What is a commonplace book?

Being writers and visual artists, wonder | wander | women love collecting and filling up notebooks. Our post at the beginning of the year talked about our notebook review and the journals we filled up last year. 

Sketchbook with wonder | wander | women’s own handcrafted cover!

Each journal serves a specific purpose: Morning Pages for stream of consciousness journaling, planners for scheduling and keeping track of events, sketchbooks and art books for creative outlets, idea factories and honing our skills. 

awash in starlight

In numerology 2025 adds up to the number nine (2 + 0 + 2 + 5 = 9). It is a number of endings, personal growth, and helping others. 2024 was an eight [8] year which focused on personal material orientation. 

The Nine [9] Year is the completion of the cycle of years one through nine. 2025 will be a year to release old pain and sorrow - as it prepares us for new opportunities and fresh perspectives in 2026. 

within the coil-shaped Helix Nebula

The year 2025 carries the numerological vibration of nine - a number often associated with completion, renewal, and universal wisdom. In darkest times our light shines brightest. 

sketch in the city

Seems to wonder | wander | women like the times are getting rougher and tougher. It's been hard to work at home with all these worries whirling through our heads.

Art, as always, soothes our anxiety. Without too much planning, we pick up a trusty waterproof pen and our favourite paint. Simple doodles with pure colours are best: pick one colour from the palette and let your drawing grow around it.

rooting deeper

The first Friday in February (February 7, 2025) is National Wear Red Day. Put on your reddest red and paint the town red.

It's American Heart Month, on this day everyone across the country waves their red to raise and spread awareness to eradicate heart disease and stroke in millions of women all over the world. 

wear your reddest red

The American Heart Association’s® Go Red for Women® movement urges everyone to wear red on National Wear Red Day® on Friday, February 7, reduce risk, celebrate survivors and learn CPR.

snowstorms and scenic seas

It's been a while since wonder | wander | women took a long train ride, and we didn't expect that Storm Eowyn would sweep in that weekend and strand us for a day. The next day we were worried, but the ominous weather seemed to have cleared and we finally got on the train. The rolling English countryside made the perfect backdrop for our quiet thoughts. 

Dance of the Divine Feminine

The Lunar New Year began January 29 - a triple marked beginning for both east and west. Aquarius new moon, Imbolc, and a new year of the Snake. A trinity of blessings open 2025 to us all! 

The new moon is a Dark Moon - it honors the divine shadow within. Our feminine energy and fount of wisdom - the seat of our ancient ways of being among Nature. 

New Moon in Aquarius 2025

This Aquarian new moon sets the tone for the next twenty years - as Pluto moves through the sign of Aquarius. Remain open-minded, unbiased and curious in this new unfolding world. We are the grandparents of the Aquarian Age. 

dark days defied

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Today we honor the legacy of Doctor King - a historical global figure advocating for freedom and equality for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged, and victims of injustice. 

All through peaceful protest. We invite you to join us in celebrating the mission of this inimitable man and the beautiful words he offered to the world, and to take some time in contemplation of how what he said is still most relevant to the world we live in today. 

Is the United States on the brink of a revolution?

May we all work to embody his messages of conscious awareness, love, and peace. 2025 tests our faith - taking the steps forward even when faced with such a bleak future. Where do we find the light and love to support and sustain us. 

the wake we make

Monday night’s Cancer Full Moon rises right in the middle of an intense astrological month, where Mars and Pluto take a starring role, along with Mars’ sister - Eris, the Goddess of Discord.

wolf full moon

Perhaps this is our wake-up call to grow up and act as responsible adults. This is going to be an intense, as well as potentially healing full moon. Its placement in Cancer can help heal old parental wounds - which we need to recognize, forgive and let go of. 

for the record: Techo Kaigi

It's 2025! Meaning it's time for wonder | wander | women to say goodbye (and thank you) to all the planners and journals we have used this year and joyfully start all new ones for the coming year.

Bullet Journal spread from all the way back in 2020