A personal reflection of ritual experience & contribution: Hekate- Her Sacred Fires
“... And in her breath the echoes of Chthonia plume
Like icy dragons to wreath thy brow in gilded crown.
Doth the tempest-kissed night shroud thy mysteries?
Do the four winds howl in cacophony to the resonance of your name?
Lanterns beguiled by moon-dancing in the stygian cauldron of your eyes;
...Snake-entwined O’Lady of midnight, darkness and light.”
-Amber~Rose
A Brief Introduction to Hekate: Connected to all three stages of life- fertilization/birth, opening the womb for all living creatures; mistress of all gates, doors and the abyss, symbol of the feminine womb. The Great Midwife- Guardian of women in childbirth who can also cut the cord to welcome life and also that of death, the Guardian of the Waters which separate worlds, Opener of the Way, Goddess of Rebirth, the Crossroads and of Healing, Hekate, ‘The Mighty Mother’ is a Goddess of tremendous antiquity and integrity; litigious, archaic, sometimes animalistic yet in addition to this possesses a superlative ‘natural’ elegance. Adored and feared, she makes us question the motives of our own inner light and darkness- she awakens us to the concept of accepting both of these forces and elements, bringing them together in dual balance and to walk in the liminal (the threshold of what is between). Hekate Trivia, ‘the Three Ways’, her triformic form with the three heads all looking three ways, sometimes depicted as beautiful women, beasts (dog, snake and frog) or the age process from Maiden to Crone.
“I dance on the moon with the stars in my hair; the night encompasses me like a shroud of raven's plumes.
The wind is my voice, the sea my tears and the sun is my ever illuminating crown of glory.
The earth is my womb and from it springs all life...from darkness to light, death to creation”
- Amber~Rose
