Happy Gregorian New Year!
The artist highlighted this tarotart-cast is Zarina. She uses paper as her main medium. She likened it to skin: “It can be stained, pierced and molded and it still has the capability of breathing and aging. It has a fragility and resilience.” She used this pulpy instrument to express her travels through life. Zarina traveled around the world and lived in Aligarh, Bangkok, Delhi, Paris, Bonn, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York and London. These movements became her art – an exploration/understanding of the concepts of home, displacement, borders, journey, and memory. She states: “I do not feel at home anywhere, but the idea of home follows me wherever I go. In dreams and on sleepless nights, the fragrance of the garden, image of the sky, and sound of language returns. I go back to the roads I have crossed many times. They are my companions and my solace.”
Your pondering: What is home to you? What memories tie you to your understanding of home?
Solar System highlights
We begin with the Moon in Pisces – great for dreaming on what to conjure for 2025. Then it moves into Aries – start something. On Wednesday it moves into Taurus – supplies energy to what you focus on. Then on Friday it moves into Gemini – hang out with friends and family. On Sunday the 12th it moves into Cancer and it’s a full moon so self-care and a slow start to the week. Then into Leo – work on making yourself and others shine. And lastly for the weekend the lunation moves into Virgo – you can finally spend time cleaning and sorting the odds and ends of 2024.
Mercury is still in Sagittarius until January 8th, 2025. So, we can keep exploring big ideas, truth seeking and growth in communication. The challenge is still being blunt or soapboxing. Then Mercury moves into Capricorn until January 26th, having us working on being efficient and succent with our conversation. Though be careful about coming off as too bossy or harsh. Motto: “I know things, but I don’t know everything.” Mars is retrograding again into Cancer until February 23rd, 2025. So once again action moves sideways not in a straight line. So, it will feel like a very slow start to 2025.
Venus is now in Pisces until Feb 3rd. This aspect is lovely – a dreamy haze. Though be careful with this slow start that you don’t just daydream the month away. There still is action needed but it is an meandering organic evolution of your concepts of beauty and harmony. And Venus will retrograde back into Pisces in the spring. So don’t stress, once things get moving you will have a second chance to come back to this growth.
Our longer aspects: Jupiter, the planet of abundance and growth, is in Gemini until June of 2025. This placement is here to help us work with opportunities to grow and succeed through intellectual, verbal, and written pursuits. However, we must also watch its challenging aspects: not following through, gossip, too much information and fickleness. Saturn is in Pisces until February 2026 teaching us how to be more fluid and inclusive in our structures. And lastly Pluto in Aquarius is still feeling very new. So is you are feeling wobbly, remember to take things slowly. We have lots of time with this aspect.
EXTRA
** Signs with an * it is a big week for you. Capricorn this is a perfect time to get an Astrological Tarot Reading for your coming year. And Cancer it is your halfway mark for your birth year, so if you need a Planetary Reading for a check in, now is the time.
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May light be on you, around you, and within you.
Nina
Aries
*Star – What a way to begin the year with the Muse of Hope. This muse would like you to wish upon a star. Ponder your hopes and dreams. Are your choices set up for healing? What can you do to bring more flow into your life without excess stress? She also advises slowing down. This is not a time to jump into anything.
Taurus
Eight of Fire – The Muse of Messages comes bearing information from a variety of sources. These messages are for you or can be passed on to another that may need a boost. And you can ask for information from this muse too. Just write or say it out loud and information with start coming in. There are always gifts in this energy, so put on your bunny ears and start listening.
Gemini
Five of Air – The Muse of Ego is hanging out with you the next two weeks. Fives are omens of chaos, and this one is chaos created by ego. Whether that is your ego or someone else’s, this is not a time to prove you are right or they are wrong. The challenge is just sticking to the facts and moving on if you hit a brick wall. Remember Mars is in Cancer and retrograde, so things move more sideways then straightforward. This is an opportunity to find ways around instead of through.
Cancerian
Mind of Fire – The Muse of Joie de vivre (exuberant enjoyment of life) would like you to focus on what makes you zing, love, laugh, smile…. The muses would like you to create space for the joy to enter. The challenge may be feeling as if you don’t deserve it or making time for what you consider self-indulgence. But the muse reminds you that one of your gifts is if you are truly fired up that fire spreads. So, the more you zing the more your environment will follow suit.
Leo
*Star – So you all and Aries are vibing the same energy. You are also being visited by the Muse of Hope. This muse would like you to wish upon a star. Spend this time pondering your hopes and dreams. She asks, are your choices set up for healing? What can you do to bring more flow into your life without excess stress? And an added element – you need to make sure your home has a healing element to it as much as your actions.
Virgo
*Lovers – The Muse of Relationships is your partner for the beginning of 2025. This muse challenges you to call-in the people you need to help you accomplish what you want to do. Now I know you all can be uber practical but also think about traveling partners, gaming companions, people or animal companions to have fun with. This is about calling in support and fun.
Libra
Ace of Air – The Muse of Thought is here to start off 2025. She asks you to ponder what one thought do you need to change. And by doing this work you have the potential to change your whole way of decision making. For example: You say you are not smart enough – switch it to I am exactly the person to solve this problem. Or I don’t have enough money – switch to I always have enough to survive but now I want to have enough to feel safe. Think about how to switch poverty or a “less than” mind set to abundance and can-do.
Scorpio
*Death – Nothing like starting out the year with a life-muse (a muse you work with your whole life). The Muse of Organic Change is asking you to start off 2025 with a bit of Swedish Death cleaning. It’s not as bad as it sounds -just a mind-set of decluttering your life so more can grow into it. Time to let things go.
Sagittarius
Ten of Water – What a great way to start off 2025 with the Muse of Bliss by your side. This muse would like you to imagine what your world would look like if everything just worked out. She would like you to take this outlook to start your year. Tens signify completion. And this energy is about completion in the emotional realm. This is a moment to end things that do not work for your heart and prep the ground for new emotionally positive events to happen.
Capricorn
Ace of Fire – Woot, what great energy for the new year. All Aces signify new beginnings, and this energy is around creativity and spirituality. The muses would like you to embark on a quest of spirit, vitality and creation. They ask questions like: what is creativity without social bounds? What is your soul curious about? What energizes your body? This energy is not about doing but about growing. And the muses suggest thinking more along a tree’s timeline then daylilies.
Aquarius
*Wheel – The Muse of Surprises is your companion for the beginning of 2025. She challenges you to go with the flow. Take opportunities as they show up. Work on being spontaneous. This is not a time to push through or make things happen. The world has its own agenda and wants you to loosen up and roll with the surprises. If you do, you will end up in a better place then where you started.
Pisces
*Empress – To start 2025 the Muse of Sensuality would like you to work on yours. Sensuality in the sense of – the condition of being pleasing or fulfilling to the senses. And this muse challenges you to indulge your senses and by doing so you will find areas you need to grow in. Especially indulging in the sense you work with the least. Like if you don’t normal work with your taste – go on a quest to find the best pie. See this Gretchen Rubin video about happiness science and senses. (You can take her quiz too, but she wants your email).
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