This is a picture of my personal Grimoire.
It is very important and special to me although I have only been writing in it for one complete moon cycle.
I can't wait to fill this one and hopefully so many more beautiful books with the stories and experiences working and creating my craft.
The most special part to me is that one day when I'm gone my kids, or my kids kids will find it and read it. How special that could be to them one day.
Till then everything I put in here is just for me.
To grow, to learn, to brainstorm, to record my feelings, dreams, and emotions.
When you write something down, you make it more real.
I was nervous about writing because I've never been a very good writer. My thoughts always read so scatter-brained and I definitely tend to ramble, but you've got to start somewhere.
Since starting I have had amazing and out of the ordinary creative urges. Like taking Polaroids of my altar for a specific moon and taping it into the pages, Or painting this tarot card, then adding it to my book. Even taking the photo to capture the moment and then deciding to post it and share it with you all.
Making it pretty was important to me because it makes me want to open it more, write more often, re-read my entries, and make new connections. And now my writing only gets better every time I grab this book out.
I would love to see other Journals, Book of Shadows, or Grimoires.
How do you use journaling in your craft?
Any fancy and pretty books, or pens?
Creative little things you add to make it special to you?
Has anyone ever charmed or enchanted a journal?
Lets Share and Inspire each other Witches!
Hey! Thats so cool!I especially love the tarot painting and the polaroids, gives it a really nice personal touch. I started my grimoire/journal about a month ago too, to kind of accompany me on my witchy journey. The thing that I struggle with though is where to even start, and how to make it flow. Because I'm interested in a wide range of stuff, mainly historical/plant based research/esoteric theory, each entry is very different and it can be a bit overwhelming to look back on. May I ask how you've organised yours, and what areas you look at?
Thanks!
I am the exact same way. I'm a Virgo so I love organization but I'm not always the best at it. That is why I have like 5 different journals and notebooks. The reason I love this grimoire so much right now is because I just let the randomness and the ideas flow. Just kinda recap my daily thoughts. I have a more informational book of shadows that's kinda like my own encyclopedia, and book of spells, and stray pages all over the place with random tarot reading, lists of herbs and crystals and spells in the making.
I use a cheap spiral notebooks to organize and make kinda like rough drafts then when they are ready I right them pretty and make the notes look good in my nicer journals. Also I LOVE sticky notes haha
In the spells books I always leave a little section at the bottom to write dates and what journal the recap and thoughts around the day of the spell were. So I can look back to how I was feeling. This is also really nice to see how the moon phases effect you. I always put the date at the top of the page with a symbol to show what the moon is up to in the sky.
I've been slowly redoing my grimoire so that its more pleasing for me to look at Haha
And also because it's very relaxing to create these pages.
I love that! it is gorgeous! The drawing and decorations are so simple but perfect.
Thank you for sharing!