Your Book Of Shadows
Found this particular version in Scott Cunningham's book Living Wicca: A further guide for the solitary practitioner. I should follow this advice myself. Remember that a BOS is a highly personal creation and you should see this information as a guide only. I am using Scott's outline here and adding my own comments beside each chapter. Be creative! You can alter any of this to your personal liking.
1. Title Page: outside of the title this can bear your name in runes, or a pentagram. You can also place a Blessing here to inspire yourself.
2. Laws- Here is where you place your personal and religous code of conduct. It may seem silly to tell yourself Thou shalt not kill and such but you would be surprised at how writing a set of rules down will crystalize them in our hearts and minds.
3. Invocations of the Lord and Lady- Here is where you place chants and prayers you use to call the attention of your Gods. Blessings and such
4. An altar diagram- Use this to remind yourself about where everything goes when you're putting it back together after your youngest child "uses the force" and light sabers it. ( This being my personal disaster)
5. Circle Castings and Dispersing Instructions- Be as specific as possible. Try to find one method that is comfortable to you and stick to it.
6. Rituals- Sabbats, Full Moon , initiation rites, tool consecrations, Simple feast, New baby (Wiccaning), Grieving rituals. and so on.
7. The Tools of the Craft- What tools are specific to you? What are the rules that apply to them. Can someone touch your athame or not?
8. Magical Rites and information- herbal lore, Spells, Sabbat recipes, symbols and signs, rune alphabet (there are many out there I suggest you find one or two and stick with them otherwise you'll be trying to write something and feel like you're missing you're secret decoder ring), Here is where you put all of your general information. You can include some poetry, your notes on belief, notes on anything Wiccan. Be creative.