Hello and welcome to Terrell Bytes. I'm Teresa Read the Tarot Lady. I'm the author of the tarot coloring book and the co-author of Terro for Trouble Times. I'm also your host for this podcast series. This is episode 146 of Tarot's, the podcast where I dish out short, entertaining, bite-sized lessons on how to retarrel.

And for today's episode, our topic is tarot journaling.

And my special guest is Donna Lay, Della Rose.

Hello, Donna Lay.

Hi, Teresa.

I'm so happy to see you and just talk with you again.

Oh, I'm always happy to have an excuse to talk to you,

so I'm very delighted. I'm delighted that you're joining me for the podcast today, and you

suggest the topic of tarot journaling, and I'm a big, big fan of journaling. I have journals

all over the place that I work with, and I mean, and I know you do too. So, you know,

why do you think people should keep a tarot journal? I mean, what's your opinion on it?

Well, you know, Teresa, it has so many different purposes. It's there isn't just one reason why

people should have it or do it. And for me, it was a necessity.

It kind of kept me alive. I was in survival mode. And it was my safe space. It was a no judgment zone.

I was going through a very troubled marriage. I was going through a lot of stuff where I was starting to weed some toxins out of my life.

And I just spilled my guts.

And it was almost like a therapy session.

So for me, I used it as almost a counseling tool.

But at the same time, I was using it to learn Oracle systems,

or to strengthen my use of Oracle systems.

So for me, for example, I felt that I wanted to learn to read playing cards.

So actually, most of my journals have that and the E. Ching in it.

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