CHALLENGE ENTRY:
I just did the Wolf Moon spell, and for my wolf image, I used my own wolves that I raised many years ago. They were my babies, and the mama wolf was my best friend. We were definitely a pack. I used this energy in my spell to remind me that my family is my pack, and my loyalty lies with them.
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So beautiful I love the evil eye 
for protection!! I love wish boxes!!!
@Artemisia i like how simple the card spread is I think I might try them!!!
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@shari2
How awesome do you want to be?
Shari: “Yes”
I mean, seriously, this is the most amazing thing I´ve ever heard of!!! You´re hanging out with a pack of wolves…what???..
I´m sorry. I just died of envy. 
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Challenge Entry-New Beginnings
As we step out of 2025 and into 2026, I’m choosing to greet this new beginning with presence instead of pressure. Rather than trying to overhaul my life all at once, I’m focusing on learning, listening, and tending what’s ready to grow.
This year, I’m committing to deeper shadow work. Not in a heavy or self-punishing way, but with honesty and compassion. I want to understand my patterns, my triggers, my fears, and my strengths, and meet them as teachers instead of obstacles. I’m learning to sit with what arises instead of rushing to fix or bypass it.
I’m also continuing my journey with astrology, not just reading charts, but truly learning the language of cycles, transits, and timing. I want to better understand how planetary movements mirror inner shifts and how I can work with those energies instead of against them.
Alongside that, I’m following a monthly rune and god/goddess plan I created, allowing each month to carry its own spiritual tone. This feels like a beautiful way to create rhythm in my practice, honoring different energies as they come forward rather than trying to do everything at once.
My studies with tarot and Lenormand are continuing as well. These tools have become companions for reflection, storytelling, and self-inquiry. In 2026, I want to deepen my understanding, refine my interpretations, and trust my intuitive voice more fully when I read.
I’m also grounding all of this spiritual work in the physical world. Gardening, plant care, and indoor growing are part of my new beginning too. Learning how to tend living things, month by month, season by season, feels like a form of devotion in itself. It’s slow, honest, and deeply connected to Gaia.
At the heart of all of this is my desire to live more intentionally. To learn without rushing. To grow without forcing. To honor both the light and the shadow. My new beginning isn’t flashy or dramatic. It’s rooted, curious, and sustainable.
This is how I’m welcoming 2026: with open hands, grounded feet, and a willingness to keep learning who I am becoming. 
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I feel blessed to have had that time with them.
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That’s wonderful! What a great start to your BOS and the New Year. Great challenge entry.
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I’m still waiting for the good paper to get here so i can get started on my watercolor BOS pages. In the meantime, I decided to sketch out some ideas today. I will be doing three to give away in the swap at ATCsForAll, but I will also be doing some for myself, and then build on from there.
This isn’t my official challenge entry - yet. I hope the paper gets here in time for me to finish them for this challenge. Here are my sketches though.
And, as I said - these are just rough sketches. 
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Merry Meet Katharina,
Thank-you for sharing your self-initiation. Congratulations on becoming “one of the few, the proud” the witches.
Have a Wonderful Week–Lady Gene 
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I love your sketches! You’re already there even without your watercolors! 
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I’m having difficulty with this challenge. The things which seem to be new are a continuation of studies I’ve indulged in before. I feel I’m not at a place of beginning, but one of enrichment in a new to me location.
Challenge Entry
I did start a new journal of self care. Bought the blank book for New Year’s and wanted to begin paying attention to what I already do, just to be more aware.
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@Eira_of_the_Living_Hearth
This is so beautifully worded!
Google summarized it for me:
“Become who you are” is a central statement by the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung, summarizing his individuation process, a lifelong path to realizing one’s own authentic, unique personality by integrating the unconscious (shadow), developing the self, and finding the “self” (the totality of the personality).
It is such a rewarding journey! 
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@georgia what a pretty book! I love the pinks and oranges and the pen to go with it is just perfect. 
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That’s lovely @georgia , may your new journal serve you well.
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Thank you @katharina , @Greenbriar!
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One week to go!
2026 is picking up speed! A big thank you to everyone who has shared their spells, wisdom, and more here at the beginning of the new year - it’s been fun seeing the entries so far 
For those still pondering about the theme, rest assured that plenty of time remains on the challenge clock. There is one more week until this challenge closes.
Looking forward to hearing how you’re welcoming 2026!
Blessed be 
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CHALLENGE ENTRY
Every New Year I draw a Sigil around the theme for the year. This year is about recovery from 2025 events and to reset my life in 2026. I design my sigil’s around the letters and break them down in to strokes and curves. This produced 7 strokes and 1 long stroke, 2 c shapes and 1 s shape so I immediately thought of the 7 chakras bringing balance back into my life. One c is the cup upside down working my way from the root chakra up to the crown chakra with all the energy flowing into the cup filling up.
Every year is stored in the same frame and the new year placed on top. I have been doing this for around 5 years now.
I also make a spell bauble on the 1st of Jan each year and hang this in my entry. I fill it with various herbs, crystals and items based on their meanings and what I wish to bring into this new year.
And finally I do a tarot spead for the new year and what it will bring. Please don’t mock me as I am only a beginner in tarot and still learning. I only do readings for myself. I design my own speads based on what energies I feel are around.
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Your ornament, sigil, and tarot look wonderful! May they serve you well. As for being new, you’re doing just fine. Keep up the good work.
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I love your traditions! Your bauble is beautiful; I would love to make one myself! That is my absolute favorite tarot deck, and don’t worry! No one here would mock you, love!
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These are my interpretations on that spread.
I plan on doing a full year one tonight. The tarot group has given me inspiration.
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Challenge Entry
For the past 3 or 4 years I made a witch ball for the new year, but for this challenge I made a honey jar for the new year. I found these little ornament glass bottles after Christmas in 2024. They have a flat bottom so they can sit on my altar instead of having to hang. I didn’t realize it at the time, but they are shot glasses. How cute is that for a Christmas party?
I used raw local honey (a friend of hubby raises bees).
The crystals I used were clear quartz, amethyst (my birthstone), citrine, and tigers eye.
The herbs I used were bay leaves, basil, cinnamon, chamomile, and orange peel.
I sealed the bottle with pink candle wax for self love.
My little honey jar will sit on my altar for the rest of 2026.
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