By Ellie Patrick & The Librarian
See Rebel Witch, Journal 1 for more information.
Figure out the timeline of the significant events and influences in your life. Include meaningful conversations, game-changing events, and powerful relationships. Include the positive, the negative, and everything in-between. Include the discovery of important music, films, or books, as well as undeniably potent one-off experiences that changed the shape of your soul. Include times that you fell in love with certain ideas or changed your personal style, joined a band, left a job, got your heart broken - all the stuff that made any kind of impact! You might want to type this on an electronic device rather than writing it on paper, so you can keep updating the document, adding more things as you remember them.
This is going to be an interesting experience trying to write all this out. My memories of much of my life are jumbled and fragmented, I'm missing a lot and don't know the order of a lot of what I do remember. The way I usually describe the way my memory works is like there's a bunch of boxes, and each box is labeled with a section of my life, elemementary school, middle school, high school, and probably one for each year of college. In each box is a bunch of photos and note cards, which are the memories. Some memories are a photo with a note on the back explaining the context, some are just a photo without a note, and some are just a note with no photo. Some of the more recent boxes are mostly organized chronologically, but the older boxes are all jumbled up.