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Is It Time for a Reset?
Personal change can bring healing.
In retail, a reset is a replacement of fixtures and displays, often to promote a new season of product.
In computing, a reset is a start that brings the device to a known or normal state.
In life, a reset is an opportunity for change.
Mercury retrograde has begun. Mercury retrograde offers us the energy to review, rethink, and reset our lives.
Sometimes a life reset comes as the result of a natural change in stage of life, such as a graduation or marriage. Sometimes a life reset comes because of something grievous, like an illness, death, or divorce.
Sometimes we choose to reset our lives internally by changing our mindset, our priorities, or our self-care practices.
Other times a reset might be more external. This might involve a new job or a new home.
If life has created an unwanted reset for you, your only choice is to embrace the way forward and find the gifts within it.
If you find yourself ready for an internal or external reset, there may never be a better time than now to welcome personal change.
The StaarCorner
This week in the StaarCorner I will answer some questions I have been receiving about what you need to know to attend StaarCon in person.
If you are flying in, the closest airport is PBI, Palm Beach International.
The DoubleTree Hotel and Executive Meeting Center is about ten minutes from the airport.
There is both a bar and restaurant on premises. You also have the option to purchase StaarCon meal tickets and join us for plated lunches and Saturday dinner outdoors under the poolside pavilion.
The bar opens to a poolside patio for outdoor socializing.
The weather in Palm Beach Gardens in January is lovely. The hotel pool and spa will be open and waiting for you!
StaarCon will be presented live in person and online on Accelevents. In person tickets are limited. If you plan on attending in person, please get your ticket soon to assure you will be present for StaarCon 2022!
Join Us for Class Tomorrow!
On Thursday, September 30th, at 7 pm ET, I am presenting “Tarot Spreads Tools and Techniques” on Zoom, and in person in Palm City.
This class will help you understand and work with tarot spreads, and even create spreads of your own.
Visit the event listing on my website to learn more and get your ticket.
Tarot Spread for a Reset
If a reset is being forced upon you, or if you want to use the Mercury Retrograde to reset your life, try this tarot spread to give you focus, inspiration, and motivation.
You may arrange the cards in any order that feels right.
Let Card One tell you why a reset is needed right now.
Let Card Two tell you what you need to welcome into your life at this time.
Let Card Three speak about the fears you have at this moment.
Let Card Four speak of an inner strength, gift, or talent that you can draw upon as you create change in your life.
Let Card Five speak of the goals and possibilities for this new chapter in your life.
The Week in Review
Did you catch the two free classes I taught on my YouTube channel this week?
Check out Unpacking a Tarot Spread and Personal Growth with the Sevens and Nines.
From Around the Web
There is a band called “Charming Disaster” and they perform a “Musical Tarot Show”. I want to see it, based on this review.
Recently many people have asked me if tarot is becoming mainstream. Here is an article from Allure magazine about how to read the Major Arcana!
Nancy Hendrickson has recently revamped her Patreon. We are loving Tarot at the Ancestor Café!
Cards for Your Consideration
Many cards in tarot can speak of change, yet none as starkly and definitively as Major Arcana 13, Death.
While Major Arcana 13 rarely predicts an actual physical death, this card can be a call to action to create personal change.
Death, in tarot, can ask you to consider what needs to change in your life. In other words, what part of your life needs a reset? Is it time to change the way you think? Is it time to examine your belief system? Is it time for a new job, new friends, or new activities?
Major Arcana 13 can also appear when an unwanted change has been forced upon you. When this happens, Death offers an opportunity for healing. Part of healing is accepting the gifts and new opportunities that come along with great loss. This does not lessen the grief, but it does allow the process of reset to begin.
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
Tarot Keywords and Interpretations 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 39
September 29, 2021
Breathe and Believe
Energy work is effective if we use the right techniques.
We hear a lot about manifestation, magic, and the Law of Attraction. We try magical spells with tarot cards, candles, and crystals. Some people seem to find these practices very effective at helping them achieve their goals. Other people come to me wondering why their practices have never achieved the results they wanted. Some people have even reported that their circumstances have declined since they began these metaphysical practices.
There can be a few reasons that your energy work is not getting you the results you want.
My mother used to say that God answers all prayers, but sometimes the answer is no. There may be a larger cosmic reason that your desires do not align with the Universe’s plan for you.
Yet, there are some issues of technique that make a difference when we practice manifestation work. If you are not using these techniques properly, you might experience lackluster results.
The most important technique for any energy work, divination, magic, mediation, or yoga is proper conscious breathing. When we pay attention to the breath, breathe deeply and fully, and direct our breath, the breath becomes our most important magical tool.
You can follow every step in a spell you found in a book, but if you do not use the power of your breath, your spell may fall flat.
Another important point of technique is to do the mundane work associated with your desire. Your desire must be possible in the mundane world, and you must do the things that it takes to support that desire.
Many people will tell you that you need to believe in the energy work you are doing for it to be effective. I will take that a step further and say that you need to believe in yourself, and in your ability to achieve whatever goal you have set for yourself.
However, belief is not enough. In doing this energy work, you must be able to visualize your success as if it is happening in this moment. See your success in real time, in the present moment, in your mind’s eye. It is there that the magic happens.
The StaarCorner
StaarCon will take place January 21 through January 23, 2022. We will meet in person in Palm Beach Gardens, and online on Accelevents. Choose the ticket that is right for you!
One class I am really looking forward to is “Court Cards and Kingdoms” with Kim Danbert. Kim will lead us in a series of role-playing exercises in which the cards will come alive!
In participating and observing this process, we will develop a deeper understanding of the cards that are often considered the most confusing.
Wherever you are in your journey as a card reader, StaarCon will help you get to the next level!
Tarot Spreads Tools and Techniques Hybrid Class
On Thursday, September 30, from 7 pm to 9 pm ET, I will be teaching a hybrid tarot class about tarot spreads.
The class will meet in person at my Palm City office and on Zoom. Tickets are now available for both options.
The recorded class will be available for all ticket holders to review.
The class description on my website will give you more information about the class, and the opportunity to register.
I hope you will join us!
Breathing with a Tarot Card
When we speak of breathing with intention, we often talk about breathing an energy in, or breathing into a particular chakra or area of the body.
When working with specific tarot cards to manifest our desires, we can breathe the energy of the card into our bodies. This empowers us with the energy of that card.
Here is how to breathe in a tarot card.
Select the card that carries the energy you need more of in your life. For example, if you need a great new job, select the Ace of Pentacles or the Three of Pentacles. If you want a new love relationship, select the Two of Cups. If you want to feel more vitality and inspiration, select the Ace of Wands.
Look at the card and begin meditative intentional breathing. Think about the energy of the card. Visualize your life as it will be when this energy is manifested. Now hold the card to your heart, your throat, and your third eye. As you do this, consciously take the energy of the card into your body as you inhale.
This powerful practice will help you bring your desires to life.
The Week in Review
This week I shared a blogpost about one of the most confusing cards in the tarot deck, the Moon.
On my YouTube channel this week we will have two free tarot classes!
From Around the Web
From Tarot Parlor, Use Tarot Cards to Manifest What You Want.
From Tarot Romance, the Top Twelve Tarot Cards for Manifesting.
From Emerald Lotus Divination, a tarot spread to help you manifest your desires.
Cards for Your Consideration
A good card to consider when thinking about the process of manifestation and energy work is Major Arcana 1, The Magician. Related to the planet Mercury, the Magician’s ruling element is Air. The element of Air supports conscious breathing and effective visualization. As ruler of the intellect, Air also supports our belief in self and in our goals.
As card 1, the Magician is an initiate, just beginning a journey of learning and growth. As such, this card encourages us to begin our journey toward fulfilling our goals.
The Magician is pictured with the Four Tools of Magic on his table. Each tool gives the Magician the ability to work with one of the Four Elements. With those elements the Magician can create what he desires.
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
Tarot Keywords and Interpretations 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 38
September 22, 2021
Everything You Think You Know
Is what we believe really the truth?
There are a few references in modern culture, such as Dr. Strange and Willow, where a character is directed to forget everything they know, and everything they think they know.
I have found that this can be an important directive when working with tarot, and in life in general.
When working with tarot, sometimes we need to forget classic card interpretations in favor of a specific intuitive message inspired by a certain card in that moment. Sometimes we need to forget common wisdom in favor of unusual and unique possibilities that appear in a client’s cards.
In life in general, we make a lot of assumptions. We often tell stories about our lives that limit us. We think these stories are based on truth. In some cases, they are. But, in other cases, these are stories based on fear, conjecture, outdated wisdom, shame, or some other thing that is not truth.
There is great freedom in giving oneself permission to acknowledge that the things we think we know might not be true.
What if you really are not too old for a new career, or a new relationship?
What if the path you took in the past was not a mistake?
What if you are not as lazy as you think you are?
What if the person who has been irritating you is not doing it on purpose?
What if the whole world is not going to hell in a handbasket?
It is a wonderful exercise to enumerate the beliefs that you hold about yourself, your life, the people around you, and the world in which you live. Then, think about how life might be different if you chose to believe something different.
The StaarCorner
Have you seen the agenda for StaarCon 2022? We have our schedule and presenters all set. Most presenters have already shared the title and description of their classes.
When you read through the agenda you will see that StaarCon will offer a wide variety of topics taught by world-renowned experts and emerging talent.
Remember, too, that classes will be recorded and available to view for thirty days after the conference ends.
Now is the time to get you in person or online-only ticket for StaarCon 2022! We will look forward to seeing you in January!
Tarot Spreads Tools and Techniques Hybrid Class
On Thursday, September 30, from 7 pm to 9 pm ET, I will be teaching a hybrid tarot class about tarot spreads.
The class will meet in person at my Palm City office and on Zoom. Tickets are now available for both options.
The recorded class will be available for all ticket holders to review.
The class description on my website will give you more information about the class, and the opportunity to register.
I hope you will join us!
Tarot For What is True
Tarot can help us figure out what is true. Tarot can also help us change the narrative that we have held as truth, that does not serve us.
Here is a tarot exercise to help you explore what you think you know.
First, come up with a statement that you believe to be true, but that is not making sense for you, or does not make you feel good. It might be a statement such as “I am lazy,” or “My ex is a wonderful person,” or “I am too old to get the job I want,” or “No one wants to date me”.
Now, pull one card to tell you “This is why this statement might be true”. Pull a second card to tell you, “This is why this statement is not true”.
You may pull more than one card for each if that makes more sense.
How does working with the cards this way help you change your narrative?
The Week in Review
This week I shared a blogpost about my experience at The Masters of the Tarot Conference at Omega Institute.
Did you know that I do four live reading sessions on my YouTube channel every week?
Please subscribe and hit the bell so you will be notified when I go live on YouTube!
From Around the Web
Build an altar to your own self-love! This post on Llewellyn Unbound tells you how.
Here is a post on the Red Wheel Weiser website from Nancy Hendrickson about her book, Ancestral Tarot. We are delighted that Nancy will be presenting at StaarCon 2022.
Sasha Graham, one of our StaarCon 2022 headliners, has shared The Perfect Lifestyle Guide for Virgo Season 2021.
Cards for Your Consideration
There are so many tarot cards that can speak about the search for what is true, and the need to release stories that are inaccurate or unhelpful.
The High Priestess asks us to look within to find truth, and to travel beyond the world of the living into the land of the dead. As we make this meditative journey, we may find that the beliefs we were taught in childhood hold no weight and no truth.
The Seven of Swords tells us to carefully examine what and whom we trust. This card can ask us to make an inventory of our own behavior, searching for ways we may be outside of integrity. Are the stories we tell about ourselves the truth? The Seven of Swords asks us to consider that they may not be.
The Moon reminds us that nothing may be as it seems, and we must tread carefully on our search for the truth. Our beliefs may not be based on truth.
We use tarot to challenge our beliefs, seek new truths, and find new options. These are but three cards that can help us do that.
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
Tarot Keywords and Interpretations 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 37
September 15, 2021
Creative Problem-Solving
Problem-solving is an art that requires creativity, inspiration, and flexibility.
Often at the tarot table the energy of creativity is very apparent in a person’s cards. For those who write, sing, dance, paint, draw, decorate, or craft, this is a no-brainer.
Occasionally, though, I will see the energy of creativity strongly in someone who does not see it in themselves. What becomes clear is that the person is a creative problem-solver. We do not often think about problem-solving as a creative endeavor, but it certainly is. Solutions do not typically create themselves; we must create them.
Life is full of problems big and small. Some problems must be endured, others can be mitigated, some can be fully resolved. Whatever the possible options, creativity can help us reframe difficulties, find resources, pull in helpful people, arrange logistics, execute quick recoveries, and do whatever else is necessary.
An important part of creative problem-solving is flexibility. The more rigid we are in our thinking, the less able we are to see the creative way forward.
I often think of the willow tree as a metaphor for this. Willows bend in the storm to survive. We must do the same thing. We must bend to avoid breaking. We must turn toward what will support us, and away from what does not.
Another ingredient in creative problem-solving is the ability to find inspiration in the face of challenge. When we approach problems in life as an artist approaches a canvas, we find inspiration to carry on, to fix what is broken, and to work around an obstacle.
Flexibility and inspiration in the face of challenge will always allow us to find the creative solutions we need.
The StaarCorner
We are getting excited for StaarCon 2022, to be held in person in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and online on Accelevents. StaarCon will be held January 21 through 23, followed by a thirty-day ‘Afterglow’ when recordings of classes, and a few live events, will be available on the Accelevents site for all ticketholders.
At my very first tarot conference in the late 1990s I had the pleasure of meeting author and deck designer Diane Wilkes. I am very excited that Diane will be presenting at StaarCon 2022. Diane will be leading us in a workshop on tarot journaling. This is a very important topic for tarot beginners and experienced readers alike. Please plan on joining us for StaarCon 2022!
YouTube Channel Members-Only Livestream
I do many livestreams on my YouTube channel. Weekly livestreams feature live readings for viewers. Monthly livesteams feature tarot classes and meetups. All of these events are free, and open to anyone who wants to join us, either live or in replay.
On September 14 at 7 pm I will host an hour-long livestream that is available only to members of my YouTube channel. This event will focus on some deep-dive readings that will allow members to experience a live reading, and, at the same time, to learn some advanced tarot reading techniques.
The livestream and the replay will be available to members at all three levels, Aces, Stars and Suns.
Problem Solving Tarot Exercises
Are you looking for a creative solution? Here are some things to do with your tarot cards to help you find one.
First, is the solution a new perspective, a fix, or a mitigation? Pull one card for each of those possibilities and see what you learn.
Next, pull cards in answer to these questions.
What, exactly, is my challenge at the moment?
How can I be flexible in dealing with this challenge?
How can I find inspiration in this challenge?
The Week in Review
I am pleased to be a nominee in the World Divination Association Awards, in the “Best Tarot Reader” category. Voting is happening now through September 15. Please cast your vote for me today!
The Autumn edition of the Cartomancer is out. I am pleased to have contributed an article entitled, “Your Tarot Friends are Your Best Friends”. You can order your copy of the Cartomancer as a digital ezine, or as a printed magazine.
Now that I have completed my tours, I have resumed my regular schedule of live appearances on my YouTube channel. I will hope to see you there!
From Around the Web
The New Moon in Virgo happened this Monday. Theresa Reed has tarot readings for each zodiac sign.
Do not use this link if you are uncomfortable with off-color language! Interrobang Tarot has “Salty Tarot Spreads for Chaos and Plague”.
Cards for Your Consideration
My favorite card for finding solutions is Temperance. This is because, in this card, the angel is literally creating a solution! I like to think about the two meanings for ‘solution’ and what they have in common. Within that thought process I find my understanding for Major Arcana 14, Temperance.
However, when I think of creative problem-solving, the card that I like to consider is the Seven of Swords.
The Seven of Swords often gets a bad rap, as it is known as ‘The Thief’s Card’. The Seven of Swords can speak of dishonesty, treachery, and theft.
Yet, the Seven of Swords can also speak of necessary craftiness; the sort of craftiness that is paramount when we endeavor to find creative solutions. Sometimes we need to try something that is a bit unorthodox to get the results we need, given the constraints of the situation at hand.
Years ago, while on a road trip in a very old Valiant, the car developed a radiator leak. Our creative solution was to get lots of pepper from fast food restaurants to put into the radiator. This allowed us to drive all the way across the country before we had to get the repair work done.
Of course, this was not the best way to handle such a situation. Yet, it worked for us, and was the best we could do at the time. This is a great example of a Seven of Swords solution.
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
Tarot Keywords and Interpretations 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 36
September 8, 2021