Journaling with the Tarot can be a rewarding experience and fun process. Not only does it allow you to do personal growth, but it also helps you engage with the creative centers of your mind, body, and spirit in ways you hadn't imagined.
Tarot cards are a divination tool that helps us insight by engaging with our higher selves, intuition, and guides. When we take the time to interact with our tarot deck, we begin to dive deep within ourselves and our subconscious minds. It also allows us to expand and open ourselves up to higher levels of spirituality and spiritual beings.
Here are some suggested ways that you can use Tarot as part of a journaling practice.
Daily Insight
By practicing a daily tarot card reading or daily oracle card reading, you can allow yourself time to understand what the Universe is trying to advise you on in your life. Keeping track of your readings by journaling can help you see patterns and do more profound and mindful thoughts on those experiences. This type of daily journaling and insight can also hone your psychic abilities and elevate your ability to successfully do tarot card readings for others.
Learning Tarot
Keeping a journal for learning how to read all tarot cards is slightly different from daily insight journaling. In this type of practicing, you can engage with writing about your connections and feelings on each card, each spread, and each deck. By writing out your experiences and observations, you begin to deepen your knowledge of all the tarot cards and any tarot deck you use in your readings. Anyone interested in becoming a psychic should always keep this type of journal for their personal development, as you can always look back at it as a resource.
Gratitude
When using Tarot in combination with a gratitude journal, you are using one card to help you enhance your vibration and connection to gratitude. One way is to ask before picking a card for where you need to see appreciation in your life or how you may return gratitude to others. In this practice of journaling, it is both an intellectual and spiritual interaction that eventually reaches out to others. How you interpret the card's messages also helps keep you in alignment with your purpose. Making sure you vary giving and receiving with this type of gratitude journal as it is meant to help keep you in balance.
Manifesting
You can easily use Tarot to help you manifest, and keeping a journal of these practices can help you release blockages and celebrate your successes along the way. A tarot journal for manifesting is the entire process of making the law of attraction work with you and seeing all the steps play out. It is even stronger than just a vision board as you are recording the process as it occurs in all its flawed beauty and your evolution along with it. Using Tarot with this process helps to give you insights where Tarot guides you to manifest your best self.
Storytelling
Of course, you can use a Tarot deck to help strengthen your storytelling skills. Many writers and artists use tarot cards to help them build their story structure, character analysis, world-building, etc. It can even be used to create elaborate artwork series that have a narrative. When you use Tarot in a storytelling journal, you learn how to tell stories by creating an arc with a minimum of three cards. The beauty of making it a journaling practice is that it allows you to be creative with no boundaries or pressure. It also helps you interact and heal with your subconscious mind in ways you may not be consciously able to at the time.
Creative Problem Solving
By using Tarot as a creative problem-solving journaling practice, you will be able to consider how to solve problems in real-life situations using the Tarot guiding principles. In this practice, you can either use an imaginary problem or one that you are currently experiencing. Interacting with tarot spreads and cards, you begin to ask lofty questions to see where the experience takes you. The purpose of this isn't so much to find psychic insight but to see how you can ignite the resources of your analytical mind to resolve conflicts. Keeping a journal like this helps you strengthen your ability to deconstruct and analyze what is happening in your daily life.
Speaking with Guides
Using Tarot to speak with your Spirit Guides and Angel Guides is a great way to strengthen your psychic abilities and experience spiritual growth. Journaling about these experiences helps to give you clarification of all the details and messages that Spirit is trying to send to you. We may not hear or see it all at once, so journaling about the experiences gives us a way to reflect and look back later. It also allows those seeds they are trying to plant within us more time to blossom and grow to come to the surface in our daily lives.
Higher Self
If we decide to use a guide to tarot card reading, keeping a journal about how we interact with our higher self can help us in a myriad of ways. A daily journaling practice with Tarot to connect with our higher self can enhance our intuition and build our confidence. It can also help bring the shadow aspects of ourselves, good and bad, to the forefront of our awareness to become our true selves.
Ancestors
When we use the Tarot to interact with our ancestors, we should always keep a journal of these experiences. Understanding what our ancestors have to say, both good and bad, irrelevant or valuable, can help give us insight today and for the future. By journaling with Tarot spreads and specific readings, we can gain knowledge and wisdom of the patterns we inherited and how they must be healed. We can then use this information to work with psychic mediums and our ancestors to heal our ancestral line.
Meditation
Many clairvoyant psychics use a tarot meditation technique that helps heighten their connection to the spiritual realms. Often, especially at the beginning of their spiritual journey, they will journal about their experiences. The best thing about journaling after a tarot card meditation is that it helps you connect with many possibilities in the Spiritual realm and come back with the answers you seek. Recording it is a way of further processing that information and integrating it into your own physical body.
Dreamwork
Keeping a dream journal is always a good idea, and combining it with some form of tarot technique can help hone your psychic skills and help you engage with your higher self at a deeper level. Some people will use this practice to begin a dialogue with Spirit Guides, pulling a card before sleeping and then bringing that vibration of the card into the dream world for guidance. Others will do a tarot card pull or reading open awakening with their dreams still entirely fresh. You can even use specific decks or spreads to explore dreams in the past that still resonate with you. Either way, it is a helpful technique to use with Tarot and the process of journaling.
Psychic Development
There are many ways to use Tarot and journaling for psychic development. You can use a combination of any of the techniques mentioned above and more for one journal, varying from one to another to what suits you best. This type of journaling is really about connecting with your intuition on where you need to grow in your psychic development, so even if the methods feel very chaotic, they may be just what you need to grow at the moment and beyond.
Spiritual Growth
Some people will practice a daily tarot card pulling and journaling as a way for them to grow spiritually. For them, this practice isn't necessarily about honing any psychic skills but is a way to process and heal from the world. They may even see it as a refuge to allow themselves a sanctuary practice to refresh their energy before re-engaging with the rest of the world.
Grief
When we are experiencing grief or loss for any reason, it can help use Tarot and journal about our experiences. You can use a grief journal with Tarot in many forms, such as working with your dreams, connecting with your higher self and spirit guides, or engaging in your creative skills at your own pace and comfort. Grieving with Tarot can help heal you in many ways, especially if you take that to the next level to work with psychic mediums to reinforce your connection with unconditional love and healing.