:black_mirror: WITCH CHALLENGE - Mirror Magick

[BryWisteria]

Merry meet!

Thank you once again to all those who joined in for last week’s Witch Challenge - Spirit & Aether Magick . Our journey through the five elements has come to a close - thank you again to everyone who participated, whether you did one challenge or all five.

From the elements, we are now leaping through the looking glass. Peer within - what will you see? The theme for this week’s challenge ranked very high in the last challenge theme poll and is…

Mirror Magick

Mirrors - it’s something so common we might not look at it twice. They’re in our rooms, bathrooms, in purses and bags, on phones, and in reflective surfaces all around us. But did you know this common household item can be a powerful magickal tool?

From mirrors spells to black mirror scrying, reflective journaling a Book of Mirrors and more - there are so many ways to explore and practice with mirrors. Whether you use a mirror you already have or create a new tool, it’s time to delve into mirror magick!

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

So are you ready? Because it’s…

CHALLENGE TIME!

Picture from Spells8: What is Mirror Magick?

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Mirror Magick

This challenge is all about using mirrors 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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Mirror Spells

What is Mirror Magick? Spells & Divination Methods

Back to Sender Hex Reversal Mirror Spell

Eternal Beauty Mirror Spell

Related discussions and resources:

• Mirror Boxes 🪞 Reflective Magic!
• Passive Protection: An Ongoing Protective Ritual with a Mirror
• Mirror Magick
• Triple Purpose Mirror Jar Spell / Various Purposes Spell Jar
• Mirror Magick - One Black Candle
• Mirror Gazing to Contact the Spirit of a Deceased Loved One

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Exploring Mirrors in Magick

Mirrors in the Bedroom - Is it Safe?

Related discussions and resources:

• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall... 🤣
• It it okay to sleep with a mirror nearby?
• Locking Mirrors
• Cleansing a Mirror

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Scrying & Black Mirrors

Scrying for Beginners: How to Scry

Related discussions and resources:

• Black Mirror how do I use it?
• Scrying Mirrors
• Black Mirror question
• 🪞 Weekly Witchy CHALLENGE - The Art of Scrying

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Your Book of Mirrors

Make a Book of Mirrors: A Witch’s Development Journal

Reflective Mirrors: How to Keep Your BoM

Related discussions and resources:

• 🏵 Book of Mirrors - Keep Your Mind Open

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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.

Video by @SilverBear, shared in Easy Self Love Mirror Spell

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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, July 15 at 7:00 AM EDT (Eastern US Time)
2025-07-15T11:00:00Z

(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.

@MeganB’s mirror plate, shared in Mirror Boxes 🪞 Reflective Magic!

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 🏵 Book of Mirrors - Keep Your Mind Open

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Clear or hazy, bright or dark
Peer within to find your mark
For spells or divining what soon will be
A mirror will help you to finally see!

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Blessed Be

UPDATE: Calling on the coven - help us pick the badge title that will be awarded to challenge entrants! Choose your favorite badge in the poll here:

→ 📊 POLL: Choose the Badge Award for the Mirror Magick Challenge

[Artemisia]

Challenge Entry - Mirror Magick

Mirror ritual for grief, anxiety, and healing

(Note: all of the reflections of myself were digitally removed)

Items Used:

• A handheld mirror
• a consecrated bird skull
• Black candle, White candle
• Black salt
• Pen
• Book of Mirrors / Journal
• Crystals

Full list of crystals used

• Strength
  • Red Jasper - Stability, endurance, courage
  • Mookite - boosts immune function metaphysically, vitality
  • Tiger Iron - Powerfully energizing, boosts willpower and vitality, helps one stay grounded while taking assertive action
  • Brecciated Jasper - Restores physical energy, supports emotional stability, encourages mental clarity during stress.
• Healing/Comfort
  • Unakite - Blends green (heart) and pink (compassion), aids recovery from trauma, supports spiritual rebirth
  • Rose Quartz - Opens the heart chakra, soothes heartbreak, enhances self-love and empathy.
  • Sunstone - Lifts mood, restores personal power, supports independence and optimism,
  • Coral - protection, emotional healing, inner peace
  • Pink Opal - Comforts the heart, aids in healing emotional wounds, encourages gentle release of grief and trauma.
  • Citrine - dispels negative energy, encourages optimism and creativity.
  • Ruby in zoisite - enhances vitality and spiritual growth, useful for grief and heart-healing work
  • Carnelian - vitality, confidence, motivation, stimulates courage
• Grief / Shadow Work
  • Black Moonstone - Excellent for inner work and healing repressed emotions
  • Green Moonstone - Heart healing, emotional balance
  • Apache Tears - Gently comforts during sorrow, grounds and clears negative energy, helps process loss and trauma.
  • Smokey Quartz - Transmutes negative energy, anchors you during emotional storms, supports healing from trauma.
• Calm Anxiety
  • Blue Tiger Eye - balances overactive thoughts, deflects negativity
  • Blue Angelite - calming, soothing, promotes tranquility and emotional healing
  • Blue Howelite - Calms anger, aids sleep and meditation
  • Amazonite - Soothes emotional trauma
  • Lepidolite - calms anxiety, supports sleep, helps navigate change and depression.
• Protection/Grounding/Cleansing
  • Pyrite - protection, shielding against negativity, boost confidence
  • Rainbow Obsidian - draws out buried trauma, offers insight into emotional patterns, deeply protective and grounding
  • Black Tourmaline - Strong protective stone that repels negativity
  • Hematite - Absorbs and transmutes negative energy, stabilizes emotions, enhances mental clarity.
  • Satin Spar / Selenite - Purification, clarity

I lit my candle and started the ritual with:
I call upon the mirror, the watcher, and the witness.
I call upon the shadow, the one who holds my truth.
I call upon healing, not to erase my pain,
but to hold me through it.

Then looking into the mirror ,I said (edited for privacy):
This is what I carry
I grieve… said what I am grieving
I fear…
I need…

I picked up the skull, then looked at my reflection
Keeper of shadows, guide me into truth.
Let what I bury speak. Let what I fear be known.
Let healing come in the space between darkness and light

I placed the skull back on the table facing the mirror and imagined it now holding the pieces I can’t understand or don’t know. Letting my grief rest there.

I closed my eyes, placed my hands over my heart, and meditated for a few minutes.
Then, after blowing out the candles, I disposed of the black salt, which had absorbed the negativity I release,d and said

What was released does not return.

I’m working on my journal prompt now.

[Jeannie1]

@Artemisa
I really liked your ritual that was really inspiring and now I now I want to do a ritual!! Thank you did you write this ritual up yourself? Where did you find it?
Jeannie

[carrianne]

This is so lovely. I love your crystals I thought I had a collection but your are so beautiful. What a lovely ritual.

Blessed be x

[georgia]

@BryWisteria, if I have to leave in the middle of the challenge, but did the entry, will you be able to put the badge onto my account so it’s waiting for me when I return? I won’t be able to pay my dues until after I get moved. Just curious.

[Artemisia]

Thank you @Jeannie1 and @carrianne

@Jeannie1 I did use one of my past rituals as a guide and molded it to fit this purpose.

@carrianne To be fair, I made beaded jewelry for 30 years, so I had a loooooot of supplies left over. I kept my favorites when I shifted away from gemstone jewelry into working with metal clay.

[BryWisteria]

@georgia

will you be able to put the badge onto my account so it’s waiting for me when I return?

Absolutely, Georgia! Anyone who participates in the challenge gets their badge, regardless of membership status. I want to make sure everyone who puts in the effort gets their reward

We will miss you if you need to step back for a bit, but I understand needing to focus on the big move while it happens! Relocating is a huge process. Wishing you all the best over the coming weeks - may it all go smoothly for you!

[georgia]

Thank you. So far, things are going smoothly. The Creator often keeps my new home secret until the last minute, so I go with the flow. If I knew early, I’d be champing at the bit to get stuff done when what I need is enough rest to get through it!

Oddly enough, this moving process is a metaphorical mirror, letting me see who I really am under certain forms of pressure. Call this my
Challenge Entry

I’m definitely not a diamond, not even in the rough. Under stress, my first and only thought is escape. My family never could handle stress. That is our genetic disability, causing all kinds of other stuff, which are the symptoms shrinks look for. Like other doctors, shrinks think they know it all and refuse to dig out the deeper cause or find a cure.

I am able to see that there are deeper causes than just the inability to handle stress. Thing is, I don’t have the ability to change outer causes. Changing myself to match their expectations adds even more stress and does not honor personal experience nor my personality. Maybe my personality isn’t the proper way to live, but for the moment, it is all I have which is truly mine. I’m not passing it down to another generation, so it will die out with my body. All I have to do is get through this final incarnation to remove all the disease and disability handed to me.

In this mirror, I see what I have lost through Covid distancing. There was a lot of good there before. I’d like to reproduce the good when the stress releases. Over my last 3 moves, the stress has not released. Thus all I can do is my best under the circumstances. The info is available for when I can finally return to my true self. Until then, all I can do is go with the flow.

The danger is going to be deciding what to reproduce. Of course, I’ll try to do it all at once, get confused and overwhelmed, attempt to rein in and hold my horses, yet still overdo and make mistakes. I learn from some of my mistakes, so I don’t repeat them, but there is always the deeper cause of the mistakes in general. That’s more difficult to rectify because it’s harder to see and pin down. At least I know to look.

I see in this mirror that I have been simplifying my life. Good, as far as it goes… Simplifying isn’t just the stuff we store for later and then never use. It isn’t just the clutter of too much abundance. I’m learning that simplifying my life includes rearranging my time from expectations to things and people I truly care about, things and people which care for or take care of me; and to reduce the inner emotions from feelings of stress and fear toward peace and happiness.

For me, happiness is working on things I enjoy, things which are meaningful to me. Thus I won’t be sitting still and being lazy or sleeping through my life the way I have been under stress. Under stress, nothing gets done because my body shuts down or I get super busy at nothing as I run to escape.

[Selena-Paloma]

Can some explain how the Challenges work? Sorry to be a pain! @georgia @Amethyst

Also, I’ve never done Mirror Magick before! I’m a little scared to do Mirror Magick too, THats why I’ve never done it… can anyone maybe put my mind at ease?

[Amethyst]

It’s easy, you find something to do with the challenge subject, and you either report on it or just do it. Like, if you’re hesitant to do mirror magick, figure out why and tell about it. Or find a small spell that you think is safe and do it, or write one. When you post about it, make sure you put your name in so @BryWisteria can find it easily. That’s it! It’s just hard to find something to do sometimes.

I’m struggling because I don’t do mirrors that much. I only have two in my apartment, and one I don’t use. LOL! So yeah, I gotta do some research this week and figure out what to do.

Good luck!

[Selena-Paloma]

@Amethyst Thank you so much! I appreciate you for taking the time to type all of that! You are such a great person!

[Amethyst]

Aww, thanks! You’re sweet to say so. I’m glad it helped!

[georgia]

To “put your name in,” we just add the words “Challenge Entry” above the part to be used as an entry. You can post it here or (like I did last challenge) wherever it seems to fit. If it is elsewhere, simply add an @ to BryWisteria so she gets notified and finds it. Some people like to put private ideas onto Sacred Space where other internet searches can’t see. Others just add comments to posts (group ritual, etc) and find out midway that the comment would fit in the challenge.

@Selena-Paloma

I’ve never done it

That’s what makes it a perfect challenge. Stretch your experience and see if you like it. There’s nothing to be afraid of. You won’t melt into the mirror and get stuck in some other world like Alice or Coraline. It will either work to help you or not. Either way, you will have something new under your belt as a tool- which may help your clients, too.

I don’t like mirrors. Never liked looking at myself in them because so many people called me names. That will never change, now. I don’t care to change it. However, mirrors can be physical objects, imaginative doorways to dream worlds within, a book to write about what you’re learning about yourself, or something more metaphorical or symbolic.

[dan3]

@georgia

Sorry you will be gone. Waiting for your return! Get settled and come back as soon as you can!

[dan3]

@Amethyst

I gotta do some research this week and figure out what to do.

I’ve never done mirrors so I think I’ll do it as a complete newbie. Do the ritual and relate what happened. I do have a black mirror that I picked up when I didn’t know where my path was leading so I have a nice prop.

[CelestiaMoon]

Challenge entry

This is going to be a different entry, there are no physical mirrors. Instead I want to explore how we can be mirrors to each other.

When we hold space for each other, allowing them to open up to us, listening attentively or sometimes just being and letting the energy do it, we’re mirroring. Neurologists even talk about mirror neurons, that activate when we’re deeply feeling each other. Our minds bring up relatable experiences, and if the situation allows, we may share them and deepen the connection. The feeling we get from this kind of a bond can be highly euphoric, akin to being in love.

It’s often the things that are in the shadow that give us the strongest emotional response. I think most of us are mirroring most of the time when we’re in contact with others, to some degree. When we feel enraptured by someone, especially if it’s something you can point out, usually it’s something that’s in ourselves responding, waiting to burst out into bloom. Similarly if something triggers or annoys us, chances are that the same thing exists in ourselves, but we’re refusing to acknowledge it.

There is the old saying that the eyes are the mirror of the soul, and it’s true. Eye gazing is a skill that can be trained, and it has to do with sensitivity to energies. Learning to quiet one’s mind is key. Sharing about one’s innermost feelings while looking each other in the eyes is one of the most intimate things to do.

I haven’t experienced it myself, but I’ve heard it from others that gazing into someone’s eyes, you may see their face or form change. I did this once with someone who told me that my hair changed pitch black and my hands turned into pure light. I think I have a block that’s stopping me from seeing things visually. Something to do with labelling people who do mentally ill, or terms like “hallucinations” or “seeing things that aren’t there”. Who’s to say that they aren’t? There’s so much that we’ve taught to suppress. I’m grateful for having people who get it, both here and in my local circle.

[dan3]

@CelestiaMoon

I want to explore how we can be mirrors to each other.

Bravo! Nice way to approach it.

[Amethyst]

@dan3

I do have a black mirror that I picked up when I didn’t know where my path was leading so I have a nice prop.

Sounds like it’ll be perfect! I just have a wall mirror and the bathroom mirror. I comb my hair, it does what it wants. I’m like Harry Potter that way! LOL! Although mine doesn’t stick up. But yeah, I’ve never been one for mirrors.

[Selena-Paloma]

@georgia I knew that we had a real connection! I was called many names too and my mom told me everyday that I would grow up to be fat and ugly like my dad’s sisters maybe That’s why I am hesitant. I didn’t think I was actually naturally beautiful until a few years ago.

I’m sorry for what you went through I can only imagine. I can feel the pain from you! But!!! I can also feel that it has made you a much stronger woman and the Witch that you are today!

Thank you for being such a good friend to me, Georgia! I hope it’s okay to call you my friend! I have tears in my eyes! You have been so sweet to me and I’m just so thankful for you!

[AIRAM]

Challenge entry
MIRROR PROTECTION SPELL
Materials:
4 small mirrors
White candle
Spiritual Shield Oil
Blue or silver thread
Use: Place them in the 4 corners of the room (N/E/S/W) with the reflective side facing the wall. Each mirror “cancels” any evil that comes in.
Activation:
Anoint their edges with oil, and say:Four corners, four voices
They reflect and send back enemies
My house is not seen by an evil eye
Not even an evil person dares to find a clear path."
Mirror Protection Oil
Name: “The Eye of the Wall”
Materials (for 30ml base):Grape or Hazelnut Oil
Base with a light vibration for passage without attachment
Hyssop essential oil
Powerful gate cleanser, neutralizes unclean presences
Peppermint essential oil
Psychic acuity, protection from psychic entities
Lavender essential oil
Prophetic protection, divine seal
1 drop of blood (or saliva)
For the personal entry/exit seal – only if your own working mirror
Angelica flower (Angelica root)
Prevents dark spirits and mirror distortions
Grind of raw obsidian
Clogs the cracks of the mirror — nothing escapes

Preparation (On a waning or new moon, night):
Form a circle with four mirrors facing outwards.
Inside the circle, light a smoky candle (gray, black or lead).
Mix the ingredients and hold the vial in your hand saying:

“My mirror, a gateway, but not a passage,
I seal you with light and I hold your gaze.
Whatever is to enter, let it pass in moderation —
what is to leave, will remain in the veil.”
Seal with your own pentacle, sigil, rune, etc.
Leave it under a mirror that you have worked with at least once for divination or a portal.

Usage:
Anoint the sides of the mirror and your third eye BEFORE any mirror work.
If you are doing image/dream penetration, anoint the temples and the back of the neck.
After working, unseal with lemon zest or frankincense smoke.

This oil should not be used on bathroom or bedroom mirrors - only on magical or consecrated working mirrors.