A grimoire records your personal journey through the world of magick. It's where you record your favorite spells, chronicle your magical developments, and keep your most treasured secrets. And now, Skye Alexander, spellcraft expert and author of The Modern Guide to Witchcraft, teaches you how to create your own.
First, you'll learn the importance and history of the witch's grimoire. Then, you'll go step by step through the process of putting together your very own book. From selecting spells to blessing your grimoire, you will be able to personalize your book of shadows and tailor it to your specific powers.
With your own grimoire in hand, you'll be ready to continue your journey in learning the craft.
I was actually quite disappointed with The Modern Witchcraft Grimoire by Skye Alexander. I started reading it after finishing The Modern Guide to Witchcraft, by the same author, and after finishing the first section with great info about what a grimoire/book of shadows is, why a witch requires one, how to choose or make one, and how you may want to organise it, the second section basically repeated a whole lot of what I read in The Modern Guide to Witchcraft - sometimes word for word. This book could have been a hell of a lot shorter, in my opinion - and yet, I guess maybe some of this information is actually really important, and if you hadn't yet read The Modern Guide to Witchcraft, then it's probably useful, but I was just reading a lot of what I had already just read.
Saying that, it did talk about symbols and sigils, runes, dreams, and occasionally built upon the information provided in the first book on crystals, for example. So again, I have dipped in and out of it since reading, to gather the information I want to include in my own grimoire (correspondences for planets, days of the week, moon signs, moon phases, colours, crystals, numbers, etc.). But I am quite wary of buying any more books by Alexander in this series specifically to do with witchcraft - she has also written The Modern Witchcraft Spell Book and The Modern Witchcraft Book of Love Spells. If I had to choose between the two books I'd say maybe buy The Modern Witchcraft Grimoire, but there are a few elements that are in one and not the other.
However, her writing, the depth of information, and how easy she is to understand has led me to order her The Modern Witchcraft Book of Tarot - I have a few books on tarot that I've been reading, but have been finding it difficult, so I'm hoping Alexander will help here.
