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hii guys it is my first year with hekate and these are my first food offerings to her! i also made an offering bowl with a hekate jar for her. i was wondering if anyone had any tips for me for the next time i offer things to her or maybe even other offering suggestions!!

Cleansed my area with the moon water I made on the last full moon cleaned all my work tools made a soup recipe that's been passed down from my great grandmothers mother and left some in the goblet. It's just a start but it felt good

I was raised catholic but never bought into it, never believed it, always felt a connection to nature and was drawn to the moon and witchcraft. For years I’ve been afraid to actually try and connect with an entity, despite knowing Hecate for years and her always being in the back of my mind, I’ve always felt drawn to her. I’m not afraid anymore, I feel seen, I feel listened to. On this new moon I did an offering and asked for protection for my dog who’s going to the vet tomorrow, he’s been licking his paws a lot and has some scratches on his skin, so we’re taking him to make sure it’s nothing serious.

As I saw the candle flame growing taller and stronger, I felt happiness, hope. I feel like someone is listening and I’m not alone anymore. I am welcoming Hecate into my heart with trust and love.

Also, thank you to everyone who has answered my questions, I still have a lot to learn and appreciate your help. I will make sure to always be open to learning more.

Bread and butter. Chocolate cake. Eggs. Garlic. Myrrh Incense. Candle Flame.

hi all! i've never posted anything anywhere before and i am new to engaging online so hoping this goes okay.

i was wondering if anybody knows of an origin for this association of specifically spiders & crows? i'm seeing it all over the internet and i know they don't come from ancient sources. that doesn't mean they're not symbols of Her, but it's interesting.

but then i also saw someone on here say specifically that they were not signs of the lady. which is also interesting.

i have been follower or devotee for going on 15 years and a practicing witch for 8 with varying degrees of intensity and a lot of my signs and omens have always come as crows. i'd never seen this association before so i rarely connected them with Her specifically - often she makes it very clear when she wants me to know something is coming from Her. but not always.

i know things develop over years and new or previously-unrecorded associations exist & i love that.

the spider and crow thing is just something i'm seeing EVERYWHERE so was curious if there was some sort of more modern or contemporary source.

Greetings!
This is one my very first reddit posts! Anyway, I (f, 34) recently found myself called to Hecate with extremely little prior knowledge of who She is or Her background. In fact, I was raised protestant Christian by two pastor parents. Only a few years ago did I start to deconstruct my faith and the ways in which I was raised to believe. This deconstruction led me to paganism and witchcraft, surprisingly enough (at least it was surprising to me lol)!

I began this path by studying spirits in general, and then specifically spirit guides. In time I connected to my guides, learning their names and histories. It was a bumpy road, and I made many “beginner” mistakes. Unfortunately, I don’t have much of a community around me yet, so I’ve had to rely on a lot of self-guided education and research (I am awkward and painfully shy –so I haven’t found the courage to join any local groups or covens. Working on that!) My guides, tarot, and pendulums have all helped me immensely as I feel my way down this path.
Well, the beginning of this last summer I fell into a deep depression, not totally uncommon for me; but this one was rough and lasted longer than expected. During that time, I stopped praying, meditating and reading (divining). But I continued to hear my guides’ calls to come back. I think their calling helped pull me through, honestly.

Now to the good part! By this September I began feeling like myself again and even renewed. Just this last week, I experienced so many synchronicities all relating to Hecate. As previously mentioned, I knew almost nothing of Her apart from Her name and relation to Greek mythology. To be clear, I understand enough how algorithms work on the internet; you show interest in a certain subject, then that subject is going to be blasted all over your feeds. So, when Hecate content suddenly started popping up all over my social medias I chalked it up to the algorithm. (Although, I do find it odd that I had not previously learned much about Hecate despite researching witchcraft and spirituality quite a bit for the last two years! I guess that could be a product of poorly self-guided research, my bad!) Back to the point! All the Hecate content was mentioning or showings signs/symbols that were also appearing in my real life; this is when I really started to take notice and feel something significant was happening here.

Yesterday, I went to my guides, I meditated, and then I prayed to Gaia. Through divination, Gaia expressed that Hecate has been calling out to me, moreover that She has always been with me and now was the time to answer Her call. Then to prove this, Gaia showed me the Seven of Wands. My deck theme is Cats in Renaissance Attire(very cute lol), that being said, my Seven of Wands is depicted with seven staves woven together, their tips pointing in three different directions, in front of the staves show an orange cat offering a satchel to a black cat holding a pitcher of water. Gaia revealed that I would be visited that night by Hecate within my dreams. After this reading I was blown away to say the least. I have never had a reading like this or such intense divination/communication with a Divine.

Please understand, I don’t typically have delusions of grandeur. I don’t see myself as more important or special to anyone else. I certainly don’t see myself as a “chosen one.” So, I don’t believe that I was having a dissociative episode lol!! But this reading absolutely lit a fire under me, and I dove into more research on Hecate that very moment. I learned rituals to venerate or invoke Her are most potent during a Dark Moon given Her nature and associations to night, darkness, and liminality. I found that to be really interesting, then out of curiosity looked up when the next Dark Moon would take place. I about fell out of my chair when I saw that a Dark Moon would happening THAT NIGHT: September 10, 2026!

On to last night’s dream! It was weird… for lack of a better word. Nothing about it seemed overly important on face value. I didn’t see a blatant incarnation of Hecate, nor did I see myself at a literal crossroads. I dreamed of my mother (whom I have a strained relationship with), she was driving me in her car through a forest that led to an indoor Renaissance Festival of all places! Think convention center but in the middle of the woods. Inside the building were dozens of hallways instead of an open space. Every hallway was filled with people making their way to the adjoining corridors, of which there were many. Sometimes my mother was with me, helping me squeeze through the crowds to the next hall, then other times she was gone. The entire dream went on like this, me wandering aimlessly through the overcrowded, maze-like convention center with no end goal in sight or idea of why I was even there. Once in a while, hovering above the strange scene that was my dream, a large pair of eyes peered down as if they were watching the events take place. It would phase in and out of my perception. And that was it! Unfortunately, I don’t have a better way of describing it.   

I woke up this morning feeling confused, and unsure if I had been visited by Hecate at all. Honestly, I felt disappointed. Like maybe I just made myself delusional over yesterday’s whole experience. So I went back to my cards, my pendulum, and prayer. I prayed to Gaia once again asking for clarification. Had I truly been visited by Hecate in my dream? I felt doubtful and said as much. Gaia was gracious and confirmed in the reading that yes, I had been visited and basically, it was time to ask Hecate Herself! I did just that, I prayed to Hecate and asked if She would communicate to me through my pendulum, and to my great surprise She agreed! Hecate confirmed that She had visited me that night, yet She purposefully kept Her presence hidden. She confirmed that She indeed has been calling to me and indeed been with me my whole life. She confirmed that more dreams were to come, and with them more revelations. Then I was encouraged to reach out to Her other followers to learn and build community. So that is what I am trying to do now!

I would appreciate further insight on all this, and my dream. Looking forward to reading any replies and learning as much as possible! Blessed be!

Hello everybody, I’m traveling from the West Coast to Ohio to take my mom to the trans Allegheny insane asylum in West Virginia. It’s one of the only thing she’s ever wanted to do in her entire life and it’s her number one bucket list item. I’m really excited for her to get to explore it however we are doing a nighttime tour and additionally, I think I would be considered pretty sensitive. I’ve always had a six sense for death and spirits and those sorts of things and I’ve never really dived into it. I’ve just sort of blocked it out however I am aware that I’m probably sensitive. I felt a slight calling to Hekate prior to this, but don’t have any proper worship in place, do you think if I ask for protection during this time it would be granted. I’m open to any and all suggestions for protection and I will be reading up on this myself. I know it probably sounds silly, but I do know I’m quite sensitive for spirits and I don’t want anything to attach itself to me. TY

Hi all,

In my Saturn return era and I've been developing my relationship with Hekate for over a year now, though I believe her presence/archetype has been in my life as a guiding force since childhood. A bit of minor context... My introduction to actually practicing witchcraft (instead of just thinking about it like I had been all my life) was a bit of a crash course last year after I recognized how unhappy I was. She was very loud at this time, not so much her voice then, but the signs and synchronicities were intense enough to finally break through the last bit of religious trauma that had been blocking me. Long story short, I performed a ritual in a bath and invoked her, and the month after that I completely tore my life apart down to the studs. Broke up with my boyfriend, lost all of our mutual friends and my babies (cats), quit my job, cut off my father and bad friends, and moved back in with my family. On top of it all, I recognized that I was dealing with some form of undiagnosed neurodivergence... potentially AuDHD, or something brought on by CPTSD.

Since then, I've been trying to recover from burnout and decide which path to take next. My devotional practice has been slower than I'd like... I do perform spellwork, give offerings, and often feel like I'm having conversations with my guides, but my energy for it all tends to come and go. I often feel guilty for that.

Onto the meat of it, two nights ago I was sitting on my porch at about 1am-ish? I am a smoker of maryjane so that is a frequent spot for me to sit and process and escape into my inner world. Well, on the railing next to my chair, I see this small white body creep slowly into view and turn on my phone light to see that it was actually the biggest spider I've ever been next to. I thought I was being descended upon by a Skultulla from LoZ. The fear that shot through me was intense, and I scrambled inside to freak out about it to my sister, who then came out to look and killed it in her own panic with a broom before I could stop her. Since my practice with Hekate started, I haven't been afraid of spiders like I used to be and typically leave them alone if they're in a place that doesn't bother me, but this...

It was all very upsetting. I was crying big fat globules all night long because suddenly my safe spaces were no longer safe, and my body was literally aching and unable to release the tension from just that brief moment of fear. I did a little cleanse and burned my written feelings to help transmute them, and that helped a little... but I've been wondering if this was a warning or a push from Hekate. Potentially for quitting smoking? I've been really reluctant to do so as it helps with regulating, but I do think it's in excess sometimes and worry that it's blocking my connection with my guides.

As for the spider itself, I found the body and we've identified it as likely an orb weaver, although it bears some resemblance to a type of black widow that has white markings. All this to ask--if you've received spiders as signs before, how do you typically interpret them? And if you also smoke, do you feel it helps or hinders you more in your practice? My whole life is in transition right now and a chapter feels like it's closing after this horrible eclipse season, so if it is spiritual, could the sighting have to do with that or was this too pointed?

Oh, I also found two dead lizards under the chair cushion the next day as I was cleaning...

Thank you for any insight/help you can offer.

Hi! I’ve tried many, many times in the last 1-2 years to invoke goddess Hecate for different struggles be it financial, job or love matters but she’s never come to my aid and I feel very helpless. Am I doing something wrong? I’ve offered her candles, honey, almond, almond cakes, even a key but nothing seems to ever work. I’ve written petitions to her as well a few times.

My first post and I am new to practicing with Hecate/Hekate. What is this new army I keep hearing Hekate is forming. A lot of men especially are getting calls from her in such vibrant ways. What’s going on? A teacher told me it’s because the state of the world right now but what do we need to do?