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A question about keeping your book of shadows

I have been working on redoing my book of shadows. I have gone through the note book page, the scrapbook phase, the hand held computer phase and the man am I disorganized phase.

Now I am going, well I don't know where I am going. I still have a large file on line, and on my thumb drive. I also have some small notebooks, where I am planning on keeping lists of herbs and crystals. Maybe one with a few favorite spells. Stuff that I will also keep on the hand held, but to use when I can't get at the hand held. (yes the battery died one day and I was lost without my cable)

It got me to wondering, it has been a long time since I wrote anything by hand in a BoS. It's been a long time since I hand wrote anything.

Back in my student days, my teachers insisted everything in our BoS had to be written by hand. I had a scrapbook size book, chipboard (thin) cardboard cover bound with ribbon. It was well before the advent of personal computers. Well well before the advent of hand held computer and the web.

So my question is?

How do you keep a Book of Shadows? Do you have a book, or a set of files on the computer? Do you have both, or something special?

Bonus question - How many people have one of those fancy leather hand bound hand made paper books that your afraid to use (like me)?

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Permalink Reply by Herne on October 21, 2009 at 9:03pm
I keep my book in computer files and print out the pages I need when I update something.
Permalink Reply by Aiken Eadgardsson on October 21, 2009 at 9:09pm
I keep a binder with alphabetical tabs for the subject matter, with loose leaf paper. I have a digital version but it doesn't have the same feel.
Permalink Reply by Wolfie on October 21, 2009 at 9:18pm
OOooh Jan...

I'm still in the multiple book phase (although all of them contain the same thing, I just don't have the heart to get rid of them, nor do I know how I want to do it, so that I'm just down to one).

Like you, I'm all over. I have an 8 1/2 x 11 scrapbook, a large 3" 3-ring binder (containing just about everything), a removable disk, as well as information stored all over my computer in multiple files (Goddess forbid my comp crashes (knock on wood, knock on wood ;)). I also just finished making my own portable Grimoire that's small enough to fit in my computer bag when I go away.

I have tried the scrapbooking...didn't work out the way I wanted. Tried the print out book...still wasn't happy...I'm a perfectionist when it comes to my book (which is why I have so many floating around my house). I have ONE book that I've written a few things in, but it too turned out to be something I wasn't happy with. I love the book, but unhappy that I wrote in it :(

Perhaps one day I'll have my dream book, but until then I'm stuck with about 5 or 6 books that contain the exact same thing, lol.
Permalink Reply by Maximusstormcrow Or (Ben) on October 21, 2009 at 9:40pm
Answer to #1. I do have one of those Fancy BOS. As a Matter of fact I have Two. I have a Herbs simple, Moon Phases, And various different Charts in which to reference from. Than in the mix of all that I have Sabbat, and Esbat Info to reference from, and then a Ritual in which can be adapted to any need, for full moon or Sabbat's. Than I have Teaching Martial that I am transferring to my Tree BOS.
In the Pentacle One I am In the Process of writing about Dark Moon work, Dark craft things to complement the work I have done in the First BOS I have. It has taken me 8 yrs of solid work to be almost complete with my first one, and It will most likely take me another 8 to finish the other, But I still have room in both for more stuff. But I imagine the stuff I could and will put into them from then on out will be a catalog of different ritual performance, and out comes, things of that nature.


Permalink Reply by Wolfie on October 21, 2009 at 10:02pm
Whoa!!

Beautiful!!!

I love them!!
Permalink Reply by Jan D on October 21, 2009 at 10:23pm
I am having serious book of shadows envy. Both for the beautiful books, and your ability to use them properly.
Permalink Reply by Scarlet on October 21, 2009 at 9:43pm
How do you keep a Book of Shadows? Do you have a book, or a set of files on the computer? Do you have both, or something special?
I have a series of computer word files, most of them were taken from my personal website and most of them are also printed out and kept in a handy binder (that also happens to be rather pretty). My handwriting is atroucious, I can't even read it.

Bonus question - How many people have one of those fancy leather hand bound hand made paper books that your afraid to use (like me)?
Nope... but I do have several pretty "journal" type books that I wrote a couple of pages in untill I gave up and now they are my altar tiles.
-Scarlet
Permalink Reply by Ross on October 21, 2009 at 10:07pm
I have one of those fancy handmade leather bound books I got from a mega-bookstore that I use for I guess what would be considered my book of shadows. It was actually collecting dust for a long time but one night I had this dream where a very crone-esqe witch figure directed me to write about the Arts in this book. So the next day I looked to see if I even still had that beautiful journal and voila! So now I have that journal entirely filed but still have some more learning and recording to do and my beliefs keep evolving so eventually I'm gonna need to get another journal in the not too distant future to use.
Permalink Reply by ♦BitchyWitchess The Bitchkin♦ on October 21, 2009 at 10:40pm
don't have anything BoS related on my PC, but do have a personal BoS. I've written in it a bit, but not as often as i should.


i would love to have one of those beautiful leatherbound journals, but the ones i always see are way to $$$.
Permalink Reply by Alexander Wolfe on October 21, 2009 at 10:42pm
Knock yourself out, go for fancy, it creates asthetics and enhances the mood and serious nature of what you are doing. Back when I used to journal I always used fancy ass journals to write in. Now that I blog online, i never write in my journal anymore, but I would use something kick ass for a BoS
Permalink Reply by Allan on October 21, 2009 at 10:54pm
Composition notebooks. I do keep a lot of notes, journal entries and other things on the computer, but if it is important, I put it in the notebooks.
Permalink Reply by Cait on October 21, 2009 at 11:55pm
I use a journal :) it's a simple black molskine, it looks very cool. i like it better than anything flashy.

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