Tip For Those Who Struggle With Building Up Their Grimoire:

tip for those who struggle with building up their grimoire:

I'm rebuilding/reworking my own grimoire atm and, in poking around for inspiration here and there, I've seen a bit of a trend regarding indexes and tables of contents.

A lot of posts for Beginner Witches have looong lists of things you Absolutely Must(TM) include in your grimoire. These read almost like a super extensive syllabus that covers what seems like every topic under the sun, and are, quite frankly, completely unnecessary.

This is a friendly reminder that you don't have to include anything in your grimoire that you don't want to.

Not interested in astrology? No problem. Don't include it.

Don't work with herbs or crystals? Why spend time writing notes on them, then?

Don't celebrate Wiccan holidays? No need to include info on the Wheel of the Year.

etc etc.

Part of the reason why I never finished my last couple grimoires were the fact that I felt pressured to write extensive entries on things I wasn't interested in, or on things I already knew and thought redundant to include. I had dozens upon dozens of unfinished pages, and the knowledge that I was expected to write things on each of them filled me with such anxiety and dread that I just... stopped opening my notebook up altogether.

This time around, however, I'm taking a different approach to my grimoire. I have limited time and energy to commit to my craft, and I'd rather not spend it on shit I didn't really care about. In my new grimoire, I have not and never intend to include notes on the 'basics', or overviews of every pantheon and every deity, or summaries of the different types of witches or spells or what have you. I'm including only what I think is important to me.

Your grimoire is supposed to be your personal journal, documenting not only the things you've learned but the things you're actually interested in. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do research -- it's very important to expand your education, especially regarding different worldviews and outlooks to your own. But!!

Don't feel like you've got to write an encyclopaedia, or produce a textbook for future generations to consult, because that isn't the point.

Bear from Bear In The Big Blue House

Is a caregiver!

Just randomly thinking about The Good Place again about how the Soul Squad fundamentally change not only the afterlife but life on earth. Not only do they make it so people become their best selves in the afterlife, but that effort? The good people that they become, contributes to the improvement of life on earth.

When someone leaves they put all that good that got them to the good place back to the world, making it just a little better.

GAH IT MAKES ME TEAR UP

happy TDOV, everyone! i know things have been shitty in the community recently, but i hope everyone’s at least had a decent day. we deserve that at least - 🕷️

us: goes through a very stressful event

brain: have a gay twink

us: uhh thanks i guess, but how does this help?

brain: have another one

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