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Witch Blood

In Orion Foxwood's book, The Flame In The Cauldron we see the term "witch blood". It is when a person realizes that he has the urge to study and practice witchcraft, as he was a witch in a previous life. It will be awakened during training into a magical tradition. But, how do we get there?

Pathworking In Hekate's Cave In Samothrace

In the previous article, we saw the basics of pathworking, and as we are on a website on Hekate's cult, we will see a pathworking of the tradition of the Golden Dawn to the path of Shin, from Malkuth to Hod. In Israel Regardie's book, A Garden of Pomegranates, there is a good material of Hermetic Kabalah. Ciceros have added more material in the classical books of Regardie, upgrading them to ultimate tools for the student who is eager to learn about the tradition of the Golden Dawn. Unfortunately, in my country, these books have not been translated, but this is not a problem for us who can read English books.

Pathworking

Pathworking is a technique that uses imagination for magickal purposes; to gain insight, to change your physical reality, to heal yourself and deal with trauma, to meet spirits, etc. We don’t have proof if the technique of pathworking was practiced in ancient Hellas, but we can assume that Socrates when he describes the earth from the universe before he died, shouldn’t have been there with a rocket to the Moon. Platonic myths that we read in the books could be a product of Plato’s imagination to present his occult teachings to the public, but he could also give them pathworkings to work for and gain insight. Under that prizm, some of the Platonic myths and the Hellenic myths can be used for pathworking. How we do that? Firstly we need to know the myths and secondly the basics of pathworking.

Basic Elections

When we have to perform an important ritual it is necessary to choose the best time or at least not a bad time for it. This will take less than 50% of the energy we are going to dedicate to the ritual. It’s not enough to choose the appropriate day, planetary hour, planetary power and lunar light. For rituals of initiations, dedications, talismans, strong commitments, evocations, changing major influences or interfering to important things, we should choose the best time.

Concerning elections, there is no such thing as perfect time or if there will be, it shouldn’t be near the time you want to perform the ritual. So, keep in mind, there are many rules, but all together aren’t practical.

The Long Gates

Goddess Hekate is a lunar Goddess from antiquity. It was identified with Selene (the Moon Goddess) and Artemis, who represents the lunar light. We also know that Hekate is also related to Magick, Necromancy and the world of the dead, Hades. Those areas were connected in ancient Hellenic religion, mainly in the parts that were available for the initiates of the mysteries. In this article, I will use Plutarch's work On The Apparent Face On The Circle of The Moon and my Platonic background. Plutarchos was a High Priest/Hierophant in Delphi and a Middle-Platonic philosopher, so he is "our guy" for understanding ancient Hellenic religion.

Lunar Election

I have written about the Lunar Light and the Lunar Mansions in the previous articles. I will present an example by examining the next Full Moon. We will see if it is appropriate for charging a pentagram with the energy of Hekate, to empower and guide us on daily interactions, taking decisions, making the right choice so that we can become better people and come close to Her. So, we will check if the next Full Moon is appropriate for that.

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by: Constantinos Nt...
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Post date: Friday, January 24, 2020 - 19:55

When I was a member of groups in Facebook related to the Goddess Hekate I noticed many Historical inaccuracies being spread by members. It wasn't their mistake at all. I couldn't expect someone who is not Hellene to read and understand the ancient Hellenic History from the sources. Here in Hellas, we are taught Hellenic History in elementary school, gymnasium and lyceum. At each educational grade, we learn the same things with more details and...

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Post date: Monday, December 30, 2019 - 15:01

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer. He was born in Dublin, studied ancient Hellenic philology and classical studies in Dublin (Trinity College) and Oxford (Magdalene College). He moved to London and became a  famous representative of the English culture. He was a homosexual. He was imprisoned and later he left England and went to Paris, where he died at the age of 46. 

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Post date: Saturday, November 23, 2019 - 02:18

I cannot remember how many times I had read about Witchvox on books. One day, I visited it and made a profile. That was a great day for me. Today it isn't.

The Witches' Voice was a great crossroads for Witches around the world. A website-portal-blog with information written by Witches for Witches. Each country had its own session for creating a profile, an e-group, writing poetry and...

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Post date: Saturday, November 23, 2019 - 00:03

In a text of Emmanuel Rhoides titled "Orestes and Pylades" we read a story about a sculptor named Pygmalion. He wanted to create a statue of Aphrodite. He spent a night working with the hammer. He shed a lot of sweat in the marble during the process. This was common at that time. The whole night he was imagining Aphrodite and he was creating. We can say that he was under divine ...

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Post date: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 - 23:53

At the late spring of 2018 and after being banished (ostracised) by the Covenant of Hekate admin team from the COH (facebook group with devotees of Hekate), the website Crossroads Witch was attacked by a cracker. Everyone who was visiting it was redirected to various pages, that had nothing to do with ethics. This is a common attack based in unethical marketing. Those people don't consider the content of the websites they attack, they care...

by: Eirini Tsotsou
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Post date: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 - 03:03

There is a phenomenon that I observe and I believe that I want to comment it. When I have enough free time, I take part in discussions related to magical practices and traditions both in English and Greek groups. This is what I see a lot today; people telling each other or me that “you don’t need to read books”. My biggest problem is when people say that they don’t have to read books and they magically gain the knowledge needed from their brain...

by: Constantina Katsepa
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Post date: Friday, March 9, 2018 - 02:54

O, Moon Daughter,

barren inspiration and priestess,

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by: Eirini Tsotsou
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Post date: Monday, March 5, 2018 - 02:24

Goddess Hekate, the Queen of Life with the immortal beauty, is the one who generously gives her blessings to those who honor her name. Excellent hunter is the Great Goddess who stands upon the Universe! And Ηer preys are the restless souls who will follow the spiral of light that She revealed to them. And when we feel lonely and lost, then She sends to us her hounds to accompany us during our journey and to bring us kindly back to Her. Blessed...

by: Eirini Tsotsou
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Post date: Monday, March 5, 2018 - 02:16

Goddess Hekate, the respectable and glorious one, dwells in time and lives through eternity. It is she who stands by our side and Her actions aim to support us and to guide us to our spiritual path. She is the one who leads us to a new life making us feel safe in order to become more ourselves. But our world is dark and we can't see clearly. And then we see Hekate because in the darkness she shines the brightest.

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by: Eirini Tsotsou
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Post date: Monday, March 5, 2018 - 01:44

Glory, Honor and Wingless Nike, have from years fled,
they walk around the Athenian roads pretending to be dead.
They abandoned the gracious Acropolis since the old days,
what these Goddesses can give, today nobody takes.
The temple of Pallada is no longer their house,
they live on roads now, forgotten by the crowds.

On the crossroads...

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