Enhance Self-Awareness: 50+ Spiritual Art Journaling Prompts

Keeping an art journal is a sacred practice. Here is your guide to exploring and getting to know yourself, and feeling connected to the rest of the universe, through this daily ritual.

My recommendation would be to get one journal with a pretty cover and put EVERYTHING in that one journal until it’s full. You can include notes from classes, diary entries, to-do lists, drawings, quotes and song lyrics, collages, and more.

You can bless and bind the journal to you by drawing a sigil on the cover with olive oil (for wisdom) or holy water (for protection).

You can also create a journaling space in your home with art supplies, decor, and candles. Or you can make a travel sized bag stocked with everything you need for your journal to take with you into nature, to the library, or to coffee shops.

Below are some spiritual awareness journaling prompts to get you started.

Art Journaling Prompts

1) What aspects of you astrological chart do you believe are accurate?

2) What spirit animals do you feel drawn to? What do they symbolize in various cultures? How do they guide you?

3) What are you afraid of?

4) Tell your journal someone’s secret you’ve been keeping.

5) When do you feel most powerful?

6) What aspects of yourself do you want to improve?

7) If you could change your name, what would you rename yourself?

8) Write a short poem about your first true love.

9) Plan your dream vacation.

10) Draw a self-portrait and label the parts of your physical self you feel insecure about or proud of.

11) Imagine yourself as beautiful, kind, curious, and confident. When you’re feeling that way, how do you spend the day?

12) How do you get vulnerable in your relationships?

13) What is something you have buried deep down that you need to release?

14) How did you process emotions as a child?

15) Create a personal chant/mantra to say while cleansing/smudging.

16) Who is your patron God or Goddess? Or do you worship anything else? How do you honor them throughout the day?

17) Try writing your own song lyrics to a familiar melody.

18) When will you know you’re ready to get married?

19) Draw a symbol that represents your unique strength.

20) How do you feel about your parents? How do you want to be when you’re a parent?

21) Write about a time someone you trusted betrayed you. How did it make you feel at the time? How do you feel about it now?

22) What element do you feel most connected to?

23) Draw a tree or flower that you find beautiful. Label it with its spiritual and physical properties.

24) Draw a new design for your favorite tarot card

25) What is your attachment style? How do you think this formed?

26) If you could be talented at anything, what skill would you learn? How can you work up the courage to learn it now?

27) Draw the design to a ball gown or wedding dress you find beautiful.

28) What kind of fairy would you like to be?

29) Who’s your crush and what do you like about them? If you could say anything to them, what would you say? If they could say anything to you, what would you want them to say?

30) Describe the most traumatizing thing that’s ever happened to you. What work have you put into healing from that?

31) Draw someone that’s a different ethnicity than you. How are your beliefs about race evident in your artwork?

32) What’s the biggest promise to yourself that you’ve broken?

33) What crystal do you like best and why?

34) What is your intuition telling you right now?

35) How would you LIKE to fill your time when you’re bored?

36) Design a mood board or collage that captures what romantic love is to you.

37) What mythological creature do you feel most drawn to? What are their characteristics?

38) What would be a thoughtful gift for your mother that she would like?

39) When you feel insecure around people at an event, what are you trying to prove to them?

40) What are your spiritual beliefs at this point in your life?

41) Draw 3 runes that you feel drawn to and label them with their meanings.

42) Who were your heroes growing up? What did you admire about them?

43) Listen to a song that has made you cry or feel really passionate. Write down some of the lyrics and decorate the page with drawings while listening to it.

44) Describe a vivid dream you had and look up the symbolism in it. Try to understand what it was saying about your unconscious self.

45) Do you believe in alternate and past lives across the multiverse? Describe your experience with them and what you think it all adds up to.

46) Do you feel your psyche (mind, body, and soul) are balanced? If not, what can you do to achieve balance?

47) Do a line drawing where you don’t lift the pencil from the page or erase anything.

48) How do you feel about sex?

49) Make a collage about womanhood or gender in general, and what it means to you.

50) Have you ever broken someone else’s heart? Write about it.