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Happy New Year 2019

Hi All,

I am not doing an individual tarotcast for this week, but I did want you all to know the card represented by the year 2019.  Before I get into that, I want to thank you all for your support over the past year.  If it wasn’t for you, my words would go out into the dark without a tether. My goal for these tarotcasts are to help you navigate each week with more ease.  I hope it does that.

Now the card for the year depending on which methodology you use is either The Empress number 3 or the World number 21.  The Empress is about fertility, creativity and growth.  The World card is about fulfillment, completion, creating and working with what is your great purpose on Earth.   I’m leaning towards the Empress this year to work on seeding, watering, fertilizing and weeding what I want to happen in my sphere. Leaning into the Empress’ nature of growth and compassion.

I know it will take more than a year for my garden to grow all that I want it to, but I am ready to invest in the labor.   I recommend you pick one of these cards as your theme for the year, and say goodbye to 2018.  Last year’s cards were Justice or Judgment where finding the truth is leading to our evolution or extinction.  I am ready for this cycle to end.  I am grateful for all the good and bad that has enlightened me to things that still need worked on and places I must evolve past. I am ready to clean up lose ends with the World card and grow myself a fresh start in 2019 with the Empress.

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

Nina

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Tarotcast for week of December 9, 2018

I choose the artist Gerhard Richter for this week because of his technique of using photography, painting and blurring. He creates in the real and then manipulates it to the abstract.  He plays with line and focus.  He says in his book Writings. I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsman like but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.

I think of December as that month of in-between and it has a sense of blurring.  There is something ether like and magical with this month.  Yes, this month can be the most hectic, but it also has its moments which slow to molasses like states of comfort. Where we can hang with family and/or friends and savor.  A time where we are letting go of the old year while starting to think about the new year’s promise.  It’s like the lines of time are blurred and fluctuating.  Where we hopefully bring into focus what is important and let the unimportant blur into the oblivion.

P.S. Remember signs with an * it’s a big week for you.  And please share.

Aries – Queen of Swords

The last two weeks the cards have been asking you some heavy questions like: What cycles are you beginning?What ideas or projects do you want to store or work on next year?  What do you want to let die or finish before spring? What do you need to heal, so you can move in to 2019 with a lighter load? And if you could hope for an outcome what would it be? Now the Queen of Swords arrives and wants you to spend this coming week to start planning and integrating those answers for 2019. 

Taurus – Seven of Wands

The Seven of Wands challenges you to deal with this week like a Zen master. You need all your senses turned on to practice your skills with the complexities of statements like: Instead of calling it work, realize it is play. The practice is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something. The menu is not the meal.

Gemini – Five of Swords

Last week the Tower came and for some of you the lesson was how to ride the waves of change that you have no control over.  For others it was just a tiny tremor, a warning, to get your “house” in order.  Either way you all were supposed to check and reinforce the foundations in your life, like health, relationships, monetary savings or any other place you feel queasy about. Luckily you all have another week with the Five of Swords which helps you by suggesting that you glimpse into your past mistakes.  The challenge is not to wallow in the regrets but to see the lessons that these mistakes hold and move forward with that knowledge.

Cancer – Ten of Swords

The Ten of Swords can go two ways, either you carry around all that negative energy or you can let it go. It is best to let go of the ego and navigate the world with your intuition.  This week logic is not your friend.

Leo – Eight of Swords

The Hermit last week suggested you stand back and gain perspective- the bigger picture.  The Eight of Swords continues this theme but warns you that you have the tendency when pulling back to get caught up in the web of your thoughts.  So that is your challenge to think without binding yourself up in your negative or repetitive thought patterns.  Free your mind

Virgo – Ten of Cups

The Ten of Cups is just a perfect card for the best part of this season – sharing the love.  Your challenge is to do just that.  Make this week about bliss and joy.  Let the good times roll, and if you can’t find it – make your own. 

Libra – King of Swords

The King of Swords is about communication, philosophy and big ideas.  The challenge is about getting your ideas across without force or anger.  Best advice is listening as much as you are talking this week. 

Scorpio – Eight of Pentacles

The Lovers last week suggested collaboration to be your focus to create original and creative outcomes.  The Eight of Pentacles continues this theme.  The only changes are that collaboration is more important at work than any other place, and you can split the time working with others with working alone.  The harder you work this week the better prepared you will be for the end of the year.

*Sagittarius – The Hanged Man

Another Karma card for your year going forward, the Hanged Man.  The Magician called for creation and the Hanged Man calls for new and unique perspectives.  For some of you this might mean next year you all will take some literally and figurative side roads for inspiration.  For others the Hanged Man ask you to take a sabbatical to help another gain their goals or for your own spiritual growth.  Please re-read the past two weeks cards, 2019 is looking like a big year for you and we still have one more card to go. 

Capricorn – Knight of Wands

When the Knight of Wands arrives, he is telling you that you are on the right path, at the right speed,doing everything you need to do. It should be an easy week if you continue doing what you are doing.  So, keep on keeping on. 

Aquarius – Four of Swords

Another 4 card, so remember 4 cards mean stability.  Last week, the Four of Pentacles wanted you working smarter not harder.  This week the Four of Swords focus on your mind and thoughts.  The challenge is slowing down or simplifying your thoughts. The more methodical and logical you are the less you will fret.  Oh, and get some rest.

Pisces – Eight of Wands

The Eight of Wands is the messenger card and exchanger of information.  The challenge is with all the signals you are getting which ones to follow, listen to, and send out.  Well the interesting thing with this card is you don’t have to manage or make decision on all the messages coming in.  It is more about the action.  The more arrows you shoot towards a target the more likely you are to hit something.  And in the opposite direction only listen to things that strike home to you, the rest let pass.

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

Nina

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Tarotcast Week of September 9, 2018

Franco FontanaWorkers are fixing a pothole outside my house and they had to stop multiple times because it began to rain.  A paradox of mine is I hate the smell of an asphalt roads being laid, but I am also fond of the smell of rain hitting asphalt. During my urban sojourns, it was a sign of a respite from the summer heat.  Both these experiences are unique to the modern world and drew me to the photography of Franco Fontana’s asfalti.   He is famously known for his abstract landscapes, and is considered the inventor the photographic line referred to as the concept of line.

His motto is the purpose of art is to make visible the invisible. I find that his body of work really exemplifies this. He is not condoning the natural world being slowly paved over, but that the lesson is to look for the hidden geometry that pulls our eyes and possible defines what we consider beautiful or not.

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Aries – Three of Swords

Franco FontanaThe Three of Swords continues the theme from the Moon card last week.  This week this card advises to continue working with only three of the hidden thoughts you have discovered.  This card also advises that these beliefs be not only removed but destroyed.  They are based in negative triggers placed in your thought patterns by others.

 

Taurus – Eight of Wands

Franco FontanaMessages are the theme for this week.   Keep your eyes and mind open.  There is a lot of important information coming at you that you will need in the near future.  Be the sponge.
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Tarotcast for the Week Of August 19, 2018

Unknown Unknown, by Zhang Chenxi

I haven’t featured a lot of computer generated art, but this collection of digital illustrations caught my eye.  If you know me well, you know I love nudibranchs, small slug like sea creatures. This series, Unknown Unknown, by Zhang Chenxi is a tiny alien world comprised of hybridized animal/plant creatures, and where the very real and Earth-bound nudibranchs would fit right in.  I don’t know much about this artist other than he is on Instagram and Behance.  But I do know I love his imagination.

P.S. Please share.  Also, I have put up another quote to download for your vision board.  Enjoy.

Aries – Page of Cups

Unknown Unknown, by Zhang Chenxi Take this last week of summer and enjoy yourself with the Page of Cups.  This card wants you to get a fresh outlook on what is going on in your life right now.  Try to have the perspective of a child who is discovering something for the first time, where everything is new and amazing.

 

Taurus – Knight of Swords

Unknown Unknown, by Zhang Chenxi The Knight of Swords warns you not to rush into anything this week.  Take things slow; consider all aspects before moving ahead.  Usually when this card shows up you are moving too fast and are missing some important pieces to the puzzle. Or you are literally just not watching where you are going and can bruise your extremities or mess up projects.
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Tarotcast for the week of August 5, 2018

Eclipse Viewers

The last and fifth eclipse of 2018 will be this Saturday.  I don’t know about you all but I have been feeling them.  In Astrology the one common concept is that eclipses are transformative times for people whose Sun, moon or ascendant coincides within five degrees of the sign and degree of the eclipse.  This year we had two pairs of eclipses in Leo-Aquarius and one odd-ball solar eclipses in Cancer.  (You can look up the degrees here to see if it affected you.)

Eclipses are usually paired one solar and one lunar, a fortnight apart. This usually happen at least four times a calendar year and unusually from 5-7 times (next seven is in 2038).  We have one more set of five in 2019 with Cancer and Capricorn pairings, and then we will have six eclipses in 2020.  Thank the heavens things calm down until 2027 with five and 2029 with a six eclipses.   But all this made me wonder how do we predict the number of eclipses?

Let me just say the answer to that question is both simple and complex and it is still evolving.  Simply it involves the orbit of Earth and Moon orbital planes in comparison to the Sun which varies 5 degrees.  And because of that sometimes the moon Earth and Sun aren’t aligned to cast shadows.  Complexly even today scientists are adding on to the precision of that shifting number because of the interplay of Earth’s tides, rotation and tilt and the distance of the Moon.

The Universe does not run like a clock.  The most interesting concept to me as I study Astronomy and Astrology is that the both prove that the Universe is alive.  The definition of a living organism in its broadest form is something that is made of parts that interact with each other, it reproduces, and it syntheses energy to live and grow.  This is something I see the planets and stars do on a daily basis.

P.S. Please share.  Also, I have put up another quote to download for your vision board.  Enjoy.

Aries – Nine of Wands

The Nine of Wands is about perseverance.    For some reason this week you believe you need to take on more than you actually need to do.  You have nothing to prove about your strength or your can do ideas of how you run your life.  This card challenges you to lay just one thing aside this week to lighten you load.  And for some of you rams you literally need to be careful of straining your back.

 

Taurus – Nine of Swords

The Nine of Swords is the card of worry.  Worry is just an aspect of fear.  Take this week to look at your fears and see if there is any truth in them in the here and now not the past and future.  Then take action with the present worries, and let the past and future worries disperse in the mist of unchangeable and uncertain.

 

Gemini – Eight of Swords and Seven of Pentacles

Eclipse watchers squint through protective film as they view a partial eclipse of the sun from the top deck of New York's Empire State Building Aug. 31, 1932. (AP Photo)

Ok lovelies, you all got the Eight of Swords again, so some of you are still holding on to things that are binding you to a hindering reality.  LET GO.  And then move on to the energy of the Seven of Pentacles which is investing into long-term goals.  Your challenge is to let go of the past and start planning for the future. This literally a good time for you all to invest- so contribute to your 401K, buy stock, make improvements to your home if you own it, etc…

 

Cancer – Nine of Pentacles

Where last week collaboration was the key, this week the Nine of Pentacles says you get more done alone or with just a chosen few.  Your challenge is to see your successes and bask in them before you get back to work.

 

Leo – King of Pentacles

This is your second King, so lets’ just glance at the King’s energies.  Kings are the manifestors of the deck.  To get two in a row in your birth-month means this year the energy of manifestation is available to you.  You can make some long-awaited projects happen this year.  Last week the King of Wands wanted you to focus your energy on what you actually want.  The King of Pentacles is the resource man asking you now that you know what to focus on, what do you physically need to make that happen?

 

*Virgo – High Priestess

FEB 22 1979, FEB 26 1979; Pupils At Stephen Knight School, 3245 E. Exposition, View Monday's Solar Eclipse; They let sun shine over their shoulders and look at image projected through small hole of paper onto another paper.; (Photo By Ernie Leyba/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

The High Priestess in her simplest form wants to stare out the window and watch the world go by, reading a book like the Three-Body Problem, or get a divination reading .  In her more complex form she might be challenging you to go on a retreat, write your own book, or cast a spell.  The challenge is seeing the bigger picture while seeing the synchronicities in the details.

 

Libra – Page of Cups

The Page of Cups is the card of innocence.  The challenge with this card is seeing things with fresh eyes and if you do you will find the solution or answer you need.   If you are having a hard time with this – hang out with children, watch Anne with an E, or anything out of Miyazaki’s animation studio.

 

*Scorpio – Hierophant and Five of Swords

June 1927: A group of nurses observing a solar eclipse through special dark glasses. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Ok two cards for you this week.  First the Five of Swords forewarns, this week is going to be bit chaotic.  The hard thing with this card is that you really have no control over it and most likely there is no way around it.  The Hierophant comes to the rescue advising the more organized and prepared you are for this week, the easier it will be to navigate in and around the chaos.  Also the Hierophant highlights that there is an important lesson you will learn by the end of the week that will come in handy in the near future.

 

Sagittarius – Knight of Pentacles

The journey continues with the Knight of Pentacles.  The Knight of Pentacles means you are on the right path and your challenge is to get into the grove of your personal pace. All the Knights (movement) are all easy cards for your sign, so enjoy the journey and the wind in your hair.

 

Capricorn – Six of Rods

The Six of Rods advises you to take a moment this week to notice how far you come from the beginning of this year.  This is your half way point from your birth year.  The challenge is not to sit on your laurels, but to ask what am I going to do with the next 6 months.

 

Aquarius – Three of Cups

Companionship is the key this week.  You have been out of the loop.  It is time to call old friends and lift the glass even if it’s on FaceTime.

 

 

Pisces – Six of Swords

The Six of Swords’ lesson is about lightening the load that you carry with you.  Whether that is mental or physical, you need to prioritize and hone down what you are carrying into your future.  One thing with this card is that being by water can help in this process.

 

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

Nina

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Tarotcast for Week of July 29, 2018

Abstract Expressionist Elaine de Kooning

A feminine viewpoint throughout art history has had a small lens.  It was not that woman didn’t do fine art but their main function was as objects for paintings or their work considered too feminine to have substance or meaning. During the 50’s and 60’s the art movement of Abstract Expressionist became even more of a boys club.  This weeks’ artist is Elaine de Kooning who had to deal with this bias with a double lens of being female and married to an artist.

Elaine was an Abstract and Figurative Expressionist. Even though, she was the only female member of the Eight Street Club in New York City, an artistic think tank with some of the heavy hitter of the Expressions movement, her work was looked over.  A perfect example of this overly male point of view was her first show. It  was curated for married artists to show their artwork together; however, it was called Artists: Man and Wife.  Which she later commented:   “It seemed like a good idea at the time, but later I came to think that it was a bit of a put-down of the women. There was something about the show that attached women-wives- to the real artists”.

For that reason, Elaine chose to sign her artworks with her initials rather than her full name, to avoid her paintings’ being labeled as feminine in a traditionally masculine movement and not to be confused with her husband’s paintings. When you look at her body of work most of her portraits and abstracts are of men or bulls and are done with broad strokes.  As if she is saying you want to see through the lens of a powerful woman – here you go.

P.S. Please share.  Also, I have put up another quote to download for your vision board.  Enjoy.

 

Aries – Page of Swords

Elaine de Kooning Abstract Expressionist

The Page of Swords means you need to do some investigative work this week.  Everything is not as it seems. There is an underlining dialogue or situation that needs to be uncovered.

 

Taurus – King of Swords

Elaine de Kooning Abstract Expressionist

The last two weeks have been deep with the Star and Hermit challenging you to heal and take solace in solitude.  You need that for this week because the King of Sword is the strategist of the deck.  This card advises you to take this week to do some long-term, like until 2020, planning.
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Tarotcast for Week of July 22, 2018

Velveteen Rabbit

One hundred and thirty seven years ago today Margret Williams was born.  Forty one years later she wrote her famous book The Velveteen Rabbit.  Most of her children’s books center around toys coming to life and conveying human emotions.  She wasn’t the first to do this; there was Steadfast Toy Solider by Hans Christian(1838) Anderson or a couple years earlier than her book the Raggedy Ann(1922) stories by Johnny Gruelle.

It is interesting that Margret’s and Hans’ stories are the ones that have held up through time.  Their commonality is that they are sentimental but sad stories.  Both toys are forgotten, thrown out, and die.  However through the alchemy of love are transformed into something else.  It is interesting that both these authors chose inanimate objects to tell this story instead of their living counterparts.  Maybe these tales and ones like them ask a deeper question – what makes us real?

My favorite part of her story is the exchange between the Velveteen Bunny and the Skin Horse.  You can read the entire exchange as you read down the forecasts. I have added its parts sequentially at the end of each forecast – for fun and contemplation.  They may or may not add to your reality.  😉

P.S. Please share.  Also, I have put up another quote to download for your vision board.  Enjoy.

 

Aries – Ten of Rods

The Ten of Rods say you are carrying too much at one time.  Sometimes we take on more than we should because we think or believe we should handle more.  Whether that choice is to prove something to yourself or old mental baggage that someone has loaded on you, you do not at this time need to take on so much responsibility.    The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces.

 

*Taurus – Hermit

Last week the Star challenge you  to not hide the suffering and sorrow of the world when, so in the Star’s simplest form asked you to stand and say “you are not alone” or in its complex form to help find positive solutions. This week you pulled the Hermit card that still continues the theme of healing.  The Hermit advises you need some alone time. Your mind needs solitude to heal your own wounds before going out in the world.  However, you are also challenged when you are with people who you are bringing that healing message to others.  He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away, and he knew that they were only toys, and would never turn into anything else.
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