Cyndi Brannen - 26 Apr

First published by Moon Books, 2019

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Text copyright: Cyndi Brannen 2018

ISBN: 978 1 78904 075 3

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Mighty Hekate, Queen of the Witches,

Blessed am I,

To call myself one of your chosen.

Mighty Hekate, Queen of the Witches,

You are both the dark and the light.

You are the way,

And You are the light along it.

My Queen, Holder of the keys of all creation.

Mighty Hekate, Queen of the Witches,

I stand before you in this liminal space,

That you created for us alone.

Here in this place of the in-between,

I feel the energy of the worlds,

I see the vision of the future,

I hold the wisdom of the past.

Mighty Hekate, Queen of the Witches,

You have bestowed upon me the power of the Witch.

Through the gifts of Your sacred keys,

I am the walker between the worlds,

The spinner of the web of fate,

The knower of Your secrets,

The student of Your mysteries,

The giver of Your healing.

Mighty Hekate, Queen of the Witches,

My journey is a blessed one,

Each key you give me unlocks great power,

Grateful I am for all Your keys;

The key of acceptance for that which I cannot change,

The key of courage to overcome adversity,

The key of kindness for myself and others,

They key of pain through which I discover my own strength,

The key of suffering in which I found healing,

The key of peace that brings me contentment,

The key of wisdom so that I may live a life of truth.

Mighty Hekate, Queen of the Witches,

My witchs journey is a blessing,

Through the darkness of the Under World,

Up to the heights of the heavens,

And the balance of everyday life.

Through all situations, I honor You.

In all ways, I honor You.

For all of time, Eternal Queen, I honor You.

Setting up Your Witch Journal

Commitment Ritual

Applying the Principles

A Magical Life is an Intentional One

Unifying the Three Selves Meditation

Centering

Processing an Encounter with Hekate

World Soul Journey

Establishing a Daily Meditation Practice

Feeling the Power of the Epithets

Starting Your Book of Shadows

Evoking Hekate

Dark Moon Ritual

Writing a Noumenia Intentional Prayer

Making Hekates Wheel of the Year

Making a Strophalos

Using Hekates Symbols

Adding Color to the Wheel of the Year

Experiencing the Energy of Hekates Colors

Correspondence Quest

Making the Three Keys Incense

Hekate and the Major Arcana

Establishing a Daily Tarot Practice

Intentional Lucid Dreaming

Completing Your Altar

Casting Hekates Wheel

Writing and Casting Your Own Spell

Practice: Witchs Hour of Power

Understanding: The Holy Darkness

Practice: Balancing and Grounding

Understanding: Noticing Hekates Signs

Understanding: Your Hekate

Practice: Learning the Orphic Hymn to Hekate

Understanding: Processing Your Deipnon Ritual

Practice: Developing a Gratitude Attitude

Practice: Affirmations

Practice: Automatic Writing

Practice: Establishing a Deipnon and Noumenia Practice

Practice: Fire Scrying

Practice: The Witchs Wardrobe

Practice: Keeping Your Own Hekates Garden Record

Understanding: Exploring Divination

Practice: Deipnon Crossroads Offering

Practice: Cleansing the Salt Strophalos

Practice: Deipnon and Noumenia Work

Understanding: Exploring Acceptance and Resistance

A Witchs Prayer to Hekate

Prayer for a New Beginning

Prayer to Hekate for a Magical Life

Anima Mundi Chant

Three Keys Chant

The Orphic Hymn to Hekate

Blessing of Hekates Wheel of the Year

Strophalos Blessing

Prayer to Hekate, Soul of the World

Prayer to Hekate, Mistress of Balance on the Spring Equinox

Hymn to Hekate the Powerful on the Summer Solstice

Prayer to Hekate of the Harvest on the Fall Equinox

Hekate Kourotrophos: Blessing of Children

Prayer to Hekate the Storm Bringer

Prayer to Hekate, Goddess of the Under World

In October 2017, I started writing about what I call Modern Hekatean Witchcraft thats a combination of Hekate and Applied Modern Witchcraft. Modern Hekatean Witchcraft is all about Hekate, practicing witchcraft, and personal development work. In my blog, Keeping Her Keys, I offered how-to-if-you-want-to articles about creating sacred space, using Hekates many epithets, devotional practices, and Hekatean focused witchery. The blog grew quickly as did the Facebook page associated with it. I had just wanted to write about my own perspective as a devotee of Hekate, witch, mom, survivor, etc., but what I was saying resonated with lots of people. I see myself as a voice of the Modern Hekatean Witchcraft movement. Were all in this together. People kept asking me where my book was, so I thought it best to write one. Keeping Her Keys: An Introduction to Modern Hekatean Witchcraft is that book.

The structure of this course is flexible. One of the central tenets of my take on Modern Hekatean Witchcraft is a you do you approach. I wrote this book to provide guidance and information for all of you Keepers. I wrote the book I wanted to read.

This book is an introductory course about Modern Hekatean Witchcraft. This isnt a tradition and you wont be asked to join a coven or other form of religious organization. Youll learn by reading the content, exploring different concepts and practice techniques and methods for developing in all these areas. At the end of the course, you can become a Keeper of Her Keys through self-initiation. You can become a Priest or Priestess of your own temple if that works for you. Once you complete self-initiation youll be referred to as a Guide in the Keeping Her Keys community and you will be able to mentor students taking this course. Lesson Two describes the Keeping Her Keys framework in detail.