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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of August 30, 2020

August 30, 2020 Nina

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

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

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

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

Nina

Aries

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

Taurus

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

Gemini

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

Cancer

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

Leo

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

Virgo

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

Libra

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

Scorpio

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

Sagittarius

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

Capricorn

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

Aquarius

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

Pisces

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

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of August 9, 2020

August 9, 2020 Nina

The artist this week is Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Her work is about occupying two worlds both her native Nigeria and America. Njideka does this though a weaving of her photographs, family photos and pages from popular Nigerian magazines creating a fabric like pattern throughout her work. Her process is a layering of collage, photo transfer, fabric, acrylic paint, charcoal, and colored pencil. This give her pieces a duality of “busy” with the patterns and serene with her choice of compositions of models and motifs.

This complexity and layering of culture are mimicked in her native land of Nigeria and the place she now lives, America. Both are multicultural nations trying to find a cohesion to create a country. Nigeria is a multinational state that is inhabited by 250 ethnic groups with over 500 distinct languages all identifying with a wide variety of cultures. The composition of American population is also is represented by almost every country in the world. So, in her work she takes the viewer into layered landscape exploring her personal journey in inhabiting and defining what is it to be a Nigerian who lives in America.

Are we a melting pot or a tossed salad? This has been a debate since the 1960’s. The melting pot metaphor used by Emerson was the concept of the fusing process of the European immigrant to melt down their heritage and reforming into a new American. The con to this outlook is the lose of the immigrant’s individuality. Then in the 1960’s the idea of multiculturism took hold. This is the concept that we are a tossed salad holding on to our individual cultures with the law and the market being the dressing that binds us. The con for this approach is that America as a whole loses its culture of what defines us as an American citizen and what we as a country represent. This debate rings even truer today. Maybe we need to re-examine our metaphor like Crosby does with her art. Maybe we are a collage of cultures layered to form a single motif. So as with Crosby’s work, when we step into look at America closely, we can see each detail and as we step back, we see us a cohesive and magnificent work of art.

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

Njideka Akunyili Crosby Four of Wands – Home is where the flow is this week. Time to give your house some loving, and you will get it back four-fold. Things like deep clean that bathroom, lawn maintenance, adding plants, feng shui your house, decluttering your drawers or any activity to your home that creates more comfort and ease. This homey attention will make the rest of your life flow better.

Taurus

Ten of Swords – This week is about hurt from outside sources and learning how to deal with them. First lesson is you learning to stop listening to your ego over your intuition and internal integrity. A possible reason for outside sources sharp vibes is that you have played either martyr or savior instead of seeing yourself as one of them. Second lesson, these outside people are having problems of their own. And yes, their ugliness may squirt on you, but the challenge is not let muscle memory set in with this illusion of rejection or hurt. Take this time to close the laceration(s) and either prepare to start anew with these outside people or forces, or if need be walk away as long as you do not do it from the place of the wounded.

Gemini

Nine of Cups – Last week the forces where calling you to make choices. You get more time do so with this energy’s help. This muse reminds you that you do not need to be totally “there” to know that you are worthy of this change. So, it asks you are you dreaming big enough? Would the theme of these choices illuminate you if the journey got dark? Do these choices create a sense of ease in your life? And the first choice should be that you accept contentment over ecstasy because your gifts are on their way.

Cancer

*Emperor – The vibe this week is about building your material plane, protecting and feeding your goals. This is a great week to implement ideas into your workflow, to bring your business or work to the next level. The challenge is to not only promote and uplift yourself but also to uplift others in the process. Look to benefiting the whole not just the individual. Be a steward of good.

Leo

Four of Swords – The energy this week mid-birthday month is exploring your realms of relaxation. The duality of Leo is you have lots of energy, but also like a lion enjoy laying around soaking in the “act” of inertia. Your challenge is exploring all the ways you relax, either active or sloth like, and then how are you going to consistently incorporate this in your life. Your goal is to find time to unwind at the very least four times a month at the best four times a week in the coming year.

Virgo

Njideka Akunyili Crosby *Strength – Ok, time for some beast training this week. What are your monsters? This energy advises to tame these demons you must work with them. There is a mediation that embodies this practice : Feeding your Demons. Another way is to personify your monster into someone or thing you would not normally listen to but can be entertaining at times. (I see my anxiety as Harlequin from Batman.) The challenge is not fighting with your monster or killing it but accepting it and seeing when it is trying to be an ally.

Libra

Ten of Cups – The energy this week is about finding activities that bring you bliss. Connection and love are the keys to finding ways to open your heart. So, this can be simple extended hugs, deep conversations with friends, or having a socially distance beverage with your close ones. However, these are hard times to connect with others. If you are solo, this energy can be tapped into by hugging yourself, holding your own hand or dancing with your favorite YouTube/TikTok video. It sounds strange but since we do not often do it, it tricks the mind that we are connecting with another and turns on our endorphins. So, let the loving commence.

Scorpio

Two of Swords – This is your second two so quick check in with the numerology. Two means balance. Last week was about finding balance from the reality of your present with the plans of where you want to be in the future. This week the challenge is making balanced choices with your head and your heart.

Sagittarius

Ace of Swords – The energy this week is all about learning something new to help you expand your understanding or perspective. The best way to use this energy is in deep conversation, your head in a book, or ears tuned into a new podcast. Your mind needs to be fed new ideas expanding its data and bringing enlightenment for the coming weeks.

Capricorn

*Tower – Every sign is having its turn with the Tower, change that occurs outside of your control. Now is your time to make sure you are contemplating how you are going to rebuild your structure after 2020. Take this week to look at the “cracks” that 2020 has brought on in your life. The important aspect with this inspection is that you do not rebuild with the same fault lines in your foundation. So even though the structures you imagine and are creating look different, make sure you are not building on the same defective footing. This can look as simple as you have become vegetarian but not getting enough protein or you are creating a slower lifestyle but then fill in your schedule.

Aquarius

Ace of Wands – Inspiration continues this week, but this energy has potential for new beginnings to sprout. This is a great week to start any project or go exploring. Your soul is craving passion and newness. Feed the fire.

Pisces

*Wheel – The energy this week is about taking chances to move forward. This year has had its ups and downs, but you must continue to spin the wheel to create fortitudinous change. For the kernels of synchronicity wait undeveloped until they are sought after. Now is the time to move ahead for each step this week leads you to a new era of luck and destiny.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of July 26, 2020

July 26, 2020 Nina

Agnes_Goodsir_The-Parisienne_ — Agnes Goodsir The Parisienne

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.

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.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of July 12, 2020

July 12, 2020 Nina

Arghavan Khosravi was raised in Tehran, Iran. In her art, she weaves historical and pop culture motifs into her personal and political experiences. Khosravi invites the viewer to traverse the threads that connect and possible bind culture to personal identity. She has us pondering how, who and what has helped construct the answer to who am I. Globally we are on seeing where aspects of institutions, historical constructs and political systems are dividing us, frightening us, and hindering our civilized evolution.

Our analysis can be painful in seeing where history and culture has bound our potential, but also productive in the fact that we can break and reweave our systems to become more humanitarian, united, and better humans individually. Khosarvi’s art is vital in this process for seeing cultural influence but also her art has the viewer seeing aspects of themselves in another. She gives us strands to weave a new global perspective where there is no other just us.

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

Eight of Coins – The last three weeks were high energy full of pondering, purpose, and cleansing. This week the energy drops down and becomes more practical. The time is ripe for doing things on the material plane. Focus on one project and take it to completion. The challenge is that you may have to fine tune your skills to complete the project, however that is easily within your reach.

Taurus

Six of Coins – Cause and effect are big aspects of this week. For all the positive you do, positive will return to you three-fold. This however is true for negative energy you send out. The peculiarity of this energy is that the payback comes for seemingly illogical sources. Your motto: The road to success is never a straight-line.

Gemini

Three of Swords – Interesting this is your 3^rd week of threes, so a quick check in with that numerology again. Threes are stability through expansion. First you were advised to reach out to friends to fill your cups. Then you were asked to visualize your future and faith became your stabilizing force. Now you need to heal your heart to stabilize your mind. Take time this week to honor your sorrow while not dwelling in suffering.

Cancer

Nine of Cups – This is your last birth card for the month, and it is a blessing. The past two years the eclipses have been moving and shaking in your sign causing havoc and change. The last energy for your birth month is contentment. So, your challenges for the coming year: build new structures that allow you to do you more authentically, let go of controlling everything by letting the Universe work behind the scenes in obtaining your dreams, and in your plans allowing this new life to bring you contentment.

Leo

*Strength – Strength is your power, your nemesis, and what to ponder as you finish your last week before moving into your birth month. There are paradoxes with your strength you need to be aware of. Your strength comes from dealing with your weakness. Your self-doubt comes from trying to control things that cannot be tamed. Your insecurity is also the root of your compassion. Once you allow these truths into your constructs of self – you will find and tap into your inner strength more easily.

Virgo

Ten of Swords – This week is prickly but is also an ending of a perfidy. You are caring a pain of betrayal and the energy surrounding you is here to help you cleanse it. The challenge with this energy is not to allow the cycle to start again but rising above it. Your motto: When they go low, we go high. Michelle Obama

Libra

*Death – Where last week’s energy was manifestation: a time to build and expand your empire, this week’s energy is very organic and only partial in your control. Continue to put energy in the things you want to move on the material plane, but be aware that somethings are out of your influence. This does not mean that the project you are working on is rotten or erroneous, it is just you cannot control every aspect of it. Do what you can to move things along, but the Universe has the pace in which it will happen. Your motto this week: Go with the flow.

Scorpio

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.

Sagittarius

Knight of Wands – The last couple of weeks your muse asked you to do the work by exploring your physical, mental, or spiritual plane, and enhancing attributes and circumstance that bring you that sense of Ah. This week is more of the same, but it is not all on you. Now your muse is leading you to be in the right place and right mind to do what needs to be done. The challenge is believing that. Your metaphorical motto: Green means go, red means stop, and yellow play it mellow.

Capricorn

Six of Swords – You are moving to the next level this week. It is a small but significant rite of passage. The challenge is simplifying your thoughts to get through this allegorical eye of a needle. Side note: this card also signifies messages when around water. Look for synchronicities when you come across the element or visage of water.

Aquarius

Eight of Swords – Last week, you were asked to look for the keys to enlightenment in the daily simple things – finding the extraordinary in the ordinary. Though you had to pull away from society to do it. This week that space is still needed but do not be entrapped by it. Too much aloneness and/or to far into your thoughts untethers you from reality. Your challenge is finding ways to get out of your thought and its patterns.

Pisces

*Universe – This week’s energy is a paradox wrapped up in enigma. This energy holds infinite growth with stagnation. It achieves evolution with regression. The challenge is not to try and figure it out or control it but ride the quantum wave. If any sign can do it is you my fish-friend.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of July 5, 2020

July 5, 2020 Nina

Barbara Kruger uses contemporary mass media and its strategies to create sexual, social, and political messages. She challenges the viewer to examine stereotypes, classism, gender roles, social relationships, political issues, constructs of power, identity, consumerism, and sexuality. Most of her work consists of black and white photographs overlaid with bold captions. Kruger did the above piece 19 years ago in 1991. Her pieces are even more relevant now, even in the context of race, because she pulls her images from mass media where the lack of POC voice still challenges us as a society.

I normally let the pieces speak for themselves, but I would like to share why I particularly picked the above piece as my hero shot. Yesterday there was a lot of hate rhetoric around the celebration of July 4^th. Though I agree with the anger behind it, I fear we might be losing the hope and sentiment that those 13 colonies fought for, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. I have lived in a place where at the time woman where not allowed to drive or vote. So, when I came back, I had a new respect for America’s quest as a nation.

So, are we still asking these questions Kruger poses? Yes! But we are also in a system where we can and should always ask them. For this questioning helps us in aligning our government and our citizenship with equality and humanity. Just look at what is happening now to freedom of speech in Hong Kong or Russia. Do not let our pride in our concept of America create contempt for our fellow compatriots, the nations within this nation, or the nations that we co-habituate with on Earth. Keep asking these questions of identity, society, who is holding the power, and strive for the truths that are said below. For in a true Democracy the power is with its people.

Below is the preamble to the Declaration of the Independence (with a few words tweaked- which is my unalienable right). Re-read it, for it is still a very powerful statement for a creed on how to live and govern.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men people are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men Humanity, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind humans are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

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

Nina

Aries

*Death – Another high energy week for you. The past couple of weeks’ focuses had you pondering your purpose and aligning your plans of action to that that purpose. However, before you take your steps into this new landscape, the energy this week is wanting you to slough off the old. Do a thorough cleansing of body, mind, and spirit of all that feels dusty and of no use. This can look as easy as cleaning your house and/or doing a full body scrub. Or this can be as challenging as letting go of old habits or mind sets that are no longer relevant or useful.

Taurus

Nine of Wands – The energy this week is perseverance. Make your boundaries strong and follow through on what work needs to get done. This is a great week to complete projects and/or conversations. The challenges with this energy are feeling overwhelmed, hyper-vigilant and/or defensive. You can make a boundary without making it life or death. You can be prepared but you can not control the outcome.

Gemini

Barbara Kruger Your seeing is your believing

Three of Wands – This is your second week of threes, so a quick check in with that numerology. Threes are stability through expansion. Last week you were advised to reach out to friends to fill your cups. This week the focus is expanding your dreams and faith will be its stabilizing force. Things will get better; the universe is working behind the scenes. However, it is up to visualize what you want in the future. This imagining helps the universe include you in the plans.

Cancer

Queen of Wands – This week the energy is giving you a bit of a birth month reminder. You are here for the soul purpose of being you. The energy summons your creativity, self-expression, self-acceptance, and compassion. The challenge is asking: What edges do you want to explore? This is a great week to set those intentions and inspirations for your coming birth year.

Leo

Four of Wands – This week’s energy is designed to connect with home and family. Take this time to give a nod to those family groups that surround you. Also is a great time to find moments where you can nestle into your den and curl up with your favorite form of entertainment and cup of fluid. This is a nesting type of energy use it to acknowledge and hang with your pride.

Virgo

Four of Cups – Use the energy that surrounds you well this week by pondering, meditating, and seeing the bigger picture/purpose/cycles. The challenge is that this energy can also feel like quicksand if you do not tether yourself with hope. If you can see your place in the bigger picture, that the arc of evolution is long and heads towards the positive, then you can use this pause to hone your talent of visualization and creativity while being in the moment of stillness.

Libra

*Emperor – The energy that surrounds you this week is manifestation. This is a great time to build and expand your empire. One challenge is that you need to lead, and therefore you making decisions solo. Thus, making your go-tos of compromise and negotiation nearly impossible. And the other challenge, though for you all might be joy, is your creation must be for the greater good of those around you. Go get things done.

Scorpio

*Justice – This week’s energy has you utilizing the concepts of cause and effect and/or big karmic. Take this week to ponder and plan is your life-path aligning with your integrity and your goals. However, this week is not time for big action. But it is perfect for imagining your choices, what path they will lead you to in 2021, and taking small steps in the now to get closer to your soul path. Side note: For any of you about to do legal stuff or contracts get it ready this week make sure all is in order and works to your goals, so you can jump once Mercury is out of retro on July 12^th.

Sagittarius

*Temperance – Another big energy week for you. Last week your muse asked you to explore the physical, mental, or spiritual plane. This week the energy turns to harmony, balance, and patience. If you can accomplish this Zen like composure you will attract/see meaningful events and people. Enhance attributes and circumstance that bring you that sense of Ah.

Capricorn

Five of Cups – The energy this week can come at you a bit hard and you might just be a bit sensitive to it. The key to this week is to let your emotions out like the rain but look for the silver lining in every cloud. This is not being Polly-anna but a nod to the emotions you are feeling without them sweeping you away.

Aquarius

*Hermit – Deep thoughts are useful this week. Now is the time to process and learn from your experiences since your last birthday. You might have to pull away from the masses to do this kind of work. The keys to enlightenment are in the simple things you do daily. Find the extraordinary in the ordinary. Listen not only to your inner muses but also wise words can come from people passing by. Ears and heart open; mind sharp.

Pisces

Ten of Wands – This week take advantage of the energy of ending cycles. For those items that are no longer of use, let them go. For those items that are too burdensome, delegate them. Simplify so you can focus on what is a priority and move that to completion.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of June 28, 2020

June 28, 2020 Nina

Ingrid Pollard’s work is a case of visual intimacy meeting a panoramic mind. She is a photographer, media artist and researcher. Pollard’s art has the viewer often focuses on a vignette that holds the reverberations of history and the physical/social landscape that history inhabits. You can look at the landscape as a working environment that’s very managed and not natural at all. The very romantic, nostalgic view expresses more about society’s understanding of what’s important, what to preserve. It’s also [connected to] relationships to other landscapes across the sea and how that’s changed in the last 500 years. You’ve got to look at landscape in the wider sense. (from an interview in Frieze, April 4, 2019.)

In these times this view of the wider context is vital if we want to change our intimate exchanges. For systemic change we need to see our history, how we got here, and like Ingrid points out in her work why we kept what we did and do. It will be awkward, but it is essential in seeing the present we must look at bigger picture both longitudinal in the society and culture and latitudinal in time and space.

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

Nina

Aries

*Justice – Another high energy week for you. Last week was about evolution and awakening to your divine nature. Asking the question am I fulfilling my purpose or calling? Hopefully, you have answered that question for this week you are called to align your purpose, integrity and plan your next steps. In essence, wake you that you hold the responsibility for your actions.

Taurus

Seven of Swords – Last week, the energy around you was dripping with creation. And reminding you that with the power of love anything can flourish. The energy has shifted what once was abundant is now slightly off. Pieces of the puzzle feel as if they are missing. Do not look for trickery but be aware that the future is shifting. If you keep to your integrity and calm your emotions, this wobble will pass. You will re-find your path, by creating and moving with small steps.

Gemini

Three of Cups – Take this week to hang with friends. You are needing imbibement in some truth, honesty, and vulnerability that only your soul group can give you. Time to empty and refill your emotional cups and maybe some real cups too.

Cancer

Three of Wands –The energy of crumbling systems is still resonating this week. As you build new structures, boundaries, and schedules to access this next part of your journey, realize things are also working behind the scenes. All the pieces can not be seen or dealt with this week. This is a time to ponder and dream while the future continues in its reconstruction.

Leo

Two of Swords – Indecision and a feeling of being lost surrounds you this week. The key to working with this exercise in free choice is to hone your intuition skills. If you pause, you will feel the strings pulling you to a direction. The challenge is realizing this journey is more about the trip then the destination.

Virgo

Ingrid Pollard Hidden Histories, Heritage Stories

Two of Wands – Now is the time to step out of your past and into your potential. This week’s energy is encouraging you to take a few steps into the future you have been planning and dreaming of. The challenge is actively being present in taking that first step.

Libra

King of Coins – Creating prosperity is a skill this energy is wanting you to practice this week. It is a great time to ie: rework your budget, find ways to increase your credit score, access the wealth you need to live the life you want… Getting a firm foundation around your finances, allows you to start accumulating the material abundance that you require for a comfortable future.

Scorpio

Nine of Swords – Worry and fear add to the stressful energy this week. This can make you vulnerable and might end up with you not getting a good night’s sleep. The skills you need to work on this week are putting your worries to bed before you. A good exercise is writing them all down on paper about an hour before bed and then tuck all but two in. Then ask your subconscious to work on the chosen pair while you sleep. You will be amazed when you wake up your mind often sorts it out while you get a solid night’s sleep.

Sagittarius

*Fool – Your muse this week is the explorer on the physical, mental, or spiritual plane. Time to get in your car or bike and feel the wind whistle past your ears. You need to feel movement and newness. And when you do partake in them your wanderlust and/or stagnation will subside. Take advantage of head in the cloud’s kind of days, for inspiration awaits upon your arrival.

Capricorn

Ace of Cups – The energy this week wants you to find new ways to connect to your emotions. Your emotional depth is found in acts of creation. This energy asks what would your heart want you to start on this week? What can you create that will have your heart figuratively skipping a beat?

Aquarius

Eight of Cups – Simplification and cutting off what is not useful is needed this week. What is not working for you anymore? What steps need to happen for you to heal? After you have dumped the spoiled contents of these cups what will you fill them with? For some of you, you will need to walk away and for others you will need to stand your ground for your emotional well-being. Either way this is a week where the new paradigm is waiting to happen you just need to walk to it unhindered.

Pisces

Nine of Wands – You are almost at the end of a cycle. Take this week to tie up loose ends, follow through and meet your goals. Use this week’s energy to maintain your boundaries so you can check things off your list. The challenge is to not give up; you have the energy and are prepared for this push.

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Tarot and Art Forecast for Week of May 31, 2020

May 31, 2020 Nina

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

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

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

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

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

Nina

Aries

Selma Burke 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.

Taurus

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

Gemini

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

Cancer

Selma Burke 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.

Leo

Selma Burke 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.

Virgo

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

Libra

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

Scorpio

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

Sagittarius

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

Capricorn

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

Aquarius

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

Pisces

Selma Burke 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.

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