December 17, 2025 • 37 mins
Standing at a crossroads? Between who you were and who you're becoming? Hecate is with you.
In this episode, we explore Hecate—the torch-bearer, the key-holder, the goddess of liminal spaces who teaches us that wholeness means holding all phases simultaneously, not choosing between them.
We're recording this between Winter Solstice (December 21st) and Chinese New Year (January 29th, 2026), in the final weeks of the Wood Snake year before the Fire Horse gallops in. This liminal time between shedding and forward motion is Hecate's domain—the threshold where transformation happens.
What we cover:
- Hecate's true mythology (before patriarchy made her "just the crone")
- Why crossroads are initiations, not destinations
- What it means to claim your keys and your sovereignty
- How to hold the torch for others while walking your own path
- The maiden-to-mother threshold and teaching from the in-between
Plus: A guided Hecate practice for standing at your inner crossroads.
If you're in liminal space right now—if you're neither one thing nor another, if you're shedding but not yet ready to run—this episode is for you.
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Welcome back to Priestess Initiations, the Goddess Coven.
I'm Casey. This is episode 8, and today
we're talking about Hecate, the Torchbearer, the key holder, the
goddess of the crossroads. This episode releases on
December 17th, and we're approaching A deeply liminal
space right now between Winter Solstice on December 21st and
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the Chinese New Year on January 29th, 2026.
I know already, right? And that's when the Year of the
Wood Snake gives way to the Yearof the Fire Horse.
The winter solstice is the longest night of the year, the
darkest moment, the turning point where the light begins its
slow return. For those of you who suffer from
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some seasonal effectiveness disorder, like myself, you're
probably cheering the sun's return.
But December 21st is the threshold between death and
rebirth. The pause before the inhale and
Yule, the ancient celebration ofthis solstice, honors that
darkness isn't something to rushthrough.
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It's something to inhabit, to witness, to let it work on us,
really. And we're still in the year of
the snake. The snake's final teaching is
the shed. The final shed, releasing what
no longer fits, letting go of old skins so new growth can
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emerge. The wood snake especially has
been about deep transformation, internal restructuring, shedding
layers that were once protectionbut have become constriction.
But we haven't crossed into the fire horse yet.
That happens January 29th, 2026.And fire horse energy is
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completely different. It's forward motion, passion,
independence, breaking free. It's the gallop after the shed.
So right now we're in the in between.
We're in the liminal space between the slow internal
transformation of the snake and the bold visible action of the
horse. Between the darkness of the
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solstice and the returning light, between who we were and
who we're becoming. This is Hecate's domain.
Hecate is the one who stands in the liminal spaces, the in
between places, the thresholds where transformation happens.
She doesn't rush you through. She holds the space while you
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decide which path to walk. If you're standing at a
crossroads right now, if you're between who you were and who
you're becoming, if you're in the uncomfortable in between, if
you're shutting your snakeskin but not yet ready to gallop as
the horse Hekate is with you. She lights the path, but she
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doesn't choose for you. That's your sovereignty.
Let's start with what they don'ttell you about Hekate.
They tell you she's the Crone, the old woman at the crossroads,
the third part of the maiden Mother Crone Trinity.
As if she's only 1/3 of something.
Only one phase, only the ending.But that's not who Hecate is.
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That's what patriarchy did to her, tried to contain her,
diminish her, make her fit into a neat little box before they
made her into just the Crone. Hecate was whole on to herself.
She was never diminished, never partial, never waiting to be
completed by the other phases. She held all phases
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simultaneously. Maiden, mother, Crone, all at
once. She is the totality, not the
fragment. And here's what's important.
Zeus himself honored this when the Titans fell and the
Olympians rose to power. When the cosmos was divided
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among the new gods, Zeus left Hecate's power untouched.
Alone among the Titans, she retained her ancient sovereignty
over earth, sea, and sky. She held the keys to all realms.
She walked freely through all worlds.
No door was closed to her. No threshold could bar her
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passage. Just think about what that means
for a second. Zeus, king of the gods,
patriarch of Olympus. He couldn't touch her.
He didn't even try. He recognized that Hecate's
power was older, deeper, more fundamental than his.
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She predates the patriarchal order, and even when that order
rose to dominance, it couldn't diminish her.
But the poets tried anyway. They made her into a helper, a
witness, a supporting character in someone else's story.
They tell you that Hecate's mostimportant role was hearing
Persephone scream when Hades abducted her, that she helped
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Demeter search for her daughter,and that she became Persephone's
companion in the underworld. They frame her as secondary, the
friend who helps the goddess wholights the way for others but
has no journey of her own. But here's what they couldn't
erase. Hecate heard Persephone scream
because she dwells in the liminal spaces where most gods
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fear to tread. And that's because she is a
Titan. Not a God, a Titan.
She inhabits the crossroads, those places of choice where one
path becomes 3, where the known world meets the unknown, where
transformation is not just possible, but inevitable.
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Of course, she heard. She's always listening at the
thresholds where one world touches another.
So when she took up torches to guide Anita through the
darkness, searching for persophany, it wasn't servitude.
It was sovereignty in action, the choice to light the path for
another, to use her intimate knowledge of darkness to serve
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the search. Hecatei understands what others
forgot. You can't truly guide unless you
yourself have walked in darkness.
The most powerful leadership is not commanding from above, but
accompanying through shadow, holding the torch so others can
see. Because you already know the
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way. And after Persephone's return,
Hecate became her eternal companion, walking with her
between the world's. Some call this attendance as if
Hecate is Persephone's servant. But look closer.
Persephone needed Hecate becausethe young goddess had been
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fractured, split between upper and lower worlds, maiden and
queen. She didn't know how to hold both
yet. She didn't yet know how to be
Spring Goddess and Death Queen simultaneously.
Hecate, who is never split, who holds all realms at once, taught
Persephone the secret that patriarchy fears most.
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You can inhabit multiple truths.You can hold apparent
contradictions. You can be tender and fierce,
innocent and knowing above and below.
Wholeness is not choosing one, but holding all.
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This is Hecate's deepest teaching.
She's the goddess of the AND capital ANDAND not the OR.
She doesn't make you choose between being made an OR, mother
or Crone. She teaches you to be all of it,
simultaneously integrated. They tried to make her
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frightening. They placed her at crossroads,
not as a figure of power, but asa spirit to be appeased, to be
left offerings so she wouldn't curse travellers.
They associated her with ghosts,with night terrors, with a
fearful dark. But Hecate is not frightening.
She is honest. She shows us what we fear to
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see. She illuminates what we've
hidden, even from ourselves. Her torches don't just light the
external path, they burn away our self deceptions.
This is why people fear her. Not because she's dangerous, but
because she insists on truth. She reveals that every
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crossroads we encounter outside is a mirror of the crossroads
within. Her dogs howl at night, not to
terrorize but to alert, to wake us up, to call us to
consciousness, to remind us thatguardianship requires vigilance.
Her serpents coil around her notas threats but as symbols of
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wisdom, transformation, sheddingwhat no longer serves.
Hecate stands at the crossroads with her keys and her torches,
and she says choose, but choose.Consciously choose, knowing that
all paths are yours if you claimthem.
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Choose understanding that magic is not about having one right
answer, but about recognizing that you hold the power to
create many answers. She holds the keys not because
she guards the door for others, but because she knows every
threshold is a choice, and choosing consciously is magic
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itself. So what is a crossroads, really?
It's not just a place where three roads meet.
It's a moment of choice, a threshold, a place where you
can't move forward without deciding which direction to go.
And here's what's uncomfortable about crossroads You have to
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choose. You can't walk all three paths
simultaneously, at least not in the physical world.
You have to commit to 1 knowing that choosing one path means not
choosing the others. But Hecate teaches something
deeper. Every crossroads is an
initiation. Every moment of choice is an
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opportunity to claim your sovereignty, to practice magic,
to consciously create your reality.
The crossroads is where the known meets the unknown.
It's where the safe path and therisky path and the completely
unexpected path all converge, and you're standing there trying
to figure out which one is right.
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But Hecate doesn't believe in right or wrong paths.
She believes in conscious choices.
She believes in standing at the crossroads long enough to feel
into each possibility, to ask your body which path calls to
you, to trust your inner knowinginstead of just your logical
mind. And sometimes when you do that
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long enough, a new path appears.And in between this is the
liminal space, the in between, the not yet decided.
And our culture cannot tolerate liminal space.
We want answers immediately. And I'm going to be real.
Technology did not help this part of it.
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We want to know which path is correct so we can hurry up and
walk it. But Hecate says, wait, stand
here. Let the crossroads do its work
on you. Let the uncertainty transform
you. Because the person who enters
the crossroads is not the same person who leaves it.
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Even the act of choosing changesyou.
And here's the other truth aboutcrossroads.
They're not one time events. You will stand at many
crossroads in your life and Hecate will be at all of them,
holding her torches, reminding you you have the keys you can
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choose. Some crossroads are huge, the
ones that change the entire trajectory of your life.
Leaving a relationship, changingcareers, moving across the
country, choosing to become a parent or choosing not to.
Leaving a religion, coming out, leaving an abusive situation.
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Some crossroads are smaller, butno less significant.
The daily choice is to honor your truth or betray it.
To say yes when you mean no. To say stay small when you're
called to grow, to hide when you're meant to be seen.
Hekatay sees all of them. She stands at every threshold,
every decision point, every moment where you have the
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opportunity to choose yourself or abandoned yourself.
And she holds the torch so you can see clearly, not so she can
tell you which path to take, butso you can see all the options
and make your choice consciously.
I want to talk a little bit moreabout where we are right now
cosmically and seasonally, because it's all Hecatite
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energy. The winter solstice happens this
Sunday, December 21st, 2025. It's the longest night of the
year, that moment when darkness is at its peak before the light
slowly returns. The sun appears to stand still
at the solstice. The word itself comes from soul,
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sun and sistiere. To stand still.
It's a pause, a held breath, a threshold.
Our ancestors understood this. They celebrated Yule, lighting
fires in the darkness, burning the Yule log through the longest
night, holding vigil not to chase the darkness away, but to
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honor it. To recognize that darkness is
not the enemy. Darkness is the womb.
Darkness is where transformationhappens.
You cannot birth anything new without descending into the dark
first. Seeds don't grow in the light.
They germinate in the earth, in the underground darkness before
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they push through into visibility.
Yul teaches us the darkest moment is the turning point.
The moment when you can't see the path forward is the moment
right before the light returns. But you have to stay in the
darkness long enough to let it teach you.
You have to trust the sun will return without rushing toward
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false light. Hecate is the torchbearer in
this darkness. She doesn't promise you the sun
will come back tomorrow. She holds the flame tonight.
She lights enough for you to seeone step ahead.
She reminds you that you don't need to see the whole path.
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You just need to see the next choice.
And right now, we're also still in the year of the Wood Snake.
The snake is about transformation that happens
slowly, internally, invisibly. It's about shedding skins,
releasing what no longer fits, letting go of identities that
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have become too small, releasingprotection that's become prison.
The Wood Snake specifically askswhat structures in your life
need to be released? What frameworks are you
outgrowing? What beliefs, relationships,
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ways of being Are you ready to shed?
But the shed isn't easy. It's vulnerable.
It's uncomfortable. The new skin underneath is soft,
tender, exposed. You can't rush it.
And we haven't crossed into the Fire Horse yet.
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That transition happens January 29th, 2026, Chinese New Year,
the official start of the Fire Horse year.
Fire Horse energy is movement, action, passion, independence.
It's forward, real momentum, breaking free, claiming your
wildness, refusing to be tamed. And if you've been listening to
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this podcast, you might hear a little bit of some other dark
goddesses we've talked about in that I'm thinking a Lilith what
the refusal to be tamed. But here's what's important.
We're not there yet. Right now we're in the space
between between snake and horse,between the shed and the gallop,
between the darkness and the solstice and the returning
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light, between who we were and who we're becoming.
This is the liminal space, and Hecate is the goddess of liminal
space. Liminal comes from the Latin
word lemon, which means threshold.
It's the space between one stateand another.
It's the doorway, not the room. It's the crossroads, not the
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destination. And our culture really hates
liminal space. We want to know what's next.
We want to plan, to prepare, to control.
Anxiety also wants that. It always wants to know what's
next, right? I feel that in myself, those
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protector parts, those parts of ourselves that we developed to
prepare, to plan, they don't like being in the liminal space.
We want to skip from snake directly to horse without
standing in the in between. But Hecate says the in between
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is where the magic happens. The threshold is where
transformation occurs. You cannot become the horse if
you don't honor the liminal space between snake and horse.
So if you're feeling unmoored right now, if you feel like
you're neither one thing nor another, if you're not who you
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were but not yet who you're becoming, if you're shedding but
not yet ready to gallop, that's not wrong.
That's exactly right. You're in the threshold.
You're in Hecate's domain and this threshold between snake and
horse, between solstice, darkness and returning light.
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This is a powerful time to work with Hecate, to ask her what am
I shutting? What keys am I claiming?
What path is calling me forward?Because here's what she knows.
The fire horse is coming. The light is returning.
The gallop is ahead, but first you have to stand at the
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crossroads. You have to honor the darkness.
You have to let the old skin fall away completely before you
can step into the new. Hekataya holds the torch through
it all. She doesn't rush you.
She just lights the way, one step at a time, reminding you
you have the keys you can choose.
And when you're ready, the path will reveal itself.
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Trust the liminal space. Trust the threshold.
Trust that standing at the crossroads is not stalling, it's
sacred work. The snake taught you to shed,
the horse will teach you to run,but Hecate teaches you to stand
in the space between holding your torch, claiming your keys,
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choosing consciously. That's the work right now.
That's the initiation. So I want to talk about keys a
little, because Hecate is alwaysdepicted with keys, usually big
old rusty iron keys, the kind that unlock ancient doors, that
open gates to other realms. But what are those keys actually
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represent? Sovereignty.
Access the power to open what's been closed to enter what's been
forbidden to unlock what's been hidden, The power to break the
matrix, which we're going to do a bonus episode on.
On the solstice. I have an announcement breaking
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my own matrix. And Hecate holds the keys to all
realms, Earth, sea, sky, underworld, upper world.
She can go anywhere. Nothing is barred to her.
She has total access, and her teaching is So do you.
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You hold the keys to your own life, your own choices, your own
sovereignty, but you have to claim them.
Most of us were never taught that we hold keys.
We were taught that someone elseholds the keys.
Our parents, our partners, our bosses, the church, the system,
the patriarchy, the school. We were taught to ask permission
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to wait for approval, to defer to authority.
But Hecate says the keys are yours.
They always have been. You just forgot.
Claiming your keys means recognizing that you have access
to all parts of yourself. Not just the acceptable parts,
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not just the parts that make others comfortable, but all of
it. That's shadow work.
That's Jungian shadow work. You have access to the maiden,
the mother, the Crone, the light, the shadow, the in
between, the innocent, the wild,the wise.
Claiming your keys means you canopen the door to your rage, to
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your sexuality, to your power, to your magic, to deepest love,
even when you've been taught those doors should stay locked.
Claiming your keys means you canchoose to close doors too.
You can lock out what no longer serves you.
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You can say this relationship doesn't get to access me
anymore. This job doesn't get my energy
anymore. This belief system doesn't get
to define me anymore. Keys work both ways.
They open and they lock, and youget to decide which doors open
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and which doors close. This is sovereignty, not power
over others. Power over others is oppression.
Sovereignty is power over your own life, your own choices, your
own access to yourself. And here's what Hecate knows.
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Once you claim your keys, you can never unknown that you have
them. Once you realize you can open
any door, close any door, walk any path, you can't go back to
pretending you're powerless. That's why they tried to make
Hecate frightening. Because a woman with keys, a
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woman who knows she can access all realms, all parts of
herself, all possibilities, thatwoman is dangerous to systems
that they rely on, keeping her locked out of her own power.
And there's one more layer to Hecate that's essential.
She doesn't just walk the dark paths for herself, she lights
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away for others. This is her role with
Persephone, with Demeter, with anyone who's lost in the
darkness. She takes up her torch and says,
I know this path. I walked it.
Let me light the way. But here's the important
distinction. Hakate doesn't carry you.
She doesn't attend to you. She doesn't do the journey for
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you. She holds the torch so you can
see a step ahead, but you still have to walk, not seeing the
full path. This is what it means to be a
guide. Not a savior, not a rescuer, but
someone who's been through the darkness and can say I survived
this. You can too.
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Here's the light. Now walk.
And this is the work of anyone who's been initiated, anyone
who's walked through shadow, anyone who stood at the
crossroads and chosen the hard path.
You become a torch bearer for others.
Not because you're better than them, not because you figured it
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all out. That's rapture.
That's Rapture theory, and I am disengaging from that part of
what's happening in the spiritual community right now.
We are not better than anyone else because of the work we've
done. In fact, the work you've done,
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in a way, is an obligation to light the path for others
because you've walked it. You know the terrain, and you
can hold space for someone else's descent because you've
descended yourself. This is what I'm doing with this
podcast. With this work.
I'm holding the torch for the initiation.
I've walked the trauma, the descents, the crossroads, the
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transformations. Not because I'm on the other
side of the maze, right, but because I'm in it and I know the
path well enough to light it forothers.
That's Hecate energy, that's thetorch bearer, that's the guide
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who walks beside you in the darkness instead of waiting for
you in the light. So as I do every episode with
these goddesses, I'm going to tell you a little bit about my
relationship with Hecate becauseshe's been with me at every
major crossroads of my life. And right now she's holding me
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in a really big threshold too. Some of you know what that
entails. I've talked about it a little
made into Mother, this podcast, S Node to North Node Destiny,
and next bonus episode, I'm going to talk about it even
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more. But the first big crossroads I
remember, the one that changed everything, came when I left my
first college. My system and my body were
crashing. All the trauma I've been
carrying, all the pressure, all the trying to be who I thought I
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was supposed to be, it collapsed.
I went to Costa Rica for three months, and then, as if by
magic, honestly, I found myself in Boulder, Co.
And that's where the crossroads really opened up.
I was supposed to be here temporarily working on my mental
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and physical health, getting a graphic design certificate.
At the time, I was finishing my last year of college as an art
and environmental studies doublemajor back on the East Coast.
But environmental studies was sodepressing.
I loved geology, crystals. Obviously I'm a witch, but
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studying environmental degradation, climate change, the
destruction of the Earth, it wastoo much for my sensitive,
already maxed out nervous system.
And the art department wanted meto choose Elaine, pick a style,
pick a medium, be marketable. But I didn't want to choose.
I wanted to experiment. I'm a three five in human
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design. The experimenter.
My design is to try things to learn through trial and error,
to discover what works by doing it, not by planning it perfectly
ahead of time. So in Boulder, I worked with a
graphic designer. I published a small batch of my
first poetry books, only 50 of them, and I did a watercolor
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painting for each poem. Every single one was different.
I loved what I made from my soul, but I didn't fancy
designing logos for corporations.
That was the experiment, and it taught me that my creative
process can't be constrained or it becomes unaligned.
I technically never received thegraphic design certificate, but
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I made a choice at that crossroads.
I decided to stay in Colorado. I transferred schools.
I changed majors. I ended up getting my BA in
Psychology. I rediscovered my spirituality,
hired a transpersonal therapist,and journeyed through healing
modalities like cranial sacral, five element acupuncture, and
functional medicine. Things that actually helped me
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heal my body and mind. That was a decade ago, just
about. And that crossroads, that moment
of choosing to stay, to let go of the plan, to trust the
unknown, that's when Hecate really entered my life.
I've been interested in the occult since I was a preteen,
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right? Horror movies, Evanescence, all
that angsty gothic energy. But in Boulder, I got my first
tarot deck. I started really embracing my
witchy side, and I've been on a journey with the Witch Wound and
heck with Hecate ever since. And that's another piece of
Hecate I didn't mention. She is Queen of witches, and
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part of that is this maiden Mother Crone energy.
But really, what it means to be a witch is to be sovereign, to
choose your own sovereignty. And Hecate teaches that.
So for many years, I acknowledged myself as a witch
in private. I worked with tarot, I studied
astrology, I practiced magic. But I didn't tell anyone.
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I didn't claim it publicly because the witch wound is real.
The fear of being seen, of beingcalled crazy, of being rejected
for your magic, that fear runs deep.
And then, about 2 1/2 years ago,I crossed another threshold.
I started calling myself a witchpublicly.
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I claimed it in my professional life.
I claimed it with people I work with.
I let myself be seen as the witch I'd been in private for so
long. That was Hecate too.
That was me claiming my keys, opening the door to my public
magic, choosing to be seen. And we're going to dive deeper
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into the witch wound Later this season.
I'm planning to have a friend onthe podcast who also claims
herself as a witch publicly now,though more recently than I did.
And we'll explore what it means to cross that threshold from
privately practicing to publiclyclaiming.
But right now, I'm standing at another big crossroads, the
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Maiden to Mother threshold. This is Hecate's domain.
This is the liminal space between who you were and who
you're becoming. I'm not the Maiden anymore.
I've been through too many initiations, too many deaths,
too many descends. But I'm not fully the mother
yet, either. I'm learning, I'm integrating.
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I'm figuring out what it means to hold all the phases at once,
to be soft and fierce, to teach and to learn, to lead and to
follow. And Hecate is teaching me to
stay in the threshold, to not rush through it, to let the
crossroads do its work on me, because that's her teaching.
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Transformation happens in the inbetween, not in the arrival, but
in the liminal space. Not in the answer but in the
question. Not in the chosen path, but in
the standing at the crossroads, feeling into all the
possibilities, trusting that you'll know which way to walk
when it's time. Hakate's been my torchbearer
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through every descent, every crossroads, every threshold,
even before I recognized it. And she's holding the light for
me right now in this Maiden to Mother passage, reminding me you
have the keys, you can open any door, you don't have to rush.
The threshold is where the magichappens, and that's what I want
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you to know. If you're standing at a
crossroads right now, if you're in the in between, if you feel
like you're neither one thing nor another, Hecate is with you.
She's holding the torch. She's reminding you that you
have the keys. She's teaching you that liminal
space is sacred, not something to escape.
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Trust the crossroads. Trust the threshold.
Trust that you'll know which path to walk when it's time and
Hecate is walking with you. So let's close with a Hecate
Practice standing at your inner crossroads.
So just take a moment to close your eyes.
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If you're not driving, take a breath.
Now imagine yourself standing ata crossroads.
Three or more paths stretch out in front of you.
You're holding a torch in one hand and a key in the other.
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The crossroads represents a choice you're facing right now.
Maybe a big one, maybe a small one.
Just let it come to mind. Go with your instinct.
Now look down the first path. What do you see?
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Where does it lead? You might not know when, that's
OK, but how does your body feel when you imagine walking that
path? Now look down the second path.
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What's there? What does this path offer?
How does your body respond? And then look down that third
path. What's calling from that
direction? What does your body tell you
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about this path? You don't have to choose right
now. That's not Hecate's way.
She doesn't rush you, she just asks you to start seeing
clearly, to feel into each possibility, to trust your inner
knowing. And now take a moment and
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imagine a key in your hand. Look at the key and ask
yourself, what door is this key meant to open?
What access are you claiming? What sovereignty are you
stepping into? Feel Hecate standing with you.
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She's not pushing you down any path, she's just holding the
light reminding you you have thekeys you can choose.
And whatever you choose, I'll walk with you to take another
breath. And when you're ready, open your
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Welcome back to Priestess Initiations, the Goddess Coven.
I'm Casey. This is episode 8, and today
we're talking about Hecate, the Torchbearer, the key holder, the
goddess of the crossroads. This episode releases on
December 17th, and we're approaching A deeply liminal
space right now between Winter Solstice on December 21st and
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the Chinese New Year on January 29th, 2026.
I know already, right? And that's when the Year of the
Wood Snake gives way to the Yearof the Fire Horse.
The winter solstice is the longest night of the year, the
darkest moment, the turning point where the light begins its
slow return. For those of you who suffer from
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some seasonal effectiveness disorder, like myself, you're
probably cheering the sun's return.
But December 21st is the threshold between death and
rebirth. The pause before the inhale and
Yule, the ancient celebration ofthis solstice, honors that
darkness isn't something to rushthrough.
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It's something to inhabit, to witness, to let it work on us,
really. And we're still in the year of
the snake. The snake's final teaching is
the shed. The final shed, releasing what
no longer fits, letting go of old skins so new growth can
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emerge. The wood snake especially has
been about deep transformation, internal restructuring, shedding
layers that were once protectionbut have become constriction.
But we haven't crossed into the fire horse yet.
That happens January 29th, 2026.And fire horse energy is
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completely different. It's forward motion, passion,
independence, breaking free. It's the gallop after the shed.
So right now we're in the in between.
We're in the liminal space between the slow internal
transformation of the snake and the bold visible action of the
horse. Between the darkness of the
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solstice and the returning light, between who we were and
who we're becoming. This is Hecate's domain.
Hecate is the one who stands in the liminal spaces, the in
between places, the thresholds where transformation happens.
She doesn't rush you through. She holds the space while you
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decide which path to walk. If you're standing at a
crossroads right now, if you're between who you were and who
you're becoming, if you're in the uncomfortable in between, if
you're shutting your snakeskin but not yet ready to gallop as
the horse Hekate is with you. She lights the path, but she
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doesn't choose for you. That's your sovereignty.
Let's start with what they don'ttell you about Hekate.
They tell you she's the Crone, the old woman at the crossroads,
the third part of the maiden Mother Crone Trinity.
As if she's only 1/3 of something.
Only one phase, only the ending.But that's not who Hecate is.
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That's what patriarchy did to her, tried to contain her,
diminish her, make her fit into a neat little box before they
made her into just the Crone. Hecate was whole on to herself.
She was never diminished, never partial, never waiting to be
completed by the other phases. She held all phases
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simultaneously. Maiden, mother, Crone, all at
once. She is the totality, not the
fragment. And here's what's important.
Zeus himself honored this when the Titans fell and the
Olympians rose to power. When the cosmos was divided
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among the new gods, Zeus left Hecate's power untouched.
Alone among the Titans, she retained her ancient sovereignty
over earth, sea, and sky. She held the keys to all realms.
She walked freely through all worlds.
No door was closed to her. No threshold could bar her
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passage. Just think about what that means
for a second. Zeus, king of the gods,
patriarch of Olympus. He couldn't touch her.
He didn't even try. He recognized that Hecate's
power was older, deeper, more fundamental than his.
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She predates the patriarchal order, and even when that order
rose to dominance, it couldn't diminish her.
But the poets tried anyway. They made her into a helper, a
witness, a supporting character in someone else's story.
They tell you that Hecate's mostimportant role was hearing
Persephone scream when Hades abducted her, that she helped
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Demeter search for her daughter,and that she became Persephone's
companion in the underworld. They frame her as secondary, the
friend who helps the goddess wholights the way for others but
has no journey of her own. But here's what they couldn't
erase. Hecate heard Persephone scream
because she dwells in the liminal spaces where most gods
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fear to tread. And that's because she is a
Titan. Not a God, a Titan.
She inhabits the crossroads, those places of choice where one
path becomes 3, where the known world meets the unknown, where
transformation is not just possible, but inevitable.
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Of course, she heard. She's always listening at the
thresholds where one world touches another.
So when she took up torches to guide Anita through the
darkness, searching for persophany, it wasn't servitude.
It was sovereignty in action, the choice to light the path for
another, to use her intimate knowledge of darkness to serve
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the search. Hecatei understands what others
forgot. You can't truly guide unless you
yourself have walked in darkness.
The most powerful leadership is not commanding from above, but
accompanying through shadow, holding the torch so others can
see. Because you already know the
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way. And after Persephone's return,
Hecate became her eternal companion, walking with her
between the world's. Some call this attendance as if
Hecate is Persephone's servant. But look closer.
Persephone needed Hecate becausethe young goddess had been
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fractured, split between upper and lower worlds, maiden and
queen. She didn't know how to hold both
yet. She didn't yet know how to be
Spring Goddess and Death Queen simultaneously.
Hecate, who is never split, who holds all realms at once, taught
Persephone the secret that patriarchy fears most.
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You can inhabit multiple truths.You can hold apparent
contradictions. You can be tender and fierce,
innocent and knowing above and below.
Wholeness is not choosing one, but holding all.
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This is Hecate's deepest teaching.
She's the goddess of the AND capital ANDAND not the OR.
She doesn't make you choose between being made an OR, mother
or Crone. She teaches you to be all of it,
simultaneously integrated. They tried to make her
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frightening. They placed her at crossroads,
not as a figure of power, but asa spirit to be appeased, to be
left offerings so she wouldn't curse travellers.
They associated her with ghosts,with night terrors, with a
fearful dark. But Hecate is not frightening.
She is honest. She shows us what we fear to
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see. She illuminates what we've
hidden, even from ourselves. Her torches don't just light the
external path, they burn away our self deceptions.
This is why people fear her. Not because she's dangerous, but
because she insists on truth. She reveals that every
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crossroads we encounter outside is a mirror of the crossroads
within. Her dogs howl at night, not to
terrorize but to alert, to wake us up, to call us to
consciousness, to remind us thatguardianship requires vigilance.
Her serpents coil around her notas threats but as symbols of
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wisdom, transformation, sheddingwhat no longer serves.
Hecate stands at the crossroads with her keys and her torches,
and she says choose, but choose.Consciously choose, knowing that
all paths are yours if you claimthem.
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Choose understanding that magic is not about having one right
answer, but about recognizing that you hold the power to
create many answers. She holds the keys not because
she guards the door for others, but because she knows every
threshold is a choice, and choosing consciously is magic
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itself. So what is a crossroads, really?
It's not just a place where three roads meet.
It's a moment of choice, a threshold, a place where you
can't move forward without deciding which direction to go.
And here's what's uncomfortable about crossroads You have to
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choose. You can't walk all three paths
simultaneously, at least not in the physical world.
You have to commit to 1 knowing that choosing one path means not
choosing the others. But Hecate teaches something
deeper. Every crossroads is an
initiation. Every moment of choice is an
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opportunity to claim your sovereignty, to practice magic,
to consciously create your reality.
The crossroads is where the known meets the unknown.
It's where the safe path and therisky path and the completely
unexpected path all converge, and you're standing there trying
to figure out which one is right.
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But Hecate doesn't believe in right or wrong paths.
She believes in conscious choices.
She believes in standing at the crossroads long enough to feel
into each possibility, to ask your body which path calls to
you, to trust your inner knowinginstead of just your logical
mind. And sometimes when you do that
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long enough, a new path appears.And in between this is the
liminal space, the in between, the not yet decided.
And our culture cannot tolerate liminal space.
We want answers immediately. And I'm going to be real.
Technology did not help this part of it.
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We want to know which path is correct so we can hurry up and
walk it. But Hecate says, wait, stand
here. Let the crossroads do its work
on you. Let the uncertainty transform
you. Because the person who enters
the crossroads is not the same person who leaves it.
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Even the act of choosing changesyou.
And here's the other truth aboutcrossroads.
They're not one time events. You will stand at many
crossroads in your life and Hecate will be at all of them,
holding her torches, reminding you you have the keys you can
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choose. Some crossroads are huge, the
ones that change the entire trajectory of your life.
Leaving a relationship, changingcareers, moving across the
country, choosing to become a parent or choosing not to.
Leaving a religion, coming out, leaving an abusive situation.
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Some crossroads are smaller, butno less significant.
The daily choice is to honor your truth or betray it.
To say yes when you mean no. To say stay small when you're
called to grow, to hide when you're meant to be seen.
Hekatay sees all of them. She stands at every threshold,
every decision point, every moment where you have the
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opportunity to choose yourself or abandoned yourself.
And she holds the torch so you can see clearly, not so she can
tell you which path to take, butso you can see all the options
and make your choice consciously.
I want to talk a little bit moreabout where we are right now
cosmically and seasonally, because it's all Hecatite
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energy. The winter solstice happens this
Sunday, December 21st, 2025. It's the longest night of the
year, that moment when darkness is at its peak before the light
slowly returns. The sun appears to stand still
at the solstice. The word itself comes from soul,
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sun and sistiere. To stand still.
It's a pause, a held breath, a threshold.
Our ancestors understood this. They celebrated Yule, lighting
fires in the darkness, burning the Yule log through the longest
night, holding vigil not to chase the darkness away, but to
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honor it. To recognize that darkness is
not the enemy. Darkness is the womb.
Darkness is where transformationhappens.
You cannot birth anything new without descending into the dark
first. Seeds don't grow in the light.
They germinate in the earth, in the underground darkness before
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they push through into visibility.
Yul teaches us the darkest moment is the turning point.
The moment when you can't see the path forward is the moment
right before the light returns. But you have to stay in the
darkness long enough to let it teach you.
You have to trust the sun will return without rushing toward
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false light. Hecate is the torchbearer in
this darkness. She doesn't promise you the sun
will come back tomorrow. She holds the flame tonight.
She lights enough for you to seeone step ahead.
She reminds you that you don't need to see the whole path.
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You just need to see the next choice.
And right now, we're also still in the year of the Wood Snake.
The snake is about transformation that happens
slowly, internally, invisibly. It's about shedding skins,
releasing what no longer fits, letting go of identities that
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have become too small, releasingprotection that's become prison.
The Wood Snake specifically askswhat structures in your life
need to be released? What frameworks are you
outgrowing? What beliefs, relationships,
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ways of being Are you ready to shed?
But the shed isn't easy. It's vulnerable.
It's uncomfortable. The new skin underneath is soft,
tender, exposed. You can't rush it.
And we haven't crossed into the Fire Horse yet.
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That transition happens January 29th, 2026, Chinese New Year,
the official start of the Fire Horse year.
Fire Horse energy is movement, action, passion, independence.
It's forward, real momentum, breaking free, claiming your
wildness, refusing to be tamed. And if you've been listening to
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this podcast, you might hear a little bit of some other dark
goddesses we've talked about in that I'm thinking a Lilith what
the refusal to be tamed. But here's what's important.
We're not there yet. Right now we're in the space
between between snake and horse,between the shed and the gallop,
between the darkness and the solstice and the returning
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light, between who we were and who we're becoming.
This is the liminal space, and Hecate is the goddess of liminal
space. Liminal comes from the Latin
word lemon, which means threshold.
It's the space between one stateand another.
It's the doorway, not the room. It's the crossroads, not the
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destination. And our culture really hates
liminal space. We want to know what's next.
We want to plan, to prepare, to control.
Anxiety also wants that. It always wants to know what's
next, right? I feel that in myself, those
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protector parts, those parts of ourselves that we developed to
prepare, to plan, they don't like being in the liminal space.
We want to skip from snake directly to horse without
standing in the in between. But Hecate says the in between
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is where the magic happens. The threshold is where
transformation occurs. You cannot become the horse if
you don't honor the liminal space between snake and horse.
So if you're feeling unmoored right now, if you feel like
you're neither one thing nor another, if you're not who you
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were but not yet who you're becoming, if you're shedding but
not yet ready to gallop, that's not wrong.
That's exactly right. You're in the threshold.
You're in Hecate's domain and this threshold between snake and
horse, between solstice, darkness and returning light.
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This is a powerful time to work with Hecate, to ask her what am
I shutting? What keys am I claiming?
What path is calling me forward?Because here's what she knows.
The fire horse is coming. The light is returning.
The gallop is ahead, but first you have to stand at the
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crossroads. You have to honor the darkness.
You have to let the old skin fall away completely before you
can step into the new. Hekataya holds the torch through
it all. She doesn't rush you.
She just lights the way, one step at a time, reminding you
you have the keys you can choose.
And when you're ready, the path will reveal itself.
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Trust the liminal space. Trust the threshold.
Trust that standing at the crossroads is not stalling, it's
sacred work. The snake taught you to shed,
the horse will teach you to run,but Hecate teaches you to stand
in the space between holding your torch, claiming your keys,
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choosing consciously. That's the work right now.
That's the initiation. So I want to talk about keys a
little, because Hecate is alwaysdepicted with keys, usually big
old rusty iron keys, the kind that unlock ancient doors, that
open gates to other realms. But what are those keys actually
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represent? Sovereignty.
Access the power to open what's been closed to enter what's been
forbidden to unlock what's been hidden, The power to break the
matrix, which we're going to do a bonus episode on.
On the solstice. I have an announcement breaking
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my own matrix. And Hecate holds the keys to all
realms, Earth, sea, sky, underworld, upper world.
She can go anywhere. Nothing is barred to her.
She has total access, and her teaching is So do you.
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You hold the keys to your own life, your own choices, your own
sovereignty, but you have to claim them.
Most of us were never taught that we hold keys.
We were taught that someone elseholds the keys.
Our parents, our partners, our bosses, the church, the system,
the patriarchy, the school. We were taught to ask permission
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to wait for approval, to defer to authority.
But Hecate says the keys are yours.
They always have been. You just forgot.
Claiming your keys means recognizing that you have access
to all parts of yourself. Not just the acceptable parts,
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not just the parts that make others comfortable, but all of
it. That's shadow work.
That's Jungian shadow work. You have access to the maiden,
the mother, the Crone, the light, the shadow, the in
between, the innocent, the wild,the wise.
Claiming your keys means you canopen the door to your rage, to
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your sexuality, to your power, to your magic, to deepest love,
even when you've been taught those doors should stay locked.
Claiming your keys means you canchoose to close doors too.
You can lock out what no longer serves you.
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You can say this relationship doesn't get to access me
anymore. This job doesn't get my energy
anymore. This belief system doesn't get
to define me anymore. Keys work both ways.
They open and they lock, and youget to decide which doors open
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and which doors close. This is sovereignty, not power
over others. Power over others is oppression.
Sovereignty is power over your own life, your own choices, your
own access to yourself. And here's what Hecate knows.
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Once you claim your keys, you can never unknown that you have
them. Once you realize you can open
any door, close any door, walk any path, you can't go back to
pretending you're powerless. That's why they tried to make
Hecate frightening. Because a woman with keys, a
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woman who knows she can access all realms, all parts of
herself, all possibilities, thatwoman is dangerous to systems
that they rely on, keeping her locked out of her own power.
And there's one more layer to Hecate that's essential.
She doesn't just walk the dark paths for herself, she lights
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away for others. This is her role with
Persephone, with Demeter, with anyone who's lost in the
darkness. She takes up her torch and says,
I know this path. I walked it.
Let me light the way. But here's the important
distinction. Hakate doesn't carry you.
She doesn't attend to you. She doesn't do the journey for
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you. She holds the torch so you can
see a step ahead, but you still have to walk, not seeing the
full path. This is what it means to be a
guide. Not a savior, not a rescuer, but
someone who's been through the darkness and can say I survived
this. You can too.
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Here's the light. Now walk.
And this is the work of anyone who's been initiated, anyone
who's walked through shadow, anyone who stood at the
crossroads and chosen the hard path.
You become a torch bearer for others.
Not because you're better than them, not because you figured it
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all out. That's rapture.
That's Rapture theory, and I am disengaging from that part of
what's happening in the spiritual community right now.
We are not better than anyone else because of the work we've
done. In fact, the work you've done,
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in a way, is an obligation to light the path for others
because you've walked it. You know the terrain, and you
can hold space for someone else's descent because you've
descended yourself. This is what I'm doing with this
podcast. With this work.
I'm holding the torch for the initiation.
I've walked the trauma, the descents, the crossroads, the
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transformations. Not because I'm on the other
side of the maze, right, but because I'm in it and I know the
path well enough to light it forothers.
That's Hecate energy, that's thetorch bearer, that's the guide
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who walks beside you in the darkness instead of waiting for
you in the light. So as I do every episode with
these goddesses, I'm going to tell you a little bit about my
relationship with Hecate becauseshe's been with me at every
major crossroads of my life. And right now she's holding me
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in a really big threshold too. Some of you know what that
entails. I've talked about it a little
made into Mother, this podcast, S Node to North Node Destiny,
and next bonus episode, I'm going to talk about it even
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more. But the first big crossroads I
remember, the one that changed everything, came when I left my
first college. My system and my body were
crashing. All the trauma I've been
carrying, all the pressure, all the trying to be who I thought I
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was supposed to be, it collapsed.
I went to Costa Rica for three months, and then, as if by
magic, honestly, I found myself in Boulder, Co.
And that's where the crossroads really opened up.
I was supposed to be here temporarily working on my mental
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and physical health, getting a graphic design certificate.
At the time, I was finishing my last year of college as an art
and environmental studies doublemajor back on the East Coast.
But environmental studies was sodepressing.
I loved geology, crystals. Obviously I'm a witch, but
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studying environmental degradation, climate change, the
destruction of the Earth, it wastoo much for my sensitive,
already maxed out nervous system.
And the art department wanted meto choose Elaine, pick a style,
pick a medium, be marketable. But I didn't want to choose.
I wanted to experiment. I'm a three five in human
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design. The experimenter.
My design is to try things to learn through trial and error,
to discover what works by doing it, not by planning it perfectly
ahead of time. So in Boulder, I worked with a
graphic designer. I published a small batch of my
first poetry books, only 50 of them, and I did a watercolor
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painting for each poem. Every single one was different.
I loved what I made from my soul, but I didn't fancy
designing logos for corporations.
That was the experiment, and it taught me that my creative
process can't be constrained or it becomes unaligned.
I technically never received thegraphic design certificate, but
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I made a choice at that crossroads.
I decided to stay in Colorado. I transferred schools.
I changed majors. I ended up getting my BA in
Psychology. I rediscovered my spirituality,
hired a transpersonal therapist,and journeyed through healing
modalities like cranial sacral, five element acupuncture, and
functional medicine. Things that actually helped me
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heal my body and mind. That was a decade ago, just
about. And that crossroads, that moment
of choosing to stay, to let go of the plan, to trust the
unknown, that's when Hecate really entered my life.
I've been interested in the occult since I was a preteen,
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right? Horror movies, Evanescence, all
that angsty gothic energy. But in Boulder, I got my first
tarot deck. I started really embracing my
witchy side, and I've been on a journey with the Witch Wound and
heck with Hecate ever since. And that's another piece of
Hecate I didn't mention. She is Queen of witches, and
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part of that is this maiden Mother Crone energy.
But really, what it means to be a witch is to be sovereign, to
choose your own sovereignty. And Hecate teaches that.
So for many years, I acknowledged myself as a witch
in private. I worked with tarot, I studied
astrology, I practiced magic. But I didn't tell anyone.
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I didn't claim it publicly because the witch wound is real.
The fear of being seen, of beingcalled crazy, of being rejected
for your magic, that fear runs deep.
And then, about 2 1/2 years ago,I crossed another threshold.
I started calling myself a witchpublicly.
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I claimed it in my professional life.
I claimed it with people I work with.
I let myself be seen as the witch I'd been in private for so
long. That was Hecate too.
That was me claiming my keys, opening the door to my public
magic, choosing to be seen. And we're going to dive deeper
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into the witch wound Later this season.
I'm planning to have a friend onthe podcast who also claims
herself as a witch publicly now,though more recently than I did.
And we'll explore what it means to cross that threshold from
privately practicing to publiclyclaiming.
But right now, I'm standing at another big crossroads, the
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Maiden to Mother threshold. This is Hecate's domain.
This is the liminal space between who you were and who
you're becoming. I'm not the Maiden anymore.
I've been through too many initiations, too many deaths,
too many descends. But I'm not fully the mother
yet, either. I'm learning, I'm integrating.
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I'm figuring out what it means to hold all the phases at once,
to be soft and fierce, to teach and to learn, to lead and to
follow. And Hecate is teaching me to
stay in the threshold, to not rush through it, to let the
crossroads do its work on me, because that's her teaching.
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Transformation happens in the inbetween, not in the arrival, but
in the liminal space. Not in the answer but in the
question. Not in the chosen path, but in
the standing at the crossroads, feeling into all the
possibilities, trusting that you'll know which way to walk
when it's time. Hakate's been my torchbearer
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through every descent, every crossroads, every threshold,
even before I recognized it. And she's holding the light for
me right now in this Maiden to Mother passage, reminding me you
have the keys, you can open any door, you don't have to rush.
The threshold is where the magichappens, and that's what I want
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you to know. If you're standing at a
crossroads right now, if you're in the in between, if you feel
like you're neither one thing nor another, Hecate is with you.
She's holding the torch. She's reminding you that you
have the keys. She's teaching you that liminal
space is sacred, not something to escape.
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Trust the crossroads. Trust the threshold.
Trust that you'll know which path to walk when it's time and
Hecate is walking with you. So let's close with a Hecate
Practice standing at your inner crossroads.
So just take a moment to close your eyes.
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If you're not driving, take a breath.
Now imagine yourself standing ata crossroads.
Three or more paths stretch out in front of you.
You're holding a torch in one hand and a key in the other.
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The crossroads represents a choice you're facing right now.
Maybe a big one, maybe a small one.
Just let it come to mind. Go with your instinct.
Now look down the first path. What do you see?
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Where does it lead? You might not know when, that's
OK, but how does your body feel when you imagine walking that
path? Now look down the second path.
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What's there? What does this path offer?
How does your body respond? And then look down that third
path. What's calling from that
direction? What does your body tell you
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about this path? You don't have to choose right
now. That's not Hecate's way.
She doesn't rush you, she just asks you to start seeing
clearly, to feel into each possibility, to trust your inner
knowing. And now take a moment and
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imagine a key in your hand. Look at the key and ask
yourself, what door is this key meant to open?
What access are you claiming? What sovereignty are you
stepping into? Feel Hecate standing with you.
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She's not pushing you down any path, she's just holding the
light reminding you you have thekeys you can choose.
And whatever you choose, I'll walk with you to take another
breath. And when you're ready, open your
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eyes. Everything we explore here lives
in practice. The website link is somewhere in
this episode bio for our free community where you'll find our
Ritual Grimoire Embodiment library and online workshops
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diving deeper into the work. If this work is serving you and
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support helps me keep creating this content and building the
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