Challenge Entry #1 - 
Your Magickal Muse
There are two things that come to my mind when I think about inspiration. The first is the books I read by M.A. Phillips which helped inspire my practice when I was Irish-focused and leaned into druidry. The second thing that comes to my mind is how I learned to knit recently because my friend was making a sweater and I was inspired to learn, too.
The common theme between these two things is that the inspiration came from someone who has meaning to me. My author friend wrote about a main character whose life, though not like my own, was very much normal in the way her pagan practice was portrayed. The second is that my friend means a lot to me and we spend a lot of time in creative practices together.
I’m less inspired by mythology and grand stories. These days, I find inspiration in the very real, very mundane things around me. That is what is currently informing my practice, and honestly, it’s the most inspired I’ve been in a very long time. 
Challenge Entry #2 - 
Cures & Remedies
In researching folk remedies for my state, I found an interesting (and kind of gross) remedy involving pumpkin seeds and tea 
So, the story goes that a young boy was having convulsions, about thirty a day, and had no relief. An older woman asked the boy’s mother if she could help and gave him a remedy of pumpkin seed tea. After about 15 minutes, the boy ended up passing some parasites [blurred for grossness!] the source says the boy passed “great masses of worms” that “were crawling”.
After reading this story, which you can find by clicking here, I went on the hunt for information about pumpkin seeds or pumpkins and how they’ve been used in folk medicine.
It turns out that pumpkin seeds have been used historically to treat a lot of things, including parasitic worms! There have been very few studies that show the efficacy of pumpkin seeds for treating worms, but it is still an interesting thing to take note of.
The seeds are used, sometimes in conjunction with other herbs, (such as Saw Palmetto or Pygeum, for example), to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a non-cancerous inflammation of the prostate gland. The seeds have also traditionally been used to expel intestinal worms, to treat childhood bed-wetting, as a mild laxative, against asthma and mild pulmonary ailments.
– Pumpkin Seeds