To Do list №3 Feb 2020
February 1st, 2020
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Aquarius Season
2020
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On January 20th we welcome in the season of Aquarius, which is represented by the water bearer. It is the gift of this water bearer to clear the pain body of Mother Earth using the healing powers of water. She has the ability to take all the emotions of planet earth, and release them, transmute them, and elevate them to higher levels of consciousness. Aquarian energy is healing and energizing, and lifts the veil of heavy emotions so we can be inspired to view the world from a different lens.
As we move out of the heaviness of earth sign Capricorn and into the lightness of the air sign Aquarius, we are going to feel freer and encouraged to think outside the box and with more imagination.
Capricorn season wanted us to take practical steps, get clear with our goals and begin taking responsibility for them. During Capricorn season we paved the path, but now, in Aquarius season, we can stray from our path a little, venture out there and see what new inspiration awaits for us!
We have our foundation, and now we can spread our wings! We can express ourselves, we can leave the stability of the path, knowing we can always return to it later if need be.
We are free to travel and explore; we are free to open up to the higher realms of our imagination.
Our mind is a powerful tool under Aquarius season and we can take all the practical goal setting we have been building since the start of the year and use that momentum to go after what we want.
Aquarius is the 11th sign of the zodiac, and manifesting our wishes and going after our goals is also going to feel easier under this number 11 energy.
Aquarius energy encourages us to go for what we want and to aim high in order to live the life that we desire. It encourages us to think bigger and to express our true selves out into the world."- Forever Conscious
Sometimes we just need a little extra inspiration to get us through the month. Here are some things to light your fire. I'd love to hear about your own favorite things you think are worth recommending! Write an email or DM to info@selkiecollection.com or tag us on instagram!
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Maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been given, and accessorize the outfit we got."
OK, so we've seen it over and over again, but at the beginning of each year there is always this need to re visit Carrie. While the show may be out dated, it's still so inspiring for outfits, relationships and advice. I like to start with 20 something girls- my favourite episode.
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I am so excited this book is finally here!! RAVE reviews, an instant NY time best seller, we should all buy it!
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. A mother to two small girls, she started out as a blogger and has quickly built herself into a confidence-driven brand. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains’ toddler one night. Seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, a security guard at their local high-end supermarket accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make it right.
But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix’s desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix’s past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other.
With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone “family,” the complicated reality of being a grown up, and the consequences of doing the right thing for the wrong reason. (less)
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OK, so listening to a video game soundtrack sounds a bit insane, but if you played Ecco, or even if you didn't, you will revel in this gorgeous 90's electronic album. It's soothing and brings a subconscious good feeling as you work. Since it's Aquarius season, the water bearer, I thought it only appropriate to have some ocean sounds on this list.
LISTEN HERE
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“I am outlandishly famous,” Sam Gilliam says on a recent afternoon as he walks across his sunlit studio in the District’s Brightwood Park.
He’s joking, though a little swagger would be understandable at the moment. At 82, Gilliam is coming off the opening of a critically acclaimed exhibition in Los Angeles. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MOMA recently acquired works of his. Come September, the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culturewill unveil a sprawling piece, 28-feet-long, that is one of the highest-profile commissions of his career.
This artistic rebirth has caught even those closest to him by surprise. Just a few years ago, Gilliam was unable to work or really function at all. Then a new set of doctors, prodded by his family, determined that what ailed the artist wasn’t his health but overzealous attempts to manage it. Changes were made, medications dropped, and recovery came quickly." Gilliam is not easy to categorize. His work has been acquired by some of the world’s most important contemporary art collectors, but he’s not a household name. He’s a black artist who came of age during the civil rights movement, and he has a major piece going into the nation’s first federally owned museum devoted to African American culture. Yet he’s never been one for marches or political protests. If anything, he’s fought hard to keep his work from being defined by race.
He is inspired by everything, his own history, the books he reads, the lifetime of traveling and the examples set by artists who came before. A conversation with Gilliam darts across disciplines, continents and time. He talks of the Sistine Chapel, Monet’s water lilies and Countee Cullen, whose poem “Yet Do I Marvel” provided the title of the new piece for the national African American museum.
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