Spiritual Journaling Prompts
How has your practice evolved over the years/How did you get to where you are now?
Who are you as a spiritualist/witch/practitioner?
What beliefs and practices make up your faith?
Describe your beliefs in depth and your reasoning behind them.
How and where do you find inspiration?
What otherwise mundane activities, items, ideas, or people do you find sacred or divine?
What aspects of your spiritual practice do you always keep to yourself? Why?
How has you spiritual life benefitted your mundane one?
How has you mundane life benefitted your spiritual one?
Do you believe all spiritual paths have or should have an ultimate goal?
Does your own spiritual path have an ultimate goal? If so, what is it and why have you chosen it?
Do you practice total freedom of expression and choice within your path?
Do you believe the mind and soul to be separate?
Do you believe the physical to be just as sacred as the metaphysical?
Do you involve you ancestors in your practice? If so, how and how has their inclusion affected your work?
What aspects of spirituality and religion have you experienced an aversion to, why?
How do you understand and relate to the cycle of life, death, and rebirth? Do you believe it is something that needs to be overcome or aligned with?
How do you measure progress in your practice? How do you measure success?
Which do you believe has more influence over you, nature or nurture? How do you bring forth your true nature in your practice?
How is sexuality viewed in your practice?
How is gender viewed in your practice?
Do you integrate your mundane passions and hobbies into your practice? If you do, how so?
Do you use your practice as an escape from the mundane world, or as an alternative way to engage with it?
What is/are god(s)? Do you believe them to be infallible, all-knowing, or all-powerful?
What are spirits? How do you interact with them and how do you believe they interact with this world.
What are your gifts as a practitioner, how do you utilize them to their fullest?
Do you create unique workings to reach your objectives or do you follow pre-made processes and recipes to do so?
Do you believe in an afterlife? If so, what does it look like and does is change based off of the morality and/or the belief of the individual?
Has your practice ever allowed you an opportunity to relinquish all control, did you take it? If so, how did it go?
Are there workings you avoid performing because you fear failure? If so, what are they and why?
What has been your biggest failure or regret in your practice? How did you cope and move forward from it? What was learned?
Do you believe there is truly a separation between high and low or black and white magic? Do you believe any to be above the other or inherently correct over the other?
Is baneful magic inherently wrong in all cases or can is be justified?
Is baneful magic purely about causing harm?
Are any workings that attempt to override one’s free will inherently wrong in all cases or can they be justified?
What native beliefs and cultural practices do you integrate into your path, if any?
What tools or ingredients do you absolutely require to perform your work?
What poetry, art, music, or other media to draw inspiration from or find especially moving? Why?
What was your most powerful spiritual experience?
What do you believe magic is and/or what do you belief is the source of people's mystical experiences?
What do you believe is required for magic to work?
If you believe in enlightenment, what do you think is it? What does it look like? Do you believe enlightenment looks the same for everyone?
Do you believe enlightenment is attainable within a single lifetime?
Is enlightenment attainable through multiple avenues, or only through certain means?
Do you believe in reincarnation? If so, why do you believe we people are reincarnated and how?
Does one’s ego need to be kept in check within their spiritual path, why or why not? If yes, how?
Do you practice nudity during ritual, if so, for what purpose? What does it represent for you, if anything?
Do you wear specific clothing during ritual, if so, for what purpose? What does it represent for you, if anything?
Do you outwardly express your spiritual or religious beliefs, why or why not? If yes, what does it look like?
What symbols resonate with you? What do they mean to you and how do you use them?
What tools, ritual or otherwise, are important to you and why?
How would you describe humanities relationship with the wider universe? Do you believe anything about it needs to change?
How would you describe your relationship with the wider universe? Do you believe anything about it needs to change?
If you were raised in an organized faith, did you remove yourself from it entirely or did you integrate aspects of it into your new practice?
If you were raised in an organized faith, what drove you away from it?
What role do you believe the subconscious plays in spirituality, if any?
Do you, whether it be inadvertently or purposefully, suppress aspects of your personality within your practice? If so, what aspects and why?
What aspects of your personality do you believe are over-represented in your practice?
Which do you believe benefits your practice more: rigid structure and regularity, or spontaneity and flexibility? How did you come to this conclusion and why?
What does your altar look like and how does it reflect you as a person? What items and/or symbols do you require on your space, if any?
Which initial approach is more ideal in your opinion, intuition or logic? How do you determine which approach to use in a situation?
What aspects of nature hold particular importance to you (i.e. natural formations & landmarks, weather phenomena, animals, plants, etc.) Why?
Is there a place on this Earth that you consider to be particularly powerful or sacred? If so, where and why? Have you been there, what did it feel like?
Do you believe in liminal spaces or have experienced one? What do you think they are and do you believe they have spiritual significance?
Do you believe in extrasensory perception? If so, what types and how do you believe they work?
What beliefs or practices carried by others act as red flags to you? How do you react to individuals who display these red flags?
What beliefs or practices do you yourself carry that could act as red flags for others? Why do you think that is, and do you believe you need to reevaluate those aspects of your spirituality?
Are there specific people who have influenced your craft directly or indirectly? If so, how and why? If not, is it a purposeful choice?
Do you ever find yourself straying from or losing sight of your true intents for your path? If so, what causes you to lose sight of it and how do you refocus your attention of what truly matters?
How do you determine when a specific project or working is finished? Have you ever experienced problems with not being able to allow a project to come to an end?
What sort of factors do you take into consideration when performing spells or rituals? Some examples: planetary hours, zodiac, moon phase, planetary alignments, colors, herbs, etc. How do you feel it affects your work?
Which do you believe is more effective for spiritual advancement in your experience: isolation or cooperation?
What sort of activities, goals, and projects do you wish to complete? Which have you completed so far and how did they turn out?
What piece of advice would you give to your former self when you started your practice? Is it the same advice you’d give to others just starting out?
Have you ever read a book that has seriously shifted your world-view? What was it about and how did it change the way you think?
What belief do you hold that —while not necessarily a red flag— others might find strange?
What belief do many others hold that you find strange? Is there a belief others hold that you find to be overrated?
Can information necessary for spiritual advancement only be found in outside sources or introspection? Perhaps a mixture of both?
Do you believe that our fate is pre-determined and/or controlled by forces outside our control, why or why not?
How do you apply what you’ve learned to the real world? How has it held up?
