:air_element: WITCH CHALLENGE - Air Magick

[BryWisteria]

Merry meet!

Thank you once again to all those who joined in for last week’s Witch Challenge - Fire Magick

As above, so below, and one element leads into the next. After exploring fire magick last week, we’re moving into a neighboring force. Look to the sky and get ready to fly - we’re soaring!

The theme for this challenge is…

Air Magick

Air is the element of the vast sky and open space. It is the air we breathe and the thoughts we think. As the least tangible of the physical elements, air is also associated with ideas. This is the element of thought, the mind, and space, so feel free to open up and be extra creative with this one! The air element is a great topic to explore magickal theory, ideas, and knowledge

There are some suggestions for how to explore this theme below, and if you’re looking for additional inspiration, feel free to revisit entries shared in the previous air-aligned challenge: Witchy Challenge: Of the Element Air

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This challenge is about air magick - how you choose to take on this theme is up to you.

So are you ready? Because it’s…

CHALLENGE TIME!

Picture made in Canva

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Air in Magick

This challenge is all about using air in the Craft - as always, feel free to explore the theme in a way that aligns with you and your unique practice.

Still not sure where to begin? To help you get started, here are a few suggested spells and other 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!

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Cast Air Spells

Air Elemental Invocation

Air Element: Yellow Candle Meditation

Cleansing Breath Meditation

Dream Message Feather Spell to Recieve Wisdom

Additional resources and related discussions:

• Spell to Connect with Elemental Air
• Elemental Air Oil
• Elemental Air Spray! 🌬
• 📨 On the Wings of Flame - Candle Spell to Receive a Positive Message

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Work with a Sky Deity

Horus: Egyptian God of the Sky

Hera: Greek Goddess of the Sky

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Work with the Element of Intellect

Wisdom Devotional for Athena

Prayer to Odin: Norse God of Wisdom

Find Guidance with a Mercury Devotional

Birds in Magick: Omens and Signs

Tarot: Suit of Swords & Air Element

Additional resources and related discussions:

• The Alchemical Symbol for Air: Geometry of Thought 🜁

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Study Air Correspondences

The Elements in Astrology

Crystal Element Associations

Magickal Correspondence Charts

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…And More!

The suggestions above are just a few ideas to help kickstart your creativity. If you feel called to explore the challenge theme in another way, you are welcome to do so.

Spell Jar by @SilverBear, shared in Spell Jar Time! Elemental -- AIR!

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How to Join the Challenge

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 Do 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!

Click here for a note for our lovely lurkers

Everyone is welcome to join the challenge. For those who would like the challenge prizes, please know that you will need to share your experience if you want to receive a prize and a public shout-out.

Don’t feel comfortable sharing? No fear! For lurkers and those who are shy, it is absolutely okay to follow along with the challenge on the sidelines. At the end of the day, these challenges are here to help you help yourself by expanding and enhancing your personal magickal practice. I hope they can be helpful for you!

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Deadline

This challenge will close in 13 DAYS

To join in, please share your experience by:

Tuesday, May 20 at 7:00 AM EDT (Eastern US Time)
2025-05-20T11:00:00Z

(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!)

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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 the day the challenge closes.

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.

Picture from Spells8: Elemental Spirits: Sylphs

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’re not sure whether or not something is acceptable to post, 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

Picture from Canva

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In the vastness of the sky one can find
ways to ease the heart and open the mind
So release yourself so you can be
one with the air - both blessed and free!

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Blessed Be

[MeganB]

This is hilarious to me because I’m sitting here just absolutely exhausted (for no apparent reason?) and I could use some wind in my sails But! This challenge has given me another idea – since I’m experimenting with energy work and casting spells with no tools, I might try the same thing with air that I’ve been doing with candles and fire… now I just need to figure out what to do.

[tracyS]

Here we go.

[Artemisia]

I’m not sure I would know where to start with this one were it not for the fact that I found something on my run this morning that I brought home. This was before I even saw the theme for this challenge. There’s a little bit of prep that I have to do first, so it might be a few days before I have an entry to submit.

[Jeannie1]

I know I have my brain is in the
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@tracyS
Don’t make me laugh!

Jeannie

[georgia]

I am an air fairy type of person. This is one of my strong points. In my youth, I found out that all people had to do was make a wish in my presence, and it would come true. Not sure how that worked, but it worked well.

With that in mind, I have two challenge entries… for the moment.

Challenge Entry 1

When I learned about making wishes come true, one of the tricks of the process had people cumfuzzled. It is said that one must be willing to pay for a wish to come true. Most people think they don’t have the money, so the wish won’t come true for them. When you truly feel that money is not all there is to pay with, you suddenly become the richest person in the world!

What I’m going to give you right now is head knowledge. Truly feeling the truth of it is the turning point. If you are aware of what is coming, you can make the most of it when it happens.

Let’s think this through using a parable. You go to a museum and learn something. There is a payment system at work. Yes, you may pay a few dollars to get in the door, but there’s more!

1. You pay for knowledge by sacrificing not knowing.
2. You are spending time out of your life which you will never get back.
3. It takes energy to get to the museum and to walk around the museum.
4. You are trading the sight of your four walls and any usual videos you may have otherwise watched.
5. Museums are social events, as are anything not spent at home alone. This is a payment, believe it or not!
6. You are offering an open mind just by walking in the museum door. This is a valuable commodity.
7. In going to the museum with a friend, you may be making that friend’s day or changing them forever by allowing them to learn as well. What a wonderful sacrifice! Besides, it may even lighten your own mood in the process.

Now plug in making a wish for the museum. All of the above statements of payment are still true, including energy expenditure.

Most of all, when making a wish come true, you are sacrificing mere survival in order to thrive.

Challenge Entry 2
Last night at bedtime, we had the perfect storm for the spell I wanted to do, this week. This is a spell in multiple parts, some more airy than others.

1. Calling the Quarters
   “Lightening flash.
   Winds rustle.
   Thunder rumble.
   Rain mourn.
   Storm, cleanse our world. Wash away all negativity. Make the world new and good.”

2. Drawing my ship.
   I took pencil and paper and drew a ship. I like square riggers, but it could be any kind.

3. Sending it out into the world.
   “I load my ship with well wishes, joy, light, music, laughter, and fun. We’ve spent nice days exploring and learning, and have received the gift of attention. I send attention and care out with my ship and request it return with new sources of all these good things. May the captain find and bring back sources of creativity and Purpose.”

4. Meditation
   Watching the rain water flowing down the drive, imagining it rolling along the city’s arroyos (ditches) to the Rio Grande and out into the Gulf of Mexico so the ship floats out around the world to gather treasures.

5. Closing
   "Rain, wash away negativity. Wash in good things.
   Thunder, shake loose all the things we cling to which do not serve us anymore, that they may be washed by the rain to someone who can use them as something good and cleansed and renewed.
   Wind, blow the sails of my little ship safely on its way and safely home again.
   Lightening, illuminate my path. Show me the way m Soul needs to go. Grant me enlightenment and wisdom. Reveal the tools along the way which may come in handy, later.
   Storm, sing me to sleep. Grant me sweet dreams. May the things I release be found as treasures by someone who can use them.

6. Waiting for my ship to come in
   Taping my ship pic to a wall so it looks like it is coming into the apartment.