Memory Keeping In My Astral Planner

My 2025 Astral planner was the very first planner that I purchased back in 2024 when the pre-order was announced.

Then, I pre-ordered planner after planner…after planner…and by the beginning of 2025, I had a stack of dated planners…and not every planner had a purpose in my line-up.

No matter how many YouTube planner rabbits I chased nor how many holes I dove down into …. Inspiration for my Astral planner did not come.

Then, something our oldest said came back to me and it struck me. My Astral planner would be the perfect place to memory keep.

Not my every day in 2025 memories—but memories from my childhood. Memories told to me from parents, siblings, grandparents, cousins, friends from the way way back.

This way, I get to have my astrological notes and events, global observances (like International Snow Leopard Day, or the like—and once our oldest inherits the thing, she will be regaled with the strange range of information and memories stuck in my brain with no other outlet. Or maybe I will come back to this and re-read it a decade from now and these tales will spark other memories and history that I will write down in another planner or notebook.

I don’t know. I like the idea of writing things down for our daughter.

The Astral planner has more on its daily pages than just space to document your appointments, tasks, or memories.

After the two-page spread with the monthly events and monthly calendar (to keep this explanation short), we immediately go into the daily pages. Every day gets its own page. Each page is divided into two columns.

The column on the left is a schedule running from 6 in the morning to 10 at night. Timelines never bother me. I simply ignore them. I typically write over the numbers when I write something down. This is where I am going to write out my memory-keeping tales.

The column on the right has routines, top priorities, nutrition, and notes. This is the side of the planner I am not quite certain what I am going to do with or how I am going to utilize it. This column repeats things that I track in other planners, so, I will be winging it.

Now, my set-up for the planner. Now, this is not my very first Astral planner, so I have no qualms about cutting out a lot of pages from the front. I left the nameplate page. Then, I cut out everything up to page twenty-nine. Page thirty is the January title page.

I had planned to glue the pages together. After removing all the pages, it would not have been a clean or nice-looking meet-up between those pages. I can deal with what appears to be one random page of information, plus the edges of the removed pages.

There are budget pages in the back of this planner. I will be using these pages. This is a no-buy year for me, except for necessities. This does not apply to, for example, buying clothes for our youngest, or household items, like cleansers or something. It applies to clothing for me , stationery (not including subscription boxes that I already subscribe to—no new subscriptions), purses and/or bags, yarn, that sort of things.

I am doing this mainly to force myself to use up my stash of stationery goods. As well as mending clothing instead of tossing it out. I have a stack of jeans I have needed to take in for about two years now, maybe more, and I have kept putting it off and putting it off. This year I am hoping the whole no-buy thing will push me, nay, force me into doing my mending, more than just the stack of jeans. More than just my own stuff too.

After the budget pages, there are blank lined pages. There is also the back pocket and an elastic closure.

I did buy a cover from MakseLife for an A5 spiral-bound notebook, which fit this planner wonderfully. The planner is a bit wider than regular A5 notebooks. But, I ended up not liking the planner cover. So now my Astral planner is naked and out in the air, poor thing. It’s never leaving my desk until I archive it, so it’s not that big a deal.

That’s about that for my Astral planner.

If you have questions or comments, leave them below. I will respond as quickly as I am able.

Until next time.