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Tarot-cast for Week of April 21, 2019

Aurora RobsonStill celebrating the Earth this month by highlighting artist who highlight nature.   The eco-artist for this week is Aurora Robson.  Her art is made from trash, mostly plastic or packaging materials.  She is the founding artist of Project Vortex, an international collective of artists, designers and architects that work to intercepting the trash stream, shifting it from its negative impact in oceans, into art.   Her Ted-talk entitled Trash & Love she said something that struck a chord in me.  Waste is merely displaced abundance.  How can we change just one thing we throw out into something else?  How can we disrupt the flow of our negative impact?  Can it be as easy as changing our perspective of what we throw away? 

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

Aries

Aurora Robson*Chariot – Last week, the Ace of Cups and the Sun foretold your coming year as auspicious. Their combined power helps you expand any area of your life you focus on.  And this week another big card surfaced, the Chariot – change that is totally in your control.  So, this year’s mission is off to a running start this week.  In its simplest form this card wants you to jump in your car, bike or shoes and get outside, find new places and explore.  In a more complex form this card wants you to start – that project, business, and/or relationship you shelfed so long ago.  The challenge with both last week and this week’s cards is if you want expansion or change it’s all in your hands.  This year you need to make things happen, so grab the reins and go.

Taurus

Aurora RobsonAce of Coins – Happy Birthday month.  What a great start to your birthday month.  Ace of Coins means new beginnings on the material plane – business, money making, projects or your environment.  This week start something that keeps your hands busy.  The energy for new beginnings is literally held in the palms of your hands this week.

Gemini

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Ace of Swords – The Ace of Swords foretells this is a week to make decisions, start conversations, and ponder the unimagined.  You can stay in your head all this week; the challenge is that it must have a focused purpose.

Cancer

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King of Coins – The King of Coins comes when you need to expand your material plane.  This can be as simple as getting through that slog pf paperwork or getting items crossed off your to-do list.  The big challenge is getting it done. Your motto – just do it.

Leo

Aurora RobsonFour of Cups – The Four of Cups is the card on contemplation.  You can do some belly-button gazing and self-compassion this week.  However, your challenge is that you will need to look outside yourself to complete the answer/puzzle/picture.

Virgo

Aurora Robson*Hanged Man – The Hanged Man is the card of stagnation, or so it seems.  It is the Universe giving you a forced time out to do some thinking or re-thinking.  The challenge with this card is not doing the internal work that is needed.  This can be as simple as being stuck somewhere and instead of playing on your phone, you do some proactive day dreaming.  Or as complex as turning your perspective upside down for a week – like making the negatives into a positive and the positives finding their negatives.  This reversal of thinking helps you see hidden cycles and scenarios.  Side note- Do not make big decisions, start projects or relationships this week.

Libra

Aurora RobsonThree of Pentacles – The Three of Pentacles advises collaboration and practicing your skills on work with others.  The “work” you do is better if you have another set of eyes to look it over and give you some pointers.  Listen to others advice this week; it will give you deeper insight into projects and problems/solutions.

Scorpio

Aurora Robson*Wheel of Fortune – The Wheel of Fortune is the card of karmic change.  This week look for karmic intervention in your life.  These are signs post of places that need changing.  This can look as simple as you lose your keys three times in a row, so you need to get a place to hang your keys on when you get to your house.  Or as complex as figuring out what is not working in your life by playing the mind game – What would you do if you won 100 million dollars, and then get to work making some of that happen with the salary you have now.

Sagittarius

Aurora RobsonEight of Swords – The Eight of Swords is the card of binding yourself with your thought patterns.  This week it is time to let go of your negative thoughts.  This challenge can be tricky and disguised, for your thoughts are as smart as you are.  An example of a negative thought could be wrapped up in judgement of others which in turn allows you to overly judge yourself.

Capricorn

Aurora Robson*Empress – The Empress foretells this is a great week to begin something that will grow over the next 9 to 10 months.  This card comes when it is advantageous to cultivate your life in a way that is more comforting and relaxed way of life.  The Empress also advise that you indulge all your senses this week.  By doing so, your five/six senses will help you find the places or projects you want to grow.  This can be as simple as planting a garden or as complex as planting seeds for the next cycle of your life.  The challenges simple or complex are enjoying your growing pains and process along the gestation period, and it will take time to grow to a place where you can enjoy its bounty.

Aquarius

Aurora RobsonThree of Swords – The last two weeks you had Judgment, the card of evolution shedding your skin, molting your feathers, or wrapping up in a cocoon to evolve into the next phase of your journey. And the Lovers having you choose who gets to ride with you into this next stage.  The Three of Swords continues this theme but is siding more with the challenges of Judgement and the Lovers.  You have 3 negative thought patterns that are keeping you from your heart’s desire.  It is hard to let go of some of our thoughts, but this week now is the time to pull out the thorn and do some healing.  So you can evolve into the newer you.

Pisces

Aurora RobsonPage of Cups– Time to put on your rose-colored glasses and bring out that set of unicorns to play with.  This week the Page of Cups is wanting you to drop some of your sarcasm and cynicism and spread some joy around the office, home and/or neighborhood. Love and hope literally starts with you this week.

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

Nina

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Tarot-cast for Week of April 14, 2019

Britta Jaschinski

Above is a picture by Britta Jaschinski an amazing and award winning conservation artist. Her book Photographers against Wildlife Crimes is poignant and beautiful.   However,  when I started doing research for wildlife/nature/conservation photography, I ended up with a list of men and she was no where to be found.

Just google search wildlife photography. You will see 35 of the top googled photographers but the 12th and 26th are the only woman.  Wildlife/conservation photography like most arts are dominated by men, or are they? After deeper research I found some amazing published women out there.  Why aren’t they showing up in the top searches?

Of course, this happens in many searches.  With famous painters there are two women Frida Karol 8th and Georgia O’Keefe 15th.  With famous scientists searched there are five women represented in the top 35.  Now we could say that women weren’t allowed to be in those fields in the past, so the ratio reflects that.  Or is it possible that all our search engines, encyclopedias, and textbooks are filled and prioritizes with European men?

What can we do?  Start supporting young women to get in the field with programs like: Girls who Click, who is trying to pave the way for girls to get into the wildlife photography field.  And here are 25 programs that girls can get into for the sciences.  Then let’s start highlighting women in our searches.  Google analytics are partially based on hits per site, let’s up the ante.  Look deeper to find minorities when you are doing a general search.   To help I have attached websites to amazing woman wildlife photographers click on them to raise awareness on the web about them and conservation in general. Your clicks count!

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

 

Aries

*Ace of Cups and Sun – Ace of Cups and the Sun are very appropriate for you b-day month.  All Aces are new beginnings, but the Ace of Cups is the most auspicious. This Ace brings favorable life and emotions into this coming year.  With the Sun card, growth, this is a year where you have the Universe behind you to expand anything you put your light to.  The only challenge with these two cards is not focusing down the light to a laser-like frequency.  Be aware when passion and attention is too focused you will burn your subjects and may create a desert in the aftermath.  In the simplest terms always carry around a bottle of water while working or out and about.  In its most complex version, spread your love and passion out evenly to many people or projects instead of all of it on one.   https://www.suzieszterhas.com/index

 

Taurus

Six of Swords – The Six of Swords advises you to gain perspective or distance from your thoughts and//or projects.  There is a need to simplify when this card comes up; however not too much. This is more about finding a natural rhythm.  As always with this card, water and/or short trips are vital this week to help cleanse your thoughts and gain perspective.  https://www.melissagroo.com/
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Tarot-cast for Week of April 7, 2019

CU EEB - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Drew Harvell Blaschka Glass 20141212GH

Another eco-artist for this month is Leopold Blaschka, a master glass artist.  In the spring of 1853 Leopold traveled from Germany to the United States. The trade winds died and stranded the boat off the coast of Azores for 2 weeks.  To fill the time, Leopold began studying, sketching and admiring the transparence and colorfulness of the local invertebrates.  Ten years later, back in Dresden, he created a moderate business of making lab equipment and specialty glass-work items; however, it would be his hobby of blowing glass flowers as accurately as a botanist’s drawing that drew the attention of Prince de Rohan and five years later to Professor Ludwig Reichenbrach.  With their support, he and later his son began a lucrative business for creating mail ordered ocean specimens that he drew in that fated trip.

Many of his works are exhibited at the Cornell Museum now.  A Cornell professor, Drew Harvell, is taking this collection of 700 invertebrates and searching for the actual animals to match the art to see if they have changed.  She has found that now some of them are endangered.  You can see this amazing story with the documentary Fragile Legacy or read her book Sea of Glass.  He and his son also did a collection of botanically accurate flowers, The Glass Flowers of Harvard, exclusively for Harvard University.  I highly recommend seeing any of these amazingly intricate studies in glass.   

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

 

Aries

Leopold BlaschkaTwo of Wands – Last week, the Moon’s reflective light revealed the fact or fantasy of your fears, and helped you finesses navigating by your intuition and feelings without letting them overwhelm you.  This enlightenment on one’s fantasy and fears should have readied you for the action of the Two of Wands this week. For this week is the time to strike out on your own and discover some new places and people.  This week expand your world and don’t let last week’s fear stop you.

 

Taurus

Leopold BlaschkaEight of Coins – This is your second eight so let’s look at 8s for a sec. Eights are the cards of expansion and contraction.  The Eight of Cups last week had you contracting by doing some spring cleaning.  The Eight of Coins wants you to expand by growing your skills.  This week is all about work, but it isn’t all about how hard you work.  It is about using your skill-set to work smart.  This combination of cleaning and efficacy should give you a sense of accomplishment by the end of week.

 

Gemini

Leopold Blaschka

Knight of Coins – The Knight of Coins is all about pace and persistence.  If you go to slow you will miss an opportunity but if you go too fast you will miss the details.  This week slow and steady wins the race.

 

Cancer

Leopold BlaschkaKing of Wands – The King of Wands is about spirituality, passion and creativity.  He wants you to understand and work with not only parts of yourself but your destiny that ignites it.  This life is to be lived with gusto, so do something every day this week to kindle your spirit, passion and creativity and it will lead you to a brighter destiny.

 

Leo

Leopold BlaschkaAce of Cups – Ace of Cups foretells new beginnings or insights in relationships.  This week spend some time with someone new or reignite an old relationship.  This can be with our love partners, but it also is just about spreading love to any living thing – earth, plants, animals and humans. Because ultimately –Love is all there is.

 

Virgo

Leopold Blaschka*Temperance – Double whammy weeks, last week the Hierophant advised you to work on structures and efficiency.  Then Temperance doubles down reminding you that structure is great but does not last without balance and moderation. So, with your work there must be play.  With your happiness there is also sadness.  With hatred is love.  The challenge is how to do the balancing. Not as reactive equilibrium act – falling to one side and rebalancing the other in a teeter-totter fashion – but as a proactive act of accepting the paradoxes and mixing a new cocktail.  Think if it like cooking without salt but getting the satisfaction of saltiness by using a mixture of spices and herbs.

 

Libra

Leopold BlaschkaFive of Coins – The Five of Coins is the card of loss, despair or loneliness.  No joke this can be a hard week with mishaps and misdirection; however, the lesson with this card is realizing you are not only resilient but also not alone.  Your challenge is asking for help.   No shame, this is not only beneficial to you but a way for the people around you helping someone who has helped them.

 

Scorpio

Leopold Blaschka*Chariot – The Chariot gives you energy to do some moving and shaking of your own this week.  Take this time to do activities that will move you closer to your goals.  The only challenge with the Chariot is all movement is up to you this week.  It’s not exactly that you must do this solo, but it is essential you do all the driving.

 

Sagittarius

Leopold BlaschkaPage of Swords – The Page of Swords is the card of the investigator and hidden information.  There are clues and messages you need, but you will be required digging for them this week.  Ask lots of questions, read between the lines, digger deeper, keep your ears, eyes and mind open.

 

Capricorn

Leopold BlaschkaNine of Swords – The Nine of Swords is the card of worry and over-thinking.  This card makes sense with the past two weeks of heavy lifting in your mind.  The challenge and work with this card are finding ways to turn off the mind by giving it a break or diverting it with playful thoughts.  You can do this with a bout of binge-watching TV (no commercials), escape into a good book, day dreaming, or meditating to quiet the monkey mind.

 

Aquarius

Leopold Blaschka*Judgement – Judgment is the card of evolution.  It is time to shed your skin, molt your feathers, or wrap up in a cocoon.  The shift of your paradigm has happened.  The question is: have you evolved to survive in it a healthier way than the previous phase of your life?  If not take this week to be tender with yourself, you are still in your soft-shell phase of your evolution.  Take this week to harden your shell/skin, grow in your feathers, grow your wings.  The only thing you should be doing this week is figure out what you need to grow/obtain in this new phase.

 

Pisces

Leopold Blaschka*High Priestess and Ten of Swords – The High Priestess is here to help with the Ten of Swords.  The Ten of Swords is the card that foretells that the World can be a triggering place.  One reason we get trigger is we let our reactive ego do the driving instead of more kind conscious mind.   The High Priestess steps in with her cool thoughts sitting on her lofty seat seeing the bigger pictures and cycles.  She challenges you to stand back from the World and not react – just watch.  You will find that observation and not confrontation will bring you more enlightenment in situations this week.

 

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

Nina

 

Tarot-cast for the Week of March 31, 2019

April is the month of change and a reminder of the amazing marble we live on.  It is Spring in the northern hemisphere and Fall in the southern.  The cycles of life are in Mother Earth’s headlines. Flowers are budding or plants and animals are getting ready for winter, and migration is happening all over the planet.  No wonder Earth Day is celebrated in April.  In honor of Mother Earth and her inhabitants I am picking artists that have a flora or fauna themes all month.

This week’s artist is Lisa Ericson.  Her detailed paintings are the perfect combination of fact, fantasy, and myths. For instance, the pelican paintings could be related to the evolutionary theorem of Island hopping – animal population arriving by flotsam or flight.  Her Rodentia flutterbys fulfill the childhood fantasy that all animals should have butterfly wings; it makes any animal cuter.   Her paintings of tortoises carrying small ecosystems evokes the myths of some indigenous tribes of the Americas and the Hindu cosmology of the World Turtle, who holds up the world.

Overall, her paintings convey the frailty of the web of interspecies dependence. What truly caught my eye with this artist’s work is the eyes of her subjects.  They look at the viewer with a sense of winsome and wisdom. Reminding us that we are interconnected to them; our stewardship of Earth and companionship with them can be an omen of good or ill for all.

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

 

Aries

Lisa Ericson*Moon – The Moon card comes to light when you need to investigate the darker parts of your subconscious – lighting a fear.  This anxiety or fear can be grounded in truth, and the Moon’s reflective light reveals the fact or fantasy of it.  This can look as simple as if you are walking down the street and get a hint that someone is following you, don’t blow it off.  Walk with courage to a well lite area with people, say Hi to someone and then turn around.   Or a more complex situation of confronting an anxiety and dissecting it to see if it is based in reality.   In both scenario your intuition and feelings are something to listen to but not let them overwhelm you.

 

Taurus

Lisa EricsonEight of Cups – The Eight of Cups is the spring-cleaning card.  This card can literally mean you need to do some spring cleaning in your home or metaphorically any area of your life.  Open the windows air, out your linens, and vacuum the dust bunnies from under your bed.  There is a witchy ritual where you sweep out your front door sweep out the bad vibes.  If you don’t have a broom to do that then at least clean out the bag/canister in your vacuum cleaner.

 

Gemini

Lisa EricsonFive of Wands – Second five in a row, so let’s dive into the meaning of five.  Fives are the cards of chaos where the chaos brings out things that are hidden or things that can sweep us away.  Last week the chaos had you uncovering the positive and negatives in your life and asking you to choose the positive perspective.  This week the Five of Wands looks at the chaotic energy you allow in from others.  You have a choice whether to play in the chaos or simple turn around and walk away.  The challenge with either choice is not getting swept up into or trigger by the drama of others.

 

Cancer

Lisa EricsonTen of Cups – The Ten of Cups is the rainbow card.  It advises us to celebrate even after a storm.  The challenge is seeing that happiness is not the absence of pain.  Pain can co-exist with happiness without canceling it out.

 

Leo

Lisa EricsonPage of Cups – Time to pull out your rose-colored glasses.  The Page of Cups advises you that this week no matter what happens to find the silver lining and the rainbow.  You need an injection of naivety, play and an innocent perspective, even though that grumpy lion-ic side wants to roar.  This week it’s all about your inner cub.

 

Virgo

Lisa Ericson*Hierophant – This is card that Virgo feels comfortable in as long as you don’t get to self-critical.  The Hierophant advise you to work on structures and efficiency this week.  This can look as simple as oiling the door hinge that squeaks. Or as complex as fixing your money or schedule so that you are no longer broke at the end of the month or too tired at the end of the week.

 

Libra

Lisa EricsonThree of Wands – The Three of Wands advise you to do some planning before diving into projects this week.  The best use of this time is focusing on how to make the work run smoothly.  Think of yourself as the guy on the tarmac that guides the plane into the gate.  The challenge is having foresight and peripheral vision for things to line up.

 

Scorpio

Lisa EricsonTwo of Pentacles – Juggling is the name of the game this week with the Two of Pentacles.  The challenge with this card is getting too brash.  Make sure you start out simple and have two items/things/people on your plate and once you do that well then you can add another “ball” to the mix.  This week a misstep can be a mishap.

 

Sagittarius

Lisa EricsonSeven of Coins – The Seven of Coins is the worker bee card.  This week’s energy is best used working your butt off.  All the things you do and partake in this week fertilize and grow your productivity for the coming summer months.  This is a week to start projects/plant seeds, weed projects in progress, exchange seeds, direct people in helping to tend the garden, water relationships, etc…  Use this gardening metaphor to the fullest so you can harvest in the Fall.

 

Capricorn

Lisa EricsonQueen of Swords – Last week the Hierophant and Eight of Wands had some spiritual messages having you create a deeper meaning and structure to your life.  Lucky for you the Queen of Swords is helping you with another week of this esoteric challenge.  She is the card of critical thinking.  So, take this week to do some Socratic questioning on the concepts of meaning itself to help complete the blueprint of the structures that you need.

 

Aquarius

Lisa EricsonSix of Swords – Last week, the Justice card said all things are just and fair, but it may take a while to see it play out.  Justice challenged you to see the truth in situations and yourself without the lens of emotion. Reminding you that you can’t control every aspect of this life and by letting go of some of the control you let Justice takes its course justly.  This concept still rings true this week.  The only added advice that the Six of Swords is giving is to “let go” you need to simplify your life.  Also, this card reminds you if you are stuck in how to do that, water either its rhythm or water itself can help you realize where and what to pare down.

 

Pisces

Lisa EricsonEight of Coins –The Eight of Coins is the card of mastery.  You challenge is to use this energy to up your game at how you make money.  Whether that is learning a new skill, honing an old skill, networking, refreshing your website/LinkedIn page, etc.., it is all business this week.

 

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

Nina

 

Tarotcast for Week of March 24, 2019

Happy Spring.  This week I’m taking a break from art and tapping into music.  With each sign’s forecast is the link to the song that was on my music shuffle at the time of me pulling your card.  I always find it amazing that something in the song seems to fit. I hope you enjoy my “spring break” from art.

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

 

Aries

*Knight of Coins – Last week, the Lovers showed up to remind you that the most important pieces of being human are connections.  The Knight of Coins continues this mission with two other concepts to consider.  One is that your pace needs to be slow and steady, which will hopefully re-balance your work life. And two, it is vital in your journey to stop and talk to your friends. This knight challenges you being present in both activities.  Railroad track by Willy Moon

 

Taurus

Seven of Wands – The Seven of Wands increases encounters with challenging relationships.  This card advises you to see where ego is involved.  Seeing conflict not as a competition but more like a game. Also, remember that you also have the choice of not playing then putting down the Wand and bowing out.   Nothing left to Say/Rocks– Imagining Dragons
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Tarotcast for Week of March 17, 2019

This week’s artist is Edith Meusnier.  Some have classified her as an environmental, textile or fiber artist.  These three categories have predominately woman in them.  Why?  First, let’s define the categories.   Environmental art is artistic works that are intended to enhance or become part of the environment or make a statement on environmental issues. Textile arts are arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects. Fiber art refers to fine art whose material consists of natural or synthetic fiber and other components. It focuses on the materials and on the manual labor on the part of the artist as part of the works’ significance and prioritizes aesthetic value over utility.

It is curious to categorize her in just the above, for she is ultimately a sculptor. Sculpture is the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round.  (Sculpture’s original definition has the materials being carved or molded but that has expanded as the materials we use have too).  Creating and using the first three categories is one way that bias can happen especially for women artist.

If you compare her work to Andy Goldsworthy (named as a sculptor, photographer and environmentalist) they are similar.  He uses outdoor space to create temporary installations that highlight the environment, so does Edith.   They only difference is that she uses gift ribbon, and he uses objects from the environment.

Or we can compare her to Christo and Jeanne-Claude, they are considered artists that make environmental art.  (Note:  Christo as a solo artist is named a sculptor. Christo also took sole recognition for all the art until 1994 then retroactively renamed it with Jean Claude’s name.  And now the team is considered environmental artists.)  They use a variety of fabrics to make their pieces.  So environmental art doesn’t have to use only pieces from the environment nor make an environmental statement.  Nor if you use fabric are you only a  textile or fabric artist.

Ultimately is the art community putting women, who use out of the ordinary (wood, metal or stone) materials to build 3- dimension pieces, outside the high art form of sculpture because of the material she uses,  are women  allowing themselves to be sub-labeled instead of taking on the broader term, or is it simply because women aren’t the right gender to be seen and named a sculptor?

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

Aries

Edith Meusnier*Lovers – The Lovers show up to remind you about one of the most important pieces of being human – connection.  How you connect and who you connect with this week becomes very important to figuring out what direction to take in the coming months.  A simple example is choosing wisely about who you talk with and what you talk about at the water cooler, for the relationship there create your work environment.  A complex example is taking that idea home with who you choosing as your partner.  If it is not a supportive relationship, why are you in it?  And if it is supportive – reward it.

Taurus

Ace of Cups – Love is in the air.  The Ace of Cups wants you to open your arms, ears, and heart to people around you.  This is a great week to make new connections and deepen relationships you already have.  Take time this week to share your heart.

Gemini

Edith MeusnierKing of Coins – The King of Coins comes when you need to look at how you make you money.  Is it satisfying?   Do you feel supported?  Are you making enough to make ends meet?  Then in answering these questions you will either be celebrating and imbuing in your accomplishments or begin making to-do lists that will create “yes” answers.

Cancer

Edith MeusnierQueen of Cups – The Queen of Cups challenges your life – wanting it to flow freer.  This week celebrating the joys both big and small.  Have some fun, hang with friends, have a beverage for the joy of it – think root-beer floats or champagne. Being in water will help remind you of your joys if you are stuck.

Leo

Edith MeusnierKing of Cups – The King of Cups ask you to get in touch with your emotions this week, especially when they deal with your environment.  Your emotions ae clues how to handle situations.  For example, if you thrilled to talk to someone then do so, if you are not then don’t feel obligated.  The challenge is not to go inward with your emotions but interact outward.

Virgo

Edith MeusnierEight of Cups – Time for some house-cleaning this week.  Not only should you be doing in your environment but also in the internal dialogue and emotional swings you have.  Take “items” out of the closet/dark, dust them off, see if you still need them and if not toss it.   Your only challenge is this may not until the weekend, but don’t forget to do it.

Libra

Edith Meusnier*Hierophant – This is a great week to work with structures and systems.   The Hierophant challenges you to create structures for yourself to find ways to work smoothly within in your control and to learn from structures you have no control over (like education, government etc..).  This can look as simple as going over your schedule and to-do list to shift and reprioritize.  Or as complex as, you are having a sit down with a boss or co-worker and come up with a new plan that can work for the betterment of all.  Also, for lifelong learners this means going back for a course, class or book you know will help you obtain your goals.

Scorpio

Edith Meusnier*Fool – Last week, the Empress wanted you to reconnect with the person who was the most motherly to you and then cultivate those “motherly” qualities in yourself. Now the Fool shows up and has two challenges for you this week:  1) Don’t take that task too seriously.  Don’t forgot not only do good mothers nurture, but they also play.   2)  Take the “motherly” you on the road.   This can look as simple as visiting a friend for a drink and vent session or taking your child to a skate park and you both skate(board).

Sagittarius

Edith MeusnierNine of Pentacles – The Nine of Pentacles declares this is a great week for getting your work done and enjoying it. This card helps you hone your flow, but to get the most out of it you should hole yourself up.  It is not that you can’t work with others, you should just be very choosy when you do so.

Capricorn

Three of Pentacles – Second three in a row so let’s look at the number three for a second.  Threes have us ground ourselves in the present but with our sights towards the future.  Last week the Three of Swords ask you to be honest with your emotional thinking.  And this week the Three of Pentacles have you working within the material plane.  So, questions like, where am I will drive a stake into the present for grounding and questions like where I am going with my work need to be pondered and sketched out towards the future.  This card also reminds you for this week that working with others cuts your work load and increases output.

Aquarius

Queen of Coins – Last week, the Tower card came to remind you to that something needs to be fixed that you have been putting off.  The Queen of Coins continues this theme of mending and fixing.  So, if you didn’t do it last week get it done.  However, she also challenges you, once it is finished, finding time to sit back and enjoy some delights from the material plane.

Pisces

Edith MeusnierAce of Wands – This is your last card of your birth month and what a great one.  The Ace of Wands is the card of beginnings that light your passion. Remember your main birth year card is the Devil (click here for a refresher) And the King and Nine of Swords are going to challenge you to get out of your head to take these “exams.”  And now the Ace of Wands is the candle on your cake.  This card is foretelling that while you are passing your tests, you are simultaneously creating a new future that is more passionate and creative.  This week start planting the seeds in your mind of what you want to grow as you graduate into the new you.

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

Nina

Tarot-cast for March 3, 2019

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

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

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

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

Aries

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

Taurus

Mandy Barker

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