#hecate devotion

[keysatthecrossroad]

Artwork by Machuca

Offering yourself to Hekáte:

Hekáte, enjoys offerings that are not only personal to Her but personal to those devoted to Her as well.

Artwork, poetry, song, dance, chants, and prayers that you have created. Offer Her your favorite food, play your favorite song for Her, sweepings from your home, flowers from your garden. Strands of your hair, a spritz of your perfume, clippings from your nails.

Continue to offer Her things that She loves but don't forget to pour yourself and your love into those offerings too.

Hekáte called you, She wants to know you, She wants your devotion.

Hail the Goddess of All, Hekáte Enodia.

[mythixhekate]

Hecate/hekate

Goddess of the night, necromancy, crossroads, witchcraft, boundaries, ghosts

Offerings :

Garlic

Oak

Yew

Willow

Dandelions

Lapis lazuli

Bronze

Gold

Black candles

Silver candles

Red candles

Purple candles

Knives or daggers

Swords

Keys

Depictions of crossroads

Depictions of the moon

Depictions of hekate's wheel

Triple moons

Owl feathers

Crow feathers

Raven feathers

Dog hair

Statues of her

Statues of her sacred animals

Bones (naturally sourced)

Dark chocolate

A wand

A cauldron

A horseshoe

Devotional acts :

Be kind to dogs

Donate to a dog shelter

Invoke her when casting spells or praying

Visit a graveyard (be respectful)

Go to a crossroad

Leave offerings at crossroads

Make a playlist of songs that remind you of her

Speak to her at midnight

Hang keys around your house

Have a feast

Write poetry dedicated to her

REMINDER you don't need to do any of these things to worship a deity, these are just suggestions, remember that if you don't want to or can't do any of this that it's totally ok !!

[tinyscaredwitch]

my altar looks so full with my candle offering to Lord Hermes 🥹

i really want to get more items for Lady Hekate ♡

i might rearrange everything next week i think hehe

[keytothecrossroad]

for Lady Hekate.

[fairyboy1111]

A digital offering for Hecate! May the light of her torch guide us towards newfound wisdom 🖤

[mythicalmuseomine]

Lady Hecate

Goddess of sorcery and ghosts. Also depicted as the goddess of magic, dogs, and night.

Requested by @sapphic-bats

taking requests

[angelicstarsight]

To Hell And Back: My Experience with Hekate

I was a Hekate devotee for 6 months. Those 6 months changed my life.

The Dark Mother was in my life from June 1st, 2023 to December 31st, 2023. She led me through enormous transitions, major life decisions, and the darkest night of the soul I've experienced yet. She was my guiding light through it all.

When She Calls

She came to me very directly. I had 3 dreams 3 nights in a row along with many signs in my waking life. In the first dream, I was looking at a drawing of a black cloaked figure with someone else. They were talking about Hekate, and I could feel immense power coming from the drawing.

I found a stick shaped like a key in the second dream. Later that day in waking life, I went to the mall and saw a store surrounded by torches with black dog statues. She had my attention.

That night before I fell asleep, I asked Hecate what type of relationship She wanted to have with me. She answered. In the third dream, I was given a magical wishing well. I was tasked with the mission to go into the wishing well. I jumped down and was overwhelmed. There was an entire other world! I saw tall, huge trees lit by the full moon. I was afraid, but I overcame my fear and found courage to continue. I heard “You are here to spread love and light. Just by being you. That is why you’re here. That is your purpose.”

When I woke up, I knew there was work to be done with this goddess.

Devotion Through Transitions

Our work began quickly. Hekate Lampadios lighted my way from being a travel nurse to moving to Colorado and finding stability. I took a staff nurse position at a great hospital that I was already working as a travel nurse at. My husband and I packed our things and moved across the country.

One day when I was doing a mundane task, the idea fell into my mind to go back to school to become a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. I was shocked at the idea and felt fear. What if I'm not good enough? Don't I have enough problems of my own that I need to work through? She answered those questions in due time.

She reignited my love for my practice. I explored all kinds of folk magic -- English, Welsh, Celtic, Appalachian. I also investigated my ancestry searching for any fulfilling connections. I worked with herbs, picked up scrying, and overall honed my craft.

The Dark Mother's Initiation

After I moved to Colorado and began adjusting to my staff job, She asked me to dig deeper. The deeper I researched into witchcraft, the deeper I committed to my practice and to Her. I was all in. She led me to a witchcraft initiation from the deep South where my roots are. For 10 days, I arose at sunrise and recommitted myself to my practice and Her at a local park. I completed the initiation. I was about to be taught extremely important lessons that will affect me for the rest of my life.

Journey Through The Underworld

Hekate challenged my deeply embedded subconscious fear-based Christian worldview in a way that had never been done before. She led me to demonolatry. I came face to face with remnants of the brainwashing I faced from being raised a fundamentalist Christian. The tendrils of these beliefs dug into my psyche and told me all kinds of nasty lies. I faced my fear, trusted Hekate, and ventured forth into uncharted territory.

After a month of dancing with "devils," all communication dwindled until it eventually ceased. Even from Hekate.

I was distraught. The logical part of my mind reasoned that if the presences I was feeling and the voices I were hearing were real, they wouldn't just vanish. So, I came to the conclusion that it must be spiritual psychosis. I made it all up. All of it. My entire spirituality was a stress response. As if that wasn't hard enough, I was hit with a mysterious illness two weeks later. I had COVID-like symptoms but never tested positive for it. I had difficulty breathing, was bed ridden, and spent a lot of time in doctor's offices trying to figure out what was wrong. I took 3 months of medical leave from work.

This led me to have a nervous breakdown and seek out a psychiatric evaluation.

Hekate Deichteira (Teacher)

As my body began to recover from the mysterious illness that no test detected, I found answers for a different piece of my life. The psychiatric eval showed no signs of schizophrenia. The conclusion was psychosis induced by extreme stress and PTSD. I was referred to a psychiatrist for medication management.

After finding a combination of medications to control my anxiety, I began to realize just how much anxiety I was living with on a daily basis. I stabilized and put my spiritual practice out of my mind for the time being. I regained function that I hadn't experienced ever in my life. I can now be social, have energy for daily chores, and feel positive and confident. Getting this medication has changed my life completely for the better, and I feel like I can be the best version of myself.

As I was going to my psych appointments, I got to know my provider -- a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. We've had several conversations about spirituality and how she believes that everything I experienced was real. She helped me restore faith in my spiritual practice and pick up the pieces to build something new. I told her about how I was interested in being a Psych NP, and she's helping me find clinical placements while I'm in school. I'm also on the waiting list for EMDR therapy.

Final Thoughts

If Hekate comes into your life, be prepared for your life to change.

I still have no idea what I got sick with after my initiation, but I've read about other people getting unknown illnesses after initiations, awakenings, or other spiritually significant events.

After all of this, I am a new person. I have more gratitude for each day and rebuilding my strength. I have new definitions for what a "bad" day is. The spirits I worked with in the past are slowly making a new, stronger connection with me. It's as if I'm being taken more seriously after this time period.

I love Hekate and all She has taught me during my time with Her. My spiritual practice is now wholly mine, and I fear no demon, hell, or spirit. I am more stable than I have ever been. She will always be here to guide me to a better future no matter the cost. What she has given me is priceless. I am reborn. She has returned me to Aphrodite who has watched over me since birth. I am home now.

Always respect the Dark Mother.

Hail Hekate.

[perseismuses]

[memcemx]

Hecate Enodia,

As you guided Demeter to her daughter Persephone, guide me on this new journey

As I explore my new path with you, may your torches keep my path true.

May your dogs keep me company and guard me as I explore the darkness with you.

Lady of the crossroads, and keeper of keys, never let me find a locked door, or a road I cannot tread.

Mother,

I have heard your call, and am yours eternal, dispel my doubts and fears that I may serve you to my fullest, that you may one day call me home.

[sunnypaganblog]

A Prayer to Lady Hecate for strength.

Lady Hecate, almighty goddess of the crossroad, Lady of the night, ruler of witchcraft, hear me as I speak this to you

Hear me, hear my pleas for strength following this year

Please—guide me into the right direction, and guide me to a path of endurance, and empowerment

Help me to rid of anyone who's ever wronged me, who has ever been toxic to me, to persevere despite everything I may ever be put through

Help me, to keep my head lifted, no matter what I may lose, and no matter what may happen or shift in my life

Help me to be strong, to see my own strength, and to persevere despite my struggles and the issues with my mental health

Honorable, lovable Goddess—hear me, and assist me in strength for the coming year

Help me persevere through whatever may happen in 2025, and help me see the good in the following year—help me to endure anything and to be strong despite how the world may become

Lady Hecate, my Goddess, I thank you for listening, and I thank you for being here with me.

[keysatthecrossroad]

Mighty Hekáte, Goddess of All pathways,

Seer of all things,

Guide me through the shadows,

Whisper to me their meanings,

Show me where to place my feet,

Take my hand and lead me to do great things,

Teach me to find the meaning in Your prophecy,

Goddess of Mystery, of Liminal, of Night, I devote myself to You.

[tinyscaredwitch]

just performed a back to sender spell with Lady Hekate ♡

part one of strengthening my wards ♡

[fairyboy1111]

A prayer for Hecate + Digital offering

Saffron-veiled Hecate, lovely-faced mistress of the night

Attended by a train of breathless specters that instill mortal hearts with fright

Rejoicing to haunt deserted places under the moon’s silver light

Key-bearer of the cosmos, you rule over all realms, yours is matchless might

You are high up in the heavens where the deathless ones dwell

Riding alongside Selene in her bull-drawn chariot, that bright-horned goddess who makes fruits swell

You teach us about the stars, their names and the secrets they have to share

You whisper ancient wisdom into our ears trough the whistling of the air

You are hidden in the depths of the sea, in the darkest regions of Poseidon’s realms, so profound no light ever enters

You know of all the creatures the watery abyss engenders

And as you sing the sound of your luring voice travels all the way to the surface and seeps into the shore

Where the crashing waves moan loudly about things yet to come

You are upon the earth, running across rocky mountains and woody hills

Hunting alongside golden-bowed Artemis, for in the chase your heart thrills

And you write into the flowers and the herbs, into the bushes and the trees, the promise of the gifts they are each able to give

With an ink so subtle it escapes all eyes, but that an opened heart can see

You are under the ground, in the dayless land of the dead

In the court of your beloved friend Persephone, the queen of Hades and the springtime maid

You tear trough the darkness with your torch, revealing what once laid hidden

You share a spark of your warmth in the flame of our candles, in the glow of our incense, in our rituals both holy and forbidden

Three-bodied lady, be gracious unto me and stand by my side

Light my heart with your torch’s fire when I need to be brave, wash my soul with moonlit sea-water when I need to be kind

Lend me your advice through the howling of the wind when I need to be wise, ground my feet with tangling roots of oak when I need to calm down

Snake-crowned Perseis, dog-loving gatekeeper, turn my sorrows upside down

[keytothecrossroad]

I just remembered back in late October/early November, I left an offering of fresh garlic cloves for Hekate at my nearest crossroads, which happened to be the corner of my yard where it meets the driveway and sidewalk/street. I thought nothing else of it until my husband ran inside the house to find me last week to show me the garlic he found in the yard that was sprouting.

I'm not entirely sure if it means she enjoyed the offering or if nature was just doing it's thing but either way, the sheer amount of excitement my husband had for finding garlic was adorable.

[moonkisseddaughter]

menstrual offering to lady hecate, lady aphrodite, and lady artemis was a success

i didnt offer up my period blood or anything !!!! i feel like i need to put that lol. i just was intentional and didnt use any painkillers or anything ! and honestly, it wasnt as bad as i thought it was going to be, and i give credit to my special ladies for aiding me through my period and also for not making it hurt so bad :)