The beginning of 2020 has been a bit rough with fires, plague, a variety of governments in turmoil and corruption. The art of Eva Camacho brings many of these injustices to the forefront, but she also gives us hope. The piece above, A Golden Ray of Hope, and her words below are just what my soul and maybe yours needs to hear to carry on.
“Worry, loss, sadness, injustice, desperation, tears, incredulity, uncertainty and pain can sap us of our will to carry on. A golden ray of HOPE keeps us going, striving, moving, laughing, breathing, loving and surviving. It binds us to each other and roots us to the ground. It is the current that jolts through our hearts and brightens are eyes. HOPE nourishes us and guides us from darkness towards peace, justice, and love. This piece visualizes a golden ray of HOPE that can help us all carry on.”
Camacho started out as a designer of felted garments and gave it up to hone her skills into conceptual art pieces mostly around social and environmental justice. Even though her pieces take on heavy injustices, the technique she uses, and her designs show us that even in the presence of hardship that we can mend bind together and grow. She has combined her felting wool with the process of Joomchi. Joomochi is an centuries old Korean technique working with Mulberry fibers to create sculptural paper. The pieces below are just close ups of her stuff please click to her site to see the full display.
P.S. Remember signs with an * it a big week for you. Aquarius this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year. And Leo 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
*Star – The Star brings with it a lovely, calming, healing energy to this week. Take time to just be. Allow yourself the time and space to connect to the positive flow of the Universe. If you are quiet enough you can tap into your north Star, your guiding light. This process will help you realize you are not alone in your quest, and that you can heal not only your wounds but some of those in the world too.
Taurus
Two of Cups – The best use of this week’s energy is focusing on the ones you love. These are relationships you choose. There is a need to re-balance these relationships. The challenge is finding the time to create the intimacy that fills both your cups by just being with each other.
Gemini
Seven of Swords – Small victories abound through out this week, and you are due these successes. However, the challenge is to be careful not to allow in the energy of tit for tat or retribution. Your battles are being won but the war continues, so play fair and win with good sportsmanship.
Cancer
Queen of Wands – Taking time this week to be creative and be in nature will help you focus on the tasks that need to be done. I know this sounds counterintuitive or makes you feel like you are goofing off. But taking the time to reconnect with your soul is as important to your work as checking things off your to-do list.
Leo
*Death – Change begins this week. The energy is the combination of letting go of things that don’t work and learning from that process what to focusing on or plant next. It will be a slow process and a very organic one. This energy is very cyclic in nature. The more you empty your cup – the fuller you can re-fill it. The more you till the soil – the more fertile the ground. Dig deep, turn things over, throw out the stones in your path and plant the seeds for things to come.
Virgo
Ace of Swords – The energy this week is buzzing around thoughts and communication. Do PR, answers all those emails, and take time to contemplate new ideas. The more you think about and communicate the more seeds you will plant for the coming month.
Libra
Two of Coins – The energy to work with this week is balance. Not only doing exercises that hone your physical balance, but also balancing work and play is vital. The challenge with this is that you can’t juggle more than one thing. So, if working, focus on the job at hand, and if playing, focus on the fun.
Scorpio
Two of Wands – Betwixt and between is the energy to work with this week. This is not the time to start new things. It is more of a time for preparation and reflection. The best exercises to do with this energy is examining your past for lessons and imagining your future with out restrictions.
Sagittarius
Eight of Wands – The Universe is full of communications and information for you this week. The soul’s flow is trying to ease your path and it does it with synchronicities and signs. You can also ask for more directed help and the more you ask for the more hits you will get. Though you will have to sift through all messages to find them. The challenge with this energy is sometimes the Universe believes it knows what you want better than you do. And lol that may be true.
Capricorn
Page of Swords – To get to the truth this week will be tricky. The challenge with this energy is to truth-find you will have to do some digging and deep listening. Ask questions that slowly peel away the layers. Go at your life and your problems like a therapist with inquiry, compassion and patience.
Aquarius
Ace of Wands – The energy this week is about planting the seeds for future passions. What makes you get up in the morning other than the alarm? What is your driving force? By answering these questions, you can start planting the seeds to create more opportunities where your passions can flower. This is a great card to begin your new birth year.
Pisces
King of Wands – The energy this King brings is manifesting creativity and passion. This King heralds this is the time to create many aspects of your world. The challenge is picking the ones that bring you joy and then scheduling them into your life. This energy advises that work is fine, but you must have things in your life that stimulate you at every level.
May light be on you, around you, and within you,
Nina
This year compared to other signs was the bumpiest year energetically. (Average was 11 cards you got 18). Though the year started out slow, it gained speed by March and hasn’t stopped since. Your main theme this year, was change then build/create. You did this with 3 cycles of the Chariot card coming 3 times and the Empress or Emperor following. And since that change was solely in your hands, your Will to get things done created all the movement in your life. You had one respite in the months of July and August where you had time to catch your breath and focus on details instead of big picture. Though during that time you had 2 knight cards that continued the theme of change but with a more practical application. So in your reflection look back and see what places you made the change and progressed.
Overall your year was average in big themes, people and beginings/endings. However, this year was literally the year of ups and downs. You would have two karmic cards, high energy, to deal with, and then a month or two with your head either in the sand or buried in detail. Even your karmic energy was supporting you to pull away from society with the Hermit card dispersed throughout 2019. Hopefully you spent some of this time gathering wool of a bigger perspective about how to live your life going forward and what is your purpose. In your reflection look to places you have gained a wider or more holistic perspective on.
This year overall was average in comparison to other signs. However, karmically you started out the year with a bang and since your birthday it has been karmic point after karmic point to deal with. Also, this year you had six “9” cards. Nines are cards of preparation and signs that change is coming for the better. So, though you see glimpses of a better future, 2019 was spent working towards it. In your reflection look at all the work you have done while pondering what can be produced from it.
This year started out pretty slow. With your focus on getting things completed and starting up new projects. When you look at the average number of karmic energy cards, your sign has one of the lowest. But this big theme energy started in July, and is cramming it all in until the end of the year. While you are still trying to create the new. As sun babies you all like to particularly hibernate in the winter, but winter is calling, and you are answering it. In your reflection see all that you have accomplished and all that you have begun.
This year’s theme was finding balance especially around your emotions. The Moon card (the card of the subconscious, things hidden and emotions) showed up evenly at each changing of the seasons. Then Temperance (card of moderation) followed quickly thereafter. So at least for the first two-thirds of the year your lessons of balance and moderation turned inward. Then in October the energy shifted from inward to outward. The World card (opportunities outside of one’s self) followed your last internal journey with the Moon. In between these big shifts you also had more “6s” than other signs. Sixes represent finding ways to harmonize your mind, heart and spirt, and that small acts of karma, good or bad, reverberated through out the year. In your reflection focus on where lie your balances and imbalances.
For Libras this was a particularly low energy year. Compared to the other signs you have a below average year for having to deal with Karma, people and change. However, you also had the most Aces (new beginnings). This year had the potential to be a place where you started new relationships, projects, ideas, and investigated your purpose. To help you plant you had the most Queens than any other sign. Which is like having a green thumb in all areas of life. Your theme for 2019 was seeding creation. In your reflection see the garden you have planted.
Unlike 2018 where you all had the highest number of karmic cards-big themes (17 the average was 13), you had an average amount of karmic energy, people, beginnings and endings throughout the year. The interesting trend is that you took on two big ideas each season and worked on them before moving to the next. And within that focus and season, you dealt with one of the “5” cards. They represent chaos in each suit (thought/communication, material/wealth, spirit/purpose, emotions/love). So, though it was an “average” feeling year the trend of 2019 was finding ways in which to work through chaos or with it. In your reflection see the ways that you have made your life have more ease.
You had an average year compared to other signs within the realms of big themes and beginnings. You were the only sign that had no “10s” which are the completion cards. To add, you had six queens showing up about every two months having you focus on creation and comfort. 2019 you seem more focus on creation the completion. And with that, out of all the signs, you also had the most court cards. This means this year was a people year. So, though it was “average” you spent your time wisely connecting with friends and family and creating a personal life that is full of fun, savory-ness and a sense of home. In your reflection see the people that you love.
Though you had the average amount of higher arcane cards (karmic or big energy themes), people, beginnings and endings. You had the pairing of Justice and Judgement three times. This means that this year’s big trends where about equality/fairness, epiphanies and rebirth. Also, you had the most knight cards out of the signs. So even though you had the average amount of karmic energy, you had a year where you didn’t stop moving. The challenge with 2019 was did you give yourself enough time to do some big thinking around fairness and the progress you have made towards your rebirth? Or is it possible, you learned that by keeping on the move and the air beneath your wings made the path easier towards your awakening? In your reflection see how far you have flown.
Where 2018 you had an average amount big trends, this year you are one of three signs that had the least. And they were evenly dispersed throughout the year. You also fell within the average of new beginnings, endings and people in your life. So this year might have had the feeling of being blah; however, you all had the most pages then any sign. They started marching in right after your birth-month. Pages are the cards of learning within each suit, and you covered each suit: emotions, work, ideas, and purpose. This was a learning experience year, or I would like to call it – Your Year of the Sponge. 2019 was about absorbing new information and seeing the world with a new set of eyes. In your reflection look back and seeing all that you have learned.
Two of Swords – This week making decisions can seem difficult. Too many options or not enough. You are wanting decision-making to be clear. Heres’ the rub with this energy, it’s not the decision that is important but the journey you want to go on. Either choice will get you to where you want to go, but each path brings a different mood. Pick the path by how you want to feel.
King of Swords – The energy this week is best used in big picture planning. In fact, the challenge is you loosing the big picture by homing in on the details. It doesn’t mater how you get there if the why is intact.
Ace of Cups – All aces bring new beginnings into your life. This week the energy will be focusing on your emotions. The only challenge with this card is can you be open enough to the gifts that are around you and are wanting to propel you forward.
Ace of Swords – Last week, the Wheel’s energy was about changing your fortune. And getting you ready for the eclipse that happens on December 26th by figuring out where you are going to hook your cables to charge the next 12 years. Lucky for you, you have another week to spend pondering. This week’s energy will help you focus your thoughts; however, the challenge is thinking forward not into the past.
Eight of Swords – This week’s energy is a challenging one. Your thoughts can bind you and your progress. The best way to tame this energy is to just let go of a couple of negative thought patterns. You don’t have to tackle all of them but try to let go of at least two to give you a threshold to walk out of your thoughts.
Page of Swords – Investigation is key this week. Information and conversations are not as clear as they could be, so your challenge is asking more questions. Inquiry and listening are the skills you will need to gather important information this week.
Ten of Wands – Last week, the Hermit advised you, space was needed to gain perspective and grounding. This week’s energy is vastly different. You will need to be involved in the World, but hopefully with last week’s energy you gain some perspective on what is crucial to do and what responsibilities at least for this week can be put off. The problem is you taking on too much either out of wanting to get it all done or feelings of obligation. Your challenge is focusing on one thing until it is complete or as close as you can get before moving to the next item. And no feeling guilty that even you in super-person mode can get it all done.
Six of Coins – This week’s energy is all about Karma. Be very aware of doing no harm this week. The more good vibes you send out the more you will get in return. The challenge however is this works with negative energy too. The tidbit to know is the payback will not always be quick nor will it always come from where it was given.
*Justice – LOL you wait until the last week to get the theme for next year – Justice. Justice’s energy rules the balancing act of head and heart. Next year will be great for anything analytical, planning, writing, communication, research. They are all good if they have a practical application as well as a philosophical one. Your lessons with this energy are around the forms of justice – right and wrong especially when judging others. In ancient Egypt a dead person’s heart was weighed against the Feather of Truth. This will be your challenge – will your thoughts and actions balance out with your heart’s truth? And the concept of what is the retribution of a wrongdoing or is there even one? (for more info and insight on the myth 
Nine of Swords – The energy this week leads to overthinking and worrying. Perhaps because you all are coming into your final week before your birthday month. And/Or you are feeling the weight of Jupiter, planet of expansion, about to shift into your sign. The challenge around this week’s energy is to work with the worries you can fix. Worries are a byproduct of your analytical mind. However, the concerns that are not solvable are not worth the mental energy so let them go.
Three of Coins – This week is about collaboration and cooperation. Ask for help when you need it. Listen to others’ opinions. You will get more done and your work will be better for it.
Seven of Swords – This week’s energy is victorious; however, the test is that these victories cannot be lauded over or gotten in unscrupulous ways. Therefore, your challenge is making sure that your actions align with your morals.
Eight of Coins – The last three weeks you have been running with some high universe energy. The Wheel of Fortune having you trying to change your fortune. The Hermit advising pulling away from civilization and using this solitude creating, experimenting, and philosophizing. Then the Empress advising you to put that energy into a new concept/idea that will come to term in about 9 to 10 months. Luckily, you have the Eight of Coins this week to continue this process of materializing aspects of this project. The big hint is you already have all the skills that are needed. This week is just about honing those skills.
Ace of Swords – This week’s energy is about making decisions and changing mindsets to a clearer and possible new direction path. This is a great week to plan, learn, think, and communicate. The key is finding new ways of thought and communication to help clear your path.
King of Cups – The last two weeks have had you running some high energy. With the World card presenting a variety of opportunities and new beginnings. Then the Sun card focusing appropriate energies on these new areas that you have chosen. This week slows down with the King of Cups. This King asks you to work with your emotions. Practicing not only how to emote your emotions without harming others, but also accepting any emotions that come up. Vulnerability is the key to courage this week.
*Devil – Where last week was innocence this week takes on darker elements. The Devil card shows up testing you on what you stand for. Think of the trials this week as your final exams. You have learned you lessons now can you practice them? This can look as simple as you preach or complain about people being late and you end up three hours late to work. Or as complex as you lying to someone dear to you, so they don’t get hurt. This week practice what you preach. Stand in your morals do not let the outside world influence what you know to be best.
Six of Coins – The Six of Coin foretells this week is all about mini occurrences of karma. The more positive you put out in the world the more positive you get back. Of course, this works for negative energies too. The challenge is this karma takes convoluted routes and has its own timing.
*Death – The Death card shows up when something in your life needs to die off so something else can grow in its place. The great thing is the universe will be helping you make this transition. The challenge is you will have to put some energy in weeding the old and seeding the new, but the universe will help with the growth.
*High Priestess – Ok you get another karmic card to work with the coming year. Last week, the Hierophant declared that 2020 is the year to create or shore up your structures and institutions. The challenge will be dealing with self-judgment and possible judgement of others. Next year it will be vital for you to be flexible, compassionate and empathetic, so that the structures you create don’t bind but bend. Now, you can add the feminine version of the Hierophant- the High Priestess. This card suggests that working with the big picture, questions of purpose, knowledge, and spirit will also be important in 2020. This will help with your challenges from the Hierophant card. The challenge with the Priestess is finding time and space to ponder these big questions. Retreats will be as necessary as creating your civilization in the coming year.
Knight of Swords – Last week, The Fool suggested letting loose and be a more carefree. Challenging you to find new places to visit, encounter new people, roam byways less traveled. I.e. Answering the call of the wild, the mystery of the unknown… This week continues this theme of discovery BUT the Knight of Swords warns you to slow your roll and be more careful while exploring. Your warning is not to be the fool running in where angels fear to tread. Side note: always with this card I caution to be careful with your appendages.
Six of Swords –The important energy this week is simplification. Working smarter – not harder is the theme. Also, when this card shows up its always a good time to take small trips or find time to hang out around or in water to clear your mind.
Ten of Coins – Your second ten card in a row, so let’s dive into the meaning of tens. Tens are about the completion of cycles but also being in that completion. Last week, the Ten of Cups ask you to literally count your blessings, noticing and feeling your blisses that you have created. Now the Ten of Coins has you completing physical tasks. This can be cleaning out your inbox or getting ten things crossed of your to-do list. The challenge is that you will need to work but you will need equal time to relax. Motto: All work and no play – makes Jill/Jack a dull person.
Five of Swords – The Five of Swords warns this can be a week of tension especially around conversations and thoughts. This is not a good week to get into heavy discussions for they can easily turn into battles. The best way to work with this energy is to turn up your empathy knobs. Standing in others shoes this week can lower the conflict thresholds.
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