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To Be at Home in Your Skin
I'm back from my tarot tour. It was a great trip, and it is great to be home!
To Be at Home in Your Skin
Be comfortable in your home, and in yourself.
My August Northeastern Tarot Tour was phenomenal. I am so grateful to everyone who had readings, hosted psychic parties in their homes and attended my workshop. I will be back in the Northeast in the spring of 2020 and hope to see my New England friends again then!
Connecticut was my home for many decades. I always enjoy returning to what has now become my home-away-from home. Equally, I enjoy returning to my current home and office on the Treasure Coast of Florida.
My parents happily traveled quite often. Yet, my mother would always say that the best part of travel was how much traveling made you appreciate returning to your own home.
Different people have different relationships with the concept of ‘home’. Some people live in only one house their entire lives. I’ve lived in more homes than I can count, spread over five states and a dozen cities.
For me, ‘home’ is a feeling, not a place. Home can be a state of feeling settled, and familiar with one’s surroundings. Home can be a sense of safety and security.
When we welcome someone into our space we say, “make yourself at home”. When we say that, we are inviting them not only to be in our space, but to feel and act as if that space were their own.
I like to think that I carry my sense of home with me wherever I go. My focus is to feel at home with myself, to be comfortable in my own skin.
This is not as easy as it sounds, but the rewards are vast. To be at home within oneself is to have self-acceptance and self-confidence. To be at home with oneself is to know how to feel comfortable in any setting. It’s to take responsibility for one’s own energy, and to find peace in every situation.
When we feel at home in our own skin, we waste less time feeling out-of-sorts, and spend more time being productive. When we feel at home wherever we are we have the ability to form meaningful relationships with others. When we are comfortable with ourselves, we can make others comfortable with us, and with themselves.
People have different comfort levels with being in unfamiliar surrounds, just as people have different relationships with the concept of home. Yet, if we attach too much to a place, we can lose our ability to feel at ease when we need to venture out of that comfort zone.
Not everyone enjoys travel or adventure. Yet, life itself is a journey, and an adventure. The more we foster a sense of comfort within ourselves, the more we can relax and enjoy the journey of life.
Your Journey Through the Minor Arcana: Numbers, Elements and Truth
Don’t miss this premium class to be held back home in my conference room in Palm City, Florida, on Sunday, September 15th from 4 to 6PM.
In this in-person class tarot enthusiasts of all levels of experience will learn simple-yet-profound techniques to remember, understand and interpret the Minor Arcana cards of the tarot.
This class is appropriate for all tarot enthusiasts. New readers will learn basic skills, while experienced readers will discover new ways to understand and interpret the forty numbered cards of the Minor Arcana.
Class size is limited. Class fee is $37.50. You must be registered in order to attend. Register online today with Eventbrite.
A Make Yourself at Home Tarot Spread
How can you feel more at home with yourself? Everyone has different requirements, internally and externally, for their own comfort.
Many people aren’t aware of what it takes for them to feel comfortable within themselves. What must you do and know to be comfortable in your own skin? Try this two-card tarot spread to find out.
Ask this question aloud. “What do I need right now to feel comfortable in my own skin?”
Then, pull two cards.
The first card will be what you need to know or do to feel comfortable internally, that is, within yourself.
The second card is what you need to do or acquire to feel comfortable externally, that is, comfortable in your current living situation.
Do this whenever you are feeling uncomfortable or unwelcome to help you shift your energy to one of comfort, welcome and security.
The Week in Review
Everyone talks about the need for psychic protection, but few people will tell you how to do it. This week I shared my technique for psychic protection, tailor-made for empaths and psychic readers.
Did you catch my Three-Card Weekly Reading on Monday? If not, you can find it on my YouTube channel and my Facebook business page.
From Around the Web
Benebell Wen’s latest post, Seven Philosophical Readings with the Tarot, is very insightful!
Here are Six Ways to Be More Comfortable with Yourself. I recommend all of them!
Have you ever lived in something other than a traditional house, apartment or condo? Here are some great, inexpensive ideas for alternative housing.
Cards for Your Consideration
Let’s consider this classic Nine of Pentacles from the Smith-Waite Centennial Edition Tarot.
In modern times, this card is often seen as a card of personal security. Very often it gives a sense of being comfortably alone. That is, not needing another person to make you feel complete.
Historically, the woman in this card is from a wealthy family, and under her father’s protection. She is practicing falconry, a pastime of the upper class. Certainly, she has the financial security that comes from family money. But what about the modern sense that this card reflects personal security as well? Why do we often see this card as expressing confidence, self-assurance, and being comfortable in one’s own skin? Is this a modern meaning only, or is there evidence that this meaning was present when this card was designed?
The answer lies with the snail pictured at the bottom of the card.
Although the woman has wealth and security, the snail is secure too, because the snail carries his home with him wherever he goes.
The Nine of Pentacles can speak of wealth and inheritance, but it also asks us to be like the snail, confident that we can be at home anywhere.
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Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 2 Issue 35
August 28, 2019
What It Means to Balance and Blend
This week we look for ways to find balance in life.
What It Means to Balance and Blend
In tarot and in life, balance is important!
Have you ever noticed how many tarot cards and oracle cards seem to have as their theme the need for balance? A seemingly equal number seem to stress the need to blend and to integrate, to mix things together.
It seems that balancing and blending is something we humans need to do a lot of, and something that is often fraught with difficulty.
We talk about having balanced lives and balanced diets. We struggle to blend with our co-workers and our family members. In our larger communities we discuss the need for the balance that gives opposing ideas equal exposure, and our concern that with those who have opposing views we don’t seem to be able to find common ground.
In Buddhism the Middle Way of moderation is taught as the path to a good life. This seems in sharp contrast to the extreme viewpoints of many world religions. Yet, moderation makes sense in many ways. Moderation encourages thoughtful actions and reactions. When we moderate our responses to others, we more easily find common ground with those around us.
The Kabbalistic Tree of Life has two outer pillars, one of mercy and one of severity. In tarot, the High Priestess, a character of wisdom and serenity, sits between these pillars. This is one way that balance is depicted in tarot.
The need for balancing and blending is especially important in our romantic relationships. The best relationships offer the opportunity for each person to be true to themselves, as well as true to each other.
When we eat a diet that isn’t balanced, we become ill. When we live a life that isn’t balanced, we become unproductive. Yet, there are so many forces and influences around that that try to convince us that we don’t have time to live in a balanced way.
Perhaps the first step toward bringing greater balance into our lives is to allow ourselves the space to be human. Perhaps the first step toward blending more easily with others is to allow them to be human, too.
There is Still Time to See Me in Connecticut!
I will be here in Connecticut through Monday, August 26. If you would like a private appointment at True Bikram Yoga in Madison, please call or text me at 561-655-1160.
If you have a group of people and would like me to come to your home or office, please reach out to see if I have a timeslot available for you.
I will be back in my Palm City office next week and look forward to seeing my Florida friends then.
As always, wherever I am in the world, I am available to read for you by phone, Skype, FaceTime or Messenger.
Balance and Blend Tarot Techniques
When you need to find a balance between two aspects of your life, for example, work and family, or job and hobby, or self and spouse, a two-card tarot spread can be very helpful.
Simply pull one card for each concern and ‘weight’ the cards against each other. Does one concern seem to require more than the other right now? Is one suffering? What do these cards tell you about how well you are dividing your time and energy, or what you need to do next?
When you are interested in considering how well you are blending with another person or situation, try a three-card spread, with the two outer cards being the individuals and the middle card being the relationship, or the blend.
When we see how the cards interact with each other, we develop a better idea of ways we can work to create a better balance, and better blends.
The Week in Review
This week I shared a post for tarotists about how to read for questions that aren’t phrased as questions. When a querent simply says ‘love-life’ or ‘career’, what do you do with that? Read my post and find out!
Even when I am traveling, I make sure to do my Three-Card Weekly Reading on Monday. Visit my Facebook business page, Christiana Gaudet, to see what cards came up this week!
From Around the Web
Here are Six Tips to Create a Balanced Life. Clearly, finding balance is something everyone struggles to do.
Here is an Elemental Tarot Spread for Finding Balance. Tarot can be such a help in finding balance, and an understanding of the four elements is a huge part of understanding tarot and balance.
Here are Ten Tips for Talking to People You Can’t Agree With. From Psychology Today, these are techniques we all need to find a way to practice!
Image from the Smith-Waite Tarot Deck Centennial Edition, published by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. Copyright 2015, Used by permission.
Cards for Your Consideration
The tarot card that most completely expresses balancing and blending is Major Arcana 14, Temperance.
Temperance is the card of art, time and alchemy. In the image, we see the angel blending a substance by pouring it back and forth between two cups.
Temperance reminds that that nothing is perfect. Yet, with patience and creativity, we can find the right balance and the perfect blend.
With this card, consider the two meanings of the word ‘solution’. A solution is the answer to a problem. A solution is also what is created when you blend two liquids together.
Sometimes, the answer to the problem is to create a blend.
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Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 2 Issue 34
August 21, 2019