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The Only Constant
This week, we are talking about the inevitability of change.
Years ago, I worked for a radio station. I knew something big had happened when, upon walking in one morning, I saw that an inspirational poster had been hung in a prominent spot. It read, “The Only Constant is Change”. I discovered there had been a huge personnel change overnight. At that moment, I thought the poster was a cheesy attempt to motivate us during a difficult time. In retrospect, I must admit that I have used that phrase to motivate myself countless times over the years after first seeing it that day.
We spiritual people talk about change all the time. We want to shift, transform, transmute, and evolve. We want personal change and social change. We want metamorphosis. We know that when we say that change is the only constant, we are also saying that a refusal to change leaves us stuck.
Change comes in two forms: the changes we choose and the changes that are forced upon us.
Sometimes, we forget that change, though necessary, is always hard. Even when we choose a carefully thought-out evolution, there may be grief, fear, guilt, and regret.
When change comes against our will, it can be even worse. Then, we must either accept or resist. Often, we resist at first and then slowly accept the inevitable.
Everything in nature is designed to change, including we humans. Yet, we get comfortable in what we know, even when what we know isn’t what we want.
To embrace change, we must embrace discomfort. We must also embrace the fact that resisting change will bring even more discomfort in the long run.
The StaarCorner
StaarCon 2024 AfterGlow
On Thursday, October 17, at 5 pm, join Serena Fox in her new lounge, Mystic Lounging, for a full-moon-inspired session.
On Sunday, October 20, at 5 pm, join me in the Tea with Your Tarot Fairy Godmother Lounge for a session on the best strategies for teaching and learning tarot.
StaarCon 5
Maria Alviz Hernando will present at StaarCon 5 for the third time. Maria joins us in person from Madrid, Spain. You can also spend time with her virtually almost every month in her lounge on Accelevents.
Maria’s first book will be published by Weiser Books, one of StaarCon’s sponsors. At StaarCon 5, she will offer two classes.
On Saturday, join her for Exvote Magic: History and Creation of Magical Offerings. On Sunday, Maria will offer a nuts-and-bolts tarot class appropriate for professional readers and those aspiring.
Get your StaarCon 5 tickets now!
Two Cards of Change
One of the first things we learn as beginning tarot students is not to fear Major Arcana 13, “The Death Card.” We are taught that while the lesson of Death is to accept all the cycles of nature, when Death appears in divination, it is likely discussing a change, such as a new job, marriage, or pregnancy, rather than a tragedy.
Death may appear to invite us to explore the feelings we have about our mortality and that of our loved ones.
Another card that speaks of change is the Wheel of Fortune. The Wheel of Fortune speaks to us of luck, fate, patterns, and karma. Yet, Major Arcana 10, the Wheel of Fortune, can also talk about the turn of the wheel that creates a change in your fortune. When upright, the change is desired. When reversed or ill-dignified, it may be a change you wouldn’t have asked for.
When we see the Wheel of Fortune as a card of change, we see the change as very likely unavoidable and likely caused by something outside of our influence. Death, too, will often speak of the changes we cannot avoid and did not create.
Which cards, then, speak of the changes we choose?
I think many of the Swords cards speak of our choices, as do a few Cups cards.
I have heard that some people see the Major Arcana, in general, as things that can’t be changed and the Minor Arcana as things over which we have influence. I bristle against this sweeping limitation. Yet, it is true that when we speak about change, the Major Arcana cards that address the energy of change do seem to talk about external influences, while the Minor Arcana cards do seem to indicate that we can make choices about the changes happening.
The Week in Review
October is off to a great start for me, with Halloween parties, a psychic gallery, and making myself available for in-person readings in three locations: Stuart, Port Saint Lucie, and West Palm Beach. Call or text 561-655-1160 to schedule your in-person reading or your session by phone, Zoom, or FaceTime.
From Around the Web
I loved seeing this short article on bookriot.com about how many publishers are beginning to publish tarot decks!
Once in a while, we find a fun and funny tarot deck. I laughed out loud when I saw this review of the Cheetos Tarot.
It’s Daily Tarot Girl Kate’s annual Halloween tarot spread!
Making Magic
Do we ever perform magic to create significant change? I think sometimes we do, but it is usually for something specific, such as fertility magic to assist in becoming pregnant or money magic to assist in finding a new job.
Sometimes, we have the need for change but don’t know what change we want. I think it could be dangerous to manifest unspecified change. Here, I think it is better to ask for direction.
Divination is great magic for finding direction, but so is meditation. When we open our minds to the universe and ask for nothing other than a push in the right direction, positive change can come quickly!
Upcoming Events
Weekly YouTube Events
Monday 9:30 am: Your 3-Card Weekly Reading
Thursday Noon: Tarot Topics Newsletter Recap
Friday Noon: Your Friday Weekly Wrap-up
Saturday 12:30 pm: Saturday Psychic Sampler
Card and Craft Academy
Card and Craft Academy will close permanently on November 15th.
Look for Christiana’s new and improved academy soon! Until then, Christiana is offering personal mentorship classes in person and online.
Existing students of Card and Craft Academy will be offered a similar course in the new location as soon as the course becomes available. Students who take advantage of the offer to access the new course will also receive a coupon for a free month of our new all-access subscription when the full site is available.
If you are a Card and Craft Academy student, your invitation will be mailed to the email address you used to log in to the old account. If your address changes, you can contact Christiana to recover your account.
About Christiana Gaudet
Card and Craft, Inc.
Southeastern Tarot Artists and Readers, LLC.
Christiana Gaudet
770 SE Indian Street
Stuart, Florida 34997-5604
Locations in Port Saint Lucie, West Palm Beach, and Stuart, Florida!
Email cgaudet@cardandcraft.com
On the web www.christianagaudet.com
Online classes www.cardandcraftacademy.com
StaarCon information www.staarcon.com
YouTube @YourTarotFairyGodmother
Instagram @christianatarot @staarcon
TikTok @christianagaudettarot
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.
Zoom parties and group instruction are available almost everywhere!
Call toll free 866-99TAROT (866-998-2768)
For business or agent inquiries, call 772-301-0232
For appointments, call or text 561-655-1160
Schedule Appointments or Purchase Gift Certificates Online!
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Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 7 Issue 42
October 16, 2024
Tricks and Treats
When we say that someone is haunted, very rarely do we mean to imply that they are having ghostly visitations. Rather, we are haunted by our memories and the injuries of our past. This week, we are putting those old ghosts to rest.
Not surprisingly, I love the spiritual and secular aspects of spooky season. I also love discovering the origins of all our holiday traditions. For example, the tradition of trick-or-treating originated from the custom of leaving sweets on doorsteps to placate the spirits who came back to seek vengeance on Halloween.
We humans often try to bargain with the energies we see as spiritual forces. That bargaining is something I think about often.
This week, though, I am contemplating the metaphor of appeasing our ghosts.
Beyond the concept of ghosts as actual spirits, we also use the term to describe things of our past with which we haven’t made peace. When we say that someone is haunted, very rarely do we mean to imply that they are having ghostly visitations. Rather, we are haunted by our memories and the injuries of our past.
To extend this metaphor, I think many of us are constantly tricked by the ghosts of our past. We often pay homage to what has hurt us rather than doing the painful work of healing.
Consider the person who grew up in an abusive family but puts their abuser on a pedestal or the person who blames others for their problems rather than taking responsibility for their own healing. It is impossible to heal when we cannot see or know the truth about our past.
Even those of us lucky enough to have avoided terrible trauma still have hurtful memories that cause us to believe negative and untrue things about life and about ourselves.
As we honor our ancestors and enjoy spooky season this month, let’s do what we can to put our personal ghosts to rest. We do that by unpacking and reprocessing past events, being gentle with our younger selves, and realizing that some things that we were taught and told might not be the truth.
The StaarCorner
StaarCon 2024 AfterGlow
This month, join us for three special lounge events!
On Friday, October 11, at 5 pm, Join María Alviz Hernando in The Sybil’s Tarot Lounge for a session reviewing real tarot reading case studies.
On Thursday, October 17, at 5 pm, join Serena Fox in her new lounge, Mystic Lounging, for a full-moon-inspired session.
On Sunday, October 20, at 5 pm, join me in the Tea with Your Tarot Fairy Godmother Lounge for a session on the best strategies for teaching and learning tarot.
StaarCon 5
One of the things I am excited about is that we will be talking about tarot in some very interesting ways at StaarCon 5. We will have sessions exploring connections between tarot and martial arts, neuroscience, music, and poetry. I am happy to announce that we are welcoming first-time presenter Caroline Ironwill to talk about tarot and neurodivergence. Caroline is a Canadian tarot reader and certified coach with a following on YouTube.
At StaarCon 5, we will discover many ways to understand and celebrate tarot. Please join us!
Ask Tarot for the Truth
Many tarot spreads have a position for the past or recent events. Yet, most tarot spreads do not offer positions to help us deeply unpack and reprocess the past, so we often have to ask the right questions and create our own spreads.
What are the best questions to ask the cards when we are trying to understand something from the past? We want to discover the truth rather than the mythology that has sprung up about the past. That means we are asking the cards to show us what is true about something or someone. For example, we can ask questions such as the following.
What was this person’s intention when they did this?
What were the factors present at the time that caused me to make this choice?
How did those long-ago events affect my life?
What is true about this situation?
What can I know about this?
The Week in Review
This Sunday, join me at Banyan Soul Yoga Studio in Stuart for a Psychic Gallery. Tickets are limited!
If you missed our October Mediumship and Magic class, watch the replay!
From Around the Web
Did you know Salem, Massachusetts, is a great place to celebrate Halloween? Here’s why!
Daily Tarot Girl Kate has a tarot spread to help you stop holding on to the past and move forward.
Psychology Today offers these tips to help heal childhood trauma.
Making Magic
Can magic help us release the ghosts of our past? Yes, but we need to be careful to avoid spiritual bypassing and what therapists call “magical thinking.”
In psychology, magical thinking is the belief that our thoughts and actions directly influence external events.
But, wait a minute, isn’t that what we magical people know to be true?
This is where critical thinking is paramount.
We know that magic works and can make a difference. Yet, we also know that the magical and the mundane must work together. If we are doing magic to heal, we must also do the daily tasks that promote our healing and avoid the things that hurt us.
I believe that tarot is a fabulous magical tool for helping us understand and release our personal hauntings. Yet, we must show up for the deeply emotional work that goes along with understanding tarot and ourselves. The efficacy of our magic will be directly affected by the depth of our emotional presence.
Upcoming Events
Weekly YouTube Events
Monday 9:30 am: Your 3-Card Weekly Reading
Thursday Noon: Tarot Topics Newsletter Recap
Friday Noon: Your Friday Weekly Wrap-up
Saturday 12:30 pm: Saturday Psychic Sampler
Card and Craft Academy
Card and Craft Academy will close on October 15th and reopen soon at christianagaudet.com!
Students will be offered a similar course in the new location as soon as the course becomes available. Students who take advantage of the offer to access the new course will also receive a coupon for a free month of our new all-access subscription when the full site is available.
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
Tarot Spreads Tools and Techniques Workshop
Tarot for Magic and Mediumship
Tarot Communication for Clarity and Depth
Weaving the Tarot Reading Story
The Elemental Major Arcana
Minor Arcana Numbers, Elements, and Truth
Personal Healing with Tarot
Create and Interpret Custom Tarot Spreads
What the Court Cards Want You to Know
How Spirit Speaks Through Tarot
Catch up on your missed Zoom webinars and more!
About Christiana Gaudet
Card and Craft, Inc.
Southeastern Tarot Artists and Readers, LLC.
Christiana Gaudet
3559 SW Corporate Parkway
Palm City, Florida 34990-8152
Coming soon! Locations in Port Saint Lucie, West Palm Beach, and Stuart, Florida!
Email cgaudet@cardandcraft.com
On the web www.christianagaudet.com
Online classes www.cardandcraftacademy.com
StaarCon information www.staarcon.com
YouTube @YourTarotFairyGodmother
Instagram @christianatarot @staarcon
TikTok @christianagaudettarot
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.
Zoom parties and group instruction are available almost everywhere!
Call toll free 866-99TAROT (866-998-2768)
Palm City 772-301-0232 x102
or call or text 561-655-1160
for more information or to schedule your event.
Schedule Appointments Online
Schedule online at https://christiana-gaudet.as.me.
Agent inquiries are welcome.
Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 7 Issue 41
October 9, 2024
Every Journey is a Healing Journey
This week, we explore the healing journey that is life.
One of the things I hear often in my tarot practice is this. “I have been working on healing and spiritual growth for a long time. When will I be finished with this healing journey?”
The answer (which no one likes to hear) is NEVER.
I have come to believe that our purpose here on planet Earth is simply this. We are here to heal ourselves, each other, and the planet. The measure of our healing is our ability to be happy today, where we are, with what we have.
Every day, each one of us is on a healing journey, whether we know it, or not, and whether we like it, or not.
The frustration is real.
When we embark on a healing journey because we want something more than healing, we can see our commitment to healing as a barter with the Universe. “I’ll go to yoga if you send me a boyfriend”.
While it is true that, as we heal, we become abler to attract the right people and situations into our lives, healing needs to be done for the sake of healing only.
We can also become frustrated that, at a mature age, we are still dealing with issues that began in childhood. This isn’t unusual. We all spend most of our adult lives recovering from the first twenty years. That’s because a lot of the programming we receive is unconducive to good mental health.
Perhaps our planetary culture will evolve to the point that we damage our children less. Until then, we each bear the responsibility for our own healing from childhood issues, even if it takes a lifetime.
Often, the healing journey feels frustrating because we want to be more perfect right now. The truth is, patience with ourselves, and with our journey, is its own healing lesson.
I think the trick is to normalize our need for healing. No one feels embarrassed about going to the dentist, or getting a mammogram. Dealing with therapists and healers should invoke no stigma.
Every part of ourselves, body, mind and spirit, needs constant maintenance and healing. The more we can embrace our journey through life as a journey of self-care and healing, the more we can enjoy the journey.
Healing from Emotional Triggers with Tarot
One of the biggest and most easily propagated type of hurt I see is the emotional trigger.
A situation, large or small, may cause you to feel angry, or hurt, or sad. You react to the situation, without realizing that the level of pain you are feeling is not really caused by the situation at hand. The situation has reminded your subconscious of something bigger, and more painful, in your past. That’s truly why you are so upset.
When we can recognize our triggers when they happen, we can immediately feel better, and stop allowing small problems to give us huge pain. We can identify the true source of the pain, and work on healing that.
If we can avoid reacting to our triggers, we can avoid causing deeper problems in our current relationships.
When something upsets you, have a conversation with your cards about it, or create a tarot spread to help you deal with it.
One of the most important questions to ask of your cards in this situation is “Why is this upsetting me so much?”
Another is, “How should I address this with the other people involved?”
The more we can recognize our triggers, the more we can avoid making our current situations worse, and the more we can cultivate authentic and healthy emotional responses.
Explore tarot as a way to do exactly that.
From My Desk to Yours
This week, I had the opportunity to speak at a ladies’ luncheon. Here’s what I spoke about, on my Community Blog.
Here’s one from the archives. In honor ofMay First, here is a Beltane Tarot Spread to try.
From Around the Web
From Alice Smeets, here is a fabulous post about healing with tarot, entitled “Shadow Meditation with Tarot”.
Here’s a take on healing with tarot from the Llewellyn Journal.
From Ultimate Tarot, here is a Healing Tarot Spread.
Song of the Week
This song reminds me of the healing journey. It’s Sheryl Crow’s “Every Day is a Winding Road”.
Numerology with Zuri
Number Seven
Hello Bright Sparks!
Last week, the focus was all about caregiving, the home and the responsibilities of being everyone’s cosmic parent in some way, shape or form. Our identity was clearly defined and molded by the roles we adopted by nurturing and self-sacrificing for the needs of others.
This week, we shed those labels, in an effort to recharge our spiritual batteries and work on rediscovering our own balance and center. Under the angelic wings of the 7 vibration, we realign with our inner compass by disconnecting from the outside chatter to hear our personal truths.
As a 7, you may need your quiet time and personal space to hear yourself think, to reflect on the day’s events and to do the necessary research to find the answers to that nagging mystery or puzzle. Don’t be surprised if you preferred to spend your time at the library rather than at a frat party. Or maybe you were drawn to the sciences as a college major. Much like Sherlock Holmes, you’re an investigator, a seeker of wisdom, always in search for the deeper meaning or secrets to life. With that being said, your BS meter is always on high alert, making you the natural skeptic of the group and never taking anything just at face value.
A 7 will definitely make you think, question and dig deeper for solutions. But one of the biggest lessons of the 7 is to also learn how to have faith and trust. Not everything will fit in a perfect little box, and sometimes part of the cosmic lesson of the 7 when you see it in the world around you, is to let go and let God, because there is a Divine plan in action.
The 7 will teach you to trust where your hut (heart & gut) is leading you. Listen to your instincts, leave a door open for the Angelic guides to step through and show you a new way or bring the people into your life who are meant to be a part of the next step.
This is further supported when we look at how the 7 plays out in the Tarot’s Minor Arcana. The 7 of Wands shows a man needing to stand up for himself and his beliefs. He’s not listening to anyone else. He’s going at it alone but finds strength in his convictions. The 7 of Pentacles confirms that there is a Divine timing at play when waiting for the fruits of our labor to come into tangible reality. So as much as we want to direct the course, sometimes we need to step back, re-assess the situation and allow God to take the reigns for our highest and best good. The 7 of Cups is a card of too many choices, and needing to turn inward for deeper clarity. And ultimately, the 7 of Swords is a reminder to never take anything at face value. In true 7 fashion, it calls for skepticism and discernment in uncovering the truth.
This week’s vibrational takeaway in working with the 7 is to turn the mirror back on yourself. What do you see? Do you like what you see? What needs deeper analysis or healing? Maybe it’s a call to action to unplug from society. Spend some time in nature and enter into a state of introspection and self-reflection. Where do you need to create a sanctuary of peace and solitude? Where do you need to investigate and uncover what may be a deeper mystery? Is your life lacking a spiritual foundation? Engage in meditation or deeper research right now. When in doubt, trust your vibes and have faith that you will be guided to the right outcome in the right time.
The answers lie within you.
With love & stardust!
xo Zuri
I’m Zuri Eberhart: Tarot reader, numerologist and intuitive healer put on this planet to help fantastic spirits (like you!) learn to trust their intuition, cast light on their possibilities, and move towards their gorgeous goals, fearlessly.
(Oh - and I’m here to make it fun, too. Like, heart-opening, adventure-sparking, I-can-see-clearly-nowww kind of fun.)
Ready to make some magic? I’d love to help you set your mojo on fire! Stop by my digital digs at AskZuri.com.
Three Types of Healing We All Need, and Some Tarot Cards That Can Help
Healing from guilt and shame
We are raised to feel shame for our bodies and their natural functions, and guilt for our personalities and natural desires.
One tarot card that can often reflect guilt and shame is the High Priestess reversed. A healing exercise is to meditate with the High Priestess in her upright position, and claim the natural perfection of your human form.
Healing from low self-worth
Most of us suffer from a lack of self-esteem. We have a hard time visualizing our success, celebrating our accomplishments, or believing that we deserve good things.
The Nine of Pentacles can be a card of self-confidence and self-esteem. Meditate with the Nine of Pentacles to help feel more secure in yourself.
Healing from the need to please others
Of course, we want to please the people around us. However, sometimes we get caught in the trap of please those who don’t have our best interests at heart, or pleasing people at the expense of pleasing ourselves. When we have our own approval, we don’t need the approval of others. When we surround ourselves with people who truly care about our happiness, finding happiness is easier.
There are many tarot cards that speak of the richness of family and community in healthy ways, like the Three of Cups, the Four of Wands and the Ten of Cups. When we feel torn between our own needs and the needs of others, we need to work to manifest appropriate community relationships. These cards can help!
If we are feeling treated unfairly by others, the Justice card can bring balance, and the Lovers can help us appropriately integrate with others.
Image from Gilded Royale by Ciro Marchetti.
Your One-Card Weekly Reading
The Fool
Drawn at random, this is the perfect card for our conversation about the healing journey.
While the Fool is a very important card, and can have many interpretations, there is one obvious interpretation in light of our topic.
This week, the Fool asks you to honor your inner child.
Sometimes healing the inner child means recognizing the mistakes that well-intentioned parents have made. Remember, every parent gives their kids something to tell a therapist.
Sometimes healing the inner child means allowing yourself the opportunity to nurture your own inner child in ways that you weren’t nurtured in your actual childhood.
Sometimes the inner child simply wants to play, create, learn and explore.
This week, make time in your adult life to honor your playful nature, to heal your wounded inner child, and to nurture yourself.
All of these things are part of your healing journey, and all are encouraged by the Fool.
Upcoming Events
Sunday, May 15, 3:30 pm
Tampa Bay Area Tarot Meetup
Panera Bread
23388 State Road 54, Lutz, 33549
Join us as I teach my popular free class “The Four Elements and the Major Arcana”. You’ll learn the traditional elemental associations of the twenty-two Major Arcana cards, and see how this aids in your understanding of them.
You can RSVP on the Meetup, or visit the event listing on my webpage.
Wednesday, May 18, 7:00 pm
Global Tarot Circle
A Free WebEx Webinar Available Exclusively Online
Join tarot friends around the world for questions and answers about tarot. Share readings, insights and focused conversation with tarot experts, artists, students and beginners.
Log-in information is available on the event listing on my webpage.
Now Open for Registration:
Sunday, June 5, 10:00 - 4:00, Tampa Bay Area Tarot Meetup Retreat Day at Mitchell's.
October 7, Professional Development Day at TarotCon (Follow the link below).
October 8 & 9, TarotCon (Florida) 2016 in Palm Beach Gardens.
About Christiana
Christiana Gaudet
Origins Spa and Wellness Center
1537 N Dale Mabry Highway #102
Lutz, FL 33548
Private telephone, Skype and in person readings and instruction are available by appointment.
Tarot parties at your home or office are available throughout Florida.
Call 813-948-4488, toll free 866-99TAROT,
or text or call 561-655-1160 for more information or to schedule your event.
Agent inquiries are welcome.
CLIC Tarot Program Note for Wednesday August 8th
This week
guest on CLIC Tarot will be
holistic nurse, transpersonal psychology counselor, and author of "Gaining Archetypal Vision."
The talk on Wednesday will be about body/mind consciousness, guided imagery, Tarot, archetypes, healing, and
personal potential.
WOW!
Tune in this coming Wednesday at 3pm EST for what promises to be a fascinating show!