🎟 WITCH CHALLENGE - Freebie!

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Merry meet,

Thank you once again to all those who joined in for the previous Witch Challenge - Sleepy Spellwork :dream_cloud:

After delving through the realms of dream magick, it’s time to return - but take your time waking up! This challenge is going to be an easy breezy one :relieved_face:

The theme for this week’s challenge is a spring break breather and is


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:trophy: :dancer: ~ Freebie! ~ :partying_face: :mage:

Have you ever had a moment where you wanted to do some magick, but your brain felt like scrambled eggs and any thought or intention you had slipped away like spilled water? That’s your challenge Mod this week! :laughing: The lovely theme suggested by a coven member I had lined up and partially researched will have to wait until I’m able to give it the dedication it deserves. In the meantime, I think we all deserve a treat. Is anyone else up for spring break? :egg: :baby_chick:

This challenge is a complete freebie: Anyone who comments will be considered a challenge winner and will receive a badge. There will be some suggested prompt questions provided for anyone who’d like to explore a topic and folks are free to use this space to share current projects, but this is completely optional.

This challenge is the free space on a bingo card - share a comment here and you’re a freebie challenge winner! :trophy:

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This challenge is a freebie! Come jump in because it’s


CHALLENGE TIME :bell:

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The Freebie Challenge :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

How to Enter:

All you have to do to enter this challenge is comment - that’s it!

Drop a quick note, say hi, or, if you’re not sure what to write, feel free to explore one of the following journal questions. Any and all comments will qualify as participating in this challenge. It’s a freebie!

[Optional] Prompt Questions

Not sure what to say, or feeling extra ambitious? Here a few optional prompt questions you might explore. Feel free to pick and choose or answer them all.

Optional prompts:

  • Do you have a magickal name?
  • Do you have a favorite area of magick?
  • What are you studying right now?
  • Are there any hobbies or crafts you’re working on?
  • Do you have any pets or familiars?
  • How long have you been practicing?
  • Etc - feel free to make your own prompts!

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Deadline :spiral_calendar:

The freebie challenge will close in 12 DAYS

To join in, please comment by: Tuesday, March 10 at 7:00 AM (Eastern US Time)
2026-03-10T11:00:00Z

(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 :gift:

What’s a freebie challenge without getting something for free? All those who comment will receive a small gift :heart_with_ribbon: Please look for the Props and Presents shout-out post and a forum notification with your new badge when 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.

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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 :open_book:

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! :heart: Know that the goal of these activities is to help you further diversify and strengthen your abilities. The challenges hope to bring together the Spells8 forum family in ways that inspire and support one another. I hope you have fun with them!

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Pick the Challenge Badge

This may be a funky challenge, but the badge-picking tradition continues! Let us know - which title do you like the most?

(Poll is anonymous)

  • Spellcasting Student
  • Dedicated Witch
  • Magick Lover
  • Learning & Growing
  • Everyday Witch
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The title with the most votes will be awarded to all challenge entrants.

Thanks for helping us pick the challenge prize! :sparkles:

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  • Do you have a magickal name?
  • RavenMoon
  • Do you have a favorite area of magick?
  • Candle magick is my go to and I use my Oracle cards as well
  • What are you studying right now?
  • Trying to learn Shadow work and Tarot
  • Are there any hobbies or crafts you’re working on?
  • I make my own things for witchcraft like candles ,spell jars, and so much more
  • Do you have any pets or familiars?
  • I have 4 cats but only one is my familiar and his Name is Odin named after the God I work with
  • How long have you been practicing?
  • I have been practicing for 17 years
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I lean hard into folk magick, since that is what I learned first, years and years ago.. I am studying Baba Yaga folk magick currently, and sewing a lot, as most of you know. I like to work with fae sometimes too.

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Hello everyone!
This is so cool. I love this.

My magickal name is Luna Nightveil. It fits with my personality and, of course, my love for my love, the Moon. My favorite area of magick at the moment is candle magic and planetary magick. I love learning about the different aspects of the planets and using the planetary hours to do spell-work. I currently picked up some throw-away fabric to make some spell-bags and poppets. I love the different designs that are available for really cheap. I am currently studying Tarot and doing a 33-day Tarot journey. It’s a lot of fun, and I am loving what I am learning about myself and the cards.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Jupiter Day!

Toodles, Luna :crescent_moon:

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Oh, I love this @BryWisteria and I love all the prompts!! :purple_heart:
So, let®s seeeeee


Do you have a magickal name?

Okay so this is my challenge entry because this is a bit of a story
and it might even sound somewhat enchanted
here we go

I grew up in a very rural area of Austria...

in a tiny village with only 100 or so people living there. My home was difficult for many reasons and nobody really cared much about me, so most of my days I would come home from school and then roam around freely. I must have been like 7 or 8, I was still little, and I think it was the summer holidays. I was playing at the small stream that was going through the village, playing with rocks and picking flowers.
An old woman, all dressed in black with a black headscarf (this was not unusual; all old women in that area would dress like that once their husband had died. It was a tradition.) walked by and she stopped and watched me play and smiled at me. I knew her from the village I had seen her before, I knew that she lived alone in a tiny old house and that her garden was overflowing with herbs and flowers, so much that I would move through a cloud of different delicious scents whenever I rode by on my bicycle. I saw that she had put down a bag with groceries that looked quite heavy. I said something like: “I can help you bring that home with my bike, if you want.”
You see, one of my most loved possessions was a small trailer, that I had found on a dumpsite; I had fixed it up and painted it with leftover paints: it was purple and blue and I had painted stars on it (pentagrams really) and a moon and several suns. I managed to attach the trailer to my bicycle with wire all by myself and was terribly proud of it - and of myself of course.
The woman smiled and accepted my offer, so I heaved her shopping bag into my little trailer, which contained small cups of collected stones and all sorts of other found objects. I pushed my bike to match her pace, and it wasn’t long before we struck up a conversation. When we reached her house, I helped carry the bag inside. The woman lifted the bag onto her table and asked me to wait; she had a small reward for me. This gave me a chance to look around, and I saw beautiful and unusual objects: figurines, candles, flowers, pictures
 I had never seen anything like it before.

I received a small bar of chocolate as a reward, all for myself! I usually only got something like that on my birthday or at Christmas. I thanked her and skipped happily to my bike and was about to ride off when the woman opened her window and called out, “Would you like to come again tomorrow? I could use some help in the garden.”

Well, I was very happy to help!
From then on, I visited her very often, practically whenever I could. Her name was Margot; she was kind, friendly, patient, and cheerful, and she could bake the best cinnamon rolls in the world.

And of course, she was a witch, but she never called herself that. She knew more about herbs than anyone I knew; she knew exactly when to plant and harvest them, how to prepare tinctures, salves, and incense. She had a beautiful little altar for the goddess Mokosch, who is a Slavic goddess. Margot was of Slavic descent (like many in that area) and honored her roots and the culture of her ancestors.
Sometime later, it must have been the following summer, we were sitting on a wooden bench after gardening. The bench was warm from the sun that had shone on it all day, and we leaned against the warm wall of the house, drinking lemonade. It was afternoon, and whenever the heat of the blazing sun slowly subsided, the herbs and flowers began to smell especially fragrant. The buzzing of insects almost lulled me to sleep, and a cat (Margot had many cats) rubbed against my legs. “What do I have to do to become like you?” I asked
 “You know, a witch.” She smiled. “You have to run into the garden at the next full moon, spin around three times, and shout three times: ‘I’m a witch!’”

Well, you can be quite sure that’s exactly what I did, and my parents were quite astonished. From then on, Margot explained and taught me a few things now and then—well, what she knew, mainly about herbs.
On my 14th birthday, she had a surprise for me. She had calculated my life path number, which is 7, and with her pendulum, she had found a witch’s name for me whose numerical value also added up to 7. A name that resonates with the power of 7 and also harmonizes with my given name, Katharina. She had arranged a small ceremony for me in which she gave me the name “Zozanna”. It comes from Persian language (Farsi) and means burning, fiery, and Katharina comes from Greek and means something like “the purified one.”

So, I am the witch who purifies through fire and is purified by the flame. And that’s the story of how I got my witch’s name. :sacred_flame:

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Oh this is wonderful! And such a good way for us to all get to know more about each other that we may not already know.

My magickal name is Greenbriar. I chose it because I feel it aligns with my practice, which leans towards earth and nature magic.

My favorite areas of magic are creating spell bags and jars, as well as honoring Gaia by feeding the birds and tending my witch’s garden, and caring for the land and wildlife around my home.

Slowly learning about ways to use herbs that I grow in my garden in my practice - I would love to be able to create salves, healing bath salts, tea blends etc. I’m also on a long journey learning the tarot and runes, and appreciating the forum areas that give me a chance to practice and learn.

@katharina has piqued my interest in working with clay for the 13 Goddesses activity, and I also enjoy painting in watercolor, which I am trying to incorporate into my practice.

We currently have three cats, all rescues, although at one time, when these were just kittens, we had a total of 13 cats in the house!

I was late getting started in witchcraft, joining Spells 8 in November of 2024

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I think I know what I want to do, if I can figure it out!

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This was fun! I’ve already enjoyed reading the entries. @katharina - your childhood witch friend is someone we should all have been blessed with. I love this! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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I had to tell that my 20 yr old daughter’s actual name is Rayven Moon. I knew the family wouldn’t appreciate it so we kept it a secret until the papers for her birth certificate were filled out. My daughter loves her name. U thought it was very cool that the two of you share almost the identical name.

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I’m with you, it’s fun to learn a bit more about everyone and their practices! :mage: :two_hearts:

Just leaving myself a little note that freebie entries have been counted for @michele12, @shari2, @Luna_Punky_Nightveil, @katharina, @Greenbriar, @Amethyst, @Feathertip, and @evan. Thanks for stopping by to leave a comment and/or share a bit about yourselves and your Craft! Please feel free to continue to chat, respond to others, or add to your entries if you’d like :blush: :sparkles:

Blessed be!

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I haven’t done anything yet! I need a toy police badge first to help me visualize. LOL! I’ve been working with props more.

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That’s the beauty of a freebie challenge - anyone and everyone here in this space gets a free badge. Badges for everyone! :raising_hands: :confetti_ball: :laughing:

Having a focus point or helper prop for meditations can be very powerful! I use a little bullseye image with the word FOCUS at my desk - it helps me rein in a wandering mind. I hope your work with props goes well for you :blush: :two_hearts:

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Yay!

We may not need badges, but we get them!

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Dorothy Lumri Somnolandrig has faded from use for the time being. I am not looking for a new one, but if one comes to me, I am open to researching it.

I used to be well known as the fairy godmother type. I’d warn people to be careful making wishes around me because they had a tendency of coming true.

Then I moved to New Mexico, where people too often said “Wish in one hand and poo in another and see which hand filled up first.” My answer was “The wishes. I have IBS-C.” TMI, I guess.

Now, I have been retired. I’d like to join or create a retirement home for old witches in hopes that we can find respect or peace not often offered to elder muggles.

In my college years, if I got close enough to someone, I could do remote viewing and prove it. People freaked, so it faded. However, the ability is still deep inside and rears it’s head via empathy every once in a while.

I used stars in my magic in a very different way than astrology. They were my ancestors. I created links with them as work done to ease the crossing over when I was to become one of them.

I learned of a 33x3 spell online recently, and tried it out yesterday morning. It was too much like the punishments at school. Yet I did delve into it so deeply that I wrote my intention out 190 times. I was drawn toward Christian mysticism for a few hours, and saw how easily it could have bordered on insanity for me. In my youth, I hated repetition (boring!), but was forced to use it as a learning device. Now, I am awaiting the results. At some points, I had one focal point, hoping to make the world a better place. Another moment, the intentions were more broad and spiritually focused. Then the focus narrowed to a couple personal issues. Finally, I was multitasking, so those were not as intense as I thought they’d be. I was told at one point that I didn’t know what I was asking (dreamed of being nearly blind and following friendly birds no one else could see), and yes, I did take breaks.

Lately (6 years or so) I have been focusing on cleaning up a mess I made by collecting digital items from back in the late 1980’s through today. There is more here than I could use in a lifetime! I have not made much of a dent in the sheer bulk of it all only because my habit of collecting has not been completely turned off yet. But there is so much wisdom out there! Do I really need a copy of The Philadelphia Story when I enjoy the musical High Society? How many different copies of Dickens’ Christmas Carol do I really need and which is the best? How can I find my favorite Scott Hamilton skating performance when it seems like no one has it; and once I do find it, how can I make it into the holographic music box I once dreamed of? And once I have collected all the spells, here on Spells8 and in the forum, how can I possibly organize them all so that collections from other places on the internet don’t repeat similar spells?

Pets or service animals, yes: Albus Bird. I’m always talking about him, here. Familiars: I can’t say I’ve ever had one.

I first learned about magick from my college friend in 1990, though I’ve been practicing since I was 7. I’ve learned a lot since then. I’ve forgotten even more than I am aware of anymore. Thank Heavens for my books so I can reread and remember, even though they sometimes feel like another life.

I enjoyed that. Thank you for sharing.

Wonderful irony!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

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Free badge? Woohoo! That’s enough to make me come out of hiding! :joy: I’m happy to be back on the forum. Life has been pretty rough for the past 8 months or so, but things are starting to look up! I did a lovely coffee spell this morning, and I’m still sipping on my magickal brew. I just wanted to send a little love out to y’all along with some good vibes. :sparkles: :sparkling_heart:

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Hi there! Lovely to see you back here. I’m sorry things have been rough for you, but how wonderful to hear that things are beginning to look up. May this trend continue for you! :sparkling_heart:

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I love how this helps us learn about others and make new friends here that are liked mind

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Thank you!

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Great to see you, @BrightBear! Sending positive energy to heal the craziness of the recent past.

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