Her association with dark magic is also tied to her identification as an underworld goddess. By practising awareness of selective perception, we will be able to see the unknown as easily as we see the known in every physical thing. In literature, there is a clear link between her, Demeter, and Persephone. At the loss of her daughter Demeter causes the failure of crops.

We’ll suddenly “wake up” in our dreams and, drinking from the waters of Leuthe (remembering), instead of the waters of Lethe (forgetting), we will become even more conscious and awake in the Astral world than we are in the physical. This path has been an encounter with Hecate from beginning to the end, and an invitation to explore Her world, the other half of our true nature, to wander with Her the twenty two highways of the Mind. In Hesiod she is the daughter of the Titan Perses and the nymph Asteria and has power over heaven, earth, and sea; hence, she bestows wealth and all the blessings of daily life. Many of the rituals described in ancient texts, for example the elaborate sacrifice of a ewe in Argonautica, are in keeping with what is known about the worship of other deities of the underworld. Some early writers claimed that Hecate was actually the princess Iphigenia, saved from death by Artemis and transformed into a goddess. As the worship of Artemis evolved over time, the Greeks began to focus more on her purity and positive aspects. Names derived from hers were common, including Hecatomnus, the father of the ruler Mausolus who built the famous tomb. A powerful symbol of purification is the scourge that Hecate sometimes carries. The conflicting origins of Hecate were only the beginning of what made this goddess so mysterious. The Egyptian fertility goddess Heqet was associated with magic, which the Egyptians called heqa. My mother briefly knew her. Of course, as the goddess of boundaries she had the power to let things in as well as keep them out.

By her very nature Hecate was a goddess that existed on the edges of the Greek pantheon, yet she was also a household goddess who watched over every door in Greece. Hécate ou The Night of Enitharmon's Joy, peinture de William Blake, 1795, lieu de conservation inconnu. Poignards et épées, symboles de mort violente. If we understand how physical reality is a cumulative manifestation of our own selective grasping and rejecting, we will be able to manifest anything we wish, simply by wishing it, just as we unconsciously do all the time. It’s as though the cords were once tied to something else with the knots, and have since been broken free. In her place, one of her emanations, the goddess Iris became known as the Messenger of the Gods, and Iris came to be worshipped on the island of Hekate, near the island of Delos. Status.

The point is, that we are all doing all kinds of things automatically.