Merry meet!
Thank you once again to all those who joined in last week’s Weekly Witchy Challenge - Sacred Places, Sacred Spaces 
After admiring the lovely sacred spaces the coven loves most, we’re switching gears to more magickal theory. Get ready to lock in!
The theme for this week’s challenge is…
Taglocks & Tokens 
Using items to help direct a spell and get the results you intend
Welcome to the world of taglocks and tokens! These handy magickal tools come in any shape and form imaginable and are common inclusions in spellwork. You may have already cast with them before!
By using taglocks/tokens, you provide a clear target and guide for your spell, which enhances your intention and helps to bring about the results you intend. They are well worth including in your spellwork 
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This week’s challenge is all about taglocks & tokens - but as always, how you do so is up to you!
So are you ready? Because it’s…
CHALLENGE TIME!
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STEP 1 : Locking in on Your Intention 
This challenge is all about taglocks and tokens - 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!
New to the idea of taglocks and tokens? A great place to begin is by exploring the concepts. Feel free to explore and share what you learned as your challenge entry this week!
As a brief introduction:
→ Taglocks are used to tie a specific person into a spell or other magickal working.
Examples of taglocks include: Names, blood, locks of hair, fingernails, etc.
→ Tokens are used to represent something (usually non-human) in a spell or magickal working. They are often chosen based on an item’s magickal correspondences.
Examples of tokens and what they might represent include: a deity symbol (your deity), good luck sigil (good luck), feathers (Air element), rain water (rain), basil (good luck), a gingko leaf (wealth), etc.
Both taglocks (symbolizing a person) and tokens (symbolizing a magickal influence) are used to represent something/someone, bringing it into your spellwork and helping to direct the spell.
Related discussions and resources:
Taglocks can be anything symbolic of the person you wish to direct the spell for/at, while tokens can be any items, symbols, or sigils with magickal significance. Consider making your own this week - either for a one-use spell, or as a long-term addition to your Magickal Tool Kit.
Make a Token: How to Craft a Representative Sigil
Magickal Correspondences: Using the Connections Between Things
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Casting with tokens and/or taglocks
Got the basics down and feel ready to cast? Taglocks and/or tokens are common inclusions to spells. Here are a few spells, rituals, crafts and more that include one or the other.
(If you don’t see or can’t find a spell that aligns with your intention, feel free to write your own spell that includes as taglock and/or a token as your entry this week 
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Sour Seal: Freezer Spell to Bind a Toxic Person
Fire Spell to Remove Obstacles
Create a Bast Altar for a Healing Cat Prayer
Related discussions and resources:
- Self love jar for a friend
- Banish a Person Jar Spell
- Anyone have experience with poppets?
- Fog Blockade: spell jar for spiritual privacy
- Full Wolf Moon Tarot Spread with Token
- Coin tokens for Hekate
- Trinty of Wealth Jar Spell
- A Little Forgiveness Ritual
The suggestions above are just a few ideas to help kickstart your creativity- if you feel called to explore taglocks and tokens 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 
Healing Spell Bag with Fingerprint Taglock by @MeganB, shared in Understanding Taglocks
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, July 9 at 7:00 AM EDT (Eastern US Time)
2024-07-09T11:00:00Z
(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 
Pet Protection Spell by @janelle
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To cast from afar or to take a big chance,
Set clear your intention and take a firm stance
Your spellwork is firm, you’re not lost in the dark-
Use a taglock or token and you’ll hit your mark!
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Blessed Be! 
My original coven did practices that to me were absolutely appalling. That is why I left as soon as I found out I was pregnant with my oldest.
