Death Tarot Journal Prompts: 30 Days of Reflection

20 dicembre 2025

BY NICOLE LAU

Death Journaling: 30 Days of Transformation, Endings, and Rebirth

The Death journaling practice is a transformative 30-day journey into endings, impermanence, and the death-rebirth cycle. Unlike journaling that focuses on growth and addition, Death journaling explores what must die, what's already dead, and what wants to be born from the ashes. This practice will change you—if you're willing to face what needs to end.

How to Use This Journaling Practice

Guidelines for Death Journaling:

Embrace honesty about endings: Write what's actually dead, not what you wish was still alive
Allow grief: This practice may bring up sadness, anger, or loss—let it come
Don't cling: If something is dead, acknowledge it fully
Write by hand if possible: The physical act deepens the release
Set aside 15-30 minutes daily: Consistency creates transformation
Create sacred space: Light a candle, have your Death card visible
Date each entry: Track your death-rebirth journey
Take action: Journaling without release is just thinking on paper

What You'll Need:

Dedicated journal or notebook
Death tarot card for visual reference
Quiet, private space
Willingness to face endings
Commitment to the full 30 days

Week 1: Acknowledging What's Dead (Days 1-7)

The first week focuses on honest assessment of what has already died or is dying in your life.

Day 1: What's Already Dead
What in my life is already dead but I'm pretending is still alive? Relationships? Jobs? Dreams? Identities? Be brutally honest. List everything that's actually a corpse I'm carrying. Why am I pretending these things are still alive?

Day 2: The Relationships That Have Ended
Which relationships in my life are dead or dying? Romantic partnerships? Friendships? Family connections? What are the signs that these relationships have ended? Why am I holding on? What would it mean to acknowledge their death?

Day 3: The Dreams That Died
What dreams, goals, or aspirations have died? What did I once want that will never happen? What hopes have I been keeping on life support? Can I grieve these deaths and let them go?

Day 4: The Identities I've Outgrown
Who was I that I no longer am? What identities have I outgrown but still perform? What versions of myself are dead but I keep animating? Who am I pretending to be that I'm not anymore?

Day 5: The Beliefs That No Longer Serve
What beliefs, worldviews, or certainties have died? What did I used to believe that I no longer do? What truths have become lies? What certainties have dissolved? Can I let these dead beliefs go?

Day 6: The Patterns That Have Ended
What patterns, habits, or behaviors have run their course? What ways of being no longer work? What cycles have completed? What patterns am I trying to maintain that are actually dead?

Day 7: Week 1 Integration
Review your entries from Days 1-6. What patterns do you notice? What's most obviously dead? Choose one dead thing to consciously release this week. Write your commitment to letting it die completely.

Week 2: Facing Fear of Endings (Days 8-14)

The second week explores your relationship with death, endings, and impermanence.

Day 8: My Fear of Endings
What am I most afraid of ending? Why? What do I believe will happen if things end? Where does this fear come from? How does this fear control my life?

Day 9: What I'm Clinging To
What am I holding onto too tightly? What am I afraid to release? What would I lose if I let go? What would I gain? Why is clinging easier than releasing?

Day 10: My Relationship with Impermanence
How do I respond to the fact that nothing lasts forever? Do I accept impermanence or fight it? How does my resistance to change create suffering? What would it feel like to embrace impermanence?

Day 11: The Deaths I've Experienced
What significant endings have I experienced in my life? Actual deaths? Relationship endings? Major transitions? How did I handle these deaths? What did they teach me?

Day 12: What I've Learned from Loss
What have endings taught me? What wisdom have I gained from loss? How have I grown through grief? What strength have I discovered through facing death?

Day 13: My Resistance to Transformation
Where am I resisting necessary change? What transformation am I avoiding? Why? What am I afraid will happen if I transform? What's the cost of not transforming?

Day 14: Week 2 Integration
Review Days 8-13. Where is your fear of endings strongest? What are you most resistant to releasing? Choose one fear to face this week. Write how you'll practice acceptance of endings.

Week 3: The Death-Rebirth Cycle (Days 15-21)

The third week explores transformation, rebirth, and what wants to emerge from endings.

Day 15: What Wants to Die
What in my life is ready to die but I'm keeping alive? What's begging to end but I won't let it? What would naturally die if I stopped forcing it to live? Why am I keeping it alive?

Day 16: What Wants to Be Born
What's trying to emerge in my life? What new version of myself wants to be born? What opportunities are waiting for me to make space? What can't be born until something dies?

Day 17: The Transformation I'm Avoiding
What major transformation am I resisting? What metamorphosis is trying to occur? What would I become if I allowed this transformation? Why am I fighting it?

Day 18: Who I'm Becoming
Who am I becoming through these deaths and endings? What new identity is emerging? How am I different from who I was? Who will I be after this transformation completes?

Day 19: The Phoenix Rising
If I am the phoenix, what's burning? What's turning to ash? What will rise from these ashes? What's being destroyed so something better can be created? Can I trust this process?

Day 20: The Compost of My Life
What dead things in my life are becoming compost for new growth? How are my endings feeding my beginnings? What's decomposing to nourish what's being born?

Day 21: Week 3 Integration
Review Days 15-20. What transformation is most urgent? What's trying to be born? What must die for this birth to occur? Write your commitment to allowing this death-rebirth cycle.

Week 4: Practicing Release (Days 22-28)

The fourth week focuses on actually letting go and practicing the art of release.

Day 22: What I'm Ready to Release
What am I finally ready to let go of? What can I release today? What's the first thing I'll let die? How will I release it? What ritual or action will mark this ending?

Day 23: Grieving What's Ending
What do I need to grieve? What losses have I not fully mourned? Can I allow myself to feel the sadness of endings? What would full grieving look like? Why have I been avoiding grief?

Day 24: The Art of Letting Go
How do I let go? What does release actually feel like? What helps me release? What makes it harder? What would it take for me to let go completely?

Day 25: Making Space
What space is being created by these endings? What emptiness is emerging? Can I sit with this void without immediately filling it? What wants to emerge from this space?

Day 26: The Wisdom of Endings
What have these endings taught me? What wisdom am I gaining through death and loss? How am I wiser for having faced these endings? What do I know now that I didn't before?

Day 27: My Commitment to Transformation
Am I truly committed to transformation, or am I just thinking about it? What would full commitment look like? What would I do differently if I was fully committed? What's stopping me from committing completely?

Day 28: Week 4 Integration
Review Days 22-27. What have you actually released? What are you still holding onto? What's one more thing you can let die this week? Write your commitment to continued release and transformation.

Days 29-30: Integration and Rebirth

Day 29: Who I Am After Death
After 28 days of facing endings, who am I now? How have I transformed? What's died? What's been born? What do I know about death and impermanence that I didn't know before?

Day 30: My Vow to Transformation
Based on everything I've learned in this 30-day practice, what vow do I make to myself? How will I continue to practice release and transformation? What specific commitments am I making to letting things die when they need to die? Write your personal Death vow and sign it.

Advanced Journaling Practices

Once you've completed the 30-day cycle, deepen your practice with these advanced prompts:

The Daily Death Practice: Each evening, ask: "What died today? What ended? What did I release?" Write for 5 minutes about the small deaths of each day.

The Weekly Release Review: Every Sunday, review the week. What ended? What transformed? What am I still clinging to? What will I release this coming week?

The Monthly Transformation Inventory: Once a month, assess: What's died? What's been born? What's transforming? What needs to die next?

The Quarterly Rebirth Reflection: Every three months, reflect on who you've become through the deaths you've faced. How have you been reborn?

Working with Resistance

Death journaling will trigger intense resistance. This is normal and actually a sign the practice is working. When resistance arises:

If you feel grief: Let it come. Cry. Mourn. Grief is not weakness; it's the price of love and the gateway to release.

If you feel fear: Write about the fear itself. What are you afraid will happen? Is this fear based on reality or imagination?

If you want to quit: This usually happens when you're approaching a significant death. Push through. The breakthrough is on the other side.

If you feel nothing: You may be numb or in denial. Keep writing. The feelings will come when you're ready.

Signs Your Practice is Working

You'll know this journaling practice is transforming you when you notice:

Increased ability to let go and release
Reduced fear of endings and change
More honest about what's dead in your life
Greater peace with impermanence
Ability to grieve fully and move forward
Less clinging to relationships, identities, or situations
More comfortable with transformation
Feeling lighter, freer, more alive
New opportunities emerging as you release the old
Sense of rebirth and renewal

The Constant Unification Perspective

In the Constant Unification framework, journaling is not just self-reflection—it's a method of consciously participating in the death-rebirth cycle that's always occurring. Every honest word you write about endings is an act of release, of letting go, of allowing transformation.

Death journaling teaches that you cannot transform while clinging to what's dead. You cannot be reborn while refusing to die. You cannot grow while holding onto what no longer serves. This practice is not about feeling comfortable—it's about facing the truth of impermanence and learning to flow with the constant cycle of death and rebirth that is life itself.

The journal becomes your witness to transformation, the page becomes your space for release, and your pen becomes your tool for letting go. Every entry is an opportunity to acknowledge what's dead, grieve what's ending, and make space for what wants to be born. This is the work. This is the way.