I recently did a project trying to express something about my creative life through the mediums I loved best – poetry and photography.   I came up with the idea of doing a deck of cards that could be used as a sort of writing prompt tarot, with two aspects of a creative trait back to back on each “card.”

Try it out – Pick one and give yourself 5 minutes of quick write time on that theme, image, or the impression the card gives you.

Let me know how you used them in the comments section!

Stone Staircase

Quiet Road/Destination Unknown

Patience/Luck

Everpresent Past/Oncoming Future

Heedless/Headstrong

Comfort/Nest

Tradition/The Expected

Crown of Obsession/Perfection’s Lackey

Delight/Distraction

Bloom/Scatter

Moon Daughter

She Who Observes/Outsider

The Back Way

Unusual Outlook

Contemplator/Impulsive

Dilapidation as Beauty/Dilapidation as Destruction

Shore/Safe

Tending the Garden/Mire

Purpose/Unfulfilled

Notice/Pause

Wonder/Serendipity

Harvest of Detail

Doubt’s Twin/World’s Delight