Organizing

It’s not easy to organize your Book of Light and Shadows. I finally gave up trying to have a single notebook within two months of trying to learn about the Wiccan religion. I finally developed a series of loose leaf binders in which I kept stuff of a similar nature. Here’s how I divided information:

• Book of Ancestors: Progenitor’s roll call and any notes on their lives (lineage information); rituals of Ancestor honoring; Influential traditions notes; Pantheons studied in brief
• Grimoir: Divination notes; Plant Diva notes; Spell crafts; Healing methods; Psychometry; Elemental Constructs; Weather magics; Energy sensing; Totemic notes; Bindings; Purification and transforming methods; Sigils; Shields of Power; Master Spells; Calendar of working (harvesting, gathering, making, crafting, baking, brewing); Recipes
• Breviary: Pantheons Cosmology and ritual notes; Myths of the Wheel; Personal Myths; Teaching myths; Prayers; Invocations; Songs of Worship; Drum music; Ritual Templates (divided into esbats and Sabbats); Sacred Poetry (charges ect); Initiation Rituals; Great Rite; Festival Traditions; Symbology; Meditations and Shamanic Working;
• Journal: Just a plain notebook for dreams and musing- this should to sourced in other notebooks
• Mastery and Teaching: Signs of development; methods of awakening; lesson plans; Notes on all student development and initiatory progress; Service work; Coven business; Coven history;
• Women’s Mysteries: Cycles of Life Rituals; Cycles meditations; Self care practices and remedies
• Book of Communication: Essays; Flyers; Coven emails and minutes; Student communications (This is the history of your relationships with other Wiccans…this has many uses, not the least of which is a record of love for those who come after and a way to clarify misunderstandings and disagreements.)

You’ll find that in the early years, your Breviary and Grimoir are the binders that are burgeoning, but as the years pass, the Mastery and Teaching, Book of Communication  and the Journal binders are  what grows and grows.