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A Word for the Year?
Do you have a word or phrase for 2024? This is a simple magical way to begin the year!
New Year concept graphic: a clock strikes 2024 with fireworks.
In the past few weeks, I have noticed a New Year trend on social media that feels new; maybe I never noticed it before.
Instead of talking about New Year's resolutions, people are picking a word for their 2024. As a self-proclaimed word nerd, I love this idea.
Some might find that a word needs to be expanded to a phrase or a motto for the year.
This feels like a simple way to create magic and set an intention and a goal for the new year without the heaviness of a full list that will likely be neglected after a few weeks.
Do you have a word or phrase for your 2024? There is still time to find one. This could be a great divination or meditative exercise at any point in this first month of the new year.
The StaarCon Fairy for 2024 by Ciro Marchetti.
Countdown to StaarCon
It is hard to believe that StaarCon is just a few weeks away! There is still time to get your ticket, make travel arrangements, and come join us. There is also plenty of time to get your ticket and join us virtually from the comfort of your home. Remember, ticket prices range from $10 to $500, and your ticket gives you access to the year-long AfterGlow!
Do you have questions about StaarCon? Feel free to call or text me at 561-655-1160 or email me.
Michelle Barrie begins the Sound Bath at StaarCon 2023.
Tarot cards, candles, and holiday greenery.
A Year of Strength and Justice
Tarot numerology differs from Pythagorean numerology, Kabbalistic numerology, or other numeric divination systems. Yet, all numerology has common ideas and practices. One of those is that anything that inherently has a number as part of its identity receives energy from that number. Your address has a specific energy because your address includes a number. Your energy can be described by the number derived from the date of your birth and the number derived from your name. Want to change your energy? Change your name!
There is no time of year when tarot people discuss numerology as much as the New Year. That is because we have a collective card of the year derived from the year number.
2024 is particularly interesting because it reduces to 8. In tarot, there are two different traditions for the Major Arcana card associated with 8. In the Waite tradition, which is the world’s most popular, card 8 is Strength. This means that 2024 is the year of Strength. In other tarot systems, card 8 is Justice, making 2024 the year of Justice.
At StaarCon, we will be exploring 2024 as the year of Strength.
Looking at the year ahead, I am considering claiming both Strength AND Justice for 2024. I think we need both energies right now.
Strength offers us compassion and a peaceful acknowledgment and resolution of differences. Justice offers us fairness, balance, and the rule of law. As individuals and as nations, having these energies available to us this year could help us avert potential problems.
How do you see the energies of Strength and Justice playing out in 2024?
Global Tarot Circle Wednesday, January 3 - 7 to 8 pm ET.
The Week in Review
Your TarotScopes are ready on YouTube and TikTok. See what cards came up for you for January 2024!
Join us this evening at 7 pm ET for Global Tarot Circle on YouTube Live. Bring your tarot cards and prepare to share readings and tarot study with friends worldwide.
Tomorrow, I am excited to join the crew from The Cartomancer Magazine for a Cartomancy Playdate on Facebook Live! We start at 2:30 pm ET. I hope you will join us.
This coming Sunday, January 7, is our monthly tarot meetup at Panera Bread in Palm City. We meet at 4 pm. Please join us if you can!
From Around the Web
I love this post on the Llewellyn website from Ivo Dominguez, Jr. A Charm for the New Year shares a wonderful New Year ritual. I think we can do New Year magic all throughout the month of January!
The Wild Hunt has a collective tarot reading for 2024. I love that they use a different tarot deck for each month.
Owls & Indigo has some suggestions for your year-ahead tarot reading.
Upcoming Events
Card and Craft Academy
Classes presented by Christiana are available right now at Card and Craft Academy!
Christiana’s Candle Magick
Christiana’s Eleven-Card Celtic Cross
Finding Meaning in the Minor Arcana
The Major Arcana, Magical and Mundane
Practical Tarot Techniques
Psychic Tarot
Personal Tarot: Reading for Yourself
Sharing Wisdom: Reading for Others
The Meaning and Magic of Tarot Reversals
Journey Through the Major Arcana
Your Journey Through the Minor Arcana: Numbers, Elements and Truth
Tarot Beyond the Veil
Your Journey Through the Tarot Court
Tarot Stories, Trends, and Blends
Tarot Readings for Personalities and Relationships
Clarity in Every Tarot Card
Tarot Flow Workshop
Making Magick with Tarot
Fearless Wisdom Tarot Workshop
Tarot Keywords and Interpretations Workshop
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!
Christiana Gaudet and Dame Darcy at StaarCon 2023.
About Christiana Gaudet
Card and Craft, Inc.
Southeastern Tarot Artists and Readers, LLC.
Christiana Gaudet
3559 SW Corporate Parkway
Palm City, Florida 34990-8152
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
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 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.
New! Schedule Appointments Online at acuity:scheduling!
Schedule online at https://christiana-gaudet.as.me.
Agent inquiries are welcome.
Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 7 Issue 1
January 3, 2024
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Stepping Into Something New
It is the end of one year and the beginning of another. Wishing us all good things as we step into something new together.
New Year concept graphic: the sun rises on a new year.
This is the final week and final newsletter of 2023.
I love New Year traditions. I love the feeling of stepping into a whole new year of possibilities. I love that many cultures have different ways of saying goodbye to the old year and invoking luck for the new one.
One of my favorite New Year traditions is to look back at the year ending with gratitude. One of the things I am most grateful for is you, my friends, clients, colleagues, students, and collaborators. Thank you for being a part of my life and work in 2023.
I look forward to everything the new year will bring us, and I wish you every success as we step into a new year together.
The StaarCon Fairy for 2024 by Ciro Marchetti.
Countdown to StaarCon!
The StaarCon 2024 program is off to the printers…and available to peruse online!
Look at the impressive schedule of presenters and learn ways to maximize your hybrid conference experience.
Now is the time to make your plan to join us, either in person or online, for StaarCon 2024!
StaarCon 2024 presenter Jen Sankey presenting in 2023.
A woman reads tarot for herself with a candle and glass of wine.
Tarot for the New Year
There are many ways to use tarot as we enter a new year. You can pull twelve cards at random, one for each month, to predict the energies you will encounter in 2024.
You can choose cards face-up to help you manifest your desires in the coming year.
You can ask specific questions about your 2024 and pull cards to give you answers.
Some people have a special divination ritual that they perform on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day. Others treat themselves to a professional reading at this time of year.
We often happily associate tarot with Halloween. Yet, the New Year is also a perfect holiday for the magic and divination of tarot.
Predicting a New Year Webinar December 28, 2024, 7 to 8 pm.
The Week in Review
Watch the replay of our Solstice Gathering if you could not join us live.
Tomorrow, Thursday, all members of my YouTube channel are invited to join us for a members-only livestream as we make predictions for the New Year.
January TarotScopes are available to members only until December 31, when they will become available to everyone.
From Around the Web
It was touching and meaningful to see this thoughtful mention of Rachel Pollack in the New York Times retrospective of influential people we lost in 2023.
What could thirty days of reading tarot for yourself do for you? Liana Minassian found clarity and a way out of a rut.
Refinery 29 has a collective tarot reading for 2024, performed by Sarah Potter. Does it feel relevant to you?
Upcoming Events
Card and Craft Academy
Classes presented by Christiana are available right now at Card and Craft Academy!
Christiana’s Candle Magick
Christiana’s Eleven-Card Celtic Cross
Finding Meaning in the Minor Arcana
The Major Arcana, Magical and Mundane
Practical Tarot Techniques
Psychic Tarot
Personal Tarot: Reading for Yourself
Sharing Wisdom: Reading for Others
The Meaning and Magic of Tarot Reversals
Journey Through the Major Arcana
Your Journey Through the Minor Arcana: Numbers, Elements and Truth
Tarot Beyond the Veil
Your Journey Through the Tarot Court
Tarot Stories, Trends, and Blends
Tarot Readings for Personalities and Relationships
Clarity in Every Tarot Card
Tarot Flow Workshop
Making Magick with Tarot
Fearless Wisdom Tarot Workshop
Tarot Keywords and Interpretations Workshop
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!
Christiana Gaudet teaching a class at a yoga studio in Madison, CT, 2016.
About Christiana Gaudet
Card and Craft, Inc.
Southeastern Tarot Artists and Readers, LLC.
Christiana Gaudet
3559 SW Corporate Parkway
Palm City, Florida 34990-8152
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
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 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.
New! Schedule Appointments Online at acuity:scheduling!
Schedule online at https://christiana-gaudet.as.me.
Agent inquiries are welcome.
Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 6 Issue 52
December 27, 2023
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Joy?
It's the happiest time of year, except when it is not. This week, we are seeking joy and allowing space for whatever we feel.
An older man celebrates Christmas on the beach.
‘Joy’ is a word we often hear in this season. Over the past few years, this word has trended in our culture. We’ve been seeking joy, looking for things that spark joy, and trying to hang onto our inner joy, not just this season but all year. That’s a lot of joy.
But are we feeling joyful right now?
The song says this is the happiest time of year, but the holiday season can be burdensome for many. Even those who usually enjoy the festivities may be dealing with circumstances that make it hard to find the joy this time.
What is joy?
The dictionary defines it simply as a feeling of great happiness and pleasure. We associate joy with the holiday season because of the spiritual meanings of our celebrations. On a more secular level, advertisers have sold us a brand of holiday joy associated with presents, decorations, and food. I will be the first to say that those things bring me joy. But I also know the stress and pressure of providing and preparing those things can be daunting and joy-killing.
The pressure to be joyful when we aren’t feeling it is an added stress. At the same, I do think that cultivating joy is a wise practice throughout the year. It balances between honoring our feelings and leaning into what is most positive and helpful.
Joy is a personal thing. We all have the things that bring it and the things that steal it away.
If you are having a joyful holiday season, I am celebrating with you. If you are having difficulty, please allow yourself to feel what you feel and prioritize your well-being. Self-care is a gift we give ourselves but also a gift we give those we love.
If you don’t have joy this season, can you muster, “I will get through this!” or even, “This cookie is delicious”? Sometimes, the best we can do must be good enough.
Whatever brings you joy, I hope you have much of it this season and in the coming year! One of my greatest joys is being able to do the work I do. Thank you so much for being a part of that.
The StaarCon Fairy for 2024 by Ciro Marchetti.
The StaarCorner
If you are coming in person to StaarCon in January, please know that the hotel room block expires this Friday!
I am delighted to announce that Karen Winkel will be an in-person presenter at StaarCon 2024.
Karen will teach us to use astrology, tarot, crystals, and the moon to manifest our desires.
Karen joins a roster of over fifty presenters who will share their wisdom at StaarCon 2024. When the conference is over, the AfterGlow begins, and all that wisdom remains available to ticketholders for an entire year.
Make your plan now to join Karen Winkel and the rest of the StaarCon 2024 presenters at StaarCon, either in West Palm Beach or on Accelevents.
StaarCon presenter Karen Winkel.
A three-card spread on a table.
Three Cards for Joy
Here is a spread to help you find your joy at any time of year. Use it with tarot or oracle cards.
Let Card One offer a solution or comfort regarding something hurting, worrying, or bothering you.
Let Card Two tell you how you are showing up in the world right now. Receive the card and consider how that could bring you joy.
Let Card Three show you something around you that can be a source of immediate joy, happiness, or relief.
Solstice Gathering December 21, 7-8pm on YouTube Live.
The Week in Review
Join us tomorrow evening, Thursday, December 21, for our Solstice Gathering on YouTube. That link will take you to the replay if you miss the live stream.
Your January TarotScopes will be available on my YouTube channel beginning December 31. As a special gift, channel members will have access to the beginning on December 25.
From Around the Web
StaarCon presenter and community member Amie (Mouser) Emberharte has suffered a series of health issues and needs some help. Check out the crowdfunding campaign and do what you can if you feel so called.
Joanna Powell Colbert, the artist behind the fabulous Gaian Tarot, shared a winter solstice tarot spread in 2018 that I love to perform every year. Try it for yourself!
Can tarot really help us find happiness? Here are some interesting insights!
Close-up of a woman's hands with tarot cards.
Creation and Divination
This column has run in this newsletter for the past year. Over this year, we have shared poetry from readers and from my 78 Cards Tarot Poetry Project. We have explored many ways that creativity and divination intersect. At StaarCon 2024, we will explore this theme even more thoroughly.
This will be the last installment of this series. Beginning in February, after StaarCon, I will start a new series. What should that series be? In the past, I have featured all seventy-eight tarot cards and all 36 Lenormand cards, sharing their classic meanings. I have also shared a single-card reading for the week.
What would you like to see in this spot for 2024? Use your creativity, and let me know!
Try this exercise to stretch your creativity with tarot and help you find joy.
Go through your deck, card by card, face up, and look at each card. Does the image make you feel joyful? Are you aware of a classic meaning for this card that involves joy or happiness?
If you find joy in a card, put it in a pile. Once you have been through the entire deck, you will have a stack of joyful cards.
Shuffle that joyful stack of cards and pull one at random to tell you what you need to do to nurture joy today.
Upcoming Events
Card and Craft Academy
Classes presented by Christiana are available right now at Card and Craft Academy!
Christiana’s Candle Magick
Christiana’s Eleven-Card Celtic Cross
Finding Meaning in the Minor Arcana
The Major Arcana, Magical and Mundane
Practical Tarot Techniques
Psychic Tarot
Personal Tarot: Reading for Yourself
Sharing Wisdom: Reading for Others
The Meaning and Magic of Tarot Reversals
Journey Through the Major Arcana
Your Journey Through the Minor Arcana: Numbers, Elements and Truth
Tarot Beyond the Veil
Your Journey Through the Tarot Court
Tarot Stories, Trends, and Blends
Tarot Readings for Personalities and Relationships
Clarity in Every Tarot Card
Tarot Flow Workshop
Making Magick with Tarot
Fearless Wisdom Tarot Workshop
Tarot Keywords and Interpretations Workshop
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!
Christiana Gaudet with Christine-Claire Mallet at Mandel Public Library.
About Christiana Gaudet
Card and Craft, Inc.
Southeastern Tarot Artists and Readers, LLC.
Christiana Gaudet
3559 SW Corporate Parkway
Palm City, Florida 34990-8152
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
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 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.
New! Schedule Appointments Online at acuity:scheduling!
Schedule online at https://christiana-gaudet.as.me.
Agent inquiries are welcome.
Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 6 Issue 51
December 20, 2023
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The Interconnectedness of Things
The concept of interconnectedness is appealing to diviners, who find healing in the connection between all things.
A grandmother and granddaughter hang an ornament on a Christmas tree.
This week, I have been thinking about how we are connected to one another and how all life is connected. I've been contemplating how seemingly unrelated life events and circumstances can play a crucial role later on, which we never would have anticipated.
Many of us consider our connection to our ancestors, families, and traditions during the holiday season.
An essential aspect of divination is that it helps us make connections and discover how things are related in ways we had not considered. There is so much cause-and-effect in life, both mundane and magical. The more we understand how one thing affects another, the more opportunity we have to create our desired outcome.
Magic, manifestation, and the Law of Attraction all operate by this concept that the connection between things matters and has power.
Thinkers of many cultures have explored the concept of interconnectedness for centuries. I find it fascinating that the more our scientists learn about quantum physics, the more it appears we are indeed all connected in a giant web of life.
Most of us were raised in cultures that separate matters of science from matters of faith. Many of our spiritual myths seem like they cannot be explained scientifically.
Yet, this concept of interconnectedness is both scientifically and spiritually sound.
There is so much that works to separate us from each other and from the tools and resources that we need. If we could understand how connected we are, the opportunities for what our lives might look like feel hopeful and inspiring.
The StaarCon Fairy for 2024 by Ciro Marchetti.
The StaarCorner
I first met Maya Sadarangani twenty years ago in New London, Connecticut. Immediately, I knew she was something special. At StaarCon 2024, you will see why.
Maya Sadarangani is a Celtic Priestess with over thirty years of professional experience offering Psychic Tarot Readings. Maya has been a practicing Wiccan for over forty years. Maya is producing a documentary about her journey as the creator of the soon-to-be-published Witches Journey Tarot Deck.
At StaarCon 2024, Maya will present a class called “Here Be Dragons.” Maya will teach us ways to call on dragons to aid in divination, spells, and ritual practices.
StaarCon is just weeks away! Get your ticket now!
StaarCon presenter Maya Sadarangani.
A tarot deck with Christmas decorations.
Making Decisions with Tarot
Sometimes, thinking about the interconnectedness of things can make us anxious. It makes sense that if everything I do affects something else, everything I do should be carefully considered. But if we carefully consider everything, we can end up in the paralysis of analysis, doing nothing. Tarot to the rescue!
Whenever there is a decision I need to make, I ask questions of the cards, such as:
What is the long-term impact of this decision?
What are the potential collateral effects of this decision?
What else do I need to consider here?
These questions will allow me to make informed decisions, knowing I have considered all the possibilities.
If you do these types of readings, you will find that the cards can often signal that the effects are negligible or insignificant. If the cards suggest undesirable outcomes, you can consider other options and read on those to determine your best course of action.
The Mandel Public Library.
The Week in Review
I will teach a free tarot class at noon at the Mandel Public Library in downtown West Palm Beach this Saturday, December 16. Please join us there!
You may notice that I have changed the appointment scheduling platform on my website. I apologize for any confusion this may cause. I am confident that the functionality of our new platform, Acuity, will make scheduling your session with me even easier than ever before.
From Around the Web
Glamour UK has curated the “9 Best Tarot Card Decks for Beginners”. Do I agree with these experts? In some cases, yes; in others, not so much. Yet, I think this is a valuable list, especially if you want to buy a first tarot deck for someone on your gift list.
The student newspaper of UNC Asheville, The Blue Banner, has an article about a skeptical student receiving her first tarot reading. This reminded me of a time almost twenty years ago when a young client wrote in her college paper about her experience having a reading with me.
Here is a tarot spread from Worts and Cunning called The Starry Web We Weave. This spread visualizes a constellational web, helping us understand how things are connected.
A star candle burning with a deck of tarot cards in the background.
Creation and Divination
Something that separates tarot from other card divination decks is its structure. Tarot is divided into suits and has numerical associations, allowing us to see connections between the cards.
For example, when we look at all the tarot cards of the same number, we see similarities and learn more about the power of that number and the meanings of those cards. When we see a run of numbers within a suit, we learn to find stories within the cards.
It is easy and traditional to sort your deck according to suits and numbers. An excellent exercise is to think of creative ways to sort your deck and discover what new connections you find.
For example, what happens if you sort out all the Major Arcana characters wearing something on their heads? Can you find new meanings and connections by looking at the cards this way?
What happens if you sort the cards by color or by the presence of animals?
Be as creative as you can! Find new ways to group the cards to find new connections and meanings.
Upcoming Events
Card and Craft Academy
Classes presented by Christiana are available right now at Card and Craft Academy!
Christiana’s Candle Magick
Christiana’s Eleven-Card Celtic Cross
Finding Meaning in the Minor Arcana
The Major Arcana, Magical and Mundane
Practical Tarot Techniques
Psychic Tarot
Personal Tarot: Reading for Yourself
Sharing Wisdom: Reading for Others
The Meaning and Magic of Tarot Reversals
Journey Through the Major Arcana
Your Journey Through the Minor Arcana: Numbers, Elements and Truth
Tarot Beyond the Veil
Your Journey Through the Tarot Court
Tarot Stories, Trends, and Blends
Tarot Readings for Personalities and Relationships
Clarity in Every Tarot Card
Tarot Flow Workshop
Making Magick with Tarot
Fearless Wisdom Tarot Workshop
Tarot Keywords and Interpretations Workshop
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!
Christiana Gaudet at her laptop.
About Christiana Gaudet
Card and Craft, Inc.
Southeastern Tarot Artists and Readers, LLC.
Christiana Gaudet
3559 SW Corporate Parkway
Palm City, Florida 34990-8152
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
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 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.
New! Schedule Appointments Online at acuity:scheduling!
Schedule online at https://christiana-gaudet.as.me/.
Agent inquiries are welcome.
Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 6 Issue 50
December 13, 2023
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