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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 10h

Dolly has some really good advice today

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Dolly is a Southern Queen who loves a mud bath 👑

A large dog lying down in the mud in a shady spot

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dolly + Lexi in a rare moment of détente 🐾 😴

A photo of a large dog sleeping next to a small dog with their heads snuggled together. The larger dog’s ear is draped over the small dog’s neck

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Dolly Pawton 🐾 napping with her snout in my shoe 🥹

A photo of a dog sleeping on the floor with her snout in a shoe. Dolly Pawton has learned that shoes aren’t toys… but nobody said they can’t be used as pillows!

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@sheainthecatskills.com & I would love to see you tomorrow (2p Pac, 4p Cen, 5p East) for the next installment of The Symbolic Lab: *And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural.* sheainthecatskills.com/2026-symboli...

A photo of a textured watercolor painting with the a vague sky line and two moons. Handwritten text on one moon reads: “and then remember this: the imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural.”

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Introducing Mx. Dolly Pawton 🐾 This energetic beauty is a ball of joy!

A photo of a dog looking at the camera while sitting. She has soulful eyes and black fur with white spots in her snout, neck and the tips of her back paws

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Painting update: “We are Earthseed/ the life that perceives itself/changing.” Chapter 12 of EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING, from “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia E. Butler

A photo of a watercolor painting: Flowers are painted and outlined in indigo blue ink; shades of yellow, gold, and purple fill the shape of the flowers and leaves. Text is handwritten in indigo blue ink: “We are Earthseed/ the life that perceives itself/changing.“ Chapter 12 of EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING, from “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia E. Butler

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We would love to see you later today if this prompt appeals to you!

A photo of a watercolor collage with circular moons cut out on top of washes of color. A large moon has text written on it in black ink: “Remember that the frontier of the rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.”

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Negative space flowers made with watercolor and masking fluid. I can’t decide if I want to fill in the blank space or leave it as is — any ideas? #art

A watercolor painting on a cold-pressed block of white paper. The outline of a few flowers in white with a purple-blue-green wash of color behind it.

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I love finding Earthseed verses while sorting through papers

A photo of a piece of white paper with handwritten words from Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower”. It reads:
All successful life is
Adaptable,
Opportunistic,
Tenacious,
Interconnected, and
Fecund.
Understand this. Use it.
Shape God.

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

You inspired me to do a random shuffle and pull today. I am so amused by these 2 fours! I asked for something to pay attention to today (what’s working well or in harmony, what’s worth celebrating) & a resource that’s available to me today (the power of unrest & deep rest)

Photo of two tarot cards from the Linestrider deck: The four of wands depicts two rabbits curled toward each other, creating a circle with leaves and branches around them. The four of swords reversed depicts a lion with their paws crossed and eyes closed. Their head is adorned with a band of color and vibrant leaves surround them. There’s a sword in front of the lion.

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I’m so satisfied with the way these splatters of gold watercolor dried! #art

A photo of a large watercolor flower painted on white cold-pressed paper — gold dots splatter across the page and onto a bright orangey-pink flower petal

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I would LOVE to hear your thoughts about my pull from The Depths Tarot 🙏🏽

A photo of images from The Depth Tarot — 1. X of Courage (10 of wands), 2. Initiate of Freedom (Page of Swords), 3. Magician

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A watercolor painting inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” *Kindness eases Change.* #art

Vibrant flowers painted on watercolor paper with the words “Kindness eases Change.” From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Chapter 15

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

A cool & weird flower I painted with watercolor 🌸

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

An invitation to join me, Cory & @sheainthecatskills.com on March 20th to celebrate the launch of 36 Portals to Aliveness! The brilliant @jbethiejean.bsky.social will be hosting the conversation ❤️‍🔥 Order the planner: sheainthecatskills.com/2026-planner/ RSVP here: tally.so/r/2EkkPe

You’re invited: join us on the spring equinox!

36 Portals is a 2026 planner that begins on the spring equinox + Cory, Elena + shea want to begin with you…

We'll gather via zoom with host @jbethiejean
on Friday, March 20, 5pm est to:
* talk about how the planner came to be + our intentions for it ❤️‍🔥
* do a practice together with it 🤓
* hear about how you plan to work with it + how you're entering this season of life bursting forth 🌸 amidst so much death-making 💔

the RAFFLE

One lucky person will receive a free Natal Chart Correspondence tarot + astrology reading from
Cory + shea (a $288 value) AND an original artwork by Elena!

To enter: email a screenshot of your receipt from purchasing the 36 Portals planner between now + the launch on March 20 to shea@sheainthecatskills.com. We'll draw the winner's name during the launch!

If you'd like to join us, please RSVP to receive the zoom link. If you can't attend live, we will send a recording to everyone who RSVPs:

tally.so/r/2EkkPe

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This planner/workbook is absolutely gorgeous! Cory, @sheainthecatskills.com + I are so psyched to offer it. We hope you love it! #tarotsky #astrosky #art #artsky sheainthecatskills.com/2026-planner/

A photo of a printed copy of 36 Portals to Aliveness: a 2026 journey thru the decans | a correspondence production | by shea in the Catskills, Cory Nakasue + Elena Solano

A screenshot of the webpage linked above — order a print copy (it’s available print-on-demand for $27 to ships to you or to anyone you want to gift it to) or download a pdf version. Also, check out the webpage for a playlist curated by the Study Tarot Series cosmic jukebox geniuses.

We hope you all love it!
Shea, Cory + Elena

About this project
Cory Nakasue, Elena Solano + shea have published a unique, playful + profound planner/workbook that begins at the Spring Equinox on March 20 + walks you thru 2026 in 10-day increments of the zodiac. It's called 36 Portals to Aliveness: a 2026 Journey Thru the Decans, + it's essentially a field guide that YOU create! It includes tarot information, playlists, moon transits, journal prompts + experiential amulets to anchor your explorations.
You don't need to know anything about tarot or astrology to make full use of this esoteric tool!
It's for anyone who is:
• interested in tarot +/or astrology
• interested in creating their own personal field guide to time + the seasons
• longing for an expansive menu of ways to observe cycles + document their experience
• wondering how their spiritual practice relates to these unprecedented times
• looking for existential nourishment
For those who can't afford the printed workbook version, or who prefer to work with it on a tablet, there's a free pdf version available, too.
I've never longed so much for something I co-created to catch a wave + make it into the hands of as many people as possible. I believe so deeply that the love, care, creativity + spiritual wisdom that Elena, Cory + I put into this workbook is a profound + playful offering #inthesetimes.

What are the decans?
They're 10-degree slices of the zodiac that correspond to particular planets + minor arcana tarot cards. But the important thing to know is: you don't have to know or understand anything about the decans to make this planner your own...
From Cory's gorgeous introduction:
This planner serves as a field guide to help you investigate and create your own cosmology. In this wild year of 2026 and for several years to come, we'll need sustained and deliberate practices that help us attune to our present-moment experience as we observe the changes happening around us. We'll need spaces to re-imagine and cultivate our relationship to time.
The planner begins at the start of the astrological new year with the sign of Aries. ... Each of the 36 decans-or portals-provides corresponding tarot information, daily tracking of the moon, journal prompts, a space to record your observations, and an experiential amulet to anchor your explorations. At the end of each sign, there are prompts to help you reflect on your process and your findings, and create a personal taxonomy and symbology of that sign. There is no right or wrong way to work with this planner: it is designed to be a process guide and playground. Use and note what calls to you, dispense with and note what doesn't. Research, reflect, and relate to your heart's content.
order the planner!

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I have a voice memo saved on my phone that I play for people who ask my about my mask in public — it’s called “Hello Stranger”

A screen grab of a 21 second voice memo saved on my phone — entitled: Hello Stranger with a mask emoji

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

An Octavia E. Butler-inspired artifact from 2023 — see alt text for words & description #art

A photo of a rectangular piece of white watercolor paper with strokes of bright colors mixed together in the middle. Words read in calligraphy script, “kindness eases change.” - from Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower”. Made in 2023 by my two human hands while in deep study with the text.

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I’m so looking forward to Saturday’s gathering: Trust in Power ⭐️ who will join us? #art #tarot #artsbasedresearch

A photo of a watercolor painting resembling a moody sunset. Atop the painting sits a painted, moon-like circle. Words are hand-lettered onto the circle: “Power doesn’t panic.” From the tv show Andor

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Sweet Totoro! Lexi (our only dog) sends solidarity ☺️

A photo of a black and tan pug asleep on a blue blanket.

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

A question for contemplation inked on watercolor #art from the late and beloved Dr. Barbara Holmes 🌸 “What is worth preserving, guarding whether we succeed or not?”

A photo of a spiral bound watercolor paper journal — six golden, metallic flowers are painted in the center of the page. Words are inked onto the page: “what is worth preserving, guarding whether we succeed or not?” — from Dr. Barbara Holmes “Crisis Contemplation”

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Painted using an automatic #art process with watercolor paint, inks, & cold-pressed watercolor paper — what do you see?

A photo of a spiral-bound watercolor painting: I see a hermetic figure near a lake with trees in the background.

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

This is one of my favorite artifacts from my years of making stuff. I love the detail of the skull — so carefully sketched with a gray watercolor pencil. I love the bold colors and wisps of subtlety I was incorporating at the time. #art #practicemakesart

A photo of a watercolor painting I made in 2022 titled “Memento Mori”

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Testing watercolor paints mixed with Bombay ink on cold pressed paper — I’m in love 😍 #art

A photo of a watercolor painted flower. Dark and light hues mimic petals.

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Lexi is healing well and modeling radical rest for all of us! #pugsnores

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Recent art inspired by love, loss and a Feist lyric 🌊

A photo of white watercolor paper covered in thin, colorful, vertical lines resembling a topographic map.

A photo of the same watercolor paper angled from the bottom right hand corner. Song lyrics are inked onto the page: “love is not a thing you try to do… it wants to be the thing compelling you… to be you…” by Feist, “Hiding Out in the Open”

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Watercolor painting on large cold pressed paper (18x24”) in process #art

A painted scene of stormy, choppy waters below a bright daytime sky with dark clouds hovering above the sunlight. I painted this scene after seeing it in a dream. In the dream, I was on a circular ship. I ran around the circle, trespassing across cordoned off places to see this scene.

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

8 seconds of pug joy for whoever needs to see it!

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Peonies in “bloom” — thank you for the inspiration photo @ninahatfield.bsky.social 🌺 #art #watercolor

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This watercolor rose is giving Ace of Wands energy 🌹❤️‍🔥 #art #tarot

A photo of a watercolor painting in progress with paints mixed in ceramic dishes on both sides of the paper. The painting depicts a brightly colored rose in full bloom + 2 buds with leaves in the background.

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Elena 🎨✊🏽 @feelingndealing.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My birthday is tomorrow & i’m wishing for help paying for emergency vet bills 💫 All donations are appreciated from those who have it to give. Please feel free to share this ask! www.gofundme.com/f/help-elena...