Hekate Stack
Tonight the gates of the Underworld open by the light of Hekate’s torch, her night Nov. 30th, is also heralding the full moon! She is many things, if not all, but perhaps nothing quite as significant in today’s world as Supreme archetype of the crossroads, thrice whirled, multivalent guide of the feminine principle in Her darkest hours. Fierce god-mother of the sacrificed—the world soul taken by trauma—Hekate is the midwife of transformation, and Hermes Chthonia’s consort; a tender yet vicious, hound-led vehicle into the shadows! She who is solid as a rock, fluid as the river, with a foot in all realms. When she arrives, she demands all of us. Aye, Hekate, the divine scavenger of discard and overlooked keys of Truth, may you tend to our disintegrating hearts.
Hekatean Psychotherapy by Velimir Popović: “Gaston Bachelard states, “Images do not adapt themselves very well to ideas, or above all, to definitive ideas. The imagination is ceaselessly imagining and enriching itself with new images…” The pure imagination designates its projected forms as the essence of its proper fulfillment. It delights naturally in imagining, and consequently in changing forms. Metamorphosis thus becomes the specific function of pure imagination. The imagination like Hermes Trismegistus, only comprehends an image by transforming it, amplifying it, by dynamizing its becoming. Hekate unifies via the imagination and discloses us as imaginal beings. “The Queen of the Phantom World” can be seen as an imaginal container for coming-into-being, of becoming a particular something, of becoming imaginal subjectivity. She is the dynamizing agent who through wayward and erratic movements constitutes us as imaginal beings. As a guide of souls, she makes metaphors of our experience. Hekate as temenos for convergence of our divine amorality on the road, personifies our psychological junctions, meeting points, crossroads, as well as boundaries and limits. “Mistress of the Roads” indicates our psychological borders and frontiers and marks the place where, in our soul, the alien and the foreign touch the familiar and common. She is the traveler who wanders from here to yonder, between known and unknown...”
Books Mentioned:
Pregnant Darkness by Monika Wikman
Dark Light of the Soul by Kathryn Wood Madden
The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption by Marie-Louise von Franz
Descent of the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women by Sylvia Brinton Perera
The Most Holy Trinosophia by Manly P. Hall
The Goddess Hekate by Stephen Ronan
Visions of the Cailleach by Sorita d’Este & David Rankine
The Chaldean Oracles
Pagan Meditations by Ginette Paris
Circle for Hekate by Sorita d’Este
The Triple Goddess by Adam Mclean
Hekate Soteira by Sarah Johnston
A Re-Visioning of Love by Ana Mozol
Inanna by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer
Dancing in the Flames by Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson
The Witches’ Goddess by Janet Farrar and Stewart Farrar
a Witch alone by Marian Green
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter by Helene P. Foley
Chthonic Gnosis by Ludwig Klages