What Colors Create
We live in a colorful world. Nature presents us with a bounty of hues. Food, flowers, trees, rocks, and animals can all be brightly colored.
The very first creative activity most children enjoy is coloring with crayons and markers. It is there, often for the first time, that we are confronted with choosing colors.
Life offers us many opportunities to choose colors. Clothing, cosmetics, and home décor are all color-based.
Studies show us that colors can influence moods and behaviors.
We also know that we can consciously choose colors to help us heal and manifest our intentions.
We can dress in colors that match our intentions. We can burn candles of specific colors, or work with colored crystals. We can use colored lights to help our mood and our intentions.
It is easy to incorporate the power of colors into your daily practices. The concept is that each color can attract and support certain things. There are three basic systems for color associations.
One system works with the chakras. Each of the seven major chakras has a color association. Starting with the root chakra at the base of the spine and ending with the crown chakra at the top of the head, the associated colors are the seven colors of the prism. Therefore, if you wanted to support your root chakra and improve your sense of grounding, you might wear red, or burn a red candle. If you wanted to support your throat chakra and your ability to speak clearly, you might wear blue or burn a blue candle.
Another color system works with the Four Elements, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. You might use elemental colors to welcome a needed energy to your life.
The third system works with the associations that are common in our culture. Green brings money, for example, and red brings love.
When harnessing the power of colors, your intention is paramount. You can use the color that feels right for your purpose and have confidence that the color you have chosen will help you manifest your needs and wishes.
We often think of our own power to create something beautiful using colored paints or fabrics. Color also has the power to help us create something beautiful in our lives.
We so often choose colors when we shop, when we dress, and when we cook. When we choose colors consciously, we have another tool to help us create the life we want.
What do colors create? Colors create mood and magic!
The StaarCorner
At some point over the next few days, the StaarCon AfterGlow will end. Our community will stay in touch on the StaarCon Community Group on Facebook, so please join us there. You can also look forward to a new season of StaarCast starting soon.
We are working very hard to get StaarCon 2023 planned. We already have some amazing presenters committed to joining us, including a new headliner, Sheilaa Hite.
Sheilaa L Hite, C.Ht., CLC, is a world-renowned master tarot consultant and astrologer. She is featured in Paulette Cooper’s book, The 100 Top Psychics in America. Her books include Secrets of a Psychic Counselor, The Intuitive Tarot-- the Essential Guide for Connecting to the All-Knowing Source, 101 Tarot Spreads, and 101 Tarot Spreads by 20 Tarot Masters, and The Spiritual Hedonist.
We are very excited to welcome Sheilaa to our StaarCon community, and we look forward to her presentation at StaarCon 2023.
Join Us for Class Tomorrow Evening!
Tomorrow evening, Thursday, February 24, I am teaching a hybrid class, on Zoom and in person, on the elemental influences of the Major Arcana of tarot. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate, or expert, this class will ignite your tarot understanding and expand your connection with the twenty-two cards of the Major Arcana.
For more information and tickets, visit the event listing on my website.
Reading the Colors of Tarot
There are so many different tarot decks, and each one has its own color theme. Some decks are black and white, some have a muted tone, some have a predominant color.
If you have a larger tarot collection, it is a good exercise to try reading with differently colored decks and see if certain color themes stimulate your intuition.
Very often the decks we find most visually appealing are not the decks that will read best for us. If you can understand which color themes stimulate your intuition best, you can seek out decks that use those colors.
If you are working with a deck that employs a variety of colors, you can interpret the colors of the cards as part of your reading. Try this as an exercise.
Lay out a tarot spread. Before you interpret any of the cards, look at the colors that are present. Is a color that is dominant? Is there a color that draws your eyes? Are there a few cards of similar coloring?
What conclusions can you draw based solely on the colors you see in the cards? How does this inform your reading? Can the colors give you additional information, or help you see an overarching theme?
The Week in Review
This week I shared a post on my personal blog, “How Tarot Teaches Us About Itself”. In this post I give a lot of information about how my understanding of individual cards, and groups of cards, grows over the years.
Yesterday was ‘Twosday’! In honor of this special date, we did a class on my YouTube channel about the Twos in tarot. You can watch the replay if you missed the class.
From Around the Web
Maddy Elruna shows us how to use tarot as your life coach!
Mary Ellen Collins shared tarot cards that she associates with the five love languages.
Teresa Michelsen had some thoughts about color meanings in tarot.
Guidance on the Journey
Some people can naturally and easily see the aura of light and color that surrounds and emanates from living beings. If you are not a person who naturally sees auras, there are exercises you can do to help develop this ability.
Start by learning to view things with a soft gaze. If you are not driving or trying to read it is a helpful practice to let your gaze float a bit. As you do this, your imagination will naturally float with you, and try to fill in the blanks that come with your unfocused vision.
Your eyesight, imagination, and psychic vision are all seated in the brow chakra, or the third eye. It can be helpful to anoint the third eye with oil or hold a crystal to it in advance of these exercises.
To practice aura viewing it is helpful to have a willing volunteer who will allow you to gaze at them. However, you can also visit a busy place like a shopping mall and simply sit and watch people from afar.
Focus on your conscious breath and your soft gaze. Over time you will begin to see the color and light around people. Eventually, you will be able to read the auras of people to help understand their wellbeing of body, mind, and spirit.
Upcoming Events and Tours
Card and Craft Academy
Classes presented by Christiana are available right now at Card and Craft Academy!
Christiana’s Eleven-Card Celtic Cross
Finding Meaning in the Minor Arcana
The Major Arcana, Magical and Mundane
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
Your Journey Through the Tarot Court
Tarot Stories, Trends, and Blends
Tarot Readings for Personalities and Relationships
Fearless Wisdom Tarot Workshop
Tarot Keywords and Interpretations Workshop
Tarot Spreads Tools and Techniques Workshop
Tarot for Magic and Mediumship
Tarot Communication for Clarity and Depth
Weaving the Tarot Reading Story
Catch up on your missed Zoom webinars and more!
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About Christiana Gaudet
Card and Craft, Inc.
Southeastern Tarot Artists and Readers, LLC.
Christiana Gaudet
3559 SW Corporate Parkway
Palm City, Florida 34990-8152
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Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 5 Issue 8
February 23, 2022