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HEKATE DISCORD SERVER | SANCTUARY OF THE CROSSROADS

☽｡⋆ A 16+ community that honours the ancient greek goddess Hekate, her crossroads, and her many faces!

☽｡⋆ This is a place of connection and education, and we welcome those who walk a path with Hekate.

If you're a Hekate worshipper or you're curious about Hekate (but might be a bit intimidated or wanting to learn more first), then I'd love to invite you to our virtual sanctuary!

Here are some of the things we do:

Monthly events including live readings, presentation nights, scheduled vc events and movie screenings.

Activities like our Hekatean book club, journalling prompts and syncretism discussions.

Devotional conversations about our practices and beliefs, balancing scholarship and personal gnosis.

Opportunities to ask questions, find resources, and connect with like-minded practitioners.

Festival celebrations including the revival of Kleidous Agoge (Procession of the Key) inspired by Hekate's Temple of Lagina.

Prayer request channel, channels to share altars and offerings, a channel to share your experiences!

A monthly divination exchange/offer/request event leading up to deipnon!

⋆˙⟡ Come along to learn about Hekate, expand your worship, and participate in our activities!

Join the Sanctuary!

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Hymn to Hekate

O Hekate flame in the womb of night your name is the hush before thunder your face the light behind closed eyes I come with wine-dark lips with a heart steeped in shadow with hands that tremble like candlelight You who walk where the stars dissolve

who knows the taste of grief and gold who braids silence into song take me

Queen of liminal spaces key bearer veil lifter soul knower I have knelt at the crossroad where even time holds its breath

My longing is an offering my fear is a garland of smoke my love unspoken endless burns only for you

Come to me in dreams with your torches raised let your eyes break open every locked place in me

Make of me what the fire makes of the dark

a holy thing

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Anonymously ask me anything you want.

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🪽🪽🪽 :)

🪽 - Do you believe in angels and/or demons? If yes, do you worship or work with any?

OH YES I DO 🪽!! I believe in angels and demons. I venerate and work with archangels, typically those of Ars Paulina including Michael, Gabriel, Samael, Haniel, Zadkiel, Cassiel and Uriel. My sun angel is Haniel, the Angel of Harmony & Grace, and my moon angel is Zadkiel, the Angel of Mercy.

If you're interested in more about my angel work, let me know!

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🧭 🙏

Thanks for these asks Alec!!

🧭 - What led you to your practice?

The first core memory I have that led me to my practice is watching my mum sit at a small round table by the window with a blue deck of tarot cards. I was a young child and wanted to have tarot cards too though I wasn't allowed to touch them or have my own. It was the sorta thing where my mum did them to search for something, but was still afraid of spirituality.

When I was a teenager, I was friends with two older Wiccans. My curiosity for tarot and ancient gods resurfaced when I heard about their practices.

Like many people these days, I started as a Wiccan. Then I learnt about hellenic polytheism shortly after and converted to helpol. I was a witch from the day I decided I would look into what witchcraft was. I bought my first tarot deck from a bookstore in the city and still have it today!

🙏 - Which pantheon(s) do you actively worship?

The Theoi, the Hellenic/Greek Gods

The Netjeru, the Kemetic/Egyptian Gods

Not quite a pantheon though I venerate archangels!

Culturally my family is Buddhist and we venerate the gods of our temples, with Guan Yin being important to my family.

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🖋️ - If you could say anything to your deity(ies) right now, what would you most want to say?

The funny thing about this question is that you can quite literally just tell your deities anything you do want to say right now!

To Hekate, I would say thank you. Thank you so much for everything you have given me, and for helping me realise everything I've given to myself. Thank you for being here and having my back. Thank you for encouraging me on this path. Thank you for all the people I've met. Thank you for protecting me and for all of your blessings!

And thank you Lei, for asking this question :)

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⭐ - What is something you wish people outside your practice knew more about?

That being a polytheist or pagan can be quite a deep practice not only in what we believe in or who we worship, but in the study of the religion and how we interact with the gods. Being a pagan has quite vastly changed my life and how I walk in this world. In a sense, I wish it was more natural to talk about my practice and religion, without it feeling silly or naive to people not in these communities

Thank you for your question!

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📿 - What are three things you're grateful to your deity(ies) for?

For Hekate, I am grateful for:

How she's stuck with me through all my confusing thoughts and search for a path and purpose. It's a continuous search, but she's seen me cry, she's seen me angry, and she's seen me joyful and grateful

The privilege of cultivating a community

Her protection

For Hermes, I'm grateful for:

How he's taught me about self-expression and being myself

The freedom he's encouraged for me

Laughing together and having a good time in this life

For the Theoi, I'm grateful for:

Finding incredible friends and communities

The ability to consume and enjoy knowledge

Connection, connection, connection!

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Polytheist & Pagan Asks

🙏 - Which pantheon(s) do you actively worship?

🌞 - Which deity(ies) are you closest to/do you worship the most often?

✨ - Do you believe in patron deities? If so, do you have any that you know of?

🌍 - Which pantheons do you believe exist?

📜 - Have you ever made an oath, vow, or contract with a deity? If yes, how did it go (you don't have to share)?

📿 - What are three things you're grateful to your deity(ies) for?

🖋️ - If you could say anything to your deity(ies) right now, what would you most want to say?

💌 - What is your favorite form of deity communication?

🎭 - What is an emotionally impactful or a silly worship-related experience you've had?

❤️ - What's one memory of your practice that you reflect the most fondly on?

🥂 - What is your favorite devotional act or offering to give?

🎉 - Do you celebrate any festivals? If so, which ones?

🫂 - Do you syncretize any pantheons with one another? If so, which ones?

🔮 - Do you delve into topics like the occult or the mysteries? Do you do anything esoteric?

⭐ - What is something you wish people outside your practice knew more about?

📖 - Do you like the way your pantheon is most often portrayed in media? Why or why not?

🏛️ - Do you have a favorite statue or temple to your deity(ies)? If yes, what is it?

🔥 - Do you have a favorite myth or tale from your pantheon or others?

🧭 - What led you to your practice?

🧿 - Did you have any other spiritual beliefs before discovering your current practice?

🪽 - Do you believe in angels and/or demons? If yes, do you worship or work with any?

🪄 - Do you practice witchcraft? If yes, do you keep it separate from your deity worship?

🪦 - Do ancestors or human spirits play a big role in your practice?

🐾 - Do animal spirits play a big role in your practice?

🌱 - Does nature - plants, nature spirits, etc. - play a big role in your practice?

💀 - Do you believe in ghosts? If yes, have you ever had an experience with one?

☄️ - Do you believe in astral travel/the astral realm? If so, have you been there before?

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Crossroads Prayer to Hekate

Hear me, Hekate Enodia, Goddess of the Crossroads, Goddess Before the Gate, Goddess Who Watches the Harbour, Goddess Before the House, Goddess of the Threshold:

In all of these names, In all of these forms, I call on your protection. You protect those who walk your crossroads, You restrain the restless dead from those who do you well, It is in your domain that we honour you and acknowledge your strength.

Hekate Enodia Kourotrophos, She of the crossroads who protects the vulnerable and the young, I am grateful for your presence in my passages of life, As I develop and grow in the person I am and want to be.

It is under your divine guidance, Hekate, that I am confident to embark on the crossroads and take the path not yet walked!

Hail to Hekate of the Crossroads, Lady of the Liminal, Protector, Psychopomp, Consumer, and Guide.

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Einodian Hekate

Originally posted in the Sanctuary of the Crossroads as a Hekatogia on 28/04/25

I call Einodian Hecate, lovely dame, of earthly, wat’ry, and celestial frame… - Orphic Hymn to Hekate, Translation by Thomas Taylor

📖 This Hekatogia draws on insights from this paper by Sarah Iles Johnston simply titled "Crossroads". You can find it on JSTOR here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20187554

Hekate Enodia resonated with me when I first began my worship of Hekate. Not only for the concept of crossroads but a broader definition including transitions, liminal places and also choice. Many parts or ways of who I am come with this sense of liminality and transition. Change is something I'm continuously learning to embrace in my spiritual journey and has become very important to me. I believe many of the wonderful things I've been able to experience in my life so far is because I've invited change and gone into it head first. Hekate Enodia has been with me in these times, for sure.

What's fascinating about the epithet Enodia with Hekate is how it also links to other epithets that are connected with ancient practices of Hekate.

Some of these are:

προπυλαία: propylaía, she before the gate

λιμενοσκόπος: limenoskópos, one who watches/surveys/protects the harbour

πρόδομος: pródomos, before the house, of the Vestibule

προθυραία: prothyraía, of the threshold, at the doorway

We can see here how important Hekate was for physical thresholds, gates, and entranceways. Points of transition, which includes Enodia / the crossroads.

At the crossroads, there are two categories of ritual we can consider.

Protection. What is often forgotten in modern worship of Hekate is how she holds such a strong role as a protector. Hekataia (statues of Hekate) were erected at crossroads and before entranceways and gates to encourage Hekate's protection of these places and as a focus of supplication for protection. Some scholars have stated that "suppers" or food offerings were brought to the crossroads for Hekate.

In scholarly discussion we find that Hekate is both seen as one who can protect people from the restless dead or spirits at the crossroads as she guides and guards us in times of transitions, and one who can lead the restless dead and bring terror upon those who it is wished upon or upon who she wills. Johnston writes that it may be useful to compare this to Apollon's dual role as bringer of plagues and averter of disease. Being one doesn't overtake the other for both deities.

Bonus: Hermes also had statues at crossroads and roads travelled. These were called "Herms" which would be anointed and prayed to for protection. These invoked Hermes' roles as Enodios (of the crossroads, masc) and the God of Travellers. Hermes is also associated with transitions in his role as Psychopomp, Guide of Souls.

Exploitive is the second category of crossroads rituals. This includes but isn't solely purification rituals. In modern worship we see Hekate's association with "pollution" as a centrepoint for celebrations like Hekate's Deipnon and other practices that may call upon Hekate Borborophorba (Eater of Filth), for example. Johnston states that, actually, Hekate wasn't quite a goddess of pollution except for being associated with childbirth and death which were times that incurred "pollution" or miasma - and this wasn't because she was interested in the pollution itself but these life passages.

This association of purification may have come from the ancient practice of leaving "polluted household scourings" at the crossroads as crossroads were detached from society, "disassociated liminal points".

This category of rituals also includes magic. Some of the spells in the Greek Magical Papyri reference crossroads, such as materials from crossroads or completing a ritual at a crossroad. Some spells were performed at crossroads because of the presence of restless spirits who could've been petitioned to carry out a task or spell.

By the end of this, we come to the conclusion of the crossroads being quite liminal places, whether where roads physically cross, or entranceways/gates, or even non-physical crossroads such as life passages. Protection rituals were done at crossroads because it was deemed necessary for the uncertain nature of them, to protect those travelling those roads. Exploitive rituals were done at crossroads because of this association to dispose of "religious and societal refuse" and call upon the restless dead.

Hekate is associated with all of these things. As a protector of threshold and crossroads, and a goddess who can control the restless dead, as a consumer of what is left at the crossroads, as a guardian of life transitions especially those concerning birth and death. Even in just one epithet "Enodia", we can discover so much about Hekate and also find new ways to engage with her.

I think that's one of the things I love about Hekate Enodia and why I am devoted to this part of her. There is much flexibility at the same time as this common thread to rely on.

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I made my listings more pretty and changed a couple of them :0 And my sale is going till the end of May!

New additions!

Shadow Work Prompts from your deity

Message from your Sun and Moon Angels!

I'm so excited to offer these ones, particularly the sun and moon angels reading which also comes with information on how to connect with your sun and moon angel.

I hope you can come along for the sale and support my shop as I'm starting out with it!

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Are you open to mentoring people? Would you ever do something like that? If you did what do you think it would look like for you?

Hello Anon! Thanks for asking - these are nice questions

My answer is: sort of.

I'm not prepared for one-on-one mentoring when it comes to Hekate or hellenic polytheism right now. I'd say it's a matter of time and also what I have going on (my degree, a study program, my communities, my shop, among other things). I wouldn't be able to dedicate proper mentorship to an individual to ensure they could get the best out of it.

Instead, I have this blog and the Sanctuary of the Crossroads discord server! Which aren't attached to one person but communities of wonderful people that I love interacting with. I like being in these spaces to share my experiences and teach to an extent, while also learning new things and engaging with other practitioners. I do have a hope that those who interact with me find some value in our interactions whether that's learning something or just being connected.

Would I ever mentor people? Sure! I don't know what that would look like honestly but I love making knowledge accessible. I like curating resources and researching. I like group discussions too. Maybe they'd be more like mentorship circles than one-on-one. It'd be nice to be in-person too, to engage in physical worship together though I'm all for virtual interactions as well - I'm very digitally inclined aha

For now, anyone who's interested in what I have to share, whether teachings or experiences or my insights, can submit an ask, message me, or join the discord server!

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do u use prayer beads for hekate

Hey there Anon!

I have purple mala beads that I bought for Hekate but they're more of a decorative altar piece than active prayer beads.

I find that I don't prefer to use them and like to say prayers in, let's say, "spoken paragraph form". In that, I don't really say short fragmented prayers or mantras often that I would use prayer beads for them (that's how I would use them if I did, not that this is the only way to use them).

I do think prayer beads are very pretty and cool, and could be a grounding way to connect with Hekate while praying!

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Hi, my name is Brooke! I’m an aspiring devotee of lady hekate and I would love to know if you have any advice! I’ve been worshiping for a long time, but much of my worship has been under loads of misinformation because I started quite young, I’m only 16 now and started at 11. I’m sort of starting over, doing as much research as I can and praying/offering when I have the time and energy lol. It’s been about a year of me actually doing proper research and all that. I’m kind of hesitant to call myself a devotee because I don’t know if it’s something really appropriate to call myself, but I feel myself wanting to include her in my life decisions and devote all the time I can to her! For example, she’s one of my main inspirations for becoming a teacher (as well as my great grandmother)! I’m kind of rambling but any wise words or advice would be deeply appreciated! Tysm!!

Hello Brooke! This is so wonderful and thank you for sharing this with me.

I definitely get where you're coming from and a lot of people do actually start from a place of misinformation due to how they come across paganism and witchcraft (not paganism, but adjacent in modern spaces). I'm very proud of how you've picked up on that and have done some more research. A year of that commitment is honestly great.

My opinion is: if you've been putting the time and effort into this research, doing offerings and praying to her, desiring to include her in your life in a deeper manner, and worshipping her - and you see this commitment in front of you (the year's worth) - you can call yourself a devotee!

Now, no one can really be the one to tell you yes or no for this. There isn't an initiation or standard of requirement (a year for one person looks different to another). My thoughts are based on how you seem to be quite excited and ready to consider yourself a devotee of Hekate, though you may be experiencing some apprehension of "too soon" or "not enough", which is common for many of us.

I'd say take some time to consider where your apprehensions or fears lie and work through them, even with Hekate. Remember too that being a devotee doesn't mean the end of learning! So you don't have to be an expert to call yourself a devotee.

I also want to say that I love how Hekate inspires us to pursue certain pathways. She is my inspiration to become a counsellor.

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Hey Quinton! I wanted to ask a question from Stag's post to you :3 What's one memory of your practice that you reflect the most fondly on?

Hello Piety!!

I fondly remember a deipnon night, when I was trying to figure out if committing to a deeper devotion to Hekate was the right move for me. I had already committed myself to her previously, though something more of a service-based role was calling to me.

It was an emotional and thought-full (as in, my thoughts were full) time because of a few factors. I'm not a stranger to thinking I'm not ready for something when I am, or worrying about what other people will think, or fearing misinterpretation based on what is around me and what's on my mind at the time (which is counter-intuitive when my deities and spirits put things on my path so that I can pursue them and learn about them).

I did a reading with Hekate before my usual rituals, sitting with her and my deck and talking to her. And she really made me cry in this time, which rarely happens. There was an incredibly supportive energy and the card choices really spoke to me. She sincerely wanted me to trust my intuition and my intuition said that I couldn't not be devoted to her in this way. It wasn't her that needed to determine an answer, it was me needing to accept what she was already sure of.

Sometimes she brings up those specific cards again in moments of reassurance. And despite my occasional doubting thoughts, my actions prove to not only her, but me, how serious I am about the path I've chosen.

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hiii I'm Theseus and would like to ask Hekate a question

I use vi/cer pronouns

What do I need to know, if anything?

Hello Theseus, thank you for your patience! This is your message from Hekate.

Queen of Swords | The Emperor | Four of Cups

Hekate is acknowledging that you're currently feeling a pull towards honesty, truth, and justice in some of your interactions with people - perhaps an authority figure in your life. You have a strong sense of justice that is marked by a desire to care for those you love and care for your friends, to ensure they aren't effected by what you've noticed here.

The goddess wants to remind you to take care of yourself too. The drive to protect others is noble but can mean you neglect what is waiting for you to attend to, what is important for you to attend to. Take a moment to sit and breathe and see where you are putting yourself. Is it a fight that, in a way, is impossible for you to fight? Perhaps impossible to fight alone, though you won't be able to see the way through without being kinder to yourself.

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