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It's subtle, challenging. You'd be great, he says.
(You're ready to kiss his shadow.).....
.....Your mother throws a fit when she finds out......
.....Stoned on courage inside your lover's cave,
you drink the darkness,
stroke a kitten's ghost, and pity her.
.....Before you know it,
the animals, plants and weather goddesses
are following your rhythm, making a hollow time

for souls to rest between fiestas....." 11

As we make our descent into the darkness, Persephone waits for us in the subliminal gray realm where we are suspended between the closure of an important phase of our lives and the beginning of the next one. Guide to our unconscious, she brings us to a discovery of our vision of renewal in the deep silent vast pools of the underworld psyche. The goddess Persephone anointed the dead and initiated them into the rites of rebirth. Her timeless mysteries continue to be enacted today within each of us as we move through our psychological transformations in the hope of being reborn anew. 12

2. HEKATE:
Mistress of Magick and Goddess of Witches, mistress of the Crossroads, demonized by patriarchy for her understanding and wise use of the "Dark Arts," Hekate stands with her sacred emblems: a key, rope and dagger, beside us at all the crossroads of our lives. She helps us access the deep mysteries and cthonic wisdom of the Earth and the subconscious.

Patroness of midwives, healers and seers, Hekate helps us understand what we See; and bear the pangs of death and rebirth which characterize the crisis of sudden Spiritual Emergence.

With her key to the underworld, Hekate unlocks the secrets of the occult mysteries and knowledge of the afterlife. The rope, which is also a scourge or cord, symbolizes the umbilical cord of rebirth and renewal. The dagger, later the Athame of the witches, is related to the curved knife that cuts delusion, and is a symbol of spiritual power......
As She looks three ways at once, Hekate gives us an expanded vision.....She gives us dreams and prophecies, whispers secrets to our inner ears, and enables us to converse with the spirits of the dead and unborn.
The kind of understanding that this Dark Moon Goddess brings is not rational thinking, but .....more like the radiant suffused light upon which are borne the inspired visions of artists, dreamers and seers. However, her light may bring more insight than a person can bear, and result in chaos, shattering the illusions of the human mind." 13

As Goddess of decaying material, Hekate glows

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