Runa Posted August 30, 2022 Posted August 30, 2022 My loves, I know a lot of us here keep tarot journals (I'll be starting one myself soon), but does anyone else bullet journal? I keep one as a cross between a planner and a journal, though not much goes on in my life that requires much planning so it's more like a daily journal with a calendar spread at the beginning of each month. Since it's foremost a journal, I don't go hardcore with all the little task trackers that you see online, though I do like adding a small habit tracker to my weekly spreads. I used to utilize montly mood and sleep trackers which were fun to look at but became tedious to set up every month, and lately I like to keep things much more simple and focus on the actual journaling aspect. Anywho, I figure that since I include moon phases in my monthly calendar, maybe I can make a page for a monthly tarot tracker for my daily draws. I wonder if any of you do this too? I think it would be interesting to see the trends at a glance, for example how many times a certain suit comes up. I'll be trying to devise a nice layout for the tracker and upload pics. If anyone else already does this in any fashion I would love to hear about it or see pictures! Or just feel free to talk about your journaling practice in general, I find it to be a fun topic to discuss.
Runa Posted August 30, 2022 Author Posted August 30, 2022 Here are some I've come up with. The first is more condensed, the days of the month are along the top, and the suits and major are listed on the left. For each day you fill in either the roman numeral of the card, or if it's a court card you write K for King, Q for Queen, N for Knight, or P for page. I'm undecided on whether I prefer just the numeral for Ace or the letter A. The second takes a full page, and the full name of the cards can be written out as well as a note of reversals or anything else. I feel like there's room to add more customization, columns for example.
stephanelli Posted August 30, 2022 Posted August 30, 2022 I track my daily tarot draw in my bullet journal. I can't take a pic right now but it's pretty simple so I'll type it out. Here's today's entry: Tue 30 Aug '22. 7E O - O - O - (The 'O - ' represents my tickboxes for my tasks, as many as I need for the day, any extra notes I've made about what happened etc.). The 7E is my daily draw tracker. I write it in shorthand: 7 is the number, E represents Earth as the deck I'm using has the elements as the suites. My deck has the courts renamed as Messenger, Craftsperson, Witch and Goddess so I use the first letter of the name of I draw one of those. It's easy enough to create a system that works for your deck though. If it's a major card then it's the number of the major and a star, eg. The Fool would be 0*. I like having it this way as It helps me correlate the draw with what happened during the day.
AnomalyTempest Posted August 30, 2022 Posted August 30, 2022 (edited) I do track things in my Bujo. I have a weekly spread and track my daily cards on a yearly chart. I was gonna track how many majors, etc, but I'm not really that motivated yet. Even color coding mine seems to not really reveal any patterns I'm noticing so I don't know if I will continue the yearly tracker. At any rate this is what mine looks like although I do experiment from time to time with other layouts. I also have symbols for each of the cards. . Edited August 30, 2022 by AnomalyTempest
Runa Posted August 30, 2022 Author Posted August 30, 2022 2 hours ago, stephanelli said: I track my daily tarot draw in my bullet journal. I can't take a pic right now but it's pretty simple so I'll type it out. Here's today's entry: Tue 30 Aug '22. 7E O - O - O - (The 'O - ' represents my tickboxes for my tasks, as many as I need for the day, any extra notes I've made about what happened etc.). The 7E is my daily draw tracker. I write it in shorthand: 7 is the number, E represents Earth as the deck I'm using has the elements as the suites. My deck has the courts renamed as Messenger, Craftsperson, Witch and Goddess so I use the first letter of the name of I draw one of those. It's easy enough to create a system that works for your deck though. If it's a major card then it's the number of the major and a star, eg. The Fool would be 0*. I like having it this way as It helps me correlate the draw with what happened during the day. I like the simplicity of this! I think I might include my card in my daily entries like this as well. The deck you use sounds interesting, which is it? Just now, AnomalyTempest said: I do track things in my Bujo. I have a weekly spread and track my daily cards on a yearly chart. I was gonna track how many majors, etc, but I'm not really that motivated yet. Even color coding mine seems to not really reveal any patterns I'm noticing so I don't know if I will continue the yearly tracker. At any rate this is what mine looks like although I do experiment from time to time with other layouts. I also have symbols for each of the cards. . I like these! I especially like the symbols you use. Even the ones for the majors are easy to interpret, for example I instantly know that the little lightning bolt is most likely the tower.
stephanelli Posted August 30, 2022 Posted August 30, 2022 31 minutes ago, Runa said: I like the simplicity of this! I think I might include my card in my daily entries like this as well. The deck you use sounds interesting, which is it? I'm using the Witches' Wisdom Tarot. Its a beautiful and insightful deck. My favourite right now.
AnomalyTempest Posted August 31, 2022 Posted August 31, 2022 Thanks. I don't know where I got the weekly spread and the symbols came from online searches. Every now and then I change one slightly or find a better representation. The pictures above are from my planner book. I also have a dedicated tarot bujo where I record my spreads and such. Here is my symbol key from that book and also the way I record some of the spreads.
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