Collect, Document and Self-Reflect: A Guided Journal

Moon Lists is a workbook or guided journal, filled with questions, list-making ideas, and prompts for taking inventory of yourself and your life. A place to slow down and reflect, to write your feelings of gratitude, memories and moments.

Based on the loved website Moon Lists, this journal distills the Moon Lists questions into 18 months of journalling prompts.

Loosely organised around the phases of the moon and punctuated with aesthetic references to '70s astrology, architecture, and art, Moon Lists invites us to stop and reflect on ourselves and the precious moments in our lives, before time passes us by.

The perfect bedside journal for the self-aware woman x

Leigh Patterson started Moon Lists as an online project: an evolving set of questions for reflecting on, documenting, and taking inventory of the recent past. Each month, Patterson asked women in a variety of creative fields to respond to a list of prompts about the past 30 days. This journal is a tangible version of her exercise—a notebook you shove in your bag and aren’t afraid to wear down.

Included in this guided journal are 18 months’ worth of prompts for your own Moon Lists reflections. Create a weekly ritual to journal and consider what’s taking up space in your mind. These list-making prompts will un-cloud the division between the conscious and subconscious, bringing awareness to the beauty of daily life.

"I realized recently that the narrative I was telling others in casual conversation needed adjusting. “Hi, how have you been? What’s new?” a friend would ask—someone I care about but haven’t seen in a while. “Mostly work,” I’d respond.

Is that really it? Just work?

An egg and toast, sitting at my desk, headphones in my ears, guilt about forgetting to call my mom back, daydreams, a lot of abstract wants. How do I refine, how do I redefine?

The Moon Lists are a set of questions to inspire reflection on the recent past. These questions, prompts, and lists are an exercise in drawing the connection between memory and experience, a reminder that daily choices matter, habits are defining, and objects can hold layers of significance.

As the moon cycles through its phases, you will be asked to check with yourself, once a week, to reflect on your recent experiences.

Every week in this journal provides a list-making prompt or memory-gathering touchstone for self-reflection. There are different ways to consider the present, from the objects and themes that are front-of-brain to the sensory details that have filled in the spaces in between moments. There is also space to catalog a more analog scrapbook of relevant ephemera, paper, or to recall notes or conversations that played a part in the last week. Take stock of what you recently acquired; this is a space for a souvenir from the week. A receipt, a leaf, a parking ticket, a shred of a pistachio shell. Tape it into your book.

At the end of each month is a set of questions constructed to look back on the last four weeks as a collective whole. You can define “the last four weeks” however you want: maybe you complete your list on the first of each month or maybe you just jump in whenever you can. Maybe you reflect on the full or new moon. Do what works for you.

Maybe you share and talk through your lists with a friend or partner. Maybe you develop your own ritual surrounding self-reflection (lighting a candle or a stick of special incense). Maybe you do it outside or at dinner, or at the park. Maybe it is spontaneous. Maybe it’s written down; maybe spoken aloud.

I do think it’s helpful to flip ahead to the prompts as you start your month to have them in the back of your mind as you go about your weeks . . . or if the prompts of a sequential month don’t feel right, skip ahead. The goal here is just to set aside time for weekly and monthly reflection, however that works best for you; it’s a reminder to notice something you might not otherwise and readjust your framing.

Call out the small moments that add meaning to your life, that fill you up on a deeper level, and seek out more of those experiences. This is the truest, most timeless form of self-care. It costs nothing other than your attention, asking that you live with your eyes open.

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