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Just Breathe
When we bring consciousness to the breath, we harness the awesome power of the mind.
The term “breathwork” can refer to any type of breathing exercises or techniques. In the wellness community, there are specific breathwork practices, such as Rebirthing, and Shamanic Breathwork.
If you go to a yoga class, a childbirth class, or a meditation class, it is likely that your class leader will instruct you in certain breathing techniques.
Whether or not you are interested in formalized breathing techniques, the breath remains an important tool in your personal and spiritual toolbox.
Breathing is autonomic. That is, our bodies breathe without our conscious focus. When we bring consciousness to the breath, interesting things can happen.
On a physical level, mindful breathing can help with pain management and sleep. It can also help us become more organized and productive.
On a metaphysical level, mindful breathing can help with psychic development, divination, manifestation, meditation, spirit communication, and personal healing.
When someone is upset, it is common for us to tell them to take a few breaths before they react. When we need a break, we often call it taking a ‘breather’.
Sometimes the best advice we can give someone is to simply breathe. Sometimes the best task we can assign to ourselves is to take a moment to focus on breathing.
If we do not want to learn specific breathing patterns, it is helpful to simply breathe as deeply and slowly as possible, focusing on the inhalations and exhalations. This technique is powerful enough to bring insight, healing, and spiritual connection.
The more we focus on the breathe, the more we attune to a higher consciousness, and the more we feel connected to an abundant and healing universal energy.
The StaarCorner
StaarCast Variety Show Episode 2 is now available on YouTube! This episode is packed with great information from our StaarCon presenters and participants. Learn about palm leaf reading and pendulum divination from Gita Rash. Meet StaarCon 2023 presenter Mercedes Vasquez.
Enjoy a panel discussion with some of our community’s most interesting personalities.
Check out this new episode and subscribe to the StaarCast channel. We look forward to seeing you at StaarCon 2023 in January.
Breathing with Tarot
How can we use breathwork specifically with tarot? Here are some ideas.
To create sacred space before beginning your divination. Hold your cards and breathe, while setting your intention for the divination.
When you don’t understand what a specific card is trying to tell you, take a moment, say the name of the card, and focus on your breath. The meaning will usually become clear to you.
When you want to embody the energy of a tarot card, or bring that energy into your life, hold that card to your heart and consciously breathe its energy into your body, and into your life.
The Week in Review
I am excited to announce that I am once again nominated for an award by the World Divination Association in the category of Best Tarot Reader for 2022. Please cast your vote today!
Tarotscopes for September are available on my YouTube channel. Check out your sun sign, your rising sign, and your moon sign to get some insight on the month ahead.
Join us tonight for Global Tarot Circle!
From Around the Web
Here is a comprehensive discussion of breathwork.
Benebell Wen shared an interesting blogpost on tarot deck collecting this week.
Guidance on the Journey
Breathing is, of course, how we interact with the element of Air. The element of Air is associated with the suit of Swords in tarot. Interestingly, the suit of Swords contains some of the most brutal imagery and unwelcome interpretations in the deck.
For example, the Three of Swords is a card of sorrow and heartbreak. The Seven of Swords is known as “The Thieves’ Card”. The Eight and Nine of Swords are cards that I have nicknamed “The Sisters of Anxiety and Depression”. The Ten of Swords pictures a person lying prone and bleeding with ten swords in their back.
We need air to live. Breathwork in all its forms is a healing practice. Why then are the cards in the suit of Air so difficult?
Metaphysically, Air is associated with the powers of the mind. That is, our intellect, our thinking, our decision-making, our curiosity, our words, and our integrity. This may be why focused breathing is so very powerful. It engages the awesome power of the mind.
At the same time, we often use that awesome mind power against ourselves, and against others.
When we see the difficult cards in the suit of Swords, we need to recognize our power to change difficulty and heal pain. We use our minds to hurt ourselves, to let others hurt us, and to hurt others. We can also use our minds to heal and create change. This is the message and the lesson of the suit of Swords in tarot.
Upcoming Events
Card and Craft Academy
Classes presented by Christiana are available right now at Card and Craft Academy!
Christiana’s Eleven-Card Celtic Cross
Finding Meaning in the Minor Arcana
The Major Arcana, Magical and Mundane
Personal Tarot: Reading for Yourself
Sharing Wisdom: Reading for Others
The Meaning and Magic of Tarot Reversals
Journey Through the Major Arcana
Your Journey Through the Minor Arcana: Numbers, Elements and Truth
Your Journey Through the Tarot Court
Tarot Stories, Trends, and Blends
Tarot Readings for Personalities and Relationships
Fearless Wisdom Tarot Workshop
Tarot Keywords and Interpretations Workshop
Tarot Spreads Tools and Techniques Workshop
Tarot for Magic and Mediumship
Tarot Communication for Clarity and Depth
Weaving the Tarot Reading Story
Minor Arcana Numbers, Elements, and Truth
Create and Interpret Custom Tarot Spreads
What the Court Cards Want You to Know
Catch up on your missed Zoom webinars and more!
cardandcraftacademy.com
About Christiana Gaudet
Card and Craft, Inc.
Southeastern Tarot Artists and Readers, LLC.
Christiana Gaudet
3559 SW Corporate Parkway
Palm City, Florida 34990-8152
On the web www.christianagaudet.com
Online classes www.cardandcraftacademy.com
StaarCon information www.staarcon.com
Private telephone, Skype, FaceTime, Zoom and in person readings and instruction are available by appointment.
Tarot parties at your home or office are available throughout Florida.
Call or text toll free 866-99TAROT (866-998-2768)
Palm City 772-301-0232
or call or text 561-655-1160
for more information or to schedule your event.
Agent inquiries are welcome.
Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 5 Issue 36
September 7, 2022
What Never Stops
Time is always passing, and always changing us. Yet some things remain eternal.
I have a big birthday coming up this fall. It’s one of those numbers that ends in zero and feels impossible. At the very same time, I am having so much fun with my new grandbabies, who are now no longer preemies, and are developing and growing and learning every day.
All this has me thinking about the different stages of life, what changes, what ends, and, maybe most importantly, the things that never stop.
There are so many differences between people of different ages. Yet, there are some things that can and should go on forever in our lives.
I get frustrated with people who use age as an excuse to refuse to learn new things, when our curiosity and ability to learn and grow (absent of cognitive decline, of course) should never stop.
I feel sad for people who have stopped feeling love for their partners, when our ability to love never stops, and has the potential to deepen over time.
I can tell you that as I grow older, I have no desire, and no plans, to stop the work I do, which is so important to me and defining of my life.
Of course, there are some things we smartly and logistically become too old to do. There is a privilege that comes with each age which allows us to relinquish certain thoughts, responsibilities, and activities. Beyond that, though, I am much more interested in the things that bring us so much joy they never stop, and we never want them to stop.
What are the things that never stop for most of us? Our love of family, our enjoyment of nature, our creativity, and our inspiration. For some of us, our work. For others, travel.
What are the things you never want to stop doing and enjoying?
Whatever our current age, the more we focus on our eternal and ongoing passions, the more engaged and vital will be, for as long as we live.
The StaarCorner
We are super excited that Kooch Daniels will be presenting at StaarCon. Kooch studied numerology with Sri Harish Johari. She has been a professional tarot reader for many years.
Her presentation at StaarCon will be “Finding Tarot Secrets in Your Birthdate”.
This hands-on combination of tarot and numerology will be interesting and approachable for diviners of all skill levels.
Kooch is an author who has presented at many conferences, including The Reader’s Studio. We are delighted that she will be joining us at StaarCon 2023.
Tickets are now available. You may join us in person in West Palm Beach or online on Accelevents.
What to Keep, and What to Let Go
As we get older, there is always the question of what to keep and what to let go. This process starts when we are toddlers and continues throughout life. If there is an activity, relationship, or ideal that we think we might be outgrowing, tarot can help us determine whether we need to lean in or let go. We can simply think of the thing in question, and pull some cards to see what value, or what danger, it holds for us going forward.
We can also, at any time, perform a simple two-card spread. Let the first card be what happens if you let something go, and the second card be what happens if you keep it.
The Week in Review
This week I am teaching two free classes on YouTube. Last night I finished my Major Arcana series with the Final Seven Cards. You can watch the replay if you missed it! Tomorrow night we will explore how Venn diagrams help us understand tarot.
From Around the Web
Here is an interesting article about Pamela Colman Smith, the artist of the world’s most popular tarot images.
If you have even a small amount of knowledge about your natal chart in Western astrology, this tarot exercise from Theresa Reed is extraordinary!
Erika Robinson shared a recent blogpost that is poignant, instructive, and an altogether great read.
Guidance on the Journey
There are many tarot cards that help us understand our relationship to time. For example, the Hermit and Temperance can both remind us to take our time, and to be patient.
The Six of Cups may speak of nostalgia, or a longing for the past. In some contexts, the Six of Cups could remind us of the essence of who we are, no matter how much time has passed.
The Knight of Pentacles may speak of the slow passage of time. The Knight of Swords and the Eight of Wands may both recommend swift action and speak of things that happen quickly. The Wheel of Fortune and the Eight of Pentacles may both speak of things that repeat time after time.
What cards might speak of the things that do not change and do not stop over time? I think this is a very personal question because it could be different for everyone. It is interesting to note, however, that the infinity symbol, or lemniscate, appears on four different cards in the Waite Smith Tarot. Those cards are the Magician, Strength, the World, and the Two of Pentacles. Perhaps these cards may give us a clue about the things that remain eternal for us all.
Upcoming Events
Card and Craft Academy
Classes presented by Christiana are available right now at Card and Craft Academy!
Christiana’s Eleven-Card Celtic Cross
Finding Meaning in the Minor Arcana
The Major Arcana, Magical and Mundane
Personal Tarot: Reading for Yourself
Sharing Wisdom: Reading for Others
The Meaning and Magic of Tarot Reversals
Journey Through the Major Arcana
Your Journey Through the Minor Arcana: Numbers, Elements and Truth
Your Journey Through the Tarot Court
Tarot Stories, Trends, and Blends
Tarot Readings for Personalities and Relationships
Fearless Wisdom Tarot Workshop
Tarot Keywords and Interpretations Workshop
Tarot Spreads Tools and Techniques Workshop
Tarot for Magic and Mediumship
Tarot Communication for Clarity and Depth
Weaving the Tarot Reading Story
Minor Arcana Numbers, Elements, and Truth
Create and Interpret Custom Tarot Spreads
What the Court Cards Want You to Know
Catch up on your missed Zoom webinars and more!
cardandcraftacademy.com
About Christiana Gaudet
Card and Craft, Inc.
Southeastern Tarot Artists and Readers, LLC.
Christiana Gaudet
3559 SW Corporate Parkway
Palm City, Florida 34990-8152
On the web www.christianagaudet.com
Online classes www.cardandcraftacademy.com
StaarCon information www.staarcon.com
Private telephone, Skype, FaceTime, Zoom and in person readings and instruction are available by appointment.
Tarot parties at your home or office are available throughout Florida.
Call or text toll free 866-99TAROT (866-998-2768)
Palm City 772-301-0232
or call or text 561-655-1160
for more information or to schedule your event.
Agent inquiries are welcome.
Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 5 Issue 35
August 31, 2022
The Magic of Love
Love is not just romance. Love is a spiritual energy that guides us, heals us, and creates miracles.
So often when we think of love, especially in the context of tarot reading, we think about the pain and joy of romantic love.
Yet, love is also something we share with family, friends, and pets. Even more, love is an energy that surrounds us.
To me, love is the surest proof of the existence of a Higher Power. When we feel love, we touch a spiritual energy that reaches beyond our physical form, and beyond space and time.
When we speak of the magic of love, we often think of spells to heal relationships, attract a lover, or release a relationship that is not working. There is so much more about love that is magical.
Love itself is a magical energy. The power of love can heal us, protect us, and create miracles for us. Love is an energy inside each of us. None of us is without the energy of love, and none of us is immune from its transformative power.
When we open our hearts and feel the power of love, we harness a limitless energy for healing, creativity, and wellbeing, for ourselves and others.
The StaarCorner
At StaarCon, we have four mission statements that remain constant year to year, event to event. However, each year we try to create something better, and do more to make our conference a uniquely meaningful experience.
What will be different about StaarCon 2023?
Those attending online and those attending in person will notice that we have even more classes, even more presenters, and an even wider variety of topics. You will also notice our new video equipment that will make the presentations better than ever.
You will notice that we have simplified our pricing and are offering a great range of activities on Friday.
Those attending online will notice some improvements in the Accevelents platform.
Those attending in person will enjoy our fabulous new venue.
These are but a few of the positive changes we are making for StaarCon 2023. Each year we will grow, so that each year we will have the best conference ever. Get your ticket now for StaarCon 2023, either in person or online, and see for yourself!
Find the Magic of Love with Tarot
We can use tarot divination for self-reflection, and to find ways to be more loving toward ourselves and others.
Try asking questions such as the following and pulling one card in answer to each question.
How can I be more loving toward myself?
How can I better show love to my partner?
How can I attract a new partner, or a new friend?
How can I spread the energy of love today?
How can I act in a more loving way at work, or in my daily life?
The Week in Review
Did you catch the class on YouTube last night, Tarot Meditation and Healing? You can watch the replay and learn how to use tarot on your healing journey!
Have you been watching the Major Arcana series? On Tuesday, August 30, the series will conclude with the final seven cards. You can join us live at 7 pm ET or watch the replay. If you need to catch up, find the first seven and the second seven in the Live Tarot Webinars playlist.
From Around the Web
I wonder if StaarCon presenter and my StaarCast Variety Show co-host Frank Kwiatkowski knows about this? Paul McCartney has just announced that a tarot card inspired one of the Beatles songs!
Tarot and yoga together? Yes, please!
The LA Times is embracing tarot! Here is a tarot reading for the future of Los Angeles.
Guidance on the Journey
Tarotists often think of the suit of Cups as being the cards that speak of romantic love. I think it is important to understand two limitations inherent in this idea. First, any card in the deck can offer information about our relationships. Second, the suit of Cups speaks of all sorts of feelings, emotions, connections, and relationships.
I see the Ace of Cups as the perfect card to represent the magical energy of unconditional love, the open heart chakra, and the powerful nature of love in all its forms. This card can predict a new romance, yet there is much more within this card.
The Ace of Cups is said to represent the Holy Grail, the womb of Mary Magdalene.
The Ace of Cups represents the element of Water, and therefore the power to bring love in all its forms.
When you see the Ace of Cups in a reading, consider all its possible meanings, and all the way it can portend positive change and possibilities of healing, as well as the exciting prospect of romance.
Use the Ace of Cups in meditation to heal your heart, and to open you to the magic of love.
Upcoming Events
Card and Craft Academy
Classes presented by Christiana are available right now at Card and Craft Academy!
Christiana’s Eleven-Card Celtic Cross
Finding Meaning in the Minor Arcana
The Major Arcana, Magical and Mundane
Personal Tarot: Reading for Yourself
Sharing Wisdom: Reading for Others
The Meaning and Magic of Tarot Reversals
Journey Through the Major Arcana
Your Journey Through the Minor Arcana: Numbers, Elements and Truth
Your Journey Through the Tarot Court
Tarot Stories, Trends, and Blends
Tarot Readings for Personalities and Relationships
Fearless Wisdom Tarot Workshop
Tarot Keywords and Interpretations Workshop
Tarot Spreads Tools and Techniques Workshop
Tarot for Magic and Mediumship
Tarot Communication for Clarity and Depth
Weaving the Tarot Reading Story
Minor Arcana Numbers, Elements, and Truth
Create and Interpret Custom Tarot Spreads
What the Court Cards Want You to Know
Catch up on your missed Zoom webinars and more!
cardandcraftacademy.com
About Christiana Gaudet
Card and Craft, Inc.
Southeastern Tarot Artists and Readers, LLC.
Christiana Gaudet
3559 SW Corporate Parkway
Palm City, Florida 34990-8152
On the web www.christianagaudet.com
Online classes www.cardandcraftacademy.com
StaarCon information www.staarcon.com
Private telephone, Skype, FaceTime, Zoom and in person readings and instruction are available by appointment.
Tarot parties at your home or office are available throughout Florida.
Call or text toll free 866-99TAROT (866-998-2768)
Palm City 772-301-0232
or call or text 561-655-1160
for more information or to schedule your event.
Agent inquiries are welcome.
Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 5 Issue 34
August 24, 2022
Unfolding
Time does not move it a straight line, it unfolds. We are always unfolding, too.
We think of our life experiences in a linear way. Time is a line, and our feelings and experiences are categorized along that timeline.
What happens when we think of time as something that unfolds, revealing new possibilities with each step?
When we look at everything that has happened to lead us to where we are today, we can clearly see that we were never walking a straight line. One thing leads to another in curves, and layers, and mysteries.
When we think of our own personal growth, the same is true. We are each unfolding as we move toward healing and enlightenment. When something unfolds, we can see its true size, and its true nature.
When I was a child, my mother taught me some simple origami. I loved folding the smooth, brightly colored paper to make unlikely animals and objects. Many years later, I taught my own daughter.
What strikes me is that in origami, sometimes you must make a fold, and then unfold it, to make a crease that will create a shape later in the process. That seems like a metaphor for the things that happen in life that leave a mark upon us. Sometimes what seems like an unnecessary step that marks us today will be exactly what we need to help us create what we wanted all along.
The StaarCorner
Brenda Elizabeth, also known as Lady Lenormand, will present an intensive on Friday morning at StaarCon called Introduction to Lenormand. In four 45-minute sessions, Brenda will take you through the entire process of learning to work with the Petit Lenormand cards.
Like tarot, Lenormand cards are a specific system of card divination. While tarot works in metaphors, Lenormand speaks in more literal terms.
With only thirty-six cards in the deck, Lenormand is read in pairs or groupings of cards. A full Lenormand reading, called a grand tableau, uses all the cards in the deck.
If you would like to learn to use Lenormand cards, or if you would like to increase your skill, consider attending StaarCon’s Friday sessions, either in person in West Palm Beach, or online!
Tickets are available now for StaarCon 2023, January 20-22.
Unfolding a Tarot Card
Obviously, you should never actually literally fold a tarot card!
Yet, our relationship with each card unfolds over time. How we perceive and understand each card can change from reading to reading, and from year to year.
Likewise, when we perform a tarot reading, the information unfolds over the course of a reading. Each card can mean more than one thing within a single reading. Combinations of cards can add greater information. You can draw more cards throughout the course of the reading to provide more information and answer the questions that arise.
When we think about tarot knowledge and tarot reading as something that unfolds, we give ourselves the opportunity to dive deeply into tarot understanding over time, and to get the most information possible from a single tarot reading.
The Week in Review
If you are a member of my YouTube channel, did you catch our Members Only Livestream on Monday? If not, you can watch the replay.
You asked, so I am delivering! You will find even more livestreams scheduled on my YouTube channel. Subscribe for tarot fun, fellowship, study, and readings!
From Around the Web
There is now a Princess Diana tarot deck!
To this day, the game of tarot is played in France. Here is how to play!
Try the Unfolding Lotus Tarot Spread.
Guidance on the Journey
When we divine with tarot or other tools, we often want to know what will happen in the future. Sometimes we fear the answer. Sometimes unpracticed or unethical professionals will tell us firmly that something will or will not happen.
Predictions are a part of life, not only in divination, but in finance, weather, medicine, fashion, and fads.
Yet, if time is always unfolding, and life rarely moves in a straight line, we must remember that predictions are only possibilities. Some serve as warnings and allow us to make corrections to create a better outcome. Others serve as encouragement, giving us the inspiration to work toward our goals.
Sometimes the best divinations give us ideas and insights rather than clear predictions. Sometimes the best advice we can get from our divination is to trust that the universe, and our lives, will unfold in the best ways possible.
Upcoming Events
Card and Craft Academy
Classes presented by Christiana are available right now at Card and Craft Academy!
Christiana’s Eleven-Card Celtic Cross
Finding Meaning in the Minor Arcana
The Major Arcana, Magical and Mundane
Personal Tarot: Reading for Yourself
Sharing Wisdom: Reading for Others
The Meaning and Magic of Tarot Reversals
Journey Through the Major Arcana
Your Journey Through the Minor Arcana: Numbers, Elements and Truth
Your Journey Through the Tarot Court
Tarot Stories, Trends, and Blends
Tarot Readings for Personalities and Relationships
Fearless Wisdom Tarot Workshop
Tarot Keywords and Interpretations Workshop
Tarot Spreads Tools and Techniques Workshop
Tarot for Magic and Mediumship
Tarot Communication for Clarity and Depth
Weaving the Tarot Reading Story
Minor Arcana Numbers, Elements, and Truth
Create and Interpret Custom Tarot Spreads
What the Court Cards Want You to Know
Catch up on your missed Zoom webinars and more!
cardandcraftacademy.com
About Christiana Gaudet
Card and Craft, Inc.
Southeastern Tarot Artists and Readers, LLC.
Christiana Gaudet
3559 SW Corporate Parkway
Palm City, Florida 34990-8152
On the web www.christianagaudet.com
Online classes www.cardandcraftacademy.com
StaarCon information www.staarcon.com
Private telephone, Skype, FaceTime, Zoom and in person readings and instruction are available by appointment.
Tarot parties at your home or office are available throughout Florida.
Call or text toll free 866-99TAROT (866-998-2768)
Palm City 772-301-0232
or call or text 561-655-1160
for more information or to schedule your event.
Agent inquiries are welcome.
Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 5 Issue 33
August 17, 2022