My new tarot journal

[Shade]

I love having a fantastic journal for my readings - it's so much easier to commit to keeping up when you want to write in the book (once you get over the fear of marring pages with your scribbles).

My favorites

My current is more fun than anything else - based on the Musical Wicked - Steampunk Witchcraft realness
http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/wick...y-barnes-noble

I do have a Paperblanks Journal for one of my earlier books that I rather enjoyed
http://funkyartqueen.blogspot.com/20...rel-burch.html

If you ever feel like dropping some major cash for a sacred book you cannot go wrong with Brahams they do everything right:
http://www.brahmsbookworks.com/grimoiremenu.html

I wouldn't use one for something as transitory as a Tarot journal but I do have one for my Book of Shadows: http://www.brahmsbookworks.com/ravenmoongrimoire.html

I know they are sort of everywhere but I also love Oberon designs
http://www.oberondesign.com/Journal.php
http://www.oberondesign.com/Icon.php

Bonus: they are refillable so if the idea of dropping $50 - $75 for a journals makes you queasy - know that you can easily replace it.

Also if you like shopping at Barnes & Noble you may like ArTrends. I have one for a spread journal: http://findnsave.miamiherald.com/Pro...y-Artrends-for

[Emily]

Originally Posted by Morwenna

My favorite sort of pen is my old Waterman cartridge pen from 1960. I must still have it somewhere but I haven't been able to get refills for it for the past 40 years.

Failing that, I'll take a few of those newfangled disposable "fountain" pens. I no longer have the patience for an actual fountain pen, or worse yet a quill.

But I would loooove one of those fancy journals...

Did you try the Waterman site online? I have an old Waterman too, I think it uses the slim type of cartridge. All my cartridge pens either take a long slim cartridge or a smaller one. Big stationers stock them here. Also I have converters in a couple of my pens so I can refill them from bottled ink but Fountain pens can be tricky and messy to fill, I much prefer cartridge ones. My writing always seems to look nicer.

After reading through this thread, I have been tempted to try to keep a journal again but I think I will use one of the journals I already have.

[Morwenna]

Yes, slim cartridge with an even slimmer insert end. The Scripto cartridges from the mid-'60s were the same (I even bought a Scripto pen so I could swap colors, but I don't know what happened to that one).

I'll take your advice and look it up!

[Carla]

I love all these fabulous books! I have cheap spiral and other style notebooks for my daily journal, but I have nicer books that I transcribe things into that I want to keep and remember. (That's why I asked about scribbles. I scribble in one type of book, and then transfer when I realise I've discovered something important). Not every random jotting I have is worth looking at again, in my opinion. The 'gems' I keep in another book, which I make an effort to use pretty writing in, and I even try my hand at drawing and decorating the pages as well. I guess it's a sort of 'Book of Shadows' type thing. I would LOVE to one day have one of those Brahms Bookworks ones and transcribe it all one last time, all sorted and indexed, for good and ever. But for now, I will keep to my current system.

I hope you enjoy your new journal!

[jema]

Wow, all your journals here far outshines my dog-eared and tea-stained ones. I feel a little early birthday present to myself coming up next month from paperblanks now!

[LRichard]

I use loose-leaf ring binders for notes and such. This way, material printed from internet sources or scanned from books can also be accomodated. If I decide I don't like a particular entry, I can just remove the offending page.

[Yineth]

So many lovely journals!

I've never really sat down and written much about any of my readings, but this is a journal I'm considering to purchase for a friend.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/home...=9780641531583

Me and Barnes & Noble go back awhile, so I find it difficult to leave their side at times. The only problem I see with this journal is how limiting it may be on its refillable paper. My friend is quite the writer and I'm afraid she'll devour the journal XD

..I might just buy this one for myself or get something similar. I love anything that references to the Renaissance and Italian art x3

[Carla]

Originally Posted by LRichard

I use loose-leaf ring binders for notes and such. This way, material printed from internet sources or scanned from books can also be accomodated. If I decide I don't like a particular entry, I can just remove the offending page.

This is how my grimoire is organised. Also, my dream journal. I should probably make the switch for my tarot and oracle stuff, as well. It's more sensible, really. I just love blank books so much, though. It's like a sickness!

[jema]

Well, three-ring binders are nice and all, but they are not journals.
Journals are all about the flow, not the editing :-D
I got a few of them binders with notes under numbered flaps and what-have-you-nots yet I never really go back to them, while it is quite fun to flip through the pages of old journals, to see where I was in life.

Today the thing I get most frustrated with my old journals is that 1. I didn't date it and 2. I write about people that I got no IDEA who they are now, wish I had included a little note like, S, my neighbour, not just S. Who the crap is that S from 25 years ago??? Would also have been nice with more follow up on readings I done for both myself and others.