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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of May 9, 2021

May 9, 2021 Nina

Tish Murtha © Ella Murtha, all rights reserved

Happy Nurturing Energy Day or Mother’s Day. Today is a celebration of not only Mother’s but the nurturing and caring energy that is associated with Motherhood. The artist I picked this week is based on that caring energy, for this is a love story of a daughter to her Mum and an artist’s love for her subjects.

This week’s artist is Tish Murtha. Her daughter, Ella, has lovingly collected and showcases her mother’s work. Murtha’s style is social documentary photography. She used the camera as a tool for social change by highlighting the societal disadvantages in her local community. Part of this collection, highlighted here, is around young people in the late 1970’s to the early 1980’s in North East England.

There is a quality to Murtha’s work, unlike the voyeuristic style of Lisette Model or raw images of Diane Arbus, this is a love story. The unconditional love that a mother gives to a child, or any true nurturer gives to another. Murtha offers not the typical perspective of outsider looking in but an insider lovingly opening her world and inviting us in. She frames the pictures and captures the actions of her subjects, though in a raw environment, showing the joy and imagination of childhood to the beginnings of self-awareness and status in society as teens. And as adult viewers she leads us to ponder our own childhood and a create a more empathetic eye around social justice issues. Reminding us to come at both as gently, protectively and supporting as an empathic nurturer would.

Today is Mother’s Day in the States. For those of you who are lucky enough to have a mother that unconditional loves you, be grateful. But, for those who do not have lost their mother, never knew her, lost children, have mother/child relationships that are strained, have not chosen to be mothers and those that are still yearning to be. Mother’s Day is about nurturing, unconditionally supporting and protecting those around you. This world needs nurturing especially right now, so hug the people that cherish you and be that loving nurturer for others.

Planets: Mercury is in Gemini until July 11^th. This is a place where it loves to hang so lots of evolutionary conversations can happen. And Venus also is in Gemini helps with the good vibes. The New Moon is in Taurus emphasizing you to bring more beauty and slow living into your life. Think luxuriating. And then Jupiter (expansion) takes a quick jaunt into Pisces from the May 13^th to July 28^th giving you a heads up what your 2022 will be like and what area your growth will take place.

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

*Hermit – The Muse of Perspective through seclusion has come to lead you to a quiet place where you can hear yourself think. This energy comes when being in the flow of things is distracting you from ease or finding an easier solution. You know that saying work smarter not harder. Well to find that you need to turn off your phone and put out the do not disturb sign. You will find perspective and solutions in the solitude of your own thoughts.

Taurus

Seven of Cups – Last week the Muse of Creation came to rife with you this birth year. This is the Mother/Nurture card energy at its best when it is used to generate anything that nurtures, consoles, and promotes growth. The challenge is growing pains but there will also be compassion and comfort waiting in the wings to support you. This week continues that energy and asks you to ponder what do you want to create with the Muse of Dreams? She challenges you to dream bigger, put aside your practical self for just this week and send out big, beautiful birthday wishes to the Universe. The universe works in mysterious ways if you allow it. Your Motto: Grow to Dream; Dream to Grow.

Gemini

*Devil – This being your final weeks of the past birth year it is appropriate that you would get the Muse of Tests. Take this week to look back at the time since your last birthday. Where were you tested/challenged? What did you learn from it? If the situation/problem came up again, how would you handle it now? Think of this week as your final exams before you go to the new level in your coming birth year.

Cancer

*Moon – Okay another round with the Moon. This is your third week in the shadow realm. These muses help you work with cycles, the bigger picture, and snipping karmic threads. Only by lovingly bringing out your old karmic patterns with ritual, meditation, art in all its forms, or repetitive work can you connect to your higher flow, inner knowledge, and outer guides. There is wisdom in awe, silence, synchronicities, and patterns, so keep all your six senses open for another week.

Leo

Page of Coins – Last week the Muse of Distraction challenged your flow. She only shows up when you are near completion of a goal or learned lesson. You have passed the test. Now the Muse of Learning is knocking. This energy is about needing to learn something that will help your flow and ease. However, the challenge is pushing down your ego, so you can hear the advice/wisdom. For our challenges can be our best teachers.

Virgo

Seven of Wands – This Muse of Competition has come to sharpen your stance. Whether that is standing up for yourself or what you believe in, you will be called on this week to voice your truth and possible protect another’s.

Libra

Ten of Cups – The last couple of weeks you had the ability to wield some powerful energies of Momentum and Strength. These energies help combat apathy, misdirection, or self-doubt. And remind you can accomplish anything you set your heart (not your mind) to. You get this last week to wrap up any loose ends with these energies. So, plan out the coming months and strengthen the reason you have chosen this path. But also find some time this week to rejoice in how far you have come.

Scorpio

King of Wands – The Muse of Art is here to inspire you. Spend time this week either participating in art or watching it. When this Muse shows up she tries to shake things up so innovation can take place. But to get into this headspace you must immerse your self in art forms, music, dance, fine arts, etc.… The juxtaposition of art and inspiration re-ignites your passion and expands your mind to find alternative and better ways to work.

Sagittarius

Four of Swords – The Muse of Balance and Moderation came last week to help you dive into what is not working and needs to be healed in both your inner and outer worlds. Well, you get another week to rebalance, rework, and re-new. The Muse of Rest and Restoration is here asking you to slow down. Find time to rest your mind this week, so you can hone into the flow with more ease in the coming months.

Capricorn

Knight of Cups – The Muse of Flirtation has come to release you from your hardcore work ethos you have been using to make it through the past months to year. This Muse promotes smart-ass joy. It takes the form of puns, goofiness, superman gestures, and eyelash flutters accompanied by “Who me?” … So, practice adult humoring this week. This wit practice keeps joy in your life while sharpening your mind.

Aquarius

Queen of Swords – The Muse of Details is sitting next to you reminding you that small thoughts and actions are more important this week, than sweeping gestures. By honing down your work load to just the essentials then breaking down those into small doable steps, will get you farther and with less distractions than if you peer at just the horizon.

Pisces

Eight of Cups – The last two weeks have given you big energies to work with, release, growth, and structuring. This week is much simpler but still the same themes. The Muse of Simplification has come to help you sweep up and get rid of the past month’s debris. Take this week to literally or metaphorically clean house and simplify the clutter in your life.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of May 2, 2021

May 2, 2021 Nina

This week’s artist is Betsey Batchelor @betseybatchelor. Batchelor is an artist’s artist. Some artists are meant to be followed not only for their art but because they are willing to show their process. Batchelor, maybe because she is a teacher, lets us into her process. She allows the viewer to see through her posts not only the finished piece, but a blank canvas, scraps of paper pinned to a wall, under sketches, daily practices, detailed parts of her work, and pieces in progress. Batchelor reminds us that art is work. That there are sketches, experimentation, and honing skills before an artist even gets to the white void. Then it is honed, thought over, reworked, mulled again or even abandoned.

The humanity of Batchelor’s Instagram is worth you following her, whether her posts remind fellow artists that what we love to do is messy, not just the polished perfection of a gallery exhibit or even our feeds. And for viewer in general that each piece we see takes hours of unseen work and adds another layer to the awe of art. As an artist or a viewer, it reminds us that the work itself is the life blood of the art and the artist. That the essence of art and life is the work, not just the goals and successes. This week ponder this quote by Aristotle. The aim of art (and Life) is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Planets: Mercury enters Gemini on the 3^rd and stays until July 11^th . This is a place where it loves to hang so lots of evolutionary conversations can happen. And Venus enters Gemini on 8^th to help with the good vibes. The only challenge is being careful of over-promising or saying yes to everything.

*All pictures below are from Batchelor’s Instagram posts some are completed pieces some are just her “work.”

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

Nina

Aries

Knight of Cups – The Muse of Sexuality is here to help you boost your libido. Whether you go shopping for new toys, trying new ways to excite all your senses, solo or with a partner. This week you should work on emotional switching on and stimulation of all kinds.

Taurus

*Empress – Your first big energy for your coming year is Creation. This energy is best when it is used to generate anything that nurtures, consoles, and promotes growth. The challenge is there is growing pains but there will also be compassion and comfort waiting in the wings to support you. And with all things that are extraordinary, it will take time to grow. So be patient with your self and whatever you begin growing in the coming year.

Gemini

Knight of Wands – The Muse of Perfect Timing is working with you this week. Good or bad you are in the right place at the right time doing the right thing, if you do you. Her only requirement is not to second guess yourself, for there is much to glean from this week.

Cancer

*High Priestess – You get another week working with your Shadow side. This Muse helps you see cycles and the bigger picture to work out old karmic patterns and snip their threads. Use ritual, meditation, singing bowls… to connect with your inner knowledge and outer guides. There are breadcrumbs in synchronicities and patterns, so keep all your six senses open.

Leo

*Devil – The Muse of Distraction is here to challenge you. She only shows up when you are near completion of a goal or learned lesson. The key is to say no or walk away if something does not feel right or in some cases too right. The positive consequence of this card is, if you renege this temptation, it will no longer have the hold it had before.

Virgo

Nine of Coins – This Muse has come to help you maintain your workflow and energy by keeping to yourself or only allowing a few supporters in. She advises that you create a sacred space and time so you can ponder your thoughts without any outside influences.

Libra

*Strength – Last week the Muse of Momentum asked you to use her energy to plot out your course for the coming month. This week, the Muse of Strength has come to help start and maintain that route. Often this energy comes to help combat apathy, misdirection, or self-doubt. She reminds you that you have come through trials before and are stronger and more resilient. This week is not about things being hard but about you seeing you can accomplish anything you set your heart (not your mind) to.

Scorpio

Ten of Cups– Another good week in store for you. Last week the Muse of Optimism and Success shone on all the wonderful things and opportunities that are awaiting you, if you want them and allow yourself to glow and grow. This week the Muse of Bliss reinforces that life has these beautiful moments of heaven on earth. The challenge with this energy is realizing that these moments are fleeting. It is important to thoroughly bath in their light when they come and recognize that you cannot maintain that ecstasy. So, do not to fret their passing but know they will come again. Your motto: Aloha and Mahalo

Sagittarius

*Temperance – The Muse of Balance and Moderation has come to work with you. She asks you to do a dive into what is not working and needs to be healed in both your inner and outer world. The conduit for the energy flowing between them is clog. So doing something like Tai chi, Feng Shu, balancing your nutrition, sweating, brainstorming, massage …will get you back into balance and a rhythm that is more suitable for you and your work.

Capricorn

Ace of Swords – The Muse of New Truths is calling on you this week. She comes with bountiful information to help you shift or create new paradigms. This week mind ON.

Aquarius

Nine of Wands – Last week the muses where all about creating things out of what seemingly is nothing or build on what already is. Using these energies for formation, moving forward and growing outward. This energy is still here this week to work with; however, you will need to pace yourself if you wish to accomplish anything. So prioritize, prepare for, and only work with the items on the top of your list.

Pisces

*Hierophant – Last week the muses were here to aid you in letting go of something to enable growth. This energy continues this week; however, you also get the assistance of the Muse of Structure. She advises that you look at and rearrange your timing and/or your priorities. When these two energies come together often your logic is off, like you are putting your cart in front of your horse or not realized the problem of contingencies. Step back and look at the frame/goals before painting the picture.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of April 25, 2021

April 25, 2021 Nina

Planets: There is a Full Moon in Scorpio tomorrow which lights up our shadow side and since it squares off with Saturn and Uranus things can get harsh. So, the next couple of days pull back, stay calm and work on yourself. Also, Mars just went into Cancer. That is not its favorite position, fire versus water, so things can get sensitive, but it is great configuration for anything that has to do with sprucing up your home, hanging out with family, or self-care.

This week’s artist is Pan YuLiang (Pan YuLin). Pan was one of the first woman artists in China to paint in Western style. However, until recently, her work was controversial for she painted or drew nudes instead of the traditional subjects for women at the time, florals, and still-life. Often having to pose as her own model. Even though she was appointed Dean of Western Art at the Shanghai Art Academy her nudes were often taken down at her shows in China. She permanently moved to Paris in late 1930’s and stayed until her death. Posthumously, she is getting the notoriety due to her, not only in China but worldwide.

Pan’s paintings combine the traditional lines of Chinese ink drawings and the bold colors of Fauvism. Her images much like Frida Kahlo’s show the strength and poetic gestures of women being woman. Through art expressing the concepts of feminism, celebrating the strong female image without extinguishing our beauty. She also worked in the disciplines of sculpture, watercolor and print making. In each she pursued the adage Finding oneself through our forefathers, yet not forgetting oneself in the past. So, I pose this pondering to you: how do you use your past without getting tethered to it?

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

Nina

Aries

Three of Wands- This week planning and preparation are the forces to work with. Spend Sunday looking at the steps that need to be done for a project in the future. The rest of the week set about working setting up and gather the materials so those steps can begin.

Taurus

Two of Cups – The Muse of Relationships is here to help you work on intimacy in yours. Take time this week to put energy into your close relationships. The challenge is you must also ask for equity from your partners. As you fill their cup so should they fill yours.

Gemini

Three of Cups – The Muse of Friendship is here to remind you that you need a solid hang with your friends. Your emotional cup needs spilling and filling. So, crying with grief or laughter is the prescription your heart requires, and only do it around those you can be vulnerable with.

Cancer

*Moon – Use this week’s full moon energy to its fullest. Dive deep into your shadow self and lovingly cajole some of your monsters/protectors to vacate your subconscious or begin metamorphosing into champions of the light. Remember, be kind to both yourself and them for neither of you like to be sternly confronted or pushed.

Leo

Queen of Swords – The Muse of Details is here to help you. By drilling down and focus on the details you can create enough energy to push through any inertia or apathy. One metaphorical or literal exercise is to clean your sink, groat in your shower, or the edge of baseboards with a toothbrush. Before you know it, you will bring out the bigger tools and clean the whole bathroom. By attacking one small to-do, it will start the domino effect needed to help you gain momentum to do more.

Virgo

King of Swords – The Muse of Long-term planning is here. This week is best to deal wit looking at the big picture of the whys. Take time to make sure what you are planning is still consistent with what you are wanting. Then spend time planning the how and when before working on the who and what.

Libra

*Chariot – The Muse of Momentum has come to help. The only problem she has the metaphorical gas but no car or plan. That is up to you to find. The best way to use this energy wisely is plot your course before you move, or you will be driving in circles all week.

Scorpio

*Sun– The Muse of Optimism and Success is here to shine on all the wonderful things and opportunities that are awaiting you, if you are wanting them. Life is on the path of getting a whole lot better, your work is to allow yourself to glow and grow.

Sagittarius

Three of Swords – The Muse this week reminds us with ever failure or loss comes a lesson, enhancing your resilience and sharpening your skills. There are messages in your mistakes, sadness, or pain. Do not turn away from these for there is a gem of truth and healing in each.

Capricorn

Page of Wands– The Muse of Artistic Experimentation has come to break you out of some restraint or inertia. Innovation is born out of trial and error. Try new recipes, combine new mediums, color outside the lines. The more you allow yourself the freedom to dabble with your mistakes the more you will revolutionize your paradigms.

Aquarius

*Empress and Emperor– The Muse of Creation is here with her companion the Muse of Building. So you can choose create things out of what seemingly is nothing or build on what is already there. It is a great week to start projects or drill down or getting a project to the next level. Either way this week is about using these energies for formation, moving forward and growing outward.

Pisces

Death – This Muse is here to aid you in letting go of something to enable growth this week. Something on your lists of to-dos or wants is no longer serving what the new you needs. So, reexamine your desires something is not working and needs to be chucked. This release allows new things you cannot even fathom the space to flourish.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of March 14, 2021

March 14, 2021 Nina

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 experiment. Leave 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.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of March 7, 2021

March 7, 2021 Nina

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 13^th great day for daydreaming.

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

Nina

Aries

*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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*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

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

*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.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Feb 14, 2021

February 14, 2021 Nina

Happy Love day! Single or Partnered this day is meant to celebrate Love. Love is desperately need in this world right now. Self – Love as well as Love for Gaia and all her inhabitants. When you step back, it’s pretty magical and amazing.

Onto the planets – Almost all of 2021 (except for mid-August to September) Saturn and Uranus are challenging each other. However, on February 17^th, the first of three, Saturn is exactly square with Uranus. This is boundary loving Saturn challenging freedom loving Uranus. But the intriguing thing is Saturn is in progressive Aquarius and Uranus is in conservative Taurus.

What this means is all of 2021 society as a whole and personally if it effects your natal chart will be dealing with testing our need to be free and innovative versus our habits, structures, and stability. Ideally the best way to work with this energy is striking a balance between the old structures and the new innovations. Setbacks are usually temporary and lead to new creative paths if you do not fall prey to frustration. This year is not about revolution but reinvention. Also, Mercury is still in retrograde until February 18^th, so continued to Review, Reflect and Revise until then.

Now to this week’s artist, Brooke Didonato (@brookedidonato). Didonato portraits feel incredible relevant as we deal with being homebound as a collective, and the push and pull of freedom and stability. Her art is whimsical vignettes of self-exploration in the spaces we live and in our intimate relationships. She has her viewers pondering about the trappings of societal self in our personal spaces as well as the entangling though life giving elements of our intimate relationships.

We spent 2020 facing who we are in a more intimate world. We cannot travel, party, or socialize to escape ourselves. In fact, many of us brought our outer world to our intimate space. These interactions hopefully made you more aware of what makes you tick or have ticks. Whether you have mastered baking or woodcraft, or now cannot eat another loaf of bread and have a partial constructed table. This year has been a lesson on learning what our inner boundaries, needs and wants. Where either we have run up against or finally feel comfortable in our nests.

Light and Love

Nina

P.S. Signs with an * it is 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

Four of Swords – Your well is near empty and you are not realizing it. This week you need rest and relaxation. Your muse advises you to pour a bath or a beer and listen to some soothing music. Take time this week to tune out, so you can tune in with more ease.

*Taurus

Judgment – The Muse of Metamorphosis has come to help you with your itch for planting/harvesting off season. She advises there is no time like the present to start this change. However, this transformation takes time, for there is an internal transformation that needs to happen first. Find moments where you can spend time with your “pupa.” Ask it what new innovated form it wants to transform into. How can you create a “you” or project that tells a new story, modernizes the world, lives a new life? Patience is key this week. Motto: Change happens from the inside out.

Gemini

Ace of Wands – The Muse of Inspiration is here. You can start any project this week especially creative ones. Inspiration will gush if you can get yourself to sit down and let it flow. Think, color and/or dance outside the box this week to connect with this muse.

Cancer

Ten of Wands – How much responsibility are you carrying? The Muse of Burdens is here to help you with that load. She advises to put down at least three items on your list and leave them for next week. Prioritize the rest, and lastly do one thing to completion. Unless you hit a roadblock, then put that item last on your to-do list. You will find that the tasks you let go might be picked up by someone else or lose their urgency.

Leo

Three of Coins – Last week the Muse of Healing and Hope proved you some easter eggs of positivity. They showed you the world is not totally lost, and you are not broken, a misfit or “an ugly duckling.” This healing vibe continues this week with the Muse of Foundations. Take this week to still re-coup but this energy also nudges you to feather your nest and set of some foundational work to maintain your health and heart. Physically this means tend to your body like sorting out your diet/exercise, emotionally this could look like re-establish connections with friends and mentally creating space and time to rejuvenate.

Virgo

King of Swords – The Muse of Long-term planning is here with calendar in hand. Take this week to do a check in with your plan for a year, 3 years, and 5 years from now. Is what you doing today setting you up for where and who you want to be in 2026?

Libra

Queen of Coins – The Muse of Lavishness is here. Lavish is defined as to bestow in great amounts. This Muse reminds you that life is meant to be lived with zest. This week make sure you indulge all your senses. Your motto: Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death! So c’mon live! Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame

Scorpio

Page of Wands – This week the muse of innovation is peeking over your shoulder egging you on to be more you. To let your freak flag fly without censorship or guilty. She reminds you that you are unique, and that uniqueness is need on Earth at present. The World is creating new structures this year, this week it is vital you are part of that change.

Sagittarius

Ten of Swords – This week can be filled with nastiness, roadblocks, and failings. The key to navigate this energy is to listen to your intuition. If it is hard to get out the door, wait 15 minutes before leaving. You feel the back of your neck hair’s raise up, don’t’ go down that street. Or people are being rude, walk away. Think of these incursions as a boot camp for intuitive thought.

Capricorn

Five of Coins – This week’s energy could have you at a loss. This can be a literal loss – like you cannot find your keys or you lose money, or it can be a metaphysical loss. Either way the challenge is not to make it any loss an existential crisis. Think of this more as a short lived pause and an exercise on asking for help. Whether that help comes from outside or inside it will decrease the struggle if you ask for it.

*Aquarius

Emperor– Your second higher Arcane card for your birth year. The first was the Muse of Temptation testing your integrity and how you define yourself. This correlates with Jupiter- planet of expansion and Saturn planet of structures interacting with your sun pretty much all year. Think of it like your final exams for old structures and constructs – things you have already experienced but now are being tested on what you have learned. Once you finish you can innovate into your next reincarnation with the Muse of Building and Expanding. This second energy supports construction in the coming year. The key to this energy is to have a good blueprint and budget for what you want to build. Innovation grounded in reality.

*Pisces

Death – Last week the Muse of Awakenings wanted to image your goals and self going forward. The challenge was not focusing solely on the material plane wants, but what you want to metamorphize into. She advised getting in touch with your spirit guide/animal and having a conversation on transformation. Or creating a vison board composed of only colors and feelings. Luckily, you can continue that exercise to support your first energy for this birth year – the Muse of Organic Change. This year your Muses want you to start creating elements for goals/life/persona that you are metaphorizing in. The keys to working with this energy are letting go of what is not working, planting seeds to what you want to happen, and then having the patience and tenacity of gardener. This year is about being in tune with and working with natural cycles and seasons to make

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of Jan 31, 2021

January 31, 2021 Nina

The planets: Just a heads-up Mercury is retrograde until February 18^th. People are often fearful of this planet’s retrograde period. Though it is not the best time to sign contracts, buy things that have electronic components or start something new. And we need to be careful how we communicate and timing in general. This is a great time to Review, Reflect and Revise.

Now to this week’s artist, Shelley Muzylowski. Muzylowski is a glass artist. You would not know it from her pieces for they look like they are sculpted in clay instead of molten glass and fire. The movement of her work, the emotions they convey, and the depth of color is extraordinary. Muzylowski subjects are animals. The viewer can see she pulls inspiration from a wide variety of cultures, history, and art mediums. Though realistic in form her work seems to connect to the spiritual realm. They are creations of myth, magic, and storytelling.

To genuinely appreciate this art form. There is a show on Netflix called Blown Away. It will show you how much physical work in combination with artistry that this art form requires. Most glassblowers have to do their work with assistants. To obtain this level of art the artists and assistants must be in sync. Dependent on precise communication while also aware of each other’s nuances, it is like a dance. This art form reminds us that we do not do our work alone. We rely on others to help us create, live, and express our stories.

Light and Love

Nina

*Aries

Justice – Justice is defined as just behavior or treatment. Someone is not aligned with their integrity. The challenge is this could also include you. Use Mercury’s retro-energy to review how you are treating people as well as how you are being treated. Take this week to make sure you are aligned with your truth and is it holistically fair before you sentence or censor others… or yourself.

Taurus

Two of Coins – Last week, The Muse of Integrity asked you to look for imbalance picking only two issues to rebalance. You get another week to work on this. However, if you now can confidently balance those two issues, you can add more. This energy advises to add one at a time. And if something feels off or you drop the ball, you have taken on one too many. Subtract and try again.

Gemini

Ace of Swords – Of course you Gemini’s can navigate this Mercury retrograde and start something new. The challenge is to make sure this new idea is an innovation and not a repeat of old thought patterns dressed in new clothes. The key is this aligns with a new emerging truth. So supple thinking is required.

Cancer

Queen of Wands – Last week the muses had you tying up loose ends. Now, The Muse of Inspiration is here to help you imagine and innovate what is next. This week commune with the ethers and nature to clear your mind and connect with the conduit of the divine. Look for synchronicities and serendipitous to help you find the “easter eggs.”

Leo

Knight of Swords – This week you will need to slow your roll. The energy around you is ginchy. This is that feeling when you are tired but also feel as if you should run or you are easily agitated. So, the best course is to slow down, take deep breathes and be aware of your surroundings before leaping. And as always with this energy on a practical level, watch your appendages and wear comfortable shoes. This energy tends to have you absent mindedly cut your fingers, twist your ankles, and stub your toes.

Virgo

Seven of Coins– This week is all about getting things done. It is a great week to check things off your to-do list, tackle that pile of paperwork, get your taxes done early, clean your inbox, etc.… Yes, this is the week to get up early and work. If you do this, the fruits of your labor will be bountiful. Not to mention raise your energy level and mental state.

Libra

Knight of Coins – The Muse of Pace is here. She comes when you are not in sync with how you like to work. There is something off kilter that is interfering with your flow. Are you getting enough sleep? Eating well? Moving enough or too much? Is your desk unorganized? Is your chair making your back hurt? This is the week to fix your material plane to help you mental and emotional one.

Scorpio

Six of Swords – The Muse of Transitions is knocking. She is inviting you on a cerebral trip, a step up and out in thinking. Certain thought patterns need to transmute, and in doing so you will find that some thought patterns are now obsolete. This is a time to simplify and begin again.

Sagittarius

Six of Wands – This is a good week. Small jewels of luck and synchronicities line up for you. Pay attention to these gems of inspiration, they are pats on the backs from the universe. Telling you that you are doing good in the areas where you find these small treasures.

Capricorn

Two of Swords – The energy this week is about making decisions; however, there is a twist. The decision is not as important as the path this decision has you taking. This muse asks you to tune into your heart and your truths. Making sure the route you take to your goals aligns with how you want to feel and your integrity.

Aquarius

King of Coins – I hope you rested last week because its back to work. Time to put energy into your material plane ie: work, home, garden. This muse is here to help you build whatever you want short or long term, and aids those projects to increase your future abundance. However, if you find a block, then it is not the time to force a project forward. This energy paves paths of ease for some work and puts up walls for things that are not timed correctly.

Pisces

Four of Wands – The Muse of the Hearth and Home has come to hang. This is a great week to put time into your home and family (adopted or born with). Make your abode more comfortable and then bring out the board games and hot chocolate. Connect anyway you can to your inner community and solidify the foundation of your relationships with care and comfort.

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