I have often thought that the best way to enjoy life is to pay attention to the good moments.

Good moments can happen sandwiched in between grief, boredom, drudgery and difficulties.

It’s important to have goals. It is gratifying and fortunate when we fulfill our goals.

That’s the thing with goals, though. Sometimes we fulfill them, sometimes something else happens.

When we marry, a lifetime of partnership is the goal. When we take a job, many years of productive and happy work is the expectation.

When those goals and expectations are fulfilled, it is a joyful blessing indeed. When we fall short of those goals for whatever reason, we are often left feeling that we failed, or were cheated out of our happy ending.

Poor health and bereavement are other things that can deny us our preferred outcome. Weather, war, financial instability, and things beyond our control can sometimes change our plans in ways we neither expect nor desire.

Part of the recipe of a happy life is setting goals and working hard to achieve them.

The other part is our ability to recover, and our flexibility as we adjust to something new.

Recovery and flexibility are easier to manage when we cultivate those good moments.

There are good moments to remember in a relationship that has ended. There are good skills and contacts that come from a job that didn’t work out.

The more we remember the good moments of the past, the easier it is to make peace with our hurt and disappointment. The more we appreciate the good moments that happen in between our difficulties, the more we are able to heal, rebuild, and move on.

There are always good moments, even in the darkest of times.

Even in bitter disappointment, there are things we can and should enjoy.

We shouldn’t guilty when we enjoy a pleasant moment in the middle of a crisis. The ability to seize those precious moments is a superpower.

Very often, when something doesn’t go our way, we take it as a personal failure. This makes it even harder to heal. My theory is this. No matter what happened, if you had at least one good moment, you didn’t fail. Things may not have turned out the way you wanted, but the good moments are the moments that matter.

Years later, you may look back at your disappointments and find that the difficult times were an important and necessary part of your path.

The StaarCorner

One thing that most diviners seem to have in common is creativity. We may be creative in the way we work with our divination tools. We may be artists who design divination tools. We may design our own tarot spreads, or blog about the cards, or write books about divination.

Certainly, we all celebrate and appreciate the creativity of the artists who create our cards, and the writers who write the books that help us learn.

StaarCon will gather together some of the most creative people in our industry to share their knowledge and talents with you.

For more information about StaarCon, visit our website.

Join us for a Special Tarot Class on Zoom

Are you a professional tarot reader? Do you aspire to professional reading? Perhaps you would simply like to develop great tarot reading skills to use with your friends and family.

On Wednesday, August 26, 7 pm to 9 pm EDT, I will be presenting a live webinar on Zoom called “Sharing Wisdom: Reading for Others”.

This class is designed to help you have more confidence as a tarot reader.

Reading tarot for others, whether professionally or casually, involves a specific skill set that extends even beyond card interpretations and intuitive connections.

In this class you will learn ways of discovering and developing your own unique reading style. You will learn strategies for handling difficult readings. You will discover ways to make every reading you perform an effective and enlightening experience. Class fee is $37.50. Register now on Zoom.

Tarot for Good Moments

Whenever you are sad, bored, unhappy, or simply curious, you can use tarot to help you find a good moment, readjust your attitude, or find new hope.

Simply shuffle your tarot deck and say, “Tell me something good!”

Pick a card.

See if you can interpret the card to foretell something good coming your way. Or, perhaps it will give you information on how to heal, or a positive focus for your current situation.

What should you do if you get an unfortunate card when you do this? Consider why this card is appearing. Is it offering you an opportunity to heal? Is it affirming a current problem, but telling you that the problem will soon be resolved?

The Week in Review

If you missed my class on Temperance and the Star, you can watch it in archive.

I offer live readings on my Facebook business page four times a week. Like and follow to be alerted when I am about to go live.

This week’s blogpost is about Sympathetic Resonance in Tarot. That’s the phenomenon that happens when the cards speak to more than one person at once.

From Around the Web

Here is a tarot spread for becoming happy.

There seems to be a tarot deck for every theme imaginable. Here’s a tarot deck about RuPaul’s Drag Race!

Here is a website that every tarot reader needs. It’s Joan Bunning’s Learn Tarot website, offering lots of great free information!

Cards for Your Consideration

The Three of Cups is a card that often speaks of celebration, community, parties and good times.

What happens when the Three of Cups appears in a reading during a time of difficulty?

If the Three of Cups seems out of place amongst its surrounding cards or doesn’t seem to answer a question about your problems, consider the following.

The Three of Cups could be advising you to find the pleasant moments in the midst of dark times. The Three of Cups could ask you to focus on the good moments as you work through disappointment. The Three of Cups could remind you to count your blessings, even when you are feeling the weight of your difficulties.

When times are tough and the Three of Cups appears, you might see it as a reminder to find the good moments in between your grief.

Events and Tours

Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 3 Issue 34
August 19, 2020