#monthly focus

[pretendcottagelady]

Monthly Focus and Journal List

It's rare that I put two conflicting layouts onto the same page, but that's because I'm doing a dutch door layout this time around, and I'll get more into that later.

As for the journal list, well... the notebook is just about done, there are only three pages left at the time of writing this, so it will be time to migrate into a new journal.

[wearemagicandmusic]

Day 1 of the #30daysmagicroots @30daymagicroots

Today is about divination and what I need to focus on for the month. I took it a step further and actually paid attention to things that I noticed I do a lot when I read. There isn’t a lot of those but there were a few things I noticed. The reading will be under the cut since this will be pretty long.

1&2: The Fates / Priestess and Priest

I don’t know who to turn to when looking for guidance. 

3: Faery Door

I ask because I see a way ahead of me that has been opened. 

4: Athame

The past or what is leaving is an assertive force.

5: Earth

Soon will be a time of slow but steady transformation.

6: Astral Body

My gift is the ability to see things from a different perspective. 

7: Perfect Love and Perfect Trust

I’m afraid of trusting others and myself. 

8: Maiden:

Others see me as energetic and youthful... possibly childish. Funnily enough, this also implies that some seem me as being younger than I am. I imagine this is truer online than in real life, but who knows. 

9: Mother: (Book of Shadows)

I need to nurture my path and help it to grow. 

10: Chalice

If I take the advice in 9 then I will be more open to growth and my own personal power. 

Earth: Mortar and Pestle

The work I do at home needs to take the bits and pieces of my craft and blend them together while still retaining their individuality.

Air: Centers of Power

I need to draw from my power in order to communicate both mundanely and spiritually. 

Fire: Oak King

My passion for my craft is high but I need to remember it will wane. It is all a cycle that I must go through. 

Water: Yule/Winter Solstice

While it may not seem like it, I can get very emotional over my spirituality. 

The theme of this reading is accepting and nurturing my path as it changes.

Okay, here are some things I noticed: 

 I shuffle and bridge my cards until it feels right. I also don’t interpret cards that fall since it is more likely to happen with how clumsy I am with cards. Those things just go back into the deck somewhere random. When I am laying down cards from the deck, I flip them bottom to top, but if they are already on the table, I flip them right to left. I pretty much always use the same spread as I have found that I can make it very flexible for the reading I want to do. 

[pretendcottagelady]

Monthly Highlights

One of the things monthly highlights forces me to do is to go back through both the everyday journal and the daily log journal to figure out what I've been up to.

This is important to me because I have a bad tendency of forgetting that I do shit. And by that I mean it's easy to fall into this mindset that I'm not doing anything worth mentioning.

A problem that has always existed for me, even before social media and people's tendency to curate their online lives became a thing.

Doing this helps me enforce good memories, boosts my mood and reminds me I have things to write about.

[pretendcottagelady]

May Monthly Focus

Speaking of Monthly Focus pages, I almost forgot to post this one.

As I mentioned before, I don't seem to do very well with collections that last the whole life of the journal, and so I down scaled it to a monthly focus spread that notes things I would like to do that month in different areas.

It's just like my To Do collections that you've may seen in the past, but smaller. In fact i had to write a reminder to only pick two things. One of the issues of having a longer term collection was that I was putting too much into it considering I wanted to do everything and the journal only lasts for four months.

[thesinfilms]

Exercising faith is pertinent this month so do it!

[neryguide]

Your Monthly Message dear ones. 

October through the signs.