Tarot Journal [Spiral-bound]

Alyssa Montalbano (Designer)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 26, 2007

Do you or someone you know, use tarot cards and oracle cards and record your card readings? Tired of drawing card boxes?

Tarot Journal is the # 1 way to record and journal any tarot or oracle card reading. Awaken and reconnect with your inner Sorceress or Wizard . . . Journey to the sacred spaces within your soul and explore yourself and your rich inner world in the safety and comfort of Tarot Journal. Now there is a place as special as you and your card readings, to record them in.

FAQs

What is Tarot Journal?
Tarot Journal is a special journal custom designed by fellow tarot and oracle card recording and journaling fan Alyssa Montalbano (aka artist Ari Stone) and created specifically to meet the needs of a more practical, fun and organized way to record, learn and journal any tarot or oracle card reading; while also being compatible with any deck of cards or layout. Alyssa got tired of drawing card boxes on most of the time random pieces of paper, or being limited to pre-drawn boxes to record her card readings and wanted a practical and organized place to keep records of ANY of her card readings and wanted to create an easier way to learn tarot. Thus the Tarot Journal was born . . .
How does Tarot Journal meet my needs of recording and journaling tarot and oracle card readings?
Card Stickers are the all new, fun and very practical way to record and journal about any tarot or oracle card reading. Card Stickers are fill-in stickers designed like actual cards and make recording any card reading a snap. Visit tarotjournals.com click on Using Your Journals then on Picture Instructions to see visually a Tarot Journal in use.
Is Tarot Journal a tarot course?
No. Tarot Journal is for recording readings. Use Tarot Journal as your practical application workbook, with any online or off-line tarot course, any tarot or oracle card deck set, learn-it-yourself tarot book.
How does using Tarot Journal help me learn and understand tarot faster and easier than if I purchased a typical blank journal?
Card Stickers engage your tactile and visual learning modals along with the typical audile learning modal of regular journals. Learning modals are different ways of learning. Some prefer to learn by hearing (audile); others want the actual hands on experience (tactile) and others prefer seeing (visual) things in picture format. Tarot Journal has been custom designed to include all of your brain in the tarot and oracle card learning experience, thus learning tarot is faster and easier that ever. Learn more about learning styles in FAQs section of tarotjournals.com.
What s inside my Tarot Journal?
100 s of fill-in Card Stickers(256), artistically designed empty Layout Spaces for sticking your Card Stickers and a simple note format for writing about your reading on the opposite page. Note area includes a place for future reflections and to record information about what deck of cards you used for that reading.
What kinds of card readings is Tarot Journal best for?
Tarot Journal is recommend using for card readings ranging in size from 6 cards, up to 22 cards per reading. No matter what card reading you choose to record, you will have a fun and exciting time.
What if I only want to do small readings that range in size from 1 to 6 cards per card layout and on a more regular basis? Will Tarot Journal meet those needs?
No, but Daily Spread Tarot & Oracle Journal (DS) will. DS also created by Alyssa, is standard journal size (6 x 9 ) with more sheets for recording smaller layouts and also includes 100 s of Card Stickers(336). Record up to 65 original small readings; sized 1 card to 6 cards.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Packages in the mail are wondrous sources of joy. I opened one the other day to find a top of the line Tarot Journal a quality product, at an economical price ($18.95), that clearly showed that the author/artist was not only a skilled artisan, but had put great thought into the mechanics of her work. The Journal, at 9 by 12 , is fairly large. The good news is that it is spiral bound, so that it will lie flat. The front and back covers are hard cover, in solid black, with the name of the journal in gold foil on the front cover, as well as a gold foil circle surrounding a very other-worldly night sky scene. I was so entranced by this scene that I contacted Montalbano to see what was behind the artwork on the cover. It turns out that it is a genre that she has created, termed Galactic C.H.I. (Celestial Healing Infusion) Art. Montalbano uses images taken from the Hubble Telescope as inspiration for her art. The circular star in the upper right hand corner is one of the later phases of the birth of a star . The reddish colored cluster in the lower left hand side of the picture is a star birthing cloud cluster . The design around the background of the image is a labyrinth to meditate by. The inside pages are heavier than standard weight, with a matte finish (so that a jelly role pen can be used and not have smear issues, or work left handed and not have smear issues). There are 22 blank layout spreads (two pages each one for the spread itself, and one for notes), and 256 blank card stickers. (These are so cool! You write in the name of the card drawn, the position number and definition, and fill in the circle at the bottom if the card is reversed.) The page facing the Layout Space includes space to fill in the question asked, personal notes about the reading, occurrences/later happenings, the date, the name of the Seeker, the name of the Reader, the time and location of the reading, the spread type, and the deck used. In the front of the journal is an information page explaining how to use the Tarot Journal, how to use the stickers, and how to put it all together. There is also a page to write in the date the journal was begun, the date that it ended, and who the journal belongs to. The imagery for the Layout Spreads contains the Andromeda Galaxy in the background, with the card stickers showing a spiral galaxy. This journal is elegance personified thoughtful and playful at the same time. Bonnie Cehovet is a professional Tarot reader with over ten years experience, holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and is certified as a Tarot Educator with the American Board For Tarot Certification. Bonnie has served in various capacities with the American Tarot Association, is co-founder of the World Tarot Network, and Vice President (as well as Director of Certification) for the American Board For Tarot Certification. She has had articles appear in the 2004 and 2005 Llewellyn Tarot Reader. --Bonnie Cehovet Professional Card Reader

What a fantastic concept! Ideal for use with any tarot or oracle deck, the Tarot Journal offers one place to keep readings in an organized manner. The journal comes with blank stickers to record the cards and placement in a layout. The opposite page contains sections for Questions, Notes, and Occurrences/Later Happenings, and blank space for date, time, spread, and deck. All this is presented in a 9-by-12-inch hardcover journal that can accommodate 22 separate layout entries. A perfect companion to suggest with any deck sale! --New Age Retailer Review by: Angela Wehnert - Spring 2008- --New Age Retailer Review by: Angela Wehnert - Spring 2008-

I personally want to add that using all of your brain's learning modals makes an amazing difference in ones ability to learn. Once I learned that I am primarily a tactile and visual learner and started teaching myself the way I learn, I went from being about a C and B average student, to being a straight A student and have been ever since (and continue to be since) I learned about learning styles. A lot of lower grade schools (like high schools) focus primarily on the audile learning modal (which is my least preferred learning mode) and this is why many students struggle. Its not because they are not "smart" so much as it is they are not being taught the way they prefer to learn. The ideal way to learn, is by engaging all of your learning modals in a fun practical way. I had a Spanish teacher in High School (and I did not like taking that class . . . but, I did by the end) who applied all of the learning modals in the way she taught. She would bring in shoes to show us (visual) and say "los zapatos" and make us repete it (audile) and then she would have us touch things (tactile) and say what it is called in Spanish. I didn't even "try" in that class and I had a very high A all year, up until we went into sentence structures. It wasn't until years later when I met Jeremy Whelan (author of the amazing Mosaic Acting System) that I learned about my preferred learning styles and finally understood how I could teach myself and understand anything by understanding how to translate the information into a visual and tactile format for myself to comprehend. The Tarot & Oracle Journal line is for everyone; and is like the Spanish teacher I had in High School but is designed specific for tarot students . . . you don't have to understand why its so easy to learn; it just will be because you will be using all of your brain when you study tarot &/or use it for recreational journaling about tarot or oracle card readings simple by using any of the Tarot & Oracle Journals by Ari Stone Art Productions. --Ari Stone

About the Author

Alyssa Montalbano (also known as artist Ari Stone), lives in the foot hills of Northern California with her family. She loves to explore life, emotions, behaviors and patterns through tarot cards, oracle cards and books. Art and publishing are among her favorite forms of expressing the love and joy she feels inside with others during her journey onto the planet we all love and know as Earth .

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 64 pages
• Publisher: Ari Stone Art Productions; 1st edition (June 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1424340802
• ISBN-13: 978-1424340804
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 8.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,355,822 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tools of Empowerment, May 13, 2008

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Bonnie Cehovet (Shelton, WA United States) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Tarot Journal (Spiral-bound)

My full review is already available, but I wanted to add some personal thoughts. This Journal is not only well thought out, and well presented, but it is something that I found I could connect to in a very special manner (unlike random pieces of paper, or simply using a regular notebook for journaling).

I first used it at a time when things in my life were very chaotic, and I needed something to ground me. I chose to dedicate my Journal to a specific issue in my life. As I look back over my Journal, I will be able to see the entire "story" of this issue, and the place that it had - and still has - in my life.

This makes my Journal a tool of personal empowerment - one could not ask for more from an inanimate object!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for the occasional reading, April 19, 2008

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Rori (SA, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tarot Journal (Spiral-bound)

The layout of this journal is great. I do not do readings very often, only when I feel need to ask the Tarot, so this journal will last me a few months if not longer. But for someone who does several readings in a week, let alone a month, the journal won't last long. Perhaps if there were perhaps 50 entry pages, instead of the 22 given, I would rate this higher. I love the stickers, a big selling point for me. I'd get annoyed trying to draw in the cards and their positions.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars All cover -- no substance, April 19, 2008

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Jennie Lin "OhioBlue" (Cleveland, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tarot Journal (Spiral-bound)

The cover on this journal is beautiful, and the paper is very high quality. The problem is the number of pages. If I journal every day, the journal isn't going to last a month. I'm better off buying a high quality journal with 200 pages rather than a specialty tarot journal with 44 pages.