Today I am a little behind with my illustration. I had a severe migraine last night, which lasted until this morning. That’s why I won’t be able to draw the illustration until tonight. Health comes first!
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Look, I’ve loved notebooks since I learned how to write. I hoard empty journals and filled ones, I’ve kept diaries since I was six, I’ve used various types of bullet journals since before the term was invented; I’ve done it all.
And if there’s one thing I’ve learned about keeping the joy in journaling, it’s this:
LET. IT. BE. MESSY.
I mean, let’s be honest, how many of us have held onto a gorgeous notebook that we’ve been dying to use for way too long, never writing in it because we were terrified of not being able to fill it or live up to the aesthetic we dreamed up?
I know I have.
Nothing will kill your journaling experience faster than that kind of pressure. Besides, aiming for that kind of rigid consistency with a grimoire just seems bizarre to me, because your grimoire reflects your journey. So of course it will change as you do!
Variety is beautiful, so let your book be wild. Let one day be a freewriting journal entry, and the next be a Pinterest worthy spread with watercolour and washi tape. Write ten pages one day and ten words the next. Use different pens, switch colour schemes, switch between cursive and print. Draw cartoons, write notes in the margins, paste things in!
It becomes so much easier to record things regularly when you don’t have the pressure to live up to a certain standard or commit to a certain format each time.
It gives you permission to have different moods and styles. It gives you permission to evolve.
Don’t tie yourself to the ideas you had when you started. They’re good ideas, but they’re not the only ones.
I am in the process of creating my first tarot deck for sale! I’d love to know what is important to you, what you look for, and what is a deal breaker?
Some things I know I am prioritizing: diversity in race, body type, and breaking away from the gender binary. I’d love to get a better idea for what you guys look for (or what you hate seeing!)
As a thank you, I will be giving away a handful of decks to people who helped in the process!
Please share so I can reach as much of our little community as I can!
I’m definitely repulsed by the “this card is feminine” / “this card is masculine” dichotomy, so if you can avoid doing that, I’m already eager to line up to buy LOL
If you really do diversity body sizes – not a size 12 to a size 14 diversify – I’d love you even more! Also, different types of bodies. Bodies in wheelchairs and bodies that use canes. And diversify the ethnicities would also be awesome – not just black people and white people, but Asian people, South Pacific People, etc.
That’s all that’s coming to mind right this second, but I’m eager to see what you come up with 🙂 Best of luck with however you go forward!
It sounds like you’re already planning on ticking a bunch of major boxes for me – diversity is a biggie, I’m tired of decks with a white, Tolkien-esque fantasy esthetic – as well as breaking away from the idea that certain cards have gender.
One thing that I’ve found myself gravitating towards increasingly is decks that aren’t afraid to interrogate the card meanings a bit, especially some of the more loaded ones. Nothing irritates me more than a Devil card with one dimensional art – tarot is the last place where I want a meditation on addiction/materialism from The Devil, it’s lazy. Similar with Death, don’t just show me the ending, also show me the beginning of a new cycle. Scare me with The Tower, sure, but don’t forget to hint at the new growth that The Tower is making way for. Does a deck have something interesting to say about the Three of Swords or is it simple heartbreak?
If a deck can make me think about some of those trickier cards in a new way or uses the artwork to enrich the card’s traditional meaning, I’m sold.
Spitfire Alice A Gra 
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