I just love reading everyoneās challenges feedback is one of my favorite ways of learning.
It looks like you all have excellent and great ideas to celebrate enjoy and thank you I love knowing that thereās other ways not just textbook ways to celebrate.
Blessed Be.
Medea
Your altar is absolutely beautiful. Iām still working on mine.
Blessed Be,
Medea
I mainly work with the Abydos Triad but also at times wirh Thoth, Anubis and Bastet
CHALLENGE ENTRY
All about Runes
Runes are one of my 3 main areas of study right now. I really tried to justify buying a set this week but I just couldnāt do it, and Iām really good at justifying buying stuff. So instead Iām working on making sort of a Rune deck, Iāve never actually seen one but I think thatās what Iām making 
The desire to work with Runes built up quickly so Iām needing to be creative.
I carefully ripped cardstock to make cards and on one side Iām drawing the Rune and on the other side the name, the Rune and meanings.
I figure Iāll learn as I make them and then I can learn with them
CHALLENGE ENTRY 3
My final entry this week is the Multilingual Magic task
I have been using a course book by a man called Bill Manley to help me to read and understand Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. I wanted to be able to use the Egyptian names for the dieities as well as write them along with their epiphets using hieroglyphics. I am still near the beginning of this journey but wanted to share my learning so farā¦
I tend to use the terms Asir, Aset and Heru when referring to Osiris, Isis and Horus as these are the names used by the Egyptians while the latter 3 when the names the Greeks used. I also use the word āduaā which means praise so e.g. dua Aset nebet heka means praise isis, lady of magic.
Ive made a video to show how i write and interpret these:(excuse the sound of my snoring poochesš¤£)
I also use the hieroglyphics to carve names and epiphets into candles for my altars.
I just feel it guves everything a little bit more authenticity by incorporating some of the language used.
Blessed be
Alan
When I saw the Making Objects Magickal I thought about your video where you made a charging plate out of the piece of wood and sigils. That was a very good video. You should share it!
Iām getting thereā¦ yesterday was just a lot & Iām kind of glad that itās over 
I decided to work backward on the list of challenges that I have missed, mainly because the Magick of Sound kind of jumped out at me 
I use sound, in many different ways after I thought about it. I have SEVERAL playlists on Spotify that each have their kind of use for me. (some of the names are little off, my kids actually helped me with a coupleā¦ & one is definitely so they knew not to play itā¦ well 2 of my kids anyway )
I have 1 playlist with close to 50 hours of songs 
that was actually started when my 24 year old was still in high school. He added the first 2 songs & then it was kind of a catch all. Between my 3 kids, their friends, myself, my husband, & at least a couple of our friends over that timeā¦ instead of just playing the song, they added it to the playlist calledā¦ Maā¦ so itās literally a conglomerate of songs. There are some on there that come on & I just goā¦ What in the frankincense is this?!?! & have to skip it. The only issue really is that 1. I have to try to remember the song to remove it 2. when I go to do thatā¦ honestly like finding a needle in a haystack. (I tend to put the playlist on random & continuous play) When Iām feeling alright, normally this is fineā¦ 1 or 2 skips & Iām onto a song I can listen to. Itās entertaining to me to have a Vibe switch with no transition from one to the other when Iām driving around
I have another playlist called Only Maā¦ This is music that honestly, only my oldest & I listen to at all. I have shared it with a few people & they can add to it too. One of my friends will add to it or he will add to the Ma playlist then I go add it to this one. Itās actually music that makes me happy 
but I have had people ask me, how is that possible because they listen to it & donāt understand how I donāt get angryā¦ but also kind of my happy playlist 
(Honestly, the Ma playlist is getting a bit out of hand but it does have A LOT of songs from all over the place & genres & is more than bipolar, maybe unhingedā¦ Iāve actually started using the Liked Songs feature with maybe 30 - 40 songsā¦ & just switching up the songs there from the Ma playlistā¦ because honestly between both of my sons, family members, sonās girlfriends & friends, football players, lacrosse players, baseball players, sailors, my daughter & her friends, my husband & either his or my friendsā¦ itāsā¦ craziness 
& back to the needle in a haystack when trying to remove 1 song that Iām likeā¦ UH NO!)
We have a fire pit & I have an entire playlist namedā¦ Fire 
so that is one that when we are out in the back we will listen to that playlist & everyone, at least here enjoys whatās on it. My son, daughter, & husband will add songs to it, but its purpose is solely for when we are at the fire pit. As a bonus 
my husband recently revamped the fire pit so itās larger. The stones on the top kind of make aā¦ shelf 
Then across the top areā¦ gratesā¦ so we can use it for cooking & then when we are done we have metal plates that once itās really just coals & about out those go on top of the grates & then nothing else can fall, blow, be put into the pit unless you take those plates off the top.
There is the playlist named Good Moods 
which is exactly as the name states, for when I feel likeā¦ I need something to uplift my mood at least a little bit 
I canāt say that it always works, but for the most part, it does its job & I wind up feeling pretty good after listening to it for a while.
These next 
ā¦ each of them kind of have a dual purpose. I canāt wait to get back to some sense of a normal routine again. Itās been so long since Iāve felt like I have that at all. So the first one is Celtic Relaxation Music: Beautiful Melodies, Instrumental, Meditationā¦, I also have Meditation, & Celtic Calmā¦ the 3rd is or at this point wasā¦ a daily playlist that I would play while I am home doing my thingā¦ Itās all mostly Irish Celtic 
music (there are some variations on the Celtic) But, they are songs whether with words or instrumental. They keep me kind of balanced throughout the day while doing āthe things.ā Itās also veryā¦ calming for me 
The other 2 are the same for me, I just donāt listen to them as often for ādaily thingsā but moreā¦ Meditation 
reasons.
I had come to a point in January 2023 where I not only absolutely LOVE 
my guided meditations. I have a few specific ones that I will listen to saved on YouTube (a few by the lovely @SilverBear & the Eclectic Green Witchery), & I have another list on Insight Timer (a couple by the also very lovely @MeganB). Then I have a few others from the Irish Pagan School, The Morrigan Intensive, Biddy Tarot, Love & Light School of Crystals, & of course Spells8 
(something about the womanās voice & the content of the meditations)ā¦ but I also had started being able to listen to instrumental music & have very rewarding results meditating. Itās how I managed to create my own Inner Temples 
! (I never would have thought to try this if it wasnāt for a part in one of my guided meditations that there is no talkingā¦ & I would go to a different place during that timeā¦ & when the person came backā¦ I was on my way back to the original spot then ending the meditation. I decided to see what would happen if I just listened to instrumental music) So now I have 1 place where I meet with the Morrigan 
& 1 for Brighid 
I knew that I needed better sleep & at some point, it was recommended that I use Soundscapes. There are a few that I absolutely could & have listened to all night longā¦ Rain 
, Thunderstorms 
, Water, Beach 
, Forest 
, Mountain 
ā¦ However, my favorite is Waterā¦ so I have an entire playlist for it, which I actually think is just a playlist that I happened to find on Spotify named Calm Water Sounds. When my anxiety, panic, overwhelm, &/or overstimulation is in higher than high gearā¦ I lay down to do my breathing with this playlist on or sometimes itās been a rough day for meā¦ I put in my headphones & fall asleep 
to this playlist.
I tend to use the Celtic playlists during rituals or spellwork too. They just somehow make it feelā¦ just wonderful.
For as long as I can remember I have always listened to songs but also the lyrics. But more than just knowing the lyrics, what the song is actually saying. In a past challenge, I had mentioned that because of thatā¦ I sort of attach songs to certain people or even memories. However, it dawned on meā¦ fairly recently that at the same timeā¦ I have always been a person who listens to the lyrics & understands them & what the song is aboutā¦ I use music 
as an outlet for myself & emotions. Donāt get me wrongā¦ I absolutely have songs that yes I enjoy them & listen to the lyrics that really have nothing to do with that & are purely for entertainment, satirical reasons, amusement, etc. However, because I do listen to the song, lyrics, & what itās aboutā¦ music has been an outlet for me for many years. One of the things I do now, especially since Spotify & making up playlists (& thankfully figuring out the Liked Songs feature) is I will use it for self-care, meditation, expressing what is going on when I canāt find the words, calming down, uplifting, setting the tone of being able to move through my day, rituals, spells, or so I can get through the next moments or parts of my day. I pop in my headphones & do my thingā¦ whether Iām in a store, going somewhere, around the house or in a new place or a place that I know is going to induce anxiety. (The introvert is strong for me 
)
Okay, super long! 
If you made it throughā¦ Thank You 
for that & tolerating my rambles & word salads 
I love that! I remember a few years ago I would fall asleep with head phones on listened to rain and wooden boat rocking. It was so peaceful!
My Challenge Entry - Trick Or Treat Challenge
So i had actually decided two challenges initially, but wellā¦i think some chaos is definitely playing into my life too, now. 
Anyways, at least i got to do one of those, for this catch-up!! 
I really, really didnāt want to miss this one, huhh thank the goddess! 
As you can see the challenge i did not choose, but instead the one that chose me; (my eyes were glued to this one on the very first look! 
) is the Trick Or Treat weekly witchy challenge and i chose it because of course after our lovely and beautiful Mabon Sabbat, comesā¦Samhain!!! First itās a Witchās New Year and second, without needing any explanation I can say that I absolutely heart all of the sabbats and esbats in our wheel of the year, but still there are three sabbats that now I practically live for. 
Those are - Samhain, Yule and Beltane. 
I am honestly speaking thereās only like 1-2% of difference in my undying love for all the sabbats and these three.
Ohh and also the prize badge for this one is such a heart candy!! 
Sweet Nā Spooky 
I just couldnāt resist! Hahaā¦hereās my little entry of those tasty, tricky-treats! 
I gathered as many sweet treats as possible but honestly i wanted to make, as in cook something myself, so bad. 
I went to one shop and even called another to ask if they had those cake mixes we have here, which we cook with steam inside a packed cooker on medium flame. I just made it a week or two back, for my family! Duh, i couldnāt believe it was out of stock everywhere, just now! What a perfect timing, isnāt it? 
So this is what I got - some baked jam cookies, chocolate centered toffees and i actually had bought that hersheysās chocolate syrup for the cake, but then had to make chocolate syrup toast, instead. 
I obviously blessed my goodies with the sweet and blissful candy blessing that @BryWisteria had included in that challenge. 
And thenā¦I pounced on them! (Drawbacks of being a sweet tooth, i can eat sweets anytime, anywhere 
) Okay, no i am not that bad honestly, i did feast upon the yummy treats but with my mum & sis. Oh and obviously! I spent my whole afternoon and early evening hours today, making those cute lil ghost tricksters 
and some tiny tasty treats! I also plucked a little beautiful bunch of those small & lovely, light lavender wild flowers on my way back from the shop. I am still sitting out here, with them in a cup of water by my side on the boundary of my terrace. I was so enraptured by their graceful and gentle, calming beauty! I once saw my own aura and it looked something like a lavender shade. Being an artist and a mad lover of everything that just is, itās too difficult for me to say that any one color is my fav or most attractive. Still, these lil purple blooms are like a deep and belly filling, breath of fresh, magickal air for me! 
Thank you for those lovely witchy challenges we get every week and these super exciting and big doses of magical catch ups too! I enjoyed & loved every moment of it so much!
Blessed Be all with lavender love, this month!
I would say this is one of your lovely magickal gifts, as everyone has their own unique ones; even those who think they donāt have any! Itās just so heartfelt and beautiful, seeing this photo where a witch and a wolf are conversing telepathically through love. If you allow me, can i download it and keep in my phoneās gallery? (I have this folder named My Magick where I keep all the pictures and videos related to magick) I can just feel the magic radiating from this picture @AIRAM 
Itās purely beautiful to witness a connection so invisible & deep with these fascinating and powerful creatures. I have always admired wolves, really. 
Blessed Be hun, this is a mesmerizing entry!
Yes my dear
When I started dealing with Magic, I felt the need to change my name
At that time I was watching the Greek series -THE WITCHES OF SMYRNA-
In one episode I saw a Witch who saw the future
Her normal name was Maria
but in the world of Magic it was called AIRAM
MARIA when you read it upside down is AIRAM
I felt that this name came at the right moment when I was looking for it
thus ā¦ Airam was born in the world of Magic 
Oh cool I really enjoyed reading about the origins of your name thank you for sharing that.
money spell day Thursday or Sunday
Protection circle
candles
call of the quarters
purse and some hair
spell
we raise our hair and pointing to them one by one we say
This hair will make me rich I need money and I need it now!
in each direction the same words
weāre done and we pick up the bag saying
I am rich and healthy, as I said, so it will be!
three times
finally we blow out the candles one by one freeing the elements
the hair that we have cut is we burn it
Challenge Entry - Catch-Up!
Earth-Friendly Witchcraft - Earth Witch
I wasnāt sure what I was going to do for this entry but looking through the list of suggestions, one of them was a topic I wanted to try and share with the coven anyway!
Shinrin-Yoku (Forest Bathing) has been on my list of learn about, to do for a while and there it was, the perfect time to try it out!
The key to unlocking the power of the forest is in the five senses. Let nature enter through your ears, eyes, nose, mouth, hands and feet. Listen to the birds singing and the breeze rustling in the leaves of the trees. Look at the different greens of the trees and the sunlight filtering through the branches.
Source
I chose to try this out yesterday in the woods around where I work. Yes, I realize I took a phone and used it, but my main reason was to record the ambient sounds with the hopes of making my own meditation soundscape. Plus I figured I could share the videos as well.
Here are two of the videos that I uploaded to YouTube - https://youtu.be/yogDmfwlJQ8?si=0V4KT7pnHVfHoBWj and https://youtu.be/oCVvoXVA8_k?si=JszGPdxneXyUbjsn (of the pond in the woods)
(I canāt for the life of me figure out how to share the YouTube links with a preview, but I swear Iāve seen it done here before!)
I ended up spending more than 90 minutes out there and it was honestly one of the best weekend recharges Iāve ever had! 
Soā¦ I haveā¦ a few things I suppose that could be called collections
ā Crystals more than I can possibly count as well as a little bit of everywhere. I do collect specifically carved crystal turtles. I do have them in a printerās box, a crescent moon 
shelf, on both altars, shelves, jewelry, & as well as in a staroage box 
ā Candles mostly white 
, black, & redā¦ but I have every color including gold & silver chime candles. I have jar candles, tea lights, votivesā¦
ā Jars well I guess more like containers. Jars 
of all sizes, mason jars, wearable charm jars & bottles, bottles, ball ornamentsā¦ if I can find a way to put some kind of something in them for a reasonā¦ I save them or they are given to me
ā Feathers Especially this summer, I have been finding or given feathers 
at the most random places & at the most ramdom times. Most of them black, but at least a couple that are from more predatory birds that frequent our area.
ā Shells well, really shells from all over & whenever I go to any beach & rocks from the ocean as well as sea glass & I have some coral.
ā Tarot & Oracle Decks honestly, its a problem that I should probably look into a support group for
ā Books books on my deities, crystals, astrology, journals, source stories, Celtic mythology, Celtic practice, Irish Paganism, herbs & plantsā¦ 
Iām sure Iām missing something or things. But those kind of top the list
I actually thought I had done this 1, but here we goā¦
So growing up I kind of had this idea of a witch likeā¦ cauldrons, crystal balls, rding a broom, wearing all black, with a wart on the nose, & more of a not good thingā¦ Think Wizard of Oz.
Growing up Catholic it was more a big noā¦ not something you want to get involved or have anything to do with. Exceptā¦ I already had an interest & was doing thingsā¦ I just didnāt know it yet. Ironically, my mom was the 1 who kind of started I guess puquing my interest. Although I donāt think at the time she knew or thiught about it that way. She bought me my first crystals, taught me about my sun sign.
Then it became more of a, donāt tell anyone. For some reasonā¦ no one could know except a select few. & that included family members. Donāt let them know at all.
For some time when I was young witchcraft & Wicca were 1 in the same regardless of what you did or didnāt do. They were interchangable. It wasnāt until later I found out that wasnāt the case at all. I was young so didnāt think too much into at the time becauseā¦ stillā¦ either wayā¦ taboo.
Then once I started doing things that I used to & hadnāt for a whileā¦ also older & wanting to know more about these interests & things I was doing & believedā¦ found outā¦ there were a lot of misconceptions & I was told things that maybe others believed & to try to steer me clear of it. 
Fast forward to 2021. My immediate family knows Iām witch/pagan. A few close friends. But Iām also, not exactly hiding it. Iām in my backyard by my fire pit. Wearing a witchy hoodie. We had a pentacle chandelier with 5 mini cauldron tealight holders hanging from a shepherdās hook beside it. I had just put loose sage in an aluminum foil, packet with a bit of water over the fire pit as well as strewn some in the bottom around the outer edges on the loose coals.
My neighbor came by & weāre talking. Some how the topic of a witch came up. Iām not saying much & heās sayingā¦ I was nervous, because she was a witch. Like a real witch. Me, still not saying anythingā¦ but I did look down at my hoodie & kind of around the area at the pentacleā¦ & let him keep talking. His perception of a witch isā¦ definitelyā¦ not necessarily good. That we curse & hex & what we do isnāt for any good reasonā¦ nor does it have anything to do with a love of the earth, gratitude, & using what you have inside to better yourself or anything.
I just said, āHuh, I canāt say thatās been my experience with a witch, although I suppose they are out there. Glad Iām not like that.ā
He looked at me & then saidā¦ āOh, youād know if you came across 1, just by the things they do.ā
I kind of just was like, āUh huh. I have to go get a drink.ā Then went in the house.
Iād say it really depends on who the person is & their generation as well as their upbringing & understanding or education witchcraft/paganism. I do think that since maybe a little before Covid, it became kind of trendy for a bit. I also think a lot more people on the whole have a better understanding of what we actually are about & doā¦ but there are still those that are not stuck, but alsoā¦ brought up a way or learned certain things for whatever reasonā¦ that its hard to change their perception of what a witch is or does or even looks like. There are so many that practice & so many that practice in many different ways. Each unique in their practice, but there are still those that group us into this 1 mold.
Challenge Entry: Time Magick
When this challenge came out, I remember thinking- ooh, I want to do this! Of course, that seems to be the case all too often! Time is tricky for me. Because of trigger warning abuse and trauma, I learned how to dissociate at a very young age. I believe thereās an almost intrinsic tie between early childhood abuse and ADHD, and that dissociation and time management issues are an obvious result of this connection. Soā¦my difficulty with time has lasted for half a century! There are some inherently wonderful qualities in dissociation, though. It enables those affected with the ability to meditate much more easily and allows us (in my humble opinion) to access our intuition more readily. Just this morning, I meditated and did some tarot and oracle readings for over an hour, and it felt like it was 20 minutes! While time is (supposedly) linear here on the Earth plane, it is, in truth, circular. It most often feels like a spiral to me. Itās kind of like climbing or descending a spiral staircase. You can have thoughts about the same subject every time you go up or down the same staircase, but they will be more advanced each time because youāve grown and changed and experienced more. If youāre climbing up that staircase and you look back at what your thoughts were when you were coming up, you can have a visual for where you were when you came down. I feel like I am making this much more confusing than it is! This concept is similar to the quote, āYou never step in the same river twice.ā I have been working with my guides to expand and contract time. What I mean by this is that I can accomplish far more in the same amount of time than I had previously by altering my mindset and perspective and practicing mindfulness on a deeper level. Alternatively, I am learning how to stretch time out in my experience by using certain techniques that I donāt quite know how to explain. Theyāre all about working with your own unique rhythms anyway, so even if I were able to explain it in detail, it wouldnāt necessarily work for anyone else unless they tweaked it to work with their own cycles and rhythms. To me, learning to do this in my old age (ha! ) has been truly life-altering and magickal!
Shawdow Weaver
I love your alter, and read your post you said you got into
I am interested in looking deeper into this practice! I need to try to escape from Samsara myself! I had 12 years clean and recently found myself in the abyss again! I had a relapse but trying to accept myself where I am and try all over! I donāt want to make the same mistakes and the Lord and Lady know my struggles about trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle! Pray 
I learn some new protocols like protective spells to help my compulsive behaviors!
I will try to stay calm and not go against the waves 
Jeannie
I am also going to post on The Wheel of The Year and what that means for me! I follow the pagan wheel of the year! I am a Hecateian
Keeping Her Keys
