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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Oct. 10, 2021

Fanny Sanin
Fanny Sanin 2011

First I want to thank all of you for reading my ponderings.  I just finished my sixth year doing these tarotcasts and I am grateful to all of you.  Well here we go for another round….

The artist this week is Fanny Sanin.  Sanin explored many art forms, but eventually honed her eye to explore geometric abstraction.  She focuses on color and form, but all within boundaries of straight lines and arcs.  Her goal is for the viewer to perceive through symmetry and balance an almost “mystical experience.”  A place where the composition does not jar or distracts us but narrows our perception.   Her work eases the eye while heightening our natural intuition/response.   When you go to her website her paintings are grouped by decades and we can see how she went from non-form abstraction, 1962-1968, to this geometric play for the next 50 years.  (You can see partially the progress as you scroll down ).  In her scope of work the viewer can see not only her journey with color and form but also that this play is endless.  Where a lifetime of work does not complete this line of discovery.

Your pondering this week: is this true with all that we do?  Are there endless combinations to work with for lifetimes? And if so, what are yours?

Solar System highlights:  On Monday the Moon starts in Capricorn– a great time to get things done on the material plane. Then on Oct 13th it goes into Aquarius – a time of invention and innovation.  The Moon then finishes in Pisces – dreamy vibes for the weekend. Mercury is in its last week of retrograde in Libra– great for communication, creating networks and getting in touch with friends.  Remember when Mercury is retro not a great time to start projects but perfect tie to Review, Reflect and Revise.

Venus is now in Sagittarius and asks are we feeding and nurturing our relationships enough to keep them growing?    Mars is Libra – another planet sending energy into investigating relationships this is around the question are your actions following your words?  This theme and work around your relationships is big until Mercury moves into Scorpio Nov. 7th.  And lastly, Jupiter and Saturn are in Aquarius – so innovating and upping your game is their focus for the rest of this year.

P.S. Signs with an * it is 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 halfway mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check-in, now is the time.

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

Nina

Aries
Fanny Sanin 2 1973
Fanny Sanin 1973

*Empress – The Muse of Creation has come to help you grow anything you put your mind to.  Her challenge is this project may take up to 10 months of work to fully develop.  If you can not commit to this, then creation is still available to you, but you will have to let go of expectations of the outcome.  For example, you want to grow a zucchini then up to 10 months of focused attention will grow a bounty of zucchini.  However, if you can’t spend the time and focus, something will grow in its place, but you will not know it’s form until the summer of 2022.

Taurus
Fanny Sanin 1976
Fanny Sanin 1976

Ten of Wands – The Muse of Burdens is here to help you in relieving some of yours.  This week there is no way you are going to accomplish all that you need to do.  So, this Muse suggest make a list of your todos, prioritize them two ways by ease and necessity, and see where those two lists overlap.  Then only do, at most, the top eight. The rest put off until next week.  The lesson with this card is not only to get things done but you may find that next week the leftovers might lose their significance.

Gemini
Fanny Sanin 5 1977
Fanny Sanin 1977

Ten of Cups – The Muse of Bliss Finding is here with brownies.  This energy comes when an emotional restoration is needed.  Find or create moments that create bliss each day.  Ex:  napping with your animal, sitting in a sunbeam, a beverage of choice while sitting still, read a book, stay in your PJs for a day etc….

Cancerian
Fanny Sanin 1980
Fanny Sanin 1980

*Justice – The Muse of Truth appears this week to help you make an important decision and/or search for your personal truth.  She asks are you aligned with your higher self and your credos.  Now this can go both ways, possibly you need to adjust your actions to align with beliefs or your beliefs need tweaking.  This is not a week of right versus wrong.  You need to see the grey behind the decisions and find a balanced compromise that does not dilute who you are.

Leo
Fanny Sanin 1986
Fanny Sanin 1986

*The Hanged Man– The last couple of weeks you have been working with lessons around fairness, decisions and how they affect your growth.  This week you are in a holding pattern.  This energy is aligned perfectly with the last week of Mercury’s retrograde.  Whether you spend that time revisiting the last two week’s lesson or decide to tune out, both are beneficial.  The challenge is around not being pushed forward when you know the timing, i.e. this week, is not right for moving forward.

Virgo
Fanny Sanin 1992
Fanny Sanin 1992

Ace of Coins – You have the energy this week to start new projects; however, with Mercury in retrograde you are making your life harder if you do.  Yes, the early bird catches the worm.  But if you go before dawn, the worms aren’t up yet because it is too cold. Therefore, this week instead of jumping into doing, prepare and organize, so you can be the first one out of the gate next week.

 

Libra
Fanny Sanin 1994

*Empress – The third energy to work with for this coming year is the Muse of Creation.  This Muse is big karmic growth energy to work with however, it will take all year to see the fruits of your labors.  This Muse wants to co-create abundance and beauty into your life.  So first she asks to acknowledge the beauty that already surrounds you.  These you want to continue growing.  And then she has you ponder what is missing?  This year she will help you fill in voids of your garden.

Scorpio
Fanny Sanin 1996

*Strength – The third big energy week for you.  The past weeks had the Muse of Opportunity opening doors for you to dabble in new worlds.  The Muse of Patience and Moderation advising you to reduce your speed and rebalance.  And this week the Muse of Inner Strength has arrived to build your courage, determination, and compassion.  So, it is interesting that you can work with all these big energies in the final weeks of your birth cycle, and that they coincide with Mercury retrograde.  When this happens, the Muses are trying to get you to tie up loose ends and prep the ground for your coming year.  They ask you what do you want to finish up/let go of before your birthday?  By dealing with them now, you create space for creation in the coming year.

Sagittarius
Fanny Sanin 2004

Eight of Cups – The Muse of Release has come to help you clean out your closets or send something/person off.  This can look like literally cleaning out your space or it can be releasing emotions, situations, persons that don’t jive with who you are.  This energy usually shows up to create space for new things, people or situations that will be arriving soon.

 

Capricorn
Fanny Sanin 2007

Four of Cups – Last week the Muse of Composting came to help review and recycle what no longer serves, by taking the nutrients from the past to grow the future.  The Muse of Contemplation continues this theme in the final week of Mercury’s retrograde.  Take this week to do ¾ internal work and ¼ external.  She advises that slowing down will speed up the process.

Aquarius
Fanny Sanin 2009

Six of Cups – The Muse of Remembering has come to swapp stories of youth and the past.  This energy comes around when the past has information for your present.  Pay special attention if you feel a Deja Vue or a familiarity.  Sit with it, notice all that is happening around you for clues to your download.

Pisces
Fanny Sanin 2010

Seven of Wands – The Muse of Grit has come to help you make a stand or fortify your resolution. She helps by reminding you the why you are dealing with/through the challenges you have control over.  Is it for more ease?  Better Life? Sense of Security?   If you can stand behind why you are fighting, then what seems like a war becomes a quest for your desires

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Sept. 12, 2021

Sweden Mona Caron
Sweden Mona Caron

This week’s artist is Mona Caron, @mona.caron.  Her main art form are murals, beautiful, majestic, but sublime in image and message.  She has a series where she paints weeds larger than life, like side of a building large. The definition of weed is – a wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.  Weeds are often considered a nuisance.  Something to pull out. Or life barely noticed but eking out an existence in a landscape of urban concrete.  However, Caron utilizes them to show their beauty and resilience.  (Please watch her stop-motion animation, as they sprout out on urban landscapes.)

Often weeds are more native than the plants chosen to be planted in a garden.  Alexis Nikole Nelson known as the “Black Forager” on TikTok shows us that what is considered a weed can be used as an urban food source.  Or Sean Sherman and Dana Thompson’s cook book The Sious Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen highlights native food as foundations of amazingly tasty recipes.  These people are reconnecting us to a lost knowledge base in our society and a broader perspective on what is a weed.

So, the pondering for this week: where in your life do you try to pull out your weeds?  By eradicating them are you missing their beauty, contribution to your resilience, and them as a resource?  Possibly, that your weeds are more native and useful to your actual being than what you are cultivating?

Solar System highlights:  This week the Moon starts in Sagittarius – great for excursions and adventuring through the 13th.  Then the Moon goes into Capricorn a great time to focus on work and getting things done. Then on 17th it goes into Aquarius – time for innovating and tweaking what you did on the previous days.  Also, a great time for deep intellectual conversation and experimentation over the weekend.    Mercury is in Libra– great for communication, creating networks and getting in touch with friends.

Venus is now in Scorpio – time to up your game in actions in your intimate relationships.  And a great time to feed your pleasures and passions in general just watch overindulgences.   Mars moves into Libra – another planet sending energy into investigating relationships this is around the question are your actions following your words?  This theme and work around your relationships is big until Mercury moves Scorpio Nov. 7th.  And lastly, Jupiter and Saturn are in Aquarius – so innovating and upping your game is their focus for the rest of this year.

P.S. Signs with an * it is 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 halfway mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check-in, now is the time.

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

Nina

Aries
Mona Caron
San Pabulo Mona Caron

Knight of Coins – Last week’s energy was pushing you to evolve into a new you.  Having you investigate the best qualities of your peers and mentors that you want to add to you.  The Muse of Getting Things Done is asking you to start this process with actions steps.  It is time to walk your talk.

Taurus
Mona Caron
Mona Caron Taiwan

*Temperance – Last week, the Muse of Structure came to help you build a sense of a schedule with the flexibility and spaciousness to create freely.  Hopefully you have placed some of those flexible structures, for now the Muse of Flow has come to help you equalize the consumption and release of energy with in them.  This can look as simple as mediating with breath work at the opening and close your day or creating better but flexible eating habits with your only rule is eating 100 different things a week (that includes spices).  How do your rules and structures work with to promote flow? The key is broadening your rules.

Gemini
Mona Caron
Mona Caron San Francisco

King of Coins – The Muse of Experienced Wisdom has come to remind that you are a source of inspiration.  This week you will be called on for your expertise.  The challenge is how you give it.  You audience needs inspiration as well as a sense of security and hospitality.

Cancerian
Mona Caron
Mona Caron Jersey City

Eight of Coins – Last week the Muse of Co-Creation recommended bringing into your life and working with the people, things and ideas that make you a better you.  You get another week to do that with the Muse of Mastery.  This Muse wants you to practice with these co-creating elements to produce or at least deepen the your understanding and applicability of your work.

Leo
Mona Caron
Mona Caron Brooklyn

Two of Swords – The Muse of Decisions is here to help you decided.  This week will require a lot of what feels like monumental decisions; however, the individual decisions are not as consequential as the reason behind your decisions. Make sure the why behind what you decided is more tangible then the possibly the decision itself.

Virgo
San Francisco Mona Caron

Seven of Swords – This is your last week of your birth month and gives you your final theme to the year.  Let’s review.  So far, the Muses to work with in your coming year are Muse of Teamwork, Muse of Transitions, and the Muse of Healing.  So whatever you are working on it is more fortuitous or more likely of having success with more sets of eyes, minds, and hands then just yours.  Your second energy advise for the first part of your journey to travel light.  Do this by physical lightening your load and simplicity are key.  Your third and Big Karmic energy is magic is flowing around you to help heal and reset you on your purpose.   And lastly the Muse of Victory with Small Battles gives you the key to ease.  Break your work processes down to bitesize chunks and any challenge is surmountable.

 

Libra
Mona Caron Portland

Ace of Swords – The Muse of the Intellect will accompany you this week.  Cool logic and defined truths are the keys.  Your mind is your biggest asset.  And with it and this Muse’s help you find new innovated solutions to old problems.

Scorpio
Mona Caron
Mona Caron

Eight of Cups – The Muse of Dissatisfaction has come to help you see and release things that no longer work for you.  This can be as simple as releasing the plethora of plastic tops that have no mates or memorabilia that no longer resonates or a job that sucks at your soul.  This week begin to release what no longer works for you.

Sagittarius
Mona Caron Switzerland

*Star – The Muse of Healing has come with her first aid kit and tea.  You need some rest and recuperation.  This week might identify some deep wounds that need mending or a deeper contemplation on emotions you are having to succor.  Take advantage of any time you have space to just be with your body and listen.  Ask it what it needs.  Long Bath?  Massage?  Sweat Lodge?  Multiple nights of 8-hour sleeps?  This week is a perfect time to heal the body so it can support the mind and soul.

 

Capricorn
Mona Caron Lisbon

Seven of Swords – Last week, the Muse of Hermitage has called you back to the cave to gain perspective.  Now the Muse of Cunning has joined to help you figure out how to come back into society with your refreshed perspective without succumbing to societies whims and obligations.  Again, these muses remind you at times the chase or hidden discovery brings more pleasure than something easily won.  You don’t have to hoard your gifts, but you don’t need to give them out like Halloween candy either.

Aquarius
Mona Caron San Francisco

Five of Coins – Last week the Muse of Truth came to help align you to your purpose or to help you find a solution to a problem.  This week brings with it a bit of chaos that can leave you feeling drained of your resources.  However, your newly focused purpose, or the skills you used last week to solve problems will come in handy with this energy.  This Muse reminds you the universe has your back.  The help you need is there is you reach for it.

Pisces
Mona Caron Union City

Four of Cups – The Muse of Inner Wisdom has come with your mediation pillow and yoga mat.  This week belly button gazing is needed.  Your soul/body/mind have some information to disentangle with you.  So, whether you mediate, journal, or doddle.   Tune out the outside so you can tune inward.  Because this inner work has answers so you can tune outward with more ease.  The only challenge you can’t stay in this state past this week.

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Sept. 5, 2021

Hung Lui Wings

This week’s artist is Hung Lui  @hungluiartist who just passed in August.  She is a painter and often created mixed-media installations around her paintings.  Hung’s style is layered not only technically but also in context.  She uses layered brushstrokes combined with washes of linseed oil to create her paintings.  Her portraits are of refuges, prisoners, prostitutes and the forgotten.  Her installations might have one piece, a broom, clock, or cup paired with the painting.  Or be a mountain of railroad tracks surrounded and leading to a pile of fortune cookies.

These items bring us into her pieces like a smell leads us to memory or an object starts a dream.  Then as we awaken and remember, we hold on to an aspect that is vivid and punctuated but the whole is blurred.  Hung’s art feels as if she is summoning ghosts.  As she says  “When I moved to the West, exactly half a lifetime ago, I carried my ghosts with me. The ghosts I carry are a burden, but also a blessing.”  Your pondering for this week:  seeing your ghosts as blessings.

Solar System highlights:  This week the Moon starts in Virgo– it’s all about organizing and cleaning until the 8th.  Then the Moon goes into Libra and a focus on relationships.  And finally, into Scorpio for the weekend- time for finding some fun.  Mercury is in Libra– great for communication, creating networks and getting in touch with friends.  Venus is in Libra until the September 10th – enjoy your relationships and work with the energy around equity.  And then it moves into Scorpio to add more positive energy to the weekend vibe.  Mars is in its last week in Virgo – clean and tidy up anything your gaze goes to.  Jupiter and Saturn are in Aquarius – so innovating and upping your game is their focus for the rest of this year.

P.S. Signs with an * it is 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 halfway mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check-in, now is the time.

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

Nina

Aries
Hung Lui
Blue Boy Hung Lui

*Judgment – Last week’s energy was about co-creation, and the Muse of Evolution takes it to the next level.  Time to push your self out of the same old – same old and evolve into a new you.  If you could become any type of chimerical creature, what would you be?  A Merlion? A Catantram?  Your challenge this week to answer – What are the best qualities of your peers and mentors that you want to add to you?

Taurus
Hung Lui
Mirror Hung Lui

*Hierophant – The Muse of Structure is here to help you with your Achilles heel, over- doing.  If you make a structure so airtight, you make the building and its inhabitants unable to breathe.  Or so impenetrable, you stifle creativity.  Your work this week is about balancing work with play.  All work kills creativity.  All play ends up not getting you to the goals you have set.  So, how can you build a sense of a schedule with the flexibility and spaciousness to create freely?

Gemini
Hung Lui
Dry Well Hung Lui

Five of Coins – This week’s energy can highlight a sense of lack in your life.  So, the Helper Muse has come to highlight you are not alone nor totally lacking.  Though this week is hard it is not doomed.  There are gifts to this week.  But you must reach out to acquire them.  This Muse reminds you that focusing energy on only the negative feeds it.  Her advice, starve the worry and feed the hope.

Cancerian
Hung Lui
Crane Dance Hung Lui

*Lovers – The Muse of Co-Creation recommends looking at who and/or what you are partnering with to create this part of your life.  She advises call on your likeminded friends and do some deep imagining. Or ingest some literature or music that inspires you.  Spend some time with your favorite material or tool and make something.  Bring into your life the people, things and ideas that make you a better you.

Leo
Hung Lui
Dragonflies Hung Lui

Ten of Cups – The Muse of Family is highlighted this week.  She reminds you that family are the people that support you.  They can be the ones you are born with but are also the ones you have gathered.  Time to connect with your peeps and deepen your roots.

Virgo
Hung Lui
Polly Bemis Hung Lui

*Star – Your third and Big Karmic energy to work with this year is the Muse of Healing. This year, magic is flowing around you to help restore and rediscover your purpose.   As you leave behind the past, pick up the lessons and move into a brighter future.  The lesson this Muse has is that wounds leave scar tissue, and these areas must still be tended to and stretched often.  You have all year to work with this energy, but this week spend time with your bruises and wounds and see which ones still need mending.

 

Libra
Visage VII Hung Lui

Two of Wands – The Muse of the Future is here to activate your imagination and set some goals for you to work on into 2022.  If nothing was in your way, would your goals change?  This Muse wants you to ponder obtainable and seemly unattainable goals.  She then asks you what is in your way to get to these seemly inaccessible aspirations.  Compare them to the strengths that make your obtainable goals possible.  Work on areas where there is crossover.

Scorpio
Hung Lui
America Hung Lui

Queen of Wands – The Muse of Nature is calling to you.  Animals and plants are calling you to impart their wisdom. Whether it is the resilience of a dandelion growing in sidewalk, the focus of a dog finding a scent, the joyous song of a bird, the fragile beauty of a butterfly or the contentment of a cat finding the perfect spot to rest.   Nature is giving you clues on aspects in your life that you need to work on.

Sagittarius
Refugees Woman and Children Hung Lui

Ace of Cups – The Muse of Love is here.  Whether you are in a relationship or not this energy advises you to share some part of you.  The more you joyfully fill another’s cup the more your cup will be filled with joy.  The challenge is if it does not bring the joy then you are sharing that negative energy in a loop, so try something new or quit and move on.

 

Capricorn
Chinese in Idaho Portrait II Hung Lui

*Hermit – The Muse of Hermitage has called you back to the cave.  This energy comes when you need to gain perspective by pulling back from society.  But the challenge is you can not completely withdraw.  So, your pondering becomes: How can you hang out your open sign without being bombarded by the crowds?  Think about the paradox of honesty and stealth.  Like being that spooky shop that is on some back alley.  You know it is open but it hard to get to its exact location.

Aquarius
Jongzhe- First Spring Thunder Hung Lui

*Justice – The Muse of Truth has come to help align you to your purpose or to help you find a solution to a problem.  However, this energy holds you accountable for your actions and words.  If you are aligned with your divine or searching for a truth to aid, then no worries.  However, is you are not aligned or hunting up a “good story” then be careful, for Justice is swift.

Pisces
Hung Lui
Strange Fruit Comfort Women Hung Lui

Three of Swords – The Muse of Heartache is here with tissues and a shoulder if you need one.  This week can be rough and triggering.  First be kind to yourself.  And secondly, be aware you are being triggered because something is not aligned to your heart purpose.  Either it is an old hurt or hole that needs mending.  Tend to it this week.

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of August 22, 2021

Happy Birthday Virgos!

Can this tiny caterpillar be the origin of dragon mythology?  There are over 400 species of the dragon-headed caterpillar, genus Charaxes.  They live in the Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Australia and one species found in Europe, so far.  The butterflies’ colors vary from white, brown, yellow, clay-red, black and can differ with spots of blue or light green.

But the dragon-headed caterpillars all have green wide bodies in the middle and narrow behind with a flat head and these horn-like process with barbs.  The caterpillars’ markings and size can vary from season to season and year to year. Be careful when handling them, for the barbs exude a toxin similar to a bee sting. The eggs hatch within three days from being laid and then go through 5 stages of growth called instarts.  Most grow from 5 mm up to 30 mm (about an inch) by end of cycle.

Solar System highlights:  The Moon starts in Aquarius.  This is the second full moon in a month under the same sign so is also called a Blue Moon – this moon is great at opening portals and downloading innovations with the Sun in its last day of Leo.  It then moves to Pisces on the 23rd – time to deal with paradoxes.  Then into Aries on the 24th– back down to earth and actions.  And ends this week in Taurus on the August 27th– focus on things that need exaltation.

Mercury is in its final week in Virgo.  Finish cleaning out your email and when conversing be clear, simple, and precise.  Venus is in Libra- enjoy your relationships and energy around equity.  Mars is in Virgo – time to clean and tidy up anything your gaze goes to.  Jupiter and Saturn are in Aquarius – so innovating and upping your game is their focus for the rest of this year.

 

P.S. Signs with an * it is 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 halfway mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check-in, now is the time.

 

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

Nina

 

 

Aries

dragon headed caterpillarSeven of Cups – The Muse of Dreaming and Wishes suggests your mantra to be I seize the opportunity to dream. This week push the realms of practicality and dream outside your comfort zone.

Taurus

dragon headed caterpillarAce of Coins – You are surrounded by the energy of prosperity.  This is a great week to start a new project, launch or relaunch a product/service, invest and plant seeds.  What you plant/focus on now will grow.  Your mantra this week is I create abundance with the resources I already have at my fingertips.

 

Gemini

dragon headed caterpillar*Hermit – The Muse of Hermitage is directing you to pull away from society.  Gaining perspective is needed this week.  By retreating from civilization, you calm your mind and see your next steps to journey back into humanity with more mindfulness.  The challenge is informing people of your boundaries while keeping your ringer on for emergencies. Your mantra this week:  When I step back, I regroup and renew.  

 

Cancerian

*Devil – The Muse of Being Bound arrives continuing to help in the process of letting go of the material.  The challenge is this week is also full of distractions and temptations to not deal with your emotional or obligational bindings.  The key is to start small and work your way up or deeper depending on the case.  Remember, the material plane is here to help you grow, not hold you to a past you no longer vibrate with.  Your mantra:  I let go of the old to welcome the new.

 

Leo

dragon headed caterpillar*Empress – If you didn’t do your vison board/lists for where you want to be in 2026 you have another week to start it. Remember you are supposed to tweak it for the rest of 2021.  If you did, then you can jump right in and start creating.  The Muse of Creation is here with ideas and supplies. However, she has a challenge about being honest with yourself about the choices in how you will tend to your future.  Either you can commit to tending to your creativity for the next 10 months, or you can fling your seeds into the wind to see what grows 10 months from now.  You have a choice whether to specifically grow what you want or forage what you need in the wild.  So, pick your mantra:  My life is rich and ripe with possibilities that I can manifest and create. Or My world has infinite possibilities that will manifest for the higher good. 

 

 

Virgo

Three of Coins – Your first muse for the coming year is the Muse of Teamwork.  The energy has come to advise you to ask for help and bounce your ideas off others.  Whatever you are working on it is more fortuitous or more likely of having success with more sets of eyes, minds, and hands then just yours.  Your mantra:  Collaboration is key to learning and growing.

 

Libra

dragon headed caterpillarQueen of Cups – Last week the Muse of Relationships reminded you to treat people how you would like to be treated.  The challenge was it is not always reciprocated.  But she had you ponder does it matter to who you want to be in the world?  Now the Muse of Fun is at your door with games and outings into nature.  This is another week where relationships are important but where last week it could be draining this week it fills your cup.  Your mantra: My relationship with others reflects that I am worthy of love and respect.

 

Scorpio

Eight of Cups – The Muse of Simplicity has come to help you clean out your physical and emotional closets.  This energy wants you to discern your needs from your wants, and then make sure what surrounds you and resonates within you fulfill those needs. This focus guides you this week in all your decisions.  Your mantra:  I will no longer hold onto what isn’t right for me.

 

Sagittarius

Hanged Man – The Muse of Inertia comes when you need to alter your perception of something in your life.  This energy stops you from moving forward until you find a solution to a lingering problem.  And her advise is to look at it from other angles.  Like a painter does when they are stuck, they turn the canvas upside down to see what is needed to balance the composition.   Your mantra: I let go of my attachment to how I think things should be so I can open my mind to what it can be.

 

Capricorn

Nine of Coins – The Muse of Success has come to help you build upon what you have successfully obtain thus far. This is not a time to add more to your plate, but to work on what you need to make the coming months move with more ease.  Your mantra:  I am solidifying my security in the world.

 

 

 

Aquarius

*High Priestess – The Muse of Intuition and Higher Purpose has come to fine tune your instincts.  This Muse likes to play with metaphors, signs, and synchronicities. This energy reminds you that there is a plan though you may not see the whole picture, but by following your intuition you will end up in the right place at the right time.  Your mantra:  When I tune into and trust the vibes, I will obtain higher wisdom.  

 

Pisces

dragon headed caterpillarPage of Cups – The Muse of Optimism has come to help you see that the world can have beautiful and joyous moments.  She does this by reminding you to take the perspective of a child where everything is a wonder and new.  By perceiving the cup half full, this week becomes easier and a bit more fun.  Your mantra:  I open my heart allowing wonder and virtue to lead me on my path.  

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of August 8, 2021

Joan Fullerton
Joan Fullerton

The artist this week is Joan Fullerton @joanfullerton.  Fullerton is a working artist.  What I mean by that is she is not world-renowned artist hanging in the Louvre, but she does art.  She teaches, shows, and paints.  Fullerton does what she loves.  I highlight working artists because it shows that you can do what you love and make a living doing it.  Not everyone is going to be a Frieda Carlo, Maya Angelou, or Brad Pitt, but there is plenty of room for people to honor their passion.  They all started off make a living and doing the work. During this Leonine week where we investigate how we shine ponder this:  Do we sometimes by aiming for the goal, miss the point of the work?  The work should bring you contentment not the goal.  Goals are fleeting;  where the everyday, the work, is steady and satisfying.

Solar System highlights:  Moon starts in Leo – your time to shine and find joy.  It moves to Virgo on the 9th – time to clean house and organize.  Then Libra on the 11th – highlighting relationships.  Ending in Scorpio – focus on your passion but watch the drama.    Mercury goes into Virgo on the 11th.  Great time to clean out your email and when conversing be clear, simple, and precise.  Venus is in Virgo this can be a hard configuration around your relationships, so watch frustrations and critical talk – patience is key.  On the positive side a great time to weed and fertilize anything you want to grow or create space for.  Mars is in Virgo – time to clean and tidy up anything.  Jupiter is back in Aquarius so back to the drawing board innovating and upping your game for the rest of this year.

P.S. Signs with an * it is a big week for you.  Leo this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Aquarius it is your halfway mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check-in, now is the time.

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

Nina

 

 

Aries
Joan Fullerton
Joan Fullerton

King of Cups – Last week the Muse of Empire Creation supported you in building onto anything you have already started.  The challenge with this energy is being aware of your surroundings and the consequences of your actions.  Now the Muse of Emotionality is here to continue the theme of what is good for all is good for the one.  You maybe asked to be vulnerable this week to build better community and a better you.

 

Taurus
Joan Fullerton
Joan Fullerton

*Strength – This week has its challenges, but it is just testing your ability to be flexible and open to other ways of doing things. Your Muse of Resilience and Inner Strength suggest you be less like an oak tree and more like bamboo.  Oak trees are solo.  Bamboo relies on each other for strength.  Oaks grow slowly.   Bamboo grows fast.  The task is to be less stoic and set and more passionate and supple.  Sometimes taming oneself weakens your passion. Your motto:  I’m not in control of everything and that is okay.

 

Gemini
Joan Fullerton
Joan Fullerton

*Empress – The Muse of Creation has come to help you birth something.  She asks what would you like to develop and grow in the next 10 months?  This energy will help you in this endeavor if you show up.  This Muse reminds that to cultivate something you specifically need to tend to it.  However, she also advises if you do not have the time to be present then cast your seeds to the wind and see what shows up a in the spring of 2022.  Either a desire or a surprise wants to be born, so create and planet some seeds this week.

 

Cancerian
Joan Fullerton
Joan Fullerton

Two of Wands – The Muse of Future is here to get you dreaming of far away places and new adventures.  Spend this week thinking of what 2022 could hold for you.  What would you like to accomplish two birthdays from now?  Markers, scissors, paint, and vision boards up.

 

 

Leo
Joan Fullerton
Joan Fullerton

Six of Cups – Last week the Muse of Resilience and Inner Strength is having you quest for subconscious release by the direction of cognizant realization.  So simple that means how do you let your inner self comfortably show in the outer world?  Your work this year is to create or work on healthy outlets so your inner “beast” can roar.  To help you on this hunt is the Muse of the Past.  Some of the answers lie in your childhood.  This energy wants you to explore how the child you, 2-10, found outlets to express yourself.

 

 

Virgo
Joan Fullerton
Joan Fullerton

*Magician – This Muse is here to help you finalize the last month of your birth year and prep the table for the coming year.  The Muse of Divine Manifestation is asking you to connect with your celestial source to download information and action plans.  She reminds you that you already possess all the tools you will need for this coming year, but asks what will you do with them?  Spend this week experimenting with your tools and innovating your plans.

 

Libra
Joan Fullerton

Three of Swords – The energy around you this week is heartache but within it is also healing.  You may find you are easily triggered.  Use these upsets to guide you to places that need healing.  Be kind to yourself as you would for anyone else recovering from wounds or trauma.

 

Scorpio
Joan Fullerton

*Devil – The Muse of Exams is here with a number two pencil and bubble sheets.  This energy will test your resolve and boundaries.  So, with every exam prep work is needed.  Start off this week with a few goals and boundaries set.  Then once you roll into Monday you will be less likely to be taken off track.  Remember this energy is not to reteach you any lessons. This is about did you fully understand the knowledge gained from your life experiences.

 

Sagittarius
Joan Fullerton

Queen of Cups – The Muse of Fun is here to help you have some, well, fun.  You all as a sign are fun-loving but when you get down in the dumps it can be like trying to drive on flat tires.  This energy is here to remind you that one of your purposes for being here on Earth is to find the fun and bring others along for the ride.  So, your homework is to do as many joyful things as possible for yourself this week and if you can include another – double the fun 😉

 

Capricorn
Joan Fullerton

Queen of Swords – Last week the Muse of Long-term Planning came to calibrate your present plans to your future goals.  Something has gotten out of kilter, and you need foresight to realign it back to the right path. And now her partner The Muse of Details has come to join the party.  This energy helps you navigate the details needed to obtain your goals.  Their motto:  Work smarter not harder and Measure twice and cut once.

 

Aquarius
Joan Fullerton

Ten of Coins – Last week the Wandering Muse was pushing you to start a new adventure, plan a vacation, start a new project, or wander without any set goals.   Reminding you that your joy comes from discovering the new.  Now the Muse of Success has joined to prompt you before you start on your new adventure take this week to relax and enjoy your success.  This month signifies a new beginning but also an ending.  Don’t rush the process to move on without patting yourself on the back and basking in your achievements.

 

Pisces
Joan Fullerton

King of Swords and Six of Cups – The Muse of Planning has partnered with the Muse of Memories this week.  To create memories sometimes planning is involved.  These energies not only want you to go down memory lane and pull up past joyful memories but also wants you to plan events in the future that can create new joyful memories.  Your past has knowledge on the who, what, where, and how to future joy.   They remind you now is the time to start new and fresh and be more positive energetically for your future.

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of August 1, 2021

Calvin Seibert

As we enter the last month of summer, the artist this week is Calvin Seibert @calvinseibert.  Seibert’s is an architecture and shape enthusiast.  He photographs odd things and parts of buildings as the foundation of his work.  He either applies color, lines and dots to these images, or he combines these visual elements to create sand-defying sandcastles.

His photography and framing highlights what we walk by every day and bends it to eccentricity or kitsch.  Kitsch is defined as art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way. As one views Seibert’s art one finds themselves smiling.  His “view finder”, artistic brain plus eye, makes the viewer look at the world around ourselves and appreciate the quirk by the accentuating the angle of the picture or by creating and applying new constructs on to old ones.

Solar System highlights:  Moon starts in Gemini – so watch your emotional communication.  Then moves to Cancer on the 4th – create spaces and time for the “comfy’.  It then ends in Leo on 7th – no time for shade, be kind, and share the wealth.  Mercury is in Leo great time for PR and making yourself shine.  Venus is in Virgo this can be a hard configuration around your relationships, so watch frustrations and critical talk – patience is key.  On the positive side a great time to weed and fertilize anything you want to grow or create space for.  Mars is in Virgo – time to clean and tidy up anything.  And Jupiter is back in Aquarius so back to the drawing board innovating and upping your game for the rest of this year.

P.S. Signs with an * it is a big week for you.  Leo this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Aquarius it is your halfway mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check-in, now is the time.

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

Nina

 

 

Aries

Calvin Seibert
Calvin Seibert

*Emperor – The Muse of Empire Creation has come with blueprints.  This energy is great for building on anything you have already started.  This muse inspires you to get things done and off your lists.  The challenge with this energy is being aware of your surroundings and the consequences of your actions.  The more people that benefit from your constructions the better.

 

Taurus

Calvin Seibert
Calvin Seibert

Six of Cups – The Muse of the Past has come for beverages, reminiscing, and asking you to pull out your pictures to share.  This is a great week to hang with family and friends and exchange histories.  The past has some information that is useful for you this week.

 

Gemini

Calvin Seibert
Calvin Seibert

King of Coins – Last week the Muse of New Beginnings came to divinely guide you to your next endeavor.  Now the Muse of Doing has come to help you move along any project you hopefully started last week. This energy brings with it experienced wisdom.  That means you have the skills even though this is a new frontier.  Rely on what you know.

 

Cancerian

Calvin Seibert
Calvin Seibert

King of Cups – The Muse of Deep Emotional Understanding has brought you cookies and emotional support.  This energy is about sitting down with all your emotions and making friends.  Every emotion has its good and bad side.  Each is helpful.  So, whatever emotions you are dealing with this week learn from them and be grateful for their gifts.

 

Leo

Calvin Seibert
Calvin Seibert

*Strength – The Muse of Resilience and Inner Strength has come to play with you this coming birth year.  This is one of your Karmic cards that you work and go deeper with for your entire life.  The quest for subconscious released and claimed by the direction of cognizant realization. So simple that means how do you let your inner self comfortably show in the outer world?  Do you do it through art, writing, music, running?  Where can you safely let your wild and creative side out? Your work this year is to create or work on healthy outlets so your inner “beast” can roar.

 

 

Virgo

Calvin Seibert
Calvin Seibert

Ace of Swords – The last couple of weeks the Muse of Higher Purpose came to remind and/or deepen your commitment to the many reasons you are here on this plane at this time using synchronicities and cycles to help guide you.  Then her partner joined emphasizing that you need rituals and structures set up, so you doing your purpose comes with more ease.  Well lucky for you, you get another week to ponder, clarify and set up this new structural formats that support your desires and destiny.

 

Libra

Calvin Seibert
Calvin Seibert

Eight of Coins – The Muse of Mastery advises that this week’s focus is solo on your material plane work; however, she also reminds you that you have all the skills necessary to work on it. Your challenge is that it may take a few tweaks to get everything to line up correctly.

 

Scorpio

Calvin Seibert
Calvin Seibert

Three of Swords – The Muse of Heart Ache has come to help you navigate your heart around possible triggers this week.  She reminds you these are old wounds that need to be healed.  However, you do not have to re-live the trauma.  These triggers are just reminders on what you need to still work on.

 

Sagittarius

Calvin Seibert

Four of Coins – The Muse of Frugality has come to advise you to spend your resources wisely this week.  She usually arrives when your structures are not supporting you and you are leaking energy because of it.  Not getting enough rest, not eating well, or overspending resources when it is not necessary.  This is also a great week to start or add to a savings account or invest for the long-term.

 

Capricorn

Calvin Seibert

King of Swords – Time to tweak your what you are working on.  The Muse of Long-term Planning is here to calibrate your present plans to your future goals.  Something has gotten out of kilter, and you need foresight to realign it back to the right path.

 

Aquarius

Calvin Seibert

*Fool – The Wandering Muse is pushing you to start on a new adventure.   This Muse reminds you that Aquarius is the sign of innovation and day dreamers.  Your joy comes from discovering the new. This is a great week to plan a vacation, or start a new project, or wander without any set goals.

 

Pisces

Calvin Seibert

Eight of Swords – Last week, the Muse of Duality pointed out the paradoxes and conundrums in your life.  This energy wanted you to start dealing with double truths, or conflicting wants like stability/freedom, love/frustration, happy/sad etc.…You get another week on this work because you also discovered some major blockades to this way of thinking.  Take this week to pull back and identify what is blocking you, and then release what is no longer working.

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of July 25, 2021

Peng Wei

Happy birthday month Leo!

This week’s artist is Peng Wei @pengwei_weipeng.  Wei uses classical ink and painting techniques on rice paper.  Though as the viewer examines more closely you see that there is always a twist.  She applies them on torsos, inside shoes or presents them in “playful combinations of harmony and discord”.  For instance, her shoes are titled a Beautiful Pair and show a couple in an intimate embrace but in the next insole another figure interacting with the woman.  Or she presented her landscapes on musical stands accompanied by calligraphed translations of Chopin letters to friends with erotica played in the background.   She has the viewer questioning our surface perceptions and therefore has us questioning who we are and what the world expects us to be. Your pondering for the week what are your assumptions and how do they guide you in your perception of reality?

Solar System highlights:  Moon starts in Pisces – keep on dreaming.  Then moves to Aries on the 28th – great time to start or finish tasks.  It then ends in Taurus on 30th – this is where it is exalted- good vibes wherever you focus.  Mercury is still in Cancerian a great time to express your emotions and have deep convos with your besties.  It then goes into Leo on 27th great time for PR and making yourself shine.

Venus is in Virgo this can be a hard configuration around your relationships, so watch frustrations and critical talk – patience is key.  On the positive side a great time to weed and fertilize anything you want to grow or create space for.  Mars is in Leo until the 29th, so continue manifesting your desires, then switch focus as it goes into Virgo – time to clean and tidy up anything.  And I just want to remind everyone that Jupiter returns to Aquarius on the 28th, so until then it gives you a window into 2022, so if you do not like what you see, time to start making changes. After that it is back to the drawing board innovating and upping your game for the rest of this year.

P.S. Signs with an * it is a big week for you.  Leo this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Aquarius it is your halfway mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check-in, now is the time.

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

Nina

 

 

Aries
Peng Wei
Peng Wei

Eight of Swords – The Muse of Bondage has come to teach you a lesson of limiting beliefs.  You have allowed societal thought patterns to hold you back.  Now is the time to let go of those now self-restricting patterns and walk with autonomy to your true north.

 

Taurus
Peng Wei
Peng Wei

Five of Swords – The Muse of Conflict has come to your door with boxing gloves in hand.  This week is full of conflict, but also the potential for resolution to situations that have bubbling under the surface.  The key is how and what you choose to fight for.  You are advised by this muse to come at each round with a deeper understanding of your opponent’s fighting style and navigate if it worth the fight for the long game?

 

Gemini
Peng Wei
Peng Wei

*The Fool – The Muse of New Beginnings is here to divinely guide you to your next endeavor.  This is a great week to explore your surroundings, experience something new, start a class, start anything.  The challenge she poses in that you must have faith.  Even if things seem to not work out as you have planned, there is a divine scheme that is in place.   Trust.

 

Cancerian
Peng Wei
Peng Wei

Ten of Wands – Finally the Spotlight has moved off and you can go back to you doing you.  However, don’t forget this year’s theme is about creating structures that promote contentment, sustainability, and stability.   Your challenge is to remain flexible and innovative so as you grow so does your “shell.”   But this week the Muse of Burdens has come to try and knock you off course with obligations and responsibilities.  Your goal is to par down your workload to only things that are necessary to your themes above.  Let go of the obligations that society or your worrying is trying to put on you.

 

Leo
Peng Wei
Peng Wei

Three of Wands – Last week the Muse of Death had you cleaning your decks for the coming year.  Well, this week that energy continues with The Muse of Forethought.  Put your thinking cap on and start looking at the steps you will need to take to make this coming year all that it is meant to be. She also emphasis that you will need space to allow new things into your life.  So, the first step is setting up the space to think, so you can simplify your surroundings.

 

 

Virgo
Peng Wei

*Hierophant – Last week the Muse of Higher Purpose has come to remind and/or deepen your commitment to the many reasons you are here on this plane at this time using synchronicities and cycles to help guide you.  Now her partner has joined the ranks emphasizing that you need rituals and structures set up, so you doing your purpose comes with more ease.  Your challenge is to set up the constructs that support your desires and destiny.    Look at your schedules, self-care regime, and workload.

 

Libra
Peng Wei
Peng Wei

Three of Cups – Last week the Muse of Bondage came to help you find freedom.  Asking what are you “wedded” to that just feels wrong?  This Muse lovingly reminded you that these bindings were beneficial for time to soothe yourself or make it through tough times.  But now you have learned healthier ways to combat these struggles. One of these ways is gathering good friends around you.  This week it is time to cull the herd if any of them do not support the new you.

 

Scorpio
Peng Wei

Four of Coins – The last couple of weeks you have been dealing with the Kali like energy of Deconstruction.   You needed to dismantle what was no longer working for you.  Now it is time to rebuild; however, your challenge is using your resources wisely.  This week is very much about quality versus quantity and working smarter not harder.

 

Sagittarius
Peng Wei

Three of Coins – The Muse of Cooperation is here with two more friends.  This muse prophesizes that networking and bouncing ideas off colleagues will be vital to create ease on your work front or any other material plane concern. She reminds you that you do not need nor should do this week’s task alone. Also, look for triangles and threes as markers of good tidings.

 

Capricorn
Peng Wei

Page of Swords – The Muse of Investigation comes with notepad in hand.  This week nothing is clear cut.  You will need to ask questions to get to underlying issues. The challenge is crafting questions and ponderings that don’t shut down your investigation.  This week takes a lite touch and good listening skills to get at the truth.

 

Aquarius
Peng Wei

King of Swords – The Muse of Long-Term Planning asking you to ponder where you want to be in 10 years.  She does this not to get you to set things in stone, but to realign your actions to desires for your future self.  Finding what is off kilter in what you do today will ensure your tomorrow and taking the long view will help you recalibrate.

 

Pisces
Peng Wei

*Lovers – The Muse of Duality has come to your backdoor and let herself in. Her favorite pastime is to point out the paradoxes and conundrums in your life.  Like Gemini, Pisces deals with duality all the time, but instead of feeling comfortable with them working at the same time, you try to deal with them separately.  However, this is the week to start dealing with double truths, or conflicting wants like: stability and freedom, love and frustration, happy and sad etc.…Try to think of these dualities like salt and pepper; if you use both, your cuisine becomes better flavored.