Preparing for your Journey

So, the one thing I am going to really hone in and talk about today is the Book of Shadows or the witch’s journal.

What do you put in it?

• Name your book, make it personal, bond with the pages. 
• What do we write in it? 
• Priorities, 
• to make lists, 
• Meals, 
• exercise routines, 
• finances, 
• appointments, 
• cleaning schedules, 
• work schedules, 
• idea dumps, 
• maybe an itinerary, 
• goals, 
• tarot spreads,
• meditation downloads, 
• dreams, 
• spells, 
• things you study,
• Plants, monology etc. 
• information you learn, anything you want actually.

How to create a journal that suits your needs. Make it authentic and unique.

• Have fun with it.

Get creative with it.

• Junk journal, 
• Scrap book, 
• create designs, 
• draw, 
• dig deep within your creative ability, 
• and most importantly, 
• Be patient with yourself and with this process. 
• Follow your intuition about it, change things up when you feel the unction to. 
• Just flow with it. 
• Maybe it’s just creating a calendar and getting creative that way. 
• It is your journal, 
• Your space, 
• Your creativity in its rawest form. 

     What is great is you can look back in reflection, or maybe you want to repeat a spell or whatever, anywho, you will see your transformation come to life on the pages. It’s awesome. Crazy shit right there!!!

So now let’s go into our first journal segment. This is how you are going to open up your journal.

Inside cover, write what this book means to you, what you want from this, your motto so to speak of what this journal is going to provide, something important about you. Mine is the rules of my craft, the woman I want to be and a manifesto for what this year is going to look like for me. I start a new journal every Samhain.

Go into first journal prompt. 

At the top of the page in a corner, write the date, moon phase, and mood you are feeling in that moment. 

Then I write down things that I track myself by doing that I want to improve on. Mine is:

     Sleep health

     Mood

     Supplements

     Yoga

     Food

     It may vary a little each day depending on what my priorities are.

Then Monday is set to plan the week,

     Weekly tarot draw

     Bills, I need to pay.

     Appointments

     Then a space for ideas drops.

Tuesday goes into meals, projects, and goals.

Wednesday is a witchy Wednesday,

Thursday is my reflection day. 

     So, once you have your journal set up, you are organized with your daily tasks, you have left space on each day for journal prompts, ideas, and gratitude. Now, what do we put in for our first journal prompt. Well, if you were going through my program, which we were going to scratch the surface on some of these, you are going to write the answers to the following questions:

• Home in and set your intentions on what you want from this journey. What do you want to break free from? What is your dream journey? What are some of your priorities that you are looking at right now? 

How committed are you to working through this? 

• What is one thing you need to get the fuck out of your life and your energy field right now?
• Start your journal / book of shadows.
• How to set your intentions and why:
• What is it that you want from this process?
• What does an ideal life look like to you?
• What are some of the dreams you have?
• What is something that you are grateful for in your life right now? 
• Why do you want this right now and how badly do you want it? 
• How is this thing you are healing from holding you back right now?
• What is it specifically that you want to heal?
• Using Tarot to help guide and map out the road for you.

     I personally have JUST started doing Monday readings for the week. With my schedule change at work, this is the start of my week off. So, I have the next 4 days to pull my shit together for the following week. 

     Can I just mention that letting my creativity flow naturally and chaotically free…. It is helping me stay more focused and attentive in other areas that I am working on right now. It’s insane… But man, the universe is AMAZING and such loving wisdom in how she provides it, if you are willing to lay down your pride and accept the fact that “weird shit is for real. 

Next episode in this series is going to be about healing with the elements.

• What do each of the elements offer us on your journey?
• How do we benefit from those things?
• How to create a healing circle with what the elements mean to you?
• Guided meditation at the end of the show. 

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Have a great week everyone. Talk to you next week.