End-of-month reflection prompts tend to fall into two categories. The first kind asks you to inventory your accomplishments — what you finished, what you started, what you can check off. The second kind asks something harder and more interesting: what actually happened to you this month, underneath the surface of everything you were doing.
These three prompts are the second kind.
May's theme at Morrigan's Crows has been growth — not the motivational poster version, but the real kind. The slow, unglamorous, occasionally humbling kind that doesn't announce itself until you look back at your journal from three months ago and realize how much has quietly shifted. We spent the month talking about lifelong learning in witchcraft, the Dunning-Kruger effect in magical practice, why long-term spellwork compounds in ways that single workings usually don't, and how to layer intentional magic without smothering what's already in motion.
These prompts grew out of all of that.
The first one asks about the growth nobody else could see — because May tends to reward visible bloom, and the quieter kinds of tending can go unacknowledged even by yourself. The second one asks about impatience, which in a month focused on patience as a skill felt like a necessary counterpoint. Impatience isn't always anxiety. Sometimes it's pointing at something true about where you don't trust your own work yet. That's worth looking at directly. The third one asks about revision — the small, sometimes embarrassing moments where something you thought you understood turned out to be more complicated than that. Those moments are some of the most useful data your practice will ever give you, and they're easy to brush past if you're not watching for them.
There's no right way to use these. Write a paragraph, write a sentence, sit with the question while you drink your coffee and don't write anything at all. Learning what a question stirs up in you is its own kind of answer. All of it counts.
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