Look for the Glimmers!

I have learned a new word usage that I really like and want to share with you. We are all familiar with the concept of mental health triggers. Triggers are words, topics, thoughts, and images that can stimulate an unpleasant emotional reaction.

A glimmer is the opposite of a trigger. In this modern slang usage, a glimmer is something that stimulates a positive, hopeful, joyful emotional reaction.

A glimmer can be something that reminds you of a good thing that happened in the past. A glimmer can be something that feels uplifting for you in the moment.

We look for trigger warnings to avoid exposing ourselves to something that could hurt us or slow our healing.

What would happen if we started to look for glimmers? What are the signs of hope around us? What can you see, hear, find, or think about that could give you a momentary sense of joy?

What are things that reliably bring you cheer?

For me, looking for glimmers is a spiritual practice. I believe that the Universe sends us all sorts of signs. Sometimes we want to interpret those signs as a specific piece of advice. I worry that we often interpret these signs based on our fears and desires. We think hope is about getting what we want and avoiding what we don’t want.

I think it can be helpful to find the glimmers of joy and embrace the energy of hope without tightly defining what the realization of that hope might look like. The more that our glimmers allow us not only to hope but also to trust, the more uplifted we can be.

The StaarCorner

StaarCon 2024 is excited to welcome some of the most well-known and well-loved teachers and creators to share their wisdom with us. We are also happy to discover those who are new to our international community with something great to share.

Teri Salomoni is a member of our Treasure Coast Tarot Meetup. She is a fifth-generation Strega and tarot card reader. She leads local ghost tours in Stuart, Florida. Her presentation “Strega Strategies” at StaarCon 2023 was inspiring and enlightening. We are so excited that Teri has agreed to join us in 2024, and we cannot wait to learn more from her!

Which Tarot Cards Speak of Hope?

While we can find hope in any tarot card and any tarot reading, some cards specifically offer a hopeful message. Some cards, like the Star and the Nine of Cups, are obviously hopeful.

Many other cards can be interpreted in a hopeful way, depending on the context in which they appear.

Here are three tarot cards not typically associated with hope that can sometimes surprise you with a hopeful message.

The Four of Pentacles is often associated with selfishness and miserly behavior. Yet, the Four of Pentacles offers a hopeful message when it can be interpreted to encourage healthy boundaries and good self-care.

The Moon is traditionally a card of mystery, treachery, and hidden enemies. Yet, it is also a card that encourages our psychic development and spiritual growth.

The Seven of Pentacles in the Waite-Smith Tarot is associated with the Irish Potato Famine. Yet, it can also be an admonition to tend your garden with care in anticipation of a harvest.

When we look at these three cards, we can understand that many, most, or all tarot cards can speak of hope in some way. As an exercise, pull a card at random. No matter what the card is, find a way to see a hopeful message for yourself within it.

The Week in Review

Tonight on my YouTube channel I will teach a free livestream tarot class. The class is Tarot Spread Techniques. Join us, or watch the replay, and learn great ways to create, perform, and interpret tarot spreads.

From Around the Web

Listen to a radio show about tarot in Connecticut from Connecticut Public Radio. You may know that I got my start as a tarot reader in Connecticut!

Back in 2014, James Ricklef shared a three-card tarot spread for finding hope. This spread is a perfect fit for our topic this week.

I am so excited to see that so many new people are coming to tarot meetups and joining tarot groups. If you are new to tarot and looking for a tarot resource, Joan Bunning’s Learning the Tarot website is amazing!

Creation and Divination

When we look for hopeful signs and joyful reminders in our day-to-day lives, we will undoubtedly find them. We can also find these signs within our tarot decks.

Use your creativity to ask questions and interpret cards to give you the glimmer you need. This requires advanced tarot skills because of the specific context of the question.

For example, suppose you asked for something that would give you a sense of joy, and you received the Three of Swords. How can you interpret the Three of Swords in a way that gives you a joyful moment? You might place the sorrow of the Three of Swords in the past and find joy in the healing you have accomplished. You might see the swords in the image as hard truths you are embracing and find joy in your capacity.

What if you receive a card typically associated with joy or happiness? That can also be challenging because a card with the keyword ‘joy’ will not bring a moment of joy simply because of its keyword. You must dive more deeply into the card to find a specific joyful message for yourself.

This exercise utilizes your creativity and strengthens your tarot skills as you find glimmers within your tarot deck.

Upcoming Events

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
Tarot Communication for Clarity and Depth
Weaving the Tarot Reading Story
The Elemental Major Arcana
Minor Arcana Numbers, Elements, and Truth
Personal Healing with Tarot
Create and Interpret Custom Tarot Spreads
What the Court Cards Want You to Know
How Spirit Speaks Through Tarot

Catch up on your missed Zoom webinars and more!

cardandcraftacademy.com

About Christiana Gaudet

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

Christiana Gaudet

3559 SW Corporate Parkway
Palm City, Florida 34990-8152

Email cgaudet@cardandcraft.com
On the web www.christianagaudet.com
Online classes www.cardandcraftacademy.com
StaarCon information www.staarcon.com

YouTube @YourTarotFairyGodmother
Instagram @christianatarot @staarcon

Private telephone, Skype, FaceTime, Zoom and in person readings and instruction are available by appointment.

Tarot parties at your home or office are available throughout Florida.

Zoom parties and group instruction available almost everywhere!

Call toll free 866-99TAROT (866-998-2768)
Palm City 772-301-0232 x102
or call or text 561-655-1160
for more information or to schedule your event.
Schedule online at cardandcraft.10to8.com.

Agent inquiries are welcome.

Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 6 Issue 33
August 16, 2023

To Be the Bigger Person

When we speak of ‘being the bigger person’, we are not speaking of body weight or size. ‘Being the bigger person’ is an expression that speaks of magnanimity, compassion, and forgiveness.

Being the bigger person means that we do not respond to pettiness, rudeness, or immaturity in kind.

Most of us were raised to believe that there is inherent moral goodness in being the bigger person. It can also be in our own best interest to be generous and compassionate. When our personal brand includes a reputation for rising above petty behaviors, there are rewards. We earn the trust and respect of those around us.

Sometimes it feels draining to always be the one to have to rise above the bad behavior of others.

“Why do I always have to be the bigger person?”

“Must I give a pass to this sort of behavior?”

These are questions that arise at the tarot table quite often.

It is understandable to be frustrated with the bad behavior of others. It is normal to struggle against the desire to fight fire with fire.

There is a deeper issue here, too. Being the bigger person should not mean being forced to tolerate abuse. Being the bigger person does not mean allowing others to push past our boundaries.

There is a certain amount of strategy involved in deciding how we need to react to insult, overstepping, or unfair behavior. It matters who the perpetrator is to us. Their intentions matter, and their capability to understand the harm they have caused matters.

Sometimes we need to be the bigger person because we simply are the bigger person. We can take spiritual comfort in the fact that we have a greater capacity for kindness and understanding than some other people do.

Sometimes being the bigger person means having the courage to stand up to a bully, come to someone’s defense, or call out a harmful behavior.

Sometimes strategy dictates that we pick the reaction that is likely to give us the best outcome.

What it means to be the bigger person may change according to the situation. Yet, there is one thing that never changes. That is our need to be clear about the motivation for our own responses. When we need to respond to something unpleasant, we need to check in with our higher self. Are we being reactive, or proactive? Are we acting out of hurt, or out of wisdom?

What is the best possible outcome for this situation, and how can we achieve that?

In the end, that is what it means to be the bigger person.

The StaarCorner

We are excited to announce that Michelle Barrie will be a presenter at StaarCon 2022.

Michelle Barrie is a Reiki Master Teacher and Cartomancer based in Southeastern Florida. She has dedicated her life to mastering and exploring many forms of divination and energy healing modalities.  Her most beloved medium is Lenormand.

At StaarCon, Michelle will teach a session on how to use Lenormand cards for mediumship.

Mark your calendar for StaarCon 2022, which will be held January 21 through 23. Tickets will be available soon!

Did you miss Making Magick with Tarot?
Take it now in archive at Card and Craft Academy on Teachable!
Includes the class materials and a recording of the live webcast.

Our June Zoom Tarot Class

On Thursday, June 24, 7 pm to 9 pm ET, join me for the Fearless Wisdom Tarot Workshop on Zoom

Are you a fearful tarot enthusiast? Are there specific cards that make you nervous? Do you want to read for yourself or others, but worry about the cards that might appear?

Join me for a workshop that will help you embrace the healing power of each card, and your own skill and wisdom as a tarot reader.

In this two-hour workshop you will take a deep dive into the cards that disturb you the most.  You will learn new ways to process dark images and find the healing and helpful truth within them.

You will learn some best practices for fearless and wise tarot reading, including setting your ethics and boundaries, invoking spirit and creating sacred space.

Register for this workshop now.

I Will Be in the Tampa Bay Area This Weekend

There are only a few openings left for house calls in the Tampa Bay area and private sessions in my Wesley Chapel AirBnB this weekend.

If you would like an in-person session with me in the Tampa Bay Area June 11 through 14, please call or text 561-655-1160 to make your appointment.

Tarot Helps Us Do the Right Thing

When we have a moral quandary and are not sure how to respond to a difficult interpersonal situation, tarot can help!

It is a good practice to ask helpful questions of the cards, and to pull a single card, or a few cards, to answer each question.

When the issue is with a person, you might ask questions about what is motivating that person, or the best way to hand that person.

You might ask questions about what the best possible outcome is, and how to achieve that outcome.

You might even as a question as general as “What is the right thing for me to do in this situation?”

If you are feeling sad, angry, or bitter, you can ask the cards for ways to process your feelings.

Join me at Masters of the Tarot at Omega Institute

I am glad to be one of the five teachers presenting the Masters of the Tarot conference at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY, this summer. The conference is July 23 through 25.

Founded in the late 1970s, Omega is a unique retreat center that is known and loved by many in our community.

Mary K. Greer and Rachel Pollack have presented a tarot conference there every summer for decades. Of course, last year Omega was unable to open.

I am very excited to be a part of this iconic event as the world begins to restart. Make your plans to join us there!

The Week in Review

The June issue of “The Cartomancer” is out, and available in print and digital format. You will find a lot of great content in this magazine, including a cover story written by me, and a review of StaarCon 2021!

This past week I taught a free class on YouTube. If you missed “Minor Arcana Four, Five, Six” you can catch the replay.

I was excited to get a mention in The Tarot Lady’s monthly “Hit List”.

From Around the Web

From Thought Catalog, a wonderful article about what it means to be the bigger person.

From Odyssey, here is permission to not always be the bigger person.

From Business Insider, here are strategies for dealing with difficult people at work.

Northeastern Summer Tour

From July 26 through August 9, I will be based at True Bikram Yoga in Madison, Connecticut. I will be available for house calls and parties throughout Connecticut, and for private readings in Madison.

I will be able to travel to Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York for parties and larger gatherings.

Dates are already booking quickly. Please call or text 561-655-1160 to get your party date or private appointment on the calendar.

Cards for Your Consideration

Which tarot card might ask us to be the bigger person? I think there are many! Major Arcana 8, Strength, comes to mind as a card of compassion. The Six of Pentacles might tell us to be charitable.

There are also cards which tell us to have good boundaries, such as the Seven of Wands and the Four of Pentacles.

Justice, the Ace of Swords, and the Knight of Swords tell us to do the right thing. Sometimes the right thing means standing up, sometimes it means drawing a boundary, and sometimes it means being gracious and forgiving.

Upcoming Tours and Events

The Palm City office is now open to the public, so make your appointment now!

Card and Craft Academy

Classes presented by Christiana are available right now at Card and Craft Academy!

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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

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New!Catch up on your missed Zoom webinars and more!
cardandcraftacademy.com

Card and Craft, Inc.

Christiana Gaudet

3559 SW Corporate Parkway
Palm City, Florida 34990-8152

On the web www.christianagaudet.com
Online classeswww.cardandcraftacademy.com
StaarCon information www.staarcon.com

Private telephone, Skype, FaceTime and in person readings and instruction are available by appointment.

Tarot parties at your home or office are available throughout Florida.

Call or text toll free 866-99TAROT (866-998-2768)
Palm City 772-301-0232
or call or text 561-655-1160
for more information or to schedule your event.

Agent inquiries are welcome.

Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 4 Issue 23
June 9, 2021

Compassionate Detachment

Compassionate Detachment

We all need boundaries.

Years ago, I coined the term “compassionate detachment” to describe the state of mind that a good tarot reader must maintain in order to access intuition, help people, and stay healthy. Over time I have come to realize that this state of mind is actually necessary for everyone, not only those who work closely with others, or who engage in the psychic arts.

Getting to the mental space of compassionate detachment isn’t easy. You have to start from a place of compassion for all people.

Let that sink in for a moment; that’s ALL people. That’s not just people you like, or people who are kind to you, or people who act in a way that pleases you, or people who believe what you believe, or people who haven’t hurt you; that’s everybody.

The easiest way for me to get to that state of mind isn’t by being logical or rational, it’s by focusing on my heart chakra and sending my breath there. It’s a meditative process. Try this exercise so you can see what I mean.

Focus on your breathing. Make your breath as full and as deep as possible. Then, turn your attention, and with it, your breath, to your heart. Picture that you are breathing directly into your heart. With each inhalation, as your chest expands with air, feel your heart expand with love. Imagine that your heart is growing bigger and bigger, just like the Grinch’s heart does in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

With each exhalation, release the anger, fear and hurt that has built up in your heart.

Then, as you breathe in, focus on holding compassion for all people. Understand that hurt people hurt people, and that those who have hurt you, and those who have hurt the people you love, and those who make decisions with which you do not agree, may be acting out of their own lack of love.

As you breathe in, feel gratitude for your own capacity to love. Recognize that you have enough love in your heart to share with those who haven’t enough.

Now, as you exhale, release your need to care about, or control, what happens next, in your life, and in the lives of those you care about.

Wait, doesn’t that sound like a contradiction?

Of course, we need to care about ourselves, and about others. Of course, we need to be engaged in our future, and the future of our planet. But for this one moment, release your need to care and control. Breathe in love, and as you breathe out, release your attachments. Recognize that you can pray, hope and wish for good things, without being attached to the outcome. Know that in this one moment, all that matters is your breath, and your ability to hold love for all.

As you breathe, come to a place where you can trust that whatever happens, the world will continue to turn. Come to a place where you can trust yourself, no matter what happens.

Now, affirm your right to say no to whatever doesn’t feel good and right to you. As you breathe in, feel your own power to make decisions for yourself. As you breathe out, release any attachment to the opinions of other people. As you exhale, let your breath surround you to create around your energy field a boundary of safety and protection.

It is from this loving, detached, protected place that we are best able to help others, and to help ourselves.

Boundaries are super important. So many of us feel guilty when we say no. Yet, we feel even worse when we let people walk all over us. It is impossible to be a compassionate person without maintaining healthy boundaries.

When someone tries to make you feel guilty, hold them in compassion, detach from your desire to please them, and keep your boundaries firm. Forgive people for their manipulation, but, at the same time, don’t let yourself be manipulated. Recognize that your boundaries serve not only to make you safe, but also to make safe the very people who try to push past them. When you stop another person from hurting you, you are helping them as much as you are helping yourself.

Practice this meditative breathing exercise and remember to use compassionate detachment in your interactions with people. This will make you more effective, healthier and happier, no matter the nature of your relationships with others.

Mercury Retrograde in Leo and Cancer

This summer’s Mercury retrograde is from July 7 through August 2. Its shadow is felt for two weeks prior, and two weeks after. Each Mercury retrograde is different, and this one has some particularly interesting qualities. We will experience its energies playing out nationally and internationally as the drama of Leo collides with the sensitivity of Cancer, while Mercury retrograde’s tendency for miscommunication could reflect many of us feeling thrown into a righteous tizzy over small things that seem to take on an overblown sense of importance. The emotionally charged reactions to a Disney movie, and the misremembered history that made airports central to revolutionary war strategy give us a small taste of what could be in store for us over the next few weeks.

I’ll leave politics, arts, and culture to the pundits. My job during this summer’s Mercury Retrograde is to help you make the most of the opportunity this time affords you. This particular Mercury retrograde is a time to heal your heart, soothe your soul, and remember who you are. This summer, you can learn to use your energy where you can be most effective, release unnecessary drama and emotional attachments from your life, and harness your creativity in a way that will bring you lasting success and satisfaction.

I’ve developed a special tarot session at a special price to help you work with the unique energies available during this Mercury Retrograde. Your Summer 2019 Mercury Retrograde session is a half hour in length, and available at the discounted price of $50. During this time, we will work together to help you remember who you are and what is important to you, reclaim your creativity, release your attachments and motivate you to move forward on your important projects.

A Mercury Retrograde session with me is only available July 7 through August 2. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for healing and insight! Call or text 561-655-1160 to book yours!

Compassionate Detachment Tarot Spread

Here is a spread you can try with your tarot deck, or any other oracle, to help you get to your place of compassionate detachment.

You can arrange the cards in any pattern that feels good to you.

Card 1: My current ability (or resistance) to have compassion for myself.

Card 2: My current ability (or resistance) to have compassion for others.

Card 3: What I need to know or do to cultivate more compassion for myself and others.

Card 4: What I need to know or do to help me release my attachment to the actions of others.

Card 5: What I need to know to help me release my attachment to outcome.

Card 6: My natural ability to hold healthy boundaries.

Card 7: What I need to do to hold and maintain proper boundaries.

Psychic Gallery at Center for Inner Wisdom

On Wednesday, July 17, 7 pm to 9 pm, please join me for a very special evening. I will be presenting a psychic gallery in a small, intimate setting at the Center for Inner Wisdom, 4849 N Dixie Hwy, Suite 2, Oakland Park, Florida 33334.

I love doing psychic galleries because the energy of sacred space, and the energy of a group united for a single purpose, creates the perfect environment in which to receive powerful messages.

In this gallery, every person who attends will receive a reading that offers pertinent information and insight. You may even receive a message from a loved one in spirit!

Group members will hold space and support each other. Everyone will benefit from hearing and witnessing every message.

Ticket price is $30, seating is limited. You can register online now!

The Week in Review

This week I was happy to review a really interesting new tarot book, Tarot for Troubled Times, by Shaheen Miro and Theresa Reed. You can read the review on my website.

If you missed my Three-Card Weekly Reading on Facebook Live this week, you can catch the archive on my YouTube channel.

From Around the Web

Brene Brown has a lot to say about boundaries. Check out this video, any many more of her wise words on YouTube.

Fake positivity is dangerous and gets in the way of true healing! Spiritual bypass is a tricky way to deny your issues and avoid the healing you need to do.

This article uses different words to describe compassionate detachment, but the ideas are the same. Check out these 10 Rules for Reading Tarot for a Friend.

Cards for Your Consideration

This week let’s consider some alternative meanings for two cards. Both of these alternative meanings have become operative in my reading practice. Once I saw these possibilities for these cards, I couldn’t unsee them.

The first is Major Arcana Eight, Strength. Typically pictured as a woman and a lion, we often see this card as affirmation of our own strength to bear what we must and do what we need to do. This can be a card of tempering our wild nature, and that is where my preferred meaning comes in to play. The woman has tamed the lion not with brute force, but with love. Because of this, one of my favorite keywords for Strength is compassion. We must have the strength that the woman has, to recognize the lion’s wild nature, and not fear it. We must recognize our own inner lion, yet when that lion wants to roar, we very often must subdue its angry nature, and instead respond with gentleness.

The second card is the Four of Pentacles. Widely known as the card of the miser, this is often interpreted as selfishness, or a need for frugality. Very often, though, the Four of Pentacles can instruct us to be self-full, and to keep good boundaries. Many times, this card figures prominently in readings for people who come from families with poor boundaries. This card advises us to keep healthy boundaries without guilty or regret.

The next time you see these cards in a reading, consider if these interpretations might add value to your reading!

Upcoming Events and Tour Dates

Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 2 Issue 28
July 10, 2019

The Power of Self-Care

In medicine, self-care is the regimen a patient must follow on their own.

In personal healing, self-care includes anything you do with the intention of taking care of your well-being, whether body, mind or spirit.

Sometimes I find that my need to take care of my body feels at odds with a perceived need to take care of my spirit with chocolate cake!

In many cultures, and especially here in the United States, people seem to take pride in denying themselves care. Perhaps we feel we appear stronger if we do not admit to needing care.

Often, we pack our lives with so many commitments that we can’t seem to find the resources to focus on our own self-care.

In reality, self-care is good time management. The better we feel, the more efficiently we use our time.

Taking time for self-care is also an enforced break from our routine. That, in itself, has value.

There are many possible self-care activities. Exercise, massage, cooking, yoga, tarot, gardening, meditation, journaling, dancing, socializing, spa treatment, ceremony and playing music could all be considered self-care. As you can see, some activities take time and money, others can easily be incorporated in to daily life.

Whatever you invest in your own self-care will be returned to you many times over.

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Body, Mind and Spirit Self-Care Spread

Here’s an easy three-card spread designed to help you understand your self-care needs and habits.

Simply pull one card for Body, one for Mind and one for Spirit.

Interpret the card in each position in context of your need for self-care in that area.

Perhaps a card might indicate a self-care activity that would be helpful. Perhaps a card my reveal a particular resistance to self-care. Maybe a card would congratulate you on your approach to self-care in that area.

Perform this spread on a regular basis as a way of making sure you are showing up for yourself.

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The Week in Review

This week, I shared a new video on my YouTube channel. It’s a guided meditation to heal the heart and attract love.


On my Dark Forest Blog, I shared some thoughts about online dating. Read “Dating as a Shopping Experience.”

From Around the Web

From Jamie Morris, here is a tarot-based writing prompt! Why not use tarot and writing together for some self-care this week?

In the mood for something out of the ordinary? The Tarot Cat interviews European musician Zdrada Palki!

Lisa Hunt has created the new Fairy Tale Lenormand deck, with book by Arwen Lynch! Check it out, and come see Lisa at TarotCon
Florida!
 

Song of the Week

From Lindsey Stirling, featuring Christina Perri, Here’s Brave Enough.

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Card Reading Magic Free Telesummit

No matter where you are in your card reading journey, there is always more to learn about this art that none of us can ever truly perfect.
 

From feeling confident from the moment you sit down in a reading, to creating a consistent, powerful experience for clients, there is so much we can share with each other.
 

So my friend and colleague Tori Hartman, creator of the best-selling Chakra Wisdom Oracle Cards, has put together a free virtual intuitive festival so that you can benefit from rarely-heard insights in conversations with well-known groundbreakers and up-and-coming experts.
 

Card Reading Magic, an online event with 18 speakers including myself will take place September 14-18.
 

This event is perfect for you if:
 

- You’re new to card reading and want to start a business

- You’ve been at it for years and want to step your game up

- You want to join a community of top card readers
 

During this virtual intuitive festival, you’ll discover:
 

- How to gain more specific, in depth information from your readings

- The 5 essentials of card reading

- How you can use your intuition more effectively and naturally

- Mistakes that keep you from accurate readings

- How you can shift into the zone of being a card reader quickly and easily

- Simple techniques to move away from the guidebook

- How to put the story together for your clients by linking cards

- The insider secrets of self-publishing decks from experts who have done it
 

So if you’re ready to get more accurate readings, join me for this virtual intuitive festival:

Card Reading Magic

September 14-18

Reserve Your Spot Now (FREE) 

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The Four of Pentacles Urges Self-Care

Many people see the Four of Pentacles as selfishness. Eden Gray called this the “Card of the Miser”.

Modern tarotists often see the Four of Pentacles as depicting a “lack mentality”.

All of these can be appropriate interpretations of the Four of Pentacles.

At the same time, there is another interpretation that works for this card, and can sometimes shed new light into a reading.

Sometimes, we can interpret the Four of Pentacles as advice for self-full-ness, rather than a warning against selfishness.

The Four of Pentacles can advise us to hold better boundaries, or to make our own needs a priority.

Sometimes, we feel selfish when we are really being appropriately self-full. The Four of Pentacles asks us to contemplate this balance in our lives.

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Image from Crystal Visions Tarot by Jennifer Galasso

Your One-Card Weekly Reading

Eight of Cups

Your One-Card reading is the Eight of Cups.

This week, it is time to consider what emotions and hurtful stories you are hanging on to, acknowledge them, and release them.

Recognize that the way you tell your stories, even if factually accurate, may not be the way that allows your history to serve your best.
 
This process is part of good self-care, and an opportunity to heal.

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Upcoming Events

September 14-18
Card Reading Magic Tarot Telesummit with Tori Hartman

Discover the 5 essentials of card reading, mistakes that keep you from accurate readings, and how you can use your intuition more effectively during this FREE virtual intuitive festival, Card Reading Magic, where I’ll be one of 18 featured experts. Sign up now! 

Coming Soon:

October 7 Professional Development Day (PreConference Intensive)

October 8-9 TarotCon (Florida) 2016

October 14-23 Christiana's Trip to West Palm Beach. Call or test 561-655-1160 to schedule your party, house call or private reading.

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About Christiana

Christiana Gaudet
Origins Spa and Wellness Center
1537 N Dale Mabry Highway #102
Lutz, FL 33548
 

Private telephone, Skype and in person readings and instruction are available by appointment.

Tarot parties at your home or office are available throughout Florida. 

Call 813-948-4488, toll free 866-99TAROT,
or text or call 561-655-1160
for more information or to schedule your event.

Agent inquiries are welcome.