:spirit_element: Weekly Witchy CHALLENGE - The Fifth Element: Spirit

[Mystique]

CHALLENGE ENTRY

While walking through the witchy store yesterday, I had no intentions of buying more jewelry. But as I walked past I had a strong pull to the necklaces. I started going through them and didn’t feel anything then I got to this beautiful amethyst necklace and it was like it just pulled me in. So of course I bought it. I have cleansed and charged it and will now be wearing it instead of the one I’ve been wearing.

This relates to the topic as the amethyst helps me to connect to my third eye. It helps to connect with the element of spirit.

[Nhaama]

That is a beautiful necklace~! May it serve you well

[bj1]

Challenge entry – The Fifth Element: Spirit

An Altar for Spirit

I decided to create an altar dedicated to Spirit.
In his book, Wicca: the Complete Guide for Beginners in Wicca and Witchcraft, 2015, Ray Wesker states: “The Spirit is also known as the aether or ether. The direction of this element is regarded as being the center and the colors can be violet, white or black, depending on the spell. The tool of choice for this element is the circle or cauldron and it can be evoked at absolutely any time.”
I used my recently painted pentacle (on a wooden disk with sterling silver and black acrylic paint) as the centerpiece.
I found a violet candle with the scent of black currant. Black currant (Ribes nigrum) is reported to help with divination, enhance psychic abilities, protect and banish negative forces, and promote healing. On the website of Green Hope Essences: “Black currant heals and cleanses our etheric/memory body of detritus form seven generations of our ancestors as well as from our past lives. This means we no longer have to carry the baggage of our previous incarnations or our ancestors’ baggage but are free to regain an unparalleled level of energetic vitality.”
I decided to use my ancestor wand (hawthorn and amethyst) as my tool, signifying that I am banishing the baggage of my ancestors, but not the ancestors!
I chose stones for the five points: amethyst for Spirit, lapis lazuli for Water, red jasper for Fire, malachite for Earth, and aventurine for Air.
From the book, The Wiccan Way: A Path to Spirituality and Self-Development, 2003, by Sally Morningstar, I found this chant for candle magic for Spirit:
Spirit of this Sacred Flame
By all that’s hallowed in thy name,
I invoke thee – I invoke thee
Enter now and light the way
To (state you magical intention here.)
Her correspondences for Spirit are: white (candle), white lily (plant), lotus root (herb), rose (oil), and saffron (spice). I only had lily, lotus, and rose incense sticks so I decided to stick with the black currant candle for the scent.
I think I have a powerful altar that ties Spirit to the other 4 Elements and I am excited to try it out!

[Mystique]

Beautiful altar

[Jeannie1]

@georgia

I have noticed that when I don’t feel safe, I have considerable difficulty connecting with Spirit.

I too have a difficult time connecting to anything really.

@georgia

I do my best to hang on, hoping it would be the last connection to break and the first to reattach, but that isn’t always the case.

I am glad to hear you are doing your best, @georgia Harness the power of the Unicorn!!! Alow the time too for your self reflection which I know your so good at! You always are writing so I suppose you have a journal and you probably just don’t give yourself enough credit where you should!!! CyndiBrannnen
"I see myself in joy and love I know myself I am ENOUPH !!!
Ow yEAH i AM A POWERFULL WITCH!!!

@georgia

The Creator and all our deities are still listening, still omnipresent, still caring, no mater what we feel.

Always ask for what you want girl, I am a beleiver in if you dont ask then closed mouths dont get feed!!

@georgia

’ve come to define (for myself) such times as “Spiritual illness,” a temporary thing which can be healed and grown through.

Very True and yes it does take a lot of Patients I know I had to work through alot and still have hurtles but I relize that I am breathing for a reason and I just breath through it all!

@georgia

Patience is the hard part.

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I love that saying patients is a virtue!!!

@georgia

And I’m always messing things up, no matter how hard I try to be “good.” It’s nice to believe that the Creator I care for isn’t judgmental.

Me too ,when I was raised to believe I would go to hell for my sins which I don’t want to believe. My therapist says I am not judgmental at all and I tried to list what I am judgmental about and it was hard. shadow work!! My thing is analyzing things and putting a narrative so I try to look for the good in others!! No ones perfect girl!!

For my challenge I wanted to share my meditation with you all to help me so I pulled out a book that look like it was calling to me using my mediumship asking my guides for help finding a good enough spell that was suitable and on target for my intention! My intention was to connect to ether so the best way was to ease my way. The cat started messing with me during the meditation and really upset me cause I am trying too girl!
I am going to the store, then I will share what I did last night for my challenge. I hope your going to like it!!
Jeannie
Jeannie

[Satans_Helper]

Hymn To Satan by Giosue Carducci - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry

Challenge Entry

The fifth element spirit to me is Lord Satan. To me he is the creator of earth. He is in the wind. He is in the fire. He is in the water. He is in the earth. He is the animals, plants, trees. He is all. He gave us so much. He gave us his knowledge, strength, love, and all the things we love so much.

He is not who the abrihamic religion suggests. He is kind, sweet, strong, loving, protective. He is my father I am his child. Anytime I circle cast he is at the center where he rightfully belongs.

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Prayer of Protection to Satan

July 27, 2024

Ave Satanas Praise Satan

[Satans_Helper]

Beautiful amethyst

[Satans_Helper]

Beautiful crystals I hope u feel better soon

[Jeannie1]

Devenne,
Just wanted to let you know that I tried playing your first video and it would not let me play. It says Video unavailable playback on the websites has been disabled by the video owner
Watch on youtube. what ever that means. The other videos played good.
For this challenge I did a meditation which honors my belief that I would love to burn In which somewhere I learned I wasn’t goofy enough, smart enough, etc etc
So I did a meditation that I got from the dark Moon mysteries wisdom, power and magic of the shadow ruled by Timothy Rodrick “Spirit Energy Release” I thought it was fitting Knowing that waning removing what no longer serves.

I take up this key bestowed by my dark mother Hecate! Hail Hecate!

I really like this meditation because I was able to envision fire burning all of my guilt, etc. all my strong emotions that are holding me back.Burning it off, not only that it is evocative of Hecate in her torches As I am reminded of her epithet Baboraphorba filth Eater! She Eats all my spiritual Miasma.
Next I did a Ritual, Banishing Pentegrams with your Athame in the air!

On each of my candles I used my boline to inscribe what I want to banish corresponding to the colars of my candles

Then I wrote in my book of Mirrors
Wanning Moon
Pieces feelings and emotions, intuition, clairvoyance, energy, enhancement talents revealed.
Krishna Shashiti “bringing glory” overcoming blockages
North Candle Green
East Candle purple
South Candle Red
Black Candle Banishes all that blocks and binds and all profane
Bay Leaf
Black Salt
Hecates Stropholus Guardian, guide, gatekeeper
Obsidian
I inscribed everything that I think that is blocking me from loving myself more!
I used a new Rune

Letting go of past trauma with ancestral wounds not loving self because of other people’s beliefs on me letting go of mother father trauma! Excepting and loving self.

May you be all blessed by this wanning moon! I was able to do my working during the Venus and Murcury period.
Jeannie

[Phoenix_Fire]

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I looked up correspondence to spirit and found a few ideas to go with but one correspomdance was unicorns being connected to spirit. I knew i had an unicorn deck app do i had a look snd found i had an element spread as well so i went with that .
Deck ( app) : oracle of the unicorns

Air

Fire

Earth

Water

Spirit

[starborn]

@Jeannie1

It says Video unavailable playback on the websites has been disabled by the video owner
Watch on youtube. what ever that means

This means you have to tap the video title to open it on the YouTube website (or app, if you’re using a phone). You can’t watch it in its embedded format on this website. Sometimes, that’s because of privacy reasons; sometimes, it’s because of content, etc. But it should work if you try to watch it on YouTube.

@Jeannie1

I used a new Rune

What did you use to draw the runes on yourself? They’re so beautifully done.

[starborn]

The art in that deck is gorgeous.

[starborn]

Your altar is beautiful, as always. And the way you write about Satan is so full of love!

I’m tucking away that Hymm to Satan in my collection. It’s lovely.

[Mystique]

Beautiful ritual as always . I’m writing that protection spell in my grimoire

[Satans_Helper]

Thanks yeah it says it can’t be played on another website just on YouTube. Thankyou bae. Lovely photos

@Mystique glad you liked the Satan protection spell it is one of my favorites. May it serve u well

@starborn thankyou darling He makes it so easy to love him. He’s always willing to be here for me and I’m truly grateful for his presence. That hymn is amazing I saved it too. It’s awesome I love it. Glad u did too

[Jeannie1]

@Phoenix_Fire

knew i had an unicorn deck app

Hi @Phoenix_Fire
Looks like a great deck !
I’ve always loved unicorns
Looks Mike is though you are dreaming of growing in either your spirit world or on physical plane?
Keep that imaginary visionary energy going seems like you might want to meditate and relax for a vision that awaits your reality!
You need some support for your rebirth, and I am here to support you and hope that you can harness that energy! Sometimes it’s people in our lives that
Maybe some anger with a situation that is not in alignment with your true self or your soul.
The feminine archetype may be an indicator of an inner self that will be reflected in your life. By the way you had a great outcome in the reading especially for the decent into a cave and rising up afterwards.

@starborn
I use hena I’ll show you it seems to help during the whole week. I’m thinking about getting a tattoo of the runes.
In the tale of the Hávamál, an Old Norse poem that comprises part of the Poetic Edda, Odin recounted this about his initiation into the mysteries of the runes:

Then I was fertilized and became wise;
I truly grew and thrived.
From a word to a word I was led to a word,
From a work to a work I was led to a work.

(The Poetic Edda. Hávamál, stanzas 138-163)
I’m working on the runes, I have some English in me and German so I feel drawn to them.

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I went to a pagan festival and they had a lady there that did art and I really just wanna start drawing just so that way I can do body art designs on my body just one of my like once that I want to do my checklist!
I am hoping to harness this talent somehow.
JeannieWiccan Song Artemis, Hecate Song for Spirit
Turquoise Woman
Spirit Shinning
Jeannie

[BryWisteria]

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Blessed Be!

[Susurrus]

I have loved reading everyone’s entries so far! I’m sorry that I can’t respond to each individually, but I read through them. The altars and items are all beautiful, too!

I feel like it’s been quite a while since I have been able to join a Weekly Challenge; I also had my thinking cap on when everyone was asking about the challenge.

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I started thinking about the spirit element and I know it’s there, I’m just not sure how to explain it. I also know it is different depending on your belief system or path. First, I researched more to see if I was even headed in the right direction with my original answer on this thread.

Various systems may associate planets, tools, and so forth with spirit, but such correspondences are far less standardized than those of the other four elements.

The element of spirit has several names. The most common are spirit, ether or aether, and quintessence, Latin for “fifth element.”

Spirit is a bridge between the physical and the spiritual. In cosmological models, the spirit is the transitory material between the physical and celestial realms. Within the microcosm, the spirit is the bridge between body and soul.

→ Beyer, Catherine. (2024, May 17). The 5 Elemental Symbols: Fire, Water, Air, Earth, and Spirit. Retrieved from The 5 Elements of Fire, Water, Air, Earth, and Spirit

I’m trying to think of how I work with this element. I know that I do, but after a while, I think it became more of a subconscious thing I do when doing things around me. I do think that the spirit is the bridge between body and soul, so for me, it is also about what helps connect me to my intuition, synchronicities, deities, and the Otherworld. Interacting with those here and with those who have crossed over the veil, the spirit would be the phone line for that to happen and how things around us become signs and synchronicities or baps on the head

In other practices and religions, the spirit is a part of something larger than oneself. It is a part of the Christian (Catholic) Holy Trinity. Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. In some schools of thought, all three are the same, working together on different planes. (It’s the best way to describe it right now. I most certainly may have mashed that one up on it’s way from my brain to the keyboard )

[Jaxblueflash]

@BryWisteria

The Fifth Element: Spirit

Challenge Entry

Exploring the Magickal Spirit Element

Hey magical friends!

Today, I’m diving into one of the most fascinating aspects of magick: the Spirit Element. If you’ve ever felt that there’s something beyond the physical world, something that connects us all, then you’ve already touched on the essence of the Spirit Element.

The Five Elements: A Quick Recap

Before we dive deep, let’s quickly recap the five elements in magick: Earth , Air , Fire , Water , and Spirit . While the first four elements are connected to the tangible world around us, the Spirit Element is the binding force, the unseen energy that connects everything in the universe. It’s often referred to as the “fifth element” or “quintessence.”

What is the Spirit Element?

The Spirit Element is pure energy, the life force that exists within and around us. It’s the spark of the divine, the essence of our souls, and the thread that weaves the tapestry of existence. When we tap into the Spirit Element, we’re connecting to the higher realms, the infinite possibilities of the universe.

Connecting with the Spirit Element

1. Meditation: One of the best ways to connect with the Spirit Element is through meditation. Find a quiet space, close your eyes, and focus on your breath. Imagine a bright light within you, growing and expanding, connecting you to everything around you. Feel the energy flow and embrace the peace that comes with it.
2. Nature Walks: Spend time in nature. Whether it’s a forest, a beach, or a mountain, nature is filled with the Spirit Element. Listen to the wind, feel the earth beneath your feet, and sense the energy around you. Nature has a way of grounding us while also lifting our spirits.
3. Rituals and Spells: Incorporate the Spirit Element into your rituals and spells. Use symbols like the pentagram, which represents the unity of the five elements. Light a white candle to symbolize purity and connection to the divine. Chant, sing, or dance to raise your vibration and invite the Spirit Element into your practice.

The Power of Spirit

The Spirit Element is incredibly powerful. It’s the source of our intuition, our creativity, and our deepest insights. When we’re in tune with the Spirit Element, we can manifest our desires, heal ourselves and others, and tap into the universal wisdom. It’s like having a direct line to the cosmos!

Everyday Practices

Incorporating the Spirit Element into your everyday life doesn’t have to be complicated. Here are a few simple practices:

• Gratitude: Start each day by expressing gratitude. This raises your vibration and strengthens your connection to the Spirit Element.
• Affirmations: Use positive affirmations to align yourself with the energy of the Spirit. “I am connected to the universal energy” or “I am one with the divine” are great starters.
• Mindfulness: Practice mindfulness in your daily activities. Whether you’re eating, walking, or working, be present and aware of the energy around you.

Final Thoughts

The Spirit Element is a beautiful, mystical aspect of magick that connects us to the divine and to each other. By embracing and working with the Spirit Element, we can enhance our magickal practices, enrich our lives, and deepen our understanding of the universe.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this journey into the magickal Spirit Element. How do you connect with the Spirit in your practice?

#Magick #SpiritElement #MysticalJourney #StayMagical #ElementalMagic

[john1]

@Jeannie1

Life Path 7 are eternal students of the universe. They are introspective individuals with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and they enjoy looking into the inner workings of things. Someone with this Life Path is a true thinker who lets their mind

Mine is 7 and that makes sense to me