At the beginning of a new year, I always do the same thing: exploring my year card and finding my personal power word to guide me along.
If you are struggling to identify any meaningful goals or intentions, then don’t despair and read my article on this topic.
My year card last year was The Chariot, and my power word was ONWARDS.
Looking back at 2016, which was rather challenging at times, I can say that I have come a long way, not lingering in situations that weren’t good for me.
Each time I was hesitating or wondering, my special word ONWARDS reminded me of what I wanted to achieve. It was quite magickal.
This year, my year card is Strength, and my personal power word is CREATE.
Strength embodies qualities such as passion, creativity, resilience and soft power, which I am hoping to utilise and develop during 2017.
My special word CREATE indicates activities I would like to focus on, such as making and creating things, including arts and crafts.
Together with Strength, it also relates to becoming more assertive, ruthlessly expressing my values and opinions openly without fear, which is especially important in today’s divisive isolationist world of Trump and Brexit.
This means that instead of avoiding debate, I will engage in a constructive way and not turn away from people with different opinions.
You cannot CREATE change, if you retreat to the echo chamber full of like-minded folk.
Strength isn’t about running away from it all; it’s about having the courage (or CREATE-ing it) to face that lion and roar back into his face.
With regards to Tarot, CREATE will involve completion of my tarot deck and a new tarot journal ebook, Cosmic Journaling Through the Year.
I will also concentrate on offering more creative tarot journaling resources in order to provide ideas and inspiration to get you into visual and tarot art journaling.
Why creative tarot journaling?
If you love journaling, then you know how therapeutic it can be. If you haven’t really done any regular journaling yet, then perhaps because blank white pages in a notebook don’t inspire you, or you just don’t know where and how to start.
I am at a stage now, where writing down words alone is no longer enough, even if it’s in a pretty notebook. I need to express myself on a visual level, too.
Don’t worry if you think you’re not very good at art. You don’t have to be. The resources I am offering are designed to spice up your tarot journal and even help you create your own unique journal from scratch.
If you are learning the Tarot, then journaling is a powerful tool to help you connect with the cards.
Journaling can help you put your mind in order, relax, loose yourself in words and art, and switch off from an otherwise busy life at least for a while.
Visual journaling with your tarot and oracle cards creates mindfulness and awareness in everyday living.
This is the kind of thing I want to work on this year, helping you to help yourself with creative tarot art journaling, and I hope you are interested in joining me on this venture.
You can access creative journaling freebies on my Ko-fi page, where you can also follow me for more free stuff and grab some fabulous creative journaling printables in my Shop.
Warmest wishes,
Christiane
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