit back up for round two.

Cancer

Robin Isley digital collage

Two of Wands – The Two of Wands advises you to look towards the future.  Leave the past in the past and move forward.  This is a great week for planning and strategizing how to expand your horizons.

Leo

Robin Isley digital collage*Judgement and the Eight of Coins – Another power week for you all.  First, the Justice card came pointing out decisions that need to be made but you need more background information to make a justified decision.   Then the Devil card challenged your morality, integrity and purpose. Now that you have past your exams, Judgement pronounces it is time to act and evolve to the next level.  The Eight of Coins is the way.  This card advises you to up your game by honing your skills to mastery.  Practice makes perfect is your motto this week.

Virgo

Seven of Cups – The Seven of Cups advise this a great week for daydreaming.  Take time to dream big outside of your normal imaginings.  The lesson with this card is dreaming activates the imagination which is vital for inspirations and intuitive thoughts.  The challenge is using this kind of dreaming for information and not taking it too literally.  For instance, you dream you are a Queen/King.  You (most likely) factually are not, but you do need to make sure that you are getting the respect you deserve.

Libra

Robin Isley digital collageQueen of Cups – The Queen of Cups is the perfect birthday month card.  She comes when you need to treat yourself with the kindness you give to others and have some fun.  This week, oxygen mask first on yourself then you can tend to others, and once the plane has landed time for some margaritas and dancing.  This week’s motto:  Life is short – have some fun.

Scorpio

Robin Isley digital collage*Hanged Man – The Hanged Man advises contemplating before moving forward. The challenged with this card is that your environment might help the process along if you don’t take the initiative first.  This week take heed when pauses arrive and try not to push anything through that isn’t easy. This can look as simple as getting stuck in traffic, or as complex as the project at work stalling out.  The importance of these pauses is utilizing these breaks to contemplate not act.

Sagittarius

Robin Isley digital collageFour of Swords – The Four of Swords advises that this week is best utilized by you resting and building up your strength.  This card shows up when your immune system is getting drained.  So, take vitamins, eat well and get 8 hours of sleep.

Capricorn

Robin Isley digital collageFour of Coins – The Four of Coins recommends spending your money and time wisely this week.  Don’t be too stingy with it either.  If you really love something, buy it. If you are having a good time, stay and reschedule the next event. However, this card warns that your spending of money or time should be on things that are worthwhile.

Aquarius

Robin IsleyEight of Cups and Wands – Two cards this week and both eights.  Eights mean manifestation.  The Eight of Cups is the card of getting rid of things that no longer work and Eight of Wands is new information coming in. Your theme this week is metaphorically or literally cleaning out closets, so you have room for new stuff.  The challenge with getting rid of things is not hanging on to them for sentimental reasons.  If it doesn’t fit, toss it.  The second challenge is prioritizing for there will be lots of new information/things/people coming at you, so to help think: what do I really need to know this moment. Your motto: Out with the old and in with the new.

Pisces

Robin IsleyPage of Coins – Fresh eyes are still important this week.  Last week Page of Cups said embodying hope changes your outlook and those around you.  Now, the Page of Coins challenges you to have the senses of a student.  This week learning is key.  Keep your eyes and mind open, for lessons come from a variety of source.

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

Nina

Tarot and Art Horoscope for Week of Sept. 29, 2019

John Kenn Mortensen art on PostIt notes

As many of you know I love monsters.  As a kid the monster under the bed was a real thing until I bargained my socks for not grabbing me when I went to bed.  I then questioned maybe monsters were misunderstood and could be befriended.  This of course was supported by the books by my two favorite storytellers and illustrators Maurice Sendack and Edward Gorey.   One of my favorite monster artists John Kenn Mortensen   also has brought to life some of the monsters scenarios that I came up with as a kid.

He is a self-proclaimed outcast, father of twins and works in comics and television.  He “doodles” on sticky notes.  He doesn’t consider them illustrations because they don’t illustrate a narrative.  However, they do tell a story or maybe the beginnings of a visual one.  The sense of scary is so well balanced with his sense of wry humor – a nightmare with a tongue in cheek wit.  Not only is his imagination wickedly fun, it shows art doesn’t have to be big, can be done with things around your house  and can still create an emotion.

You can find more of his stuff on Instagram @johnkennmortensen)

P.S. Remember signs with an * it a big week for you.  Libra this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Aries it is your half way mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check in now is the time.

Aries

Five of Coins –Last week I hope you took advantage of the Emperor’s energy, building on the material plane.  The Five of Coins continues the Emperor’s advice on you focusing on projects already started; however, you will find little time or resources to do anything else.  Again, this is another week not to start on the new.  One challenge is you can easily lose things and time, so be careful where you lay your keys and how you spend your hours.

Taurus

John Kenn Mortensen art on PostIt notes Page of Coins – The last couple of months you have had the Chariot with the Hanged Man giving you ample opportunity to get your show on the road.  Luckily the Page of Coins has shown up to assist in the process for another week.  The Page of Coins is the card of the student.  Your environment is trying to share some useful information to help in your progression.  The challenge is you keeping your mind open to new ideas while asking questions to deepen your knowledge.

Gemini

John Kenn Mortensen art on PostIt notes Eight of Wands – Information comes at you in all directions this week with the Eight of Wands.  The challenge is only grabbing on to the information that you need.  The best way to handle this barge of data is focus.  Focusing on what you want betters the funneling of information.

Cancer

John Kenn Mortensen art on PostIt notes Nine of Swords – The Nine of Swords is the card of worry.  The best way to deal with this is to give yourself time to worry and write them down.  Then circle the ones that you can do something about this week. And the best projects to work with this energy are ones that ground you, like working with your hands and/or body.

Leo

John Kenn Mortensen art on PostIt notes *Devil – What a combination for the last week and this week.  Last week, the Justice card came pointing out decisions that need to be made but you need more background information to make a justified decision.   Reminding you to stay true to your truth throughout last week.  Well that hasn’t changed with the Devil card.  The added challenge this week is your morality, integrity and purpose will be tested.   The Devil comes not really to teach you anything but to test you if you are being true to yourself.  So, the more honest you are that your choices are compatible with who you are, the better you will do with the trials surfacing.  This can look as simple as standing up for somebody on the bus, or as complex as telling your truth.

Virgo

John Kenn Mortensen art on PostIt notes Knight of Cups – The Knight of Cups energizes your emotions.  If you follow your heart this week you will gain momentum.  The challenge with this card is it tests your ability to be vulnerable.  The benefits you get in this vulnerability exercise is you get stronger and increase your compassion for yourself.

Libra

John Kenn Mortensen art on PostIt notes Two of Coins – The Two of Coins is the card of balancing in motion.  The challenge with this card is not trying to take on too much at once.  Learn to juggle one item before you add another to your schedule.   This is not a week where multi-tasking comes easily or productively.

Scorpio

John Kenn Mortensen art on PostIt notes Three of Cups – Nice card the Three of Cups.  It is the card of friendship.  This card comes when your emotional cup needs filling.  So, make hanging with friends your priority this week.

Sagittarius

John Kenn Mortensen art on PostIt notes Six of Swords – The Six of Swords is the card of perspective and simplification.  When this card shows up it advises standing back from aspects of your life or work this week to gain perspective.   The goal is to help you streamline your thoughts, solutions, and/or processes.  Your motto:  Work smarter not harder.

Capricorn

John Kenn Mortensen art on PostIt notes Two of Wands – The Two of Wands come when you need to broaden your horizon.  It is a great week for travel or going to events.  Walk outside your normal circle of life.   There is inspiration, intriguing information, and new experiences waiting just over your horizon – go find it.

Aquarius

John Kenn Mortensen art on PostIt notes Ace of Swords – Another Ace so new beginning abound once again this week.  Though the material plane was the focus last week.  This week is about decisions, information and ideas.  The only challenge is trying to follow it all at once.  So, the key to ease this week is focus and no multi-tasking.

Pisces

John Kenn Mortensen art on PostIt notes Page of Cups – Last week the Star Card had you making wishes, relaxing, healing and having faith in the Universe.  This week the Page of Cups continues pouring hope into your heart.  This Page challenges you that being kind to yourself and seeing the beauty that surrounds you with child-like eyes the more your emotional cup fills.  Embodying hope not only changes your outlook but those around you.

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

Nina

Tarot and Art Horoscope for Week of Sept 22, 2019

Bill Mayer Gouache painting

Happy Fall Equinox and Happy Birthday Libras.

This week’s artist is Bill Mayer.    I first saw his work on the cover of the Smithsonian magazine a year ago.  When I did more research on him, I feel in love with his gouache portraits.  The one above is an illustration for one of my favorite books Animal Farm.  Though when I first saw it, I thought it was the Three Little Pigs gone awry.  The aspect of the blood on the pig’s feet and snow are brilliant details in visual storytelling.  His work has a sense of humor along with a dark emotional quality.

Then that these are in gouache*  and look as if they are done in oil reminiscent of Dutch painters of the 17th century is a nod to his skills in technique and composition.  Gouache painting is similar to watercolors but is modified to be opaquer; therefore, it can have more reflective qualities.  However, the hard part with this medium is lighter tones general dry darker and darker tones dry lighter.  So, painting over multiple session can get very tricky.  These portraits are also small in size which again is a nod to 9th century Persian miniatures and their use of gouache. These portraits are a great start to the beautiful and spooky season of Fall and Halloween.

*Note: He says that some of his earlier pieces have been photo-shopped a bit.  When you look at his more recent portraits, Taurus and Gemini for example, you can see his manual technique outshines the computerized bits of his earlier work.

P.S. Remember signs with an * it a big week for you.  Libra this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Aries it is your half way mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check in now is the time.

Aries

Bill Mayer Gouache painting*Emperor –The Emperor is the card of building on the material plane, and with the collaboration you hopeful built last week, construction will be easier.  To take advantage of this energy, continue building on projects in the works or finishing up projects.  The challenge is not to start new ventures.  The emperor suggest work with the now and leave the future for another week.

Taurus

Bill Mayer Gouache painting*The Chariot – Last week the Hanged Man had you take a time out and work on piddlingthe art of just sitting or puttering around for no other reason than just because. And now the Chariot pulls up for the third time for you in the past 2 months.  Time to get back in the saddle, again.  I cannot emphasize enough if you have not taken advantage of making something happen or go to the next level in your life, this set of Chariot cards in such a short time frame just doesn’t happen. To get the card of movement that solely lays in your hand this many times is destiny calling.  You have no roadblocks but yourself.  Maybe you are not feeling as if your project is as important as other things that are in your life.  Don’t let your loyalty to others and your nurturing nature be in the way of making some ground on your own stuff.  Time for using some of that hard headedness in protect and taking care of others redirected towards you and your work in the world.  Take heed the world needs to hear your voice as much (or to be honest since you all got this card 3 times maybe more at this particular time) than the people you are supporting.

Gemini

Bill Mayer Gouache paintingSeven of Swords –The choices you make this week demonstrate your moral make up.  You will be tested.  Which way are you going to choose?  The path of indiscretion or apathy or the action of righteous action. The choice is yours.

Cancer

Bill Mayer Gouache paintingTen of Cups – The Ten of Cups is the card of bliss.   This week seek out the things/people that bring bliss into your life. This card gives you permission to enjoy a bubble bath, have an extra scoop of ice cream, garden, cuddle with your family/pets on the couch, go take a walk on the beach, etc… Statistically, this card has a chance of showing up 5 times in a year.  Your challenge is take advantage of it.  Don’t miss a chance to indulge in the good in your life.

Leo

Bill Mayer Gouache painting*Justice – The Justice card comes when decisions need to be made but you need more background information to make a justified decision.   So, the challenge comes after you do your investigative work, by the end of the week the choice needs to be made. If you stay true to the information and your heart, things will end up fair in the end no matter how the journey plays out.  This card reminds you to have faith and stay true to yourself.   Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope. -Pittacus Lore

Virgo

Two of Wands – The Two of Wands advises you to step out of your comfort zone this week.  This card is a very positive card if you take the steps to expand your horizons.  This can be as simple as trying zip lining for the first time, reading a self-help book, or going to an event you never would.  The challenge with is expanding your horizons.  They can be small or big steps, but they must develop your mind/soul.

Libra

Ace of Coins – The last two weeks have been about completion, so it is appropriate that you all would get the Ace of Coins, a card of new beginnings and planting seeds (literally and metaphorically).  This is a great week to begin any projects, do anything with your hands, invest in something, increase your presence at work, and really anything on the material plan.  You will harvest more later the more you ground yourself into the material plane now.

Scorpio

Six of Wands – Last week was all about Justice – balancing right from wrong by looking behind the scenes.  With that information and perspective, you have an advantage to come out on the positive side of Justice this week.  The challenge with the Six of Wands is though you won this battle and bathe in positivity this week, you haven’t won the war. So, don’t take anything new on and enjoy this week.

Sagittarius

Two of Pentacles – Last week, the Strength card flung you into situations that you felt you couldn’t handle or befuddled you.  However, that was not the case, this exercise helped you identify your strengths and weakness helping you navigate not only last week with more ease but the rest of the year. This week the Two of Pentacles advises you that even though you have found your superpowers don’t go multi-tasking just yet.  You need to take one or two items and try your superpowers on them.  This week is about balance, practice and restraint.

Capricorn

Eight of Swords – The Eight of Swords advises you that you need to look at how you are binding yourself.  This can be as simple as checking how you talk to yourself when you make a mistake, or as complex as finding old thought patterns put there in the past by others that you still hold on to.  Your motto: Let that sh*t go.

Aquarius

Ace of Pentacles and King of Wands – Last week, The Fool, card of new beginnings, challenged your thinking through new beginnings and being careful of naiveté when making decisions. Well the Ace of Pentacles continues the theme of new beginnings. All Aces are beginnings and Pentacles rule the material plane.  So any beginnings that have to do with work, money or material plane projects are great to start this week.  The King of Wands has also stepped in continuing the theme of the Fool’s advice.  You have gained the wisdom to think things through before acting on them. This card says you rule your destiny.   So this week is pretty much the same energy as last week without the intensity.

Pisces

*Star – The Star Card is the card of hope and healing.  This is a great week to make wishes and realize you are on the other side of a major hardship.  This card advises you to relax and have faith in the Universe.  This is a great time to take healing baths, massages, eat well, get the sleep you need.  And it is a great time to ask the Universe for help for the next phase of your life.  Your challenges – Relaxing, asking for want you want now to happen and looking for synchronicities to help you move to the next level.

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

Nina

Tarot and Art Horoscope for Week of Sept. 15, 2019

 

Marcel Broodthaers  is an artist who danced with variety of muses.  He started off as a poet, and at age 40 he switched his focus to visual art.  His art like his poetry has a wry sense of humor, for he loved the turn of a phrase which he used in both. For example, his first piece, he took all his unsold copies of his poetry and created a sculpture calling it Memory Aid.  Or his cultural commentary on Belgium’s obsession with eggs, mussels and fries by using them in a variety of installations and sculptures.

Four years after his switch to visual arts, he declared he was no longer an artist and started the creation of a moveable museum, Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles (Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles).  Where he curated his work and added to it with vacuum-formed plastic signs that heavily reference what was going on around him. This is where he made his mark in Art.  For he created exhibitions of his old art, new work and borrowed objects.  This radically subverted the traditional chronology of museum retrospectives and how art was displayed.  His unconventional concept that a piece or pieces can evolve with each showing, and that the pieces can change context with the objects it is shown with has influenced artists and the process of exhibition ever since then.

 

P.S. Remember signs with an * it a big week for you.  Virgo this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Pisces it is your half way mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check in now is the time.

 

Aries

Marcel Broodthaers visual artThree of Coins – Collaboration and cooperation are key this week.  The Three of Coins advises you to ask for help even if you don’t feel you need it.  This might be challenging for you head strong fire signs, but multiple hands, eyes and minds ease the path.  Motto:  Many hands make light work-John Heywood

 

*Taurus

The Hanged Man – You all have arrived back in the land of karmic movement or actual non-movement this week.  The Hanged Man is the card of inactivity on the material plane.  That means you will have times of idleness whether that is a traffic jams or things just not working out.  Take advantage of these time outs.  This inertia comes not to be fought against but gives you the space to do a much-needed internal inspection.  To work with this card try taking this week off or at the very least scheduling in moments of piddling, as Maya Angelou calls itShe describes it as the art of just sitting or puttering around for no other reason than just because. And lies the challenge with this card, introspection without a goal.  Think of it as pulling over to the rest stop of life.  You just came from a whirlwind of summer and now are heading into a productive fall.  Don’t you think, just for this week, you can and deserve practicing the art form of piddling?

 

Gemini

Marcel Broodthaers visual artAce of Swords – So a message from the past last week can help you to see new avenues of thought this week.  Aces are always new beginnings, and swords are the realm of thought and intellect.  The Ace of Swords foretells it is a great week to solve problems, expand your brain with new information, do anything with legal issues or PR or forms of communication and decision making.  Your challenge taking in a account of the past to guide future choices.   Your motto: The mind is everything. What you think you become.Buddha

 

Cancer

Marcel Broodthaers visual artEight of Wands – The Eight of Wands forecasts it is a great week to send out messages into the Universe.  Whatever you aim/focus on this week will gain momentum.  The challenge is picking the targets you truly want in your life.

 

Leo

Five of Swords – Last week the World card advised you to say yes to opportunities setting you up for exploration of your self and your surroundings.  This week the Five of Swords, the card of an overactive ego, has you questioning all that is around you.  Instead of seeing all the opportunities, you are seeing all the blocks.  But many of these blocks are just your ego getting in the way.  Whether that ego is low self-esteem or that you are overestimating your influence, you need to take a step back to really see what is really going on.

 

Virgo

Marcel Broodthaers visual artTen of Coins – So just a reminder Virgo the Strength card is your birth year card and it will bring you situations that will ground you and help you acknowledge your resilience, self-compassion, and mental acuity.  So, by your 2020 birthday you will feel more comfortable in your skin.  This week’s card rounds out your birthyear readings with the Ten of Pentacles.  This card foretells this will also be a year to focus on finishing up projects, enjoying the planet and your place in it.  So not only will you feel more comfortable in your skin but also in your environment.

 

Libra

Marcel Broodthaers visual artTen of Wands – Your second ten so just a quick focus on the numerology – ten is the number of completion.  So last week and this week is a great time to finish up old projects.  But where last week things flowed a bit easier, this week can feel burdensome.  With this card responsibilities can feel overwhelming.  However, the goal of this card is to see that you are partly responsible for the feeling of being overwhelmed.  You have control over how many wands/projects you take on.  The challenge with this card is realizing you can put some of your obligations on hold to finish up what you consider the most pressing.  Don’t worry, the ones you let go of will either still be there next week or will magically go away.

 

Scorpio

Marcel Broodthaers visual art*Justice – The Justice card comes to help you balance right from wrong. The challenge is that things are not as black and white as one would like. As the Egyptians thought when weighing out a person’s heart for sins.  The sin of killing would weigh differently for a military person than for a baker.    The challenge is looking at the situations or circumstances around the decision or judgment.  This could be a simple as figuring out which child broke the remote or as complicated as figure out why your date hasn’t called in a week.  So, the work around this week is find out more before you make any decision.  There is more behind the scenes.

 

Sagittarius

*Strength – The Strength card comes to help you with your fears and show you your superpowers.  This can play out by flinging you into situations that you feel you cannot handle.  However, that is not the case, you can handle everything that is thrown at you.  A fun exercise you can do is name your 3 superpowers, your kryptonite and your superhero name. This exercise of identifying your strengths and weakness will help you navigate not only this week with more ease but the rest of the year.   Your Motto this week:  I’ve got this.

 

Capricorn

Marcel Broodthaers visual artQueen of Wands – The Queen of Wands is the muse of arts and nature.  She stokes the fire of creation and inspirations.  She advises either that you create in these arenas or that you immerse yourself in them.  So, if you have the time take off to the forest/park, museum, studio, and/or concert hall.  And if your time is limited watch your favorite indie movie, listen to music, play in your garden or read a good book.  Your motto:  Inspiration.

 

Aquarius

*The Fool – The Fool is the card of new beginnings. This is a great week to start new projects and/or travel.  However, the challenge with this card is thinking through before starting on your new path. You must be very careful of naiveté when making decisions this week even small ones.   This can look as simple as rushing off to work and forgetting your lunch or paperwork for the day.  Or it can be as complicated as changing career paths like accountant to fisherman but forgetting you get seasick.  If you take in consideration your past lessons with situations this will help from mis-stepping on to an unwise path or worse off a cliff. Your challenge this week is eyes on the ground, be practical, and have foresight by using your hindsight.

 

Pisces

Eight of Coins – The Eight of Coins is the card of mastery.  This week is about tweaking situations not starting over.  When this card shows up you got the skills to master all that comes your way.  The challenge is believing it.  Motto:  No one else is you and that is your power.

 

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

Nina

 

Tarot and Art Horoscope for Week of Sept.1, 2019

Biodiversity Reclamation Suits Lauren Hope RothTo all of you in the Bahamas and on the East Coast, may you find refuge and be safe.

The above piece is a clay pigeon hidden behind the crocheted plumage of the extinct bird, Cararcus of Guadalupe. Laurel Roth Hope is a former park ranger now turned artist.  She creates a variety of sculpture and fiber art that highlight our fellow earthlings that she calls Biodiversity Reclamation Suits.  With this series of scupltures, she started with the concept of how we ascribe value to things that are rare and denigrate things that are common and that effects how we see wildlife.  So, she chose the common pigeon, an icon of the successful adaptation though also known as the “flying rat” and disguised it in the rare and therefore perceived exotic plumage of extinct birds.   Try this week to see the exotic in the common and see how this changes your perspective.

 

P.S. Remember signs with an * it a big week for you.  Virgo this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Pisces it is your half way mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check in now is the time.

Aries
Biodiversity Reclamation Suits Laurel Roth Hope
Bachman’s warbler Laurel Roth Hope

Eight of Wands – The Eight of Wands forecasts that what you aim with a true heart hits the mark.  This is a week to ask for what you want, send out messages, PR yourself…  Your question:  Are your goals truly fulfilling your hearts desires?

 

Taurus
Biodiversity Reclamation Suits Laurel Roth Hope
Carolina parakeet Laurel Roth Hope

*Judgement – this is your third big card in a row.  So, time to take the bull by the horns Taurus.  The past 2 weeks Chariot, card of change that is totally in your control, pulled up to give you another chance to make transformations happen.  Then the High Priestess advised to do some deep reference work on the how and why of those alterations.  Helping you with signs from the heavens, dreams, synchronicities or in deep contemplation.  Now Judgment the card of evolution arrives.  This card heralds that you are prime for an ascension.  This week find ways to up your game.  This should be easier now that you have mapped out where to go with the Chariot and how and why you are doing it with the High Priestess.  This task is not a simple change with these three cards.  But it can look like, asking for promotion, expanding your business, quitting your job to work for yourself, retiring, etc..  By the end of the year you should be well on your way with a new ride into new lands.

 

Gemini
Seychelles parakeet Laurel Roth Hope

Queen of Swords – The last two weeks the Devil card came to test you on who you are and what you stand for.  Then the Hanged Man kept you in a purgatory like state to let you contemplate how you were triggered.  Now, the Queen of Swords continues the focus on contemplation, but emphasizes focusing on the details to create movement.

 

Cancer
Paradise parrot Laurel Roth Hope

Nine of Swords – The Nine of Swords is the card of worry. This week your worries will be highlighted.  The best way to deal with them is to first clearly seeing if you can do solve them.  If you can do something, then prioritize it with the other things in your life.  And for the things you can’t do anything about – write them down and literally throw them in the trash.

 

Leo
Heath hens Laurel Roth Hope

Ten of Swords – Last week, your thoughts got in the way of your success.  This week others are trying to pull you down into the morass.  This week is full of people cutting you off the literally and metaphorical road.  If you did last week’s work and casted away your demons, then others unintentional malice or thoughtless actions will not faze you.  If you didn’t do the work, then be well armored going outside.

 

Virgo
Great Auk Laurel Roth Hope

Eight of Swords – The Eight of Swords has you examining how your thought process are stopping you this week.  The challenge is being compassionate with yourself for these thoughts.  They were put there by others.  Once you can see the chains clearly, you can let go and walk away.

 

Libra
Guadalupe caracara Laurel Roth Hope

Nine of Wands – The Nine of Wands forecast this is perfect time to stop and do some preparation before doing.  This looks like making sure you have a menu for the week, then creating a list and only getting what is on the list.  The more prep you do, the cheaper, healthier and faster the results.

 

Scorpio
Mauritius Blue pigeon Laurel Roth Hope

*Empress – This is a great week to plant seeds, start new projects and nurture what is already in the works.  The Empress energizes growing anything you want to this week.  The only challenge with this card is anything you start will take at least 9-10 months to full mature.  Oh, and another thing prioritize yourself care.  Be as kind to yourself as you would your own child.  Remember as they say on airplanes Oxygen masks on yourself before your children.

 

Sagittarius
Ivory Billed woodpecker Laurel Roth Hope

Seven of Coins – Last week was a great time to create with the Magician card. The only challenge was that your creation must have meaning behind.  This week the Seven of Coins gives you another week to work on your project with gusto.  There is a stable and constant energy with this card’s energy.  You can tap into easily, so use it well.

 

Capricorn
Dodo Laurel Roth Hope

*Wheel of Fortune – The Wheel of Fortune is the card of chance and changing of fortunes. So, this is a great week to take a chance on something.  This can look like sending your resume to your dream job, asking out that special someone, and/or playing lotto.  The challenge is not in the success of wining but believing in yourself and giving your dreams a chance to manifest.

 

Aquarius
Biodiversity Reclamation Suits Laurel Roth Hope
Passenger Pigeon Laurel Roth Hope

Six of Cups – The Six of Cups foretells that something in your past will help you this week.  This can be an old friend, looking at old journals, or recalling an previous conversation.  This card is the card of deja vu.  They tell you that you are in the right place at the right time.

 

Pisces
Biodiversity Reclamation Suits Laurel Roth Hope
Cuban Red Macaw Laurel Roth Hope

The Three of Wands – This is a great week to expand your horizons.  This can mean going to a place you have never been before but always wanted to, or just daydreaming about where you want to go next.  It is important that you refuel your passion and drive by seeing or imagining the path to where you are heading.

 

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

Nina