How To Include The Tarot In Your Daily Spiritual Practice

“Daily spiritual practice??!” I hear you say with a snarky cackle. “Honestly, I don’t have time for that.”

But are you sure you don’t have five minutes in a day just for yourself?

A grounding practice doesn’t need to be elaborate. You don’t have to set aside time for a full 10‑card Celtic Cross tarot reading every morning to clear your mind or reconnect with your intuition.

A simple one‑card reading can offer daily insight, reflection, and gentle guidance—and it takes no more than a few minutes.

If traditional meditation feels impossible (the lotus position, the closed eyes, the attempt to think of nothing😂), journaling can be a much more accessible way to unwind and centre yourself.

Here’s a simple approach:

🌅 Morning or 🌙 Evening - Choose What Supports You

Self‑reflective meditation works well either at the start or the end of your day.

• Morning: Set the tone for the hours ahead. Look at what’s coming up, what you need to pay attention to, and how you want to show up.

• Evening: Reflect on the day just passed—your favourite moments, lessons learned, small victories, and anything you want to release.

In both cases, writing is key. Putting your thoughts on paper grounds you, sharpens your focus, helps you problem‑solve, and supports emotional healing.

🔮 The Practice

Draw one card from your deck - tarot or oracle. Make a few notes. That’s it.

(If you’re wondering what to include in a one‑card reading, you can explore that here.)

☕ My Own Routine

I like to get up before my son wakes at 7am. I make a coffee, sit at my desk, pull a card, and jot down a few reflections using my checklist.

Later in the day, when I glance back at those notes, I often notice how the mindset I captured in the morning has quietly shaped the way I moved through the hours that followed.

My fauxdori journal filled with cosmic journaling sheets

Lately, I’ve found myself enjoying evening reflections at the end of a busy day.

Most nights, I do them right in bed - cosy under the blanket, with my favourite tarot deck and my fauxdori journal filled with the journaling sheets I designed specifically for this practice.

If the idea of a gentle nightly reflection speaks to you, you can download a cosmic journaling sheet in two sizes:

Evening Reflection A4 - for your ring binder. Two pages to be printed double-sided.

Evening Reflection A5 - designed to print double-sided to fold into a booklet or use as traveller's notebook (fauxdori) inserts.

For your evening reflection, you can draw a card in the morning, note it on your sheet, and then return to it at night to journal about how its energy unfolded throughout the day.

Experiment with the different approaches and see which rhythm feels most supportive for you.

And if you already have your own tarot journaling habits, I’d truly love to hear about them - feel free to share💚

Warmest wishes,

Christiane

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