My Teenage BOS (Book of Shadows)

[@Mary-td2zw]

This is so adorable and pure. My teenage BoS is a lot like this...so many pages information and whole rituals copied down with scattered clippings from Pyramid Collection catalogs and old fantasy books. I've definitely gotten more intuition based in my practice compared to technical...but still find the youthful obsession with getting ALL THE INFORMATION EVER just precious.

[@ultravioletpisces3666]

Lol I'm 43 and still have that obsession (not just about paganism) ;)

[@jazlynbell8202]

Using your teenage BOS as ideas since I'm a teen currently. :)

[@Samuel-ku1qb]

same here!

[@Emmaiya]

I’m also looking into Wicca. If you have an instagram we can follow each other! @emmaiya

[@garrettwood4866]

I’ve been a witch since I was a newborn.

[@gray333]

same!

[@RowanWiccae]

Now this is in no way a bash on your teen BOS. Quite the contrary, something I really love about your old BOS is how '90s' it looks and feels. all those pictures (yes, including the Xena ones) are so dated and so funny and iconic of the time period they come from. I was born in 91 so while I was a super little kid in the 90s I still remember that sort of 90's aesthetic. Art, both fantasy and pop-culture had a distinct feel from the 90s and my 8-11 year old self LOVED Xena and Hercules and Charmed when all those were out at that time. So yah, as an adult looking at your teenage BOS from the 90s is almost nostalgic even for me to look at :) Adorable and impressive.

[@kaylajean9672]

You remind me of Molly Roberts from Her Speak. You both just sound the same. This whole video had absolutely nothing to do with me but yet it was so interesting being able to basically go back to the past with you, even though I wasn't born until 2000...

[@Alexosys]

TBH i looked in the comment to see if anyone else noticed that, they definitely have similar mannerisms, i love it

[@ultravioletpisces3666]

Yes... I watched a lot of sacred seed videos that didn't show her face and wondered if they were the same! :0

[@ameliaagan1538]

even tho u consider it disorganized this is honestly a really beautiful book! It inspired me to start working on my own notebook grimoire (finally lmao) and just go nuts with it and it makes me so much happier! you have such a good eye for design

[@crysispersists9972]

Do not be embarassed by this book, it looks so amazing!

[@NorsePaganTarotWitch]

What an epic Book of Shadows! I wish I had made one back when I was 12-14 when I first got into Tarot and Witchcraft. But alas, I was forced to get rid of it because of my Christian family (my father's side). Thank you for sharing your memories with us.

[@crafty_capricorn]

Is it funny that I'm super inspired by this whimsical approach? So much so, I may even borrow this idea. I wish I still had my old composition notebooks from when I first started my journey. I still consider myself a baby witch though, and this is such a great alternative to constantly starting new books of shadows. I LOVE the collaging and organic note taking. I have several marble books laying around that have bits of witchy notes-they deserve a collaborative home. Thanks so much for sharing. Blessings! 🖤

[@blairmirth6328]

I definetly think that Journals are a book of shadows for me as well, a branch off. I did a lot of my path finding through writing stories and journaling and then as I got into adulthood applied more of the principle of adding stuff into a journal around the path. I recently pulled my first book out, from two years ago [when I refound my path] and most it is full of intiation information and the first kernels of the direction I was moving in. Thank you for sharing this fantastic part of your spiritual linerage. I love the idea of the book portal. Making it accessible at all times. What a brilliant idea

[@norash7777]

This is so cool!! Love the idea of special "dedicated" pages--will definitely try with my book! Keep up the great work!

[@butterflymagicwithhottea9291]

I keep coming back to this video and watch it every few months. It just brings me joy. Suppose I should show mine at some point. Hello Elle!

[@WizardofTacoma]

The teenage practitioners first BoS, is a time of learning, who you are and shows your growth spiritually. When looking back over thime, in 20 or 30 year your path, and belief may have altered significantly, or just become more refind. The biggest mistake, is not documenting the sources, of things written by other authors, and crediting the sources of art work. There may come a time, when the sources material maybe needed.

[@thatsmyaura]

thank God, I'm at my first BoS. After seeing this comment I will start to write down sources and artists etc. IT WILL SAVE ME IN THE FUTURE!!! lol

[@bassdylan7048]

I love the unfiltered, untainted, raw, modest honesty of this video. I’m in love with your books of shadows. So inspirational.

[@nae.nae..]

Love the magazine and poster clips, tape, and composition book. It really adds to the youthful feel 💙💙💙

[@LexiePersonForever]

i'm a witchling just over a year old, so seeing people who've been practicing for so long is super inspiring. i'm so excited to see where i end up

[@giapelle4589]

I had fun watching you revisit your younger witch days. It made me get out my first BOS from 1997 and like you...I laughed at myself. Those old BOS's are great though, as they remind of us how far we've come as witches and the journey that has led us to where we now are. Who knows, in twenty years from now I may giggle a bit at what I am currently doing. Thanks for sharing.

[@marybowling27126]

Not sure which I liked better- the book or you giggling in embarrassment about the book 😂😂

[@sofifi03]

You are an interesting person, very different from the more traditional witches of my friends and family here in England. I haven’t met many American witches but you are all very different people and it so amazing. You all have a different take on our religion and I respect that and I LOVE that you followed the traditional Norse/Celtic path. I fluently speak Gaelic and English and I’m so happy you made the effort to speak and write it in your spells

[@ultravioletpisces3666]

I've watched this before and I enjoyed it so much I came back to see it again. I really love this.

[@melwhitworth3077]

Such sweet hand writing. Love to go back and see how far we have come. How we have grown. What we have learned. Where it has lead us to now. Thanks for sharing who you are and who you became that person.

[@merwenna]

Fun! I had sketchbooks filled with collaged images, drawings, and other things I copied over from books. Miss Mash of everything. Xena! Xena, Hercules, and Buffy were my shows back in the day haha.

[@MoondragonsEyrie]

How wonderful that you still have this book! A wonderful exploration of your spirituality through such youthful eyes. I enjoyed this very much.

[@AG-yt8zk]

I'm so jealous of your teenage Book of Shadows!! You've given me some ideas for mine. Thanks for sharing!

[@Bianca-lh3jq]

I’m starting my first BOS✨ currently 17 going on 18 pretty soon. Thanks for sharing 💘 I love your channel!!

[@ultravioletpisces3666]

I have a journal which is FILLED with notes from drawing down the moon which I checked out of the library and which is a published masters thesis on witchcraft in America from the early 90s I think

[@hotmessjess3390]

I loved this. The 70's fantasy art always reminds me of those custom vans with wizards airbrushed on them (which I totally covet BTW).

[@sacredseed1295]

jessie hughes omg I would totally kill for one of those vans!! lmao

[@norash7777]

Rewatching this video for inspiration i always find some new, cool thing in your work that I can incorporate and inspire me further in my own practice. 3 thoughts I have after watching your video. 1) you continue to be effing hilarious. 2) you have the neatest teenager handwriting i swear I have ever seen. 3) I really need a full flipthrough/more updates on your new BOS that you made (love the video you already posted!) looking forward to more great content! Xoxo

[@KateyFlowers]

Pretty sure Xena was my first lady crush! :D

[@princess4509]

Katey Flowers same

[@JaediasDragonChronicle]

Oh MY god this is glorious and I love it and I'm kinda jealous because during my late teens (you know, the "I'm wayyy too old for THAT now" phase) I threw out all books of shadows and let my dad sell all my witchy books and agh I wish I still had them!! It was a bunch of stuff copied from books but it's history. :D

[@DivineGypsy]

Xena is one of my favorite power ladies 💕💕 but I laughed when you had your hot topic logo because I was a huge metal head and emo Rock lover lol you brought me back to the good old days

[@tracifior2199]

Great, yes we do start this way. Intro to a Path, intuition development and exploration

[@paperstorycraft]

I’m totally obsessed and think I’m going to have to make myself one. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@theblackberryhag]

Oh my goodness, what a trip down memory lane--thank you for sharing this with us! I no longer have them (due to various moves over the years) but my first grimoire-type books were very much like this, with just anything I found inspiring printed out (or cut out of magazines) and stuck in.

[@Raduselderbrother]

Im not quite a teen yet but soon ill have to start one of these to look back on

[@butterflymagicwithhottea9291]

So much fun to look through this book with you. Thank you for your nostalgic descriptions.

[@dogu1185]

I'm new to this. I know some things and have done some things. I'm at the point where I want to make a book of shadows but I didn't know where to start, so I checked this and it helped alot. Thank you :).

[@Earthwise.]

You're so lucky to have that. I tried keeping Books of Shadows when I was younger, but my mother somehow always found them and destroyed them 😔. Even now I find it hard to keep a book (I'm working on it, and you're part of my inspiration) because I have this ingrained fear of losing it. Now my problem is do I want a big book or a small book, an artsy book or a plain book... decisions, decisions 😁

[@kitdubhran2968]

Gareth the Blue if you're struggling with keeping a book, you can keep the basics on the computer, in Evernote or just online somehow, that way if the book gets destroyed somehow, you at least still have the basics saved somewhere.

[@tinglesrosyrupeeland]

I'm so glad that you are free to practice how you wish now!

[@XX-xq1dh]

Man im so lucky because of my parents are atheist so they don’t care that I’m Wicca

[@sh4pesh1ftr41]

It really takes guts to share something like that! Kudos :) Really cool to see other peoples process

[@cynth7616]

Wow thanks for sharing. I started lots of "diaries" back in the day but they have been lost. I really love the Mothers prayer, it really is beautiful.

[@marigoldwitch]

I have all my old books too but most of them were written in pencil and are pretty faded so it's really hard to read any of them. I too am working on creating a new one and I've learned my lesson, write in pen LOL. Thanks for sharing :)

[@DocHollidaysGal1985]

Still have the hugest crush on Ares from Hercules and Xena lol. Love your book of shadows!

[@ultravioletpisces3666]

He died :( I love him too.

[@paperwormscat9760]

Actually, thats exactly how I wish my future Book of Shadows would look like. Random and chaotic, authentic, learning instead of making super pretty pages. I love this. Could watch over and over again! 🖤

[@lricci007]

Duct tape works wonders on everything even books of shadows. 😊

[@joshuaraylancaster7401]

Absolutely beautiful love your book of shadows

[@NoraSNch3z]

Ha ha im a year late on this video,but since I met you, I now have 3 books, trimmed my first deck, and have 18 and two decks coming In the mail !!! Lmfao ..I love you Elle ❤

[@ewargophoto]

I loved this! Thanks so much for posting this. You've completely inspired me! I totally wish I had kept a bos when I was younger! X

[@evelinetimeless8602]

Oh wow, absolutely loved that! It reminded me a bit of the series Courtney of Ravenink did a few years ago called 'Journal keeper' where she showed all her journals and how she started art journaling. Very very cool! Thank you for sharing this, amazing stuff in there. Are you going to copy some of the poems/prayers into your current book?

[@Litcott]

Haha, this is awesome. I wish I held on to anything like this from when I was younger but it all inevitably got destroyed and thrown out because I'd grow to find it embarrassing.

[@sonyamareestead6391]

I started my research a couple of months ago and I am enjoying it a lot and practicing as well

[@stevenbrightuk]

This was wonderful! Was so great to share with you. Its brimming with love, energy and creativity.

[@moonstar1907]

The fact that you were obsessed with Xena is amazing. My mother was the exact same way and she named me after Callisto ^^

[@sacredseed1295]

Moon Star lol I love it so much! bestest name ever... after xena I guess haha :)

[@ultravioletpisces3666]

So cool!

[@SerafiniAGaunt]

I LOVE your voice

[@ultravioletpisces3666]

Molly Roberts sounds very similar and also clicks her nails a lot. She doesn't do asmr, but her videos are kind of asmr-like. Sacred seed doesn't seem to have posted anything in a year, which stinks because she's one of my faves-- although she does have a ton of back catalog for me to catch up on. Still would be super cool if she was still around. I'd love to see what she's up to now and that she's doing well.

[@Mario10016]

thank you for sharing your journey. it's all so wonderful. Blessing to you.

[@RowantarotBlogspot]

This book feels so real. Thanks for sharing it. :)

[@luisak68]

Im a really really late starter, so so I didnt get to have a BOS. But as an artist you have some great old art in your teen BOS. Im just discovering my path now, after the family has flown the coup, so what would you recommend to someone starting on their path? Cheer frm Australia .

[@lainyh4565]

I started at 16 or 17 and right now im 19 almost 20 and im still starting my book of shadows and did like your teenage book of shadows with taping notebooks together

[@freiwynlovelace9329]

I get such good vibes from this grimoire!!! I love it! ^u^

[@BroomClosetArtistry]

I did a video like this recently also!!! It was so fun and cringy and awesome to see our origin stories. I love this! New subscriber here nice to meet you. Xoxo

[@butterflymagicwithhottea9291]

Loved this flip through. Thank you for sharing.

[@joreljackson3012]

You're book is beautiful even with the stains and all. We share similar tastes, but I am a male. I did this stuff when I was younger and some of the pics I glued or taped in were the same, paintings by Boris Vallejo and his wife. It's good you still have this to look back on. I had mine stored in a place where I had to pay rent and times got hard and it was all lost. I can only wonder at what anyone might have thought as they might have looked over this particular item taped up in a cardboard box if anyone did.

[@OmegaF77]

I'm currently trying to make my own Book of Shadows. It would probably be filled with algorithms, code, and electrical circuit diagrams.

[@aideen3870]

An good idea for my teenage aesthetic bos! :)

[@InTheMusicBox]

Hey, just found your channel. Love the way you present! Well done, subscribed!

[@summerrain2171]

Me being a teen you saying that we are exploring everything it's so true

[@Stuckinabucketagain]

My BOS has become a junk journal, so to speak. I took all that is still relevant to me from my old books and put it all into one book that I use to this day. 17 years of work :D

[@faeriehearthwitch6185]

I loved this! I so wish I had kept my little BOS journal with everything stuffed inside of it. It is so much fun to see what interested us and where our path led. I am just getting into creating another one and was wondering, what do you use for gluing pictures and stuff in? Looks like yours stuck to your pages and held fast! What a treasure you have! xx

[@Justine1215]

Your cursive was so beautiful!

[@m.q.macabre1825]

Elle has such a breathtakingly beautiful spirit.

[@ladybug2021]

Love seeing your original BOS! I kept a journal in High School similar, my mom said if I put a lock on it she would cut it off to read it, LOL What do you suggest for making a BOS special? Any tips on adding to one? Mine is so full

[@hotluvr4u]

Very cool BOS, so much like mine from the 80's. my first BOS was a "Diary" that had a key lock back in the 70's, that I had to destroy.

[@saintbabylon7250]

I honestly came for the Xena. Hehe. I loved that show I wish I had you as a friend in High School. We would have been besties. :)

[@candicescarletrose6238]

Just found your channel, you're incredibly interesting, thanks for sharing! :) ✨

[@summerrain2171]

Inspired 😂 I will start my book now😂😂😂

[@donavindecora4604]

looks way BETTER than mine!!!! GREAT JOB!!!

[@nowitssovivid1273]

I loved this! I makes me wish I hadn't pitched all of my old journals. BTW, if we had been in high school together, I would have tried so hard to get to know you.

[@Anna-ib9je]

The verse on your pages dedicated to the Morrígan is in Irish, the book is beautiful :')

[@tiffanizzle]

you personality is amazing oh my gosh subbed x

[@BlueNightt]

I loved this!! Thanks for sharing!

[@jcrivera95]

I'm very curious about the first page. Who wrote the poem? I'd love to read it! And thank you for sharing a piece of yourself! ☺

[@stellawass8876]

where exactly did you get the information, like what books did you read? I'm always looking for something more to learn and I would love suggestions!

[@princess4509]

Btw they confirmed Xena and Gabby are a couple when they preposed a reboot

[@jeanines_channel3246]

So creative and I love the Buddha section

[@redkizzer]

omfg how beautiful i needed to meet you more earlier

[@garden_gblin]

You give me the exact same vibes of Molly Roberts!

[@Scar_does_stuff]

I wish I had kept what I had in the past but it was difficult to obtain anything and I do not own anything other than the odd couple of pages I took pictures of at the time

[@x.s.braiant1653]

First time ever being on this channel, first thing I noticed was the mjolnir, hail aesir!

[@PiinkyPandaa32]

I'm thinking to make my book be organized and in alphabetical order. Your books are seemingly too loaded, yet it makes your ideas that much more mysterious to find lol! Does your new book have an index or chapters? Curious

[@АлександарИльюшин]

Обожаю смотреть ваши видео

[@amyanda]

This is so inspiring thanks for sharing!!

[@pblack954]

What notebooks did you use? This is amazing such a beautiful representation of your teenage witchcraft journey!

[@NineEyedOracle]

You are amazing, Elle. 😘

[@SynthesizersForPeace]

like the new hairstyle! great video!

[@elementalwisdom7269]

This book is beautiful and I feel it is still useful. Do not dismiss that book.

[@bloodpinkmusic6495]

I want to make one!!!! My aunt is a Portuguese witch and I wanna follow but I want to do a more mature book (I'm seventeen and kinda of the families adult haha) I haven't done it tho fully because I don't want my mom to know (she is afraid it will bring our house into a dark cursing if I do)

[@angelbabesuz1612]

I absolutely love this! 👌

[@reneelefton8923]

Love your book!

[@diegoceja6915]

If you want a hidden book of shadows get a random book and glue pages to it and it’s hidden

[@divinedani78]

Who do you work with, greek gods&goddesses? Roman? Egyptian? Norse? Celtic? You seem like the Norse-Celtic type.

[@donavindecora4604]

XENA WARRIOR PRINCESS !!!! GO GURL!!! I HAVE HER CHAKRAM !!!

Amazing!💜💜💜