Tarot by Christiana Weekly Newsletter 3/13/2013

Special Saint Patrick's Day Edition View it online at tarottopics.com Tarot by Christiana Newsletter Wednesday, March 13, 2013 Luck St. Patrick's Day is often associated with the concept of "luck." What is luck, really? I've often thought that luck doesn't really exist; that there is only skill and the grace of God. On the other hand, some people seem to have a certain type of luck. Gambler's luck, for instance, is like a psychic gift - some people have it and some people don't. In tarot the card of luck is the Wheel of Fortune. Its spiritual message is simply that we are all subject to the laws of nature. Does that mean that luck itself is a law of nature? In a way it is. In everyone's life there will be some lucky moments and some unlucky moments. We have no control over that. What we do control is our own actions and attitudes. By being patient and proactive when we need to be, by invoking the guidance of Spirit and by seeing each event in life as an opportunity for growth, we create all the luck we need. Saint Patrick's Day Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. Today our celebration of Saint Patrick's Day often involves wearing green, parades, drinking and an appreciation of all things Irish. There has been a great deal of controversy in the Pagan community about this holiday. Some Pagans celebrate an alternate holiday called "All Snakes Day." This is born of the legend that Saint Patrick drove all the snakes from Ireland. Some say this was a metaphor for the torture and killing of the ancient Irish Pagans. In what we now understand as historical reality, Saint Patrick had nothing to do with snakes, and there is no evidence of brutal mistreatment of Pagans by him. It is true that Saint Patrick saw it as his calling to convert the Pagans to Catholicism. Therefore he was certainly guilty of cultural subjugation if nothing else. Saint Patrick is credited with the creation of what we now know as the Celtic Cross. Symbolically it combined a Pagan symbol with a Christian one. The circle superimposed on the cross is meant to represent the sun, a powerful symbol to the Irish Pagans. Saint Patrick used the shamrock as a symbol of the holy trinity. His official color is blue. The color green now associated with Saint Patrick's Day may be a Pagan holdover, symbolizing the fertile earth. I have been lucky enough to visit Ireland. I have a deep appreciation of Irish culture. When I celebrate Saint Patrick's Day I celebrate it as a day to honor Ireland, its beauty, its culture and its people. Whether Catholic, Pagan, or of any other faith - whether Irish or not - Saint Patrick's Day has become an American tradition. I wish you a wonderful day, and may all the luck 'o the Irish be yours! What's Up at the Psychic Café? On March 10th Dax Carlisle joined us at the Psychic Café. Dax is the founder and president of Tarot Guild. We learned how a tarot meetup of 53 members turned into one of the world's largest tarot organizations. Dax shared some brilliant insights about tarot, and about life. We discussed some tarot business ethics as well. Our own Robin Renee provided some musical entertainment. A video of Robin performing Elvis Costello's "Alison" was loved by all. You can watch the show in archive by visiting our Tarot Topics News and Information website. This Sunday, March 17, is St. Patrick's Day. St. Patrick's Day is a controversial holiday for some and a huge party for others. We'll hear perspectives on St. Patrick's Day from several guests, including Gary Karp and Helene Martz. Ambiki Devi will share a St. Patrick's Day story and teach us a special way to use our own heart and body as a pendulum. Robin Renee will share her thoughts about St.Patrick's Day, and she will share a song with us. As a special treat we will open the show with an Irish-themed song from String Band! It all happens at 9 pm EDT on the Para Encounters Network. Visit our Show Page on Facebook for more information.   The Leprechaun Spread Here is an original tarot spread in honor of St. Patrick's Day. You can use it with any oracle deck. Imagine that you have caught the lucky leprechaun and he has surrendered his pot of gold to you! The question is what is in your pot of gold? Shuffle your deck and think about all the wonderful things that could be coming to you at this time in your life. Pick five cards from anywhere in the deck and lay them on the table. These cards represent the contents of your pot of gold. As you interpret your cards, think about this. Some of the cards may be very positive and reflect wonderful things that are currently in your life, or coming soon to your life. Some of the cards may reflect your own gifts and talents. Some of the cards may reflect difficulties that you are currently facing. If you find difficulties in your pot of gold think about the opportunities and gifts these difficulties present to you. When viewed the right way they, too, are gold. Your One-Card Weekly Reading Your One-Card reading for the week is the Two of Swords. Crowley called this the card of "Peace." In many popular decks we see an image of a person who is blindfolded and crossing two swords over her heart. In the language of tarot, swords can represent thoughts and ideas. Here we see two thoughts at crossed purposes. A decision will need to be made. Since the heart is crossed off and the eyes are hidden, the decision cannot come from the heart, or from any outside influence. It must be a decision made with logic and reason. Given that the swords are perfectly balanced, the time of decision-making may be in the near future rather than now. For now we need to be at peace with the situation as it stands, knowing that soon we will have to choose one thing or the other. The Week in Review Christiana added a post to her 78 Magickal Tools blog on PaganSquare. Read Healing with the Eight of Swords. On Christiana's personal blog, Tarot Trends, Christiana discusses the case of Psychic Sophie and the value of anger in creating social change. Read Don't put your Angry Foot Forward. On the Tarot Topics Community Blog Christiana offers some advice to tarot readers in the ongoing struggle for acceptance and understanding. Read Seven Ways to Promote a Tarot-Positive World. Christiana tried a Peruvian restaurant in Lake Worth this week. Read about it on The Dark Forest. Upcoming Events Sunday, March 17, 9 pm EDT Christiana's Psychic Café It's Saint Patrick's Day on the Psychic Café! We will have a variety of guests discussing Saint Patrick's Day from a spiritual and secular perspective, including Gary Karp and Helene Martz. We'll hear from Robin Renee about her feelings toward St. Pat's Day. She'll share a song with us as well. Ambika Devi will share a St. Patrick's Day story and will teach us how to use a wonderful psychic tool - the "True Pendulum of the Heart." String Band will open the show with an Irish-themed song.  Visit our Facebook Show Info page, and join us on the Para Encounters Network. Monday, March 18, 7 pm EDT Free Webinar Global Tarot Circle Anyone with an interest in tarot is welcome to join us! Bring your burning questions about tarot, and for the tarot! Our topic this month will be fate, luck, karma and destiny! For log-in information please visit the Event Listing on the Tarot Circle website. Tuesday, March 19, 2 pm EDT Premium Members Tarot Guild On-Line Class with Christiana Gaudet Gifts and Shadows: Interpreting Tarot Some tarot cards make us feel great when we see them. Others may scare us, depress us and make us sad. Let Christiana Gaudet show you how to handle all 78 cards in ways that are helpful, insightful, healing and informative...and never scary! Whether you are a professional reader, a beginning student or anywhere in between Christiana will help you understand the gifts and shadows inherent in all tarot cards. For more information visit the class listing at the Tarot Guild. Sunday March 24 2:30 pm EDT Springtime Psychic Gallery with Christiana Gaudet At Pearl Rauberts' in Loxahatchee, FL Celebrate the renewal of spring with Psychic Christiana Gaudet! Christiana will be returning today for a special Springtime Psychic Gallery. During this presentation, Certified Tarot Grandmaster Christiana Gaudet will deliver an important message to each participant. You will be encouraged to ask questions, but also to be open to whatever the Universe wants you to know. As you open yourself to rebirth and renewal, take this opportunity to receive some inspirational guidance. Find out what is ready to bloom in your life! As those who have attended Christiana’s galleries know, the energy of fellowship, enlightenment, knowledge and empowerment is always profound. Come be a part of it and experience this exciting opportunity for healing and growth. You may even receive a message from a departed loved one! The gallery will take place at the home of Pearl Rauberts in Loxahatchee. You must reserve your seat with Pearl. Email her to RSVP and for more information at pearlrauberts@hotmail.com. Sunday March 24 9 pm EDT Christiana's Psychic Café Joining us will be Barbara Magro, author of the fabulous cookbook Recipes to Remember. When her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's it became part of Barbara's spiritual journey to preserve her mother's traditional Italian cooking and raise awareness regarding this devastating disease. Join us on the Para Encounters Network. Tuesday, March 26 7 pm EDT Premium Webinar Personal Tarot - Reading for Yourself This class is designed for serious tarot students who want to develop their tarot skills. Self-reading is the best way to learn to understand the cards. It is also an important practice for personal and spiritual growth. Christiana’s virtual classroom is accessible using your computer or your telephone. This online presentation will teach you good practices for self-reading. You will be able to identify and interpret your specific personal cards. You will be able to use self-reading to enhance your tarot studies. Christiana will help you explore specific techniques for self-reading that will help you derive all the information you need. For more information and registration visit the event listing on the Continuing Education Website. Tarot by Christiana Gaudet Toll Free: 866-99TAROT (866-998-2768) Phone or Text: 561-655-1160 Website: http://tarotbychristiana.com Email: christiana@tarotbychristiana.com Skype: tarot.radio

Tarot by Christiana Weekly Newsletter 1/23/2013

Tarot by Christiana   Newsletter 1/23/2013   Be Bold! Helen Keller once said "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." Sometimes it is difficult to be daring and to take bold steps. But everywhere we turn we see reminders that bold steps are the only path to success, happiness and integrity. I think courage isn't the absence of fear; it is the willingness to proceed anyway. Part of courage, too, is faith. If we have more faith than fear we will always be inspired to do wonderful things. To be bold is to push out of the comfort zone. In tarot we look to the Fool, Card 0 of the Major Arcana, to remind us of our need to take a leap of faith once in a while. Tarot is often called "The Fool's Journey." Tarot is an allegory and a guide for our own brave adventure through life. I often think of another quote from another woman who inspires me, Eleanor Roosevelt.  Her wise advice was this.  “Do one thing every day that scares you.” Pushing Out of the Comfort Zone with Tarot Here's an exercise designed to help you understand some Minor Arcana cards and to help you understand what it takes to push out of the comfort zone! Start by taking the four, five and six of each of the four suits out of the deck. Arrange them in a grid on your table or floor so you can see the cards of each suit in order and the numbers line up in the other direction. Look at the fours. Each four in some way speaks of safety. Each four reflects a comfort zone of some sort. How does each four describe your own comfort zones? Now look at the fives. Each five shows a great deal of conflict. This is what happens when we expand out of our comfort zones. Do these five images resonate with you? Do they depict what you feel like when you grow out of the box? When you look at the sixes you see the victory that always comes after we take the leap of faith that allows us to think outside the box and leave our comfort zone. To finish this exercise, take the four sixes and shuffle them. Pull one of the cards at random to give insight into the success you are bravely creating for yourself. Christiana's Psychic Café Last Sunday, January 20, we had two exciting guests on the show. Tarotist and artist Marcy Currier shared her new tarot deck in progress, The Mystical Frog Tarot. We are so used to seeing decks printed and in their packages - it was fascinating to have a sneak peek into a deck being born. In the second half of the show we welcomed Tantric Healer Lourdes Starshower. She shared a lot of important information most of us had never heard before. It was a frank and enlightening conversation. If you didn't catch the show, or would like to see it again, you can watch it in archive on the Tarot Topics News site. On our next show, January 27, we will welcome Kingsley Guy, spiritual Egyptologist and author of the new novel Queen of the Heavens. Kingsley has a lot to share about Egyptian spirituality with us! Also on the show we will check in with Alicia Dattner to hear new about the Online Spiritual Comedy Festival which will be beginning soon.  This week we will make sure we have time for your psychic readings as well, so plan to call in! You can join the fun Sunday night, 9 pm New York Time, on the Para Encounters Network. January Global Tarot Circle Recap Global Tarot Circle gets more and more fun all the time! This time we started our meeting by having each person pull a card at random and use that card as a way of introducing themself. It was a good way to learn about significators and how the cards can describe individuals. It was also a fun exercise of self-discovery. Our topic was New Year tarot readings. A few people shared spreads they had already performed as well as some favorite New Year spreads. One person shared the idea of counting cards through the deck until you reach your age and interpreting that card to give you an overall energy of the year to come. We all performed this quick and easy reading. We also tried a two-card spread - simply a card for the previous year and a card for the New Year. As always we did some group readings for folks who had questions about their lives. The next Global Tarot Circle will meet Thursday February 21 at 7 pm New York time. It's free, it's fun and it's great for anyone with an interest in tarot. Join us by visiting the event listing on the Tarot Circle website. Your One-Card Weekly Reading Your one-card reading for this week is the Six of Wands. I drew this card at random for you and marveled at the synchronicity of it since this newsletter contains an exercise that uses the Minor Arcana sixes! Tarot is often like that - the cards come up exactly how they should. The Six of Wands is about victory after battle. It suggests glorious rewards will be yours if only you persevere and stay strong.  The Six of Wands reminds you that you are indeed a winner! The Week in Review This week Christiana added a new post to her column on PaganSquare, 78 Magickal Tools. Read Are Some Tarot Decks more Magickal than Others? On the Tarot Topics Community Blog Christiana continues to explore the value of different decks with Does the Deck Make a Difference? On Tarot Trends, Christiana's personal bog, Christiana explores the hazards of telling the truth within a community. Read Dirty Little Secrets. On the Dark Forest Christiana shares some thoughts about religion, spirituality, traditions and kindness. Read The Difference Between Helping and Hurting. Upcoming Events Thursday, January 24, 7 pm EST Free Webinar The Four Elements and the Major Arcana The four elements of life are Earth, Air, Fire and Water. They each have metaphysical properties as well as physical properties. The four elements correlate with the four suits of the Minor Arcana of the tarot. They also correlate with individual cards of the Major Arcana. This 75 minute webinar will help the tarot student more fully understand the four elements. It will provide a deeper way to comprehend each of the Major Arcana cards. The student will be able to more fully interpret the Major Arcana cards, whether reading for yourself or others. For more information and to join the webinar simple visit the event listing on the Continuing Education website. Sunday, January 27, 9 pm EST Christiana's Psychic Café In our Artist's Corner you will meet Kingsley Guy, author of the new novel Queen of the Heavens. Kingsley is a spiritual Egyptologist. His novel reflects his understanding of the Neters, the Gods and Goddesses of ancient Egypt, as well as he understanding of energy healing. Get ready for a fascinating conversation about writing, spirituality and ancient Egypt. Sunday, February 3, 6 pm EST Premium Webinar Sharing Wisdom - Reading for Others Tarot hobbyists, professional readers and those somewhere in between all share something in common. We all want to give the best readings possible to clients, family and friends. In this online presentation, Christiana Gaudet will guide you through each step of performing a great reading. She will help you discover your personal style as a reader, and discuss some common pitfalls and ways to avoid them. She will give you insight in how to derive the most specific information possible from each reading. For registration information visit the event listing on the Continuing Education website. Sunday, February 5, 9 pm EST Christiana's Psychic Café Anita Perez joins us on the show to talk divination, art, magick and more. Anita is the co-host of the new radio show "The Alchemical Artisans Hour." You will have the opportunity to call in to get your free psychic reading! Just visit the Para Encounters Network Sunday at 9 to enjoy the show! Tuesday, February 5, 7 pm EST Premium Webinar An In-Depth Journey into the Major Arcana - Spiritual Enlightenment The final seven cards of the Major Arcana, cards Fifteen through Twenty-One, hold the secrets of the Fool’s Journey toward spiritual enlightenment. This online presentation will focus on these seven important cards. Students will learn the astrological, numerological and elemental associations for each card. Students will contemplate the lessons of these seven cards, and discover how they point the way to enlightenment. Armed with a complete understanding of each card, students will have an easy time learning ways of interpreting the cards when reading for themselves and others. For registration information visit the event listing on the Continuing Education website. Share This Newsletter! Tarot by Christiana Gaudet Toll Free: 866-99TAROT (866-998-2768) // Local: 561-655-1160 Email: christiana@tarotbychristiana.com Website: tarotbychristiana.com Skype: tarot.radio