First post and making a grimoire

First of all I think I should explaine why I desided to go with book of mirrors. First of all I didn't want to do a grimoire in a blog format since I want it to be something more special than that. Even though I'm not going to take my grimoire with me everywhere I still want it to be physical piece of work. Personally I think grimoire is not for everyone's eyes to see, so that's also one reason why. Secondly I didn't want to make a book of shadows since I see it more as a book of spells, recipes etc. So similar to grimoire, but with information and records of your usage of those said spells, recipes etc. In the end I felt like book of mirrors was most fitting format for this blog, since it's mostly just a journal about magic and my experiences of it.

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Last few days I've spend reading every bit of information I can possibly find about traditional witchcraft, ancestors, divination, cleansing, gemstones etc. There's so much to learn that I would probably skip sleeping and eating all together if I didn't have as much common sense as I have. It just feels like I've finally made it home and I'm too exited to rest, even though I really should. I've always loved learning and collecting knowledge about everything under the sun so this is not as suprising to me as it probably should be. So many questions I had have been answered and so many more have aroused.

I started making my own grimoire from scratch. First I coffee dyed some paper to see if I'd like the look of it. I know some people think it's waiste of time to try to make your books look fancy and all that, but to me it has a significant meaning. To me it's important to make things myself, because I believe handmade stuff to have their makers energy in them. I know I could just buy some book and cleanse it, but it wouldn't have the same love and care put into it that way. It wouldn't have my magic, my blood, sweat and tears. That's also one reason why I've desided to write my grimoire by hand instead of just writing it down with computer and then printing it out. But to each their own.

I've already filled 12 pages of my grimoire in two days. They are small pages, since I don't like writing in big pages. I also desided to make my book so that I can add and remove pages at any given time. So I didn't dye hundreds and hundreds of pages! I'm going to dye them when they start to run out instead for my own sanity's sake. All of those 12 pages have been about runes. Elder Futhark runes to be exact. When I'm not sick anymore I'm going to go to the beach to search some stones to make my own runestones, but until then I'm going to reflect on the runes and their meanings. To me it's important to understand their origins to some extent.

I think that's actually one of the reasons I never really started to use tarot cards - too many different aspects to learn before gaining full understanding of a single card. But maybe I'll get to that one day after I've learned some numerology etc. Somehow gemstones and stones in general have always spoken to me so I doubt I'll get as attached to tarots at any point of my life, but we'll see!

So this is all for today,

Cherry