Creative writing with the tarot

🎨 Weekly Creativity Prompt – The Autumn Leaf

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Prompt: “Pull (at least) three random cards from your deck and use them share with us the story of an autumn leaf’s great adventure.”

Lonely Dreamer Tarot - Nine of Cups, The Devil, Knight of Wands, Eight of Wands, The Fool, The Hermit

Once upon a summer, there was a lovely oak tree located where the ocean meets land,
And beneath the tree was a soft patch of grass where people came to sit or stand.
[ Nine of Cups ]

On this tree lived many leaves who loved to dance in the breeze,
But one in particular was eager to fly, yet unable to let go with ease.
[ Knight of Wands atop The Devil ]

One day, the weather began to change, becoming colder by the day;
and this little leaf began to change with his neighbors who flew away.
[ Eight of Wands ]

As green turned to gold and they all let go, still this leaf held on,
And soon enough the days grew cold and all of its friends were gone.
[ The Hermit ]

Then one day, it’s stem grew weak enough to finally let go.
The last of its kind to released its grip and flutter out into the falling snow.
[ The Fool ]

DECK USED: THE LONELY DREAMER TAROT 1st EDITION

🎨 Weekly Creativity Prompt – Spot the Difference

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Prompt: “Below is a 3-card spread from Enchanted Forest Felines Tarot and a question/prompt to go with it. Your task is to pull the same three cards from your deck(s) and tell us how you might interpret these decks differently, and why. Same question, same cards, different decks. And if you’d read them similarly? Tell us that, and explain why!”

Enchanted Felines Tarot - Knight of Wands, Five of Swords, Page of Wands

Question: What could I do to inspire a little more creativity and passion into my life?

Look closer at those things that strike your interest and curiosity (Page of Branches).  You can’t chase every passion and explore every whim that wanders by.  Some of them?  You just have to let go (Five of Dandelions), in order to allow you to chase after the ones that truly inspire you (Knight of Branches).

Stolen Child Tarot - Page of Flame, Five of Zephyrs, Knight of Flame

Question: What could I do to inspire a little more creativity and passion into my life?

Get in touch with your feelings of childish enthusiasm. Where have you abandoned your dreams and how can you reconnect with them and those feelings they inspire? (Page of Flame)  Trying too hard on a path that’s not right for you will only cause you to feel an unnecessary sense of struggle and defeat (Five of Zephyrs).   Instead, reach for those things that lift you up, create a sense of confidence, and light within you a passion to follow your dreams (Knight of Flame).

DECK USED: ENCHANTED FOREST FELINES TAROT AND THE STOLEN CHILD TAROT

🎨 Weekly Creativity Prompt – Bestest Gift EVAH!!

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Prompt: “You’re a young child, and have an idea of what gift you want for your next big birthday / holiday / occasion. However, you don’t know what the gift is called, only how to describe it. Pull (at least) four cards, and use them as the basis to describe what would your young self’s bestest gift EVAH! Please share with us your description from the cards and the answer to what that fun toy might be.”

Cat Star Tales Tarot - Ace of Swords, Six of Swords, Eight of Cups, Ten of Pentacles
Dear daddy, I wanna be a pirate (Six of Swords) with a super sharp sabre to cut down my enemies with (Ace of Swords), before I run away to a place where I’ll never grow up (Eight of Cups) and I can live with all my friends and never have to work again (Ten of Pentacles).

The Gift :  A Peter Pan book, complete with pirate costume for Halloween.

DECK USED: CAT STAR TALES POCKET TAROT

🎨 Weekly Creativity Prompt – Creative Writing

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Prompt: “Pull (at least) three random cards from your deck and use them to tell us a story about a real or fictional awkward moment involving food.”

Creative Writing with the Oregon County Fair Tarot

The Hermit

Mrs Inglemore had a hate on for the kids in the neighborhood. Their laughter and playful voices always floating in through her window, the way they raced up and down the street on their bikes. The sound of balls bouncing, bikes being dropped onto grass or sidewalk, skateboards and rollerskates on pavement. She’d complained to their parents many times.

But most of all, and what started it all? Those greedy little bastards stole her pies!

Not every time. No, they were too sneaky for that. Sometimes when she put them on the sill to cool, they came back from the experience untouched. And they -had- to go on the sill, mind you. The fridge was too cold and made them somehow both soggy and dried out at the same time. The kitchen was too warm. After all, she’d just finished baking.

It had to be the sill.

Seven of Swords

The first time? Some little piggy child ate HALF the pie, right out of the pie pan before they unbalanced the thing and sent it toppling into the kitchen. Rhubarb and strawberries simply everywhere. Such a mess!

The next time was a few pies later on the next week, and they tipped the entire thing over to splat on the ground outside the window. The entire pie ruined, not to mention her begonias! Little sneaky bastards.

Seven of Wands

This time? She’s going to catch them in the act, though, and then they’re going to get reported not just to their parents, but the police too! It’s stealing, after all.  So, she’d made her pie and set it on the windowsill every day this week, waiting each time for the children to show themselves. Hiding just out of sight on the other side of the counter, each time she waited.

And here they were! They’d come! She heard their sneaky movements as she crouched and waited, and when she heard the scrape of her baking pan on the sill? She popped up into view with a loud, “AH HA! I KNEW IT WAS YOU BILLY NASSON!”

The Tower

Only to be faced with a white tailed deer as surprised as she was! As she screamed, the deer reared back, cracking its head on the window’s edge and sending it dropping to smash down and shatter. The pie simultaneously going flying to splat over top of Mrs Inglemore’s head where she landed on her butt on the floor.

Five of Swords

And, a moment later when she came to from her faint?

There was Billy Nasson, drawn by the commotion and peeking in through the window at her along with his friends.

“Lovely new hat, Mrs Inglemore,” he exclaimed, before they all ran off to play.

DECK USED: OREGON COUNTY FAIR TAROT

🎨 Weekly Creativity Prompt – Different Scenarios

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Prompt: “The purpose of this activity is to practice interpreting small spreads by combining card meanings, symbols and intuition. We will all interpret the same cards based on a few different (imaginary) situations. A 3 card spread will be posted together with 2 more specific scenarios. It’s your choice which scenario you’d prefer to use, or if you’d rather do a general reading of these cards as for an imaginary querent.”

Tarot of the Abyss - Six of Swords, The Empress, The Chariot

Scenario 1 – Alba is moving to a new country, and wants to know how to make it go smoothly.

Moving is always difficult, because you are leaving things behind that you otherwise would hold on to. Keep in mind, though, that you are also leaving behind those things that are not working for you, and opening up an opportunity for better, healthier possibilities and opportunities to take their place.

Make sure as you begin to settle into your new home and country that you keep a firm grasp on what you want out of this move. It’s only through steering yourself in the direction you want to go in that you’ll find the success and abundance you seek.

Scenario 2 – Gray wants to figure out some advice for navigating their new job. They just got hired in a competitive field through a temp agency.

No one is going to give you what you want out of this experience. You’re going to have to reach out and grab it for yourself.

Make sure as you start on this new endeavor that you leave in your wake those past habits and tendencies that haven’t worked for you previously. They won’t work for you now, either.  By leaving them behind, you “till the soil” of your career and open up space for new growth and success to occur.  Just remember, this isn’t a gift. It’s something you’ll have to work at. Determination is what will get you through, so “tighten your bootstraps” and get going.

DECK USED: TAROT OF THE ABYSS