The artist this week is Agnus Noyes Goodsir. After World War I an art and cultural explosion was happening in Paris and London and many Australian artists flocked there. Agnus was among this migration. There she met “Cherry” who became her model and lover. Though her sexuality and painting style at the time were not publicized in Australia, she was held in high esteem by the French. She was invited and became a member of Salon Nationale des Beaux-Arts. An annual exhibition of French artists (and now foreign artists) since 1909. Sadly, she was largely forgotten until in the 1990’s. Goodsir was reintroduced to Australia and the world by the director of Victoria’s Bendigo Art Gallery.
Above, The Parisienne, is a perfect example of the start of the movement of the “modern women”. The model clothed in masculine attire, short hair, and a cigarette in her hand accentuated the lifestyle that Goodsir had fled to Paris to find. The face is shadowed adding to the ambiguity of gender but also intrigues and pulls the viewer into the character and life of this kind of person.
At the same time does it hint that Goodsir’s true self and work was still in the shadows? Was the choice of the flat tonal background in contrast to the bold contours of the clothing emphasizing stepping out of the banal norm into a stronger cheekier life of a modern woman? Does it suggest that what a woman wears on the outside still defines her? Or is this Agnus just being a realistic painter. This is an amazing thing about art, we as a viewer can find as much insight to ourselves as the artist does in making the piece.
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
Three of Wands – Your to-do list is long to get from here to there, and this week you are advised to be very conscious of the concept of contingences. There is a domino effect where you do not have totally control of all the pieces. The challenge is having faith that the Universe is working with you behind the scenes while you plan.
Taurus
Eight of Pentacles – This is a great week to get your hands dirty. You have the energy to persist and preserve through the most challenging projects. The challenge with this energy is that it can only be directed at things and ventures already in motion, that you love the work, or it needs your unique talents. This is not a week to start new projects or do something outside of your skillset. Unless you want to invite in strain and resistance.
Gemini
Ace of Wands – Last week’s energy was about the creative act of bring an idea down and materialize it. Asking you about your intentions and the steps to manifest them. This week’s energy flow has less intensity but with the same focus of creation. So, continue to manifest whether big or small acts, and do so with the highest intention and integrity. However, if you feel blocked the key is to immerse yourself in what inspires you. This will re-lit your fires.
Cancer
*Death – The energy this week is about letting go of the old and sloughing of the things that no longer work for you. This releasing generates the fodder for new beginnings. The challenge is seeing the past is in the past and the present and future is in you. Remember a burial ground and a planting ground look the same and the processes are intertwined.
Leo
Nine of Wands – The last two weeks beamed the energies assigned to Leos. Let us review. They wanted you to allow three paradoxes into your personal constructs. 1) Your strength comes from dealing with your weakness. 2) Your self-doubt comes from trying to control things that cannot be tamed. 3) Your insecurity is also the root of your compassion. And once these constructs are in place, work on harnessing your power and applying outward to the correct degree where you sustain growth – not burn it all down. This week the energy has you setting up some borders so you can finish up loose ends of the past two weeks, so you can begin focusing on the future. Be aware, this might be the last week to finish off the past year before next year’s energies start pushing you forward.
Virgo
Two of Cups – Last week’s energy was hard, but this week has a lower intensity and is filled with love. Last week asked what needs to shift externally and internally to make a major outer-life change happen? Remember this is a process of a modernization of self, but you must do it a brick at a time. This week’s energy prompts you that first brick is love. What are the qualities that you want in a partner, and what do you need to adjust to become a partner to that kind of person? If you are in a relationship, reconnect with your chosen loved ones. Making sure you are open to the love they give you, as well as, showing the love you have for them. True partnership is long termed balanced acts of giving and receiving.
Libra
Five of Cups – Chaos of emotions float around you this week. The challenge with this energy is keeping positive while processing the negative with compassion. This energy reminds you not to run away from joy or sorrow; both are part of life. And it also reminds that only by truly feeling and processing your emotions can you use them for good in the future.
Scorpio
Ten of Cups – Yeah, this week should feel a lot lighter than last week. The clouds have parted. This energy is pushing you to seek your community, bathe in love and connection. You are the water signs most social and need contact. Even if you cannot do it physically. Time to spread and receive some love in any way you can.
Sagittarius
King of Coins – Last week’s energy endorsed you enacting the usefulness of inertia. Using or creating moments of pause for reflection, letting go of old patterns, and making way for the new ideas that only arises from silence. This week the energy is about grounding yourself. Where last week action happened in the ether and the mind and was great for inspiration. This week you need to burrow down into the earth hashing out those inspirations into actual labor-intensive work.
Capricorn
Ace of Swords – This week’s energy bolsters logic and reasoning. Divine inspiration comes if you focus on looking at the details in a variety of configurations. It is not that this shuffling of pieces finds the answer, but the process helps you find solutions even in to hardest of puzzles. Like fitting a square peg into a circular hole.
Aquarius
Four of Pentacles – Last week your goal was setting aside time to process what this past month or six have been about. Processing your experiences helps you gather your experiential knowledge. Hopefully, you had time to do this, for this process of standing back helps you see your authentic path and how to walk it. The energy this week focuses on your first step – looking at your relationship with money. The challenge is seeing your feeling of safety and having a financial back-up are interconnected. Do you have the resources set aside to feel secure? If not save this week, and if so, you can let go of your purse strings and give yourself a gift for taking care of you.
Pisces
*Strength – The energy this week focuses on your inner strength. Take time to ground and deepen your connection to how strong you really are. You are courageous, strong, and fierce. In the face of these uncertainty times, see that you are resilient. This week’s events show you that whether life flows to you calm waters or gale force storms, you got this. The challenge is seeing the tiger’s eye in the mirror no matter the circumstance.
Ten of Cups – Last week’s energy asked you is your life-path aligning with your integrity and your goals for the year 2021. That challenge is still on, but this week’s vibe wants you to add an extra ingredient: bliss. Somehow you have disconnected or become dysfunctional with pleasure. Pleasure is defined as a feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment. Your challenge is to adjust your plans, so they integrally aligned with you. The test is you find yourself enjoying the process, satiated by the outcome, and finding your bliss in the mix.
Queen 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.
Eight 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.
Queen 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.
en 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.
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.
*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.
*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.
*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.
*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.
Two 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.
Eight of Coins– This week is all about work. You got skills and you need to use them. So, now is the time to get things done. The challenge is being humble enough to know you always have something more to learn
Two of Cups – It is all about partnerships this week. This time holds possibilities of unity and connection, but if emotions are not attended to, it can also hold tension and disharmony. Be aware it takes two to tango or waltz. One can lead but the other must agree to follow.
Ten of Cups – This week’s energy is around family bliss. Spend these coming days cultivating harmony and happiness. Find ways to enjoy the company of others, whether that is with a web wine meet up or a virtual game of cards. Companionship is key this week.
*Star – Last week’s energy is about bring the divine down into practical applications. Using your resourcefulness and skills to create action. Now the card of healing joins the mix. For last week’s energy was a mix bag of actions. This week you can step back and see why your creative fires did not light or burn as brightly as you intended. Do not be discouraged. This is part of the process of action you need to learn before your new birth year starts. Understanding and mending is needed as much as action to create a healthier future.
Eight of Swords – Ok week two of moody thoughts and feelings surrounding you. The key to this week’s feeling of being trapped is again around self-acceptance. You are allowed to have feelings, but overthinking those feelings is where the trap gets triggered. Take this time to discern and disengage from the entwinement of your heart and your mind.
*Empress – Creativity is calling to you. But something is holding you back. This week find out how to mother and not smother that creativity. It is natural for you to nurture others but when it comes to yourself you stop. Why? Let loose of the structure and cultivate organic expression.
Ace of Wands – Last week’s energy was about creating new beginnings if you are not reckless or naïve in its undertaking. The energy continues this week. However, so does the energy of distraction. Why are you hesitating on moving to the next level, beginning a new project, or just being creative without any goals? Again, the key and conundrum is around planning. You do have to plan the whole project. This energy is about taking one step at a time and enjoying the process hopefully as much as or more than the result.
Knight of Swords – You are unstoppable this week, and that has two potential outcomes. Either you can impulsively rush in without thinking and either bruise yourself or another. Or you can swoop in with heroic and selfless actions and save the day. The key is thinking before you act.
Four of Coins – Conservation is the energy you will need to work with this week. Your resources are limited, so use them wisely. This isn’t about being miserly but being frugal. Frugal in the sense of simplifying and focusing your energy, within the context of what you feed grows.
Ace of Swords – The energy this week is about breakthroughs. There is clarity in the air which brings new ideas and thoughts into your mix. The challenge is deciding either surfing the chaos like a Zen wave rider or diving into the depths letting the waves roll above the contemplative stillness you have found. The choice is yours.
*Temperance – Last week, it was time to take a bit of control over your destiny by just showing up. The high energy continues this week but with less of a roller coaster feel. This energy asks you what is your purpose? The keys to finding these answers is patience and balance. Your life is complex, so balancing out different aspects and aspirations is important to moving forward in the year to come. Think of your life like a refined meal that has many notes to balance its tastes into a delectable dining experience.
Two of Swords – Decision making time. There is a stalemate that is about to happen but just being decisive about what you want and how you want to feel will avoid later confusion. Do not avoid what you know needs to be done.
King of Swords – See the broader picture of situations and champion those that are being bullied. Watch for people taking advantage of or manipulating those that are more misfortunate around you. You can solve these predicaments as simply as sharing your toilet paper or getting the elder down the street groceries, so they don’t have to go out.
*Death – Another energy packed week. The past couple of weeks have triggered your self-doubt and insecurities. Then the energy shifted trying to guide you towards self and universal compassion, so you could believe in you and the world at large. This week the energy embodies change and transitions. Things need to end so there is room for new projects/ideas/people. Take this time to, figuratively and/or literally, weed and plant anew.
Queen of Pentacles – Last week, the energy surrounding you was materializing the divine. Advising that conjuring for the greater good brings more ease to finding solutions. This energy continues through this week; however, you will have to let go of trying of controlling the entire materialization process. Watch the line between nurturing and smothering people and projects this week. Whatever you create needs to work without your constant guidance and support to succeed and not suck all the energy out of you.
Ace of Pentacles – Opportunities, abundance and prosperity are the energies to work with. This week has the potential of creation in it. Think of this energy like a seed – this is a beginning. What seed will you pick to plant and water as you go into this spring season. What one thing can you hone your focus and energy into?
Ten of Swords – Normally this energy is harsh, but you seem to rise above the morass by getting out of your head and being there for others. This week’s energy of regeneration and recovery lifts you above the banal and the suffering to a place that feels lighter and more hopeful.
Knight of Swords – To be truly courageous and unstoppable it is best to slow down. You can easily be triggered into impulsiveness. So, take a breath and survey your surroundings before you step into any situation this week.
Nine of Pentacles – Last week’s energy was about walking into your destiny. And, the lessons were about when your luck is favorable grab it and when it is unfavorable let it go. While realizing neither outcomes had anything to do with you. This destiny energy continues this week and adds that while things may look advantageous or not, that you need to watch overextending and/or overcompensating. So, take only what you need and let go of what doesn’t work.
Two of Swords – The mist that surrounds you is making decisions hard and/or is adding undue confusion to situations. So come to terms you are at a stalemate this week and it is best just to sit and wait out the bad weather. The fog will lift, and the road will be clear soon. Just not this week.
Two of Pentacles – Take this week’s energy to slow down the spinning plates. This is a time to look at what overwhelms you and where you are over committed. You have the time to contemplate what are your true priorities and where can you be flexible in your commitments. Life is a balancing act, and this is a good week to regain some of your balance and dexterity.
Four of Cups – Meditation and retreat are key elements to your week. And the atomic structure of this energy lies within the concepts of apathy and acceptance. How do you allow acceptance into your life without feeling apathetic? Contemplating on that goatfish will lead to avenues of ease.
*High Priestess – Listening to your intuition is vital this week. However, figure out what your subconscious is trying to convey is hard to hear through all the static of everyday life. So, find moments of silence, synchronicities and moon beams to guide you to opportunities and solutions that are hidden in the light of day. For example: There is a new Moon in Aries March 24; it’s a great day to start things.
Three of Cups – The energy this week is about independence. Your close ones and friends are important, but it must be balanced with some alone time. And this energy whether with friends or alone is best utilized doing the activities you love to do. This week is about filling your emotional cup.
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