Ooh the bath was just fabulous! This time I went for Himalayan salt, vinegar, orange oil and roses. Inhale positive energy from the white candle and exhale negative energy to be absorbed by the black candle. I had a loooonng soak and meditation. Really gorgeous- would recommend!
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I think thatâs my favorite thing about baths/showers. I always feel so refreshed or renewed afterward. Like the hot water just washed all the negativity and stress down the drain. I always feel like a new person afterward.
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Happy Happy Birthday @janelle! Iâve just uploaded a little Witchy Self-Love Birthday Ritual I made for my friend back in October! Maybe something there could inspire you 
I hope youâre having a wonderful day! 
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I have been doing shadow work this week in the form of journaling, the shadow worksheet, and a few tarot readings. I have been feeling good the last few days and it just seemed to fit for what I am going through. I recently got out of a depression and I felt like seeing what had changed and what I could possibly work on. The tarot readings were kind of like the cards telling me to slow down and wait because things are happening as they should. A nice swift kick in the ass. The journaling though, I have written pages upon pages of things everything from the mundane to deep feelings about situations around me. As I wrote, my anxiety got better and I felt better in general about each day unfolding. I even did a jar spell for the first time in at least a month. Afterwards I felt really good about what I had done, even if my anxiety caused it to be a little rushed & scattered, the end result and my intentions were there for the spell. I just went about it a different way than what is traditional. Iâm continuing to do shadow work, itâs always a work in progress, because I want to make sure I am ready for whatâs to come. From what I know, itâs going to be life changing and put everything into a whole new perspective for myself and those that are close to me.
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This Dark moon 
Magick really fits into my moment. I shall do it tomorrow, Saturday, which is the day ruled by Saturn.
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Oh, I love Loner Wolf! Their content and emails are information and interesting!
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Have to see what I can conjur up for this challenge.
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I feel really scattered and chaotic inside, I donât know if my shadow work has stirred up some things or what. I know made a post, somewhere about my experience with Shadow Work, but I cannot seem to find it. I will have to poke around the forum & see where I put it.
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Hey all! I wanted to do something today, on Saturday because itâs a good day to banish things you donât need, especially with the waning moon. Still I wasnât sure what to do, that is until I read this morningâs 365 Goddesses: A Daily Guide to the Magic and Inspiration of the Goddess by Patricia Telesco.
December 12thâs Goddess is Bamya, the Zoroastrian Goddess of the Twilight, who Guides the Sun Godâs Chariot through the sky. As the sun sets in Iran today, a huge bonfire is lit to symbolize the power of light over dark, good over evil.
This Goddess teaches that even one person can make a difference. Which is a good thing right now. Included with this book was this wonderful devotional prayer.
At sunset today light an orange candle (or another one the color of twilight) and greet Bamya with this prayer:
Lady of the Gentle Twilight I welcome you. As the sun sets on this day, let things from the past that I no longer need to bear also fade away. Teach me to leave them behind as easily as you leave behind the daylight. As darkness falls, grant rest to my unsettled spirit so that I can rise tomorrow renewed and whole. Bamya be with me. Amen.
Thatâs all the book had, but Iâm going to focus on my ill-health as the candle burns down. Hopefully it will banish any illness as the candle goes down. Thatâs the plan anyway.
Then, on Monday the night of the New Moon, Iâm going to focus on my New Yearâs resolutions. Seems a good night, with the new moon to try to start some new goals.
So thatâs what Iâm going for the Magic in the Dark Challenge.
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Iâm sorry youâre feeling chaotic, maybe itâs a good kind of chaos though. You can always hope. 
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Especially when Iâm actively trying to organize information. Before I start have an idea of what I want to do or where I want it to go, then I start to do & everything floods my brain & I get so confused and draw a blank. I think itâs me preparing for a big change in 2021/after the holidays. I donât necessarily think itâs a bad chaos, just tough to manage sometimes. Thank you @Amethyst!
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Iâm an idiot, I told you that I was feeling chaos & scattered⌠I DID make the post about my shadow work on the right thread. I need to breathe for sure!
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Well good luck managing it! It sounds like youâre a baby bird getting ready to burst from the shell! Thatâs difficult for the bird sometimes but always good in the long run. Good luck getting there!
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I know what you mean, I feel like something big is in the works.
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As I have said, I am working on Shadow Work. I use my journal for Shadow Work, Dreams, and regular journal types of things. But I have also used worksheets. I print one off from Spells8 whenever I want to do it but then I did a search and came up with another worksheet and then a selection from a site that has 25 questions for shadow work. So I decided to share them both if anyone wants to use them for themselves. I know there is something big coming my way soon, so I am trying to be as prepared for it as I can and the Shadow Work just feels right. So I am going with it.
31.-The-Shadow.pdf (40.6 KB)
So, whether youâre actively engaging in shadow work now or you feel like you need to but dunno where to begin, these challenging journal prompts are for you. (They are also for anyone who just happens to read through them and thinks one of them might be just the ticket for some random self-exploration. Go for it!)
1. How judged do you tend to feel on a daily basis? Explore how much of that perceived judgement is real and how much is imagined.
2. Take a look at the best and most enjoyable aspect of your life right now. What is your underlying fear in that area and why?
3. Write about the last time you tried to manipulate a situation to your advantage and examine how you feel about that in hindsight.
4. Describe a scenario in which you feel that competition could be healthy and productive. Then describe a scenario in which competition could be toxic and unproductive. Finally, write about your emotional response to this exercise.
5. What does it feel like to have your emotions belittled or downplayed? Be as descriptive as possible and try writing about specific examples from your own life too.
6. Pinpoint something thatâs really frustrating/upsetting you at the moment. Then try writing an uplifting, beautiful poem about it!
7. Write about the last time you ran away from your responsibilities. Consider why you did that and what the results were.
8. How can you begin to give other people more space and acceptance to be themselves around you?
9. Whereabouts do you tend to expect other people to conform to your beliefs? (And what scares you the most about allowing people to have their own beliefs in that area?)
10. What does the term âsuperiority complexâ bring to mind for you and why?
11. If you could say one thing to the person whoâs hurt you the most right now, what would it be and why?
12. Consider yourself at your worst - at a point where all of your most negative and disruptive traits have come to the surface. Capture that version of you in your mind. Then write a letter of love, understanding and compassion to that version of you. (For extra credit: Read the letter aloud to yourself whenever you feel like youâve turned into a bit of a monster!)
13. What does the word âpunishmentâ make you think of right now and why?
14. Write about the different ways in which people have expressed their anger or resentment in front of you over the last few months. What do you notice about their different modes of expression for these emotions?
15. Whatâs the one thing you know you need to do but keep avoiding? Write it down. Then write a step-by-step description of actually doing it. Include every action which would need to be involved in order to get it done. At the end of the exercise, explore how you feel.
16. When was the last time you witnessed distinctly self-destructive behaviour, either in yourself or in someone else? Describe it and the emotions you had at the time.
17. What was the last cruel thing you wanted to say to someone in order to make them feel bad about themselves or their actions? Write it down and then explore your feelings about it.
18. Whereabouts do you currently feel isolated and how are you dealing with that emotion?
19. Write about the biggest experience of loss for you so far this year.
20. What do you currently envy in someone elseâs life and why? (For extra credit: What kinds of emotions come up when you imagine yourself having access to the thing you envy?)
21. At the top of a blank page write the following words, âMy insecurity is my teacher.â Then fill the page up with your responses to this sentence - whatever comes to mind, honey!
22. What does it feel like to be completely discouraged by someoneâs words? Be descriptive and consider writing about personal experiences of this in your own life.
23. Why is it sometimes difficult to tell the difference between someone saying something intentionally mean and someone just saying something accidentally thoughtless?
24. What does the term âconstructive criticismâ make you think of and why?
25. Which emotion do you tend to deal with in unhelpful/destructive ways? Write about the way you usually deal with this troublesome emotion. Then write about what your life might be like if you dealt with it differently.
Keep in mind that these journal prompts are designed to be ball-busters. I like to create journalling tools which feel like a little bit of an uphill bike ride with an increasingly steep incline, so feel free to dip in and out, stop on the side of the road for a rest or take things slowly.
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Credit for these journal prompts goes to Kelly-Ann Maddox. You can find her page here.
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Happy 30th!! Hope you have a wonderful celebration!!
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Congrats! I remember feeling so excited and connected to something that I felt I had been missing for so long after my Self Initiation.
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I usually put up my vision board in my window to catch the beams of the New Moon, but this time around for this beauty I am going to add doing some shadow work, maybe having a fire outback on Monday and just enjoy the night and honor Hecate as well. This has always been an interest to me but then I seem to shy away from it.
I know I have some aspects within myself that I need to bring out of the shadows and some I need to cast a bit more light on. I am hard on myself as many of us are, I tend to push myself to the point of epic meltdown most times. This is something Iâd like to change. Having anxiety and OCD makes a lot of simple tasks impossible because I make them bigger than myself most times.
So, beginning tonight I am doing the exercise/video @SilverBear posted and working in my Book of Mirrors.
I think tomorrow I will go walking looking for my Yule log, maybe. Or to the beachâŚits sort of my sanctuary. 
I really need to create a routine and write it down or add to my calendar to remind myself to take my witchy time breaks so I can stay organized with the things I need to work on.
Blessed Be,
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Iâm doing some of the same works focusing on the Shadow work but reorganizing my schedule/routine to include witchy time. Whether its a lot or a little I need to work it back in so I can get through my day with ease.
I do the same type of things because of my anxiety/OCD. Sometimes I have to talk myself through getting things done because itâs like a make a mountain out of an ant hill. Other times, I have teenagers & my Peanut⌠they âforgetâ to clean up after themselves. I can stay on Peanut about it, but the mess from Ty & Rylee comes after Iâve gone to bed most nights and then they are in bed late because they go to bed around 2 or 3 in the morning after working until 11 or close to midnight all week.
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Eek. Those are some good questions, even if I wouldnât want to do them all at once. Thanks for sharing @Susurrus!
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