I’m Jenny Proczko from Owls&Indigo. I make videos about journaling, spirituality, mental health, and goal setting.
Today it’s time for my 9th Full Moon Lunar Goal-Setting Check-In. I really enjoyed creating the my September Plan With Me featured in my spreads. If you want to see how I set these goals click here. So grab a cup of tea and your favorite pen, and lets check in on our monthly goals together!
The theme this month is gather gratitude & give thanks and that is because we are in the second harvest. On every full moon check in, I always ask myself two things: what have I succeeded in this lunar month? And what can I improve?
“gather gratitude & give thanks“
There’s always things that we can improve on whether we’re actually on top of our goals and have gotten everything done. There’s definitely little things along the way that we could have done better.
what have I succeeded in this lunar month?
what can I improve?
I succeeded in doing a lot while we were camping. I think it just means, that I need to have more Tech free time during the week to accomplish my goals. Because it was super easy you say on top of them while I was camping, when I didn’t have other distractions.
I’ll improve by doing two things:
schedule goals time in my calendar and my planner.
make trackers here in my lunar bullet journal and on my daily planner.
Next I get out my sticky notes, so I can flush out some goals. I write out which goals I’m going to be tracking for the rest of this month, that way they are just in one place. This way I can see them. I also writing down what actions are left to accomplish these goals. There are also four habits that I wanted to do daily:
daily habits
read 15 min.
no dairy.
unplug at 8pm.
yoga.
Next I create the trackers for the rest of the month and put the sticky note in my daily planner section. Now I write out the rest of the things that I want to accomplish in the next 15 days before the end of the moon on a separate sticky note.
by the end of the moon
update garden journal.
plan one day trip.
record two meditations.
have 3 more Fit Fridays.
My feeling bass intention for this full moon is: “I clarify my purpose, illuminate & fulfill my potential. I shift and TACKLE my goals for this moon.” Then I finish off my full moon goal setting check in by drawing in a leaf on my little tracker.
“I clarify my purpose, illuminate & fulfill my potential. I shift and TACKLE my goals for this moon.”
jenny Proczko, 9th Full Moon CHeck In Mantra & intention
How about you? Were you able to accomplish your goals so far this month, or did you fall short like I did? I am just so behind in my goals practice right now. But I know I can’t be alone in that. Let me know in the comments down below if you are having a hard time accomplishing your goals right now too.
ALSO!!!! What progress have you made on your goals this month? Are you on track for the Balsamic moon or did you have to retool your goals and intentions for the month?
Today it’s time for my 9th New Moon Lunar Goal Setting Session. This is how I set goals for the month. I actually use the moon to keep myself on track. I use the eight lunar phases as check-in points to make sure that I’m on top of my goals for the year, and also for this month.
So lets go ahead and start with our new moon beginnings. I really enjoyed creating the my September Plan With Me. So grab a cup of tea and your favorite pen, and set your monthly goals with me!
Today I’m using the Illuminated Tarot deck. I really like this deck because it can double as playing cards and its just stunning to look at. I’m actually going to be pulling out one of the cards as inspiration for this Fall. I’m going to tuck it into the frame of my mirror so I can be inspired by it every morning.
This month I’m using Illuminated Tarot Guidebook and Deck, you can actually use this deck as playing cards as well. This layout is from my September Monthly Plan With Me. I like to start by shuffling the deck 3 times, or whatever feels good, and then I cut the deck. This month for my journaling prompts I’ll be focusing on:
to have to do to be
I like to write down any notes that jump out at me from the guidebooks as I journal. This month AND last month, I pulled all Spades from the Illuminated Tarot Deck. I swear I’m shuffling this deck! I drew the Queen of Spades, 10 of Spades, and 3 of Spades.
For the 3 of Spades, under “to be,” I wrote, moving beyond sorrow understanding one’s own feelings.
For “to do,” I drew the Ten of Spades, which is judgement, waking up, and an announcement. It also has a really beautiful folk style rooster illustration.
Out of these themes, I create my mantras for this month with my Mantra Maker on the opposite side of this spread. My mantras for this 9th New Moon are:
I am intelligent & ambitious.
I can show up to be present and do.
I will move beyond my sorrow and work to understand my feelings.
I set these goals to further my progress and focus on the strategy I designed to crush each of these goals.
This month’s lunar theme is:
“gather gratitude & give thanks“
My mantra for this cycle is:
“I descend into myself, to move beyond my frustrations, and to work to better understand my feelings, and my motivations.”
JENNY PROCZKO, from OWLSANDINDIGO 9TH MOON mantra 2019
Then I write the eight steps that I’m going to be taking this month to help me achieve these goals for this lunar month. I always make sure that these steps actually relate back to my yearly spiritual goals. Sometimes these line up with the lunar phases and sometimes they don’t.
Read 4-8 chapters this moon. I’ll be reading one chapter per lunar phase or one chapter every two lunar phases.
Update my garden journal.
Record 2 meditations. I’ve got two little bubbles that I’m going to fill in once I record those meditations.
Cut all dairy this moon.
Fit Fridays. My trigger is not being able to have coffee at home. This will get me outside of the home to go get coffee via bike or walk to cafe. This way I can get coffee and get a little bit of movement in.
Solo Day Trip! Plan. Do. Take Photos!
Techless Sundays. The Habit Stack for this will be coffee & hike with the hubby, groceries and meal prep, podcasts while meal prepping and reading or audio books the rest of the day and evening. This is going to help me stay off the phone and tv.
8 p.m. Unplug. My trigger is actually going to be a phone alarm. The Habit Stack is writing in my 5-year Journal as soon as my phone alarm goes off. Read my bedtime meditation early that way I can reflect on it while I’m doing yoga in the twinkle lights. Then I’m going to continue winding down with 15 minutes of reading in bed.
You might recognize this bullet journal spread, it’s from my September Plan With Me. Make sure you check it out to see the rest of my journal for this month and my weekly spreads! I use this journal as my daily planner now and as my lunar goal setting journal.
Either by the moon or in the morning of each new lunar phase, I set a positive feeling based intention for each of the eight lunar phases. For this new moon I wrote:
“First, I am grateful for the slow build of my goals. I let go of what isn’t serving me and move forward, while paying attention to what is.”
JENNY PROCZKO, from OWLSANDINDIGO 9TH MOON 2019, 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.
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.
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Using tarot cards in this way gives me a new lens in which to look at my life. It’s also given me a lot of inspiration and closure by looking at my life through a different perspective. This practice has also helped me hone my focusing skills and has enabled me to quit second guessing myself. With this practical tarot new moon journaling prompt, I look forward to each lunar cycle and the start of a new chance to achieve my goals.
Now that we have completed this Monthly Lunar Goal Setting session, we can go ahead and bring our 8th Moon Practice to a close. Subscribe so you don’t miss anything. To see how I make sure I’m on track with my goals for each Lunar Month check out the my Full Moon Check In.
It’s finally the end of the lunar cycle and it’s time for the 8th Moon Lunar Review. Lets see how I did on my goals… Did I accomplish them? Did some of them slip a little bit?
This month I noticed that I was not getting everything done that I wanted to. I decided to try something a little different today for how I review my lunar goals. First I’m going to start off with journaling writing prompts: what worked, what didn’t, and what I can improve.
what worked?
what didn’t?
what can I improve?
Starting with what didn’t work… I wasn’t able to allow myself time daily to accomplish my goals for this lunar cycle. Scheduling didn’t work either. I’m going to improve by trying habit stacking and triggers next lunar cycle.
Now for what worked. Starting actually worked. Sometimes starting is just the hardest thing to do. But also the guilt worked, when I didn’t have time or feel like I didn’t have time to set aside for working on these spiritual goals. Next I fill in what I did accomplish and make note of anything that’s left over. My Mantra for the Balsamic Crescent Moon is “I give thanks for what I have learned and let go of what has fallen behind.”
“I give thanks for what I have learned and let go of what has fallen behind.”
Jenny proczko, from owlsandindigo, 8th Balsamic Crescent Moon Goals Review
Lunar Leftovers
This month I’m trying something a little bit different. I do monthly leftovers for my regular bullet journal… so I’m going to try lunar leftovers this month for my balsamic review. I use sticky notes to record what is still yet to be done. I didn’t get to recording two meditations, I still need to write one more meditation script, and I also need to update my garden journal. These are the tasks that are going to carry over to next month or I’m going to try and complete them before this next new moon which is in the next couple of days.
Carry Over To Next New Moon
I also have a stickynote for what I want to carry over to the next new moon. I definitely want to carry over Techless Sunday’s, I really enjoyed that. and for Fridays I still want to walk or bike to work, and I want to read either four to eight chapters of my book next month. I’ll read either one chapter every two lunar phases or one chapter per lunar phase to get to eight.
Habit Stacking & Triggers
The next sticky note is for habit stacking and triggers. I have an 8 p.m. shutdown ritual that I normally do every day. But today I’m going to reorder it, so I can hopefully get in some of these other habits and tasks that I’ve been slacking on. At 8 p.m. I’m going to shut down, and then record my day and my 5-year Journal I’ll read my bedtime meditation early that way I can reflect on the meditation while I’m doing yoga in the twinkle lights in the bedroom. Hopefully this will give me a chance to wind down and do a little bit of reflecting while I get in that daily yoga flow. I completely failed on this month. Then after yoga I’m just going to keep winding down and read for 15 minutes before brushing my teeth and getting into bed to read more or for lights out.
8:00 P.M. Shut Down:
Record my day and my 5-year Journal.
Read bedtime meditation.
Reflect on the meditation during yoga.
Keep winding down.
Read for 15 minutes.
Brush chompers.
Read in bed.
Sleepy time.
I’m also going to habit stack my Techless Sundays. I want to wake up on Sundays and do a hike with my husband. When we get back we’ll meal prep. While meal prepping for the week, I’m going to be listening to podcasts. After I get done doing that the rest of the day I’m going to be reading or doing other activities that are your outdoors and just completely offline. No screentime at all. Except to play my next podcast or audio book.
Techless Sundays
Hike over coffee with the hubby.
Meal Prep Together.
Listen to Podcasts.
Outdoor activities (lounging on the deck or in the hammock).
Read or Listen Books.
Stay Completely Offline & No screen time.
Fit Fridays…. I don’t know how this is going to go…. but I’m going to have a rule that I can’t have coffee at home on friday mornings. Hopefully this will make it so I leave and actually get to a coffee shop or a cafe to have coffee or tea at the cafe. Then I’ll already be at a cafe and I can work remotely for the day.
My little tracker was supposed to be wheat stocks and I really like how it turned out. Then I go back through and star the items that I actually started. Afterwards I take the sticky notes from this Lunar Goals Review and move them forward into the next new moon phase.
Were you able to finish your goals for this lunar month? Did you do a little better than me? I totally slacked on yoga, but I’ve got a plan for next month, so I’m feeling a little bit better about it already. I can’t wait to see your answers in the comments down below.
Today it’s time for my monthly plan with me for my daily planner and spiritual bullet journal. This month like last month, I wanted to keep it a little more simple and more accessible. I was noticing the past couple of months but I just couldn’t get into using my bullet journal and it was driving me kind of crazy. I spent all this time making really beautiful spreads and beautifully decorated journals and I just I didn’t feel the urge to pick them up afterwards. So last month I decided to make myself some stamps and this month stick with a very simple color scheme, of black and blue for the highlight color.
For my September cover page I recreated an eye and inverted flower illustration that I found on Pinterest. I felt like it was just perfect for this beginning of the descent back into myself for self-reflection for the month of September, especially with the fall equinox coming up.
I kept it simple with a another little illustration on the back side of the cover page across from the second harvest spread. This is where I do goal setting with my husband, eight times a year. The theme for this moon is, “gather gratitude and give thanks.” On the fall equinox I will be writing out my challenges for the upcoming months, my goals, and then how I’m going to achieve them. This is a really nice way to bond as a couple and to talk about our joint goals and then also our goals as individuals. This is a practice that we make sure we always make time for and is very special to us.
my challenges
my goals
how I’m going to do it
The theme the 9th Moon is “gather gratitude and give thanks.”
Not only do I do goal setting every month, I also do goal setting eight times a year that coincide with the change of the seasons. So at every equinox and solstice I check in with my goals for the year to see how I’m doing.
My lunar calendar spread has a really simple illustration like the mini one on the previous spread. The way that I kept this journaling practice accessible for myself this month was by creating my own set of moon phase stamps. I realized that I was taking a lot of time to draw the moon phases every month and it just became kind of a hassle. I really wanted to enjoy the experience again, so I created my own stamps! I’m actually going to have a video on how I made them coming out soon to make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss them! This lunar month circular spread has every single day of the lunar month and each of the moon phases. On each moon phase I write a feeling based intention that propels my goals throughout the entire lunar month. I also have a little tracker to make sure I say my mantras everyday when I check in.
This month I am trying out something a little different, I am writing my intentions and the eight steps I’m going to take to make sure that I achieved those intentions this month. I also decided to bring back the little daily tracker to make sure that I’m saying my daily Mantra every morning. And also the other mantras that I come up with during my next video which is going to be my 9th moon lunar goal setting video so make sure you subscribe she don’t miss that that will be coming in a few days. This month I’ve also included a fold out page with my spiritual goals for the year. I just wanted to make sure that I was thinking about my goals and I had them top of mind.
New Moon Beginnings:
to have…
to do…
to be…
For my New Moon Beginnings spread I have the prompts, to have, to do, and to be. On the backside of this fold out I’m going to be writing out my spiritual goals for the year. Writing them out each month makes them top of mind every time I look at this page. On the opposite side I have the theme for the lunar month, “gather gratitude and give thanks.” This is my Mantra Maker fold out. I use the prompts, I am, I can, I will, and I set these go to…” On the backside of this fold out I have my Full Moon Check-In and my Balsamic Moon Review. I’ll be thinking about these prompts when I do my 9th Moon Lunar Goal Setting video which is coming up next.
I am…
I can…
I will…
I’ve set these goals to...
This next spread is my September Daily Draw. I really enjoyed this spread last month and wanted to make sure that I left myself with another daily creative outlet.
Last month I really really enjoyed having a mental inventory page as opposed to a brain dump page. This is a place where I keep all of the random thoughts that pop up in my head from my anxiety that’s trying to distract me and keep me off track. These ideas are going to live for the entire month, and I’ll know exactly where to go so I can come back and find those ideas. I won’t have to worry about them anymore, I can just write them down and let them go until I have time to actually complete the task or to take action on any of the things I have written down on my mental inventory page.
I like how grungy the watercolors turned out this month and how it bled through, underneath the sticky notes I used as templates. This is my September monthly overview spread. I have all the dates, and I’m using the smallest size of my moon phase stamps. On the bottom I have boxes for creative and personal tasks. An open box for anything that pops up, like for a trip list and then the last one will be any upcoming dates for the future months.
At the end of the month is where I do all of my journaling and my reflecting. I’ll have my September 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. I also have monthly prompts for “unravel your month” that I do for my words of the year “flux and flow.”
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?
The very last spread in my monthly stack is my leftovers spread. I usually have tasks that I don’t get to, and just wanted to make sure that I had a place to write them all down so I could easily transfer them over to the next month. At the bottom of the page I’m using my stamps again, a little moon, and cup of coffee.
And finally, the most important question of the month, out monthly spirituality writing prompt:
Today I’m sharing my 8th Full Moon Goal Setting Check In. I really enjoyed creating the my August Plan With Me featured in my spreads. So grab a cup of tea and your favorite pen, and set check in on your monthly goals with me!
The theme this month is receive abundance and that is because we are in the first harvest. On every full moon check in, I always ask myself two things: what have I succeeded in this lunar month? And what can I improve?
There’s always things that we can improve on whether we’re actually on top of our goals and have gotten everything done. There’s definitely little things along the way that we could have done better.
what have I succeeded in this lunar month?
what can I improve?
One of my goals was to schedule time in my planner to make time to sit down and actually do some of my goals and work on my goals. I got those scheduled, but unfortunately throughout the flow of each day I had to shift things around. Scheduling just didn’t work a couple of days this week, in fact, I actually had to push it to the next day. So there was definitely something I could have done better.
I technically achieved one of the eight steps for my entire goal this month by scheduling it. But I could’ve done it better. I should have taken into account the workload that I had AND everything that I had to do in the three pillars of my life which are personal, home, and my business.
Unfortunately, I just didn’t think about that…. and …. I should have. That’s something that I’m going to be improving on throughout the rest of the month and also in future months.
What progress have you made on your goals this month? Are you on track for the Balsamic moon or did you have to retool your goals and intentions for the month?
Today I’m sharing my 8th New Moon Goals. So lets go ahead and start with our new moon beginnings. I really enjoyed creating the my August Plan With Me. So grab a cup of tea and your favorite pen, and set your monthly goals with me!
I’m also using some oil to make this feel special. This is actually a custom oil, it’s got a bunch of different herbs in it, that I’ve been using for years. Shout out to Sarah K. the beautiful soul that I made this very bottle with all those years ago. I use this oil on special occasions or for goal-setting practices like today.
This month I’m using Illuminated Tarot Guidebook and Deck, you can actually use this deck as playing cards as well. This layout is from my August Monthly Plan With Me. I like to start by shuffling the deck 3 times, or whatever feels good, and then I cut the deck. This month for my journaling prompts I’ll be focusing on:
to have to do to be
I like to write down any notes that jump out at me from the guidebooks as I journal. This month I pulled all Spades from the Illuminated Tarot Deck. I drew the King of Spades, the Eight of Spades, and the Jack of Spades. The King of Spades is the Emperor and he stands for wisdom experience and Authority. The Jack of Spades stands for caution and potential. The Eight of Spades is Justice, standing for reason and fairness.Out of these themes, I create my mantras for this month with my Mantra Maker on the opposite side of this spread. My mantras for this 8th New Moon are:
“I am full of wisdom experience and Authority in my knowledge.”
“I can live my dreams goals and potential.”
“I will be cautious, just, and fair to myself.”
“I set these goals to gain wisdom for myself and to live up to and beyond my potential.”
This month’s lunar theme is:
receive abundance
My mantra for this cycle is:
“The tools to achieve my goals are already inside me. I’ve set these goals to gain wisdom and to be the best version of myself.”
JENNY PROCZKO, 8TH MOON mantra 2019
Then I write the eight steps that I’m going to be taking this month to help me achieve these goals for this lunar month. I always make sure that these steps actually relate back to my yearly spiritual goals.
You might recognize this bullet journal spread, it’s from my August Plan With Me. Make sure you check it out to see the rest of my journal for this month and my weekly spreads! I use this journal as my daily planner now and as my lunar goal setting journal.
Either by the moon or in the morning of each new lunar phase, I set a positive feeling based intention for each of the eight lunar phases. For this new moon I wrote:
“I set this intention to be the best version of myself. I feel it in my body.”
JENNY PROCZKO, 8TH MOON 2019, 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!
On the final Crescent Moon of the lunar cycle I do a Lunar Review of the entire month tracking my journey back to the new moon. First I think about what worked, what didn’t, and what I can improve. Then I reflect on the biggest wins of the lunar month.
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.
Using tarot cards in this way gives me a new lens in which to look at my life. It’s also given me a lot of inspiration and closure by looking at my life through a different perspective. This practice has also helped me hone my focusing skills and has enabled me to quit second guessing myself. With this practical tarot new moon journaling prompt, I look forward to each lunar cycle and the start of a new chance to achieve my goals.
Now that we have completed this Monthly Lunar Goal Setting session, we can go ahead and bring our 8th Moon Practice to a close. Subscribe so you don’t miss anything. To see how I make sure I’m on track with my goals for each Lunar Month check out the my Full Moon Check In.
Today it’s time for my monthly plan with me for my daily planner and spiritual bullet journal. This month, I wanted to keep it a little more simple and more accessible. I was noticing the past couple of months but I just couldn’t get into using my bullet journal and it was driving me kind of crazy. I spent all this time making really beautiful spreads and beautifully decorated journals and I just I didn’t feel the urge to pick them up afterwards. So this month I decided to make myself some stamps and stick with a very simple color scheme, of black and tan for the highlight color.
For my August cover page I decided to recreate a sigil that reminded me a lot of Fall & Autumn. I’m really excited for the first harvest coming up on August 1st, so I thought that this would be a perfect addition for my cover page. I kept it simple with a another sigil on the back side of the cover page across from the first harvest spread. The theme for this 8th Moon is “receive abundance.” I do goal-setting with my husband eight times a year. We always right out our challenges, goals and how we’re going to achieve them.
my challenges
my goals
how I’m going to do it
The theme the 8th Moon is “receive abundance.”
Not only do I do goal setting every month, I also do goal setting eight times a year that coincide with the change of the seasons. So at every equinox and solstice I check in with my goals for the year to see how I’m doing.
My lunar calendar spread has a really simple sigil like circle in the middle with dots around it. The way that I kept this journaling practice accessible for myself this month was by creating my own set of moon phase stamps. I realized that I was taking a lot of time to draw the moon phases every month and it just became kind of a hassle. I really wanted to enjoy the experience again, so I created my own stamps! I’m actually going to have a video on how I made them coming out soon to make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss them! This lunar month circular spread has every single day of the lunar month and each of the moon phases.
This month I am trying out something a little different, I am writing my intentions and the eight steps I’m going to take to make sure that I achieved those intentions this month. I also decided to bring back the little daily tracker to make sure that I’m saying my daily Mantra every morning. And also the other mantras that I come up with during my next video which is going to be my 8th moon lunar goal setting video so make sure you subscribe she don’t miss that that will be coming in a few days. This month I’ve also included a fold out page with my spiritual goals for the year. I just wanted to make sure that I was thinking about my goals and I had them top of mind.
New Moon Beginnings:
to have…
to do…
to be…
For the New Moon Beginnings spread, I have three sections: to have, to do, and to be, that I will be filling out with my tarot cards. On the next page I do my lunar goal setting, with my mantra maker. The sections are titled, I am, I can, I’ve done, and I will. I’ll be thinking about these prompts when I do my 8th Moon Lunar Goal Setting video which is coming up next.
For the new moon beginnings I am using my new moon stamp and leaving three sections below it. This is where I will write down my tarot cards that I pull during the lunar goal setting planning session which is going to be next!
On the opposite side of this spread I’m creating another fold out page with my mantra maker on it. This is where I’m going to be creating mantras for myself to say along with my main daily Mantra. These mantras get created out of the tarot cards that I pull, along with their themes, and any other ideas, feelings, and thoughts that the cards happened to prompt me to think of. On the inside of this fold out I have my full moon check in and my Balsamic Moon Review.
I am…
I can…
I’ve done…
I will...
This next spread is my August Daily Draw. Every day I’m going to be drawing in my depiction of every tarot card that I pull and I’ll write down any themes that jump out at me as well.
The next page is decorated with my stamps again! Its my brain dump page. I usually have a lot of ideas that are floating around in my head that cause me a lot of anxiety. It’s because I can’t just drop everything and tend to those things that pop up in my mind. I have a really hard time with getting distracted. Implementing this brain dump page for all of these rouge ideas is really going to help me. I want to make sure that I don’t forget about these ideas so now I have a place for them that I can always come back to.
For my weekly spreads this month I’m including the fold out pages again. I have my august events on one side and my upcoming events on the other. On the outside of these fold out pages I am going to be using my sticky note system. I color code my sticky notes and use them for important tasks, personal tasks, Owls&Indigo tasks, and my other business tasks.
This is my “unravel your month” pages all the way back at the beginning of this month’s design, bringing us full circle. My words this year are flux and flow. Underneath this section is where I write out my monthly journaling prompt that I share with you every month.
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?
The very last spread of the month is my leftovers spread. I usually have tasks that I don’t get to, and just wanted to make sure that I had a place to write them all down so I could easily transfer them over to the next month. At the bottom of the page I’m using my stamps again, a little tree, moon, and cup of coffee.
And finally, the most important question of the month, out monthly spirituality writing prompt:
Today is a New Moon and its time to set our goals for the lunar month. So lets go ahead and start with our new moon beginnings. I really enjoyed creating the my July Plan With Me. So grab some tea and light a candle with me as we do some goal setting.
The deck that I’m using today is the Animal Spirit Deck by Kim Krans. This layout is from my July Monthly Plan With Me. I like to shuffle the deck three times or whatever feels good. The layout I’m using today is a 3 card layout with the prompts, to have, to do, and to be. For to have I drew the bat, for to do the fox, and for to be the lizard.
to have to do to be
I also like to write down anything that jumps out at me from the guide book that goes along with whatever deck that I’m using using. The tarot cards gives my brain a little bit of a jump start, that gets me thinking almost automatically from a different perspective when I reflect on my current situation.
For the bat I wrote, darkness, letting go, death leading to rebirth. When in balance: accepts, adapts, adjusts. When out of balance: refuses to let go, reminisces. To bring into balance: watch the sun rise.
For the fox I wrote, smart, strong partner or mate, wise teacher. Skillful in business, quick to adapt. When out of balance: unsure of their identity. To bring into balance: partnership, connection.
These themes jumped out at me when I was reading the guidebook because I am an in a bit of a phase where I’m having problems executing and doing. I feel kind of stuck right now. So I feel like these themes are actually going to help me remind myself, “you can do this, keep going.”
For the lizard I wrote, instinctual, sensitive to the subtle, dreamer. Intuition, sees what it wants to manifest. When out of balance: elusive, non committal, flaky. To bring into balance: a creative project.
This month’s lunar theme is:
follow your intentions
On the next page I write my mantras for the month that popped up out of this New Moon Beginnings tarot prompts. I have four sections here, I am, I can, I’ve done, and I will. The mantras that I was inspired to write were…
I am committed to my goals and my spiritual practices.
JENNY PROCZKO, 7TH MOON mantra 2019
I am skillful in business.
JENNY PROCZKO, 7TH MOON MANTRA 2019
I can see what I want to manifest.
JENNY PROCZKO, 7TH MOON MANTRA 2019
I set these goals to further my growth and development as a Spiritual Nomad.
JENNY PROCZKO, 7TH MOON MANTRA 2019
I will continue to accept, adapt, and adjust, quickly.
JENNY PROCZKO, 7TH MOON MANTRA 2019
Since I’ve been in such a weird place lately I decided to re-include the challenges, goals, and how I’m going to do it page.
challenges goals how I’m going to do it
This month my challenges are going to be the doing and getting back into the flow of work and my spiritual practices and mindfulness routine. My goals are going to be daily movement, to unplug at 8 p.m., and have three cooking weekends. And now, how I’m going to do it, I’m going to adapt quickly and set boundaries for myself by saying no to the things that do not further my growth. And secondly, I’m going to time block for movement, creating, consuming, and re-connection. At the bottom of the page I have a little note here to make sure that these goals support my yearly goals. I think of these goals align with my yearly spiritual goals too.
This month my intentions are to get daily movement built into my schedule, unplug at 8 p.m. and have three cooking weekends. I’m also looking forward to connecting and moving at the conference and at the party the following day.
My main mantra for this month is, I have set aside time for movement creating consuming and re-connection. I’ll be saying this Mantra everyday when I check in with my journal. Now I’m finishing up my new moon lunar goal-setting practice with my New Moon Intention: I am flowering I have clarified my purpose and descended into myself to see myself clearly and change to focus on being my best and true self.
My mantra for this cycle is:
I have set aside time for movement creating consuming and re-connection.
JENNY PROCZKO, 7TH MOON MANTRA 2019
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Either by the moon or in the morning of each new lunar phase, I set a positive feeling based intention for each of the eight lunar phases. For this new moon I wrote:
I am flowering I have clarified my purpose and descended into myself to see myself clearly and change to focus on being my best and true self.
Jenny Proczko, 7th Moon 2019, 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!
On the final Crescent Moon of the lunar cycle I do a Lunar Review of the entire month tracking my journey back to the new moon. First I think about what worked, what didn’t, and what I can improve. Then I reflect on the biggest wins of the lunar month.
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.
Using tarot cards in this way gives me a new lens in which to look at my life. It’s also given me a lot of inspiration and closure by looking at my life through a different perspective. This practice has also helped me hone my focusing skills and has enabled me to quit second guessing myself. With this practical tarot new moon journaling prompt, I look forward to each lunar cycle and the start of a new chance to achieve my goals.
Now that we have completed this Monthly Lunar Goal Setting session, we can go ahead and bring our New Moon Goals Setting Practice to a close.
Subscribe so you don’t miss anything. To see how I make sure I’m on track with my goals for each Lunar Month check out the my Full Moon Check In.
Today it’s time for my July monthly plan with me for my daily planner and spiritual bullet journal. First, to start, I’m just writing in the month and using moon symbols instead of the dates on the days that have a new moon phase.
I felt like doing some more water coloring this month and wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted to do at first. But lately I’ve really been excited about daylilies that are going to be coming up in our area. I have some lilies in my garden but I don’t have daylilies, and 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. So the theme for this month is botanical with very simple watercolor tiger lilies. Once I finally figured out just how I wanted the Tiger Lillies to look with the watercolor brush that I happen to have, I was able to get this really light orange color to give an almost faded look.
Usually at the end of the month I have a monthly review, but I moved it from the back, to the front this month, because I found that as soon as I made the monthly overview page, I never went back to it. I was only seeing while I was filming creating the initial doodle and layout. Then I just never went back to it, so I decided to make everything full circle this month. At the end of the month I will be going full circle by going all the way back to the beginning for my monthly review. I think that this is going to be a really great addition to looking back at these journals in the future.
I have these faux dutch doors where I’ll be writing my goals and then asking myself “did I accomplish my goals?” And my focus for the month and then asking myself “did I keep the focus this month.” On the inside I’ll have a few more questions that I like to ask myself at the end of the month.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the little line drawing doodle that I did of myself a couple of months ago, so I wanted to include it this month in my gratitude log, which is also a my letters to the universe spread.
July Lunar Bullet Journal – Spiritual BUJO Plan With Me
This month I decided to move my daily planner up to the beginning of my layouts. I’ve recreated the mini month overview, with the moon phases up in the left hand corner. I also have a tooooooon of faux dutch doors in my daily planner section. There is one for each week, with the appointments on the outside, and then on the inside I have a section for my to do’s and my notes. On the back of this faux dutch door is the weekend.
I usually do more on the weekend and I needed a little bit more room to make sure I had enough space for all of the lisst and things that I might need for the weekend. Like if we were going traveling, or if I decided to do some organizing, or something that just required a more dense list for the weekend.
This month the New Moon Beginnings spread is going to be huge but it’s actually pretty simple to do. These are the same two pages that I’ve been using the past couple of months that I use my tarot deck with.
The theme the 7th Moon is “follow your intentions.”
Not only do I do goal setting every month, I also do goal setting eight times a year that coincide with the change of the seasons. So at every equinox and solstice I check in with my goals for the year to see how I’m doing.
New Moon Beginnings: to have, to do, and to be.
For the New Moon Beginnings spread, I have three columns: to have, to do, and to be. On the next page is where I do my lunar goal setting, which is different than what I normally do. I was inspired by a lunar journal that I saw on Pinterest. It has four sections, and in the middle a moon and a sun doodle. The sections are titled, I am, I can, I’ve done, and I will. I’ll be thinking about these prompts when I do my 7th Moon Lunar Goal Setting video which is coming up next.
I am… I can… I’ve done… I will...
My full lunar month circular spread has every single day of the lunar month and each of the moon phases decorated with the same simple tiger lilies. I also like to use dutch door spreads on this lunar layout each month. I have a space for my full moon check in, my intention for the month, my monthly mantra, and then on the outside of the dutch door flaps, a space to write down what I’m looking forward to this month and on the other side, and space for my 7th moon lunar review that I do at the end of the month.
This is where I’ll be doing the full moon review that I normally do mid-month and at the end of the month my monthly lunar review for the Balsamic Moon, which is the last crescent moon of the month. This month I also wanted to add back in a few pages that I excluded last month. On these pages I’ll be writing out:
my challenges my goals how I’m going to do it
There is also a little reminder to make sure that these correspond with the goals that I set back at the beginning of the year. I noticed I was creating new goals for each month that had almost nothing to do with my original goals from January. So I wanted to change that.
The very last spread of the month is my “unravel your month” pages all the way back at the beginning of this month’s design, bringing us full circle. My words this year are flux and flow. Underneath this section is where I write out my monthly journaling prompt that I share with you every month.
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, out monthly spirituality writing prompt:
