Doing the Work

Tarot Topics Community News
Written By Christiana Gaudet

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So often, we spiritual people talk about doing our work. We do shadow work, inner child work, and inner healing. We might decline to date someone because they clearly have not done their work.

At the tarot table, I can easily see the people who do their work of personal healing and those who do not. I can also see the people who do a lot of spiritual work but dance around doing the depth of their work. They may meditate often, go on retreat, and consult their oracles, but they still have not tapped into healing their deeper hurts. Sometimes, this behavior is classic spiritual bypassing, where they actively yet unconsciously avoid their work and use spirituality to justify their avoidance. Sometimes, they are circling their more profound work because they are not yet ready to dive in.

The work of deep healing is never finished. We peel back layers one at a time. We deconstruct and reprocess the most troublesome things, then focus on other pursuits for a while. Eventually, something will bother us, upset us, or trigger us, and we know it is time to dive into a new aspect of our work.

Sometimes, we can be frustrated that our healing work is never complete, and we can feel ashamed of the unhealed parts of ourselves.

The work of deep healing and the focus on our emotional well-being may feel like a modern construct. We certainly have more tools and support for personal healing now than ever. Yet, many people, cultures, and societies throughout the ages have found healing from philosophers, poets, shamans, and healers.

I notice an interesting irony. While some level of spiritual thought and practice is helpful in the pursuit of personal healing, harmful spiritual beliefs and religious teachings are responsible for much of the trauma that we heal when doing our work. It is so important for us to approach spiritual understanding with an open mind and critical thinking skills. Again, it is also vital that we refrain from using spiritual bypassing to avoid the real healing we need.

There are so many ways for us to do our work. Traditional therapy, meditation, journaling, divination, personal inquiry, and divination are all methods that can help.

When we do our work, we develop the ability to access and manage our emotional range. This allows us to respond appropriately to every situation. Perhaps the best part is that doing our work gives us the space to be playful and enjoy life more.

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

The StaarCorner

StaarCon 2024 AfterGlow

Mark your calendars for my next lounge event! Monday, June 17, at 7 pm, we will have a session to improve skills in presenting difficult information in a reading.

StaarCon 5

StaarCon 5 will feature an exhibition hall with a marketplace open to the public all three days. In the marketplace, you will find opportunities to have a reading, and purchase decks, books, jewelry, crystals, and clothing. We will also have a Digital Divination Art Show playing continuously in the exhibition hall.

If you are an artist who has created a divination deck, please consider submitting some digital images of cards to our art show! You can email me for details.

Dame Darcy talks about the Mermaid Tarot at StaarCon.

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Doing the Work with Tarot

There are many ways to use tarot on the journey of personal healing.

The first is to study tarot. We must do this not only to learn and memorize what the cards mean in a reading but also to learn the lessons of the cards and the stories inherent in the suits and symbols. When we understand that tarot is a book of spiritual wisdom in picture form, we can use it to help develop a new way of thinking about life and processing difficult occurrences.

We can work with a competent reader to help uncover and heal the things that have hurt us. We can also use the cards in personal divination, meditation, and magic to help inspire and cultivate our healing.

When using tarot for deeper healing, we must detach from a desire for the comfort of clear answers and predictions. We must be careful of confirmation bias, where we might interpret the cards to confirm an unhelpful story rather than find a better narrative.

Deep work with tarot requires us to hold ourselves accountable to best practices. When we can adhere to practices that help us open our minds and find new possibilities, tarot becomes a great ally in our healing work.

Mystery Card Tarot Webinar.

The Week in Review

If you missed last night’s class on YouTube Live, please watch the replay!

Did you know my YouTube channel has playlists and videos dating back over a decade? You can find episodes of my old webcast, Christiana’s Psychic Café, Answers to Your Questions about Tarot, and many other interesting videos.

From Around the Web

I love this recent post from Mary Ellen Collins about reading tarot intuitively.

Byron Katie, creator of “The Work of Byron Katie,” may have been the first person to use the term ‘work’ to describe the process of self-understanding and self-inquiry. I agree with this assessment of Byron Katie’s philosophies.

Morgan Rose shares ways to use tarot cards for psychological healing.

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Making Magic

Is energy work magic? Is divination magic?

I think the concept of magic goes far beyond what we think of as traditional witchcraft. We define magic as the use of energy to create change in accordance with our will.

When we use any energetic healing modality, from Reiki to sound healing to trance dance, we are, in a sense, doing magic.

When we enter any healing session, whether a sound bath, therapy appointment, tarot reading, or yoga class, we intend to create change. If we keep our intentions in mind and visualize our desired results, we strengthen the magic of our healing session and improve our results.

Tarot Workshop at Mandel Public Library, West Palm Beach, Florida, June 22 @ Noon.

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Christiana Gaudet

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Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 7 Issue 24
June 12, 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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