Tarot Journal Writing - My Experience

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TAROT JOURNAL WRITING - MY EXPERIENCE

 

Ana Santos - C.T.M.

 

As many child and adolescents, I wrote a journal. In adulthood I go on

writing it at least, once in a while.

 

I started to use Tart when I was 17 years old.

 

But I never thought of journal writing and tarot together until I began

to work on my certification and reading for Free Tarot Network. My

mentor once told me about Mary G. Greer and I immediately bought her

books. I surrender to " Tarot for yourself " . This has been my

manual. The more I use it, the more I love that book and I find it

enlightening. In this book I learned and acquire the habit of putting

Tarot and journal writing together.

 

As time goes by I found this is a very important activity to develop

some skills useful in tarot reading: intuition, attention, meditation,

and, very important, to rely in my interpretation of cards and not in

just memorizing card's meaning.

 

I've been finding this so good that I always challenge my mentees to

do the same.

 

So, this became a ritual I perform almost everyday before going to bed.

 

I began doing this as follows:

 

I sit, meditate, say a prayer to my Angels and open journal.

 

I post the date and the day of the week and I describe my day – what

happened, my thoughts and feelings. Those things we write in a journal.

 

Then, I shuffle Tarot deck (I use Spiral Tarot, by Kay Stventon) and ask

Tarot what guidance can give me according to what happened. I draw one

card. I put t in front of me and describe the card with all details

(it's amazing how from one time to another I can discover other

details didn't notice in the previous description).

 

Then I go to Mary G. Greer's " The Complete Book of Tarot

Reversals " and write what the author says about that card that

applies to me in that day.

 

So, it became also a very good way of studying each card, understand it

deeply without just memorizing meanings.

 

As time went by, I noticed that the card drawn was more and more

coherent with the day.

 

And I began to introduce other issues.

 

Nowadays, I do as I wrote above but before I go to the book, I attribute

a " word " to the card and write a " phrase " that links

that card with my day. The I enter " What this card is telling

me " and I interpret the card thinking is what Tarot is telling me

and wants me to know. Only now I go to some good book and pick what the

author says that I feel applies to me.

 

This is an exercise/study/meditation method I strongly recommend. I have

one mentee that uses this and describes experiences much alike mines.

Here in Portugal two of my students use the same method. All of them are

considerably improving their skills.

 

And it's really fun!

 

Every day I look forward to the moment of the day when I'll be alone

with myself (The Hermit) and look for light and wisdom… about life,

but most of all, about me.

 

Ana Santos (Certified Tarot Master by The Canadian Tarot Network)

 

 

 

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