Note: I have not been able to read through all of these yet, I am slowly making my way down the list. If there is a book that is offensive or incorrect please send me a message and I will review it and remove it from the list if necessary.
Do you prefer casting at your altar or is your place of magick not set or permanent?
What entity (if any) is your altar dedicated to?
What objects do you keep permanently on your altar? What purpose or personal meaning does it have?
Do you change your altar to correspond with the sabbats?
Draw and label a diagram of your altar. Include an explanation of their meaning to you.
Tuesday: Sigils
Are sigils something you use through out your practice?
Choose your three favorite sigils. Include their meanings as well as any personal interpretations. Why are they your favorites? What is the most common place that you add sigils too?
Research and write down the steps to take in order to create a sigil. Use these steps to create your own sigil.
Wednesday: Local Fauna
Create a list of your local animals.
For each profile be sure to include the following: Any lore, superstitions, their meanings to you, their magickal and spiritual meanings, and ways they can be incorporated into your craft.
Thursday: Seven Planes of Existence
What are the planes of existence?
How can they be incorporated into your craft?
Do they seem believable to you?
Draw and label the seven planes of existence.
Friday: Lightning
Is lightning a form of energy you incorporate into your craft?
How could you incorporate lightning into your practice?
Create correspondences for lightning.
Plan and write a spell that incorporates lightning.
Saturday: Quote Interpretation
Choose a quote that speaks to you on a spiritual level and expresses your path.
Do a deep meditation with the quote in mind.
Write down all the thoughts and visions you have about the quote. Go into as much detail as possible.
Sunday: Amethyst
Sketch a picture of Amethyst.
Create it’s correspondence that includes its magickal and healing properties.
Is amethyst a crystal you use lots in your practice?
Create a dedication to put into your grimoire. Dedicate it to whatever or whomever you praise.
Write it out and put it into your grimoire. Make sure to ask for protection as well.
Create a color magick chart. Correspond ink colors with your intention when writing in your grimoire.
Draw sigils that bring protection to your grimoire and wards off unwanted eyes.
Chart out or make a timeline of your witchcraft so far, make it easy to expand and add onto. Include any events that helped shape your path.
Tuesday: Start of the year journal prompts
Define your path.
When did you begin your path?
How has it changed over time (more specifically how has it changed since last year?)
What makes witchcraft YOUR path?
What does being a witch mean to you?
What do you hope to achieve and and learn through witchcraft?
How has time affected your beliefs?
How did you come across witchcraft?
What made you want to practise witchcraft?
What do you hope to achieve by doing the 2017 grimoire challenge?
Is there anything you fear while following this path?
What type of entities do you believe in?
Who are your patron Gods and Goddesses, if any?
In what ways do you hope to grow?
Wednesday: Goal Setting
Set a goal you want to complete by the end of the month.
Set five goals you want to complete by the end of the year.
What are your witchcraft related life goals?
Thursday: Chosen tools of your craft
What is the one tool you use immensely in your craft that you could not practice without? Why? What are its correspondences, properties, uses?
List the main tools used in your practice.
Do you work with crystals? Bones? Herbs? How do you use them? Why do you use them? What kind or role do they play in your craft?
Friday: Types of Witches
Are you a solitary practitioner or do you practice with a coven? Why do you choose the solitary path or vice versa?
Do you use a label?
If so, what kind of witch do you label yourself as?
If not, what are your reasons for not using a label?
Do you agree with the use of labels? Are they used too freely, with not enough thought put into them?
Is there a certain witchcraft path that you may not agree with? What is it that you do not agree with?
Do some research on it, gather enough knowledge for you to understand their practise. Once you gather enough of an understanding do an entry on it. Make sure to include your opinions before and after you did your research.
Saturday: Full Moon
There is a full moon on Saturday, February 11th.
Do you have anything planned for the full moon?
What is your favorite activity to do during the full moon?
Do you perform rituals? Cleanse crystals? Cast spells?
Do you have any full moon traditions?
Create a correspondence between full moon and the months. Does a certain month influence the moon’s magick?
Create a list of 2017′s full moons.
Sunday: February Magick Calendar
Draw out the February calendar in your grimoire. Include any important magickal dates such as the full moons, sabbats, retrogrades, eclipses, and any other important magickal workings. Use this to organize when you want to practice magick or meet with your coven.
If you post your progress make sure to use the tag #moonlight grimoire challenge so I can reblog it here. Good Luck!
Here’s a list of some of my favorite witchy/spiritual youtubers that I can’t get enough of. This is by no means a complete list, feel free to add onto it!
Note: I have not been able to read through all of these yet, I am slowly making my way down the list. If there is a book that is offensive or incorrect please send me a message and I will review it and remove it from the list if necessary.
The Easter Bunny is of German origin. He shows up in 16th century literature as a deliverer of eggs, in his own way a springtime St. Nicholas bent on rewarding the good.
In Celtic mythology and folklore the hare has links to the mysterious Otherworld of the supernatural.
The Celts believed that the goddess Eostre’s favourite animal and attendant spirit was the hare.
Many Buddhist and Hindu texts describe the hare as a creature of fire, but not just any fire, the same consuming sacrificial fire of the phoenix, then to rise again out of the ashes.
To the Romans, the hare is an emblem of fertility, abundance, sexuality, lust, rampant growth and excess.
Eggs
Eggs have forever been associated with spring time. Ancient Egyptians, Persians, Romans, Gauls, and Chinese all embraced the egg as a symbol of the universe.
Druids buried eggs dyed red, the color of menstrual blood, in freshly plowed fields to draw the goddess of spring from her slumber and to ensure abundance and fertility for the year.
In Egypt and Persia eggs were decorated at the beginning of the year. The decorated eggs were exchanged at the equinox, the eggs symbolizing creation and fertility.
Early humans thought the return of the sun from winter darkness was an annual miracle, and saw the egg as a natural wonder and proof of the renewal of life.
As Christianity spread, the egg was adopted as a symbol of Christ’s resurrection from the tomb. Hardboiled eggs were dyed red in memory of Christ’s blood, then given to children as a talisman to preserve their health over the ensuing twelve months.
Pace eggs are kept year-round in British households for luck.
The protective qualities of the scarlet-dyed egg are still invoked in parts of Europe to guard fields and vineyards from lightning and hail, one is usually buried on the property for that purpose
According to European superstition, once an egg is consumed, its shell must be broken up lest a witch use it to gain power over the person who ate from it. A witch might also make a boat from an intact shell, then set sail in it and wreck ships at sea. Discarded eggshells should never be burned because doing so will cause the hens to cease to lay.
Spring Deities
Anglo-Saxons worshiped Eostre, the moon Goddess of spring and fertility.
The Druids worshiped Blodeuwedd, the Goddess of fertility, magick, and dawn.
In Roman mythology, Flora is the goddess of flowers and of the season of spring.
The Ancient Greek goddess Persephone is associated with spring.
The celtic Goddess Brigit is honored at the festival of Imbolc which celebrates the first stirrings of Spring.
Freya is the Nordic fertility Goddess associated with spring growth and flowers.
Spring Flora
Clover and other three-leaved plants were once considered spring gifts from the fairies to protect us and bring us luck.
Easter Lilies symbolize purity and spring time.
Other Wives tales
An old wives tale says a wind that blows on Easter Day will continue to blow throughout the year, and that a shower of rain promises a good crop of grass but little hay.
Children born on Easter Day are deemed especially fortunate. Those born on Good Friday, however, are doomed to be unlucky.
“My Week of Witchcrafting” This is one of my weekly planner spreads. I plan my week from Monday through Friday leaving my Weekend free of any burdens. On my weekly planner I include all of my magickal workings that I have planned for the week.
Things I include: ∆Moon Phases ∆Rituals ∆Spell Casting ∆Cleansings and Cleanings {home Magick} ∆Protection renewal ∆Daily Study Topics ∆Grimoire Pages I need to write ∆Reminders for my daily journal entries ∆Witchy Meetings with Friends ∆Any Magickal Workings {ie. Spells} ∆When to cleanse my crystals ∆Plant Care {ie. Watering, fertilizing} ∆Self Care {ie. Meditation, Self Cleansing} ∆Tumblr Post making ∆Nature Walks ∆Esabats and Sabbats ∆Days sacred to my deities ∆Plant drying, pressing, and processing ∆Gardening ∆Divination practises ∆Retrogrades and other astrological phenomenons ∆Meal Making and planning {kitchen Magick} ∆Tarot practise ∆Anything that applies to my magickal workings!
Planning and scheduling my craft studies has proved to be very beneficial. I am able to set and complete the tasks for myself, which increases my ability of furthering myself and my craft. It is excellent way to track your crafts progress and spell casting dates.
Happy Planning! -A Studious Witch
I love this idea, will definitely try it out!
Does anyone else track their practice like this? If you do I would love to see it.
Ostara is coming up! It is on March 20th 2016 this year. Spring is a time of rebirth, regrowth, and renewal. Ostara was essentially named after the German spring Goddess, Eostre. Ostara is a time of fertility and and sowing seeds.
Ways to celebrate:
Take a walk through a local park.
Lay in the grass.
Press some flowers. (Note: Be mindful, take only what you need.)
Take some pictures of spring. Make a collage with them or place some pictures on your Altar.
Plant a tree, Give back to nature.
Go for a walk and bask in nature.
Collect stones, feathers, leaves.
Celebrate in you coven. (If you have one.)
Decorate your altar according to Ostara.
If you are a solitary witch do your own ritual.
Send a prayer to thank nature.
Pray to the Spring/Nature God or Goddess.
Pay attention to the birds, the blooming flowers, the leaves growing on trees.
Although I do have a grimoire, I use a journal to track my day-to-day practices that I do not usually include in my grimoire. A witch’s journal is a great place to record your feelings and discover any repeating symbols that you may not have noticed if you hadn’t written them down. It is a great way to look through and see how much your craft has grown.
Things you could include:
Dreams and visions with any interpretations you have
Day-to-day magickal practice
Symbols that may seem important
Astral protection experiences
Meditation journeys
A list of books you read and any important magickal teachings you learned from them
Progress of any castings or “spell tracking”
Magick Workings
Events and decisions in your life that affect your magickal workings
Magickal goals and plans
Maintenance and home cleaning/cleansing
Daily rituals or habits
Astrological events and any symbols or visions you may have received that are connect to the event
Things to include in each entry:
The moon phases
Weather
Date
Emotion
Position of the moon in the zodiac
Season
Time
Another short post but I hope it may inspire some people.
Astral projection is also known as an out of body experience. Astral projection can take place whether you are sleeping or awake. It is done when your conscious mind leaves your physical body on earth to a different dimension while staying connected by a silver cord. The cord makes it possible to come back to your earthly self. It enables your spirit body to explore the astral realm. It is said that Astral Projection helps you become your truest and highest self. Astral Projecting is the floating and lifting of your physical being through the use of your astral body.
Practices to Help with Astral Travel
Relax and Practice Proper Breathing techniques
Spiritually cleanse
Practice visualization
Counting up or down while focusing your breathing
Improve your concentration
Deep breathing exercises
Become Aware and Mindful
Grounding
Shielding and Protection
Intent
Spiritual and Physical Protection
Work on your inner energies
Meditate
Astral Plane
A place where angels, spirits, deities, and other cosmic beings reside. It is a place where ones astral body travels through. It may also be recognized as the “emotional plane,” because the astral plane reacts to our emotions, thoughts, and desires.
The Silver Cord
The silver cord anchor’s ones astral body to their physical body. The silver cord allows you to find your way back to the physical realm. It is described as being strong, almost indestructible, yet soft and elastic that can stretch and flex to make sure that the astral body is truly tethered to the physical one.
Risks of Astral Projection
Exhaustion
Obscuring your focus causing obsession with the astral plane
Demonic Possession - A greatly debated topic, the truth of which is unknown.
You may become lost or disconnected from the cord - Some argue that you cannot severe the cord, some believe that becoming disconnected from the cord will cause death.
Conclusion: The dangers of astral projection are extremely controversial, be sure to do proper research and follow your gut!
Astral Travel Tips
Look after your mental and physical health.
Only travel when you have peace of mind, never when anxious or angry.
Release all fear, do not project if you are fearful of the astral plane.
STUDY
Record your experiences
Protect yourself by a visualization of pure white light
Wear loose fitting clothing and project in a warm room.
PRACTICE
Experiment with different methods
Signs you are astral projecting
You’re feeling a sort of numbness or buzzing in your skin
You’re hearing all sorts of strange sounds, like going through all sorts of random radio stations really fast
Your body is frozen and you can only move your eyes (“sleep paralysis”)
You’re feeling or hearing other people or animals in your room
Your body turns all liquidy like water and parts of you start floating
Just finished creating my first magickal calendar. It is inspired by my Grimoire Week 1 post found here! Want to print out this click here! Please tell me your opinion. Should I make them a monthly post?
