Πέμπτη 27 Αυγούστου 2015

The temple of Hecate

σύμφωνα με την αστρολογική σκέψη υπάρχουν κάποιες θεότητες της great mother, που φανερώνονται στον χάρτη μας απ την ηλιο-σεληνιακή σχέση...8 τέτοιες σχέσεις βγαίνουν που αντιστοιχούν σε αντίστοιχες θεότητες, σύφμωνα με τον Dane Rudhyar που είναι ο ίδιος ο Lunation cycle....Μέρες πανσελήνου και εκλείψεων, οι θεότητες αυτές θέλουν την προσοχή μας, το χρόνο μας, τις θυσίες μας....
ενώ οι πιο παραδοσιακοί αστρολόγοι δίνουν τα πιο τρία κλασικά σχήματα της Σελήνης, ανάλογα με τις αυξομειώσεις του φωτός της....
Γιατί σε κάθε γωνία της ψυχής μας, υπάρχει ένας διαφορετικός βωμός, που μας περιμένει για να τιμήσουμε όλες τις θεότητες και αυτές με τη σειρά τους, να μας προσφέρουν απλόχερα την ενέργεια που χρειαζόμαστε τέτοιες μέρες για να προχωρήσουμε ....αφού στις εκλείψεις επιστρέφουμε την ενέργεια στο σύμπαν που μας τη δάνεισε...αλλά στον καθένα μας είναι ξεχωριστή και περισσότερο προσωπική η θεότητα που μας προστατεύει....
εδώ γίνεται μια αναφορά σε μια απ αυτές....την Εκάτη...

Hail, Hecate, Goddess of many titles!
Wise Woman; Crone; Grandmother; Widow; Mistress of the Crossroads; Queen of the Night and the Dark Face of the Moon; Guardian of the Primal Void; Ruler of the Magickal Powers of Regeneration; Torch-Bearing Moon Goddess; Ruler of Mysteries; Heavenly Midwife; Goddess of Magick and Enchantment; Goddess of Fertility and the Harvested Corn; Protectress of Remote Places and the Night Road; Most Potent Sorceress; Archetypal Shaman; Giver of Dreams and Prophetic Visions; Goddess of Nightmares, Lunacy, and Hallucination; Distant One; Most Lovely One; Guardian of the Unconscious Realms; Goddess of Storms; Goddess of Transformation; Illuminator of the Dark Passages; Incubator; Wardress of the Souls of the Dead; Goddess of Addiction, Depression, and Descent to the Underworld; Queen of the Shades; Protector of Laboring Women; Goddess of Prostitutes and Outcasts; Guardian of the Western Gate that leads to the Underworld.
Hail, Hecate!
A little bit of Her story . . .
Hecate is one of the most ancient embodiments of the Triple Goddess, invariably emphasized in her Crone aspect. Hecate was absorbed into the Greek pantheon, but there is evidence that she is much more ancient, probably Thracian, and associated with Goddess worship in Asia Minor and Middle Europe in the 3rd and 4th millennia. (George, Mysteries of the Dark Moon)
Hecate is most often portrayed as a sinister figure, strongly linked to death, occultism, evil and "black magic," (demonized by the church as an evil Queen of the Witches), and is almost always depicted as the ugly hag of fairy tale witches – the worst stereotype of the Crone, although she can appear in any form, even that of an "overtly sexual" temptress (see Trobe, Invoke the Goddess).
Many Greek images of Hecate depict her holding three sacred objects: a key, a rope, and a dagger. The key is the key to the Underworld, unlocking the secrets of the Mysteries; the rope represents the umbilical cord of rebirth and renewal; and the dagger represents the Athame, cutting away delusion. (George, Mysteries of the Dark Moon)
The Voice of Hecate:
Transformative Goddess and Guide to the Interior and Underworld Realms
Hesoid, in Theogony, described Hecate's name as meaning "she who has power far off." Likewise, Hecate has been referred to as "Distant One," and "Far-Darter." (Interestingly enough, she has also been called "Most Lovely One," which is contrary to popular ideas of her as an ugly, frightening, old hag!) Jean Shinoda Bolen (Goddesses in Older Women) gives Hecate the title of "Goddess of Intuitive and Psychic Wisdom." She asserts that the many references to Hecate as "distant" refer to the way she is often experienced – through dreams, intuition, psychic experience, or synchronicity.
Bolen's vision of Hecate is as the voice of intuition, a silent presence deep within, and "a witness within us at every juncture, even if the ego denies, represses, distorts, and cannot acknowledge what is happening. This observer makes connections and speaks to us in the symbolic language of dreams and flashes of insight." (Goddesses in Older Women)
Hecate is a goddess of our own underworld, a goddess of the unconscious mind. As such, she is a goddess of dreams, and also nightmares, of our "shadow" side, of the grip of addiction, of depression, of hallucination. Demetra George notes that the truths and insights that Hecate can illuminate may well be more than we are ready or willing to face. "Like hallucinogens to the underdeveloped mind, Hecate poison as well as intoxicate and turn ecstatic inspiration into madness." (Mysteries of the Dark Moon) Hecate stands between light and shadow, the upper world of consciousness and rationality and the underworld of unconsciousness and irrationality, and she may serves as a powerful guide to deep, inner exploration – for those who are ready. Hecate is never to be taken lightly.
Hecate's Incubation:
Accessing, meeting, and working with Hecate most often involves a descent to the underworld. This may be experienced in a number of ways, including: a depression, a period of withdrawal and lethargy, a crisis, bursts of anger, periods of stagnation, intense dreaming, nightmares, etc. Hecate acts as a sort of midwife as we go through the labor pains of deep personal growth, of birthing a more "authentic" self – or perhaps these are death pains as we sort through, release, and let go of those things that are not truly of us. Hecate is there whenever we do "inner work," and she has access to all parts of our psyches, conscious and unconscious. At times, she may shed her light on areas that we do not want to see. But when we emerge from the descent, we are changed.
Some of the changes we may experience following a period of incubation and inner growth may be disturbing to others, upsetting the dynamics of our relationships (this is often a good thing). Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson (Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness), state that "when a woman stands her own ground, exercises discipline, or lays down her terms and conditions with "straight talk," she speaks with the voice of the Crone." And, "the Crone speaks with the sharp truth that shocks and alarms others." Hecate demands that we cut through our defenses, falsehoods, and illusions to discover what lies within our own minds, bodies, and spirits.
Working with Hecate:
Correspondences
Candle Colors: black, purples, mauves
Season: Autumn and Winter
Animals: all wild animals, but especially dogs, reptiles, dragons, horses, snakes, the frog (symbol of the fetus) or toad ("toad" in many languages means "witch" or "prophetess")
Numbers: Her scared numbers were 3 and 9
Trees: Funerary trees, especially the yew, alder, and poplar (the yew is associated with immortality)
Tarot Cards: The Moon, the High Priestess, and the Wheel of Fortune
Sacred Days: Samhain, November 30 – Day of Hecate at the Crossroads, the Winter Solstice.
Times: Waning moon and especially the dark moon, midnight, dawn and dusk, transitional times, strong link to the menstrual cycle (PMS or during bleeding especially)
Activities: Banishing, releasing of negativity, inner work, dream work, healing, shamanistic journeys, meeting spirit guides, communicating with the dead, divination, spellworking, to increase psychic powers, scrying
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Art: "Hekate" by Fallen Nonangel