Sacred Words, Sacred Power: Art Therapy Journal Prompts for the Lion's Gate Portal 2025
The Lion's Gate Portal peaks today, creating a cosmic bridge between our earthly selves and our highest potential. While this powerful alignment between the sun in Leo, the star Sirius, and the Galactic Center amplifies manifestation energy, sometimes the most profound transformation happens not with paint and canvas, but with pen and paper.
Art therapy journaling combines the therapeutic benefits of writing with creative expression, allowing us to dialogue with our subconscious, process emotions, and clarify our deepest desires. As the Lion's Gate energy swirls around us, these carefully crafted prompts will help you tap into your inner wisdom and roar your truth onto the page.
How to Use These Prompts
Create Sacred Space: Find a quiet corner where you won't be interrupted. Light a candle, play soft music, or simply sit in silence. This is your ritual container for transformation.
Choose Your Medium: Use whatever feels right – lined journal, blank sketchbook, loose papers, or even digital notes. Honor your preference without judgment.
Set Your Intention: Before you begin, take three deep breaths and set an intention to receive whatever messages your inner lion wants to share.
Write with Freedom: Don't worry about grammar, spelling, or making sense. Let your pen flow without censorship. Sometimes our deepest truths emerge in fragments and metaphors.
Trust Your Timing: You might work through all prompts in one session or spread them across the Lion's Gate window (July 28 - August 12). Follow your intuition.
Portal Opening: Preparation Prompts
Begin your journey by creating space and setting intentions:
Sacred Threshold
Write about stepping through a golden doorway. What do you leave behind? What do you carry forward? Describe what you see, feel, and know on the other side.
Your Inner Landscape
If your heart were a kingdom, what would it look like right now? Who rules there? What needs tending, what needs celebrating, what needs courage?
Cosmic Connection
Write a letter to the star Sirius, introducing yourself and asking for guidance during this portal. What would you want the universe to know about your journey right now?
Roaring Your Truth: Authenticity Prompts
Connect with your most genuine self:
The Lion Within
Describe your inner lion in vivid detail. What does it look like? How does it move? What does it know that you've forgotten? Let it speak through your pen.
Permission Granted
Complete this sentence in as many ways as possible: "I give myself permission to..." Write until you feel something shift inside you.
Your Royal Decree
If you were the sovereign of your own life, what would you declare? Write a royal proclamation about how you choose to live, love, and create.
The Mask Collection
Write about all the masks you wear – the good girl, the perfectionist, the people-pleaser. Then write about gently setting them aside and revealing the face underneath.
Creative Fire: Manifestation Prompts
Channel the Lion's Gate energy toward your dreams:
Future Self Dialogue
Write a conversation between your current self and who you're becoming. What wisdom does your future self offer? What questions does your current self have?
The Impossible Dream
Write about something you want so deeply that you're almost afraid to want it. Explore the fear, then explore what would happen if it came true.
Creative Birth
If you were about to give birth to a creative project that would change everything, what would it be? Write about the labor pains and the joy of bringing it into the world.
Golden Thread
Imagine a golden thread connecting your current life to your most aligned future. Write about following this thread through obstacles, detours, and celebrations.
Shadow and Light: Integration Prompts
Explore the full spectrum of your experience:
The Scared Lion
Even lions feel fear. Write a compassionate letter to the part of you that's afraid to step fully into your power. What does it need to feel safe enough to be brave?
Anger as Fuel
Write about something that makes you righteously angry – injustice, limitation, playing small. How can you transform this anger into fuel for positive change?
The Golden Shadow
Write about talents, gifts, or aspects of yourself that you've hidden or minimized. What would happen if you let these golden qualities shine fully?
Integration Ritual
Describe a personal ceremony to honor both your human struggles and your divine magnificence. What would you burn away? What would you crown?
Service and Leadership: Purpose Prompts
Explore how your power serves the world:
Your Medicine
Everyone carries unique medicine for the world. Write about yours – what you offer through your presence, your gifts, your way of being.
Leading by Example
Write about the kind of leader you want to be – not commanding others, but inspiring through your authentic way of living.
Legacy of Light
Fast-forward 50 years. Write about the ripple effects of you stepping fully into your power today. How did it change not just your life, but the lives you touched?
The Courage to Care
Write about something in the world that breaks your heart and calls for your involvement. How can your lion heart contribute to healing?
Portal Integration: Closing Prompts
Seal your insights and commit to action:
The New Story
Write the opening paragraph of the new chapter of your life that begins today. What's different in this version of your story?
Commitment Ceremony
Write vows to yourself – promises about how you'll honor your insights, nurture your dreams, and remember your magnificence when doubt arises.
Gratitude Gateway
Write a thank you letter to this Lion's Gate Portal, to your courage in exploring these prompts, and to all the support – seen and unseen – that holds you as you transform.
Creative Expression:
Consider these ways to honor your journaling process:
Artistic Response: Create a drawing, collage, or painting inspired by your most powerful insights
Word Art: Turn your favorite phrases into beautiful hand-lettered art
Vision Board: Use words and images to create a visual representation of your Lion's Gate revelations
Shared Creation: If it feels right, share selected pieces with trusted friends or in creative communities
Carrying the Energy Forward
Your Lion's Gate journaling is not just a one-day practice – it's the beginning of a deeper relationship with your authentic power. Consider:
Returning to these prompts throughout Leo season
Creating a weekly check-in with your inner lion
Using art therapy journaling during other cosmic events
Starting a creative practice that honors both your humanity and divinity
The Lion's Gate Portal reminds us that we are both creators and creations, both the artist and the masterpiece. Through sacred writing, we dialogue with the cosmos within us and remember that our voices – however they express – are needed in this world.
