A book of shadows, is a collection of spell, insights and other magical
components of a 'witch'. You can have coven bos (book of shadows) which is a
group of witches that work together but the 
obos is an
online collection of member thoughts, insights, discussions, spells etc.
The Online Open Book Of Shadows is a collection of entries that
several individuals have added to an on-going journal comprised of their own
personal book of shadows as well as other quotes and information on Paganism and
Witchcraft.
First you would have to join
LiveJournal and start a personal account (you can get one from here) then you may join the community of
obos by
going to the USER
INFO page and selecting from the top 'click here if you wish to join'. If
you are already signed into your personal LJ (livejournal) then all you need to
do is to click here and
you will become a member [opens a new window]. The page that will open will
ask you if you wish to add it to you're friends page. Select yes and continue.
Now you are a member the rest of this site will help you to understand how to
use and be a part of the Online Book of Shadows.
After you have joined the
obos and
have show to be a very valid member (active, helpful,
informative and have a good understanding on how the obos is
run) you can apply to the online_bos by going to the online_bos
information page and add it to your friends after reading the rules on that
page. You do this like you
would if you would add a personal account to your friends list. Alternatively
you can select this
link once you have signed in. Then you should leave a comment
in the Guestbook with the subject I wish to join and in the message
copy and fill out the following :-
Age:
Experience:
Background:
Reason for wanting to join:
What can you bring to the group:
How much time can you give to the group:
Have you understood what is required of you?
Are you committed and loyal?
Are you happy to answer any questions that members might have? |
Note: Invites are only sent out around Sabbats (8 times a year).
Please check back regularly to see if any questions from members have been asked
and to see if an invite has been sent. You can also check out your invites
page to see if one has been sent.
obos was
started by a LJ member called sweetrosedragon but in June 2006 goddess_giggles
took over as the maintainer. The commuity is hosted by LiveJournal and that is
why you need a personal account with them to join. There is no real 'owner' as
such but it is a collective work by most of the members of the
obos.
Well since the Internet is a good place to start and there is books and your
own personal writings. Start with completing the tasks because then you will get
an idea on searching for information. Good Luck and you can do it!
You can post into the Online Book Of Shadows from any point you
feel.
All posts MUST be friends only! Please make sure you set
all your posts to friends before you submit them. They will get deleted if not!
Then you will have to re-post it.
Tags As this is a journal full of
data which members can use to obtain new information from in order to make it
easy to search through we use the aid of tags. These are like bookmarks like I
have used on this page; for example at the end of this section there is a
bookmark link saying "Back To Top", when you press it you know it will
take you to the top of this page. That is similar to how we your the tags within
the obos. Every time you submit a new entry with tags they get displayed at the
top of the post. Then if someone wishes to search for lets say Samhain they
would select the tag from the list and every post that has that tag will be
displayed with out all the other posts. This is why it is important to add the
tags.
All the tags can be found from the links below just click on a topic and all the
details including the correct tags to use with each post. Please remember to add
your live journal name in the tags for each of your posts.
To Post
-
Go to update in your normal way (from website
or using a client
e.g. Semagic)
-
Change where you're posting to from your personal
journal to obos. (On the website that can be found next to the Update
Journal button at the bottom)
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Change the Security to friends
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Enter a Subject. (If you are writing about e.g. crystals
please don't use Crystals as your Subject because that doesn't tell any one
what is within the post from the Index view, Add more detail e.g. Uses and
Properties of Jade)
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Add all the information you wish to add in the main box
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Some handy code to use with live journal to give it
more impact
To add Bold put <b> text </b> either side
To add Underline put <u> text </u> either side
To centre put <center> text </center> either side
To italic put <i> text </i> either side
To add a live journal cut put <lj-cut text="type in here
what is hidden"> hidden item such as an image
</lj-cut>
To add an image <img src="the url link to the
image">
To add an link <a href="link url to the page">Name
of site</a>
To add an user's name <lj user="lj user name"> or
community <lj comm="community name">
Example of the above being used :-
Which will look something like:
This is a Heading
I wish to put all of this in italics to show
that it is some thing to be said I want to put a lj cut in her because I want
to hide an image from the recent entries page
Now the image will be hidden in the main journal but when you click
on the text it will open up and display the image on the page view
of the journal. Have a go and copy and paste this and then post it
in your personal journal. You can always delete it later.
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Add all the tags that are relevant to your post e.g.
questions, tools, tarot, [your lj user name]
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Then all is left is to either press Update journal or
Submit.
Well when you first join the
obos you
need to make an introduction to yourself.
