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Allowing Happiness
We can give ourselves permission to be happy without guilt. We must know that happiness can coexist with sorrow.
We all know so many proverbs about happiness. Some feel trite, others feel like deep wisdom. When know that happiness is an inside job. We know that happiness is the byproduct of a life well-lived. We know we have the right to pursue happiness.
One thing that is true about happiness that we do not often hear is that we must give ourselves permission to be happy. To be happy, we must allow ourselves to be happy. This can be difficult for so many reasons.
We must allow ourselves to be happy when our circumstances are not what we want them to be. We must allow ourselves to be happy as we recover from grief and loss. We must allow ourselves to be happy even if others around us are not happy.
Another truth about happiness is that it sometimes comes in single moments. We might have a moment of happiness followed by a moment of grief followed by a moment of frustration. We humans are multi-dimensional. We can hold space for many kinds of feelings all at once. Sometimes those feelings seem to contradict each other.
The way to be happy in the midst of sorrow is to allow your happiness and your sorrow to coexist within you.
Sometimes we feel guilty for allowing our own happiness. Of all the feelings we must experience, and all the feelings we should allow, guilt is usually misplaced. No matter the situation, we all deserve a few moments of happiness in our lives.
On a spiritual level, the ability to be happy in a difficult world may be a purpose of our human existence. Finding happiness is a step toward spiritual enlightenment.
The StaarCorner
The moment you have been waiting for is here! Tickets for StaarCon 2023 are now available. You can join us in person or online. You can join us for one, two, or all three days.
On the newly updated website you can see the current list of presenters. Check back often, as we are still adding to the roster of classes and activities.
The website also gives you the opportunity to become a StaarCon sponsor or exhibitor.
It is time to make your plans and get your tickets. We cannot wait to see you in January!
Allowing Happiness with Tarot
So often when we are upset, we will say “How can I be happy when this has happened?”
This is a perfect sort of question to ask tarot.
When you are seeking your happiness, processing grief, or dealing with upset, tell it to your cards! Ask your cards questions that will help you to process your feelings and allow happiness.
The very process of formulating questions for the cards can help you get a handle on your feelings. Contemplating the images of the cards you draw can help you understand your feelings, and access your inner joy.
The Week in Review
Did you catch the workshop on Tarot Birth Cards? You can find all the free live classes I have presented on YouTube in the Live Tarot Webinar playlist.
It’s a new month! Get your August Tarotscopes on my YouTube channel!
From Around the Web
Which tarot card do you think fits Wonder Woman best? Here is what one artist thought.
Here is a great tarot blogpost from Joy Vernon about tarot symbolism.
Can children read tarot? Should they? Here is what Mary Ellen Collins has to say.
Guidance on the Journey
Which tarot cards specifically speak of happiness? The Sun can be a card of joy and success. The Star and the Nine of Cups can speak of wishes fulfilled. The Three of Cups and the Four of Wands can speak of celebration. The Six of Wands speaks of Victory. The Ten of Cups can be about a happy family.
Is there a particular card that makes you think of happiness?
That so many cards can speak of things that make us happy suggests to me that there are many roads toward happiness, and many things in which we can find joy and satisfaction.
There are many flavors of happiness. The feeling of victory in the Six of Wands is very different than the party we see in the Three of Cups, for example.
When we compare and contrast the different ways happiness appears in the cards, we understand the nuances of tarot, as well as different aspects of happiness.
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
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)
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 5 Issue 31
August 3, 2022
Connecting with Your Inner Child
Inner child work helps us to heal from early trauma. When we connect with our inner child, we can remember who we are, and move forward with the energy that made us joyful in your youth. We can move forward without the burden of our traumas. Tarot can help us in this process.
In modern psychology, ‘inner child work’ is an approach created by Carl Jung. With inner child work we recognize childhood trauma in order to heal as adults.
Most people realize that many of our fears, difficulties, and unpleasant patterns in our adult lives stem from what we learned, witnessed, and experienced during childhood. I often say that many of us spend most of our lives recovering from the first twenty years.
Those who grew up in seriously dysfunctional families, or who had health issues or upheaval due to tragedy are aware of their childhood trauma. Those who had more idyllic childhoods often do not recognize that they, too, have childhood trauma. They, therefore, may find it harder to do the inner child work that could help them in their adult lives.
I also believe that we can connect with our inner child to find our sense of personal identity, authenticity, and purpose by identifying the things we naturally did and enjoyed as children.
So many people I speak with are longing to understand who they are, what makes them happy, and what makes them feel that they are living a meaningful and purposeful life. I believe that inner child work can help all of us remember who we are.
There are many ways to do inner child work. You can engage a therapist to help you. You can write your inner child a letter. You can do a meditation where you communicate with your inner child.
Many of us in the divination community are exploring ways that divination can assist us as we work to connect with, and give voice to, the inner child.
See Me in the Tampa Bay Area
I will be in the Tampa Bay Area June 23 through June 27. During that time, I am available for house calls, psychic house parties, and private sessions by appointment at my AirBnB in Wesley Chapel.
We will have a tarot meetup at Panera Bread in Lutz at 3 pm on Sunday, June 26. I hope you will plan to join us if you are in the area!
For more information, and to schedule your session with me, please call or text 561-655-1160.
The StaarCorner
StaarCon 2023 is excited to welcome Jen Sankey as a presenter!
Jen is a tarot reader, author, and teacher. She writes for The Cartomancer. She is currently creating two tarot decks, Stardust Wanderer Tarot, and Enchanted Forest Felines to be published by Llewellyn Worldwide.
Make sure you mark your calendar for January 20 through 22. Whether you join us in person in West Palm Beach or online on Accelevents, StaarCon 2023 will be the best tarot and divination conference ever!
Giving Voice to Your Inner Child
One way to do inner child work with tarot is to allow your inner child to speak through tarot.
You can do this simply by asking the right questions and interpreting the card that appears in the context of that question.
Here are some questions to get you started.
What is a childhood trauma that needs to be healed?
What is something my inner child wants me to know?
What is something I enjoyed as a child that has become an important part of my identity?
How can I be more playful?
How can I honor my inner child at this time?
See Me in the Northeast
I will be available for private readings by appointment in Madison, Connecticut, and house calls and psychic house parties in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York, beginning May 26 and ending June 5. To schedule with me, please call or text 561-655-1160.
On June 5th at 6:30 pm I will be teaching a tarot class at True Bikram Yoga. This class is available in person in Madison and online on Zoom. You can learn more and sign up for this class online on the True Bikram Yoga website.
The Week in Review
This past week we had two great live classes on my YouTube channel. You can watch class replays, catch live reading sessions, and explore rants and reviews, all on Christiana Gaudet Tarot on YouTube.
From Around the Web
There are many tarot spreads for inner tarot work. Here are three. Try different tarot and oracle decks to see how your inner child speaks through the cards.
Join Me For Class This Sunday!
On Sunday, May 22, 7 pm to 9 pm, please join me for a hybrid tarot class. If you are local, you can join in person in Palm City. Or you can join online on Zoom from anywhere in the world.
If you have every asked “Is there a spread for that?” this class is for you. If you have ever wondered about the best way to get answers from a tarot reading, this class is for you.
Whether you read for yourself or others, whether you are a beginner or experienced reader, this class will give you a set of tools that will help you use tarot effectively and efficiently.
In this class you will learn what makes a great tarot spread. You will learn when a custom spread is the best technique. You will learn to quickly create small spreads to answer immediate questions. You will learn to create and interpret elaborate spreads to handle multiple issues in a comprehensive tarot session. You will learn to create and interpret spreads for specific purposes such as healing, relationship-building, mediumship, and dream interpretation.
Get your tickets now on EventBrite!
You can join us in person or online. Every student will receive access to a recording of the class.
You can purchase the recorded class with access to the class literature after May 30th.
Visit christianagaudet.com for more information!
Cards from the Smith-Waite Tarot Deck Centennial Edition, copyright 2015 by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. Used with permission.
Guidance on the Journey
Which tarot cards might instruct us to work with our inner child, to honor our inner child, or to listen to our inner child?
In context, any tarot card might give voice to the feelings and needs of the inner child. Yet, there are a few cards that could appear in any reading, at any time, and beckon you to do the work to connect to your inner child.
Here are some of them.
The Fool asks you to honor your inner child.
The Sun asks you to be fearless in your joy, just as a child does.
The Pages ask you to remember the desires of your youth, and who you have always been.
The Six of Cups asks you to remember and revisit your childhood.
The Ten of Cups and the Ten of Pentacles can speak of your family, and your childhood home.
Upcoming Events and Tours
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
Personal Healing with Tarot 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 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 5 Issue 20
May 18, 2022
Growing Toward the Light
This week we discover what we can learn from sunflowers.
I am sad to admit that I am not much of a gardener. My few experiments with both indoor and outdoor plants made it clear that, at least for now, I do not have the time to properly tend plants. Yet, I love helping living things grow, and I love learning from that process.
I love to notice plant behavior, and let plants be my teachers.
One plant behavior that feels informative is called ‘phototropism’. Sunflowers, and certain other plants, will turn to face the sun. If they are situated in a place where the sun is not easily available to them, their stems will twist and lean as they strive to find the sunlight.
Growing toward the light is a good metaphor for a certain way of living. It reminds me of that story of two wolves that battle within each of us. One wolf is mean, egotistical, and fearful. The other is joyful and loving. Which wolf wins the battle? Whichever wolf we feed.
Growing toward the light is the same as feeding the joyful wolf.
When we choose to grow toward the light, we, like the sunflower, turn our face to the sun. We seek out what nurtures us. We turn to what illuminates us. We keep our focus on the positive and lean in that direction, even when that causes us to have to twist and turn.
This does not mean that we ignore the unpleasant things in our lives, or that we pretend that everything is sunny when it is not. We must acknowledge what is dark and difficult. We gather strength to face that difficulty as we lean toward what is light and helpful.
Phototropic plants know that the light is always there, somewhere. They twist and turn to find that light. We need to have faith in that light as well. We must find ways to grow toward it.
The StaarCorner
We are excited that Gita Rash will be joining us for StaarCon 2022. Gita is the designer of the Mahabharata Oracle Deck. At StaarCon 2021 she shared with us this deck, which is based on an ancient epic tale.
Gita is also a tarot reader, and a gifted palm reader. Her father was well-known palm reader. At StaarCon 2022 Gita will teach a class in palm reading! We are happy to welcome Gita back to StaarCon, and to learn this important divination method from her.
See Me in the Tampa Bay Area in August
I will be back in the Tampa Bay Area August 26 through August 30.
On Sunday, August 29, from 3 pm to 5 pm we will have a free tarot meetup at Panera Bread in Lutz, Florida.
During my time in the Tampa Bay Area, I am available for private readings at my AirBnB in Wesley Chapel. I am also able to make house calls for private readings. I am happy to come to your home or office for a psychic house party.
For more information, or to make your appointment, call or text 561-655-1160.
Growing Toward the Light Tarot Spread
Here is a tarot spread that you can arrange in the shape of a sunflower. The trick is that you can use as many cards as you want for the stem, the leaves, and the petals. You may decide to use only one card for each, or many. Let your intuition guide you as you explore the ways you can grow toward the light.
Stem: Let this card, or these cards, help you understand how you need to ground and position yourself in order to be nurtured and strong.
Leaves: Let this card, or these cards, show you what feeds you and helps you grow.
Center of flower: Let this card show you how to keep your focus on what is most helpful.
Petals: Let this card, or these cards, show you the benefits you will receive as you turn yourself to the light, allow the light to nurture you, and share that brilliance with others.
Join us For Class Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Thursday, at 7 pm ET, I am presenting “Tarot Keywords and Interpretations”. This class will help you understand and remember keywords for tarot cards. Even more importantly, this class will help you use those keywords to engage your intuition and give meaningful tarot readings in any context and situation.
There are two ways to attend. If you can come in person, you can purchase a ticket on EventBrite and attend the class in my Palm City office.
If you can’t come in person, you can attend virtually from just about anywhere. Just reserve your place in class on Zoom!
Get your ticket or make your reservation and study with your tarot friends from around the world in this hybrid presentation.
The Week in Review
Did you catch my class on YouTube, “Tarot History and Why it Matters?” You can watch the replay to learn about current historical thinking about tarot, and what that might mean for we esoteric tarotists.
I was excited to join Amie Mouser as a guest on her new podcast, Behind the Magic. In honor of what Grateful Dead fans call “Jerry Week”, or “The Days Between”, Amie and I did a deep dive into my youth, and my continued love of the Grateful Dead’s music and message. You can watch the video, or listen to the podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
From Around the Web
This week’s offerings are all from StaarCon 2022 presenters!
Mary Ellen Collins shared a blog post called “Breaking Free from the Eight of Swords”. This is such a great synchronicity; I led a meditative exercise about this card during my workshop at The Masters of the Tarot conference.
Marion Kirk (Marion K Tarot on YouTube) shared a video about Grief and the Fours in Tarot.
Jamie Sawyer is launching the final deluxe edition of Sawyer’s Path Tarot next month!
Cards for Your Consideration
In the Waite Smith Tarot, there are two references to sunflowers. One is the Queen of Wands. Often when the Queen of Wands appears in a reading and my focus is drawn to that sunflower, I see it as an admonition to grow toward the light.
The other sunflower reference is in a card that often reminds us to grow toward the light, no matter which deck we are using. Major Arcana 19, the Sun, represents the light itself. There are many traditional and non-traditional depictions for this card. No matter the image, the Sun reminds us to find our inner light. We must face the light, we must seek the light, and we must be the light.
I particularly love the Waite image, because the sunflowers have turned to face the child, rather than facing the sun as they normally would. The child shines more brightly than the sun.
This card reminds us that we all have the potential to shine that brightly.
Upcoming Events and Tours
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
Catch up on your missed Zoom webinars and more!
cardandcraftacademy.com
About Christiana Gaudet
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 33
August 18, 2021
Invincible Summer
Stoke your internal flame with tarot!
How do you stoke your internal fire?
In this issue of Tarot Topics, learn about Major Arcana 19, the Sun, try a new tarot technique, and learn ways to study with me at Tarot Summer School, in South Florida, and in Connecticut!