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To be where I have been
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Talk of days for which they sit and wait
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The Very First Post
This is my very first blog post on my tarot website. I am still researching for ideas to jumpstart my creativity so I thought I would write about ALL of my notebooks. I have a lot of notebooks. I don’t have one tarot journal. I don’t have one book of shadows. I have many. Each one dedicated to some specific aspect.
I was once inspired to purchase, after watching several videos of people, including Benebel Wen, showing off their Books of Shadow, or Book of Methods, a very expensive, very large book to use as my “Book of Methods”.
It’s freaking gorgeous and has amazing paper and smells….so esoteric. I even used several pages and spent a lot of time coming up with a list of topics and researching an art style for cohesion. In the end life got in the way. It’s decorating my bookshelf now. Such a shame.
I have always journaled, since high school but I was never good at making it a dedicated regular practice. I also had a bad habit of abandoning a notebook in favor of another fresh, new one. All of my classes on herbalism, shamanism, tarot, witchcraft suggest journaling. Every one. But I wasn’t good at keeping up with it. But then I got super serious about Tarot as more than an every now and then hobby, and I really wanted to get serious about journaling. Now I have about a dozen journals each with its own specific purpose.
I have a personal journal in which I write about my daily life. I don’t keep up with that as often as I wish I would. But I do write a lengthy entry every few months and I may get into a regular routine of writing a daily entry for a week or two but I get caught up in all the other journaling I do and you know, living life. I have a journal that I log my daily readings in. I have a notebook that I record other readings. These are readings where I am doing a deck interview or asking about something specific, or trying out different spreads.
I have a notebook just for keywords. I try to add to the lists of keywords regularly but it isn’t a huge priority. I have a notebook for creative immersion into the card writings, also not as much a priority that I wish it was. It’s amazing how much life gets in the way. Sigh.
I have a notebook for notes on classes I take here and there and odd bits and notes about tarot outside of the meanings. Interesting things I read or heard on the internet, like techniques or a helpful tip on numerology or astrology or such. I have a notebook dedicated to shamanic journeys and a notebook dedicated to my travel altar. (The Peruvian shamans call their traveling altar a mesa, but I have personalized mine so far as to be nothing like a mesa other that the wrap. I call it a Travelorian for fun.) There is a notebook for herbs and a separate one for formulas. And….. I have a newly dedicated notebook that I started for keeping track of blog ideas, book recommendations I hear about, a list of books I already have and need to read and books I need to go back to and review highlights, classes I might want to take, interesting takes on particular cards I might not have thought of. I even have basic Mead notebooks in my purse in case I think of something when I am away from home.
I should mention my ring binders as well. I have a ring binder for class handouts, printed work books. Another ring binder is just for printed spread collections as well as my own designs. And I have a really special binder that has correspondence reference pages, many of them from Benebel Wen, specific to tarot systems, such as astrological houses, signs, the decan wheel, the tarot/astrological wheels-majors and minors and courts, the tree of life and the ten realms overview, as they apply to Tarot.
I am a bit obsessive. And I use every one of them almost daily. I have a four shelf mobile cart next to my reading station so I always have my notebooks close at hand. It has taken me a long time to gain some semblance of organization AND maintain it. Usually I fail at my attempts to remain organized. My shelves and baskets meant to help just end up over cluttered and pushed aside for another shelf or basket. I have maintained this level of organization for over a year now and that is saying something, considering that my reading station is my massage table that I often must clear for an actual massage client. My husband and youngest son made me a folding table top so I have a hard space to read and write on that hides away in the closet when I need it to. Going from tarot mode to massage mode takes about 7 minutes tops.
Did I mention I am obsessed? And very focused. I spend a lot of time in my space, reading, writing, researching, taking notes, and more notes, and something I just sit in this space, this room with all my magickal accouterments. Every book, deck, Crystal, notebook, is a part of my daily life. Sacred.
Blessed Be.
Lisa
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