Bullet journaling has become a major trend in the past few years. It’s an organization method that thousands (if not millions) have adopted and transformed it into their own. A simple search on Pinterest will reveal an endless supply of beautiful spreads and artwork.

I’ve been using the bullet journaling method because I’ve always struggled to stay organized. No planner fit my needs so I’d use them for a few weeks and then they’d end up buried in a pile of papers on my desk. I started keeping a bullet journal back in spring 2016 and now have a collection of five (including my current one) that I can go through and reflect on. They all perfectly capture who I was at that time in my life. This is one of the greatest advantages to bullet journaling in my mind.

When choosing a new bullet journal, I think about what I want to accomplish/fill my life with for the next 6 months. I do my journals in 6-month increments because I fill them up so much I’d never fit an entire year. This current one is orange to increase creativity. That’s why I decided to do collages each time a new month starts. It helps me practice an art form that I love, boosts my creativity, relaxes me, and helps me get in tune with the season, month, and any sabbats taking place.

July This is the first collage I did in my journal. Since there weren’t any sabbats, I tried to focus on the month and the secular American holiday, Independence Day. This is my least favorite one I’ve done so far because I think it looks sloppy. However, I think it was a good first try.



August With this one, I was focused on Lammas and the harvest. August is a bountiful time but also marks the end of summer and our descent into the dark season. I choose the colors because they reminded me of that hot summer heat and the joy I felt as a child playing outside and feeling the sun on my skin. I was pretty happy with the way this one came out, but I think it needed more solid colors to create a speration between the conflicting patterns.



September I love fall. I love the leaves, the chill in the air, the festivals, and the warm feeling you get when you’re relaxing inside a warm home on a cold rainy day with your loved ones. I was incredibly excited for Mabon this year and on the first day of fall you could feel the change. There was magick in the air and a wind that carried the scent of dirt and leaves while chilling you to the bone. It was perfection. In this collage, I tried to capture the essence of September and our transition from summer to fall.



October Samhain is like the Superbowl for the witch community. Everybody in my circle (including me) loves it. Halloween is also one of my favorite secular holidays. So this spread was the most difficult for me. I had all of these grand ideas that actually putting something on the paper became difficult. Often as newer artists, people feel like everything they create needs to be their magnum opus. I fell into this when I was a young writer in high school, and this was my problem with this collage. Eventually, I gave up on making it perfect and followed my intuition.

