Whats inside the book of shadows?

Whats inside the book of shadows?

Many of the things that are on this site would be written in everybodies book of shadows, as the book of shadows is used to gather as much infomation you can find relating to your beleif and intuition.

Pentacle
The pentacle is a charm seen worn by many witches today, they usually wear this not only to resemble their beleif but to wear for protection. The pentacle also has more of a meaning to it than protection and charm, but it is used during castings and means many other different things.
The pentacle is seen as the five pointed star with a ring around it, with the point facing upwards, The five points represent the five elements, Fire, water, Air, Earth and Spirit.
These elements are used for many different things in the craft...this will be explained in the element topic in the book of shadows discussion board.
the rest of the infomation on the pentacle will also be in its own topic.

The sabbats
the sabbats are the holidays celerbrated traditionally throughout the years, but now we are forced to celerbrate holidays in religeous form due to religeon being the most popular beleif so instead of celerbrating the times of the year like winter solistice, summer solistice ect, we are instead celerbrating easter and christmas all representing the beleifs of christians and what is said to be written in bibles.
The 8 sabbats will be completed in the sabbat section of the discussion forum. they will be posted as each sabbat passes by :) soo far we are in samhain so i have written about it.

Esbats
Esbats are the changes in the moon, and are logged in the book of shadows so that the caster knows how much power they will get in their spell on the said day they wish to cast, most casters rely on the moon phase as to when they will cast as they prefer the maximum amount of power in their spell work. Some casters, cast every night and use the moon as to what they will be casting during that evening/witching hour.

Herbs
Herbs are noted in the book of shadows usually and most commonly by hedge-witches and kitchen witches as they are most commonly known to use herbs more than any other path. There are many different herbs with many different meanings and uses, and those uses and meanings are usually logged. Herbs are usually carried around, put in charms, put in potions or sprinkled over candle flames to cast or enhance spells.

Candle colour correspondences
Candle magick is commonly used in all paths and many crafters, beginners especially like to use certain colours for different meanings (although this is not necessary to use different colours). The colour correspondances are there to help crafters focus on the purpose of the spell and focus more strongly without a change of thought, and remember why they are casting and the reason for the cast. 
Candle correspondencies are usually written in the journal for future references. Candle colour usually would go by the auras of the chakera, represent male or female, represent entities, zodiac signs and most commonly known for spell purpose. Beginners usually go for colour corresponding to spell purpose because it is easier for them to understand their casting more, due to them only practicing.

Altar essentials and layout
Every path has an altar or work space for their castings. this is used as their work space and also known as their sacred space. The altar is usually decorated in celerbration of the sabbats, ie colour, decoration, ornaments ect. 
The book of shadows contains infomation on the contents and essentials that is commonly needed on their altar based on their path, beleif and the type of work they perform on their altar.

Astrology signs and dates
Astrology star signs with dates are logged into the book to safe gueard knowledge on the zodiac signs of people.

other infomation
all other infomation depends on the witch and their craft, but i would like to mention that witches put every new infomation they find in their book of shadows and many witches keep many different journals for many different purposes just to keep it more organised and easier to maintain infomation and know were to look when it comes to spell work.

purplewitch
Naomi Gibbons