# :triple\_moon\_goddess: Weekly Witchy CHALLENGE - Deities & Deity Worship

**URL:** <https://forum.spells8.com/t/weekly-witchy-challenge-deities-deity-worship/42380>\
**Category:** Activities\
**Tags:** deities\
**Created:** [October 4, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/weekly-witchy-challenge-deities-deity-worship/42380 "2023-10-04T16:42:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Artemisia](https://spells8.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.spells8.com/artemisia/32/78846_2.png) [@Artemisia](https://forum.spells8.com/u/Artemisia)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/weekly-witchy-challenge-deities-deity-worship/42380/60 "2023-10-10T00:50:03Z")

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**Challenge Entry - Deities & Deity Worship**

This week has gotten away from me, I admit and I never really settled on what I was going to do for this challenge. In some ways, I think I put so much pressure on myself to make this big, elaborate, and perfect that I kept putting it off until here we are, hours before the challenge is due and I have nothing.

I guess all I can do is write about my story a little bit although I know many have already read it.

I think the very first time I heard my diety call to me, I was 24 years old, standing out in the New Mexican desert among the rabbitbrush, creosote, and Indian paintbrush, sun on my skin, a typical spring wind blowing through the shrubs with a partial moon clear and beautiful in the sky. I remember stopping, looking up at the moon, and listening for a while. Then I said aloud “I hear you” and meant that with all my soul.

 ![DSC_6539](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/4/7/477dfb198a69c52034485949e0e3a77b46e9d91a.jpeg)  
([source](https://www.eanet.com/kodama/astro/2018/0330/index.htm))

At the time, I didn’t know who it was except that it was female, I just assumed as I was new to magick and my path, that it was the Goddess. I’ve heard and felt her throughout my 25-plus years since, in the woods, while tending my gardens, running outside, and while working with countless animals, both domestic and exotic.

 ![indian_paintbrush_valle_vidal_6204-7417272](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/2/d/2d2077ea7b94740b642d616aa8c932de4ab8b1fc.jpeg)  
([source](https://geraintsmith.com/indian-paintbrush-high-country-2/)  
A few years ago in the fall, I was called back to Magick. Called back home after I’d wandered from the path so many years ago. I heard the voice clear again and was long past ready to come back.

I picked up tarot again, learned to create potions and spell jars, and wove magick into the things I loved to create, be it custom tarot deck bags, pressed flower luminaries, or a silver tiger claw replica pendant. I never questioned who called me and just assumed I knew without ever really thinking about it.

Until the weekly challenge - [Magickal Names](https://forum.spells8.com/t/weekly-witchy-challenge-magickal-names/33428/158) and then for whatever reason, I realized that it wasn’t just me being fascinated with her all the time, but that Artemis had been there guiding me all my life.

 ![grimoireCover](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/6/a/6add34c9d65be2a91e6224c10c5c1800a91fc6b5.jpeg)  
(My custom cover for my first BoS in 1998)

I suppose in some way I feel embarrassed that it took me so long to see her or to admit it was her calling me all my life. It seems pretty darn obvious in retrospect. I can’t explain why I didn’t realize or accept it sooner, but I finally feel that missing piece of the puzzle settled into place. 🏹 🌙 🌿 🦌

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