Behold I stand at the door and knock…
The first key opens the door to a gateway I passed through sometime ago.
When I was ready to approach Hekate and ask for her wisdom and guidance. The knowledge of the dark goddess. It wouldn’t come easy. For how many petition her daily and why should I stand out? Who gets her attention?
I read everything I could about her. Her lore and legends. I wanted to know as much as I could before I approached her. And even then would she accept me?
It was a dark moon some years back and as I recall on the 13th of that month.
I sat in deep meditation asking her for what I was seeking. I found myself at the tree line on my property and there on an abandoned log I placed my offerings of walnuts and cashews drizzled with honey. I asked her to accept this offering and please answer my call.
Once I felt the time was right , I left not looking back. I felt a darkness like a shadow move behind me. But I did not look.
Today I understand why God told Lot and his family to not look back. You can’t look back. You made a choice to follow a path, to trust a spirit to lead you the right way, to light your path. Looking back means you haven’t shed the old things, the things that held you down. Things that no longer serve you.
Like a serpent you have to shed the old skin and walk away with new skin. A new you that is ready for your next journey.
I did not know it then, that this was the first key. The key that opens the door for Hekate to enter your life and transform you. To teach you magick and witchcraft, to walk with you and guide you.
It’s the foundation of a relationship between magician and goddess. It’s strong and binding. It’s also work. Work to keep going and keep building this relationship.
In this door to Hekate, I learned the basics. The power of meditations, the usefulness of candles and candle magick, how to do simple spells.
I would meditate with songs to Hekate playing, or listening to Hekate’s enn.
It was during this time I learned of chakras and how to balance and cleanse them.
All these things are important to learn first before you move into deeper magick.
So, I started a morning routine of meditations and chakra work before starting my day.
If you do not do meditations or chakra work, I strongly encourage you to do so. It’s not my goal here to teach you how to do these things but you should know obtaining the other keys of Hekate depend on you mastering the basics.
I’ve learned that what impresses her is strong will, determination, hard work and sacrifice. If you want her attention and affections, show her you’re serious about it. Work for it.
Do the meditations, do the chakra work. Spend time in evocations and invocations.
Strong will - can you preserve when times get tough? Can you push yourself past your limits? Can you insist that your will be done? These things impress the great goddess.
Determination - are you set on reaching your goals? Do you know exactly what you want and have the drive to go after it? Are you determined to have what you want/need? Are you determined to be a successful magician?
Hard Work - Can you push yourself through the dirt and grime to achieve what you want? Can you put in the time and effort to be successful? To have a successful relationship with the goddess? Can you keep going even at that moment when you think it’s all lost and want to give up? Can you say one more time? One more time even when you’ve landed on your face? One more time.
Sacrifice - does she accept blood sacrifice, yes. But it’s not always the requirement. A sacrifice is just as it sounds. Think of it like going to the gym. No pain no gain. Can you bleed for it? Sweat for it?
What are you willing to sacrifice, to gain from? If your broke and spent your last 5 bucks on a candle to burn in honor of Hekate and now you can’t buy ramen noodles for dinner that is a sacrifice.
If you work 40 plus hours a week and still find an hour a day to devote to Hekate, that’s a sacrifice. Fasting can be a sacrifice. Giving up something you love, like your cookies and tea at 5 can be a sacrifice.
Is pricking your finger and bleeding or cutting your hand a sacrifice? It can be. Though, from my experience it seems to act more as a binding between the magician and the goddess. It’s seems easier for the goddess to connect to the magician and find the magician even when he/she are far away. I found it’s easier for the goddess to come to the magician during ritual, and also to visit the temple area.
But it does not seem to influence the goddess so much in regards to helping the magician or doing anything specific.
Here it is the first key of Hekate’s to allow her to enter, to not look back and to trust her to work for you and in your life. Take those first baby steps of magick with hard work and even though sometimes it’s not exciting or fun it’s necessary.
Work at establishing that solid relationship with the lovely goddess of magick. This foundation will be important for the other keys to come.
Hekate, holds the key but you have to welcome her.
This is the first key. There are 12 more to come.
This.
