Elena 🎨✊🏽

@feelingndealing

Visual artist, lover of tarot, collaborator, poly-crisis carer, animal and dream tender, LatinX, Southerner (U.S.), liberation-minded psychotherapist, arts-based researcher, No AI, she/they

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Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· 26d

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.

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· 26d

A very fine toad…

A Texas toad sits on concrete in the morning sun

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· 27d

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

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· 28d

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

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· 29d

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

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Mar 16

A cool & weird flower I painted with watercolor 🌸

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Mar 10

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

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Feb 24

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!

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Feb 4

“Power doesn’t panic.” — Andor #fanart #art #artsky

A photo of a watercolor collage on cold-pressed paper. A bright wash of color with several moons and planets collaged onto paper. A large watercolor moon reads: Power doesn’t panic.
Quote from the tv show Andor

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Jan 27

Thank you, @bulldogshadow.bsky.social 🙏🏽

A photo of a watercolor painting on thick, handmade watercolor paper. The shape of an iris blooms with bright inky blues and reds + metallic paints.

Words handwritten with Micron pen on handmade watercolor paper —
You don’t need to be a hero out of a movie.
You just need to be honest. Present.
And unwilling to surrender your humanity.
If you’re scared, you’re not alone.
If you showed up anyway, thank you.
If you couldn’t today, tomorrow is still yours.
But don’t look away. Don’t normalize what you know isn’t right.

(Do Not Look Away) by Eric K. Ward

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Dec 30

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

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Dec 12

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.

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Sep 25

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

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Aug 23

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

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

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Aug 20

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”

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Aug 19

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.

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Aug 14

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”

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Aug 14

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.

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Aug 8

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

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Jul 30

Post-surgery pug

Lexi, an 11 year old pug, wears a cone and is held in my arms after having surgery to remove four masses. We’re praying for benign results and plenty more years with her.

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Jul 29

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”

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· May 29

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.

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· May 25

Maisie giving self-love vibes ☀️

Photo caption: An elder pug named Maisie is lying in the grass sunning herself exercising ancient pain relief technologies

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· May 25

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

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· May 25

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

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· May 16

A giant watercolor iris #art

A photo of a large watercolor painting on 18x24” cold press paper: bright green leaves surround a silver, purple and blue iris flower painted with liquid watercolor, ink and silver mica

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Apr 9

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.

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Mar 22

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...

A photo of my dearly departed bff dog, a brown haired terrier with wild hair and soulful brown eyes. Truman 11/27/2011-1/27/2025

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Mar 19

I’d love some help paying for life under capitalism as a birthday gift 🎁 My birthday is on Sunday 💫 www.gofundme.com/f/help-elena...

A photo of my now ancestor/dog Truman — at the time a 12 year old brown haired Yorkie with a Mohawk standing in a bathtub looking directly into the camera. The Truest Man 11/27/2011-1/27/2025 💐

Elena 🎨✊🏽@feelingndealing· Mar 16

Let us speak of joy… thank you, Saeed. Watching these elder pugs take naps side by side — sweet joy 🫀