July always reminds me of my FAVORITE flowers in the world, the daylily tiger lily. When I moved to Michigan, I found out that they call them ditch lilies here and they aren’t as prized as they are back home in Illinois where I grew up. I still love them though, and have added them to my balcony container garden anyway. July is a time of hot, sometimes sticky, summer days and nights. This is a time when we focus on our intentions and see them through no matter the cost.
If you are new to bullet journaling, I’m so excited to help you get started! Below are some of my favorite June bullet journal layouts, cover pages, and calendars to inspire your own bujo pages.
Grab some iced sun tea and settle in with your bullet journal, markers, washi tape, colored pencils, and watercolors and get ready to make some beautiful spreads that are sure to feed your creativity and artist’s soul.
July BUJO Themes & Ideas:
Food BUJO Themes:
cherries
fried chicken
fish fries
cookouts
picnics
sundae’s
slurpees
gummy worms
dessert dirt cups with chocolate pudding, gummy worms, oreos and a sprig of mint
Botanical Theme: simple watercolor orange tiger lilies & daylilies. Back on the farm I had little orange tiger lily daylilies that grew right outside my bedroom window. Daylily tiger lilies are actually one of my favorite flowers. This bujo theme also features flower cutout dutch doors and a line art self portrait.
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June always reminds me of my favorite flowers and my birthday. June is a time of continuing blooming, summer, and relaxing summer nights spent outside watching the fireflies flicker across the blades of grass and in the trees.
If you are new to bullet journaling, I’m so excited to help you get started! Below are some of my favorite June bullet journal layouts, cover pages, and calendars to inspire your own bujo pages.
Grab some iced sun tea and settle in with your bullet journal, markers, washi tape, colored pencils, and watercolors and get ready to make some beautiful spreads that are sure to feed your creativity and artist’s soul.
June BUJO Themes & Ideas:
Food BUJO Themes:
popsicles
ice cream
donuts
banana splits
ice cream sundaes
summer cocktails – moon shine & bourbon (but not together!)
iced tea
sun tea
corn on the cob
cotton candy
cupcakes
fruits
melons
honeydew melon
watermelon
muss melon & cantaloupe
lemons & citrus
lemonade
iced coffee
strawberries
pineapple
Summer BUJO Themes:
longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice and Summer Equinox.
Botanical Theme: Honeysuckle Watercolor painting with only 3 colors, one brush and one pen, that’s it! This monthly stack also features faux dutch doors and a double rolling weekly task log for personal tasks and two businesses tasks and to do’s.
Botanical Theme: Cornflower & variation of Bachelor’s Button. This is a little flower that you can see along the roadside in the Midwest and is one of my favorite wild flowers.
June is another really special month for me (personally) because it’s my birthday month! Normally I’m spending time in nature for my birthday camping, at the cider house, or at the beach, but this year will be a bit different. Check out the 33 Things I’ve Learned Last Year and 32 Spiritual Lessons I’ve Learned In 32 Years the year prior. I’ll have a new post coming your way on June 27th about the 34 Things I’ve Learned About Change & Uncertainty. But lets get back to why you’re here, June’s Monthly BUJO Plan With Me!
supplies for today’s monthly bullet journal stack plan with me:
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Last year I started making bullet journaling a lot more accessible and easier for me with the use of stamps. You will see a lot of stamps in my videos this year in addition to my D.I.Y. Moon Phase Stamps + Coffee Cup & Tree Stamps. Stamps are going to make things so much easier and so much faster for me and I’m really excited to have a handmade set that I made with my own hands AND that I love to the moon and back. Its so special to me to have made something with my hands and love it enough to use it on a regular, and lets me honest, frequent basis.
This month and last month I am utilizing a simple method to decorate my journal. And boy does this make it go fast! I created a page of abstract watercolor designs that I have been tearing up and gluing down into my journal to make decorating my pages go quicker. I really love this art journal method. It’s made journaling a lot faster for me when it comes to creating the actual design elements of the bullet journal pages. I love it so much that I am going to fill up an empty sketchbook that has been laying around for almost a decade with abstract watercolor pages so I have this on hand when it’s time for my monthly bullet journal set up.
This month’s watercolor honeysuckle cut away cover page is also inspired by a pin that I found on Pinterest. Make sure you follow me over there, I share a lot of really awesome inspiring content for bullet journals, moon goodness, and magical witchy things. I also share secular spirituality things that are good spiritual tips for anyone of any faith, and for people who are not religious but want to tap into their spiritual side more.
Along with my monthly cover page I’m also doing a cover page for my tarot card that I pulled for this month. I did a year ahead spread that you can see here! This is the card that I pulled for June, Death from the Wild Unknown Deck. The Death card represents closure and transformation.
The Death Card: Something in your life needs to change. It needs closure. This will happen voluntarily or involuntarily. Either way you will feel a positive transformation begin after the initial forms of suffering have passed. I’m also pretty stoked to have a card of transformation in my birthday month. Who wouldn’t want to transform each year on their birthday?!
The Wild Unknown Tarot Deck and Guidebook (Official Keepsake Box Set), by Kim Krans is a really great introduction into tarot cards that feel more approachable than the classic Rider Waite deck for those who are just starting their tarot journey. I love just looking at the artwork and tucking the cards into my mirror so I can see them every morning.
On the Inside of the Monthly Spirituality Journaling Prompt flip out I have moved in my habit tracker. Since I visit the spread daily I thought that it made sense to have my daily tracker here instead of in what felt like a random spot in my journal in the past months.
This circular habit tracker is my favorite habit tracker EVER. Its so creative and visual. As the month goes on I will mark a little dot on the day for my steps and daily walks outside and connect the dots as the days go on. It will look like constellations or a ring around a planet when the month is over. Check out my instagram to see what this habit tracker looks like at the end of the month.
Moving across this spread I have my daily tarot card draws. Every day I draw a tarot card and recreate it here and list the meaning over in the margins. I love seeing this spread fill up as the month goes on. To see the deck I’m using this month and what this spread looks like when it’s all filled up check out my instagram. You can also see my past Daily Tarot Draws here!
The last page on this flip out spread is on the back side of my monthly tarot card. This is where I’m writing my end of the month journaling questions.
At the end of the month is where I do all of my journaling and my reflecting. I have sections for, what I’ve learned, how I challenge myself, what is a time-saver and what isn’t, and what am I most grateful for.
The questions I ask myself at the end of every month are:
what am I grateful for most?
how did I challenge myself?
what did I learn?
what is working and what isn’t?
And finally, the most important question of the month, the monthly spirituality writing prompt:
This month’s spirituality journaling prompt: Get it HERE!
Set Your Goals via The Moon Calendar w/ a Moon Wheel
I do goal-setting in alignment with the moon. Every new moon is when I set my goals and intentions for that lunar cycle. These goals always relate back to my overarching goals for the entire year. If you want to set goals with the moon check out one of my most recent New Moon Goals Setting Rituals Here.
Next is one of my favorite spreads. This is my mental inventory spread. I like to use this to get all of my ideas out of my head. It really helps with my anxiety……. This is like a brain dump page, I like the way that mental inventory sounds much better though. So this is where I’m going to be writing all of the notes that are floating around in my head so I can get them out and not have to worry about them anymore… AND not let them clutter up my mind and my anxiety.
And here we are at my first weekly spread of the month! Instead of a to-do list or a task list, some weeks I like to title this “things I get to do.” This is a rolling weekly spread where I keep all of my tasks.
Check Out my video below to see what’s on my mind, what I’m up to and what I’ve got going on for this month!
Are you struggling with your goals and looking for a way to achieve them?
Try monthly goal setting with a twist… instead of the calendar month, set your goals in alignment with the moon phases for something different and truly unique. This moon wheel calendar is inspired by the ocean which is fitting since it’s raining today. Check out how I created these watercolor pages here in my May Plan With Me.
Set Your Goals via The Moon Calendar
This is a moon wheel spread. Every single month in addition to a monthly plan with me that you’d find in any bullet journal, I always make sure to have a monthly moon calendar. Mine are always set up in the form of a wheel. See my past moon calendars here. I do goal-setting in alignment with the moon. Every new moon is when I set my goals and intentions for that lunar cycle. These goals always relate back to my overarching goals for the entire year.
I write S.M.A.R.T. Goals every month. Sometimes there are multiple goals in one month and every once in a while they are goals that I have already achieved that I want to keep working on to level up and refine further or to ingrain into habits. Even though my S.M.A.R.T. Goals are created a smidge out of order, they are always Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-Bound.
2. Define the duration of the goal, which is always 28 days. (Time-Bound)
3. State How I’m Going To Accomplish My Goal. (Specific)
4. Break The Goal down into 3 actionable steps. (Attainable)
5. Schedule & Track My Goal’s Progress In My Daily Life (Measurable)
I track all of my goals on a 28 day cycle, because it allows me to align my goals with the moon phases. I set a new goal on every new moon, celebrate the goal on every full moon, and review my progress on the last crescent moon of the lunar month.
Setting goals in alignment with the moon phases also gets me outside to observe nature and the moon itself. Looking up at the moon every night when I’m thinking about my goals is very inspiring and helps my mental health stay strong and keeps me motivated to accomplish my goals. But you can certainly set your goals by the calendar month, quarters, or year timespan. If you choose a year timespan, remember that you WILL have more than one S.M.A.R.T. Goal that makes up the yearly B.H.A.G. (big hairy audacious goal).
L I N K S M E N T I O N E D (in video below)
May Plan With Me https://youtu.be/FoxoQlk9CvA DIY Moon Stamps https://youtu.be/Sm8Se7P9pms 2020 Bullet Journal Set Up https://youtu.be/xozKYwQ0_78 Fix Your Bullet Journal Mistakes https://youtu.be/LJtxm_qTpQE
May is a pretty special month in our home. This month is the anniversary with my husband for when we started dating. I know that it might seem silly to celebrate your dating anniversary after you’re married. But it’s special to us. Not only is May 1st Beltane, but we also pretty much started dating and were inseparable for years starting May 1st. We were together for many many years before we got married, so letting this day pass without celebrating our strength as a couple, feels weird and wrong.
May is always a special time on the farm too. I really look forward to the flowers that come back in May back home. My mom has these beautiful irises that are a pale purple that come back every year at this time. I love the look of them and the scent, they bring back so many happy memories.
Unfortunately this year we’re not going to be able to visit the farm in May like we normally do due to the current state of the world. I am definitely going to be thinking of the farm a lot this month. I am really looking forward to the lock down being lifted and things being a bit better next year so that we can travel to the farm in the spring like we always do. The spring visit to the farm always feels like a pilgrimage that I look forward to, and it feels weird not being able to go back home to see the spring babies and stretching farm country.
Last year I started making bullet journaling a lot more accessible and easier for me with the use of stamps. You will see a lot of stamps in my videos this year in addition to my D.I.Y. Moon Phase Stamps + Coffee Cup & Tree Stamps. Stamps are going to make things so much easier and so much faster for me and I’m really excited to have a handmade set that I made with my own hands AND that I love to the moon and back. Its so special to me to have made something with my hands and love it enough to use it on a regular, and lets me honest, frequent basis.
This month I am utilizing a simple method to decorate my journal. And boy does this make it go fast! I created a page of abstract watercolor designs that I have been tearing up and gluing down into my journal to make decorating my pages go quicker. I really love this art journal method. It’s made journaling a lot faster for me when it comes to creating the actual design elements of the bullet journal pages. I love it so much that I am going to fill up an empty sketchbook that has been laying around for almost a decade with abstract watercolor pages so I have this on hand when it’s time for my monthly bullet journal set up.
My husband and I have been together 14 years and that’s just insane to me. We were inseparable from the day we met, which is a really amazing thing to have in a relationship. It’s one of those romantic movie things that you don’t think will ever happen in real life. BUT… every once in a while those things do happen. I’m really grateful for my relationship with him and how long it’s lasted.
Since May is so special to me I wanted to create a blessing for my cover page instead of just writing any old quote. This is a blessing that I am going to add to my grimoire so I have it for years to come.
“May we continue to grow like the trees each year. May our love continue to multiply each year like the flower bulbs in our garden. May we continue to bend as the grass does in the warm Spring wind. May our love grow with each May we share.” – Jenny Proczko
This month’s cover page is also inspired by a pin that I found on Pinterest. Make sure you follow me over there, I share a lot of really awesome inspiring content for bullet journals, moon goodness, and magical witchy things. I also share secular spirituality things that are good spiritual tips for anyone of any faith, and for people who are not religious but want to tap into their spiritual side more.
my quote for this month is a special blessing I wrote this year for our anniversary…
“May we continue to grow like the trees each year. May our love continue to multiply each year like the flower bulbs in our garden. May we continue to bend as the grass does in the warm Spring wind. May our love grow with each May we share.”
– Jenny Proczko
Along with my monthly cover page I’m also doing a cover page for my tarot card that I pulled for this month. I did a year ahead spread that you can see here! This is the card that I pulled for May, The Father of Wands from the Wild Unknown Deck. The Father of Wands represents being charismatic and creative.
The Father of Wands is a man of mystique and charisma. Others are drawn to him naturally. He is deeply compassionate and in tune with life and nature. He is able to hold steady and still during conflict. These are all qualities that I hope to remember to embody this month, especially during times of stress and conflict, even if it’s just internal conflict.
The Wild Unknown Tarot Deck and Guidebook (Official Keepsake Box Set), by Kim Krans is a really great introduction into tarot cards that feel more approachable than the classic Rider Waite deck for those who are just starting their tarot journey. I love just looking at the artwork and tucking the cards into my mirror so I can see them every morning.
Some links in this article are affiliate links, this means I earn a small commission if you use them! Affiliate Links are one way I am able to provide videos, articles, and resources for free. Other links go straight to the Owls & Indigo Shop where you can support me directly.
This month I am switching up my bullet journal stack pages a bit.
On the Inside of the Monthly Spirituality Journaling Prompt flip out I have moved in my habit tracker. Since I visit the spread daily I thought that it made sense to have my daily tracker here instead of in what felt like a random spot in my journal in the past months.
This circular habit tracker is my favorite habit tracker EVER. Its so creative and visual. As the month goes on I will mark a little dot on the day for my steps and daily walks outside and connect the dots as the days go on. It will look like constellations or a ring around a planet when the month is over. Check out my instagram to see what this habit tracker looks like at the end of the month.
Moving across this spread I have my daily tarot card draws. Every day I draw a tarot card and recreate it here and list the meaning over in the margins. I love seeing this spread fill up as the month goes on. To see the deck I’m using this month and what this spread looks like when it’s all filled up check out my instagram. You can also see my past Daily Tarot Draws here!
The last page on this flip out spread is on the back side of my monthly tarot card. This is where I’m writing my end of the month journaling questions.
At the end of the month is where I do all of my journaling and my reflecting. I have sections for, what I’ve learned, how I challenge myself, what is a time-saver and what isn’t, and what am I most grateful for.
The questions I ask myself at the end of every month are:
what am I grateful for most?
how did I challenge myself?
what did I learn?
what is working and what isn’t?
And finally, the most important question of the month, the monthly spirituality writing prompt:
This month’s spirituality journaling prompt: Get it HERE!
Set Your Goals via The Moon Calendar
This is a moon wheel spread. Every single month in addition to a monthly plan with me that you’d find in any bullet journal, I always make sure to have a monthly moon calendar. Mine are always set up in the form of a wheel. See my past moon calendars here.I do goal-setting in alignment with the moon. Every new moon is when I set my goals and intentions for that lunar cycle. These goals always relate back to my overarching goals for the entire year. If you want to set goals with the moon check out one of my most recent New Moon Goals Setting Rituals Here.
Next is one of my favorite spreads. This is my mental inventory spread. I like to use this to get all of my ideas out of my head. It really helps with my anxiety……. This is like a brain dump page, I like the way that mental inventory sounds much better though. So this is where I’m going to be writing all of the notes that are floating around in my head so I can get them out and not have to worry about them anymore… AND not let them clutter up my mind and my anxiety.
And here we are at my first weekly spread of the year! Instead of a to-do list or a task list, some weeks I like to title this “things I get to do.” This is a rolling weekly spread where I keep all of my tasks.
Check Out my video below to see what’s on my mind, what I’m up to and what I’ve got going on for this month!
I am missing the farm in the spring time right now, with all of its new growth and babies. So today this moon wheel calendar is inspired by spring grass and watercolors.
“In springtime, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring.“
btw… Poem from Above: “It was a lover and his lass” BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From “As You Like It” and is also in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder.
L I N K S M E N T I O N E D
DIY Moon, Tree & Coffee Cup Stamps https://youtu.be/Sm8Se7P9pms Yearly BUJO Set Up https://youtu.be/xozKYwQ0_78 New Moon Monthly Goal Setting Plan With Me https://youtu.be/M0IO_jbGpzw Balsamic Moon End of the Month Goal Review https://youtu.be/lQp7BFdfyYg Latest Goal Setting Video https://youtu.be/M0IO_jbGpzw
Today it’s time for my monthly plan with me for my daily planner and spiritual bullet journal. Last year I started making bullet journaling a lot more accessible and easier for me with the use of stamps. You will see a lot of stamps in my videos this year in addition to my D.I.Y. Moon Phase Stamps + Coffee Cup & Tree Stamps. Stamps are going to make things so much easier and so much faster for me and I’m really excited to start using them!
This month’s cover page is inspired by a pin that I found on Pinterest. Make sure you follow me over there, I share a lot of really awesome inspiring content for bullet journals, moon goodness, and magical witchy things. I also share secular spirituality things that are good spiritual tips for anyone of any faith, and for people who are not religious but want to tap into their spiritual side more.
Along with my monthly cover page I’m also doing a cover page for my tarot card that I pulled for this month. I did a year ahead spread back in January. This is the card that I pulled for April, The Nine of Cups from the Wild Unknown Deck. The Nine of Cups represents Bliss & Harmony. At last, the card of wishes come true. When the nine of cups appears, worries and fears will be cast away. A new phase of peace and harmony awaits.
Some links in this article are affiliate links, this means I earn a small commission if you use them! Affiliate Links are one way I am able to provide videos, articles, and resources for free. Other links go straight to the Owls & Indigo Shop where you can support me directly.
my quote for this month is…
April Moonshower Love
The Wild Unknown Tarot Deck and Guidebook (Official Keepsake Box Set), by Kim Krans is a really great introduction into tarot cards that feel more approachable than the classic Rider Waite deck for those who are just starting their tarot journey. I love just looking at the artwork and tucking the cards into my mirror so I can see them every morning.
At the end of the month is where I do all of my journaling and my reflecting. I’ll have my monthly spirituality prompts which I’m going to be sharing with you in just a second down below! I have sections for, what I’ve learned, how I challenge myself, what is a time-saver and what isn’t, and what am I most grateful for.
The questions I ask myself at the end of every month are:
what am I grateful for most?
how did I challenge myself?
what did I learn?
what is working and what isn’t?
And finally, the most important question of the month, the monthly spirituality writing prompt:
This month’s spirituality journaling prompt. (coming soon!)
On the inside of my two cover page flip outs, I’m going to be doing my Daily Tarot Draw again! I’m really excited about this, last year you all really really enjoyed this, so I will be recreating little miniature versions of my tarot cards that I pull every single day this month. See my past Daily Tarot Draws here!
Next is one of my favorite spreads. This is my mental inventory spread. I like to use this to get all of my ideas out of my head. It really helps with my anxiety……. This is like a brain dump page, I like the way that mental inventory sounds much better though. So this is where I’m going to be writing all of the notes that are floating around in my head so I can get them out and not have to worry about them anymore… AND not let them clutter up my mind and my anxiety.
And here we are at my first weekly spread of the year! Instead of a to-do list or a task list, some weeks I like to title this “things I get to do.” This is a rolling weekly spread where I keep all of my tasks.
Check Out my video below to see what’s on my mind, what I’m up to and what I’ve got going on for this month!
This month’s cover page is inspired by a set of stickers that I received in the mail from my Mom (thanks mom!!!! Love you!) and a set of gardening stickers that I found at the Target Dollar spot. You will see A LOT of stickers this month in my bullet journal.
Last year I started making bullet journaling a lot more accessible and easier for me with the use of stamps. You will see a lot of stamps in my videos this year in addition to my D.I.Y. Moon Phase Stamps + Coffee Cup & Tree Stamps. Stamps are going to make things so much easier and so much faster for me and I’m really excited to start using them!
Along with my monthly cover page I’m also doing a cover page for the tarot card that I pulled for this month. I did a year ahead spread which you can see here! This is the card that I pulled for March, The Son of Pentacles from the Wild Unknown Deck. The Son of Pentacles represents dedication, loyalty and quiet.
The good side of this card is loyalty and determination. But sometimes this figure becomes stubborn and persistent to a fault. This combined with his quiet nature, results in being hard to get to know and socially awkward at times. He has a few close friends over many.
The Wild Unknown Tarot Deck and Guidebook (Official Keepsake Box Set), by Kim Krans is a really great introduction into tarot cards that feel more approachable than the classic Rider Waite deck for those who are just starting their tarot journey. I love just looking at the artwork and tucking the cards into my mirror so I can see them every morning.
Some links in this article are affiliate links, this means I earn a small commission if you use them! Affiliate Links are one way I am able to provide videos, articles, and resources for free. Other links go straight to the Owls & Indigo Shop where you can support me directly.
my quote for this month is…
“Plant Dreams” and “Home Is Where My Garden Is”
This monthly cover page is also going to be a flip-out monthly overview. This will enable me to flip out the page while I’m on my weekly spread and still see everything that I have going on for the month. I used my DIY Moon Phase Stamps. I am really really enjoying these stamps. They were so much fun to create from scratch.
This month I wanted to go with a spring garden theme especially since I did something similar for my monthly goal setting moon calendar earlier on the most recent new moon, you can see it here. I didn’t want this one to be bright green. Instead, I went with the muted colors from the sticker pack that had garden veggies contrasting with the black garden stickers I received from my mom. I tied it all together with my dymo label maker, DIY moon stamps, and crayola stamp markers. I have two sets from the 90’s and one from today.
You’ll notice on my monthly important dates a few spots of gold and silver. This is something that is unique to me and helps me scan my page much faster. I have gold dots for Mondays and then two silver dots for the weekends.
On the back side of my monthly tarot card I’m writing my end of the month journaling questions.
At the end of the month is where I do all of my journaling and my reflecting. I’ll have my monthly spirituality prompts which I’m going to be sharing with you in just a second down below! I have sections for, what I’ve learned, how I challenge myself, what is a time-saver and what isn’t, and what am I most grateful for.
The questions I ask myself at the end of every month are:
what am I grateful for most?
how did I challenge myself?
what did I learn?
what is working and what isn’t?
And finally, the most important question of the month, the monthly spirituality writing prompt:
This month’s spirituality journaling prompt. (coming soon!)
On the inside of my two cover page flip outs, I’m going to be doing my Daily Tarot Draw again! I’m really excited about this, last year you all really really enjoyed this, so I will be recreating little miniature versions of my tarot cards that I pull every single day this month. See my past Daily Tarot Draws here!
If you’re new to my content you’ll be wondering what this next spread is…
This is a moon wheel spread. Every single month in addition to a monthly plan with me that you’d find in any bullet journal, I always make sure to have a monthly moon calendar. I recently moved to a traveler’s notebook set up, and migrated these moon calendar wheels into their own section. My moon calendars are always set up in the form of a wheel. See my past moon calendars here.
Next is one of my favorite spreads. This is my mental inventory spread. I like to use this to get all of my ideas out of my head. It really helps with my anxiety……. This is like a brain dump page, I like the way that mental inventory sounds much better though. So this is where I’m going to be writing all of the notes that are floating around in my head so I can get them out and not have to worry about them anymore… AND not let them clutter up my mind and my anxiety.
And here we are at my first weekly spread of the month! Instead of a to-do list or a task list, some weeks I like to title this “things I get to do.” I was noticing that I was feeling overwhelmed by tasks and my work load, so I have brought back the daily spreads in my bullet journal. I am tracking my time and leaving space for my 3 most important tasks for the day. See more about how I prioritize my day here. This spread is a five week spread that utilizes faux dutch doors with my rolling task list on the right.
Check Out my video below to see what’s on my mind, what I’m up to and what I’ve got going on for this month!
Today I wanted to share with you how I set up this moon themed bullet journal goal-setting spread AND how I set my goals on every new moon for the lunar month. I do goal-setting in alignment with the moon. Every new moon is when I set my goals and intentions for that lunar cycle. These goals always relate back to my overarching goals for the entire year.
If you want to see how I created this layout click here. So grab a cup of tea and your favorite pen, and let’s set our monthly goals together!
Watch my companion youtube video to see how I created these watercolor backgrounds for my journal so you can make them in your own journal too!
First I’m setting up my New Moon Beginnings spread. This is the first fold out of the New Moon goal-setting spread. Here I have room for the New Moon Beginnings prompts. These white cards are going to be spaces where I write my journaling prompts, tarot card prompts, and my mantras that I create for myself this month. I absolutely love these little stamps that I made! I actually have a video on them if you’d like to see how I made these mood phase stamps. I like how imperfect they are, they feel hand-drawn to me, and I absolutely love them.
On every new moon I always pull two or three tarot cards. This time I’m pulling two cards that represent what I should have and what I should do. I’m using the classic Rider-Waite deck for this entire year for these New Moon Beginnings Tarot journaling prompts. I like to write in the classic Rider-Waite definition of the cards and my own interpretation of them below, in addition to my own sketch of the tarot card. These sketches aren’t miniature recreations like my daily tarot draws, to see those head over here.
The Rider Tarot Deck is a classic tarot deck to have in your collection. This deck comes with a mini guide book and will give you all the mystical mamma feels when you use it. Because this deck is so well known, there are a lot of additional companion books and resources.
Some links in this article are affiliate links, this means I earn a small commission if you use them! Affiliate Links are one way I am able to provide videos, articles, and resources for free. Other links go straight to the Owls & Indigo Shop where you can support me directly.
I like to start by shuffling the deck 3 times, or whatever feels good, and then I cut the deck. I also like to write down any notes that jump out at me from the guidebooks as I journal. This month for my journaling prompts I’ll be focusing on:
to have to do
to have
The Eight of Wands, according to the deck, representing swiftness, great hope, speed towards an end which promises assured felicity, on the move, love. My interpretation of the card, onwards and upwards, you are on the move to prosperity, but whose it is?
to do
The Four of Wands, according to the deck, harmony, prosperity, peace. My interpretation of the card, balance, harmony, peace and hopefully prosperity are on the way, if and only if you can keep the balance.
After I pull these first two tarot cards, I move over to the opposite side of this spread to the mantra maker. Out of these themes, I create my mantras for this month with my Mantra Maker.
This month’s lunar theme is:
“relax into your intention and watch its first roots & shoots form.”
The theme this month is relax into your intention and watch its first roots & shoots form. As your goals begin to take hold you begin to feel the first footholds below each step towards your dreams, goals, and intentions. Keep moving forward and upwards out of the soil as your dreams begin to break the surface and grow.
Make sure to keep in mind the theme of the Moon. Then create mantras for yourself that are customized based on the tarot cards that you just drew and any insights that the cards may have given you into the direction you want to head in for your goals for the month. Make sure that they also relate back to the overarching yearly goals. I like to use the mantra maker prompts:
I am… I will… I’ve set these goals to…
Here are my mantras for this first moon:
I am swift and moving forwards.
I am prosperous.
I am full of great hope and faith in myself.
I will remain balanced in times of chaos.
I will move swiftly as I need to and balanced as I need to.
Then I like to wrap up those individual mantras into one big overarching mission statement for my goals and intentions for the month.
My mission statement for this cycle is:
I’ve set these goals to remain balanced in times of chaos, move swiftly when I need to, seek balance as I need to. I am full of great hope and faith in myself. The prosperity is mine. AND, I embody yoga in its various forms.
JENNY PROCZKO, FROM OWLSANDINDIGO NEW MOON MANTRA 2020
After I’ve written out my mantras for the month I put aside those tarot cards. I don’t actually reference them at all anymore. I just use tarot cards as a journaling prompt and as away to get my mind thinking about any insights that could pop up based on what I want to achieve. I don’t use the Tarot as a forecasting or future telling tool. I just use it as a tool to get to know myself better and as a tool to spur me to think about certain things and different archetypes that the cards bring up and how it affects my current life situation.
Next I re-write my mission statement mantra for the month in the upper hand corner of the inside of this spread next to my moon wheel.
I’m going to be writing in a feeling based intention on every moon phase as the lunar month goes on. I will be sharing my feeling based intention in a second… I like to write it in at the end of my goal setting and planning session. So, onward to the goals!
✩☽✦Setting Goals In Alignment With The Moon✦☾✩
Now that I have this layout all set up, I can go ahead and move into the action phase of this goal-setting practice that I do every single month. This next section is my Action Steps and How I’m Going To Do It! 1 2 3!
The one-two-three method as a way of prioritizing my tasks when I feel super overwhelmed, I feel like I just don’t know where to start, or some days for when I just don’t have motivation to do anything. Sometimes I need to just say “okay if you get through this one list of 1-2-3 items then you’re done.” Click here for more information on the 1-2-3 Method for G.S.D.ing & G.Y.S.T.ing. I like to use the method for my mental health as well.
Now that I have all of my intentions and goals written down I’m going to break those 8 things down into 3 actionable steps. For each moon phase I have one intention to either finish or to work on. Check out my intentions for this moon and the 1-2-3 Method Steps that I am going to do to achieve these goals and intention for this moon below in my video:
After I have set all of these goals and broken them down into the actionable steps on how I can achieve them within one month, I go over to my feeling based intention and I write my intention for this lunar phase. I do this on every single moon phase either by the moon or in the morning of each new lunar phase, so you’ll see as the month goes on that this moon wheel will fill up with my own little mantras for every phase. My feeling based intention for today on the new moon is:
“I’ve set these goals to further my spiritual knowledge of yoga and reignite my practice, and feed & feel the shakti within. I feel my goal in my core.“
JENNY PROCZKO, from OWLSANDINDIGO NEW MOON INTENTION
Then at the beginning of each moon phase for this cycle I will come back to this spread and write a new positive feeling based intention. I’ll be posting these little mini moon updates over on Instagram, so be sure to follow me there so you don’t miss them! The only place you can find them is on instagram.
After I’ve recorded my feeling based intention I go over to my little tracker and mark off that I said my mantras and reviewed my goals for the day. There will be days where I don’t come to this spread and I don’t review my intentions for the month. But hopefully by breaking these down, setting all of these milestones for myself and giving myself dates and deadlines, I will come back to this every day. And even if I don’t I will still easily be able to get back on track because of all of the planning and prepping I’ve just done!
As the lunar month goes on….
I always check in with my goals. This is NOT a set it and forget it practice. You can’t hold and to hope and just ask the universe for something and not put in any work. So, to keep myself on track with my goals and to work towards them I check in with these goals twice a month for a more indepth review on my progress to see how its going or if I need to shift and pivot my goals and intentions to achieve them by the end of the moon.
On the Full Moon I do a mid month check in. First I ask myself, what have I succeeded in? and what can I improve?
This journaling and goal setting practice is something that I do the night before every new moon or the morning of every new moon. This practice of short term, achievable goal setting via the lunar cycle, has grown really dear to my heart. It’s something that I can’t imagine not doing.
So what goals have you set for this month? Are they similar to mine or are they totally different? I can’t wait to see your goals are, make sure you leave me a comment down below.
