r/Hecate • • Nov 14 '25

Worship The Liber Hecates: Book of Hekate is out now! Link in post!

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My newest book in the Libri Deorum series, the Liber Hecates/Book of Hekate, is live now!

Who is Hekate? In Antiquity she was sung of in hymns and epics, sculpted to guard thresholds and crossroads, and inscribed onto gemstones and metals which were used as protective amulets. And even while the worship of the Greek gods receded, Hekate remained as the goddess of witchcraft, still spoken of by philosophers and playwrights as representing the most mysterious elements of a religion thought gone. Yet today her worship is revived and growing, as more and more people are drawn to her mysteries.

But who is she? Modern Hellenists, Wiccans, Witches, and more engage in both historical and theological debates over who exactly this goddess is, and this raises bigger questions: what is ‘magic’? How is it different from ‘religion’? And what can Hekate’s role as its goddess teach us about the questions humans of every religion have been asking for millenia?

From the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the Hesiodic Hymn to Hekate, through the words etched onto curse tablets and protective amulets, to the Greek Magical Papyri to the Chaldean Oracles, this book seeks to offer a comprehensive overview of the writings about Hekate in Antiquity and beyond. Tracing her through religion, philosophy, magic, and mysticism, here are the prayers, the philosophies, the poems; here is the Book of Hekate.

https://a.co/d/0nqXDeG


r/Hecate • • 6h ago

Protection spell

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I did a protection spell with mother Hecate . I prayed to her , asked her for her blessing and asked for protection. The wax after burning took the shape of a cloaked person almost protecting the flame / wick . I feel like she heard my prayer. 🖤🗝️🌹


r/Hecate • • 19h ago

offering for mama hekate🔑

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Sugar, cinnamon, pomegrade, pears, honey milk, red candle with her name carved, rosemary and cloves 🩷


r/Hecate • • 1d ago

New altar !🗝️🖤🕷️

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What do yall think? How can i upgrade it


r/Hecate • • 18h ago

Can our goddess help my sick kitten?

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I have this kitten that's the sweetest little girl and she suddenly got sick this morning. It could be something as simple as constipation or it could be as bad as liver failure and I'm terrified. I've been a rigorous devotee to Hekate for many years. I know she defends and protects animals, other than the mundane methods we're taking such as taking her to the vet today, is there a way or offering that I could make to ask for her help? She's like my baby and I'm terrified.


r/Hecate • • 1d ago

Altar set up! Would love feedback of things to add ✨

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r/Hecate • • 15h ago

Un signe de hecate?

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Bonjour , j'aimerais vous parler de quelques choses qui mes arriver. J'ai commencer la manifestation et a plus m'intéresser a la spiritualité il y a peu et hier soir vue que on était en pleine lune j'y ai effectué quelques rituel , de remerciement et de la gratitude puis j'ai effectué le rituel de la lettre d'ici un an.

Première choses que j'ai constaté plus tôt dans la soirée j'ai trouver une araignée sur le bas de ma porte se n'était pas une araignée comme on a l'habitude de voir dans les maison , elle était vraiment foncé et depuis que j'ai commencer la manifestation sa fait la deuxième que je voit toujours le même type et dans le même placement.

Passons au moment du rituel de gratitude jetait zen , apaiser et j'avais faite le vide quand soudain j'ai était prise de maux de tête et de vertige alors que j'etait assise par terre et de nausées et de tête lourde. Un fois fini je me suis lever et sa c'est calmer sauf que ensuite je prend mon téléphone er regard tiktok et je voit une dame sans hashtag et que je n'avais jamais vue dans mon fil d'actualité dire ''Hecate vous appelle , vous donne des signes''. Avant hier et tout se rituel je n'avais jamais entendu parler de Hecate ni dans des videos ni nul part elle est venue directement comme ça.

Je suis novice dans tout se qui est spirituelle et divinité donc pouvez-vous m'aider a y voir plus clair, est-ce que il faut que je l'appelle pour savoir si je suis une parmi elle qu-est-ce que je doit faire et qu'en penser vous? Merci


r/Hecate • • 1d ago

Deconstructing Christianity Advice Needed

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Hello everyone!

So I`ve been born in an orthodox country and during my formative years I`ve met a priest who clearly was clarvoyant and strongly believed in the Orthdox God. I know for a fact that he was the real deal and he passed a way. Being extremely devoted to christianity, of course he hated witches, which had a very strong impact on my upbringing.

Lately I've got more and more into devoting myself to Hecate, as I feel not only drawn to her, but also I have this immense spiritual thirst. Of course, my past tells me it's wrong, and at a given time, the priest visited me and told me to back the f off from witchcraft in a very scary way ( was listening a hymn to Hecate on repeat, and a very specific christian song from my childhood started playing on my phone).

I asked Hecate about how she feels about me, what I should do, and other different variations during my readings, and every single time she tells me the same thing: I`m at a crossroads, I should find a way of going forwards and I need to decide how to move forwards.

I had enough experiences to know the Christian God is real, exists and does things, but I`m not very into practicing this as I`m a feminist, and I do not like the idea of seeing myself less than a man. But I have this incredible fear since childhood, that if I stray from the chirstian path I`m devoting myself to a bad deity and I`m doing things against the natural order, so I`ll burn in the deepest hole of hell.

What I`m trying to say, guys, is that I`m confused, and my beliefs from childhood really affect my practice and current wishes. Did anyone else had these struggles? How did you overcome it?


r/Hecate • • 1d ago

Hecate and Bathing

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I would be grateful for any advice. I am very new to this and have sought Hecate for guidance after my wife died. I have always considered myself agnostic or atheist…Then after her death I started noticing things, like owls and my dreams and other small things. It’s a list.

When I first set up an altar, I stated my intention on the new moon. I said that I am inviting Hecate into my life and I’m seeking guidance as I navigate because life has been rough.

(I cannot begin to explain what it’s like losing your spouse and the agony of loss is only the beginning. My world burnt down and it always feels like there’s a tidal wave looming. “Grief rewrites who you are” said a fellow widow. I’ll agree to that; I am a very different person and yet I am more myself than I ever was. I can’t say I’ve made the best decisions. My actions destroyed a relationship and it’s shifted me to reexamine my messy self and figure out how to start living again and being a better version of myself.)

The night of the new moon in October I built a fire in my backyard, brought my alter at the door to my yard and burned my late wife’s shirt. I asked Hecate to look after those two people in their changes and transitions, the one living who I had hurt and the one who had died.

A few nights later, I dreamt I was in the backyard of my childhood home, cleaning weeds and near the sandbox around sunset. The light was golden. I saw three women across the yard, outside the fence. They were curious, dressed in black, standing together, sort of talking and looking over at me. They were different but the same. I walked over and asked, “Why are you here?” and they said, “You invited us.” It was just a peaceful exchange. I asked, “What can I do?” And the women responded that I need to bathe three times during the full moon. That’s all.

What on earth does that mean? I started looking up bathing and Hecate. The book I have doesn’t really mention bathing rituals. Mostly I’ve found sites trying to sell me bath salts. I don’t believe it’s about perfection but intention. Does it mean that I take three showers or is this something I do in a ritual sense with a large bowl of water washing my face and hands. How do I meditate on meaning and focus my energy? I don’t know what to do. Can someone offer any advice about bathing rituals? Many thanks. 💗


r/Hecate • • 1d ago

Asked for guidance from Hecate for a domination spell candle burned half way

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Hi! I asked for help on a domination spell. I called upon Lilith and Hecate. Hecates candle burned down halfway in the middle. What do you guys think this means? Liliths candle burned fine


r/Hecate • • 1d ago

Made my first offering!

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Hello everyone, I’m proud to say I have made my first offering to Mother Hecate on the hunter full moon and on my way to the crossroads I saw 2 black dogs and a crow and felt a very lightweight, peaceful feeling it was so amazing. Happy full moon everyone!


r/Hecate • • 1d ago

Am I not seeing the signs or am I in the wrong path here?

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A little back story, I’ve been interested in Hellenism since I was a kid because I read a lot, but I never got into actual practice for a long time because I had a catholic upbringing that I abhorred so much that I just became a full atheist, numb to EVERYTHING spiritual.

A while back, after a reading I was told to seek Persephone but somehow I just had Hecate in mind. I started to read books and made a little alter, but I didn’t see any signs or ‘feel’ that I was accepted as one of her daughters, even after a few deipnons.

I’m normally obtuse to signs of any type and really need to work on that, but I don’t know if that and the fact that I struggle to be constant in my spiritual work is making that disconnection or silence or if she doesn’t want to work with me.

So, thoughts? How did you start receiving signs? Is there a definitive sign that this is not my path or is this silence because I’m lacking somewhere? Any help is appreciated!


r/Hecate • • 22h ago

Hello 🖤 I a new Hecate devote and would love some advice on my altar, so far I have a statue of Hecate, some black candles, lavender, bark, honey, a beautiful antique key. I feel very called to Hecate, she is in my 12th house and have been hearing her for a long time, thanks 💫

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r/Hecate • • 1d ago

Have questions about working with Hecate as a newbie witch!!!

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Let me start by saying that I’ve always avoided witchcraft and deity work because of my cautious nature. I can easily get scared and anxious… when I decided to work with Hecate, it was such a sudden decision, I had a dream and did a test… then I did a tarot to see what she feels about working with me even tho I don’t fully knew about her, results were good. So I started, but not in traditional way, I’m new to this I can’t set up that perfect altar and do those complicated rituals…
I started by inviting her and talking to her, this part is quite funny, as I said I’m very cautious and anxious, I told her all about myself, asked her to be gentle with me, told her that I’m not good with words, that I want to be able to talk with her in my own way of being a yapper lol!!!
And lemme be honest I had a very weird feeling in a good way, after two weeks I did a tarot asking her how she feels about my practice, it was as if she’s still hasn’t bonded with me but it was promising. So I continued, and the second time that I did a tarot with her, I asked her about how she feels now, it was The Chariot and I was jumping around happily!!! But there was another card about how she sees my struggles, she directly pointed out my fears, which was interesting since i had the very problem within myself!!!
Meanwhile i did a deity identification, results were very interesting, most cards were coordinated towards her nature, and some weren’t, the region she rules over??? It was Temperance… I never saw people mentioning how related this card is to her, since she walks through liminal spaces… it made so much sense!!!
Now about my communication style and offerings… as I said I can’t afford to buy things specifically for her, things that I chose I do with my heart, coffee Beans, Sugar Candy, Jelly, and sometimes when I’m doing something in the kitchen I feel like she wants this a an offering, for example Cucumber and Rose stem recently, while offering I told her that I’m not sure if my intention was right or I’m being delusional!!! I play music, spray perfume, and once I showed her bunch of reels of funny cats and animals!!! As you can see, it’s as if I have a unique way of communicating with her, I talk to her from the depths of my heart but not in a formal way, I talk with intimacy yet respect, I talk about my day and things that I think through during the day… and sometimes I feel like I wanna cry??? It’s weird. I can’t see her a scary figure I’m to confident with her. Two nights ago did a tarot about how she feels about my offerings, it was Nine of Pentacles and it was so heartwarming!!!
I should mention this as well, at first there was a little to no signs, and I wasn’t worried, actually the opposite, I feel like she understood that she should be gentle to me, and the nights that I talk to her, I have less nightmares!!!
Then i began to see signs wondering again if I’m realizing it right or being delusional, told her that I have problems with understanding certain indirect signs and symbols, I’m just that way I’m way too literal…
There were signs that caught my intuition and I hope I’m not being wrong!!! Once I saw 3 crows on a street light lamp and I thought of her, once I lighted up her candle and asked her to listen to my songs with me while I’m tiding up my room, and as i heard the lyrics where Hozier says "Nothing can fuck with my baby!" I had goosebumps as if it was her message to me??? I said Hecate tell me I’m not being delusional, next song was Cinnamon which I read that it is related to her!!! Again, I might be delusional…
I use small warmer candles, her altar isn’t in place that wind can affect the flame, but as I was talking to her and showing her something, her candle flame was jiggling???
It’s about how confident I am with her, that I feel like I can talk to her and being a yapper and I don’t feel anxious which it self is a strong sign!!!


r/Hecate • • 1d ago

woke up with "hekate" repeating in my head

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okay, im not a witch, ever so curious about it, but never understood how to start. i do incenses, i mindful showers and dances, i have a strong belief my intuition is legit. but thats all.

i want to get into tarot but ive never felt the right time.

fast forward to today morning, the word "hekate" kept repeating in my head. this happens with me sometimes with songs and stuff, so i thought it must be a song that i cant remember. now im sitting in college, looking for "hekate" on spotify and what starts playing in my ear can only be described as chanting, of sorts.

so i googled, and found that hekate is a goddess of witchcraft. sooo....is she, like, calling me?


r/Hecate • • 1d ago

Signs from Hecate?

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Very new to witchcraft and spirituality I have dabbled in tarot a little before but witchcraft has always been an interest. Recently I have been doing some more research and have decided for my first spells I will do a couple of small workings to set up some protection jars and sweetening jars.

Interestingly I feel that Hecate has come up for me quite a bit in research I feel the nature of her worship highlighting respect and sincerity to really align with my personal beliefs and values.

Earlier today I was on Instagram (classic) and I found a video talking about a message from Hecate, Initially I scrolled past but I got an immediate sinking nauseous feeling, so I scrolled back up and I immediately felt fine when I watched the video. In short the video was a devotee expressing that it was a message that Hecate was reaching out an invitation to follow her essentially. (the video was from august so I'm also intrigued why it was put into my feed...)

Through today I have noticed a few spiders and there has been a family of 3 crows which have been visiting daily for probably a month or 2.

I was wondering if this feels to anyone like a sign or more like a few coincidences.

I feel that previously I have been kind of scared of Hecate as when I was younger many people seemed to deem her dangerous or unreasonable but from further research I feel that the issues people have are more from being disrespectful to her.

Any advice is appreciated, I am nervous around deity work as I am brand new to witchcraft and I don't want to make any faux pas and mess up my whole life. I appreciate any advice!


r/Hecate • • 1d ago

Hecate and spiders

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Hi so I dont really know how to start this. I never went into witchcraft much, kinda didnt know how to get into and find a connection. I recently started seeing a lot of spiders, due to that I just keep taking pictures of them cause I believe theyre beautiful. My friend that is heavily into witchcraft, said that someone is trying to reach me this way and it might be Hecate. After long talk, I decided to try to simply ask for a sign? It was first just "show me a spider in next 24h", asked around 2am. I completely forgot about it for the rest of the day, but at 2am I felt something on my right, lil black fella was walking on it. Then the other day one was going around my right arm, from nowhere again. And now, once again in different room, at 2am I see a black spider running on my right hand. I honestly dont know how to feel about all that and what to do. Im pretty scared of comments here, i dont want to be judged at all. Just, should I take it seriously? Do I overthink and its all about winter season and them getting in houses?


r/Hecate • • 1d ago

Quick Question

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Hey quick question | light a candle on my Hekate alter tonight and the flame split in two on the left side of the flame it was like blue sparkling and thin line of white smoke is this a good sign or bad omen


r/Hecate • • 2d ago

Should i start to worship Hecate?

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Hello Reddit, I'm new here and recently started learning about Hecate after stumbling across a TikTok trend about finding your deity. I usually don't believe in this stuff but curiously, right after I started reading up on her, my life immediately took a turn for the better for example, I received a huge offer the following days and had an incredibly lucky week overall. Given this sudden streak of good fortune, should I take this as a genuine sign to start actively worshipping her?


r/Hecate • • 1d ago

I THINK hecate is coming

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So Ive been seeing a lot of 333's all the time for months. And today i felt a presence in my room and my dog's name blurted itself out. my dog died in january 19 2026. But I also searched it up and it says usually dogs bark or they announce she's coming. and my dog has never visited me before but he did now that Im thinking about her all the time so i think its her. other than that Im fairly new to witchcraft and tarot reading but my intuition is extremely good so I wonder is she coming?? like does anyone know?


r/Hecate • • 3d ago

Can a newbie work with these Three Goddess ??

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Hello! I’m completely newbie and I want to know how to connect with Hecate. What kind of signs does she usually show ? Or does she choose us (I’ve heard some people say that).

Tbh, I’m really really interested in witchcraft. Would it be dangerous to worship or work with mother Hecate, Lilith and Aphrodite at the same time?? And can I still worship them without having altars??

I’d love to hear from anyone who has experience worshipping or working with these three goddess ?? Please share your experiences and advices for a beginner!


r/Hecate • • 2d ago

Found the offering covered with bugs

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Hi guys, I am starting this journey with Hekate and although this ain’t the first time I give her an offering, I never once had this type of answer nor reaction before.

I left her a cup of shiny, champagne-color full of wine along with bread, dried roses and garlic, as well as a painting of a full moon. After a month I checked the cup of wine, and now not only I found it empty but also full of those small worms.

I asked my tarot deck, the answer I got is the Ace of swords, the Tower and The lovers. But I still have a hard time understanding this; was it a bad offering, or a warning sign? How can I interpret this?


r/Hecate • • 3d ago

Is Hecate a fierce protector as Santa Muerte?

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r/Hecate • • 3d ago

New

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Want to get into witchcraft and see about hekate but don’t know where to start for a fresh beginning


r/Hecate • • 2d ago

Question about editions of The Hekataeon by Jack Grayle

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Greetings,

I am shopping around for an edition of The Hekataeon that feature the corrected Greek text that was introduced a few years ago. As far as I know, the Cassidy edition is the first edition to feature these edits. There doesn't seem to exist a complete (or at least not easy to find) list of which editions since that feature the corrections. The new trade edition, for example (which is also available as a digital version), does not seem to feature them. Some guidance would be most appreciated.🖤🔥