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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of March 14, 2021

Cecil Kemperink
Blue Rising Cecil Kemperink 50x40x40cm.

Happy Spring Equinox. The zodiac wheel completes another turn on Saturday March 20th.  The sun moves into Aries and all the planets are in direct motion until end of April so great time to get things done and started.  But remember relaxation should be part of your equation. The new norm is innovation that has us working smarter not harder.

This week’s artist is Cecil Kemperink @cecilkemperink.  One first comes to her work above as a minimalistic piece.  She uses one material clay and one shape a circle.  However, Kemperink then interlinks these clay circles and we begin to see how something as simple can become a complex “organism.”  That through connection these pieces can be reformed into a variety of shapes while emitting a soul-chorded sound.  We now see that this simple circle when linked to each other becomes more versatile, strong because of the connection.  Kemperink explains Motion is a key part of the expressiveness of my sculptures.  The movements show the importance of each circle of the object.  Every ring is essential and influences the other: because they are all connected.

Note:  this article will not do her pieces justice.  Please go to her Instagram page and watch not only her process but also the motion and sound of her pieces.

Your ponderings for the week:  As we move into a new season, see, and appreciate your connections, for they confirm your existence, purpose, and make you stronger.

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

Nina

P.S. Signs with an * it is a big week for you.  Pisces this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Virgo 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
Cecil Kemperink
‘Big Hugs’ Cecil Kemperink

10 of Cups – The Muse of Bliss is here to help you step into your birth month with a gleeful stride.  This week enjoy by inserting some merriment into each day.  Swap stories that create chuckles, watch comedies that make you laugh, tell Dad jokes that get you giggling.  Don’t you think this is the perfect time to laugh out loud, big belly laughs or snort even?   Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. – Victor Hugo

 

 

Taurus
Cecil Kemperink
Cecil Kemperink

Seven of Cups – The Muse of Dreams would like you to dream bigger.  She nods with all your counterarguments about being grounded, vigilant and staying in the here and now.  But she reminds you that taking a dream break feeds the soul, expands the heart, and is a place where innovation is born.

 

 

 

 

Gemini
Cecil Kemperink
Cecil Kemperink

Page of Cups – The Muse of Play is here to loosen you up.  Yep, your juices need a refresh and no better way to do this then to play.  Crayons/fingerpaints out, doodle during boring meetings, take pictures from a 5-year-olds perspective, or reinvent the PBJ.  This muse reminds you play is a gateway to imagination and creativity.

 

 

 

Cancer
Cecil Kemperink

Nine of Coins – The Muse of Alone Time has left you a note.  Your solitude will be support and a home for you, even in the midst of unfamiliar circumstances and from it you will find all your paths – Rainer Maria Rilke. Find time this week for alone-time you will get more done then in the company of others.

 

 

Leo
Cecil Kemperink
Cecil Kemperink

Five of Wands – The Muse of Chaos is here, and it is your choice whether to open the door and let her in or ignore her insistence this week.  This energy comes to remind you chaos is an aspect of creation though uncontrollable and transient.  So, you can do little about it, except sidestep its path or join in it’s dervish dance.

 

 

 

 

Virgo
Cecil Kemperink.
threesome Cecil Kemperink.

Three of Cups – Connection is what you need.  Find ways to link up with your friends this week.  If you can mask up and social distance yourself a hang.  If not, then get on a phone and have a virtual beverage together.  You need a good chinwag with people who care about you.  One reason is to vent; the other to refill your emotional cups.

 

 

Libra
Cecil Kemperink
Souls Cecil Kemperink

Eight of Cups – The Muse of Closet Cleaning has come for a visit this week.  She comes when you have outgrown an emotion, purpose, copping mechanism, or your style.  There is something or someone that no longer is helpful in your life and it is time to shed it.  This muse recommends get you in the mood and thought pattern go through your closet or junk drawer.  Throw away all the items that are no longer useful or the style you are trying to convey. Motto: cleanse the trivia to get to the substance.

 

 

Scorpio
perpetuum orange

Knight of Swords – The energy is fast paced this week or at the very least feels as if you should be trying to keep up with something.  The Muse of Slowing Down has come to remind you to look both ways before you step out into the metaphorical and literal street. This week it is important to be mindful of your thoughts, words, and steps.  No rushing.

 

 

Sagittarius
Cecil Kemperink
Cecil Kemperink

King of Wands – Another good week for you all.  This is a week where that Sagittarian good luck is working in your favor.  Whether that is getting a parking space, a vaccine appointment, or following synchronicities like homemade sour dough breadcrumbs, it is all gold.  Also, by following your intuition, you can bring together many moving parts into a cohesive apparatus.  You are like Elizabeth in Queen’s Gambit. A step or two ahead of all that you do, once you are in the zone (If you haven’t seen it on Netflix – please do).

 

 

Capricorn
Cecil Kemperink

Knight of Coins – Last week the Muse of Leaps came to help you out of a rut you may not have realize you were in, by having you play around with your routines.  This week you get to implement some of the things you discovered back into your regular schedule.  The one key is making your pace appropriate to your path.  If the way is rocky slow down, but if it is open road you can put the pedal to the metal.

 

 

Aquarius
Cecil Kemperink

Four of Coins – This week your resources – energy, time, money and space – are limited.  The key to this week is quality over quantity.  Make sure ever minute is used wisely that includes getting enough sleep, putting good food in your belly, and taking some “me time” to relieve some of the push you-pull me stress.  Make sure your needs are dealt with first before your wants.

 

 

Pisces
Cecil Kemperink
Cecil Kemperink

Page of Wands – The last card for your birth month is innovation.  You already know that organic change is a big theme this coming year. Advising you to have something in the works to change every season.   But another essential is this cannot be the same old rodeo with new costumes.  You have this year to play around with trying new things/ways to innovate the who, what, how and where and possible why in your life.   Nothing must be written in stone this year, so have fun experimentLeave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.  – Alexander Graham Bell.

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of March 7, 2021

Bisa Butler
I know why the Caged Bird sings Bisa Butler

If you all have been with me for a while skip down to the 4th paragraph, I have ranted on this before.  But if you are new…… I was an elementary coach for teachers and I am not fond of the emphasis and exaltation of a “minority” history months in American public schools and on Google.  Before you get mad please read on.  Though I understand its necessity when this movement started, back in 1926 as Black History Week by historian Carter G. Woodson.    Where he saw little to none African American representation in the “white halls of history” and probably was seeing the whitewashing of the Red Summer.  History week has now grown to a month, added new months for other minorities and spreading outside of America.  But have we now fallen into Hallmarking ™ history? In our political correctness, lost the thread?

Textbooks and curriculum of American schools still teach basically the same history– white-male-centric – but now in February you teach about MLK, in March about Susan B. Anthony, and Native American Heritage Month in November, so you can get it close to Thanksgiving – UGH.   This does the “minority’s history” an injustice.  First it loses its context in history as a whole.  The “minority” becomes not part of our shared history but as a parallel thing happening alongside predominately white male history or is only seen for a month in bubble in and of itself.  We lose the why it came about and the reverberation of that action now.

Secondly, it supports instead of works against our biological perspective of tribalism.  And we lose the perspective of the history of the individual within the collective.  The acts of an individual echoing through time and space. Lastly, this undermines teaching the student not only Socratic thinking which hinges on contextual information, but also disempowers the student to see that they can change the course of the future in ways they would never imagine.

The artist this week is Bisa Butlers @bisabutler should be used as a history teaching tool. She takes everyday photos of African Americans throughout history and contextualizes them by using exquisite fabrics and an skilled illustrative thread.  Take for instance the art above I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she uses a Vlisco fabric called “Michelle’s shoes” for the woman’s skirt on the far right.  The fabric is inspired by West African textiles, done with and Indonesian batik and made in the Netherlands.

She vividly leads us to see the complex connected thread of these woman’s history, African roots to Maya Angelo and Michelle Obama to our multi-cultural world.  She brings these “everyday” people into a contextual history.   In her words: …I am telling the story— this African American side— of the American life. History is the story of men and women, but the narrative is controlled by those who hold the pen. ……..My community has been marginalized for hundreds of years. While we have been right beside our white counterparts experiencing and creating history, our contributions and perspectives have been ignored, unrecorded, and lost. It is only a few years ago that it was acknowledged that the White House was built by slaves. Right there in the seat of power of our country African Americans were creating and contributing while their names were lost to history. ………My subjects are African Americans from ordinary walks of life who may have sat for a formal family portrait or may have been documented by a passing photographer. Like the builders of the White House, they have no names or captions to tell us who they were.

Your ponderings for the week:  Learn the why behind something in your own history, and see how it affects you now and would you tweak it to change the future?  And the Planets:  New Moon in Pisces on March 13th great day for daydreaming.

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

Nina

P.S. Signs with an * it is a big week for you.  Pisces this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Virgo 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
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler

*Chariot – This is the week to make change happen.  The Muse of Movement is here to help grease the wheels.  Momentum is not problem.  The only challenge with this energy is you must drive it and have a destination to drive it to.  If you do not have a focus you may run around in circles this week.

 

Taurus
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler

Knight of Wands – This Muse comes to say you are in the right place at the right time doing the right thing.  You may not see it, but your timing is perfect. Whether you are standing still, trotting along or in full gallop allow your spirit to guide you.

 

 

Gemini
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler

King of Cups – The Muse of Emotional Acceptance has come to help you heal old wounds of the heart.   This muse celebrates the hardest emotion that we deal with as humans: grief.  There is something you need to grieve.  This energy wants you to dive deeply into this emotion of loss. When we grieve, we empty the cup fully and by doing so allow the cup to be refilled.

 

 

Cancer
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler The Princess

Ace of Coins – The Muse of Material Beginnings is here.  This is a perfect week to start a new project, re-plan your garden, buy something to fix up your house or start a savings account.  The key to this energy of sustainability is to create with the concept of quality over quantity.

 

Leo
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler Asantewa

Queen of Swords – The Muse of Details has come to help guide you through this week.  This energy comes when it is important to read the fine print, plan out a project in detail, and sweat the small stuff.  You can find pleasure if you pay attention to the details of your life.  Time to get out that metaphorical (or literally if you must) fine-toothed comb or cleaning toothbrush and tease out the specifics.

 

Virgo
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler

King of Swords – The Muse of Long-term Planning is here to set up your itinerary for the rest of the year and three- and five-year goals.  This week do not get caught in the morass of minutia.  Turn your gaze to the horizon and the dreams of tomorrow.  Vision boards out, daydreaming on, and no boundaries in vastness of your future.

 

Libra
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler

Four of Cups – Last week the Muse of Divine energy was here to grow whatever you wanted to focus on.  You get another week to do just that.  But this week’s Muse ask you to go back and relook over what you are working on.  There is something that does not feel quite right.  That thing or idea needs some more introspection.  The challenge with this is after you have done a pass with your internal eye, turn outward to get another person’s opinion.  Though make sure it is with someone you trust with your dreaming.

 

Scorpio
Bisa Butler To God and Truth

Ten of Coins – The Muse of Finishing is here to help you complete a project.  Either find the oldest thing on your to-do list or finish up something that has been nagging at your subconscious.  This is a great week to move a project forward to completion or at least a big leap towards it.

 

Sagittarius
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler Broom Jumpers

Ten of Cups – The Muse of Bliss is here to point out all the good things in your life. This week sit back and enjoy all that you have worked hard to get.  If you have a roof over your head start there, food on the table you are doing great; and a job that is getting your needs meet, Whoot.  And if you do not have these things, help is on the way.  You just need to ask and then open your door; you have friends that are wanting to pay you back some of the kindness you have given in the past.

 

Capricorn
Bisa Butler The Equestrian

*Fool – The Muse of Leaps is here to help you out of a rut you may not realize you are in.  The key to this is to do the non-routine.  Sleep late or get up with the sunrise, turn off all electronics after sunset for a night, eat for one day without cooking unless over an open fire, do not look at your emails for a 24-hour period.  I know you all love your routines, but this week shake it up and see what new ideas sprout from the cracks.

 

Aquarius
Bisa Butler Daughter of the Dust

Queen of Coins – The Muse of Physical Pleasures is here to help you through this week.  This muse comes when you need to ground yourself.  She reminds you to connect with your five senses if you can daily.  Eat good food, see beautiful things, feel something textural, smell some aromatherapy, and listen to your favorite music.   Enjoy the simple things in life.

 

Pisces
Bisa Butler Africa The Land Of Hope

*Death – Ok so this rarely happens but the Muse of Organic Change arrives again during your birth month to remind you how important this year is to make big changes happen.  And to do so you need to release, release, and release some more.   And while you are doing all this releasing you are using this “stuff” to compost new soil to grow from.  The challenge with this energy is having the patience and attunement with your surroundings like a gardener.  You need to pay attention to the cycles of growth and harvesting.  This can be a year where you are planting and harvesting each season.

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Jan 3, 2021

Victoria Villasana
Victoria Villasana

Welcome 2021!

The artist this week is Victoria Villasana (@villanaart).  Villasana uses yarn like bold strokes of paint applied to black and white photographs.  She leaves the threads uncut connecting the 2D to the 3D, the past to the present and us to her.  Leaving these strings hanging has the viewer contemplating the concepts of ephemerality, imperfection of our everyday existence, connections and what is next.  These concepts of will be important skills and perspectives needed in 2021.  This is a great week to ponder how will you weave your threads of fate in the coming months?  What new pictures will you connect with and conjure forth?

Light and Love

Nina

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

Aries
Victoria Villasana
Victoria Villasana

Five of Coins – This week’s muse has you getting in touch with the places you feel lack.  Discern if this sense of shortage is a hindrance to a gain or gain in disguise.  If a hindrance, remove the block, and if it’s a gain make sure it has a place to grow.

Taurus
Victoria Villasana
Victoria Villasana

King of Swords – This muse aids in long-term planning.  Play attention to any synchronicities or insights from outside sources that can help you focus on your plans for 2021.  She also inquires: Where would you like to be in 2021?  Who would you like by your side?  How will you spend your time this year?   What will your focus(es) be?  Vision boards (pictures and/or words) are helpful with this exercise.

Gemini
Victoria Villasana
Victoria Villasana

Page of Coins – This week’s muse advises you to be the learner.  She will guide you to many teachers, pockets of knowledge, tiny classes on honing your skills or learning new ones.  Keep your mind open, for you have much to discover that will help you in the coming months.

*Cancer
Victoria Villasana

Devil – The muse energy this week is to free yourself of old stories that have bound you to past recollections of self.  You are stepping into your own sovereignty.  Unbind the strings of old puppeteers and release the lies you have accepted as truths.  You are free to be the real girl/boy/they that you were born to be.  Now is the time to take control of your new narrative.

Leo
Victoria Villasana

Eight of Coins – Take this week to work on your craft.  You are skilled.  This muse reminds you that you have all the tools and knowledge you need.  Time to put pen to paper, hand to tool, mind to problem.  Action and fine tuning are all that is needed this week to accomplish all that needs to be.

Virgo
Victoria Villasana

Ace of Wands – The muse of inspiration is here to escort you to new ideas, inventions, and possible for some of you a new purpose.  The key to abundance, she whispers in your ear, is feeding the things that make you zing.

*Libra
Victoria Villasana
Victoria Villasana

Strength – You will have moments this week that seem to take every ounce of strength you have to persist, BUT the universe has your back.  Just as you think you cannot run another step there will be a water stand for you.  A muse, friend, even a kind smile will refresh you enough to do another kilometer.  These bastions of energy are not there by chance.  You have placed them there from previous encounters.  By loaning others your strength in their time of need, the universe is returning it in kind.

Scorpio
Victoria Villasana

Eight of Swords – This week’s muse advises you to let go of the remining bindings of 2020.  This is a new era.  Release old thought patterns that no longer fit into the new paradigm that you are creating.  Set down the chains and walk through the fence of the past into a lighter tidier future.

Sagittarius
Victoria Villasana
Victoria Villasana

Knight of Wands – You are at the right place at the right time.  Look around, take advantage of ever asset that you have this week.  This is a moment to modernize.  Think outside the box as you gallop into a more innovative future.

Capricorn
Victoria Villasana

Nine of Cups – The Muse this week asks you to ponder satisfaction.  The key to this musing is contentment is not about goals, attainment, perfection or checking of boxes.  This is about the actions and the life that surrounds them.  The art of living.  What resides in your foreground, mid-ground, and background?  What “colors” will you paint with for 2021?

Aquarius
Victoria Villasana
Victoria Villasana

Three of Swords – Pain from the past arises this week.  The muses remind you that your fears and insecurities come from past trauma embedded deeply into your psyche.  You can be triggered by them now; however, now you are in power and able to correct, control or walk away from these activations.  There is no reason to fear anything but inaction.

*Pisces
Victoria Villasana

Justice – This Muse helps you balance inequalities and re-focusses your life to your truths.  What are the strongest truths that you wish to live by?  Now apply that to how others treat you as well as how you treat others.  For example, say it is to love first and foremost.  Is the love you put out equally given back?  This week is not only a time to relook at what are your truths and do you live by them, but to see if the company you are in, holds to truths that are acceptable to you.  The challenge is nothing is as shadow and light as we would like it to be.  Life is complex so your truths need a bit of flexibility without inequality.

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Nov. 1, 2020

Anna Agoston
Anna Agoston

This week’s artist is Anna Agoston.  Her mode is macrophotography, but her eye leans towards design, form, and emotions.  Agoston takes the us on a Lilliputian trip into an intimate viewing of plant structure.

Much like O’Keefe by taking us close to the subject we lose the concept of the item and begin to see it with a new perspective.  We have now lost the common constructs of the subject and are left with our subconscious giving it a new thought form or emotion.  As Agoston says “What also compels me is the satisfaction of being able to say precisely what I am feeling. I took a picture of a gingko biloba leaf because I loved the simplicity in form, the shape, and the way it hung from the branch. I felt grace and sensuality and needed to convey that. I felt satisfied when I was able to express this with a picture.”

The world is feeling a lot right now, and a lot of it is in the form of suffering.  This might lead us to give up on hope and beauty.  Agoston’s art reminds us if we sit still, take time and focus more intimately, we can find all our emotions in these smaller moments.  And they all have a place or function in the grand design.

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

Nina

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.

 

 

Aries
Anna Agoston
Anna Agoston

Two of Wands – Now is the time to take that Mars energy and point it towards the future. You get a jump start before the rest of the signs begin to hop on the bandwagon after November 12th.  Your challenge is to investigate and take those first steps onto new paths.  Mars the planet of action is in your sign until the first week in January 2021. You have until then to create the necessary energy to shoot into 2021.

 

Taurus
Anna Agoston
Anna Agoston

Knight of Wands – This muse sprinkles inspiration all around you this week.  Your challenge is not speeding past the gifts.  You are in the right place at the right time.  There is fodder to feed your purpose.  So, soak in the good and the bad, for it will help you see more clearly why you are here and what still needs to be done.

 

Gemini
Anna Agoston

Seven of Coins – The energy this week is best used for getting things done.  It is a great week to cross off items on your to-do list.  However, it is not a beneficial to start anything brand new.  So, head down and keep plugging along the path you are on right now.

 

Cancer
Anna Agoston
Anna Agoston

*Strength– Tapping into your inner strength this week helps create ease both within and without.  As the “feelers” of the signs you will have an array of feelings; however, you are also ok with all of them.  You have tamed your inner beast with compassion while allowing it to express itself without harming others.  Calmness is needed and you have the strength to radiate it.

 

Leo
Anna Agoston
Anna Agoston

Nine of Wands – Lets dip into nines for this is your second.  Nines are cards of preparation for completing a cycle.  Last week your muse advised you to assimilate what you have been working on since your birthday.  The challenge was working smarter not harder. This week you continue taking thoughts and projects to their next level.  The challenge is you will not get anything finished but you will be able to put a dent in it.  The challenge this week is prepping before starting the day and putting a do not disturb sign up when needed.

 

Virgo
Anna Agoston
Anna Agoston

*Lovers – This muse is asking you to re-commit to passion, love, and intimacy.  To take yourself to the next love level, or allow it back in.  Time to let go of the fear of feeling.  The challenge is you will get hurt along the way that is a given, being human.  But also, the things you can create when your heart is open, using passion and love as your main ingredients is dazzling.

 

Libra
Anna Agoston
Anna Agoston

Eight of Pentacles – The energy this week is great for working on anything on the material plane.  You need to keep grounded by doing things with your body and how you make your money. The goal is to work smarter not harder.  The challenge is staying out of your head as much as possible.  Therefore, the more you can lean on the rhythm of your day and tweak how you are working or the work itself the better you will feel.

 

Scorpio
Anna Agoston

*High Priestess– Your second big energy card for the coming year.  This muse will give you dreams and synchronicities to help you intuit how 2021 and your purpose will unfold.   The challenge with this energy is finding and navigating the information with only your intuition.  Your purpose on earth will come in play in a big way in the coming year and the Universe is here to help, but you will need to suss-out an updated map and ship to sail in.  Spend the rest of your birth month making sure you are on the right ship to sail into 2021.

 

Sagittarius
Anna Agoston
Anna Agoston

Four of Coins – Your resources are scarce this week.  Pay attention to where, when, and how you tire, get frustrated, resentful, envious and/or hungry.  The challenge is not thinking this is a permanent situation.   All these are signs that you need to pull back and restock soul, mind, bank account, or frig.

 

 

 

Capricorn
Anna Agoston

Five of Coins– The last two weeks have been big energy weeks.  First the muses had you working with balance and harmony.  Then they reminded you are to see your path and tasks like you are working with a blank canvas.  This week has a lot less energy.  It might feel like you are overwhelmed and depleted at the same time.  So the challenge is finding that place of balance two weeks ago and remembering that this moment in time is a blank canvas – no need to redo outdated horrors and fears of the past.

 

Aquarius
Anna Agostonn

Six of Cups and Eight of Wands – Ok three paths for you all this week.  You choose.  You can tie up loose ends of the past, run head long into the future gathering intel as you go, or a bit of both.  Either way there is a bunch of information for you to decipher.  You can find solutions to problems in the now either from past experiences or experimentation moving forward.  It is up to you which way to cast your gaze, backwards or forward, but either way work in the now.

 

Pisces
Anna Agoston
Anna Agoston

*Chariot – Change is in the air.  The challenge is the oars/sails are in your hands this week.  You will need a solid plan to catch this energy and use it wisely. This week is a prequel to the winds of change that begin around November 13th.  Are you ready to catch the wave? Make this week a practice run for 2021.

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of August 30, 2020

Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh The more loving one – part one

The artist this week is Aida Muluneh.  I usually pull art from the artist’s entire work but today I am homing in on one series, The World is 9.  It centers around a phrase her grandmother would say, “The world is 9, it is never complete and it’s never perfect.”  The concept in Muluneh’s words:  In this world, we are idealists seeking perfection but living in a reality which does not afford us that balance. Life is unpredictable and imperfect – we must conquer these challenges with strength and endurance because the world within us and the world knocking on our door, bears the unknown future.

So far, this year has felt like that – unpredictable and showing all its imperfections.  And dang we have been challenged personally and socially.  But that is the beauty of grokking the world is 9.  By seeing the world’s and our imperfection, we can continue to strive – creating a better world, and at the same time let our growth be infinite.  Thus, not binding us or our world to and ending, a completion nor perfection.

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
Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh

Page of Swords – The key to this week’s energy is to use your mind like a sharp tool.    Information is available for you, but it is either hidden or lock away by sphinx-like energy.  Pieces of information will be given if you ask the right questions to decipher the riddles in front of you this week.

 

Taurus
Aida Muleneh
Aida Muluneh

Eight of Swords – Last week the devil was in the details and details had the potential to be your biggest foe.  This energy seeps into this week as well with a “bonus” feeling of an overwhelming or a closing in.   Thus, you feel choices/decisions are demanded of you.  The key to this is again is either committing to a choice and see how it goes or saying f#$% it and go with the flow.  The goal is to stop thinking you have no choice in the matter, or there is only one right path.  This leads to circular thinking and a sense of inescapable inertia.

 

Gemini
Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh

King of Cups – The intensity of the energies finally recedes for you this week.  Though the themes stay the same.  The last two weeks were challenging you to follow the breadcrumbs of synchronicities and reimagining yourself as the beautiful spark of inspiration with flaws exposed making you shine more brightly.  This week’s energy helps guide you in an alchemization of your all your feelings happy, sad, anger, lonely etc… You need to see that all your emotions make you who you are.  Your motto the Rumi poem The Guest House.

 

Cancer
Aida Muluneh

Six of Swords – The energy surrounding you might feel a bit muddy and unclear but also has a sense of lightness.   This week is full of small transitions helped by small miracles.  Following the willow wisps will not lead you to danger but safely to a new shore.  Your motto: Follow hope.

 

Leo
Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh

Knight of Wands – The energy this week is wanting you to answer what truly inspires you in nature?  The sand between your toes, staring at fire, smelling a storm on the way, or watching the power of a lion/cat on the hunt…  Now replicate these feelings/inspirations by doing something artistic, experiencing an art form that resonates it, or mediate on it.  Embed that inspiration into your life.

 

Virgo
Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh

Nine of Pentacles – The energy this week wants you to sift your successes and see their worth as a collection.  Find contentment in the positive things you have done.  You have just one more chapter to complete this cycle.  You are on the verge of a transition.  Spend this week in moments of solitude and contemplation of your past and the last steps for this birth years conclusion.  By doing this exercise you will be prepared to move forward with solider foundation.

 

Libra
Aida Muluneh

King of Wands – Last week’s energy wanted you to pull away from society as much as possible, grounding and gaining some perspective.  Hopefully, you got to do this, can put this insight into action.  If not, luckily this energy still allows time for gaining perspective.   For this week is full of visionary thoughts and advises to look at the bigger picture for solutions.

 

Scorpio
Aida Muluneh

Two of Wands – Last week’s energy was highly active and best used in building what is already started. However, this week wants you to turn your gaze to the future.  This is a great week to let your imagination ponder where and what you will be wanting to do in 2021.  Imagining now will set the universe working behind the scenes to prep some of the roads ahead.

 

Sagittarius
Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh

*Moon – This is a perfect time to dive into your fears and emotions.  Yep the energy this week would like to test your emotional waters.   In practical matters aspects are hidden from you.  You can wait until this phase passes by the weekend (Tuesday is a Full Moon in Pisces so things will start to clear up after that).  Or you can dive into your shadow side.  The latter is harder but more productive.

 

Capricorn
Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh

Queen of Wands – This energy is best used in the act of creation and self-expression.  This muse comes to embolden you to see your courage and power.  You are the creator of your life.  Are you creating your desires or societies?  If so, this is a great week to set intentions.    If not, then time to do some heavy mirror gazing and reconnecting to your power source and intuition.

 

Aquarius
Aida Muluneh

Eight of Wands – Last week was about balancing multiple elements into a cohesive path of ease.  Hopefully, you worked on your balancing act, for this week the energy level is still busy.  So, going in with a balanced mind-set will help you navigate all the information coming at you.   This energy also recommends a game plan, while keeping your eyes and mind open as better paths come quickly into your foreground.  If you are good at racing video games, then this week you will do great.  If not, peripheral vision is vital.

 

Pisces
Aida Muluneh

*Hierophant – The energy this week is about deconstructing your environment or systems and then creating new paradigms.  This can look as simple as pulling everything out of your closet and reorganizing.  Or as complicated as doing this with a work project or relationships.  The strategy is pulling everything apart to see its working and non-working parts, fix and then reassemble.

 

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of August 16, 2020

Nina Leen
Nina Leen

The artist this week is photographer Nina Leen.  She was the first woman photographer hired by Life magazine.  However, Life only hired her for freelance, even though she contributed to the magazine for 30 years with over 50 covers and countless reports and photo essays.  Her photo style was unique for she took pictures of everyday events, but always with an added twist, a place of tension or surrealness.  

This made her photograph not only stand out but had the viewer subtly expanding their perspective.  For instance, she took the picture above the group of artists that led the 1950 fight against the exclusion of abstract expression from the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibitions .   Leen had the one woman Hedda Stern, at the shoot only 15 of the 28 signers showed up,  stand above all the other men, making the subtle statement of the bias on women in the art scene and an ironic statement of exclusion.

Her subjects were often actress, fashion models, everyday women, teens and animals.   She also co-wrote and did photography for 12 books on animals.   Some say she liked animals more than people.  The viewer can see this wry sense of humor.  With her washed kitten (see Leo) titled wet by wiser or (see Libra) where actress Joan Roberts is walking her dog at intermission.  Leen’s choice of showing the owner not in totally control of the scene lowers the glamour star status of Ms. Rivers but also makes her more relatable, more real.  Leen’s photos are even today avant garde, female positive, intriguing, and wanting us to turn the page to see more.

P.S. Signs with an * it 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
Nina Leen
Nina Leen

*Magician – The energy this week helps with manifesting anything creative.  You are prompted to produce a plethora of beauty and ingenuity.  You have all the tools you need to do this work.  The challenge and key to creating with ease is allowing for experimentation.  Make mistakes, color outside the lines, and let your imagination play.

 

Taurus
Nina Leen
Nina Leen

Page of Coins– This is a great week to plan, practice, learn, and discover.  Think of yourself as a student of life.  You do not have to master anything this week.  The challenge is allowing yourself to play and explore without grading your work.

 

 
Gemini
Nina Leen

*Wheel – The energy this week is about changing your fortune.  No matter where the Wheel’s cycle lands, win or loss, it is the step of trying and accepting the ups and downs of life that are key this week.  You are in the midst of an energy shift.  The way to work with this energy is follow the breadcrumbs of synchronicities and serendipities.  You cannot grab the brass ring without getting on the ride, but also the ride by itself can give you a new perspective.

 

Cancer
Nina Leen
Nina Leen

*Justice – Last week was about building your material plane and feeding your goals while lifting others; to be a steward of good.  This good stewardship continues this week, but the energy is less active.  Now is a time to reflect and revise where necessary. Look with long vision as well as with your everyday choices.  The challenge is making plans and choices that are balanced in the mind and heart and actions ethical with your soul.

 

Leo
Nina Leen
Nina Leen

*Fool – So you started your birth month with some high personal karmic energy setting you up for big growth in the coming year.  This had you tapping into your superpowers and your personal kryptonite preparing you for the future.  At the same time reminding you that relaxation and  expressing your emotions are vital in this coming journey.  Now at the end your month you receive a call from the Fool, the blank rune.  This energy asks you to jump into the unknown.  This year is a place of new beginnings, to lean into trust, things are changing, and you are one of the signs heading into it first.  The landscape is forming with each step.  You get to paint on this new blank canvas as you go.  The challenge is not singing the same song, repeating old patterns, and staying stagnate.  Time to allow this metamorphosis to begin.

 

Virgo
Nina Leen
Nina Leen

Queen of Cups – Last week’s energy was around working with your monsters.  You get to continue this work but funneling your focus to only the emotional realm.  Specifically, to being more compassionate around your own emotions.  Not to see them as monsters but as signposts or bridges to a deeper understanding of your wants and needs.

 

Libra
Nina Leen
Nina Leen

Seven of Cups –The energy this week is pushing you to dream bigger.  Yes, you still need to be cautious about the parameters of reality or at least the parameters of 2020 where nothing is predictable.  So, if nothing is predictable why not dream beyond your typical boundaries.  The challenge is not hanging your heart on each wish coming true exactly how you planned.

 

Scorpio
Nina Leen
Nina Leen

Page of Wands – Inspiration is the energy to create ease this week.  You are stuck in some rut and need to think outside the box.  This energy advises you to find inspiration in things that make you go Ah or Oh or Oooooo.  This can be nature, music, art, and/or spiritual.  The challenge is submerging yourself enough in it that you lose your self to find yourself.

 

Sagittarius
Nina Leen
Nina Leen

*Devil – The energy this week is abundant with distractions and opportunities to tempt you away from path.  The reason this energy shows up is because you have not given yourself the permission or time to have some fun for fun’s sake.  The challenge however is this is not the week to let your “restraints” loose.  So, schedule that fun-time in soon but just not this week.

 

Capricorn
Nina Leen

Ace of Cups – Last week you all got the Tower, change that occurs outside of your control.  Asking you to look at the “cracks” that 2020 has brought on in your life.   To make sure that even though the structures you imagining and creating look different,  you are not building on the same defective footing.  The energy this week gives you more time in that creation of the new.  This energy challenges you practical Capricorns not to forget that it is the feeling of your life that is more important then the structures.  Or another way to look at this, do your new structures support the feeling you are going for?

 

Aquarius

Nina Leen
Nina Leen

Ace of Pentacles – Hmm another Ace, let us take a closer look at Ace energy.  All Aces are new beginnings.  Last week was to get inspired looking for something that has potential for new beginnings to sprout.  Hopefully, you have found this new inspiration.  Now, this Ace is about doing the steps to make that happen.  This week pull together your materials and take that first step.

 

Pisces

Nina Leen

*High Priestess – Last week’s energy was about taking a chance to move forward.  This week is a 180 degree turn from extroverted jumping into the outside world to introverted knowledge gathering.  This information comes from quiet contemplation and dreams.  Whether you do this by howling with the full moon on Monday, going to the desert to commune with the Milky Way, putting on headphones and listening to your music collection of shuffle, or meditating, this Muse wants you to work closer with your intuition and the Universe.  Your challenge is finding the time and keeping your mind open to see the connections and cycles.

 

 

Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of May 31, 2020

Selma Burke
Selma Burke Booker T. Washington

The artist this week is Selma Burke.  Her pieces express an overall emotionality and truthfulness created from her interesting nuanced choices.  Selma’s subject with a furrowed brow conveying the rawness of intention, or the curiosity of raised eyebrows, or the tilt of a child’s head expressing innocence.  With her more experimental pieces like The Torso her choice of figure and tilt articulating a more realistic view of a women’s form, or the tenderness of a mother holding a child.  This is a lesson in the subtleness of choice conveying powerful emotional content.  Each of us effect change in our lives and maybe the more subtle, more nuanced may just have a more lasting a broader effect then we think.

She started her education by becoming a nurse in Raleigh, N.C. and moved to NYC after graduation.  There she became associated with the Harlem Renaissance and began teaching art appreciation and education to New York youth.  Then during the 1930’s she traveled across Europe honing her own artist skills.  By 1940 she opened the Selma Burke School of Sculpture in NYC while graduating from Columbia with her own arts degree.

In 1942 she joined the Navy become one of the first African American women to enroll and worked in the shipyard during the war.  During that time, she won a competition to do a bronze relief of FDR.  Historically this is her most famous and controversial piece.  Many say her piece was the inspiration for the dime; however, it is detested by the artist who designed it.  She returned to roots and from 1968 to 1981 she founded and ran the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh, continuing to provide art to the youth of the undeserved communities there.

P.S. Signs with an * it a big week for you.  Gemini this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year.  And Sagittarius 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

Selma BurkeQueen of Wands – This week the energy can invigorate anything you put your focus to.  It also supplies you with the courage and fierceness to take charge of all that you survey.  The challenge is doing it alone.  It is not necessary, but you can if you must.

 

Taurus

PhotoCredit: John Wilson White

*World – The world is your oyster this week.  But it is up to you prying it open to reveal its’ pearls.  This is big energy for moving outcomes into triumphant directions.  The challenge with this card for you Taurus is that you do have the work ethic and commitment to move things to completion.  But are you flexible enough to know when to let it go if it isn’t working or allowing it to evolve into an unknown ending?  To utilize this energy, go for the feeling of a job well done without attaching it to a material completion.

 

Gemini

PhotoCredit: John Wilson White

Two of Swords – Confusion flies through the lines of communication and thought.  This causes stalemates and indecision not only for you but for those around you.  The best way to work with this energy is either flipping a coin or waiting until next week to decide if you can.

 

Cancer

Selma BurkeEight of Swords – Self acceptance is key this week.  You might be feeling entrapped, but this time is meant for healing.  Sometimes the inertia of life has nothing to do with you as long as you don’t take it on as your story.  Let go of the collective thought patterns.  They are not part of your narrative.

 

Leo

Selma BurkeQueen of Cups – Last week your brain was taxed.  The energy takes a 180 degree turn to your heart this week.  Compassion, calm and comfort are the keys to ease.  Find time daily to invite in the 3 Cs.  This is no time for martyrdom – take time off and have some fun.

 

Virgo

Ten of Wands – Another week spending energy in completing old projects and cleaning your desk/mind/spirit.  The challenge is being responsible for your obligations to those close to you but also to yourself.  This week is setting you up for new beginnings once your plate is cleared from the old.

 

Libra

Four of Swords – This energy shows up when you need to recuperate and relax.  You are being drained and are not aware of the source or how much it is taking out of you.  The best way of finding the leaks is by walking away from all your responsibilities for a small amount of time.  Then once you return the seepage will be more obvious and easier to fix.

 

Scorpio

Selma Burke*Temperance – The energy that surrounds you this week is excessive.  This overload unbalances you, so emotional outburst may be necessary to vent and re-calibrate.  However, be careful, impatience can trigger more negative and unworthy outpourings.  The key is purposely vent before the pressure makes you burst.

 

Sagittarius

*Sun – The sun will come out tomorrow and shine on you all week.  So that is great if you are ready to play in the sunlight.  However, there is a distinct possibility you may also want to hide in the shadows of pessimism.  The challenge is that more you try to be happy the less you accomplish it.  In other words, you are thinking to much.  Sag your free spirit is needing airing, a drive in the car with windows down, a picnic in the woods, or anything outdoorsy without any goal setting is required.  Try spotlighting your focus on things you want to do – not things you have to do.

 

Capricorn

*Justice – Last week organic change was asking you to not resist or fear transformation.  Letting things end so others can begin.  You are hopefully now moving with a more natural pace and to a more comfortable place.   Luckily, you get another week to work on this shift by focusing on cause and effect.  For each decision you are making imagine the possible or impossible outcomes.  Why focus on the impossible?  Because your mind wants to think of the what ifs and this is the week to let it.  Those out-there worst-case scenarios need airing.  Not to bring them in to being but to see the truth of their outlandishness.

 

Aquarius

Selma Burke*Chariot – Wow four weeks in a row with big energy.  It started with summoning you to take a bit of control over your destiny by showing up.  Then Temperance energy suggested creating your life like a refined meal that has many notes to balance in the creation of a delectable dining experience.  Then Justice had you looking for the grey areas to find a true sense of fairness and harmony.  Now self-determining change has arrived.  This energy is giving you control.  The good side is that you have more sway then you think.  The bad side is it is all in your hands.  This week if you want movement to happen you will need to take the reins.  If you look at all of May/June’s forecast now is the time to be flexible and delicate when applying energy but continue moving forward.

 

Pisces

Selma BurkeTwo of Wands – Discovery is the name of the game this week.  The challenge is that you are still in a place that is neither the past nor the future; however, you are not inert.  You are just taking a moment finding needed items and planning for the move forward.  The only challenge is while you are doing this be mindful of the precious moments this pause has given you.