The book serves as a comprehensive introduction to her many myths and legends, viewed through the Divine Ancestry attributed to her in Hesiod’s Theogony (800-700BCE), as well as an exploration of her conflation with other goddesses, archaeology, literature, and iconography. Hekate’s worship was never limited to one geographical region. Her presence is well attested in Greece and Turkey, as well as Egypt, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Russia, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Sicily and Southern Italy. She has possible links to Minoan Crete, her most famous temple stood in Lagina, and she was a popular goddess in ancient Athens. Her history reveals many fascinating stories: how Hekate Phosphoros saved ancient Byzantium from an invasion by Phillip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great); and how a visit to her temple in Ephesus influenced Julian the Apostate, the last Pagan Emperor of Rome. Hekate was connected to Artemis, Demeter, Persephone, Isis, Diana, Despoina and other significant goddesses, appearing in single-and triple-bodied forms, as well as theriocephalic emanations with the heads of various animals. She shared the symbols of the torch, whip, snake and dagger with the Erinyes, and wielded the key to the Mysteries, wearing variously the modius, polos, kalathos and Phrygian cap. She shared paeans with Dionysos, stood with Hermes at the throne of the Phrygian Kybele, and sat next to Zeus in the cult of the Empty Throne. Far from being an obscure goddess, her torches illuminated the Mysteries at Eleusis, Samothrace, Aegina and Ephesus, leading the way for initiates. Suitable for reading as a standalone text by those fascinated in the history and myths related to Hekate, Circle for Hekate: History & Mythology also serves as background reading for those wishing to pursue a more practical understanding of the goddess, providing a clear contextual foundation for practice. Subsequent volumes in this series build upon the foundation provided in this first book to include devotional rites, meditations, contemplations and charms, giving readers the opportunity to develop their own personal understandings and relationships with this goddess.

    This empowering, practical guide looks at the misconceptions surrounding challenging deities and encourages you to draw on their power to work through aspects of yourself or your life that you wish to change.Organized into three sections--descent, challenge, and rebirth--Dark Goddess Craft guides you through your own shadow work and helps you emerge renewed. Every step on your path of transformation is connected to a different face of the dark goddess, and Stephanie Woodfield provides rituals, invocations, and offerings for eleven of them. You can mourn loss with the Washer at the Ford, learn to move past betrayal with Sedna, gain personal independence with Blodeuwedd, and become the champion of your own life with Sca?thach. Like a torch to light your way, this book helps you heal and transform into the best version of yourself.

    (New, Waxing, Full, Waning, & Dark)This book begins in January 2018 and focuses on the first half of the year: January- June. This is all new content for the year of 2018.This book contains recipes, spell working suggestions and advice, manifestation musings, Tarot Talk, and self-help and development prompts to aid you in your evolution, healing, and to get your momentum and desires moving and flowing. In this workbook, information is given, questions are asked and exercises are suggested to help you with your own self-empowerment. These workbooks imagine a world where witches, women, femmes, and weirdos make their dreams come true, help others and the greater collective in service of their higher self and of spirit.This workbook includes:- Over 4 different Tarot Spreads.- Over 16 different and new rituals and spell workings.- Writings about Hecate, Innana, the Devil, boundary work, connecting with your intuition, sex magick, upleveling kickbacks, meditation ideas, crystal and herbal suggestions for the different main phases of the moon.- Astrology overviews for each month.- And much much much more!As always, the author and editor Sarah Faith Gottesdiener is joined by a wonderfully diverse collective of experienced practitioners of various modalities. This volume includes Diego Basdeo with your monthly astro info, writer and activist Virgie Tovar, herbalist and practitioner Liz Migliorelli of Sister Spinster, doula and Yoga teacher Monique McCrystal, artist Rachel Blodgett of Serpent and Bow, Herbalist, Channeler, and healer Shayne Case, and Tarot Reader, writer, and business owner Beth Maiden of Little Red Tarot.This is a limited edition item. This item will sell out. (it does every time.) This item is self-published and printed on recycled paper in California.

    Linsteadt explores the roots of patriarchal conquest in ancient Europe, and the possibility of something wholly different in both the deep past and the deep future. These are tales of women's power, of a strength rooted in the dark of the moon and the nourishing soil. Within these pages, three girls call down dragons at the end of the world; Rhea Silvia, mother of Rome, tells the story of her life and her love for the river Tiber; a priestess of Delphi defies Apollo the day he comes to conquer the Python; a woman named Magdalena is accused of witchcraft in a small German town; a mountain lion leaps between ages; a group of women spin nettle fiber beyond the end of the world; and a maiden, mother and crone call forth the snakes that live in the Earth to try to overthrow a colonial empire.

    All have spoken with Her and share something of their communion in this anthology.

     Whether you are new to Goddess spirituality or deeply immersed on your path, this book will help you (and every woman regardless of her spirituality) resurrect and unapologetically own your innate shakti—your Divine Feminine power—so that you may heal, rise, and flourish in every way. As you meet fourteen archetypal Goddesses along your magical journey, each one will reignite the ancient feminine wisdom, power, and gifts that have always been within you. Through each progressive gateway, Syma shares inspiring interpretations of the myths and attributes of each Goddess to help you reconnect with her nature within yourself. She then leads you through deeply powerful initiations using guided meditations and rituals to help you embody the essence of each Goddess. Syma also provides practical guidance to help you apply the teachings of each Goddess in your daily life. No matter where you are when you begin, this alchemical journey will empower you to release negative, self-sabotaging patterns and embrace the divine love, joy, pleasure, abundance, success, and fulfillment you were born for. By the end, you will take your seat upon your throne as the Sovereign Queen of your domain and as a beautiful feminine leader in the world. The world needs you and all women—now more than ever—to shine in your full Goddess glory. It is time. Here are the 14 Goddesses you will awaken on your journey, and how they will support you: 1. Gnostic Goddess Sige invites you into the womb of sacred silence and the Divine Feminine mysteries. 2. Sumerian Goddesses Inanna and Ereshkigal delve you into the depths of your underworld to help you embrace your darkness and heal your shadow self. 3. Hawaiian Goddess Pele ignites the fires of your righteous wrath to help you transform what no longer serves you and make way for the new. 4. Indian Warrior Goddess Kali empowers you to overcome your greatest fears and leap forward boldly and confidently. 5. Buddhist Goddess Kuan Yin gently heals your heart of old pain through unconditional compassion and grace. 6. Greek Goddess Aphrodite washes away patterns of shame and guilt and turns you into a vessel of infinite love and endless pleasures. 7. Tibetan Goddess Tara helps you stop playing small, frees you of limitations and aligns your dreams with your soul’s greatest vision and purpose. 8. Greek Goddess of wisdom, Athena, guides you to co-create your desires with inspired action. 9. Mesopotamian Goddess Lilith helps you own your boundaries, live authentically and honor your wild woman nature. 10. African Goddess Yemanya reconnects you with the Triple Goddess cycles of the moon and your womb wisdom. 11. Andean Goddess Pachamama clears your blocks and opens you to receive infinite abundance, with ease and joy! 12. Celtic Goddess Brigid resurrects your Wise Woman gifts so you can reclaim your priestess heritage and creative powers, channeling miracles for yourself and others. 13. Egyptian Goddess Isis initiates you into all your Goddess gifts, that you may rule in your realm and in the world as a regal, empowered Queen. You will also learn about many more Goddesses and Divine Feminine gifts connected to these 13 archetypes, so that you can continue to heal, grow and flourish in all ways. About the Author: Syma Kharal is an international Sacred Feminine and spiritual coach, healer, speaker, yoga teacher, and #1 Amazon bestselling author.

    This coming-of-age memoir takes you inside the ashrams of gurus and sages of the far East, where one woman learns to heal her heart, believe in the magical happenstance of the universe, and find an unshakable love and trust within herself

    The Mahavidyas have traditionally been steeped in esoteric and mystical descriptions, often removed from the practicalities of the spiritual journey. In this book, which is written from the perspective of an ordinary woman—a cardiologist, wife and mother—these great goddesses come to life to reveal subtle aspects of the inner journey such as spiritual bypassing, spiritual materialism, and self-deception. The fierce symbolism of the Mahavidyas (Kali, Tara, Tripurasundari, Bhuvaneshwari, Tripura Bhairavi, Chinnamasta, Dhumavati, Baglamukhi, Matangi, and Kamalatmika) are explored through the lens of yoga, tantra and Vedanta. These great goddesses become the focal points for inquiry into our various shadow aspects that keep us from realizing our eternal, unborn and undying blissful nature.With practices, self-inquiry prompts, and stories from the author’s own spiritual seeking, this exploration of the divine feminine will gently reveal the source of your fear, pain, and suffering, showing you that when you allow those parts of yourself to arise and simply be, you can finally begin to heal, overcome your limitations, and open to the light and beauty of your true nature. Through exercises and contemplations of the progressive and the direct paths, you’re invited to embrace all aspects of yourself into wholeness, the essence of non-duality.

    

    I find personally that the magick that employs the Goddess is simply more powerful for me. I don’t know exactly why. Perhaps it is just my personal experience or my karma that the divine Feminine speaks through and to me. I don’t know, but I do know that almost all rituals I perform include the Goddess energy. Not that I don’t use Male energy at all, I do, but for my personal every day practice, it is rare. A few exceptions do exist such as my work with Shiva the God of the Hindu Pantheon, St Expedite and occasionally Ganesh. One Goddess that I resonate very strongly with is Circe, not many know of her in the mainstream occult. I know of her through the many years of study and experimentation. She is quite powerful. There is almost a kind of irritability in her nature which makes her slightly unpredictable, but I find, despite that, she is incredibly powerful. She is known as a Goddess of Witches, a divine sorceress herself. She is born of a sun God and A Water Nymph and therefore she has the full range of magickal force behind her. She is most known for, in the literature of old, as the Goddess who turned Odysseus’s entourage into swine. She is a true witch and sorceress and it is for this reason I will teach you various ways to tap into her power. I must warn you, she is very powerful and does not “suffer fools lightly” as they say. In this book, we will discuss briefly who Circe is, rituals employing her energy and how to make an essential tool for her magick, a wand. In this book, we will perform the following rituals with Circe: Protection Ritual Using A Talisman Pouch Divination Using An Obsidian Mirror For Personal Empowerment To Become Seductive to Anyone Enchant Someone to Do Your Bidding Calling On Circe For Physical Healing Calling On Circe For Prosperity I know you will find this magick with Circe quite powerful.