Manifestation Journal and Tarot Journal Ideas

You get out of your spiritual practice what you put into it, so if you are serious about manifesting your desired reality, it's important to be writing down your goals and tracking your progress.

Keeping notes on your manifestations, Tarot insights, and day-to-day efforts is one of the most game-changing steps in seeing your dreams come to fruition.

Of course, forming a new habit takes a bit of work at first, but it'll become second nature to you. And believe us, you'll be happy you started!

This piece will explore why & how you can maintain a journal and you can use it to skyrocket your practice. We also included our recommendation for what we've found the best Tarot & manifestation journal to be.

How Journaling helps the Manifestation Process

Keeping a journal serves as a home base for your spiritual practice.

One of the most important aspects of manifestation is focus. You need to have clarity around the object of your desire. You should be certain in your intention and keep yourself honed in on your target.

The Manifestation journal prompts you to organize and elucidate your thoughts so that you can express them in simple writing. It forces self-reflection so that you can distill the complex emotions surrounding your desires into concrete terms.

Putting Positive Energy to Work

When you use your Manifestation journal to write down your thoughts, you are putting forth positive energy into the process.

A journal is a safe space where you can be honest with yourself. You can take a hard look at your own life to find your limiting beliefs and determine what the best version of yourself would look like.

How do you write a manifestation journal?

Affirmations

Writing down affirmations is a great way to complement saying them aloud.

There's something special about the physical nature of writing with pen and paper. That along with the steady repetition of writing them multiple times makes it quite impactful.

Manifestation journals are a natural place for affirmations that can serve as a token of your efforts. While stated affirmations are just as effective, you don't have anything physical to memorialize them.

On the other hand, a Manifestation journal is a running log of all the focus and attention you've put into reaching your desire.

Since the manifestation journal tracks the affirmations you've performed, it intertwines well with a diary or planner.

Planner

Of course, you want to see that your manifestation process is getting you results!

Just like any other serious endeavor, it's important to track your progress. You can see how your manifesting coincides with outcomes in your life.

Most importantly, though, you can make sure that your plans are in alignment with your goals.

The overlap between your manifestations and your plans helps you see if what you are doing is actually moving you toward your desires. Manifesting helps you attain your goals not only through the catalyst of concentrated thought energy but also by reinforcing your focus on what's important.

Tarot Journaling

Manifestation and Tarot go hand in hand. They are both deeply personal aspects of spiritual practice that help in self-discovery and in getting what you want out of life.

As we have stated countless times, maintaining a journal is key for success with Tarot.

Deepening your understanding of the Tarot Deck

You could have a few different decks, all Rider-Waite, and notice considerable dissimilarities in the way they communicate.

The same card could point to something else depending on which deck it has emerged from. This is normal, as energy differs between Tarot decks. To navigate the variance, however, it's helpful to write the about behavior of the Tarot cards across your different decks.

In general, it is also helpful to write your ideas and interpretations of how a card's meaning manifests in the world. You will also find yourself drawn to certain Tarot cards and this will help you understand why.

Personal Interpretations of what Each Card Represents

Each Tarot card has a specific "book" meaning, but you may come to find your own associations among the cards as well.

For example, you may have a card in one of your Tarot decks that always seems to indicate when disloyalty in a relationship is taking place, or when a major lifestyle shift is coming. Alternatively, it could be an interpretation that you simply channeled through your Intuition.

It's important to log these personal card meanings so you can keep track of them and further understand the messages that you are receiving.

There are many deep layers of communication, involving not only your Intuition but also your spirit guides, that can pass profound messages to you. The first step in understanding these advanced insights is to note the special meanings you find in each Tarot card in your Tarot journal.

Tracking the messages your intuition uncovers

If you do a spread for self-care (which you should do from time to team, you can learn more about self-care spreads here [link]), you'd do well to note the insights you derived.

Even putting one or two takeaways in your Tarot journal helps. You can identify limiting beliefs to overcome or positive thoughts you want to espouse.

As you have an idea of what changes you need to make in your life to set yourself up for success, you should be journaling them as well.

You can see if any recurring themes emerge over time and hold yourself accountable for making the changes you commit to making. It's your space for self-reflection and self-growth.

When a Tarot reading uncovers guidance for you, it's your duty to act in accordance with it. Writing actionable goals in your Tarot journal is perhaps the best way to keep yourself honest.

Adding structure to your practice

Your spiritual practice should be treated like any other pursuit that's important to you. Just like playing a sport or instrument, it takes practice and attention to improve.

Having a Tarot journal can organize and structure your pursuit.

As you take note of what you're learning and how often you're investing time into your practice, you'll have a better understanding of how you're progressing. You can pinpoint potential areas of improvement, or recognize what would best take your Tarot reading abilities to the next level.

It's also refreshing to be able to look back in your Tarot journal and see how far you've come!

Tarot Spreads

As you acquire new Tarot spreads, your journal is a great place to make note of them.

Some Tarot journals include built-in spreads that you can carry with you as well.

If you experimenting with your own spreads, your Tarot journal serves as a great place to draw them out. You can describe what the spread is used for, why you find it valuable, and how you came to find it.

Records of Your Clients

If you read Tarot professionally, it's vital to keep track of your client base.

As a business best practice and courtesy, you should at least log the dates and context of your meetings.

As you optimize your business, you can also note how clients found out about you, or see who returns as a repeat customer.

To take it a step further, you can jot down one or two important things going on in their lives in your Tarot journal. When they return, follow up with them (e.g. "how is your new job going?" "did things work out between you and so-and-so?").

Your client will appreciate that you took a personal interest in them and their well-being. Showing that you care goes further than you might think.

What's the best Journal for Manifestation and Tarot?

Having tried a variety of generic as well as specialty journals, we have found Writual Planner's Tarot Journal to be the best by a mile.

It's aesthetically beautiful, but most importantly it has a practical layout that's conducive to synchronizing your spiritual practice with your daily life.

We like how it gives you Astrological and Tarot knowledge along with reminders to refresh your affirmations. Generally, the drawback of generic journals is that they don't provide the structure that specifically helps cultivate a spiritual practice. Plus, it's really cool to get Tarot spreads and little tidbits of spiritual info on a daily basis.

Each Zodiac season is broken down and explained. The month-by-month lookahead for the year guides your goal-setting to make sure your spiritual efforts are getting you the real-world results you're looking for. There's even a helpful Tarot cheat sheet which definitely comes in handy on the go.

The quality is tremendous and you can expect it to hold up for the full length of the year.

Forming a Journaling Habit

Even though most people find it to be fun to journal, it is still easy to fall into the trap of doing it a few times and putting it down for good. That, or sporadically writing in it when you feel particularly motivated to do so.

The value of journaling comes from continual use. So, there is a little bit of delayed gratification involved, but if you can stick with it you'll find it much easier to organize your Spiritual practice and your life in general.

To form the habit, make sure you are doing it at least once daily. You can walk it back over time, but for the first 6 weeks do not miss a day. You will likely change the way you utilize your journal over time, but to start it's important to simply form the habit of writing in it.

Improving your Journaling

Creativity is an active process, so as you use it, you will discover better ways of using it. We recommended a few ideas above, but you'll craft your personal style.

Maybe you will intertwine it with your notes and plans for your life comprehensively, or maybe you'll just use it to document your findings in your spiritual practice. There's no right or wrong answer as long as you are seeing benefits to your life.

If you search around online, you'll see lots of techniques (both spiritual and secular) for how to best go about it. For example, in recent years, the Bullet Journal has exploded in popularity and we have even found ourselves implementing some of the methods it involves.

Again, all that really matters is that you start and keep going!

Final Thoughts

Manifestation journals are one of the most important parts of making your desires come to life.

While we combine it with our Tarot journal, you can keep them separate, or choose to do only one of the two. Regardless, something is better than nothing, and it's a big step in getting more out of your practice.

If you're unsure if you should start or not, try it for a month, and you'll notice it makes a much bigger difference than you previously thought.

Happy journaling!