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How Gratitude Heals Us

Gratitude is a daily practice. Even when things are difficult, we can find gifts in our struggles. Tarot can help us find those gifts.

I have been publishing a newsletter every Wednesday for many years. That means that for many years I have written a day-before-American-Thanksgiving newsletter. Often, the topic I land on is the obvious one, gratitude.

Gratitude is not a once-a-year event. Gratitude is a daily practice. Yet, it is nice to have a holiday that emphasizes the importance of being thankful for our blessings.

There are times when our blessings feel easy to count, and other times when we must dig deep to find the gift in a challenging time.

Yet, when we find that space in our hearts for gratitude, we find our strength, and our hope.

When we can understand and appreciate our blessings, it seems our blessings increase.

Making space for gratitude in good moments, and in difficult ones, always brings us closer to a sense of peace. From that peace, we can find our way toward healing.

The StaarCorner

Did you know that five of our StaarCon 2022 presenters won World Divination Awards for 2021? Nancy Hendrickson’s book, Ancestral Tarot, was named Best Divination Book of 2021.

Jamie Sawyer was awarded Best Artistic Endeavors of 2021.

Mitchell Osborn was named the Best Teacher for 2021.

Michelle Welch was named Best Divination Contributor for 2021.

I, Christiana Gaudet, received the award of Best Tarot Reader for 2021.

If you want to see this award-winning team in action, make plans to join us for StaarCon 2022, either in person in Palm Beach Gardens or online on Accelevents.

Visit the StaarCon website for more information.

This week our podcast episode, StaarCast, featured my conversation with Fred West. It turns out that he and I both began our tarot journey in the Awesome Eighties!

To enjoy this fun and insightful conversation, you can watch the video or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Tarot Communication for Clarity and Depth Hybrid Class

Our next ‘Zoom and Room’ tarot class will be Tuesday, November 30, from 7 pm to 9 pm ET.

Tarot is a tool of communication. With tarot, we can communicate and understand our feelings. We can build our relationships. We can brainstorm our projects. We can understand the needs of our body. We can connect with Spirit.

Whether we are reading for ourselves or others, the secret to clarity and depth in tarot readings is to understand how tarot communicate with us, and how tarot helps us communicate with others.

In this class you will learn solid techniques for using tarot to communicate your own feelings, understand what is going on with your body, work well within a group, communicate with spirit, and connect with your creativity. You will also learn how to do these things effectively when reading for others.

Class fee is $40. Sign up now!

Tarot Gratitude Exercise

Here is a simple-yet-profound tarot gratitude exercise. This exercise will stretch your ability to read tarot cards in context. It will also stretch your ability to view everything in life through a lens of gratitude.

Shuffle the cards and ask this question.
“For what shall I be grateful today?”

Pull a single card. Take a moment to think about how this card might reflect your life. When you see yourself in the card, figure out what in this circumstance offers you an opportunity for gratitude.

Hold that perspective of gratitude in your heart all day.

The Week in Review

Did you attend the Oracle Card Workshop on YouTube on Monday? If you did not have a chance to catch it, make sure you watch the replay.

The YouTube meetups and free classes for December are already scheduled. Make sure you subscribe and hit the bell to be reminded to join us live for class.

From Around the Web

This week we will check in on some StaarCon presenters on YouTube.

Jenna Matlin is just beginning to do live broadcasts on YouTube. I will be her guest on December 10.

Mitchell Osborn has been sharing great videos for years on his YouTube channel.

Maria Luisa Salazar will be coming all the way from Peru to join us in person in January. Her YouTube channel is all in Spanish. You can set up English subtitles to enjoy her tarot wisdom. At StaarCon, her presentation will be in English.

Cards for Your Consideration

The Nine of Cups is often called “The Wish Card”. When it appears in a favorable position, we often interpret it to say that our wishes will come true.

Yet, the Nine of Cups can be a card of happiness, success, and satisfaction in the present time as well. Some of our desires may already be fulfilled.

When the Nine of Cups appears, consider this card as a reminder to count your blessings and be grateful for what already is, and what wishes have already been fulfilled.

From this place of gratitude for what is, let this card give you hope for what will be.

Events and Tours

Card and Craft Academy

Classes presented by Christiana are available right now at Card and Craft Academy!



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 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 4 Issue 47
November 24, 2021

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The Inside and the Outside

People are sometimes different on the outside than on the inside.

People can appear very differently on the outside than they are on the inside.

This can be tricky in dating when someone seems like a potential partner on the outside. When we see what is really on the inside, we may be delighted, or disappointed.

Social media causes us to see other people’s outsides in ways that can make us unnecessarily envious. We should never compare other people’s outsides with our own insides.

The process of aging creates another difference between the outside and the inside. So often older people feel just like they did when they were twenty, until they look in the mirror!

Sometimes we must intentionally put on a good face and show a stronger outside than we what we are feeling on the inside.

When thinking about the relationship with self, we must be clear about what is happening on the inside, and what we want to project to the outside world.

When thinking about relationships with others, we must remember that what we see is not everything that is there. Sometimes intuition and divination can fill in the missing pieces.

Even more importantly, our spiritual tools can help us develop our inner strength, compassion, and courage. When we make the effort to develop on the inside, that growth will ultimately be visible on the outside. This will allow us to be more present and authentic in the way we interact with others.

The StaarCorner

StaarCon is just about two months away. If you have questions about StaarCon, call me at 561-655-1160, or email me. Whether you plan to attend online or in person, it is time to get your ticket! Learn more on the StaarCon website.

If you would like to be involved in StaarCon, we still have room for vendors and sponsors. We also have the StaarCon Scholarship Fund, if you would like to donate or nominate a recipient.

Our episode of StaarCast this week was so much fun to make. My conversation with John Hijatt was enlightening and interesting. I cannot wait for his presentation at StaarCon.

You can enjoy this episode on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Tarot Communication for Clarity and Depth Hybrid Class

Our next ‘Zoom and Room’ tarot class will be Tuesday, November 30, from 7 pm to 9 pm ET.

Tarot is a tool of communication. With tarot, we can communicate and understand our feelings. We can build our relationships. We can brainstorm our projects. We can understand the needs of our body. We can connect with Spirit.

Whether we are reading for ourselves or others, the secret to clarity and depth in tarot readings is to understand how tarot communicate with us, and how tarot helps us communicate with others.

In this class you will learn solid techniques for using tarot to communicate your own feelings, understand what is going on with your body, work well within a group, communicate with spirit, and connect with your creativity. You will also learn how to do these things effectively when reading for others.

Class fee is $40. Sign up now!

Inside Outside Tarot Reading

Here is a tarot spread to help you sort out what is happening inside you, and outside you. Arrange the cards in whatever pattern feels right.

Card 1. What is true about your inner self right now.

Card 2. How you want to present to the world.

Card 3. How you are presenting to the world.

Card 4. How the world is affecting you right now.

Card 5. How you can more authentically be yourself in the world right now.

The Week in Review

This week I posted some musings about tarot on my blog. We had a great class on my YouTube channel, Tarot Context Bootcamp.

If you are on Instagram, make sure you follow me, and StaarCon! I have begun sharing card pulls, live tarot unboxings, and reels.

This weekend is the World Divination Association Virtual Event 2021 on Facebook Live. I will be presenting on Monday. Learn more, and get your tickets.

From Around the Web

Here is a tarot spread to help you reconnect with your inner self.

Here is a recently published article in Religion News about diversity in tarot, featuring Emilie Muniz and her Simplicity Tarot!

Find your inner self in four easy steps.

Major Arcana 18, the Moon, from Ciro Marchetti's Grand Luxe Tarot. Used with permission.

Cards for Your Consideration

One of the most complicated and confusing cards of all seventy-eight tarot cards is the Moon, Major Arcana 18. This is quite fitting, because the Moon can speak of confusion, and the complicated nature of seeking truth in all aspects of life.

When we think about the differences between outside appearances and inner truths, the Moon is a good card to consider.

One thing that is often true when the Moon appears in a reading is that things are not as they seem. This is neither a negative nor positive quality; the context of the situation can suggest that things are truly better or worse than we might think.

The Moon asks us to use our intuition, and to employ spiritual wisdom, to discover what is true about ourselves, about our relationships, and about the world.

Upcoming Events and Tours

Card and Craft Academy

Classes presented by Christiana are available right now at Card and Craft Academy!



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 46
November 17, 2021

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The Shadow Side of Healing

Healing is a lifelong journey.

When we choose to be self-aware, self-reflective, and to live consciously, life becomes a journey of personal healing. Each one of us has trauma and learned behaviors that we must process and release.

It is also possible that we carry past life trauma, as well as generational and ancestral trauma. Our evolution as a species depends on our ability to heal as individuals. Our ability to be available for positive relationships and meaningful life experiences can depend on our willingness to heal.

Even spiritual people can be resistant to healing. It is easy to get stuck in patterns that make our healing journey even harder. We might engage in spiritual bypassing and use our belief system as an excuse to gloss over our pain. Or we can make our pain the whole of our identity. We might turn our healing journey into an exercise of ego massage.

The healing journey brings us to a place of personal and spiritual growth because it allows us to be present for ourselves and others. Yet, on the way, we need to visit and revisit some difficult things. Much like physical exercise, it is often true that if it is not difficult, we are not working hard enough.

There is a part of emotional healing that is called ‘shadow work’. This refers to our need to look at what Carl Jung called our shadow. That is, the parts of ourselves we would rather not see. Once we can see these parts of ourselves, we have many modalities to help us process, change, and release.

Sometimes the shadow is made of bad habits, or unpleasant character traits. Sometimes it is formed by difficult past experiences. Whatever it is, and whatever caused it, when we can see it, we can heal it.

Tarot divination can help us see the shadow and can point us in directions for healing. Tarot meditation can offer us deeper healing experiences. Very often, energy medicine like Reiki can be useful for our deeper healing work. Meditation, traditional therapy, and yoga are but a few of the practices and modalities available to us.

Healing is a lifetime endeavor, yet the benefits of healing can become apparent very quickly.

It is important that we be patient with our healing journey, and with ourselves. We must be present for the dark moments, but we also must be ready to emerge into the light at each opportunity.

There are those who feel that to be happy we must only think happy thoughts. There are those who feel like we need to engage in ‘positive vibes only’. While there is certainly power in positive thinking, we must be able to face all things in life with courage and honesty. Not everything feels good, but if we can face what does not feel good, we more easily fill our lives with good things.

The StaarCorner

This week we added two new presenters to our already-stellar list for StaarCon 2022. Tarot artists Lisa Hunt and Ciro Marchetti will both be joining us as presenters and vendors at StaarCon 2022.

Our conference will be January 21 through 23, in person in Palm Beach Gardens and online on Accelevents. Get your tickets now!

Our StaarCon podcast is called StaarCast and is available wherever you catch your podcasts. You can also find it in video form on YouTube.

Our most recent episode features my conversation with author and tarot designer Bernadette King. Bernadette works with animal energies for divination and healing. We are looking forward to Bernadette’s class at StaarCon 2022!

Tarot Communication for Clarity and Depth Hybrid Class

Our next ‘Zoom and Room’ tarot class will be Tuesday, November 30, from 7 pm to 9 pm ET.

Tarot is a tool of communication. With tarot, we can communicate and understand our feelings. We can build our relationships. We can brainstorm our projects. We can understand the needs of our body. We can connect with Spirit.

Whether we are reading for ourselves or others, the secret to clarity and depth in tarot readings is to understand how tarot communicate with us, and how tarot helps us communicate with others.

In this class you will learn solid techniques for using tarot to communicate your own feelings, understand what is going on with your body, work well within a group, communicate with spirit, and connect with your creativity. You will also learn how to do these things effectively when reading for others.

Class fee is $40. Sign up now!

Tarot for Healing

When I had the privilege this past July to teach at the Masters of Tarot Conference at the Omega Institute, my presentation was called “How Tarot Helps Us Heal”.

In this three-hour presentation I discussed many ways that we can use tarot as a healing tool.

One of my favorite ways is to find a card, either at random or by choice. Breathe with the card and, and you stare at the card with a soft gaze, allow yourself to drift into a meditative state.

Now, enter the card in your mind’s eye, and have a conversation with a character that you see in the card.

This meditative technique can be powerful!

Another way to heal with tarot is to design a tarot spread about something that has hurt you, or about the healing process itself. When you perform this spread, you will receive a great deal of direction to help you on your healing journey.

Members-Only Livestream on YouTube: Incoming!

All members of my YouTube channel, Christiana Gaudet Tarot, are welcome to join us for a special livestream event on Tuesday, November 16, at 7 pm ET.

We will work together to help each person design and perform a magical tarot spread. This tarot spread will give insight, energy, and direction for 2022.

The replay of this event will be available to all present and future channel members.

You may become a member of this channel at any time.

To attend, simply be a current member and join us on November 16 at 7 pm.

The Week in Review

I will be teaching a class on Facebook for the World Divination Association Virtual Event, which will be November 20 and 21. You can learn more and register on the World Divination Association website.

Follow me on Instagram, and follow the StaarCon Instagram as well. I am sharing some great pictures and videos on both pages.

Did you catch the Ancestral Tarot class with Nancy Hendrickson this week on my YouTube channel? follow the link to watch the replay.

From Around the Web

Journaling is a good way to work with the shadow. Here are some journaling prompts that can help.

Here are some shadow work tarot spreads.

Dreamwork is another way to heal. Dreamworker Toko-pa shares information about ancestral healing.

Cards for Your Consideration

Every tarot card has a lesson that can help us heal. When we study tarot, we learn the lessons of each card, as well as what the card might mean in a reading.

In tarot, the cards that are associated with the number Five can each offer us a specific opportunity to heal.

As an exercise, look at each Five and find within a healing lesson for yourself. Here are some examples.

The Five of Cups teaches us to hold space for grief, but to also remember that there is still room for joy.
The Five of Pentacles teaches us that it is up to us to find opportunity.
The Hierophant teaches us to know when to trust authority, when to use authority, and when to question authority.

Card Fourteen, Temperance, is also numerologically a Five. It is in this card that we find the solution for all healing. Temperance teaches us that nothing is perfect. Everything requires us to balance and blend to find what we need.

When a Five card appears in a tarot spread, consider that there may be a need and an opportunity for healing.

Upcoming Events and Tours

Card and Craft Academy

Classes presented by Christiana are available right now at Card and Craft Academy!



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 45
November 10, 2021

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Will You Know it When You See It?

Sometimes intuition guides us, but not always.

“Will I know him when I meet him?” People at the tarot table often ask this when they receive a prediction for a new relationship. They are wondering if, at first meeting, they will have an intuitive sense of recognition that something important has happened.

When I go dress shopping, I often do not know what I am looking for, but I know I will know it when I find it.

Sometimes we feel that way about new jobs, or new houses. When we find the right thing, we just know it.

With relationships, that sense of knowing is less reliable. It can take time to figure out if something is truly going to work.

Most people are searching for something most of the time. Maybe most importantly, for many people there is an overarching search for a sense of purpose or destiny.

Many of us are lucky enough to live long lives. I like to think that, over the course of many years, we can serve many purposes, and fulfill many destinies. I also think that sometimes, ‘destiny’ is what we make it.

When a new opportunity presents itself, we often wonder if this was given to us as part of a destiny. We try to feel a sense of intuition about it. We may perform divination about how the opportunity might unfold.

The truth is, though, very often we can only see the path destiny has laid out for us in the rear-view mirror. Divination is helpful in telling us to steer clear of something, or in encouraging us to pursue an opportunity. Yet very often there will be twists and turns in the road ahead.

Sometimes we will think something is a perfect opportunity, and it will not pan out. Other times we will think something is not going to turn out well, and it has a spectacular outcome. It can happen that something goes badly, but then, later, we see the important purpose that chapter played.

When any sort of opportunity knocks, the way we feel about it may not indicate the ultimate truth about the role it will play in our lives.

When we seek a sense of purpose and destiny in our lives, we are often disappointed. The search for meaning and spiritual fulfillment is a complex thing. We often wonder what we are ‘supposed’ to be doing, and when we will feel like we are living the life for which we are destined.

Sometimes there will be a very real sense of spiritual calling regarding a particular career, endeavor, or relationship. Sometimes we will not have that sense of knowing, but the thing we are doing may still be important and meaningful.

We spiritual people are taught to trust our intuition. That is very necessary. Yet not everything can be immediately felt or understood. No matter how intuitive or psychic a person is, life can still have a sense of mystery. Sometimes that mystery is delightful. Sometimes it is frustrating.

Sometimes we know the truth when we see it, sometimes it takes us a while to figure things out.

The StaarCorner

The countdown to StaarCon is on! Before I tell you about our most recent StaarCast episode, here is a reminder about some important StaarCon facts.

First, all ticket holders, whether in person or online, will have access to the same classes included in their ticket. All ticket holders, whether in person or online, will have access to the online StaarCon Afterglow, which includes the ability to access recordings of classes for thirty days after the conference ends.

In person attendees have the option to purchase meals through the StaarCon meal plan, including the Saturday evening banquet.

Tickets are available now. If you are planning to attend in person, it is especially important to get your ticket as soon as possible, as in person tickets are limited. Ticket prices range from $50 to $450, so there is sure to be a ticket that works for you.

StaarCast is our podcast which features interviews with StaarCon presenters. Our most recent episode features an interview with Erika Robinson, who works with the Lenormand cards.

My conversation with Erika was enlightening. I learned things I had never considered about the depth of this simple system.

You can watch our conversation on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Tarot Communication for Clarity and Depth Hybrid Class

Our next ‘Zoom and Room’ tarot class will be Tuesday, November 30, from 7 pm to 9 pm ET.

Tarot is a tool of communication. With tarot, we can communicate and understand our feelings. We can build our relationships. We can brainstorm our projects. We can understand the needs of our body. We can connect with Spirit.

Whether we are reading for ourselves or others, the secret to clarity and depth in tarot readings is to understand how tarot communicate with us, and how tarot helps us communicate with others.

In this class you will learn solid techniques for using tarot to communicate your own feelings, understand what is going on with your body, work well within a group, communicate with spirit, and connect with your creativity. You will also learn how to do these things effectively when reading for others.

Class fee is $40. Sign up now!

Tarot to Help You Know It When You See It

When you are making a big “Is this the right one?” sort of decision, it is time to see what tarot has to say.

You can start by simply asking that question of the cards.

Sometimes yes/no questions can give direct answers, other times the cards offer information that is helpful but not definitive. When that happens, you can ask cards questions such as the following.

What happens if I take this path?

What happens if I do not take this path?

Is there a spiritual significance to this opportunity?

Is there something I need to know about this opportunity?

What is the best way for me to consider this next step?

What do I need to know about problems that may arise from this decision?

Members-Only Livestream on YouTube: Incoming!

All members of my YouTube channel, Christiana Gaudet Tarot, are welcome to join us for a special livestream event on Tuesday, November 16, at 7 pm ET.

We will work together to help each person design and perform a magical tarot spread. This tarot spread will give insight, energy, and direction for 2022.

The replay of this event will be available to all present and future channel members.

You may become a member of this channel at any time.

To attend, simply be a current member and join us on November 16 at 7 pm.

The Week in Review

November Tarotscopes are ready for you on my YouTube channel. Check out what we see for your sun, moon, and rising signs for the month.

From Around the Web

I was excited to see this interview with tarotist Jessica Dore in the Guardian this week!

Tarot stuff is happening on college campuses as well. Check out the “Decolonizing Tarot” exhibit at the University of Oregon!

New York Magazine has compiled a list of the best tarot and oracle decks!

Cards for Your Consideration

In the search for personal truth and correct decisions on one’s life path, the Ace of Swords can be a powerful tool to help us discern truth and right action.

The Ace of Swords can represent a fact, a truth revealed, or a directive from the Universe to take a particular action.

Use the Ace of Swords in meditation to get clear on your path. When you perform divination to help you make an important decision, the Ace of Swords will often appear to point the way.

Upcoming Events and Tours

Card and Craft Academy

Classes presented by Christiana are available right now at Card and Craft Academy!



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 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 4 Issue 44
November 3, 2021

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