Tag: hekate
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Rites of Kinship
~ With help from my new cane I made it to the summit of my favorite volcano today, for the first time in over a year. I arrived to the park an hour before sunset, and spent most of the intervening duration sitting on my collapsible stool, facing West, chanting solar-chthonic names to honor the…
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Robert Rubin’s “Anubeon”
~ I was recently offered a glimpse at the forthcoming magical text The Anubeon by esoteric author and teacher Robert Rubin of Magick.TV. He sent me the book’s introduction and first chapter in pdf form, and I printed them at home for ease of handling. The text is poetic yet written in a straightforward style, and…
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The Hekataeon (review)
This is a quick writeup done off the cuff, based on a customer review I posted to Miskatonic’s site with a typo I can’t correct. So here’s a slightly different draft of what’s written there. Another full post is coming soon! Happy Solstice! – Jason The Hekataeon – Medea (green) edition by Jack Grayle. Grayle…
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Green Dream Threshold
. One morning, as I woke, I was led toward Henbane by an unseen guide. I tell that story HERE, and by the end of it I’d got my hands on some ink – specifically this Verdant Inks Green Blood Henbane from Rosarium Blends. That was in the Summer- the vial arrived and sat unopened into Autumn…
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JT and the Chthonic Daimonic
This is an account of spirit contact during a weekend trip to the woods that my darling life-partner treated me to recently! The following takes place at night, in Western Oregon, in a popular state park. The park is situated so as to protect the remains of an ancient forest now surrounded by farmland and…
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Hekate Praxis (3 of 3)
Dream, Voice, Ornament, Offering For this final of three planned posts on my work with the goddess Hekate I’ll refer obliquely to my journal of the past couple months, and some of the ways that this deepening relationship plays out. … “16 names of the goddess” I awoke from a dream one morning in early…
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Hekate Praxis (2 of 3)
: : “Through your alchemical ash, I am transformed.” -Cyndi Brannen, Keeping Her Keys : Hekate altar, March 2023.Author’s personal archive. In my recent post “Be Not Afraid” I wrote about Time and some of the ways humans try to organize and chart it. Against the spectre of an unwieldy final piece of writing, I…
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Hekate Praxis (1 of 3)
+ “Hail mighty Hekate of thresholds, many-named goddess of roads and crossroads, gate-mistress, patroness of travelers and of the lost; Solar and Saturnian, bearer of chains who dissolves that which binds us…” + Hello my loves. In this first of three short updates about new ongoing projects, I want to share an experience that is…
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Be Not Afraid
Order, Chaos and Calendrical Observances “Baby I was afraid before But I’m not afraid Anymore!” -Belinda Carlisle (1) We are haunted by the Past; by nexus points of the choices we have made; by their crucial, far-reaching, often unforeseen consequences upon our lives. Until we absolve ourselves of our histories, the outcomes we perceive as…
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Lunar Salutations and Hallowed Howls
– – “When the spirits ask ‘who are you?’, you better have a damn good answer.” – Aaron Leitch (on Glitch Bottle podcast episode 10 Aug 8 2017) … Hello my friends, and Happy October! It is Autumn in Portland and although the weather here is still warm most days, other harbingers of the season…
Ecstatic Agendas 