I have been trying a simple weekly journaling exercise and wondered whether anyone here uses something similar.
The idea is to choose one tarot card at the beginning of the week and use it as a writing prompt.
I am not using the card to predict what will happen. I am using the picture and its usual themes to find questions that I might not otherwise ask myself.
For example, the Seven of Pentacles is usually connected with patience, effort and waiting for results.
A journal entry based on that card could include questions such as:
- What have I spent the most time on recently?
- Is it starting to produce a result?
- Am I being patient, or am I avoiding a decision?
- Is there something I continue only because I have already invested time in it?
- What would make the effort worthwhile?
- What should I stop doing next week?
At the end of the week, I could return to the same entry and write what actually happened.
I maintain Deckaura and used my own page about the Seven of Pentacles meaning to create these questions. The page is mine. The exercise does not require treating tarot as fortune-telling.
For people who keep recurring entries in Diarium, how would you organize this?
Would you create a reusable weekly template, use a tag for each card, or keep all of the entries under a general reflection tag?
I would also like to compare the answers after a few months without creating too many separate tags.
