Merry Meet Monday - Witchy News of the Week (Mar 30 - Apr 5) 🌕

Welcome to your weekly update about what’s happening in the forum and the witchy world at large :newspaper_roll:

Here’s the news for this week :eyes:



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[ [ Moon Phase: Full Moon :full_moon: ] ]

Wednesday, April 1

This week, the skies will shine with the beauty of a full moon. The exact time of peak illumination will depend on your location.

April’s moon is known as the Full Pink Moon :pink_heart: in the Northern Hemisphere. This moon is named after the bright and cheerful colors of early spring. In the Southern Hemisphere, this month’s Full Hunter’s Moon :bow_and_arrow: marks a season of autumn abundance.

While each moon has its unique qualities, every full moon is a wonderful time to charge, cleanse, and absorb the power-enhancing energies of the moon. For additional full moon inspiration, visit What to Do During the Full Moon :full_moon_with_face:

Ready for More Moon Magick? You can find complementary spells and rituals for tonight’s moon on the Spells8 Lunar Spell Page :astrology_moon:


[ [ Group Ritual :candle: ] ]

Thursday, April 2

You’re invited to a group ritual meditation- this activity and discussion is open to all active coven members :tea: The ritual has step-by-step instructions that you can join in on your own schedule at any time during the duration of the ritual.

Group rituals are held on Thursday in A Sacred Space and remain open through the weekend. Feel free to check out the most recent group ritual to get an idea about what to expect.


Fun Friday

[ [ Fun Friday :tada: ] ]

Friday, April 3

The end of the week means it’s time for some fun! Come join @Feathertip on a weekly exploration through thought-provoking questions - all in the name of a good time with your coven mates.

New questions are shared in the Fun Friday discussion every weekend.


Other Events - MMM

[ [ Additional Events of Interest :mag: ] ]

Other interesting events this week include:

Stay on top of witchy news with the NEW 2026 Pagan Holiday Calendar. You can also add the Spells8 Forum Events Calendar to your digital calendar :spiral_calendar:



Ongoing Activities :raised_hands:

These activities are ongoing and are open to enjoy whenever you’d like - feel free to participate any time before their deadlines!


instant magick challenge

[ [ Witchy Challenge :trophy: ] ]

Join your coven and explore an area of magick! These challenges encourage magickal learning - everyone is warmly encouraged to participate in a way that reflects their unique magickal practice. All entrants receive a small prize.

Are you ready? Join the current challenge here:

This challenge will remain open until: Tuesday, April 7 at 7:00 AM ET (Eastern US Time)


Tarot Challenge

[ [ Tarot Journey :flower_playing_cards: ] ]

Improve your tarot (or oracle) reading skills here! This month-long exploration of the cards is hosted by @katharina. Check back each day for a new daily prompt to work on and explore a weekly creative prompt to help you connect with your deck.

Visit the Tarot space:


Lenormand Challenge

[ [ Lenormand Challenge :joker: ] ]

Have you used Lenormand cards before? Branch out and explore a fascinating method of divination! This month-long exploration of the cards is hosted by @dan3. Check back each day for a new daily prompt to work on with your deck.

Visit the Lenormand Challenge here:


Runes Challenge

[ [ Rune Practice :raido: ] ]

Want to jump into runes for the first time, or perhaps improve your runic reading skills? Come join this month-long exploration of runes hosted by @dan3! Participants are invited to draw daily runes that align with a monthly theme.

Explore runes here:


Oracle Challenge

[ [ Oracle Work :joker: ] ]

Level up your oracle abilities through hands-on experience with The Court of Light and Shadow Deck and exercises designed by @Eira_of_the_Living_Hearth. Explore monthly themes and daily prompts to help deepen your practice with your cards.

Visit the Oracle discussion here:


Self-Care Challenge

[ [ Self-Care Month Challenge :heart: ] ]

Self-care is important, but can be hard to do on your own - for accountability and companionship, come join the Month of Self-Care! Everyone is welcome to come share a daily update and check in with the coven.

Visit the Self-Care Challenge here:


[ [ Spells8 Book Club :books: ] ]

Calling all book-lovers, the Spells8 Book Club is now in session! This is a space for witchy readers and book lovers. For more information about this session of Book Club, please head over to the current thread in Activities :


March EEC 2026

[ [ Energy Exchange Circle :hugs: ] ]

The Energy Exchange Circle is hosted in the Energy Exchange and is the place to connect and share love with fellow Coven members going through hard times. To do a good deed and show that you care, consider leaving a note of support in the current thread:


coven member birthdays

[ [ Coven Member Birthdays :birthday: ] ]

Let’s celebrate! Here is a space to honor coven members on their birthdays. If you wish to appear in this list, please set your birthday on your profile.

Come wish your fellow coven members well on their special days:


Study Buddies

[ [ Magickal Study Buddies :books: ] ]

Ready to bring your studies to the next level? Work together with a buddy! Magickal study buddies are fellow practitioners who are studying the same areas of the Craft as you. Connect with others to boost motivation, gain inspiration, stay accountable, and (hopefully!) make new friends with similar magickal interests :mage:

The Magickal Study Buddies discussion will remain open indefinitely for connecting with fellow magickal learners. Happy studies! :woman_mage:


Spell A Day - Crystal Galaxy

[ [ A Spell A Day :sparkles: ] ]

Want to add some magick to your day, but not sure what to cast? The Spell-A-Day has you covered!

Over the years, a vast archive of magickal spells, resources, information and more has been collected from around Spells8. Every day, one spell that taps into the energy of the day is brought out of the library and put on display for all to see and enjoy.

There is a new spell post every day, so stop by A Sacred Space > Spell-A-Day whenever you visit the forum to see the recommended daily spell!



New Members :wave:

Merry meet to the new members who have joined the Spells8 Forum over the past week!

:infinite_roots: Welcome to the Forum and the Infinite Roots Coven! :infinite_roots:

@sam1 - @alana3 - @kristen3 - @qynne2 - @dakota5 - @melissa9 - @destiny1 - @loriann - @claudia1 - @linda3 - @CrystalJohn - @Midnight_Raven - @uwimana - @orkanicmelon

If you haven’t done so already, please get started by creating a new topic in the Introductions category. Feel free to share a bit about who you are and your journey into practicing magick, or simply say a quick hello - we’d love to meet you! :wave: :heart:

Wishing you a very warm welcome to the forum! :hugs:



Special Shout-Outs :loudspeaker:

Forum Super Stars

Each week, those who share the most posts and give the most hearts receive a shout-out and thank you for their contributions.

Shout-outs from this past week go to:

Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and love with the coven, it is greatly appreciated :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Click here to learn more about Activity Shout-Out Rewards

Anyone who earns a shout-out for three weeks in a row is awarded the special MMM badge (and will not be counted in Activity shout-outs again for a two-month rest period, so that others will have a chance to earn the badge too!) . Those who have won the MMM badge 5 times will no longer be counted, as they have earned their place in the legendary Forum Hall of Fame :trophy:

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And Thank YOU!

We’d also like to say a very big thank you to all members of Spells8 :infinite_roots:

Your contributions and presence here help to make this a welcoming and supportive place for solitary witches all around the world. Thanks for being a part- Spells8 can’t exist without you! :hugs::sparkling_heart:



Welcome to April and welcome to the full moon! What are you looking forward to this week? :mage:

Whether it’s magickal or mundane, feel free to share your plans for the week, chat about upcoming spellwork, or give a shout-out to your fellow coven members in the comments below.

Blessed be :full_moon: :sparkles:

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Congratulations @Moonbeam and @Eira_of_the_Living_Hearth!

For once, I have a lot going on this week besides work!

My daughter and grandkids are coming for a visit from Colorado. I haven’t seen them in 4 years. I’m so excited! On Sunday we are going to have a big family get together. I will have 3 of my 4 kids and 7 of my 9 grandkids. The only one that can’t make it is my son and his family. They have a new baby and it’s an 8 hour drive, so I understand.

I hope everyone has a beautiful, magickal week and Happy Pink Moon! :full_moon: :hibiscus:

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Congrats to both of you wonderful witches! Extra congrats to you, Sis - on a two-week streak! :partying_face:
Love ya! :heart:

Welcome to you all! We’re so glad you’re here! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

How exciting! This sounds like a big wonderful get together - and with all the stuff you’ve been going through lately with your foot and at work - you deserve this! Have a rollicking great time! Take lots of pictures! :camera_with_flash:

Just the opposite for me this week. Nothing on tap aside from getting in my kitchen for some soup making, and I couldn’t be happier. :blush: No electricians in the house, no painters making a mess - I’m over the home improvement sessions for awhile!

Looking forward to the Pink Full Moon on Wednesday! It might be rainy, but I will try to recharge my moon water. March will be in the rear view mirror - closer to Spring weather!

Hope everyone has a wonderful week. :sparkling_heart: :sparkles: :feather:

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Thanks to both of you for making our week brighter and informative!

Welcome to all!

My week, unlike for @Ostara (btw: it is great to hear your family is reuniting! That will be fun!), I think this week will be a bit slower and I am actually looking forward to that. I’m now reading a favorite book series for the 3rd time (at least). I got it three or four years ago and revisit it almost yearly.

Our house aged out a couple of major things - they still work but are definitely getting old and cranky. We are ready to let a contract for a new furnace and are in process of a rebuild of a couple of bathrooms. That’ll make our noses bleed a bit.

I’m digitizing cards (which is time consuming) but disqualified three new decks after working with them for a few days. The new decks claimed to be Tarot and looked great online but when I got them, they ended up being Oracle masquerading as Tarot.

@BryWisteria - Thank you for all your help and for this weekly Witchy News. You rock!

Here is to all of you having a great week!

Dan

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Congratulations! Keep up the great work!

I’m so happy for you!

Feels good to be done! Enjoy the soup making!

Are you being called to expand your focus yet again? Could be fun. You do have a lot on your plate, too. Do what comes natural- if I can paraphrase a Broadway musical about Annie Oakley.

Excitement is stirring within me, at last! Working on my digital BOS has been taking more of my time. Finding and removing doubles helps quite a lot!

Albus Bird has decided to find out what is at the bottom of his food cup. :joy: He gets mad at me for refilling it, so I’m letting him go. This picky eater has decided to eat everything for a change! :+1:

Well, not quite everything. He still kicks up a few seeds when he flips himself out of the nearly empty cup. I do find sunflower seeds near my bed each evening, so he’s probably holding onto them when he flies around the room.

The cup he’s emptying is not his only food cup, so he won’t starve when the current cup is totally empty. When he chooses to eat out of the second cup, I’ll find what amounts to popcorn hulls, and I’ll know to refill the currently in use cup.

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Yay! Excitement is important… it gets the juices flowing.

Nope. The Oracle thing is well covered (I have a few decks not counting @Eira_of_the_Living_Hearth’s great deck - which is one of the best for me)

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Also from me a welcome to all new coven members! I´m looking forward to getting to know you! :purple_heart:

Wow!! Congratulations to our rockstars!! :star_struck:

My week is very busy in work, well, it always is. lol Still, sometimes it´s just a bit more exhausting.
Here in Austria are Easter Holidays (the perks of living in a catholic country :laughing: ) and my kid is spending them with friends. Esmeralda (my cat) and me are having the apartment to ourselves and right now I don´t even know what to do with myself. :laughing: I´m missing my kid and at the same time I´m happy for her to spend time with friends and I´m happy for myself to have a bit more me-time this week. Ah, well…this week is going to fly by anyway…

If the weather should warm up a bit, I´m planning to spend some time outside painting. I´m looking forward to this since last October. :laughing:

Have a nice week everybody! Take care! :purple_heart:

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Congratulations Eira on your well deserved shout-out and to everyone for your lovely comments. I must admit I was a little shocked to be included.

Easter is nearly upon us and I am looking forward to having some more time at home (even if it might be busy a change as they say is good as a rest. I will make some time for myself as well)

Brightness Blessings to all members on whatever the week holds.:waxing_gibbous_moon:

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Congratulations on the shout-outs, my witchy sisters! And special congrats to @Eira_of_the_Living_Hearth on your two week streak. Thank you for sharing your love and your knowledge with the coven.

Welcome to all our new members! I look forward to getting to know you.

@Ostara enjoy the visit from your daughter and grandkids and the family get together! Such a pity your son and his family couldn’t be there too. Perhaps you could Facetime them or something.

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Merry Meet, Family! :full_moon::cherry_blossom::sparkles:

The Full Pink Moon always feels like such a gentle but powerful reminder that growth is happening, even when it’s quiet and unseen. I’m looking forward to soaking in that energy, charging, cleansing, and just being present with it. :herb:

I’m also really excited for the group ritual meditation on Thursday; there’s always something so special about coming together in shared intention. And this week is full of beautiful energies with Veneralia and the Month of Venus, honoring love and beauty, Megalesia for Cybele, and a perfectly timed Self Care Day on Sunday (which I think we all need sometimes, I know I do!).

A warm welcome to all our new members — @sam1, @alana3, @kristen3, @qynne2, @dakota5, @melissa9, @destiny1, @loriann, @claudia1, @linda3, @CrystalJohn, @Midnight_Raven, @uwimana, and @orkanicmelon. So glad you’ve found your way here. :crescent_moon:

And a big congratulations to @Moonbeam for sharing the most posts, thank you for your energy and presence in the community! :sparkles:

Also… a heartfelt thank you to the coven for the shout-out and all the hearts :face_holding_back_tears::purple_heart: I truly appreciate it more than I can say. Being able to connect, support, and share space with all of you means a lot to me. And thank you @Dan3 for that incredibly kind compliment about my oracle deck, that truly meant so much to me.

I’m also so happy @Ostara gets to see her family after 4 whole years, I hope you soak in every single moment and enjoy it fully! :purple_heart::sparkles:

On the personal side, I’ll be starting therapy for my neck this week and should be getting the results from my overnight sleep study. Otherwise, I’m keeping things quiet, gentle, and grounded.

I recently purchased a Dream Book planner, and I’ve been working on making it my own and I found a great article on how to create Wiccan prayer beads so I think I might give it a try soon! The creative juices are flowing!

Otherwise, I’m wishing everyone a peaceful, nourishing week under this beautiful moon.
Blessed Be. :herb: :dizzy: