Tarot Journaling Forms and Worksheets

By popular demand, here are the printable forms and worksheets I once offered on the website for my book Tarot Journaling.

The book has been out of print for a while now, so I stopped maintaining the companion site. (Maybe that was a mistake, since you can still get the Kindle edition.)

I hadn’t thought about these files lately — but somewhere, someone must be talking about them, because recently I’ve had several requests to make them available again. Looking at them today, I couldn’t believe I first created them in 2005. They’re like the Dead Sea Scrolls!

Someday, I plan to revise the Tarot Journaling manuscript and release a new and expanded version of the book … but first, I have to paint my kitchen, do laundry, and finish three or four other books that are already in the pipeline.

In the meantime, feel free to download and use these PDFs. You’ll find five useful worksheets, along with a bonus PDF of plain lined paper and a coordinating cover image. Simply click the thumbnail images to download the full-size files.

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Tarot Journaling Forms and Worksheets

The following documents are designed for easy printing, with margins that are wide enough to accommodate a three-hole punch. Just hit “print,” punch the holes, and put the pages in a three-ring binder.

Card of the Day Chart

Keep a master list of all your daily one-card readings, and look for themes and patterns over time.

Suggestion: One copy of this chart will last you a long time, but you might want to print it on heavier stock.

This Week’s Prompt: Trading Places

This week’s prompt is adapted from page 71 of Tarot Journaling:

Imagine that you could trade places with any figure in any card. Who would you switch places with — and why? Once you were firmly ensconced in his or her world, what would you do first? How would you do it? And what advice would you have for the character who would step out into the real world and fill your shoes for the day?

Have fun with this one, and feel free to share your responses with the Tarot Journaling group at groups.yahoo.com/group/tarotjournaling.

This Week’s Prompt: Super Powers

This week’s prompt developed spontaneously over at the Tarot Journaling Group: Pull a card and journal about what superpowers you could have from that card!

I’ll try it with my newest tarot deck, The Fantastic Menagerie Tarot … and I’ve pulled the Five of Coins.

Traditionally, the Five of Coins — or the Five of Pentacles — depicts a beggarly couple trudging through the snow, hobbling past the stained glass window of a church. But in the Fantastic Menagerie Tarot, we see a sly, gypsy-like fox, pulling a little bird from a shell, while two fox compatriots and a worried mother hen look on.

I don’t see poverty in this rendition of the card — which is good, because for some reason I don’t want to become the Superhero of Poverty. Instead, I think the main character looks like a soothsayer, a fortuneteller, a master of divination.

In fact, that lead fox even looks something like a spellcaster. Until I looked closely at the card, I thought the fox was stirring something into the shell, using it as a small, portable cauldron.

That would be cool. I could be an excellent sorceress. That’s the super power I’ll take from this card, with fortunetelling as a component of my witchy ways.

Of course, now that I’ve studied the card for a while, I see that the sly fox and his friends have probably stolen their eggs from the henhouse, and the mother hen is pleading for her young chicks’ very lives. Eh. That’s not a superpower I want, either.

I’ll stick with my first interpretation.

This Week’s Tarot Journaling Prompt: The New Moon

There’s a New Moon tonight — which makes today a good day for new beginnings. What new project or phase do you need to get underway? How will you use this month’s "new moon opportunity?"

Image Credit: "The Moon," from an art school tarot deck by Thalia Took. (www.thaliatook.com/moon.html)

Dear Abby, tarot style

Have you ever noticed that most of the questions in Dear Abby’s advice column sound a lot like the questions people bring to a tarot reader?

For this week’s tarot journaling prompt, I suggested that members of the Tarot Journaling Group try their hand at answering a Dear Abby’s letters — with answers based on the cards.

If you’d like to take part, simply choose any Dear Abby question that amuses you. (This prompt is supposed to be fun, after all.) Then do any sort of tarot reading you like, and record the results in your tarot journal.

You can find Dear Abby on the web at http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby. The page features today’s syndicated column, along with a link (on the right-hand side of the page) to an archive of past letters.

Here is the question I chose for this exercise — along with the reading that resulted.

Free tarot journaling pens

Just pay shipping and handling … like the commercials say.

No, seriously, I have almost 500 "Tarot Journaling" pens in a big box under my desk, and I’d be happy to send you a couple.

These sleek, ergonomically designed pens feature a smooth black barrel, comfort molded cushioned finger grip, and sophisticated silver endcaps. The TarotJournaling.com address is embossed in silver on the side, a permanent reminder of ever-present encouragement — as well as a source of information and inspiration for your journaling. Each pen also includes a generous supply of silky black ink which should last for hundreds — nay, thousands — of handwritten pages.

I normally hand these pens out at seminars and workshops. If we don’t meet in person, however, I can still give you a pen. In fact, for just $2 to cover the cost of shipping and handling*, I’ll send you not one, but two tarot journaling pens — one for your desk, and one for your pocket or purse! Keep your pens alongside your copy of Tarot Journaling (my newest book), and you’ll never be at a loss for words — or a tool for writing them down.

To get your pens, click here.

And for more information about Tarot Journaling, visit www.tarotjournaling.com.

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*Please note that I give the pens away for free — and if you see me on the street I’ll give you as many as you want. Shipping and handling, however, cost a little.

This week’s tarot journaling prompt

This week’s prompt builds on the discussion the Tarot Journaling Group is having about the decks we use:

In your tarot journal, answer any or all of the following questions:

• How did you get your deck? What is the story behind your acquisition of the cards?
• What do you remember about the day you got your deck?
• Why did you choose the particular deck you use?
• What do you like best about your deck?
• What do you like least about your deck?
• If you could "re-do" any cards in your deck, which ones would you choose, and why?

Tarot journaling prompts are designed simply to get your pen moving on the page. Tarot journaling prompts are quick, easy, and fun … and they often lead to some surprising revelations.

If you feel like sharing your results, please post your journal entry on the Tarot Journaling Group’s web page at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tarotjournaling/ .

The lion in the corner

The World card from the Universal  Tarot by Roberto De Angelis

Here is this week’s tarot journaling prompt, designed to work with the World card — specifically, the lion in the lower right corner. Don’t pay attention to the clouds, or the handsome man in the top left corner, or the nude woman dancing in the middle. (How many times have you heard that before?) Just write about the lion.

This week, set your kitchen timer and write about the lion for at least five minutes. If you can’t think of anything to say, write whatever comes to mind. (You may find yourself writing, "lion, lion, lion," until the word itself triggers some association.) Just keep your pen moving on the page.

 

Of course, if the words start flowing, you can  continue writing even when the timer rings.
Here is your prompt:

When I see the lion on the World card, I think of  __________.

Journaling prompts are designed to get your pen  moving on the page, by giving you a simple, "fill-in-the-blank" statement. 

Tarot journaling prompts are quick, easy, and fun  … and they often lead to some surprising revelations.

If you feel like sharing your results, please post  your journal entry on the group’s web page at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tarotjournaling/  .