The Shadow Side of Healing
When we choose to be self-aware, self-reflective, and to live consciously, life becomes a journey of personal healing. Each one of us has trauma and learned behaviors that we must process and release.
It is also possible that we carry past life trauma, as well as generational and ancestral trauma. Our evolution as a species depends on our ability to heal as individuals. Our ability to be available for positive relationships and meaningful life experiences can depend on our willingness to heal.
Even spiritual people can be resistant to healing. It is easy to get stuck in patterns that make our healing journey even harder. We might engage in spiritual bypassing and use our belief system as an excuse to gloss over our pain. Or we can make our pain the whole of our identity. We might turn our healing journey into an exercise of ego massage.
The healing journey brings us to a place of personal and spiritual growth because it allows us to be present for ourselves and others. Yet, on the way, we need to visit and revisit some difficult things. Much like physical exercise, it is often true that if it is not difficult, we are not working hard enough.
There is a part of emotional healing that is called ‘shadow work’. This refers to our need to look at what Carl Jung called our shadow. That is, the parts of ourselves we would rather not see. Once we can see these parts of ourselves, we have many modalities to help us process, change, and release.
Sometimes the shadow is made of bad habits, or unpleasant character traits. Sometimes it is formed by difficult past experiences. Whatever it is, and whatever caused it, when we can see it, we can heal it.
Tarot divination can help us see the shadow and can point us in directions for healing. Tarot meditation can offer us deeper healing experiences. Very often, energy medicine like Reiki can be useful for our deeper healing work. Meditation, traditional therapy, and yoga are but a few of the practices and modalities available to us.
Healing is a lifetime endeavor, yet the benefits of healing can become apparent very quickly.
It is important that we be patient with our healing journey, and with ourselves. We must be present for the dark moments, but we also must be ready to emerge into the light at each opportunity.
There are those who feel that to be happy we must only think happy thoughts. There are those who feel like we need to engage in ‘positive vibes only’. While there is certainly power in positive thinking, we must be able to face all things in life with courage and honesty. Not everything feels good, but if we can face what does not feel good, we more easily fill our lives with good things.
The StaarCorner
This week we added two new presenters to our already-stellar list for StaarCon 2022. Tarot artists Lisa Hunt and Ciro Marchetti will both be joining us as presenters and vendors at StaarCon 2022.
Our conference will be January 21 through 23, in person in Palm Beach Gardens and online on Accelevents. Get your tickets now!
Our StaarCon podcast is called StaarCast and is available wherever you catch your podcasts. You can also find it in video form on YouTube.
Our most recent episode features my conversation with author and tarot designer Bernadette King. Bernadette works with animal energies for divination and healing. We are looking forward to Bernadette’s class at StaarCon 2022!
Tarot Communication for Clarity and Depth Hybrid Class
Our next ‘Zoom and Room’ tarot class will be Tuesday, November 30, from 7 pm to 9 pm ET.
Tarot is a tool of communication. With tarot, we can communicate and understand our feelings. We can build our relationships. We can brainstorm our projects. We can understand the needs of our body. We can connect with Spirit.
Whether we are reading for ourselves or others, the secret to clarity and depth in tarot readings is to understand how tarot communicate with us, and how tarot helps us communicate with others.
In this class you will learn solid techniques for using tarot to communicate your own feelings, understand what is going on with your body, work well within a group, communicate with spirit, and connect with your creativity. You will also learn how to do these things effectively when reading for others.
Class fee is $40. Sign up now!
Tarot for Healing
When I had the privilege this past July to teach at the Masters of Tarot Conference at the Omega Institute, my presentation was called “How Tarot Helps Us Heal”.
In this three-hour presentation I discussed many ways that we can use tarot as a healing tool.
One of my favorite ways is to find a card, either at random or by choice. Breathe with the card and, and you stare at the card with a soft gaze, allow yourself to drift into a meditative state.
Now, enter the card in your mind’s eye, and have a conversation with a character that you see in the card.
This meditative technique can be powerful!
Another way to heal with tarot is to design a tarot spread about something that has hurt you, or about the healing process itself. When you perform this spread, you will receive a great deal of direction to help you on your healing journey.
Members-Only Livestream on YouTube: Incoming!
All members of my YouTube channel, Christiana Gaudet Tarot, are welcome to join us for a special livestream event on Tuesday, November 16, at 7 pm ET.
We will work together to help each person design and perform a magical tarot spread. This tarot spread will give insight, energy, and direction for 2022.
The replay of this event will be available to all present and future channel members.
You may become a member of this channel at any time.
To attend, simply be a current member and join us on November 16 at 7 pm.
The Week in Review
I will be teaching a class on Facebook for the World Divination Association Virtual Event, which will be November 20 and 21. You can learn more and register on the World Divination Association website.
Follow me on Instagram, and follow the StaarCon Instagram as well. I am sharing some great pictures and videos on both pages.
Did you catch the Ancestral Tarot class with Nancy Hendrickson this week on my YouTube channel? follow the link to watch the replay.
From Around the Web
Journaling is a good way to work with the shadow. Here are some journaling prompts that can help.
Here are some shadow work tarot spreads.
Dreamwork is another way to heal. Dreamworker Toko-pa shares information about ancestral healing.
Cards for Your Consideration
Every tarot card has a lesson that can help us heal. When we study tarot, we learn the lessons of each card, as well as what the card might mean in a reading.
In tarot, the cards that are associated with the number Five can each offer us a specific opportunity to heal.
As an exercise, look at each Five and find within a healing lesson for yourself. Here are some examples.
The Five of Cups teaches us to hold space for grief, but to also remember that there is still room for joy.
The Five of Pentacles teaches us that it is up to us to find opportunity.
The Hierophant teaches us to know when to trust authority, when to use authority, and when to question authority.
Card Fourteen, Temperance, is also numerologically a Five. It is in this card that we find the solution for all healing. Temperance teaches us that nothing is perfect. Everything requires us to balance and blend to find what we need.
When a Five card appears in a tarot spread, consider that there may be a need and an opportunity for healing.
Upcoming Events and Tours
Card and Craft Academy
Classes presented by Christiana are available right now at Card and Craft Academy!
Christiana’s Candle Magick
Christiana’s Eleven-Card Celtic Cross
Finding Meaning in the Minor Arcana
The Major Arcana, Magical and Mundane
Practical Tarot Techniques
Psychic Tarot
Personal Tarot: Reading for Yourself
Sharing Wisdom: Reading for Others
The Meaning and Magic of Tarot Reversals
Journey Through the Major Arcana
Your Journey Through the Minor Arcana: Numbers, Elements and Truth
Tarot Beyond the Veil
Your Journey Through the Tarot Court
Tarot Stories, Trends, and Blends
Tarot Readings for Personalities and Relationships
Clarity in Every Tarot Card
Tarot Flow Workshop
Making Magick with Tarot
Fearless Wisdom Tarot Workshop
Tarot Keywords and Interpretations Workshop
Tarot Spreads Tools and Techniques Workshop
Tarot for Magic and Mediumship
Catch up on your missed Zoom webinars and more!
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About Christiana Gaudet
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Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 4 Issue 45
November 10, 2021
