Virtual Hekatesion

Glorious Mother Hekate, I return to You when the path takes me away, and Your torches always guide me! There are so many things I simply cannot put into words lately, even as I feel called to this virtual temple. But You know those things. You know what it is I can't find words for better than I do. Maybe You know I will never find words because these things transcend anything that words would form boundaries for. But You know me, Mother...I'll keep searching for the words. My return to listening to the bones has revealed some interesting things to me about my relationship with Spring. I still wonder why I relate Spring with so many things often seen as the symbolism of Winter. I think it may be a result of trauma. It didn't always work this way for me. Clearly, I have more work to do with the bones. More work, more work...so much to do, yet I feel I should be doing less. I'm thinking of taking up the practice of shikantaza again. It's been years. I've already r...

So often, I don't feel it is a liminal time when that's what it is assigned to be. New moons, new year...it just doesn't happen for me. While I love the dark moon and find it to be a great symbol of that liminal point, I'm much more likely to feel it at the quarter moons. And I feel it tonight, at the time of a change of the clock that was created by humans and no longer has any real value for our society. I can feel that it's not really winter anymore, but not quite spring yet. I don't go by the calender for these things. I guess it comes from growing up and living so much of my life so far in a region where the calendar didn't match with how the seasons were shifting. We had to go with what we felt in the air instead of what we read printed on paper. And so much is shifting now! Since formally embracing my role in my relationship with You, I have been visited by and have made visits to Others. I think I understand better now why I have been guided to work ...

Mother Hekate - Glorious Hekate! - I find You everywhere I look. So much of my divination work these days is done with tools other than tarot, but I return to those cards for many purposes. Sometimes I ask myself which Major Arcana card seems to be YOUR card, much like I see Hermes as The Magician. Of course, I see Hermes in other cards, too, but it depends on context. Yes, at times I see him in The Fool, though he is more likely to be the companion dog. But to choose just one card - The Magician! It's not so simple with You. Even in the cards, I find You everywhere that I look. I see You in The Fool, as a door has been opened and a journey begun. That 0 could be a full moon, and just as easily a dark moon.  I see You in The Moon. I see You in The High Priestess, the actual third card if one starts with The Fool. And I see You in The Empress, which carries the number 3. Of course I see She Who Works From Afar and She Who Loves Solitude in the number 9, The Hermit! And I see You in ...

The cord of my prayer beads broke today. I knew it would happen someday. That's why I made them the way I did...to make it easier to fix them when "someday" came.  Mother, You know how my mind finds the patterns in things. How I don't always come to the most accurate conclusions, but I do find meaning in the patterns. I knew there would be a "someday", but I didn't expect what is happening when I made them, and even once I knew this was coming I didn't think "someday" would be now. I want Your help. I want Your guidance. I want You to take away my fears. But I don't want to...well, that's why I'm having trouble praying with words. I know what I want, I know that I don't want to ask for it, and trying to look deeper just freezes me. So I pray through art. I pray through tending the Temple. I pray through breathing. I look at the Crossroads and see the Great Elephant sitting there. I have only ever known his kindness. But I al...

Mother, it seems this year is starting with one of those times that gives me both confusion and comfort. Maybe with a touch of alarm added. I feel drawn to Ganesha again, as it seems to happen every few years. It makes sense in a way, given the anniversary that this year is for me.  I am sometimes bothered by the common modern Pagan approach of just looking at as Immortal Ones as something of a symbol. As if each of you is confined to having domain in certain areas and that's it. If I were to ask You to guide me through some kind of obstacles in my love life, there would be someone who would tell me I should be asking Aphrodite. But I don't have a relationship with her like I do with You. And I'm sure someone would tell me I don't need to concern myself with Ganesha because I already have a relationship with You, so I already have a Gatekeeper.  I don't "have a Gatekeeper". I have a relationship  with  a Gatekeeper. That's not the same thing. I'm n...

Glorious Hekate! The dark moon passed a few nights ago, but I still think of it as the new year starting with one. The moon is still dark enough that I can't see the difference, and following a human-created calendar as if it was the only accurate way of timing things isn't always the best way to do it. And we spend this week in a liminal space, feeling like the year is over but the new one hasn't started yet. I look to the dark moon with hope. I see You at the start of this new year. Mother, this year brings challenges and echoes of the past. It also brings opportunities for me to do important work with my art and writing. I ask for Your guidance. Help me do what is best with that work. Help me deliver the best messages, and reach the people who most need it. Help me heal with my work - myself and others. Bless my family with the tools we need to be able to give me time and energy for that work. Mother, please let me keep my Miniature Luck Dragon with me through this new y...