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Tarot Journaling: Using the Celtic Cross to Unveil Your Hidden Story
A tarot journal can help you learn more about the cards, but it can also teach you a great deal about yourself. Beginning tarot students are advised to keep a tarot journal, and many experienced tarot readers are devoted to the practice. The only book of its kind, Tarot Journaling covers everything needed to create, keep, and preserve a personal tarot journal.
Readers will discover hundreds of ideas to inspire and enliven their tarot journals, including considerations when choosing journaling materials, how to save time when recording readings, techniques for getting past writer's block, tips for turning negative energy into a positive brainstorming tool, and innovative ideas for protecting privacy. Tarot Journaling offers readers the tools to record and reflect upon the stories told by the cards-the stories of our lives.
Readers will discover hundreds of ideas to inspire and enliven their tarot journals, including considerations when choosing journaling materials, how to save time when recording readings, techniques for getting past writer's block, tips for turning negative energy into a positive brainstorming tool, and innovative ideas for protecting privacy. Tarot Journaling offers readers the tools to record and reflect upon the stories told by the cards-the stories of our lives.
216 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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About the author
Corrine Kenner
40 books103 followersCorrine Kenner is a certified tarot master and the author of several books, including Simple Fortunetelling with Tarot Cards, Tarot Journaling, Tall Dark Stranger: Tarot for Love and Romance, The Epicurean Tarot, and the forthcoming Wizards Tarot and Tarot for Writers. \r
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Corrine has lived in Brazil and Los Angeles, where she earned a bachelors degree in philosophy from California State University. She now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her husband and their daughters.\r
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Corrine organizes tarot classes and workshops on a regular basis. For more information, visit her website at corrinekenner.com."
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Corrine has lived in Brazil and Los Angeles, where she earned a bachelors degree in philosophy from California State University. She now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her husband and their daughters.\r
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Corrine organizes tarot classes and workshops on a regular basis. For more information, visit her website at corrinekenner.com."
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July 15, 2011
Almost every introductory book on the tarot that I know of suggests starting a tarot journal as one way to help learn how to read tarot cards. In these books, the tarot journal is somewhere to record your readings, the meanings of the cards, your notes on each card, and so on. Tarot Journaling takes a slightly different approach. This is an introduction to both journal writing and the tarot, suitable for someone who knows nothing about either. (Readers with experience in both the tarot and journal writing may not find all that much that is new here, although they may not have thought to combine the two this thoroughly.) Corrine Kenner's approach both uses the tarot as a foundation for a journal that explores your life and journaling as a way to learn the tarot.
I thought the structure of the book was clever. The introductory section and each chapter is named after one of the eleven positions in the Celtic Cross tarot spread and is related to the meaning of that position. For instance, the chapter "What Crosses You" is named for the position in the Celtic Cross that shows what the main obstacle is in the reading. In this chapter, the author discusses common obstacles to journaling such as writer's block, dealing with your inner critic, and time management—and issues specific to tarot journals like working with "bad" cards. She also includes several appendices with tarot keywords, correspondences, list writing prompts, and templates (this last also available on the author's website).
I thought the structure of the book was clever. The introductory section and each chapter is named after one of the eleven positions in the Celtic Cross tarot spread and is related to the meaning of that position. For instance, the chapter "What Crosses You" is named for the position in the Celtic Cross that shows what the main obstacle is in the reading. In this chapter, the author discusses common obstacles to journaling such as writer's block, dealing with your inner critic, and time management—and issues specific to tarot journals like working with "bad" cards. She also includes several appendices with tarot keywords, correspondences, list writing prompts, and templates (this last also available on the author's website).
May 5, 2019
I have always wanted to journal, and after reading this book, I faithfully keep my journal up-to-date. Reading this book inspired me to create new and fun ways to document all of my readings, thoughts, inspirations in one place. I enjoyed reading all the different ideas presented here. Many I had already thought of, but some were new and fun.
If you've always wanted to journal but have maybe felt a little overwhelmed by the wide-open possibilities, this book can help you narrow down the way that works for you.
If you've always wanted to journal but have maybe felt a little overwhelmed by the wide-open possibilities, this book can help you narrow down the way that works for you.
August 31, 2012
Meh. I found a lot of it to be redundant.
September 21, 2020
In my opinion this is my first book about tarot journaling. Some information inside this book would add more knowledge in my TAROT JOURNAL. The writer explains everything as well as using symbolism and how to do the celtic cross. There are many gems of information in this book that makes it appealing to me. This book is one of my favorite tarot books.
Format : epub
Format : epub
February 18, 2023
It was fine, I guess. I was more than a bit disappointed in it, however, as it doesn't actually have anything to do with the Celtic Cross spread or contain any kind of legitimate guide work on using it to "Unveil Your Hidden Story" through journaling.
Essentially: Based on the title and the way it opens, you think that what you're going to get is a book teaching you how to actually use the Celtic Cross Spread with Tarot in order to essentially guide you through shadow work, and journal about your practice while you go (something in a similar vein to, say, Tarot Shadow Work). Unfortunately, though, Tarot Journaling doesn't follow through with that suggestion in the slightest. The title is nothing but misleading fluff.
All this book really is, is an over-glorified "how to journal 101" manual with a Tarot focus. And all it contains is suggestions on how to get started journaling your Tarot journey with an emphasis on self-reading for "self discovery" and the like with increasingly more erratic suggestions on how to find topics to journal about with Tarot (or otherwise how to journal your exploration with tarot in this regard); some suggestions include "swapping clothing with one of the figures in the cards and then journaling how it feels", or "roleplaying one of the roles of a card and then journaling about it".
That's fine, I guess, if it's actually what you want and are legitimately looking for. But it's absolutely useless if, like me, you picked up this book wanting the actual shadow work that the title seemingly promised to help you perform and then didn't actually follow through on; if you're of the later group, hold your breath and save your money. This isn't what you're actually looking for.
Essentially: Based on the title and the way it opens, you think that what you're going to get is a book teaching you how to actually use the Celtic Cross Spread with Tarot in order to essentially guide you through shadow work, and journal about your practice while you go (something in a similar vein to, say, Tarot Shadow Work). Unfortunately, though, Tarot Journaling doesn't follow through with that suggestion in the slightest. The title is nothing but misleading fluff.
All this book really is, is an over-glorified "how to journal 101" manual with a Tarot focus. And all it contains is suggestions on how to get started journaling your Tarot journey with an emphasis on self-reading for "self discovery" and the like with increasingly more erratic suggestions on how to find topics to journal about with Tarot (or otherwise how to journal your exploration with tarot in this regard); some suggestions include "swapping clothing with one of the figures in the cards and then journaling how it feels", or "roleplaying one of the roles of a card and then journaling about it".
That's fine, I guess, if it's actually what you want and are legitimately looking for. But it's absolutely useless if, like me, you picked up this book wanting the actual shadow work that the title seemingly promised to help you perform and then didn't actually follow through on; if you're of the later group, hold your breath and save your money. This isn't what you're actually looking for.
October 31, 2015
this book is geared more towards those that are new to journaling with tarot and taroting in general. the first half of the book focuses solely on what is tarot journaling and what type of journal to will work. the last half of the book starts to develop and bring together the book for those that have been doing both reading tarot and writing a journal for a while giving you different ideas on how to jump start your own writing. not the best thing i've read by her and i was disappointed by it, but the book has it's own merits.
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