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What Now?
Tarot helps us find next steps when we are unsure of the way ahead. A change of plans or a new opportunity can often make us feel uncertain.
What now? This is a question we ask ourselves in exasperation when we are overwhelmed and feel we cannot handle anything more, and something more presents itself.
This is also a question we ask ourselves in confusion when we are not sure what to do next.
We wondered what to do after the completion of a project, after a success, or after a failure.
We wonder what to do after something unexpected happens and upends our plans.
When have an idea for a new path in life, we wonder what to do first to move forward.
We often wish we could receive direct marching orders from a Higher Power. Sometimes, we feel inspired, as if we have received a spiritual calling. Yet, even then, we are often at a loss to know what to do to follow the calling.
Logic, prayer, meditation, and divination can help us find the wisdom we need to know what comes next, and what we need to do when we find ourselves asking, “What now?”What now? This is a question we ask ourselves in exasperation when we are overwhelmed and feel we cannot handle anything more, and something more presents itself.
This is also a question we ask ourselves in confusion when we are not sure what to do next.
We wondered what to do after the completion of a project, after a success, or after a failure.
We wonder what to do after something unexpected happens and upends our plans.
When have an idea for a new path in life, we wonder what to do first to move forward.
We often wish we could receive direct marching orders from a Higher Power. Sometimes, we feel inspired, as if we have received a spiritual calling. Yet, even then, we are often at a loss to know what to do to follow the calling.
Logic, prayer, meditation, and divination can help us find the wisdom we need to know what comes next, and what we need to do when we find ourselves asking, “What now?”
The StaarCorner
One of our StaarCon Mission Statements is to offer a wide variety of educational opportunities, and to teach a wide scope of topics. We are excited that Tabitha Dial will be joining us to offer a class in tea leaf reading, otherwise known as tasseomancy.
Tabitha is the author of the book, Creative Divination: Read Tea Leaves and Develop Your Personal Code.
We are excited to learn Tabitha’s modern approach to this ancient practice at StaarCon 2023.
Make plans to join us January 20 though 22 in person in West Palm Beach or online on Accelevents.
Tarot for a Next Step
When you find yourself asking “What now?” it is time to do a tarot reading.
You may decide to create a tarot spread for your situation, or you may simply ask a few questions and pull some cards. Here are some ideas to inspire you.
You can literally ask “What now?” and pull a card!
You can ask if there are other unexpected surprises on their way, and how best to prepare.
You can ask “What is my first step?” or “What is my next step?”
You can ask what you need to know about the way forward.
The Week in Review
Have you seen your July Tarotscopes on my YouTube channel yet? You can watch your sun sign, moon sign, and rising sign to get a forecast for the month.
If you missed the tarot class on YouTube last night, you can watch the replay.
I’ve started simulcasting my YouTube livestreams on my Instagram. You can catch me on either platform, but YouTube offers you a chance to see the cards in action on CardCam.
From Around the Web
Who has tarot readings? People of every walk of life, including this baseball player.
Finally, someone has said what I have been thinking about the dark side of TikTok tarot.
Though a product of the Middle Ages, modern tarot is striving to be inclusive. Cosmopolitan has compiled a list of tarot books for the LGBTQ+ community.
Guidance for the Journey
There are many tarot cards that can give you a clue that it is time to figure out your next step.
The Minor Arcana Twos, the Lovers, the Seven of Cups and the Four of Cups can say there are decisions to be made.
The Pages, Aces, the Fool, the Magician, and the Eight of Wands can suggest that a next step is needed.
The Six of Cups, the Hierophant, the Hermit, and Judgement may tell you that you need to rely on things you learned in the past to help you on your journey forward.
The Magician, the Pages, and the Eight of Pentacles may tell you that you need to learn something new in order to take a next step.
Perhaps one of the best uses of tarot divination is to find the inspiration, courage, and action steps to move forward on a new path.
Upcoming Events
Card and Craft Academy
Classes presented by Christiana are available right now at Card and Craft Academy!
Christiana’s Eleven-Card Celtic Cross
Finding Meaning in the Minor Arcana
The Major Arcana, Magical and Mundane
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
Your Journey Through the Tarot Court
Tarot Stories, Trends, and Blends
Tarot Readings for Personalities and Relationships
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
Minor Arcana Numbers, Elements, and Truth
Create and Interpret Custom Tarot Spreads
What the Court Cards Want You to Know (New!)
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
On the web www.christianagaudet.com
Online classes www.cardandcraftacademy.com
StaarCon information www.staarcon.com
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.
Call or text toll free 866-99TAROT (866-998-2768)
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Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 5 Issue 28
July 13, 2022
Finding the Gifts
Tarot is the gift that keeps on giving.
One of the creative things I have been doing during this time of social distancing is reconnecting with the ladies I used to play music with when I lived in the Tampa area. Now, we are not only socially distanced, we have many miles between us. Yet, we are finding ways to play songs together. It’s been fun, inspiring, healing and a little bittersweet.
The song we are working on right now is an updated version of the old Shaker hymn, “Simple Gifts”. I sang a version of this song with my church choir when I was a teen.
It seems appropriate for this time.
So often when we think of gifts, we think of packages with bows wrapped in shiny paper. I love to give and receive those sorts of gifts! Yet, there are many gifts that don’t come with giftwrap, and weren’t purchased at a store.
One spiritual survival technique is to try to find the gift in everything, even during very difficult times. During this pandemic I have seen this in clients’ readings. Even though this is affecting everyone, we are all going through different challenges. As part of that, there seems to be a unique spiritual gift, that is, a lesson or an opportunity, that is available to each of us.
To find that gift, and to nurture it and treasure it, is helpful.
We also use the word ‘gift’ to discuss our talents. Often, we don’t identify our own talents because they come so easily to us. When something is easy for us to do, we assume everyone can do it as well as we can!
‘Gifts’ is also a word that we use to discuss our psychic and spiritual abilities. Sometimes I find this an unhealthy nomenclature. Fraudulent professional mystics often use this word to describe their talents as a way of suggesting that they are aligned with spiritual forces to which average people have no access.
At the same time, if we recognize the word ‘gifts’ as another word for ‘talents’, we recognize that we can always work to develop our gifts, be they spiritual, artistic, or technical.
We often admire gifts of exceptionality. That is, talent that is unique and unlike what most people can do. On an amateur level, we need to know that even if our talents don’t set us above others, what we can do well, and what we enjoy doing, is still a gift to ourselves and to those around us.
Being able to find the gifts in our situation, and to find the gifts within ourselves, is a survival tool in difficult times, and a tool that can help us thrive in life.
The StaarCorner
What happens at a tarot conference? At the Southeastern Tarot Artists and Readers Conference, you can expect a wide range of workshops and classes on tarot, Lenormand, Kipper, psychic development, meditation, and all things magical and mystical.
You can expect to meet some of the best artists and authors in the world of cartomancy and divination. You can expect to explore a vending hall filled with high-quality tools and art.
You can also expect to spend time making friends and connecting with like-minded people, sharing ideas, readings, techniques, and experiences.
Learn more about StaarCon, and register to attend, on the StaarCon website.
StaarCon Presenter Kim Danbert
Tarologist & Spiritual Educator
Finding the Gift with Tarot
When you find yourself in a difficult situation, simply ask the cards a question such as, “What is the gift for me here?”
When you are struggling to grow in your life, or to understand yourself better, ask the cards to show you a hidden talent that you could develop.
It is easy to ask questions like this and pull a single card, or a small group of cards, in answer. You can also ask questions such as, “How can I develop my talents?” or “What do I need to do the find the gift in this difficult set of circumstances?”
When we dialogue with the cards about the gifts within and around us, we take responsibility for our growth, and for our positive and productive response to challenges. We learn about the tools we have, and how to better use them.
Practical Tarot Techniques on Zoom
Join me on Thursday, May 21, from 7 to 9 pm EDT on Zoom for a tarot class appropriate for readers of all levels of experience.
What is the best way to give a general reading? How can you use tarot to interpret a dream? What spreads can you use to make a decision?
There are so many techniques for working with tarot! In this hands-on workshop we will explore spreads, interpretations, and techniques for reading for yourself and others.
Grab your tarot deck and get ready to expand your skills and understanding!
Class fee is $37.50. Register now!
The Week in Review
This week saw the end of April, and the beginning of May. The first day of May is an important day on many calendars around the world. I led an informal ceremony on Facebook Live which featured a four-card tarot spread. I wrote about the powerful cards that appeared on my 78 Magickal Tools Blog.
You can see the ceremony in archive, as well as the other live events I do every week, on my Facebook business page and my YouTube channel.
From Around the Web
Check out the Tarot Blog Hop for May First. Start with the Master List to to see the topic, and follow the links to read what six different blogs had to say.
Read your tarotscope for May, from Starcana.
You can always count on the Tarot Lady, Theresa Reed, for great monthly astrology forecasts. Here is what Theresa has to say for May 2020.
Cards for Your Consideration
It was impossible for me to find only one card, or a single set of cards, that speaks to the topic of finding the gifts within a situation and within ourselves.
Certainly, the Aces and the Pages come to mind as the beginning of a journey of learning and discovery.
The Aces, too, in the Waite-Smith depiction, show the heavenly gift of each element, and speak of heaven as the source of all gifts.
The Star easily depicts the gift of healing, while the Ten of Pentacles shows the gift of family wealth.
Perhaps it is easier to say that, just as we can find a gift in any situation in life, we can find a gift in each of the seventy-eight tarot cards.
The gift here is tarot itself. Tarot is a simple game imbued with the magic of fortune-telling, divination, spiritual exploration, storytelling, and creativity. Each of us may find different ways of understanding and connecting with tarot.
Each tarot card teaches us something about life, and about ourselves. The more we learn these lessons, the better our lives will be.
Upcoming Events and Tours
Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 3 Issue 19
May 6, 2020
Messages of Love
Tarot for Valentine's Day, events in Tampa and CT, and more!
Messages of Love
We encourage each other!
One of the many legends about Saint Valentine is that he, while imprisoned, wrote letters of encouragement to his followers on the heart-shaped leaves available to him through his cell window.
Whether or not this story is factual, I love the imagery of it; the idea that an imprisoned person’s faith and inspiration could be so strong as to share encouragement with those outside his prison walls.
This leads to the idea that, no matter our own limitations or difficulties, we still have the capacity to provide inspiration, encouragement and solace to others. And, perhaps in that act, can find the same for ourselves.
How we communicate with people matters. Our tone, our words and our energy make a difference to the people around us. Even when dealing with strangers, we can choose to share a positive, encouraging energy.
Sometimes we hear positive messages, not only from the people we love, but from strangers, song lyrics, dreams, and our own intuition. I believe that our loved ones in Spirit send us messages of love constantly; we just need to know how to hear them.
The more we are aware of how we communicate with people, the more we are able to receive positive messages from the Universe. In meditation, divination and simply by listening, we become able to sense, and to share, the messages of love that are all around us.
Make Your Plans to See Me During My Northeastern Tour!
I will be in Connecticut March 27 through April 8. I am available for parties, groups and house calls in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York City.
I am also offering private readings by appointment at True Bikram Yoga in Madison.
To make your appointment, please call or text 561-655-1160.
I will be teaching two workshops while I am there.
In Madison, on Sunday, March 31 at 7 pm I am teaching ‘The Journey of Life: The Major Arcana of Tarot.
In New Haven, on Sunday, April 7 at 7 pm I am teaching ‘Oils, Intuition and Manifestation’. Learn more about these workshops, and register in advance!
The Pages are Messengers
There are many tarot cards whose keywords include ‘communication,’ but probably few as directly as the four Pages.
While the Pages can be children, or students, these cards also serve to bear messages and to encourage us to communicate.
Long before electronic communication, the Pages would predict the much-anticipated event of receiving a letter in the mail. Now, they handily answer questions like, ‘Will I hear from him?’ and ‘Should I say something to her about this?’
Pages can also take on the role of letting you know that your loved ones in spirit have a message for you.
The next time you see a Page in a reading, consider that the card could be encouraging you to communicate with someone, or letting you know that someone is trying to communicate with you!
The Week in Review
Just released this week was a podcast from the Tarot Readers Academy featuring me! The topic is ‘The Cards Speak for Themselves’. You can listen to the podcast, watch the video and download free study materials!
This week on my personal blog I shared some thoughts about Rumi, my new favorite song and a tarot exercise.
From Around the Web
Check out this month’s Hit List from The Tarot Lady. I was pleased to get a mention!
I stumbled on this older post from James Ricklef about Tarot and Desiderata. This post has certainly stood the test of time and offers a great tarot exercise.
Mary Greer has a new post called ‘Active Imagination vs. Guided Imagery.’
Cards for Your Consideration
What better deck to consider for Valentine’s Day than Lover’s Path Tarot by Kris Waldherr? This U.S. Games favorite comes in a lovely set with a full-length book.
Waldherr assigns classic love stories to each of the Major Arcana, giving us a lesson in tarot archetypes, literature and history.
The Minor Arcana are fully illustrated and also depict love stories. This is a full-service traditional deck that can be used for any kind of reading. Yet. given its theme, it’s the perfect deck for readings about romance.
See Me in Tampa This Weekend!
I still have a few openings to see private clients this coming weekend when I am in the Tampa Bay area from Friday, February 15th through Monday, February 18th. Call or text 561-655-1160 to arrange your timeslot.
Please plan to join us at Panera Bread in Lutz on Sunday, February 17th from 3 pm to 5 pm for a tarot meetup! Bring your tarot cards or borrow some at the meeting. Anyone with an interest in tarot is welcome to join us; it’s free and fun!
Join us for Global Tarot Circle on Facebook Live
On Wednesday, February 20 from7 pm to 8 pm you have the opportunity to join tarot friends from around the world on my free monthly webinar, Global Tarot Circle on Facebook Live.
Each month we gather on Facebook to share readings, conversation and tarot study. You can join in on your smartphone, computer or tablet.
To join, simply like my business page and look for the live feed.
Tarot Topics Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 7 - February 13, 2019