In Orion Foxwood's book, The Flame In The Cauldron we see the term "witch blood". It is when a person realizes that he has the urge to study and practice witchcraft, as he was a witch in a previous life. It will be awakened during training into a magical tradition. But, how do we get there?
The calling is...
In the previous article, we saw the basics of pathworking, and as we are on a website on Hekate's cult, we will see a pathworking of the tradition of the Golden Dawn to the path of Shin, from Malkuth to Hod. In Israel Regardie's book, A Garden of Pomegranates, there is a good material of Hermetic Kabalah. Ciceros have added more material in the classical books of Regardie,...
This article is not relevant to Hekate's cult, but since modern witches like myself, use cartomancy to help themselves and others by understanding situations better and seeing the future in a way, I decided to write a blog post about the French system of playing card divination, which was very popular and valid in the 18th and 19th century.
Many witches, if not all, read the Tarot...
Each one of us has a place that helps him draw inspiration and raise his energy. For me, there are some very nice options in Athens. Archaeological places related to Hekate. I visit them often to pay my respects to the Goddess and raise my energy. It is impossible not to be around them after some days, at least for me.
Today, after the end of the quarantine for the corona-virus, I...
The ROHSF is an annual celebration for the Goddess Hekate, performed once a year at the full moon of May. Devotees from around the world perform a simple rite in their shrine or altar and they are united with the Goddess and one to another to a giant chain of flames. The ROHSF was quite popular, but now, it is not as popular as it was in the past. The rite remains very accessible, translated in many l...
Pathworking is a technique that uses imagination for magickal purposes; to gain insight, to change your physical reality, to heal yourself and deal with trauma, to meet spirits, etc. We don’t have proof if the technique of pathworking was practiced in ancient Hellas, but we can assume that Socrates when he describes the earth from the universe before he died, shouldn’t have been there with a rocket to the Moon. Platonic myths that we read in...
People have worries and anxiety. The modern way of living is fast and that's not normal. Technology and modern society make us want everything fast and now, so we don't have the time to relax and wait, because everything around us presses us to move on, make it fast, set another goal, continue... Human psychology cannot deal with great amounts of pressure for a long time, whatever pressure might be. In work, in relationships, in hobbies! There...
When we have to perform an important ritual it is necessary to choose the best time or at least not a bad time for it. This will take less than 50% of the energy we are going to dedicate to the ritual. It’s not enough to choose the appropriate day, planetary hour, planetary power and lunar light. For rituals of initiations, dedications, talismans, strong commitments, evocations, changing major influences or interfering to important things, we...
Goddess Hekate is a lunar Goddess from antiquity. It was identified with Selene (the Moon Goddess) and Artemis, who represents the lunar light. We also know that Hekate is also related to Magick, Necromancy and the world of the dead, Hades. Those areas were connected in ancient Hellenic religion, mainly in the parts that were available for the initiates of the mysteries. In this article, I will use Plutarch's work On The Apparent Face On The...
I have written about the Lunar Light and the Lunar Mansions in the previous articles. I will present an example by examining the next Full Moon. We will see if it is appropriate for charging a pentagram with the energy of Hekate, to empower and guide us on daily interactions, taking decisions, making...
The mansions of the Moon appear around the 10th-century a.C. in the Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology, written by Abu’l-Rayhan Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Al-Biruni. At that time we also see them on Picatrix, the main source of Medieval and Renaissance Astrological Magic. This book was translated in Latin at the 13th-century a.C. In Picatrix, we see the use of the Mansions in the first book, which is based in Zodiologion of the...
This is the first article on a series of Lunar Magick or Magick of the Moon. In Witchcraft, the energy of the moon is basically restricted in the lunar light aspect, but in the series, we are going to expand this very basic knowledge to other aspects too. As Hekate is the Goddess of the Moon and the Goddess of Magick, I think that all of Her devotees should know -if not practice, this type of magick, which is considered ancient and Hermetic....
Theurgy and Philosophy are two different methods which lead to the union with God.
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It amazes me how so many traditions follow these ancient protocols and roles,