Strength Tarot Journal Prompts: 30 Days of Courage
BY NICOLE LAU
Strength invites you on a 30-day journey of cultivating courage, taming fears, and discovering your gentle power. These journal prompts are designed to help you deepen your relationship with inner strength, patience, and compassion. Each day explores a different facet of Strength's transformative courage.
How to Use These Prompts
Daily practice: Set aside 15-20 minutes each day to write. Create a gentle space, light a candle, and let Strength's courage flow through your pen.
30-day commitment: Complete all prompts in order over 30 consecutive days for maximum transformation.
What you'll need: A dedicated journal, Strength tarot card for visual reference, and willingness to be brave.
Week 1: Awakening Courage
Day 1: Your Relationship with Courage
Prompt: How do I currently relate to courage? Do I see myself as brave or fearful?
Day 2: Your Fears
Prompt: What am I most afraid of? What is my lion?
Day 3: Your Inner Strength
Prompt: What is my source of inner strength? Where does my power come from?
Day 4: Gentle vs. Force
Prompt: Do I approach challenges with gentleness or force? What's the difference?
Day 5: Past Courage
Prompt: When have I been brave? What did I learn about my strength?
Day 6: Self-Doubt
Prompt: Where do I doubt myself? What would change if I believed in my power?
Day 7: Weekly Reflection
Prompt: What has this first week revealed about my courage and fears?
Week 2: Cultivating Patience
Day 8: Your Patience
Prompt: Am I patient or impatient? How does this affect my life?
Day 9: Taming with Love
Prompt: What would it mean to tame my challenges with love instead of force?
Day 10: Your Lion
Prompt: If my fear is a lion, what does it look like? What does it need from me?
Day 11: Compassion
Prompt: Can I approach my own struggles with compassion? What would that look like?
Day 12: Gentle Power
Prompt: What is gentle power? How is it different from weakness or aggression?
Day 13: Inner vs. Outer
Prompt: Do I seek strength from within or from external sources?
Day 14: Weekly Reflection
Prompt: How has my understanding of patience and gentleness deepened?
Week 3: Facing Fears
Day 15: The Fear Before Me
Prompt: What fear am I facing right now? Can I approach it with love?
Day 16: Courage to Act
Prompt: What would I do if I had more courage? What's stopping me?
Day 17: Vulnerability
Prompt: Can I be vulnerable and strong at the same time? How?
Day 18: Taming Practice
Prompt: What small fear can I tame today with gentleness and love?
Day 19: Persistence
Prompt: Do I have the patience to persist through challenges? What helps me endure?
Day 20: Compassionate Strength
Prompt: How can I be strong without being harsh? Powerful without being aggressive?
Day 21: Weekly Reflection
Prompt: What have I learned about facing fears with courage this week?
Week 4: Embodying Strength
Day 22: I Am Strength
Prompt: What would it feel like to fully embody Strength? To be gentle yet powerful?
Day 23: My Courage Commitment
Prompt: I commit to facing [specific fear] with courage and compassion.
Day 24: Taming My Lion
Prompt: How will I tame my lion? What gentle approach will I use?
Day 25: Daily Courage
Prompt: What one brave action can I take daily to build my courage?
Day 26: Celebrating Strength
Prompt: What acts of courage have I already shown? How can I celebrate them?
Day 27: Gentle Leadership
Prompt: How can I lead my own life with gentle strength and patient power?
Day 28: Weekly Reflection
Prompt: How has my relationship with courage transformed this week?
Week 5: Integration
Day 29: I Am Strength
Prompt: How have I embodied Strength over these 30 days? What has transformed?
Day 30: The Commitment
Prompt: What is my commitment to courage going forward? How will I continue to tame my lions with love?
Bonus Prompts for Ongoing Practice
When Facing Fear
Prompt: What fear am I facing? Can I approach it with love instead of force?
When Feeling Weak
Prompt: Where is my inner strength? What power have I forgotten I possess?
When Needing Courage
Prompt: What would Strength do? How would gentle power approach this?
How to Deepen Your Practice
Create ritual: Light a candle, place Strength card before you, create gentle space before each journaling session.
Track patterns: At the end of 30 days, read through all entries. What themes emerge?
Take action: Journaling without action is just thinking on paper. Let insights inform brave steps.
Repeat the cycle: After 30 days, start again. Notice how answers evolve.
Signs Your Journaling is Working
- Greater courage and confidence
- Ability to face fears with love
- Feeling more gentle yet powerful
- Less self-doubt and more self-trust
- Taming challenges with patience
- Sense of inner strength that doesn't need to prove itself
Closing Blessing
May your pen be brave.
May your courage be gentle.
May your lion be tamed.
May you discover, through writing, that you are Strength.
The courage is within you. The gentle power is real. The only question is: are you ready to tame your lion with love?
Pick up your pen. Open your journal. Begin.
