Tricks and Treats

Tarot Topics Community News
Written By Christiana Gaudet

Children in costume trick or treating.

Not surprisingly, I love the spiritual and secular aspects of spooky season. I also love discovering the origins of all our holiday traditions. For example, the tradition of trick-or-treating originated from the custom of leaving sweets on doorsteps to placate the spirits who came back to seek vengeance on Halloween.

We humans often try to bargain with the energies we see as spiritual forces. That bargaining is something I think about often.

This week, though, I am contemplating the metaphor of appeasing our ghosts.

Beyond the concept of ghosts as actual spirits, we also use the term to describe things of our past with which we haven’t made peace. When we say that someone is haunted, very rarely do we mean to imply that they are having ghostly visitations. Rather, we are haunted by our memories and the injuries of our past.

To extend this metaphor, I think many of us are constantly tricked by the ghosts of our past. We often pay homage to what has hurt us rather than doing the painful work of healing.

Consider the person who grew up in an abusive family but puts their abuser on a pedestal or the person who blames others for their problems rather than taking responsibility for their own healing. It is impossible to heal when we cannot see or know the truth about our past.

Even those of us lucky enough to have avoided terrible trauma still have hurtful memories that cause us to believe negative and untrue things about life and about ourselves.

As we honor our ancestors and enjoy spooky season this month, let’s do what we can to put our personal ghosts to rest. We do that by unpacking and reprocessing past events, being gentle with our younger selves, and realizing that some things that we were taught and told might not be the truth.

The StaarCon 5 Imagining of Pixie Arcana. Art and composition by Stacey Williams-Ng, backgrounds by Animix.

The StaarCorner

StaarCon 2024 AfterGlow

This month, join us for three special lounge events!

On Friday, October 11, at 5 pm, Join María Alviz Hernando in The Sybil’s Tarot Lounge for a session reviewing real tarot reading case studies.

On Thursday, October 17, at 5 pm, join Serena Fox in her new lounge, Mystic Lounging, for a full-moon-inspired session.

On Sunday, October 20, at 5 pm, join me in the Tea with Your Tarot Fairy Godmother Lounge for a session on the best strategies for teaching and learning tarot.

StaarCon 5

One of the things I am excited about is that we will be talking about tarot in some very interesting ways at StaarCon 5. We will have sessions exploring connections between tarot and martial arts, neuroscience, music, and poetry. I am happy to announce that we are welcoming first-time presenter Caroline Ironwill to talk about tarot and neurodivergence. Caroline is a Canadian tarot reader and certified coach with a following on YouTube.

At StaarCon 5, we will discover many ways to understand and celebrate tarot. Please join us!

A photograph of StaarCon presenter Caroline Ironwill.

A photograph of StaarCon presenter Caroline Ironwill.

Tarot cards on a wooden table with cups and a bowl of fruit.

Tarot cards on a wooden table with cups and a bowl of fruit.

Ask Tarot for the Truth

Many tarot spreads have a position for the past or recent events. Yet, most tarot spreads do not offer positions to help us deeply unpack and reprocess the past, so we often have to ask the right questions and create our own spreads.

What are the best questions to ask the cards when we are trying to understand something from the past? We want to discover the truth rather than the mythology that has sprung up about the past. That means we are asking the cards to show us what is true about something or someone. For example, we can ask questions such as the following.

What was this person’s intention when they did this?

What were the factors present at the time that caused me to make this choice?

How did those long-ago events affect my life?

What is true about this situation?

What can I know about this?

Psychic Gallery at Banyan Soul Yoga Studio - October 13th @ 4 pm.

The Week in Review

This Sunday, join me at Banyan Soul Yoga Studio in Stuart for a Psychic Gallery. Tickets are limited!

If you missed our October Mediumship and Magic class, watch the replay!

From Around the Web

Did you know Salem, Massachusetts, is a great place to celebrate Halloween? Here’s why!

Daily Tarot Girl Kate has a tarot spread to help you stop holding on to the past and move forward.

Psychology Today offers these tips to help heal childhood trauma.

Closeup of tarot reading and study.

Making Magic

Can magic help us release the ghosts of our past? Yes, but we need to be careful to avoid spiritual bypassing and what therapists call “magical thinking.”

In psychology, magical thinking is the belief that our thoughts and actions directly influence external events.

But, wait a minute, isn’t that what we magical people know to be true?

This is where critical thinking is paramount.

We know that magic works and can make a difference. Yet, we also know that the magical and the mundane must work together. If we are doing magic to heal, we must also do the daily tasks that promote our healing and avoid the things that hurt us.

I believe that tarot is a fabulous magical tool for helping us understand and release our personal hauntings. Yet, we must show up for the deeply emotional work that goes along with understanding tarot and ourselves. The efficacy of our magic will be directly affected by the depth of our emotional presence.

Tarot Topics Newsletter Recap - Thursdays at Noon Live on YouTube.

Upcoming Events

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Tarot Workshop at Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach
Oct 26
Tarot Workshop at Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach

Join us at Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach for a Tarot Workshop.

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Oct 29
Messages from Spirit Members-only Livestream on YouTube

Join us for some mediumship readings, and a discussion about how spirit works through tarot.

Weekly YouTube Events

Monday 9:30 am: Your 3-Card Weekly Reading

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Friday Noon: Your Friday Weekly Wrap-up

Saturday 12:30 pm: Saturday Psychic Sampler

Christiana Gaudet with her cards.

Christiana Gaudet with her cards.

About Christiana Gaudet

Card and Craft, Inc.
Southeastern Tarot Artists and Readers, LLC.

Christiana Gaudet

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Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 7 Issue 41
October 9, 2024

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Christiana Gaudet

Christiana has been a full-time tarot professional for more than twenty years, and is the author of two books about tarot. In 2008, Christiana was granted the title of Tarot Grandmaster by the Tarot Certification Board of America. Christiana provides readings by phone, Facetime and Skype, and in her office in Palm City, Florida.

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