Virtual Hekatesion

Glorious Hekate Ourania! Glorious Hekate Khthonia! Glorious Hekate Einalia! Why are You above all others for me? I ask myself these things and sit with my thoughts, sorting them out and getting to understand myself better, because I don't want to do meaningless things. That would be wasteful, empty, and dishonoring. The mythology tells us that even Zeus honors You first. That sets a good example, but Mother, You know my ways are Hekatean but not Hellenic. I am thankful for the blessings of Hermes, Pan, Poseidon, Prometheus, Apollon, Hephaistos...all who have given me their blessings. I thank You for opening gates to those relationships and agreements. My ways are not restricted to one pantheon, though, and while I do seek the wisdom of the mythology and what is known of ancient practices and how they have evolved and are being reconstructed, You know my ways are not only guided by those ways. I feel no obligation in my practice to honor You because Zeus honors You. All who have lef...

Glorious Mother Hekate... Mythology disagrees on whether or not You have given birth to children. Some stories say monsters have come from Your womb. Some say You have never given birth. Oh, but Mother, I see You as having given birth to all! How can I understand You as the Soul of the World any other way? None of it seems as simple as it once did, and I think that is a sign that I am learning. People who think they have all the answers almost certainly do not. But what if I understand this incorrectly? Then You are still my Mother. There is more than one way for that to happen. My understanding of You as my Mother comes before my understanding of You as Mother of all. You know my heart, Mother. You know my soul. You know what I have carried, am carrying, and will carry. You know me better than I even know myself.  I am here to give thanks, and yet I do not find the words I thought I needed when I approached. How can I put so much into such tiny words? I want to give the words to Y...

Glorious Hekate Kleidoukhos! So often, I have felt all there is for me in the darkness is being lost. "Being in the dark" about something is a phrase to describe confusion and lack of knowledge and insight. We speak of those moments of finding the answers as "illumination". You teach me, though, that many answers are found in the dark. The keys are waiting. It is in the dark that I often stumble around, looking for a key to unlock the next door. We meet in that darkness. At my age, society has trained us to believe we should be set in life. That we're too old to still be finding our way. But You are so much older, Mother, and an entire human lifetime isn't even a full breath for You. You show me that there are always keys to find. So many more doors, gates, and locks than the human mind can truly comprehend! I thank You for leading me to them. I thank You for leading me to keep growing. I thank You for showing me the keys.

Glorious Hekate Ourania above me, Glorious Hekate Khthonia below me, Glorious Hekate Einalia all around me, I give my thanks to You, Divine Queen! Lost items reappear. A new system of divination to learn. Strengthening bonds with the Mighty and Beloved Ancestors. The sign that is shown when keys start finding their way to me. I see You in all of these things. I know what time of year is coming, and I am thankful for the signs that You will continue to guide me. Praise to Hekate! Praise to Hekate! Praise to Hekate!

Hail Hekate Einalia, Empress of the Dark Seas! I had concerns about some of the work I've been doing. Concerns about the risk of it leading me to wander too far from my devotion to You, Glorious Hekate. I prayed to ask that You light the path and lead me back if that were to happen. Not only has it not happened so far, but I also find I'm actually lead to looking at You in different forms. For the first time, I'm getting glimpses of You not just being connected to the waters in some way, but You being  the waters. Sometimes I wonder if I'm making the mistake of looking at Your blessings from a monotheistic perspective and simply calling it henotheism. I worry at times that I don't truly have what it takes to understand there being many of the Shining Immortal Ones. But I do believe many exist. I do believe I've known the presence of Pan, and that my agreements with Hermes are truly with Hermes. I have had brushes with beings I have not developed deeper relations...

Glorious Mother Hekate, I thank You for the gifts You have given to me! I give the highest praise to You, and offer my gratitude to You first! I thank Hermes, patron of our home! I thank Apollon, father of the great healer Asclepius! I thank Hephaistos, who inspires inventors and engineers! I thank Prometheus, for reasons he understands! I thank all those who have watched over me and guided me toward having my needs met in this situation! Mother, thank You! Thank You! Thank You! May the blessings I have been given be used to best serve You.

Khaire Hekate Enodia, Queen of the liminal point where three paths meet! There has been so much stress and despair lately, Mother. It's leading to pain and feeling emotionally abandoned. I feel things swirling out of my grasp. I know "control" is an illusion. Stability is...well, it's not as stable as it seems. On an even larger scale, it shifts back into being stable again. It's complicated. I know this, Mother, and I am thankful for Your guidance. This evening, I walked the road You've put me next to. I called to You at the crossroads. I gave praise to You as I walked. I paid attention when it was called for. I felt at home in a way I haven't felt for a long time. Thank You, Mother! I give thanks for that touch of Your hand guiding me and welcoming me! I give thanks for that awarenes of the blessing of Your presence! Glorious Hekate! Daughter of Destruction, born of the Stars! And, of course, I am also a child of destruction, born of the stars. It is tru...

Khaire Hekate Enalia, Empress of the Dark Seas! I see the flow of information, Mother. I thank You for revealing these things to me.

Every answer spawns three more questions. I don't really understand the path I have been guided to. I'm not so sure understanding it is really the point, though. I do see new things as I follow the path. And I see old things in new ways. I had doubts about the path...or maybe I just thought I did. Maybe I simply had confusion. I could admit my doubts were wrong, but I can't label things so simply. Knowing it is confusion now makes it harder for me to see what it was then. My confusion comes from not being able to see the whole thing. Even as that confusion surrounds me, I see the light that illuminates my steps and feel the key in my hand. My understanding of You is so little, even as it grows. I am certainly thankful for how my understanding grows. Maybe I'm also thankful for how small it is. For how there will always be more Mysteries, more discoveries, more revelations, more growth, more joy. For how there is always that reminder that it's all so much more than i...

I praise and offer my gratitude to You, Glorious Hekate! I give my thanks to Hermes, to Hephaistos and Prometheus! To Ganesha! To All who have kept my Most Beloved One safe and guided him! Thank you, Ancestors! Thank you, Nature Spirits! Thank to the Shining Immortal Ones! Glorious Hekate, I offer my gratitude to You because I am devoted to You, and because I have felt Your hand resting on me through my personal experience of the past week. Obviously, Mother, my work is not finished. In some ways, my work will never be finished. On a smaller scale, my work isn't even finished here. There is care to be done. There is another to be guided, and in a very different way. She will reach Your gate soon, Mother. I think it is possible we get there in different ways and recognize it as different experiences. Based on how I currently understand the gate, though, I think we all get there. She will be there soon. I still pray for a peaceful transformation for her. I pray that You be merciful a...

I am drawn to these beads. Originally bought for a slightly different purpose, they became such a part of my devotion to You that I felt the need to alter them. Take off the little figure at the end, change it to a key. But then I was forcing prayers to fit a format that didn't feel best, so I completely took things apart and restrung the beads, tying the knots between each of them. It was months of writing the prayers. Editing. Swapping. Rewording. When they were finally right, I expected them to change again because that's what kept happening. But, no... this time , they were right! But then the beads weren't. The key was right, but needed different beads. I chose beads carved from the right stones, tied the knot...but they needed a different key. I put the right key on them. They felt so beautiful in my hands...and then I knew they weren't for me to use. You know those beads. They lay on Your altar. But there were other beads, made from a different stone!...

Mother Hekate, I have prayed to You many times the words, "You are most honored among the gods, and I am blessed in Your presence." I thank You for the realization that came to me today as I spoke those words again. To be part of existence is a blessing. I am always in Your presence. You are Hekate Ourania, Empress of the Starry Cosmos. You are Hekate Khthonia, Empress of the Earth and Underworld. You are Hekate Enalia, Empress of the Dark Seas. You are Hekate Enodia, who walks the paths of the liminal spaces. You are the Soul of the World. You are the Daughter of Destruction, Born of the Stars. You are everywhere! I am not only always in Your presence, but I am also part of You because You are in everything. I praise You, Glorious Hekate! Thank You for the blessing of this realization. I know myself well enough to know I will probably lose sight of this at times. I pray that, in those moments, there will be reminders. That I will learn to hold this Truth as close to my heart...

Khaire Hekate Ourania, Empress of the Starry Cosmos! Khaire Hekate Khthonia, Empress of the Earth and Underworld! Khaire Hekate Enalia, Empress of the Dark Seas! Praise to quick and cunning Mighty Hermes! Praise to generous, healing Apollon! Praise to far-seeing, strategic Prometheus, who sacrificed so much for us! Praise to creative, engineering Hephaestus! Praise to the Nine Lovely Muses! Praise to wild Pan, who controls and lends His name to the condition known as "panic"! Mother Hekate, You know my struggle, my burden, the curse I carry. As I understand things, You revealed Yourself to me in that darkest moment, though the path of subtler signs can be traced back long before then. I celebrate with You the moment today when the typical response did not happen! I thank You, Mother, for guiding me and protecting me. I thank You for all You have done, are doing, and will do in the future to aid me so that I may best serve You! I thank You, Hekate - Guide and Guardian - for br...

Mother, I see things unlocking. I see them opening. I almost want to say I see what is waiting for me, but I feel that whisper of, " No...this is just the gateway... " I look back at the road I've been walking at see it forming a circle. Not a useless repetition that leads to nowhere, but more like the Fool's journey in tarot. Maybe it's not a circle, but a spiral. Pieces of stories start fitting together. Old friends of the Otherworld show up again. It's all familiar, but not the same as before. There is growth. There is knowledge. There is understanding...sometimes understanding that I don't understand it all. I asked You for guidance. I see Your blessings opening for me. Thank You, Mother. Khaire Hekate! Khaire Hekate! Khaire Hekate!

Khaire Hekate Kleidoukhos! Mother, I will never forget this is how You first made Yourself known to me. The child is was fascinated with keys for no obvious reasons. The teenager who held onto keys because they can unlock feelings and memories. The adult who learned to build on that and understand keys in new ways. I thank You for Your keys. I thank You for the new keys that You have recently given to me. Some tangible, some intangible. All of them mysterious and beautiful.

Glorious Hekate! Khaire Hekate Ourania, Queen of the Starry Cosmos! Khaire Hekate Khthonia, Queen of the Earth and Underworld! Khaire Hekate Enalia, Queen of the Dark Seas! Hekate Kleidoukhos, I thank You for unlocking the gates and doors! Hekate Enodia, I praise You as You walk the paths! Hekate Propolos, I thank You for walking with me and guiding me! Thank You, Mother Hekate, for the blessings You give for nurturing growth. From the stars to the stones, from the beginning to the end, and all that is between, I praise You, Glorious Hekate!

Glorious Dark Mother Hekate! I praise You! I thank You for the many blessings You give us. You often work in the dark, and we don't always see the blessings for what they are. I thank You for all that You give! We are wandering and lost, Mother. You know our pain. You know what we need to learn. You know how each soul that arrives at the Gate ended up there. I pray, Mother, for guidance for all of us. To be completely open and honest, some days I think we will never, as a whole people, follow the light of Your torches and maybe they'd be better as tools to burn it all down. Oh, but You are not always known for being kind and forgiving -- Brimo is one of Your names -- yet You have not destroyed us. I must trust You. I thank You for guiding me toward the work I needed to do so that I would not drown in the trauma, anxiety, and grief. I thank You for the relationship we have and what it is becoming. I praise You, Glorious Hekate!

Glorious, gracious Hekate, I asked You for guidance on my path. I asked that roads be cleared and doors unlocked. I asked cunning Hermes for help getting things moving, to put me in a better position for repaying my debts to Him. I asked the Ancestors - the Mighty and Beloved Dead - for help with strengthening the bonds of family. I asked Wild Pan and the Nature Spirits for help so that healing could happen in this place. I have seen the doors unlocking, the paths clearing, things starting to move, and the early steps of healing! I don't know why I am in this place, but I have devoted myself to service through healing, and when I needed help, help has been given. So now I offer my thanks. I offer the multiple emotional responses that are flowing through me. I offer the work that I do when I'm no longer trying to solve a problem that has already been solved. I thank You! I thank You! I thank You!

Khaire Hekate Enalia, Aenaos Anassa of the Dark Seas! I was so sad about moving to such a dry place, but in the time I've been here You have brought me closer to the waters in ways I have never known before. The song of the water, Y Gwraig Annwn, and the recent events unfolding for me. Water is life, and You are my Mother!  I watched Your moon the other night. I wear the stone of Your moon. The moon controls the tides, directs the waters...it all starts falling into place in my mind, but then it all unravels again. And I hear/feel that gentle reminder that it's not all supposed to stay one way. It is fluid. It flows. That is  "in place". I praise You, Dark Mother Hekate, Queen of the Dark Seas!

You heard me pour my heart out, Glorious Queen! You heard my fears, felt my courage, and know how deep it goes. I thank You for the big, beautiful owl! How she stood right there in Your crossroads. A glorious nocturnal bird of prey, right there in the light at the crossroads so that she could be seen. I thank You for sending the owl! I thank You for making sure I saw her! I thank You for Your guidance! I thank You and praise You for being!