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2018 resolution: work on my Grimoire 💙

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A mini grimoire I always keep with me for quick notes and references! Complete with a crystal bookmark I made to hold my place which is able to be detached for on the go pendulum readings. ☁️✨

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Lily Seika Jones (@rivuletpaper)

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Day 24: A personal spell from one of my grimoires. Cré Dúisigh.. to awaken the sleeping energy in stone circles. #100daysofwitchcraft#sussexfolkmagic#sussexpellar#sussexwitch#stonecircles#witchesofsussex#witchesofinstagram#witch#witchboy (at Lewes, East Sussex)

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Here’s my post for #grimoriefriday :D I meant to post it this morning but I’ve been busy. I’m working on a unit about the pentacle and pentagram, as well as the elements. I’ve dabbled a little spell i got from here in regards to protection and banishment. 

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Happy Grimoire Friday to my witches of color! Thanks for doing this @witches-ofcolor ❤️❤️

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I’ve been pretty damn busy. Lmao. Here’s another glimpse in the GreyGrimoire.

The top two images are one spell. It takes up two pages. That spell is an enchantment to cause an item to have a radial effect that prevents the energy distribution of anxiety. The bottom left image is a spell to assist with conscious manifestation. And the bottom right is a spell to ensure that karma plays a roll in the outcome of a targeted event.

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Some pages from the herbal section of my grimoire :)

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Tips on Grimoire Organization

Please note that if you are using a hard bound notebook or journal, adding in additional pages will bulk up your book, like so: (these are the exact same journals, btw)

- Envelopes. Let’s say you’re doing a section on Tarot in your Grimoire, and you want to include a few Tarot spreads, but you don’t want to waste two or three pages. Glue an envelope onto one of your pages to make a “pocket” where you can store little cards or papers with the tarot spreads written on them.

- Pockets. Similar to the envelope idea. If you have a page, or section for example, on herbal teas, you can make a pocket out of a piece of paper to keep your current favorite tea recipes in.

- Dividers, Cover Pages and Ribbons. If you’re like me and you like to have “sections” in your grimoire, you can easily make dividers by gluing a sheet of paper in your book (to make it heavier to make the sections stand out more). You can go further by turning your divider into a cover page for that section. And if you don’t like the idea doing that, you can always glue a ribbon, or a string, to the spine of your book to act as a bookmark.

- Double pages. I always had a problem with “wasting” pages in my grimoire. For example, my page on consecrating and charging. These two concepts are very similar to me, and I didn’t want two page stating the same thing. So, what I did was write out all my information on charging on a separate sheet of paper, then glued the top of that page into my grimoire. This way I could flip up the page on charging (as if it were on a clipboard) and have my page on consecrating underneath.

- Extended pages. Similar to the one above. In my Crystal section of my Grimoire, I decided to write out a chart that let me search for crystals by intention. So I drew my chart on a long sheet of paper, then folded it over (side to side) so that it fit comfortably in my book, then I just glued one side down into the book.

- Brochures. In my Elements section, I had a ton of information I wanted to write down, but I didn’t want each element to have more than two pages. So I used a piece of computer paper and folded it into a brochure (or into thirds) and glued it into the book so that the flaps would open and give me double the space to write.

- Clear Tape. There are many times where i finished a page in my grimoire only to find out there was a section that I left out. A simply way to fix this was with clear tape. I would write my forgotten bit of into on a separate piece of paper and then use clear tape to tape one side of the paper to my page. This allows me to flip the paper back and forth without covering up anything that I had written.

Other Resources on Grimoire Organization:

- Witch Tip by @pumpkin-bean - Grimoire Index by @triplevirgo - Witchy-Woman’s Grimoire Organization by @witchy-woman - Altar in a Journal by @thesubtlewitch

I hope this helps everyone with their Grimoire organizing needs! If anyone knows of any other awesome organizing tips, feel free to share!

P.S. Check out my Grimoire Masterpost for more tips on making a grimoire!

~L

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Sometimes my witchcraft looks like this

And other times it looks like this

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Black Books and Legacy

I will always be someone who advocates for people to sink massive amounts of time into their grimoires. It’s very time consuming, but in the end, it’s worth it.  I don’t think that writing in a grimoire is the same thing as arm-chairing. It’s not a passive activity. This something that extraordinarily active in more ways than one. It’s the act of creation.  When someone creates a grimoire, they’re putting themselves into it. Their spirit lives within it. Their magic does the same. This is a spirit house as much as any other.  Not only do they do this, but they record their knowledge of the Arte. In it, they place their spells, their discoveries, their studies, etc. This is a mark of who they are and who they will be in the future.  Look back at the pages in the beginning and then flip forward. There’s a passage of time. It’s a recording of who the magician is.  Look back and you’ll see why sinking in a massive amount of time is important.  No matter how ugly or beautiful, this is you.  This is your legacy.

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A little bit of how I organize my Grimoire <3

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Grimoire Tip for Digital Witches….✨💻

If you find that it’s difficult for you to navigate your BOS in a document or blog format (or even a book format) consider instead transferring your secrets into a Google Slides presentation. 

What does this format allow you to do?

✨Look at one piece of information at a time

✨Customize pages to suit what you’re talking about

✨Insert links, images, and videos

✨Move around your information and delete pages quickly

✨Navigate fairly quickly by formatting “Chapters” to have the same slide design. (OR just make a new presentation for each chapter). 

💻📱💻Not to mention there are sites with beautiful slide themes for free such as SlidesCarnival (where I got the above theme)

✨🌱Best Witchy Wishes 🌱✨

🌈🌜Sam🌛🌈

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im so happy with these first two pages (the sigils are just name sigils)

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Book of Shadows Ideas that Aren’t Basic

A local specific myth, cryptid, or legend

An obscure historical witch or an old historical spell

A map of your neighborhood with locations that appear ghostly or have interesting energy

Your personal associations to colors, plants to supplement traditional correspondence charts

A chart detailing information of spirits you have communed with

A guide to sailor knots for knot magick

Sustainable and eco friendly lifestyle tips

Magickal practices around the world

Obscure magickal tools or tools you invented

Varying viewpoints in magickal philosophy and technique

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Grimoire envy

The reason grimoires you see on tumblr are really artistic and such is because:

1) A witch will probably only post pictures of their grimoire if they are proud of how it looks.

2) Usually to get a lot of reblogs a grimoire picture is going to be fairly attractive to get people’s attention.

It is not:

1) Because grimoires have to be super artistic and pretty.

2) Because most grimoires look like that.

Fundamentally a grimoire needs to be useful. If you are an artist of course you will incorporate art into your grimoire. Same with any talent, include it into your grimoire work. Most grimoires are just scrawled notes for personal use.