[Mistella],
Oh girl! that Cap is like, way-cool! Youâre an amazing Aunt and you have a brave and wonderful nephew!
Sorry, I had a little brain fart there. LOL!
I see that youâre a newbie, Welcome and much love.
Garnet
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@Kasandra Youâre absolutely right- it never hurts to ask! 
I think the divination and meditation both sound lovely, Kasandra, and I wish you all the best with your exciting spellwork this week! 
Good luck and may Aphrodite give you Her blessing 
@Jessica72 Great job once again on your entry in the other thread, Jessica- I am still in awe of your stunning crystal collection! 
@Garnet Thank you for clarifying, Garnet! 
@Artemisia I hope you had a lovely trip to visit your family, Kat! Enjoy your work with the Zodiac this week and have fun finishing/consecrating your new wand. Iâm so excited to hear about it! Please show pictures of the final look (if you can)- Iâm sure itâs going to be amazing! 
@Mary25 The âDorrieâ books are so sweet, Mary- I can tell by how you write about them that are a real treasure for you! Seeing the cute pictures and hearing about your favorite picnic story made me smile, they really are adorable books 
Thank you so much for sharing!
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Weekly Witchy Challenge-Freedom in Forgiveness entry
Weekly Witchy Challenge-From the Shadows
I feel like these work together well what do you think? <3 thanks for listening allâŚ
When I was sitting in my Imbolc ritual speaking with Brighid I was washed with emotion. Details left for the personal she guided me to go back into Shadow work. Wasnât fun the first time, Iâm not exactly thrilled. But I answered yes maâam and away we go.
I have tossed Shadow work around in my head since the other night. Trying to just let her lead me to what exactly needs to be released. I came upon a Tarot Reading to help pull out what exactly is being blocked from transforming.
Oh Tarot - How honest you are.
Itâs shadow work so I want to keep some of my most shadowy things to my own, but I will share with you that I am an alcoholic. I have been in sobriety for five years. I am proud of that, not so proud of the actions that brought me to that moment. In short, the tarot brought up those situations and labeled them as âheartbreakâ.
At first I did not understand, but now I realize I had broken my own heart. In comes the forgiveness. I am grateful every day I did not hurt someone physically with my drinking. I know that decisions I made did weigh heavy on my family emotionally which is just as traumatic. My children were very young, my daughter old enough to remember. I will hold onto those years forever⌠I have to forgive me. We did those things, but without them I would not have grown into the mother wife human person I am today.
Not something I can crank out in an afternoon and feel total forgiveness. I feel like I am at the start of a journey. How do I begin to love us for making those choices?
I am attaching the awesome Tarot Shadow Worksheet I used. I believe I found the link through our forums. It is deep and time consuming, I am making this a multi-day experience. The intro describes it to be a 1-2 hour worksheet, not in my Traumatic Case
benebell-wen-workbook-independent-shadow-work-cartomancy-session-v2.pdf (1.2 MB)
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Weekly Witchy Challenge - Catch up - Inviting Abundance
I decided to do the Road Opener Spell by Spells8, with feeling stuck and having a hard time with a specific situation.
I also did the Enabler Chant for Good Luck & Prosperity, from Spells8
I can, I want, and I deserve to Thrive
I was happy when I could do a Catch Up Challenge 
Blessed be 
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*Weekly Catch Up Challenge Entry
As many know, I have had quite the last year & a half & this is not the first time that I have confronted my shadow. Since my birth motherâs passing, a lot has come up that I was resisting, however that turned out not to be in my favor.
I started feeling compelled to do shadow work but was procrastinating then came the pull from the Morrigan to do it & get it done. Still resisting. Sheâs letting me know that she means business.
So, itâs been a while since I last saw my local witchy friend, Samhain to be exact. I went to coffee with her & in an unconventional way I basically yelled, everything I was angry about from birth until my birth mother passed away. So thereâs some complex & delayed grief going on because there were also unresolved issues with my mom (stepmother) that are also conflicting feelings. They were in the yelling process too. Really no one was spared, in my friendâs words, I was raging out. So lots of tears, hugs.
Then I went to my psychiatrist, told her about the last few weeks & things happening & I showed up to her office crying. The first time in the 15 years that I have been seeing her, I was not even close to fine. She also does psychotherapy. So we did a guided energy release moving up through my body. I left no longer crying & feeling better. That was 2 Fridays ago.
All week, I felt the pull & finally gave in & did some exercises in a workbook that I purchased from LonerWolf - Luna & Sol. It works with their books they have & 1 of them being the Awakened Empath, itâs about how to know if you are an empath or highly sensitive in any way, what types there are, your dominant empathic gift, & the shadow self of the empath & how to work with it & protect yourself to separate what emotions belong where or to who.
I got a lot up & out. I stopped at writing a love letter to myself. I had never heard of that before, but itâs harder than it sounds when youâve had some things happen over the years. I still couldnât sleep & wanted to acknowledge my place in that shadow & what I had on my mind. So I wrote an email to literally no one, it was just the first place open that I could just type. It took me 2 hours. Thereâs a lot that comes up, a lot that I acknowledged, a lot that I proved wrong.
I went out to the living room & was talking to my husband about the types of shows that I watch & why & out came everything that happened to me & why I do some of the things I have done & why I feel the way I do & that I am getting help & Iâm trying so hard to be the best mother I can be because I didnât really have a healthy mother/daughter relationship with either mother. Then my daughter came into the room.
I cried, I didnât want her to know. I acknowledged she was there, she laid across my lap & told me she loved me. She said I am a great mom & she knows that I could never do those things.
(She heard the end, this was like the part where I need a paper towel & a hug & just to say that I love her & I will do anything I can for her always & another hug wasnât refused. She just knows that my mothers didnât say very nice things to me when I was growing up)
So, Iâm in it. Iâve gone through the deepest part. Now itâs the residual & off-shoots that I am working on. Itâs been a process since last month.
It dawned on me that itâs the New (Dark) Moon, so the Morrigan would want me to do this work now because she is the Goddess of the Dark Moon, Shadow Work, Slaying your Demons & taking your power back. But also, itâs time for it to be done for me to move forward in any way, & baby steps forward are still forward. & Brighid is always there during my rest days to help connect with myself & healing & self-care for a couple of days well, a week.
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@Susurrus I felt privileged reading and experiencing that as an empath, there were tears. Good, cathartic, cleansing tears. You really have a special relationship with your daughter, and reading about the two of you always makes me smile. Much love and respect to you, and with the Morrigan on your side too those demons really better watch out! 
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Heed the Call of Crystals - Crystal Collector
- For this challenge I collected all my smaller crystals (about 20 of them) that I had dotted around my home that didnât make it back to the drawers.
- Resorted them by colour and type.
- Updated the identify tags the crystals as best I could.
- Cleansed them all with Pablo santo smoke and thanked them for sharing their energy.
Iâve wanted to pour some love into my crystal collection for some time now and after seeing @jessica72âs beautiful collection and it being a catch-up week and all, I had the inspiration I needed.
I started collecting crystals a number of years ago after discovering a metaphysical shop while vacationing in Maui with a dear friend. It was the first time that I actually felt energy from them and I was hooked.
My initial collection was small till I was generously gifted dozens of various crystals and stones from a friend when she found out that I was taking a Crystal Healers Course.
I so appreciated her generous gift but found that I was way too overwhelmed with having them all out on display.
I first tried sorting them alphabetically and discovered I was always rearranging them when I added a new one to the family. After a few difference systems I landed on the one I use currently for my art supplies where I sort based on colour.
The crystals are stored in a set of Alex drawers from Ikea that have wheels on the bottom which make is super easy to move them all around the house. I wheel them into the living room when Iâm working on a grid or outside on a sunny day for quick charge and to marvel at their beauty.
I like being able to have them all in one place as I can get side-tracked really easy looking for things and this helps me with keeping my focus and still have the flexibility of changing my environment.
Thank you for the opportunity to share these special souls with you all.
Cheers,
Janis 
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What an amazing idea for portability. Awesome way to store your crystals. They look good!
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From Seed to Sprout
Bad news⌠My interpretation of my candle wax reading is weâll have six more weeks of winter. 
I invoked Brigid, lit a yellow candle (for Imbolc), and let the wax drip onto the water in my cauldron. The wax looked a lot like a tadpole and frog eggs. At first, I thought, âTadpoles hatching? Spring!â
But I think it means six more weeks of winter.
I remember a Christmas when my sister gave me a frog terrarium where I could order some tadpoles from a farm and watch them grow into frogs. SpongeBob and Patrick (yes, this was in 1999 when SpongeBob first aired) arrived in February, but the mail carrier left them in the mail box, even though the package clearly said, âLive tadpoles. Front door delivery only!â The poor things were half frozen. Luckily, we were able to save them and they lived to the ripe old age of five.
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same here
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I love the storage and how you combined them through color. I need a stand like yours!! Maybe a couple 
I started putting a lot away in boxes. And I have different storage containers everywhere ugh I feel so bad because at this point I donât use them all.
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Boo for 6 more weeks of winter, but Yay for strong tadpoles & living to 5 years old! Great job there!
I canât help with the wax reading at all. I have never tried it either. Great Entry for the challenge!
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For the catch up challenge, I chose the Sacred Wood and Trees. I have my wand that I foraged and I placed crystals (clear quartz and aquamarine), feathers, crystal beads (black obsidian) and regular beads on. I picked this one because of itâs shape.
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Thank you @CelestiaMoon, âcathartic & cleansingâ thatâs how I would describe my crying to my husband & then my daughter. (She is an empath whether or not she knows it. If she thinks Iâm crying, she is right there & there is no getting her to go to another room.) She needs not wants to be with me & give me hugs. Itâs like if she thinks there is something wrong with me, she is going to do her best to find out what it is & if she canât figure it out.
She writes me little notes like, âEvery kiss begins with a Reeseâsâ & attached it to a Reeseâs Peanutbutter Cup. Then give it to me with a hug & sit next to me. She & I will âfightâ over them⌠I always let her win, but the âfightâ is the fun part. Those are our favorite candies. Sheâs was a good addition to my ever listening husband yesterday.
I still have the little note attached to my vanity mirror on my dresser & the Reesesâs is resting on the side of a mask, like you would wear to a âcostumeâ party that involves tuxes & ballgownsâŚ
âYou are getting it out mum, tears come out but they canât go back in.â Were her exact words while she was looking up at me laying on my lap & I played with her hair & said thank you, I love you.
The pink mask is from my daughter, as are the other circled items. The note, the Reeseâs, the bandana. She gave me the blue bandana because my hair was in my face when we were out by the fire & she didnât want me to burst into flames. Although Iâm not sure thatâs exactly how it works, blue is my favorite color. I still wear it as a headband in the house or running errands or going through the neighborhood.
DISCLAIMER: Iâm the only 1 awake & that is my bed with 1 of my fur babies because thatâs where we remain while everyone else is asleep. 
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Wow, @janis! Awesome collection of crystals! You rock! LOL!
Very pretty wand, @christina4! It looks very witchy!
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Weekly Witchy CHALLENGE - Catch-Up!
Weekly Witchy CHALLENGE - Solar Magick - Solar Mage
I have been missing the sun, so I decided to add more sunshine to my life. I chose the Solar Magic challenge as my 1st challenge, and I drew the Sun Card from my Thoth Tarot Deck this morning!
Today I
I created my sacred space and filled the space with Golden Light. I used the Sun Card, my Goddess necklace with Amber, Citrine, and Ametrine. The bags are Citrine crystals in fabric, lined with copper-infused fabric. I placed the bags on my Solar Plexus Chakra.
Golden Light feels like sunshine and happiness to me, itâs beautiful.
The 3 crystals, also have special meaning for me:
Amber - Crone, Past, Ancestors, Wisdom
Ametrine - Mother, Present, Nurturing, Creation
Citrine - Maiden, Future, Curiosity, New Beginnings
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Whoa!! Thatâs some crystal love, right there! I like the drawer idea, but Iâm a long long way from needing a drawer. Thatâs amazing 
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Weekly Witchy CHALLENGE - Catch-Up!
Weekly Witchy CHALLENGE - Your Magickal Muse â Beloved by the Muses
As my 2nd Catch-Up Challenge, I have chosen âYour Magickal Museâ because my second card drawn from the Oracle of 7 Energies by Collette Baron-Reid was #7 Call of The Muse.
I donât feel like I can relate to any of the muses. I struggled with choosing, there are only two I can even consider, Urania and Melpomene. I chose Urania, because of her relationship with the Heavens. I am not ready to deal with the tragedies in my life, so Shadow work is for a later timeâŚ
In my sacred space, I open my heart and let the magic of the muse flow through my intuition and emotions. I am a partner in the creative dance as my muse calls me to be a channel allowing the creative energy to flow. There is magic in answering the call of my muse, only she knows where this is meant to go.
In connecting with Ourania (Urania), I realize how she has inspired me over the years to learn astrology. I found many places online saying that she is the Muse of Astronomy; but after all, Astrology is the precursor to Astronomy!
And so many times, I have looked to the heavens and whispered,
Star light, star bright,
First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have this wish I wish tonight.
Even though this seemed difficult, it wasnât. I enjoyed this connection with Urania and I am glad I chose this challenge.
Thank you for the Catch-Up opportunity!
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@christina4 Great looking wand!
@debra2 I like your alter. The little statues are cute
@Susurrus youâre a strong women just because youâre doing shadow work! And it sounds like youâre getting it done regardless of how hard it may be. Youâre fortunate to have your family around you for support and a shoulder to cry on. Just think how much lighter you will feel when you get on the other side of this 
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OMG I am in awe! Iâm afraid Iâll have to wash my monitor because I drooled all over itâŚoh well, it needed cleaning anyway.
Great job
Garnet
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