Hello wonderful souls!
So as promised, I am providing one of several follow-ups to my recent post about deity work. Go read my first post (Deity Work Pt. 1:Freya) to catch up if you missed it!
Today I want to talk about my second goddess that I work with on a daily basis. Unlike Freya, Hecate called out to me. It was wonderful but I’ll get into that in a minute. Hecate is in a lot of ways opposite of Freya. If you look at my altar (each side is decorated to one of them) you could clearly see the differences. Hecate is the Goddess of Witches and magic, she is the real deal pal. She is from the Greek Pantheon while Freya is from the Nordic/Scandinavian. She is also the goddess of the moon, darkness, necromancy (which is not an interest of mine – let’s make that clear real quick), ghosts, inner guidance, and many other wonderful things. Her animal connection is to canines while Freya’s connection is to felines. I have both and often describe myself as a catdog person since everyone makes you pick one, I just choose both. My sweet boy, Keir, and my big girl, Ruby, are my animals and both have a special place in my heart. I will not choose just one. My altar to Hecate is adorned with dark crystals like onyx and amethyst, a silver skull, black candles, and keys (because she is also the keeper of keys). My altar to Freya is adorned with pink and gold like rose quartz and fools gold. I also have red candles on her side. My offerings to them are also different since they come from different pantheons and different times. I have offered Hecate almonds, a shot of vodka, apple cider, mead, eggs etc. Freya receives lavender, honey, and sweet wine.
Before I go any further, you are probably wondering how Hecate called to me. Well when I opened my mind finally to working with a deity, I decided to do a tarot spread specifically related to finding your deity and hearing messages from them. I won’t bore you with the specifics but there were several cards that aligned and pointed to what pantheon I should look in and what the goddess should focus on. I knew as soon as I started looking, like the moment I saw her name, that Hecate was the one. When I finally found her, it was kind of magical. I felt seen, I felt heard, I felt relief.
While Freya is providing guidance and nurturing in regard to self love, sexuality, and balancing both my masculine and feminine personality traits, Hecate is serving a different purpose. Hecate is helping me with something I have desperately needed assistance with for a while: listening to my intuition. We all have intuition, that gut feeling or little voice telling you to go left instead of right, and some of us are better at listening to our intuition than others. I am horrible at it. Often I can’t hear it or feel it and when I can I often ignore it. I have been working with Hecate almost on a daily basis and I can already feel a difference, I am listening to myself more and following my own advice.
The first time working with Hecate more in depth I got a lot more than I bargained for. I realized very quickly that Hecate tells it like it is and doesn’t give a damn about softness (most times but not always). I asked her, what steps do I need to take so I may listen and obey my intuition better? She pointed me directly to healing my inner child. Like I am sure some of you did, I had a rough childhood. Poverty, emotional abuse, divorce, anxiety, depression, and a broken family that still loved each other but has been fractured so many times over it’s amazing we are still intact. You name it, I probably went through it. I know a lot of my “issues” stem from my childhood trauma, and to be honest I often sweep it under the rug. It hurts too much. After my conversation with Hecate though, I knew that if I wanted to be happier, stronger, better, wiser that this was something I needed to get started on. That’s what we are currently working on. Unfortunately years of trauma cannot be undone or healed with just a couple of sessions of tarot and meditation.
My journeys with my goddess are so different, but both have periods of sadness or frustration as well as periods of excitement and satisfaction. I am placing priority right now in my life on personal and spiritual growth, my goddesses are helping me and I am so grateful.
If you have any questions about deity work or Hecate, please leave a comment! Have a glorious evening, loves. Goodnight.
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