Ooh these coincidences can’t be ignored. I’m excited. Who’s coming your way? You must keep me posted, the suspense is killing me 
oh yeah -
Will have to wait. 
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Simple coincidences don’t give me this tingly sensation, this has to be destiny… 
I’m excited too! 
When I find out, you’ll be the first one to know 
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@Artemisia what a beautifully written post with such a beautiful magickal journey throughout your life 
Nature is a major part of my practice as well as Selene, Hecate, & Artemis. I feel so many similarities in your writings, thank you for sharing, it really does help others along their way, including me 
@AIRAM I couldn’t agree more, I also grew up Catholic, went to Catholic school most of my life, but just never felt a connection too it, it was more just indoctrination you know?
Sending light 
love 
& blessings 
—Hazel RAE
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- Witch Challenge Who’s Your Deity?
As so many other lovely witches on this thread, I don’t work with a singular deity.
My practice incorporates several from mixed pantheons based on the outcomes of my rituals and their calling upon me.
A particular favorite of mine, aside from Hekate, Lilith, the 7 Archangels and the Norse Pantheon is Ma’at.
Oddly during meditations, I am pulled towards the Nile Delta of Upper Egypt without any prompts. There I arise from the edge of the river bank and walk amongst the ancient Egyptians never once feeling out of place.
In the background, the workers who are busy at the pyramids come through for supplies, and the entire area is flush with everyday life - so much abundance and happiness. I’ve never seen a more pleasant or overall happy people.
Then I arrive at the Temple and am scurried away during religious ceremonies. I am quite young but am never treated like a child.
Here Ma’at is in everything everyday
The people live and breathe the 42 truths and it all seems so RIGHT somehow…my being there.
I’ve come to believe that, like light, the goddesses and gods have no fixed pantheon. They easily blend and weave betwixt and between but always in their own being.
Ma’at, and the entire Egyptian pantheon, is an AMAZING experience and has the potential to be life changing.
Blessings 
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I know the feeling. What do you give someone who has it all? Time, energy, something I have created, perhaps a rest from whatever may be going on via entertainment of some kind.
Challenge Entry
I, also, was raised Catholic. The whole idea of a deity being jealous is cruel, but I guess my indoctrination took.
When I work with someone, I simply call them Creator, as though there were only one. If there are more than one, it isn’t my fault they don’t get along. I do sense different personalities trading off at different times in my life, so I tell myself the Creator (singular) is Elohim (plural). That way, I don’t have to deal with the issues implanted by someone outside myself.
My last was a female. We didn’t get along.
The current is new. There is more of a sense of humor. I like him.
Most of the time, I don’t have much say in who works with me. If someone hears and responds, I am willing to see where it leads. All I do is my normal daily work and offering of candles, incense, listening to favorite music, blessing to request assistance getting through the day, whatever I happen to be working on, and occasional chats to express my opinion of what I see happening.
I recently found out what my Spidey senses were trying to tell me for quite some time. My apartment complex has been sold to another management company. No one said anything about it, but the stress was palpable in the air until last week. Yesterday when I checked the mail, there was a sign taped to the wall saying the name of the new company.
I found myself up in the morning before my bird, so I did some stretches and had a chat with the Creator. I know the stress is over for the moment… until the new company starts changing things. Then I have no authority to say anything about the company’s choices. I accept that I am along for the ride, and I choose to hope for the best and prepare for the move. I have until the end of August to figure out what is going on (lease expires) and clean out the things which I’ve been using to survive and rebuild. I might be grandfathered in, but not necessarily. Changes in rules may exclude me, so I have to be ready to leave when the lease runs out. That means using up what I can and lightening my load.
There came a sense of the problems being over. This sense had personality. The personality offered a joke, so I passed it along… and realized the personality was someone new.
I let them know my usual way of treating my guides. No names necessary, but if they liked the idea of what I was sensing, they could show me an image of the character, and I’d be willing to connect with that name/character/set of personality traits. Catholics tried to dissuade people from making such deals with deties, but it had worked before so I was able to better understand my guides.
Nothing came of it. That means to me that the Creator wishes to remain anonymous. I’m OK with that. It’s not the character or name I work with, but the personality I feel in the presence. That’s all I need besides the deity’s willingness to work with me.
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Challenge entry
It’s relatively new for me to assume my witchy gifts, and I never really think about deities in my practice.
Right now, I’d say that my previous practice of Zen Bouddhism for about 20 years left me with the sense of deity present in each and every living beings, from parasites to grass, and from majestic trees to the squirrels running on them. The concept of Ātman comes from induism. Very simply explained, Ātman, the Divine, could be the water in a infinite bottle (Ātman is infinite and cannot be contained), and each living being contains one of its drop, a part of the Divine. So, everything who live is divine by its essence and deserve respect, love, and compassion. I have infinite respect and love for the living, I kind-of worship nature, I’d say.
Writing about this helps me put some order in all these concepts spinning in my head!
Blessed be❤️
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challenge entry
For me i have my clan…i found when finding a diety to follow some had been ones i felt reached out to me and others i connected to because of the story or what they represented. My clan is from norse and Celtic pantheons and ill list them under each below :
Celtic
- Cernunnos
- Cerridwen
- Arionhod
- Brigid
- Nematona
- Lugh
- Rhiannon
Norse
- Freya
- Njord
- Fenrir
Some deities i might work more with or connect more to regularly while others not as much. For example i dont go to the beach as much as migh like to connect directly to Njord but i do try have elememts of the ocean in my home to represent him and connect yo him.
I also have my clan cards whivh are printed out representations of each of my dieties in my clan that is stuck up to the gead board of my bed and its like having them or representation of them near by and kind of feels like in a way they watch over me . My bedroom is coolest place in house so i spend most of time home in there even when working so it was fitting ro have the altar and their representations in my bedroom.( I only have a small unit )
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Challenge Entry:
So since I’ve started practicing I’ve worked with a few different deities. I first called an upon Ares and we only worked together for a week. I then started working with Persephone after she reached out in a tarot reading I did. I loved working with her she taught me so much about myself, but not long after we started working together here come Hades which is normal if you work with one or the other. Hades helped me with my mental health. Those two hold a special place with me they were with me during my lowest times and only left after I was able to stand again. Currently I’m working with Apollo! And he likes to send me hawks to let me know he’s there. He has told me he is wanting to help me with my creative side so I’m excited to see what all he is going to teach me!
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Weekly Witchy Challenge for Amethyst:
I have to say this is a bit of a difficult subject for me. I am pretty sure I’m what I call head blind. I have a hard time with my intuition unless it’s tarot cards and sometimes even have a difficult time with them.
That being said, the only call I’ve ever felt from a God or Goddess came in a dream. I was in my kitchen and a woman in jeans and a pink fuzzy sweater was unloading groceries. Problem was it was things I didn’t like, or couldn’t eat.
So I said I couldn’t use that stuff. And She said that if I wouldn’t talk to her, wouldn’t tell her my needs, how was she to know?
Well, I woke up and was firmly convinced I had a vision from the Goddess. I had at the time fallen out of practice for reasons. But this got me back into it.
Got me back into doing daily devotionals and trying to find witches in my area through WitchVox when that was still a thing, to meet and learn from people.
I was never interested that much in big rituals or spells. I wanted to know what people did in their daily lives to connect to the Gods.
Eventually, I wound up here. And after much searching and learning about the Gods I figured out I am an Eclectic Wiccan and I follow the Triple Goddess and the Horned God.
Because really, what kind of Goddess shows up in jeans and a fuzzy pink sweater than a Mother Goddess?
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I’ve been working with my newest deity in this way, lately. It seems odd that an omnipotent deity wouldn’t know, but only certain cultures believe they are omniscient.
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One week to go!
Thank you to everyone who has shared about their deities, natural influences, and other divine presences - it’s always amazing to learn from the coven!
For those still pondering what to share, no fear - plenty of time remains on the challenge clock. There is one more week until this challenge closes.
Looking forward to seeing and hearing about your deities and/or the divine influences in your practice.
Blessed be 
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I think it was just Her way of giving me a kick in the pants to get me praying again. Who knows? It was just odd that I can remember that dream years later, you know?
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Oh did I miss the change? Are all challenges now two weeks instead of one? I knew they were extended due to the holidays but didn’t know that was a permanent change.
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Some dreams are like that. I can still remember a dream from 52 years ago. The important ones stick, while the processing dreams fade quickly to make way for new processing.
It was never stated outright. I’ve just been going with the flow. I’m eager for the next catch up, but if it’s an unlimited two weeks, look out! 
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Challenge entry
Oh gods, where to start with this xD
My main diety is Aphrodite for like 3.5years now 
along with Ares and Hestia.
I don’t know how I ended up with Aphrodite, it just happened one day xD I felt like calling to her a night with a full moon and the rest, I guess, is history.
Ares, is more closer to me, regarding my impulsive, warlike angry acting since childhood (and thanks to my bithchart) and Hestia feels closer to me in the recent years, as I became the mama bear, feeding people all the time. I mean, my journey to the craft started in the kitchen.
The good thing about this triad is that everybody is in good relations with each other so no weird feeling around them. And when I do a work that requires a god-goddess pair Ares and Aphrodite are the perfect match.
And the recent months I have been looking into working with the egyptian goddess of wisdom and knowledge, Seshat, who come to me in a dream. I am still trying to learn and research about her, and see if Aphrodite is ok with me working with her (I beleieve it would be ok though since she is not Athena)
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Challenge entry
The goddess I work with currently is Hecate. I have felt drawn to her for several months and started reading more about her at the beginning. I felt that she was wanting to guide me and show me a better path than what I was currently following, which was basically wandering in the darkness. I feel her lighting my way often. Being new to all of this, I don’t really hav a lot of experience with other deities, but am open to any/all of them!
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Yeah but if the catch-up is every 10 challenges and they now last 2 weeks, it’s going to be a while before we have one 
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@jayne your backyard looks beautiful! I’m happy you have pics before the snow, although the snow pics are gorgeous too!
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I don’t think an official announcement was made, but after everyone seemed to find two weeks more doable during the 
Weekly Witchy CHALLENGE - Practicing Peace challenge, the mod team decided to extend them all to two weeks 
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That makes sense!
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