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Certified Tarot Grandmaster Christiana Gaudet

Welcome to Tarottopics.org, a community blog for tarot enthusiasts. Anyone with an interest in tarot, be they student, artist, collector, writer, teacher or reader, is welcome create a free account and blog here.

A blog is a great way to share your interests, to document your growth, and to promote your skills with the community.

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If you are a new tarot student, you can use a tarot blog to help you in your tarot studies. You can keep a record of your Card of the Day. Draw one card at random each day and write about it. How do you feel about it? What is its significance in your current life?

Tarot attracts and inspires creative people. If you are the creative type, please share your poetry, stories and artwork. If you are a reviewer, please post reviews of books, tarot decks, movies and events.

As much as we are all students, we are also teachers. This blog is a place for “each one to teach one.” As we share with each other, we learn from each other.

To this Blog, a bit of Tarot magick:

May the Sword of Air bring communication, integrity, intelligence and truth.

May the Wand of Fire bring creativity, excitement, passion and spirituality.

May The Cup of Water bring compassion, healing, and commmunity.

May The Pentacle of Earth bring rootedness, strength, fertility, steadfastness and comfort.

Personal Card Meanings

Thu, 05/10/2012 - 11:38 — Christiana

Readers In any tarot group, the conversation will turn to what particular cards mean to us. So often, a person will come up with a meaning that is very different from any standard or traditional meaning. Sometimes, by looking at numerology, the elements, or the illustration in a particular deck, it is easy to understand and justify the particular meaning. Sometimes it is not at all.

Reading the Cards That Are Not There

Sun, 04/29/2012 - 11:49 — Christiana

The Missing Aces are Just As Important! The best tarot readings are detailed and nuanced. A great tarot reading will also offer some sort of homework or aftercare – suggestions, referrals or exercises for the client to do after the reading is over to help the client achieve his or her goals.

Often we get more information in a reading by interpreting the same cards on many levels. We all know each card has many meanings. What some readers don’t realize is that sometimes many of those meanings may be true at the same time, in the same reading.

We also get more information by adding clarifying cards, or by asking questions and pulling cards in a dialogue format.

Some readers get more information by using companion skills and tools – palmistry, mediumship, pendulum, psychometry or other card oracles, for instance.

Another way to get more information is by reading the cards that aren’t there. What? How can you read cards that aren’t there? Today I offer you four easy ways to do exactly that.

Two-Card Spreads

Tue, 04/17/2012 - 17:06 — Christiana

Two Card Spread Most tarotists are familiar with the handy-dandy ever popular three-card spreads. There is Past, Present and Future, Morning Afternoon and Evening and Body, Mind and Spirit. Three-card spreads are easy, fun, and extremely useful.

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about two-card spreads. We played with some last night at Tarot Circle in Jupiter. There’s Help and Hinder, Either Or, Stay or Go, Work and Play, Inner World and Outer World or any other you might imagine

Do Magick on Friday the Thirteenth

Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:24 — Christiana

Today is Friday the 13^th. To set the record straight, Friday the 13^th is considered “unlucky” because it is a very magickal day. If you do magick on Friday the 13^th, your magick will be strong and powerful.

Cards of Patience

Fri, 04/06/2012 - 09:48 — Christiana

We all know that patience is a virtue. Just about everything we encounter in life requires our patience, from traffic to spouses to kids. Tarot requires patience, too.

Some tarot students have a hard time really getting into the cards because they lack the patience to learn and study them. Some tarot readers have a hard time being readers because they lack patience with their clients.

Four Cards for the Springtime

Sun, 04/01/2012 - 12:00 — Christiana

Springtime has always been special to me. Living up North, springtime meant the end of the dreary winter season that I dreaded and distained. Now that I live in Florida, I still love spring because of what it represents spiritually.

Even though we have a year-round growing season here, springtime still represents renewal, rebirth and rejuvenation. The theme of resurrection is still pertinent.

Becoming the King of Cups

Fri, 03/16/2012 - 16:22 — Christiana

Tarot of Transformation Master (King) of Cups Anything can happen at a Tarot Circle meeting. At our last Tarot Circle meeting in West Palm Beach, I became the King of Cups!

I wasn’t looking for a new significator. The Queen of Wands has represented me beautifully since I chose her, or she chose me, in the mid 1990’s.

In the Tarot Circle meeting, we did a series of tarot exercises to help us each discern our spiritual path, and to hear the voice of Spirit.

Review: Personal Tarot - Reading for Yourself

Wed, 02/29/2012 - 15:30 — Joanne

Whether you are a beginner tarot reader, an advanced professional, or read for your own enjoyment and enlightenment, you should consider taking a webinar presented by Certified Tarot Grandmaster, Christiana Gaudet. I have had the good fortune to have begun my tarot studies with Christiana, and have just completed her course on Personal Tarot-Reading for Yourself.

Celebrating the Crone

Mon, 02/20/2012 - 13:33 — Christiana

In Some Pagan traditions, we see the divine feminine as a triple Goddess. She is Maiden, Mother and Crone. We can also see these three faces of the Goddess as the three stages of womanhood.

Sadly, Western society seems to revere women in the maiden stage of life a lot more than it reveres mothers and crones. This causes women to long for their youth, rather than choosing to celebrate the wisdom that comes with age.