:stonehenge: Weekly Witchy CHALLENGE - Sacred Places, Sacred Spaces

[crystal5]

Challenge Entry

I discovered a new tool! (And it is so much fun to use!)
It is the Virtual Altar!
I love that it has so many tools and actions. Now if I do not have the ingredient/tools or the ability to set up an altar, I can use my computer and go virtual.
Here is my Monday Altar.

I called the Four Elements and Cast a Circle. Then I brewed some tea with chamomile and Lavendar.

Even our virtual spaces can be sacred!
Blessed Be

(Does anyone know what tool invokes Earth?)
Here is a post when this tool was first introduced: https://forum.spells8.com/t/new-interactive-virtual-altar/33792?u=crystal5

[crystal5]

I just discovered the answer to my own question.
The Pentacle invokes Earth and charges anything placed on it.

[Nhaama]

Here’s my latest photo I took of my altar. I wanted to wait for until my Bastet statue arrived beforehand

[Francessca]

Challenge Entry:

Hi all it’s been a while, since I’ve had a moment to add an entry / rejoin our coven … Since my L/O is asleep I figured I would pop in to join this weeks challenge.

My sacred space would be my permanent alter that I have in my hallway, that I try to use as frequently as I can, and my sacred spaces have most definitely changed since I’ve become a mom. My first one is now my kitchen , when I make my coffee in the morning I pour the following into this cup of coffee - my intentions, thanks to my spirit guides, ancestors, and deities that I work with, lastly my hopeful manifestations. My second “sacred space” would be the morning walks I take with my daughter (when she allows me to leave the house), and the time I take to listen to a witchy pod cast and try to reconnect with my surroundings and the last of my sacred spaces is now my shower , I find that this is the only 20 minutes of me time that I get at the end of my day before I get ready for bed and my evening nursings. I try to use my shower time to rinse off / release any energy that isn’t mine and the elements of earth and water to recenter / recharge myself with positive intentions.

and with that my baby is now awake again and it’s time to feed her one more time before we go to sleep.

Sending love and light to all, I looks forward to going back and reading everyone’s posts when I get a moment,.

Only the best,
Francessca Angel.

[starborn]

Challenge entry

I can’t believe it took me so long to get around to this one. I love the idea. However, I’ve already shown off my altar quite a bit, so I will go with something different.

I feel at peace in forests and mountains, and my heart often yearns for them. When amongst the trees, connecting with the earth and feeling the ancient nature of the natural world around us is effortless.

The following are some photos from Pelister (Пелистер) National Park near Bitola in Macedonia. Bitola is in the southern part of Macedonia, near the border with Greece.

The Pelister National Park is named after the highest peak in the mountain range, while the mountainous area itself is called Baba Planina (Баба Планина), which means Grandma Mountain. The name Pelister possibly originates from antiquity, probably given by ancient tribes—Pelagonians and Linkestides—who lived just under Baba Mountain in this part of the plain Pelagonia.

Pelagonians are one of the ethnic communities that inhabited the area around the Crna River (Црна Река), meaning Black River, adjacent to the ancient settlement Stobi (Стоби). Around this area was the city of Heraclea Lyncestis (Хераклеја Линкестис), founded by Philip II of Macedon in the middle of the 4th century BC and named in honour of the mythological hero Heracles. The name Lynkestis originates from the name of the ancient kingdom where the city was built. (Remember I mentioned the Linkestides? Yep.)

Anyway, that’s enough of a history lesson on this area. I would love to be able to share photos of my own, but I need to be able to access my HDD to do so. (Hopefully, I will eventually find the right headers to repair the thing.) So, the following photos are ones that I’ve pulled from the internet.

Pelister National Park… is located in the Baba Mountain massif and covers an area of 171.5 square kilometres (66.2 sq mi). The altitude of the park varies between 927 and 2,601 m (3,041 and 8,533 ft) above sea level and is filled with exquisite flora and fauna.

Among flora elements, the presence is especially significant of the five-needle pine molica, Pinus peuce - a unique species of Cenozoic age being present on only a few mountains in the Balkan Peninsula. The beauty of the landscape is enhanced by the diverse wildlife: bears, roe deer, wolves, chamois, deer, wild boars, rabbits, several species of eagles, partridges, red-billed choughs, and the endemic Macedonian Pelagonia trout. – Pelister National Park - Wikipedia

[National park Pelister |]

[Пелистер (национален парк) – Уикипедия]

This area defines peace to me, and I hope the photos can help you, the viewer, feel a little bit of it as well.

[celineelise]

Challenge Entry
I am a bit late to the party and was being indecisive about my entry. But since my sign in Chiron has followed me for several weeks through my meditations with half horse or half deer half humanbeings I took it as a sign to see if there was a shrine or temple to his somewhere and I found one!
Chirons Cave
Chiron was half horse and half human he was not lkke the other centaurs as was all about healing th4 animals and the people and taught his knowledge to the ruling class and invented doctors and veterinarians by teaching folks his knowledge in his cave.

The cave resides in Greece, so itnseels i need to pilgrimage to greece to get there.

Chirons cave
I would love to go here!!

This article cane be found here.
Has anyone been here?

[stavroula]

@celineelise

Has anyone been here?

I remember a trip with school in Pelio, the teachers wanted to go there but in the end we did not as the head mistress thought it was dangerous for ninenty 15-year-olds to go there xD Instead they took us to the centaurs’ path near Portaria

How to Explore the Centaur Path in Pelion, Greece

@starborn

Bitola

Balkans United

@starborn

near the border with Greece.

Not, just near, I need more time to go to work from my house than you coming to Florina xD

[TheMuslimWitch]

Thank you hun There really is no where in the world i feel more safe and at home than in my sacred space (especially because i just gave it a nice clean as well)

[TheMuslimWitch]

I love how you have a variety of places for your practice (especially the fire pit which is my dream) I tend to keep things for my practice in one area which is my sacred space as i am too sacred things will go missing as they usually do with such a large family, so i have my little space no one really bothers about which is perfect for me

[TheMuslimWitch]

Oh my god can we please trade places I cannot you live somewhere so beautiful i would die to wake up and walk out to see such a sight.

[TheMuslimWitch]

Wow just wow! I absolutely have been dreaming about visiting Egypt since i was a little girl and was obsessed with a National Geographic addition i kept until it was tattered. I love all the pics and love your altar. Thanks for sharing and excellent entry

[TheMuslimWitch]

Good on you so inspiring I never really understood the value of education until i was grown up with a family and wished i would have treated my education with a little more respect. It is so great that we can decide to finish school even later in life as i know there are many places in the world people who give anything the get a decent education, and seeing you go for it is just the perfect way to show this. I know you will do great

[TheMuslimWitch]

Thank you so much i just can’t resist anything witchy or craft related. It may even be a little unhealthily lol

[TheMuslimWitch]

Wow so beautiful! Wish i was this neat. I should be labelled the messy witch lol can’t help but have a trail of herbs or sage somewhere behind or on me in my sacred space

[crystal59]

I LOVE your sacred space @TheMuslimWitch it’s so inviting so many neat things.

[carol3]

Challenge entry

My parents bought a house on the creek a few years back. It was supposed to be a vacation house, however it didnt’t take them long to move into it permanently. When I pracrice my craft I go set up my tools and alter in the backyard there. Its so peaceful being by the river’s edge watching the water ripple and the stars or clouds in the sky. My dad has been woking on making me a litte space above the back porch kind of in the celing where I can go to do my “witchy thing” as he calls it. Probably just because he doesnt want to neigbors to see me out there chanting and dancing around the fire pit. Regardless of his reasoning I think itll be a neat little spot all my own to practice my craft and anyhing else I wish to do undisturbed.

[crystal59]

Challenge entry- this is my Sacred space every candle represents a family member or friend who passed away.

[Mystique]

That is beautiful!

[Mystique]

That is beautiful! I love your skull!

[crystal59]

Wow @carol3 your set up is awesome it looks beautiful out there what a perfect place to practice I wish I had a place like that it’s perfect