Tarot Journal for Obsidian

Draw tarot cards, save daily readings, and build a searchable reflection journal inside your vault. The complete 78-card deck is bundled with the plugin, so drawing and journaling work offline.

Features

• Draw from all 78 Major and Minor Arcana cards.
• Choose whether draws can include reversed orientations.
• Create or append to a dated note in a configurable journal folder.
• Insert a random card at the current editor position.
• Customize the daily entry with {{date}}, {{card}}, {{orientation}}, {{meaning}}, {{upright}}, {{reversed}}, and {{guideUrl}} placeholders.
• Open an optional, card-specific interpretation guide from each entry.

Installation

Community plugins

Once the plugin is approved:

1. Open Settings → Community plugins → Browse.
2. Search for Tarot Journal.
3. Select Install, then Enable.

Manual installation

1. Download main.js and manifest.json from the latest GitHub release.
2. Place both files in <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/tarot-journal/.
3. Reload Obsidian and enable Tarot Journal in Community plugins.

Usage

• Select the dice icon in the ribbon to save a daily draw.
• Run Tarot Journal: Draw daily tarot card from the command palette.
• Run Tarot Journal: Insert random tarot card while editing a note.
• Configure the journal folder, reversed cards, and entry template under Settings → Tarot Journal.

Data and attribution

The bundled meanings are derived from the MIT-licensed Deckaura tarot dataset. Every card keeps its source link to the complete card guide. The dataset also has a permanent archive at Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19475329.

Privacy and network use

Tarot Journal has no telemetry, ads, account requirement, or background network requests. All draws use the local bundled deck. A network request only occurs when you explicitly open a card guide link in your browser.

License

MIT © Deckaura