So, this is my first question but I am kind of stuck on how I section my grimoire. How do you section your grimoire? Do you have a table of contents? I keep looking for inspiration but nothing sparks and I'm really ready to start my Book.
If anyone is wondering, I have a dotted Bullet Journal (Exceed, A5, 240 pages) that I am planning to use.
You might want to consider using a binder with removable/rearrangeable pages until you're more sure of what you do & don't want in your book and how you want to arrange it all. The beauty of a BuJo book is that you can write things in it almost willy-nilly and still keep track with an index/table of contents on the first few pages. You might want to consider treating is as a "work in progress" until you've really gotten a solid idea of what you do (and don't!) want in your grimoire, how you want it to look, and so on.
I'm using a small-format 6-ring binder (almost, but not quite, A4 size). Actually, I'm using THREE of them: one is a Grimoire/Book of Shadows, one is specifically for divination, and one is specifically a Book of Mirrors/journal. The key to all is that I can open the rings & rearrange the pages. For the BoM, there's no real structure needed. For the divination book, I've created general sections for the different methods I'm working with, each section being itself divided into Reference and Results sections.
My BoS, on the other hand, is a bit of a mess. 8-} There's an unlabeled section in the front that's mostly a slowly-growing commentary (written as if I'm talking to someone I might give the book to a number of years down the pike), then a Reference section (herbs, colors, candles, elements, etc.) and finally a Spells section but I am constantly flipping through it to find whatever I may be looking for at a given moment. I don't have a table of contents yet, but have decided the book really is a work in progress and I periodically experiment with different arrangements of the pages. (So far the only thing I've nailed down is a sub-section all the way in the back specifically for a few of the nastier spells I've found or created.) I figure that when certain things are really "locked down" for me, I'll make a list and after the list looks big enough I'll use it as a guide for a more permanent type of book (e.g., the fixed-page type you're using) with a proper table of contents.
When I first started mine my intention was just to write out every subject I would be drawn to. I put everything in at random and once I had over 50 subjects I drew up my table of contents just to keep track of what pages were not used and what exactly I had in there. I'm sure some people have much more thought out books but mine was just a brain dump of everything. :)