# 🕶 Weekly Witchy CHALLENGE - Casual Casting

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**Category:** Activities\
**Created:** [July 20, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/weekly-witchy-challenge-casual-casting/25592 "2022-07-20T15:48:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Susurrus](https://spells8.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.spells8.com/susurrus/32/47671_2.png) [@Susurrus](https://forum.spells8.com/u/Susurrus)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/weekly-witchy-challenge-casual-casting/25592/60 "2022-07-23T13:35:43Z")

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## Challenge Entry

So, as a master of chaos, this has to be the most chaotic informal casting that I have ever done.

\*Picture it, Sicily, 1929…" (Sorry, bad “Golden Girls” reference 🫢)

It all comes together but not all at once, however I think I have the ultimate message figured out & later this morning we will be connecting with [The Morrigan :triquetra:](https://forum.spells8.com/t/the-morrigan-celtic-goddess/16061) :raven: after some chaotic informal magic over the course of a few days… I’ll explain…

> **Explanation: It's long though**
>
> So, last weekend was, not what we expected at all but we made it to Monday. How thrilled was I when after what I remember as a somewhat faster-paced morning, it was like something said, _"Hey, after that you need a good Chakra cleanse_ I like to do a total Chakra cleanse meditation 🧘‍♀️ at least once every other day. We are working on every day… baby steps 👣 Anway, back to the informal part of this, I took crystal healing courses & crystals are a great way to help with [Chakras](https://forum.spells8.com/t/a-history-of-the-chakra-energy-systems/23729). Currently, I am working on my [Root](https://forum.spells8.com/t/basics-of-the-root-chakra/24717) & [Sacral](https://forum.spells8.com/t/basics-of-the-sacral-chakra/24985) plus added some extra love to the [Solar Plexus](https://forum.spells8.com/t/basics-of-the-solar-plexus-chakra/25239) recently. I carry a pouch with [chakra stones](https://forum.spells8.com/t/chakra-stones-and-the-seven-stones/7904) & with [black tourmaline](https://forum.spells8.com/t/black-tourmaline-info/11056) & [clear quartz](https://forum.spells8.com/t/clear-quartz/6431) plus an extra crystal for each of the chakras I’m showing attention to for healing & balancing while I transition & continue my therapies.
> 
> So I gathered the crystals that I would need, 1 Black Tourmaline log at my feet (at the Earth Star 🌟 Chakra), double point quartz, a small [Selenite wand](https://forum.spells8.com/t/selenite-info/10141) behind the log, a Large Selenite wand that extends from my Root to my Solar Plexus with Red Jasper in the area of my Root Chakra, Orange Calcite, Carnelian, [Sunstone](https://forum.spells8.com/t/sunstone-info/11961) in my Sacral Chakra area, & Citrine, Yellow Fluorite, Yellow Jasper in my Solar Plexus Chakra area, a medium Selenite wand that goes to my [Throat Chakra](https://forum.spells8.com/t/basics-of-the-throat-chakra/25578), a small Selenite wand at the top of my head followed by double point quartz at the end.
> 
> I went to my Insight Timer app & entered my “Mood Check In” & then chose my Chakra Cleanse meditation with a Chakra Stone in each hand & a small Clear Quartz with each stone, settled into my space with the TV off, fan on 1, & the lights off… I can’t explain what happened but I remember near the end slipping away & kind of not sinking into the bed but very settled into the bed & I was awake but there were images & words. I remember 2 things from that point in time:
> 
> - Water 🌊 :water_element: which actually came to me as the word water in blue 💙
> - A super tiny, barely lit light 🕯 that got a bit bigger then shrank but was brighter 🎇 than before
> 
> I had completely lost track of time & have no idea 🤷‍♀️ how long I was laying there after the guided meditation stopped (I don’t even remember her guiding me back I was somewhere else entirely plus I started before my son had to even be up for work & when I came back… he was at work for 20 minutes or was very late leaving the house 🤔) & I remember feeling sensations throughout my out body that weren’t there before & surprisingly refreshed 🥰
> 
> So on with life, I went. I was pretty content, I had my therapy appointment & she was very encouraging that I am actually rolling with what is coming my way really well & doing great with the boundaries & sticking with them no matter how hard the “kids” push back (which when one is a 13-year-old girl & the other is your 20-year-old son it’s like they took turns each day & switched off or teamed up 💭) & how much progress I’ve made from where I was when we started in early February. However, I need to take a day a lot had happened in the last month & I was borrowing spoons & doing some things that if they continued… could be unintentional backsliding. We definitely don’t want that, then my husband found [the flower](https://forum.spells8.com/t/funny-fantastic-and-favorite-flowers/10859/71) in the yard again, it had stayed bloomed.
> 
> By Thursday between my husband & my therapist I had strict orders to take a “ME” day on Thursday because the appointment was draining & I did have to kind of process it & talk to my husband about it so I wasn’t wearing a path in my floor from pacing… ah anxiety is fun 🙄 However, I was actually pretty excited about it because of [this week’s ritual](https://forum.spells8.com/t/group-ritual-jul-21-release-and-relax-ritual/25553/9) & it basically is very similar to Monday, I was kind of like hmmm… just there’s something shifting 🤔 & went about my day again.
> 
> I received my Tamed Wild box in the mail. I was hoping for 1. The Wild Moon Deck & 2. As long as it wasn’t the Wild Runes deck (I own it)… I was excited to get a new deck either way. I got the Wild Crystals deck… which I like, it’s really nice & I love the information on the back. However, I have a Radiants Crystal Oracle deck 😆 I’ve never really had 2 decks that similar before so I kind of giggled 😁 of course, that’s what I would get, but that also tells me I need something else from my crystals or extra something somewhere… so I cleansed the deck with cedar & rose 🌹 wrapped bundle, shuffled until I felt like stopping, then as I always do, I took off the top 3 cards & drew the next card. It was Bloodstone - very much a grounding stone & also a Root Chakra stone… so with all of that in mind I did the [Bloodstone Activation Meditation 🧘‍♀️](https://spells8.com/bloodstone-strength-activation/) & added it to my pouch of crystals.
> 
> Yesterday was great for the most part, there were a couple of hectic parts, but nothing too bad. I was telling my husband that for about 2 days, I was very content & honestly relaxed not really overthinking anything. I had done a cleansing shower & combined properly cleaning my new deck & the wrap bag that came with it in the box & a Waterfall Chakra meditation that you can do in the shower & I cleansed the room & shower with the Cedar Rose Petal wrapped bundle & then myself & the shower & the deck & the bag & the area where I placed it… (I had ventilation in the bathroom, I wasn’t letting it fill up & sit with smoke & steam & a fireproof bowl in the sink where the burner & bowl was) I said my cleansing prayer & placed a Clear Quartz point on top of the deck, lit lavender incense, put my pouch of stones on the shelf, & turned on the meditation & took a cleansing shower with lavender incense, lavender & oatmeal body wash. I felt amazing! Just so refreshed & recharged. It was a good day. Again! After I left the shower room I left the deck out on my altar for a little bit, left the clear quartz point on the cards, closed the box, & wrapped it in its new cloth wrap & placed it in my pillowcase. I will sleep with it for a few days to a week & then just shuffle it throughout the day before I really start using it.
> 
> My husband shows me his phone & its information about my friend’s daughter that I had just gone to her wedding last weekend. I remember it feeling weird, off, tense but fun, but they weren’t people that I knew. Lisa & Shannon & I had a very close but I guess private relationship. It has always been just Lisa & I or the 3 of us together. Shannon’s son was a Freshman when my son was a senior in high school & on the football team in 2020 & they were together a lot so are also friends. I was like, that feeling makes so much sense at the wedding that I couldn’t shake it! So I text her asking if they needed anything to let me know. Anything at all, even a hug. 🫂 I also asked for them to be added to July & August’s Energy Circle within the forum for healing, love, & prayers for them. 💞
> 
> For 2 nights in a row, I slept for 6 hours or more at a time 😳 So rare, but I’m happy ☺ that I have relaxed & I know when even if I don’t want to, it might be necessary for me to move on, even if for a moment, I’m more patient, and my dog & I have forged a new or updated relationship since losing my older dog in June 🌈 We are getting outside more now, I’m sticking to boundaries 1000x better than ever 🤩, even with 2 at a time. I know when it’s time to start letting go whether or not it’s the right thing for the other person & more about whether or not it’s the right thing for me & my family.
> 
> So I go to make the bed yesterday after I had messed it up looking for all the runes. I _“thought”_ I had them all & found [Dagaz :dagaz:](https://forum.spells8.com/t/dagaz-23rd-of-the-elder-futhark-7-of-tyrs-aett/23173) at the foot of the bed right in front of me. This is hours later because honestly, our hard work paid off & we had a week off this month from financials & an evening of pizza for dinner, so I found my old TikTok & started watching some videos that pop up. I was losing my mind for 2 days over some of these videos & go sucked into the video vacuum hole for a few hours! & my husband was just like, it’s okay you were having fun & I was here to see you laugh again. (I mean OMG 🥰)
> 
> so then I turned off all the electronics & we watched a couple of movies together while the kids were either outside or inside the immediate house. Things just felt, lighter, easier to accept & stop the overthinking before it starts turning into panic from antsy. I know how to release it before I’m reacting to that & not the actual situation… empath gifts can be a gift & a curse… these were the things that would happen to me if I couldn’t let go of something that wasn’t mine anymore or it was someone else’s.

Throughout the week of doing what was feeling right, shorter specific guided meditations to regain self-awareness & be able to come up with practical solutions, I have come to a place of just staying here for a while & enjoy the time & what has been done. Manifest for yourself & for others within your limits, not theirs. As a person with mental health complications & physical limitations within the past 7 years, to get here is Indescribable. To even have the knowledge I do about everything I have come back to & just felt so at home with myself, my family, and my friends. Learning how I need to let go & what works for me has done wonders. 🥰

So this hurdle whatever it was, I must have “leveled up” 😁 so to confirm my suspicions I had a card draw & the message was basically like a “NAILED IT” moment for me anyway & the rest have been that way since also that I have done for myself in some way. I’ve found what is working for me & it’s so good to feel this way now after so many years of bouncing. 🥰 💗

July 26, 2020, was a life-changing moment at the right time for me & my practice. It doesn’t feel like it’s been that long because I have learned so much, but there is also so much to still learn! 🤓 💞

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