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Faith, Hope, and Love
We know the importance of faith, hope and love. Here are some things to consider about these three essential values.
As Valentine’s Day approaches, our thoughts usually include love and romance.
Whenever the conversation turns to the topic of love, I try to remember the spiritual nature of love.
Romantic love is a wonderful gift. However, not everyone wants, has, or needs a romantic love relationship. Yet, everyone needs love.
Regardless of our traditions and belief systems, we can often find great wisdom in sacred texts. From 1 Corinthians 13:13, comes one of my favorite quotes.
"So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
There is a lot to unpack in that statement. That’s because it is really easy for us to get it wrong when it comes to faith, hope, and love.
We can easily put our faith into things that aren’t real. We can believe things that aren’t true. We can embrace false hope which hurts us and wastes our time and energy. We can mistake manipulation for love.
Yet, without faith, hope, and love there would be very little joy in life.
Faith is important, yet we must make sure we put our faith in something real.
Hope is necessary, yet we must hope for something realistic and support our hope with action.
Love is the most important thing. We must be able to find love everywhere. We must love ourselves, we must love one another, and we must seek meaningful relationships with those worthy of our love.
On Valentine’s Day, we think of love. Yet, love matters every day, not only on February 14th.
The StaarCorner
We have been having so much fun on the Accelevents platform as we review our StaarCon classes and meet in the lounges for conversation and community. We have access to this platform through February 21.
We have changed the name of our Facebook Group to “StaarCon Community.” Please join it if you haven’t already.
We are making plans for StaarCon 2022! We will have some important announcements for you soon!
Join Us for Tarot Class on Zoom
On Thursday, February 18, 7 to 9 pm EST, join me on Zoom for a special tarot class,
Tarot Readings for Personalities and Relationships.
How do tarot cards speak of people, their personalities and their relationships? How can we use tarot to better understand ourselves and each other?
In this class you will learn how to give helpful relationship readings and couples readings, and how to determine the nature and needs of an individual simply by understanding the cards that appear for them.
This special Valentine’s Day inspired tarot class is appropriate for readers of all levels of experience.
Class fee is $37.50. Register now!
Faith, Hope, and Love Tarot Spreads
Everyone loves three-card tarot spreads.
How many three-card tarot spreads can you create from the concepts of faith, hope, and love?
Try making a tarot spread to discover the places you shouldn’t put your faith and hope, and where you should be careful about whom and what you love.
Then make another three-card tarot spread about the places where you can find faith, hope, and love in your life.
Perhaps you can make a spread about your relationship with yourself. How can you have more faith in yourself? What can you hope for your future? How can you be more loving toward yourself?
As you play with your cards and these three important words, you can find a great deal of insight, and learn a lot about yourself, your life, and your cards!
The Week in Review
This week I wrote a blogpost about my new favorite tarot deck, the Light Seer’s Tarot.
Join me on my Facebook business page, my YouTube channel and the StaarCon Facebook page for regular livestream events.
From Around the Web
Did you see this video about Dior’s new collection, featuring and inspired by tarot?
Nancy Hendrickson shares some thoughts about which tarot deck might be best for ancestral tarot work. We all enjoyed her workshop at StaarCon!
Brenda Elizabeth, one of our presenters, vendors and sponsors at StaarCon, is creating new Lenormand decks, and has a very helpful website complete with Lenormand meanings! Check it out!
Images from Grand Luxe Tarot by Ciro Marchetti
Cards for Your Consideration
There are many tarot cards which speak of concepts like faith, hope, and love. Today let’s focus on the most obvious ones from within the Major Arcana.
The Hierophant is a very important card as we consider faith. In fact, in some modern decks Major Arcana 5 has been renamed “Faith”.
The Hierophant is all about our belief systems, our doctrine and our dogma.
When what we believe is based on something real, our faith serves us. When our faith is based on fear or misinformation, the power structures based on that faith can become very dangerous.
Major Arcana 6 is the Lovers. In this card we learn how important it is to choose wisely when it comes to who and what we want to be present in our lives. The Lovers card is all about what we integrate into our lives and how we do that. This card can advise caution in our relationships. From this card we learn that our relationships are a delicate balance which rely on our good communication and good choices.
Major Arcana 17 is the Star. In this card we find all healing, all fulfillment, and all hope. Yet, we must make sure that our hope is based on something real, rather than on a fantasy, or illusion.
We also cannot let fear cause us to give up hope. We can only embrace the hope and healing we are willing to allow into our lives.
In these three Major Arcana cards we see and learn the important lessons inherent in faith, hope, and love.
Events and Tours
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Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 4 Issue 6
February 10, 2021
Keep Trying or Walk Away?
Common wisdom sometimes isn't as helpful as logic and introspection when we have big decisions to make.
There are many times in life when we have to make a clear decision. Should I keeping trying, or should I walk away?
We might ask this question in regard to a relationship, or to a business venture, or as we try to master a new skill.
There are two pieces of common wisdom about this conundrum which contradict each other. One is something I heard very often as I was growing up. I bet you did, too.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.
The other is a quote often misattributed to Albert Einstein.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
It’s easy to see the wisdom in both.
What are the factors we need to consider when making this sort of decision?
If what we are working toward is something that is likely to get better with practice, trying again is usually the right thing to do.
If what we are working toward is something that requires teamwork, and other team members aren’t on board, it is probably time to walk away.
If what we are doing is based on a firm ethical stance, we probably need to stay the course.
If what we are doing is based on what someone else thinks we should do, we may not have the commitment needed to succeed.
Over my years as a tarot reader I have seen countless stories of people who have finally found success after trying and failing many times. I have also seen people waste a lot of time and energy on something that had very little potential even from the beginning.
In the end, it seems smart to rely less on common wisdom and more on the logical assessment of each individual situation.
It is also true that we need to look closely at our own motivations. If we know the truth about why we are doing something we will have an easier time deciding if we should indeed continue to try to do that thing.
This is an area of life where divination can be extraordinarily helpful, not to predict what we will do, but to help us weigh and understand our decision more carefully.
The StaarCorner
Our most recent episode of StaarCast is super-special because it is an interview with Benebell Wen, one of our two headlining presenters.
Benebell will be presenting both Saturday and Sunday. In our interview she shares her topic for her Sunday presentation.
You can watch the interview on YouTube, or listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Join Me for a Free Library Presentation on Zoom!
Tomorrow, Thursday, October 29 at 6 pm, I am happy to be presenting my program about the art, history and culture of tarot on Zoom, courtesy of the Land O’ Lakes Library.
This is open to anyone who registers. Simply visit the Pasco Library Events Calendar, or their Facebook page.
Keep Trying or Walk Away Tarot Spread
Here is an enlightening tarot spread you can try when you are stuck in this dilemma. Arrange the cards in any pattern that feels right.
Card One: This is what happens if you keep trying without making any changes.
Card Two: This is a change you can try to make your attempts more successful.
Card Three: This is your outcome if you keep trying with the change suggested in Card Two.
Card Four: This is what happens if you walk away.
Card Five: This is your best reason for walking away.
Card Six: This is something you need to consider as you make this decision.
The Week in Review
This week I wrote a blogpost that was inspired by something that came up in a class on the suit of Cups which I taught on YouTube.
Make sure you catch my social media broadcasts, either live or in archive, on my Facebook business page, on the StaarCon page, and on my YouTube channel.
From Around the Web
Some of my blogposts have caught the attention of Italian tarotists Martino Coppola. With my permission, he has been translating his favorites into Italian and publishing them on his website!
My friend Jenna Matlin, who will be presenting at StaarCon, shared an article on Medium about distance readings.
Here are some tarot spreads for Halloween.
Cards for Your Consideration
Our topic this week might cause us to consider cards that speak of three different things. There are cards that speak of the need to make a decision. There are cards that speak of walking away. And, there are cards that speak of tenacity. When we see all three in a reading, we might have a sense that we are facing this question about whether to keep trying or to walk away.
My favorite cards to speak of the need to make a decision are the Two of Swords, the Seven of Cups, and the Lovers.
My favorite cards that can speak of continuing pursuit of the goal are the Nine of Wands, The Knight of Swords, and the Seven of Pentacles.
My favorite cards that can speak of walking away are the Eight of Cups, the Five of Cups, and the Six of Swords.
There are some cards that can express motion, like the Chariot, but won’t, without the context of a specific question, position, or surrounding cards, let us know whether the motion is toward the goal or away from it.
Events and Tours
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Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 3 Issue 44
October 28, 2020