As a part of my overall wellness journey I start each day with journaling. I try to capture my mood, be aware of how my body is feeling, make a note of any dreams. Essentially it’s about setting my intentions for the day with mindfulness and awareness of how I am feeling and thinking. It varies day to day how I do this.
Sometimes I am having so many thoughts that I struggle to write them down, and I switch to recording them as audio instead. Some days I draw a card after I’ve got my thoughts out and see how they chime or otherwise.
When I’m blank, a bit numb, and I pull a card as inspiration to draw out my underlying thoughts.
I use three books (listed below the photo) and my faithful Hanson Roberts deck that I’ve had for many years. They live in a box my eldest son made at school. Wrapped in silk as is traditional, but not compulsory.
I don’t use tarot as a divination tool. I’m not sure the future can be predicted in any sense beyond using available information to make intelligent guesses. I use them as a psychological aid. I would describe myself as a spiritual agnostic.
I love tarot and find it immensely useful. At one point I thought about being a professional tarot reader but as I cant ever remember the cards meanings without referring to books so I bowed out. I do readings for friends, and they are usually appreciative, and my “gift” for healing can come out. What that gift is, given my agnostic leanings, I have no idea, but people have often told me they felt better for the reading. Everyone appreciates one to one time and being actively listened to don’t they? A tarot reading provides the perfect environment for that.
In my mostly solitary and solo life (hello, The Hermit), pulling my daily card gives me the time and space to listen to myself.
I started out trying to share my thoughts with a daily post, but this has proved beyond my capacity, so I’m going to batch post. They’ll still be the (mostly) daily thoughts but batched into a week.