Merry meet!
Thank you once again to all those who joined in for last week’s Weekly Witchy Challenge - Celtic Magick 
Our exploration through several popular pagan paths and traditions continues this week as we leave the Celtic area of influence to head south. This week, we’re venturing to an area of the Craft whose roots stem from a different culture and geographic location.
Exploring Traditions: Egyptian Magick 
This is the second stop on our spiritual tour of Pagan Paths & Traditions - a series of challenges that hopes to shine a spotlight on some of the widely-practiced magickal traditions we often hear about in the witchy world.
For the sake of this challenge, “Egyptian” is being used as an umbrella term to reference the traditions, practices, and folklore stemming from Ancient Egypt and the surrounding area. While Egyptian spiritual and magickal traditions are based primarily in this geographic location, they were carried alongside migrating people over the course of history and have since expanded to other parts of the world.
A note that you do not have to identify as a practitioner or follower of this tradition/area of magick to partake in this educational challenge. Additionally, you do not need to have cultural or ancestral ties in order to study this area of the practice. However, it is important to note that Egyptian magickal traditions are tied to modern-day cultures that still exist, and whom deserve respect and mindfulness (for more on the topic of magick and culture, visit the Can we talk about “Cultural Appropriation”? and Spiritual Practices and Cultural Appropriation discussions)
The power of Egyptian folklore, history, and traditions echoes around the world and hold great value for everyone to learn from and find inspiration in - so let’s jump in!
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This week’s challenge is all about exploring Egyptian magick and traditions - but as always, how you do so is up to you!
So are you ready? Because it’s…
CHALLENGE TIME!
Sekhmet Picture by @Cosmic_Curiosity, shared in Egyptian Cat Deities
STEP 1 : Exploring Egyptian Traditions, Pantheon & Magick
This challenge is all about Egyptian magick and traditions - but how you choose to take on this theme is up to you!
Still not sure where to begin? To help you get started, here are a few ways in which a witch might approach this challenge…
Please make sure you are logged into your Spells8 Account so you can view all of the resources shared!
Are you new to Egyptian magick and traditions? Whether it’s Egyptian deities, folklore, old sayings, traditional spells, history, or more - consider learning more about spiritual/religious practices from this area of study! You are welcome to share what you learned as your entry this week.
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The Egyptian Pantheon
Bast: The Cat Goddess of Egypt
Horus: Egyptian God of the Sky
Isis: Goddess Myth, Symbols, and Correspondences
Additional discussions and resources:
- Egyptian Deities Masterpost
- Anubis: Exploring the Egyptian Funerary God
- Deity work with Hathor: First time wanting to work with a God
- Isis: A Deep Dive into the Anceint Egyptian Goddess
- Working with a triad
- Challenge Entry 2: Working with Ra - The Egyptian God of the Sun(Solar Magick Catchup)
- Weekly Challenge (Catch Up) - Moon Deities of Ancient Egypt
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Egyptian-Inspired Spellwork 
Healing Prayer for a Cat : Bast Blessings
Cleopatra Archetype: Unleash Your Inner Power, Feminity, and Success
Additional discussions and resources:
- Egyptian Symbols for Rituals and Spells
- Kyphi-Ancient Egyptian Incense-Easy to Make
- The Sphinx - facts and legends
- Did you know, Cleopatra was a blonde?
- Dealing with the Divine Weekly Catch-Up Entry
- Death and afterlife
For your entry this week, consider exploring any ties you have to Egyptian traditions or culture. This may be your blood ancestry, adoptive ancestry, past travel experiences, memories from past lives, your work with a Egyptian deity, etc.
There are no “right” or “wrong” answers here - this is simply an invitation for you to learn more about yourself and any influences that may or may not influence your spiritual practice
Related discussions and resources:
- Ancestry and Modern Collide: My Magickal Roots
- Does your ancestry affect your Craft?
- Your Magickal Roots - Weekly Witchy Challenge
- 🔍 Weekly Witchy CHALLENGE - Peering into Past Lives
- 🧑🏫 Weekly Witchy CHALLENGE - Teachers of Magick
The suggestions above are just a few ideas to help kickstart your creativity- if you feel called to explore Egyptian magick and traditions in another way, you are welcome to do so!
As always, all witches are encouraged to embrace their own unique practice with how they explore the challenge theme 
STEP 2 : Share Your Experience 
Click here for a note about challenge inclusivity
Everyone is welcome to join the challenge by practicing magick in line with the current theme. For lurkers and those who don’t feel comfortable sharing, it is absolutely okay to follow along with the challenge but keep your entry personal. Feel free to join in spirit and do what feels most comfortable for you! 
That being said, please know that if you would like to receive a prize and a public shout-out, it is required that you share your experience.
Getting Your Credit 
In order for your entry to be counted, all you have to do is write/share about your experience and label it as your challenge entry. There is a lot of chatting here (which is awesome- chatting and discussion are very welcome!) so please clearly write that it is your entry so I know to count it! 
Where Should I Share My Entry? 
Click here to learn where to share your challenge entry
You are welcome to post it right here- just click “reply” 
to this post and write your experience in the text box that pops up!
Alternatively, you could create a new post in the forum (this is good for when you have a lot to share and/or would like to discuss aspects of your entry not related to the current theme)
Note : If you do choose to create a new thread, please add the “challenge-entry” tag and/or add a hyperlink back to this post so that it can be easily found- thank you! 
Deadline 
This challenge will close in 6 DAYS
To join in, please share your experience by:
Tuesday, May 28 at 7:00 AM EDT (Eastern US Time)
2024-05-28T11:00:00Z
(Note that the time zone is ET- if you don’t see your time displayed above, you can use this time zone calculator to check for your time zone!)
Prizes 
For their efforts, all participants will receive a special shout-out and a small prize!
Acknowledgments will be given in a Props and Presents Post that will appear in the forums on Tuesday.
After the challenge closes, you are still very welcome to post but please be aware that no additional prizes will be given. This discussion will remain open for about a week after the challenge finishes.
A warm reminder that the challenges are designed to be very open- everyone is encouraged to participate in a way that honors and reflects their unique practice 
If you have any doubts about if something is acceptable to post or say, please double-check with the Forum FAQ and/or reach out to your friendly Moderator Team.
And for those new to challenges- welcome! 
Know that the goal of these activities is to help you further diversify and strengthen your abilities and to bring together the Spells8 forum family to inspire and support one another in creative ways 
