Tea & Tarot

Re-Enchanting Your Everyday Life

WEEK 1 — “THE INITIATION INTO ENCHANTMENT”

Theme:
“Noticing the magic already present in your life.”

Keep it grounded, tactile, and achievable.


✨ WEEK 1 STRUCTURE

Each day includes:

  • Practical Exercise
  • Journal Prompt

DAY 1: The Object of Beginning

Exercise:
Go to a thrift store, bookstore, or even your own home.
Find (or choose) something that will become your:

  • Whimsy journal / Book of Shadows / creative object

It doesn’t need to be perfect.

Prompts:

  • Why did I choose this object?
  • What does it feel like it wants to become?
  • If this object had a story, what would it be?
  • If it had a voice, what would it say to me?

DAY ONE — MAY 15

DESCENT INTO STILLNESS

Theme:
Leaving the outer world behind.

Morning Ritual

Before speaking, sit outside for at least twenty minutes.

Listen carefully:

  • wind
  • birds
  • creaking trees
  • distant sounds

Ask yourself:

“Who am I when no one is watching?”

Write continuously for 3 pages without stopping.


Journaling Prompts

  • What parts of my life feel performative?
  • What am I exhausted from pretending to want?
  • What dreams genuinely belong to me?
  • What ambitions were inherited from culture, family, fear, or comparison?
  • If success were impossible, how would I spend my days?
  • What do I secretly long to devote my life to?

Afternoon Practice

Take a silent walk with no destination.

Collect:

  • feathers
  • stones
  • leaves
  • branches

Create a small altar or arrangement in the cabin that symbolizes:

  • your past self
  • your present self
  • the self trying to emerge

Evening Release Ritual

Write down:

  • fears
  • old identities
  • pressures
  • expectations
  • obligations that no longer feel true

One per slip of paper.

Read each aloud quietly by candlelight.

Then burn them safely in a fire-safe container or wood stove.

Afterward say:

“I release what no longer belongs to my soul.”

Sit in silence afterward for at least ten minutes.


DAY TWO — MAY 16

NEW MOON: THE VOID

Theme:
Emptiness. Listening. Becoming.

This day should be quieter than the others.

Avoid:

  • forcing insights
  • making major decisions
  • planning your future obsessively

The void is fertile.


Sunrise Ritual

Watch the sunrise if possible.

Bring coffee or tea outside.

Write:

“If I trusted my own inner compass completely, my life would begin to look like…”

Write without censoring yourself.


Journaling Prompts

  • What parts of myself have I abandoned to survive?
  • What qualities in others trigger me emotionally, and what do they reveal about my shadow?
  • What am I afraid would happen if I became fully visible?
  • What kind of woman am I becoming?
  • What do I envy in others that may actually point toward my unlived life?
  • Where in my life do I need more courage?
  • What does my soul want that my ego fears?

Midday Ritual — Letter to the Shadow

Write a letter beginning:

“Dear Shadow Self…”

Allow the shadow self to answer honestly:

  • anger
  • grief
  • jealousy
  • loneliness
  • resentment
  • exhaustion
  • desire

No censorship.

Then write:

“What do you need from me in order to heal?”


Evening Renewal Ritual

Light a candle in darkness.

On fresh paper, write:

  • what you want to invite in
  • the emotional atmosphere you want your life to hold
  • how you want to feel daily
  • the kind of creator you want to become

Fold the paper and place it beneath your pillow while you sleep.


DAY THREE — MAY 17

RECLAMATION

Theme:
Recovering the authentic self.

This is the day to reconnect with joy, imagination, sensuality, creativity, and longing.


Morning Practice

Read a few pages from:

  • Walden
  • Women Who Run With the Wolves
  • The Artist’s Way
  • Any other writing that inspires you

Then write:

“The life I would live if I stopped abandoning myself…”


Journaling Prompts

  • When do I feel most alive?
  • What environments nourish me?
  • What artistic work feels effortless and natural?
  • What kind of beauty do I want surrounding me?
  • What rhythms and rituals make me feel whole?
  • If my life became a work of art, what would change?
  • What is trying to be born through me creatively?

Creative Ritual

Spend several hours making something with no goal:

  • sketching
  • writing fragments
  • collecting images
  • designing your dream cabin life
  • writing future book ideas
  • making poetry from journal entries

No productivity pressure.

Only exploration.


Evening Fire Ritual

If you have a fire:
Speak aloud the life you are choosing.

Examples:

  • “I choose depth over noise.”
  • “I choose meaningful work.”
  • “I choose simplicity.”
  • “I choose the slow unfolding of my creative life.”
  • “I choose my real voice.”

DAY FOUR — MAY 18

RETURN WITH INTENTION

Theme:
Integration.

This is not about “fixing” yourself.

It is about returning differently.


Morning Reflection

Write:

“What have these four days revealed?”

Then answer:

  • What must change?
  • What must remain?
  • What must begin?
  • What must end?
  • What is essential?
  • What is non-essential?

Journaling Prompts

  • What does my ideal ordinary day look like?
  • What kind of creative career would feel emotionally sustainable?
  • What relationships nourish or drain me?
  • What distractions disconnect me from myself?
  • What would a deeply intentional life require of me?
  • What do I want my life to stand for?

Final Ritual — Commitment to the Future Self

Write a letter dated one year from now.

Describe:

  • where you live
  • how you spend your mornings
  • what you create
  • how you feel emotionally
  • what kind of people surround you
  • what your work has become

Seal it and save it for yourself.

Do not reread it for one year.