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!

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About Christiana Gaudet

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Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 6 Issue 33
August 16, 2023

Faith, Hope, and Love

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

Connecticut and Tampa Tours Resume Fall 2021

Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 4 Issue 6
February 10, 2021