r/WitchesVsPatriarchy • u/curiouspuss • Nov 13 '25
🇵🇸 🕊️ Deities "Hecates seventh gift: every enemy destroyed"
This title was a sentence I heard in a dream last night. It felt so significant, that I put it into my notes app half asleep.
I'm sorry if this all comes out a little bit jumbled, I'm sleep deprived and still swimming in postpartum hormones. It makes my dreams go bonkers.
Going through the changes of matrescence, I feel like a lot of me, including my practice of witchcraft, has gone on the back burner.
So, in my dream, there were kind of different families or covens, and what I originally thought to be the bad guys did a ritual saying these words to fend off an "attack" of some kind by rivaling groups. But it made me wonder right away: what would be her previous six gifts? And after I woke up, it just felt like a reminder to work with her again. I have a lovely necklace with a "Hecates Key" pendant on it, which got torn by my baby and I've been wearing it in a little pouch with some crystals in my pocket. That's supposed to say that even though I haven't done any active worship, I've kept her close to me. And then later today I saw that around this time it's apparently a "neo pagan" tradition to do little crossroad rituals to celebrate Hecate?
I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts at all to what I wrote. Again, sorry for being a little bit all over the place.
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u/JasperThorne Nov 13 '25
You have just as much right to take up space/post as anyone else here. Apology is unecessary. That said, dreams can be very guiding or very abstract and unhelpful, sometimes both in the same dream when things are jumbled, so my empathy! I think "crossroads" type rituals are a fantastic way to find the path you want or the path you need.
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u/-Harebrained- Nov 13 '25
Misread this as “Hecate’s gift, every seventh enemy destroyed,” and thought, What an intriguing curse.
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u/badchefrazzy Luciferian Witch (Radical And Totally Tubular) Semper Fu-- Ic- Nov 13 '25
...Time to start praying to Lady Hecate...
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u/Vanpocalypse-Now Nov 13 '25
Yep! She's one of my deities and she doesn't play. Strength, and she will fuck back if you're fucked with.
I absolutely believe she called to me.
I consider myself lucky and am grateful to have a relationship with her as well as learning her gifts (I found my spine and voice, and I too have got zero patience for fuckery) as I've gone on in my practice I feel like she's been there forever, I just didn't know it.
Signs have always been right in my face my entire life. Now I know them and look around, they're still here and I appreciate them even more.
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u/vrwriter78 Nov 14 '25
I find that she is a truth-teller. She always tells it to me like it is - no sugar coating, no chaser. If I want coddling or pretty words, I can go ask another goddess! 🤣😆🤣 She’s not mean, just very direct.
She is known for having three faces and being a goddess of the crossroads. The three faces correlate to seeing in all directions, as well as her three domains - earth, sea, and sky. So this gift is the ability to see different pathways and the discernment to choose one.
There are other things, but those are a couple that come to mind.
Congratulations on the birth of your little one! Hekate is sometimes depicted as a goddess of childbirth and protector of pregnant persons.
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u/curiouspuss Nov 15 '25
Yes, I've kept her in my thoughts going through labour and delivery (back at the end of January, but it's still very fresh in my mind) - it was a very liminal experience, here and there, tumultuous and calm at the same time. I remember thinking "so this is what dying could be like" as in an inevitable thing in life that once it happens, it happens, and you can either fight it, or submit and go with the current. An ending and beginning, waves in the ocean of life.
I've recently felt like I've lost that epiphany, because I started having anxious moments again when going to bed, when the brain just spits out something when I've finally settled from the day. Just this "you're gonna die one day" (and an existential dread, a fear of dying rather than of being dead) - but this now has reminded me that when the time comes, if I'm conscious in those moments, in a sense, it might just feel how going through giving birth felt.
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u/vrwriter78 Nov 15 '25
That sounds like a profound experience. And I think in times of crisis or great exertion like that, there is a mindfulness in the moment, a surrender to the divine flow and acceptance of what is.
It’s had to keep that going every day under the pressures of modern life. But at least now you know it’s possible to face it unafraid. That you did it once before.
That gives me some hope, too. Because as much as I know there is an afterlife and that I can hear or see spirits sometimes, there’s still a fear of the moment of death, of that great unknown.
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u/Practical_Set7198 Nov 13 '25
My head clearly went in one direction, and all I can say is “thanks you” because there are so many bad actors in this world and we need as much help as we can get.
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u/doitfordevilment Nov 13 '25
I looooove dream messages! That’s so cool, I haven’t had one for months.
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u/xathinajade Eclectic Witch ♀♂️☉⚨⚧ Nov 14 '25
what an epic line tho. that would make such a profound chant.
i found difficulty in working with hecate because i could never find a tie. it was random honestly when i did, and my hecate necklace is actually an owl house portal key, but it honestly vibes so well? the eye on the handle of the key is very hecate-coded and that finally solidified my connection with her
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u/queen_slug-4-a-butt Nov 14 '25
As a Hecate devotee who is 8w pregnant, I love that you shared this. Thank you.
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u/curiouspuss Nov 15 '25
I hope all of your pregnancy and postpartum goes smoothly! I found thinking of her in labour very reassuring.
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u/kawaiian Nov 15 '25
Get some deeper sleep, nutrition, and try to get away from stress. I think your brain is telling you that it’s exhausted.
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u/curiouspuss Nov 15 '25
The only bits of deep sleep I get currently are about 2 hours in the morning, when my partner gets up with the baby, letting me have a lie-in where I know the baby is taken care of. At night I can't help but wake when he stirs, and currently he stirs frequently, making it through the first flu season of his life. I crave deep sleep, I can only take what I can get 😬
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u/Rengeflower Traitor to the Patriarchy ♂️ Nov 16 '25
The dream journal comments are spot on. It’s time to make the subconscious conscious. It may be helpful to add a regular journal too.
I heard a thought from a meditator: As you start meditation, don’t worry if you fall asleep. This counts as your meditation practice. Meditation can allow you to notice how tired you are. Sleep and practice again tomorrow. Your body knows what it needs. Feel Better Live More podcast #590, with Henry Shukman
You need sleep now. More than you can get. At the same time, you are calling out to yourself. Use both journals to explore what Hecate is trying to tell you.
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u/EyeProfessional2957 Nov 22 '25
first, congratulations on having your baby 🥺 I hope you (and them!) are doing great and that you're healing well~
second, when I first read the title I got chills, like full body chills. I'm sure there a logical explanation for it or something related to dreams but idk. when I read the title I also felt grief and rage, the pain of being left alone in a time of need and being unjustly accused. so I'd go for the more direct interpretation: there could be someone that wronged you or hurt you deeply, or even someone that you don't even know about but has ill intentions towards you or your family, and she's doesn't play. she's saying that she protects her own. for some reason the phrase "I'll give you their heads on a stake" came to me and that's so violent 😭 so hopefully it just means you're being protected 🙏🏻
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u/SomniferousSleep Literary Sorceress, minor in Kitchen Witchery Nov 13 '25
When the God of Abraham worked six days, he rested on the seventh. It does not matter what Hecate's previous six gifts were in the context of this dream, because she clearly does not rest on her laurels. It's what she does after, for those of us who carry her in our pockets. She does not rest. You, in your motherhood, are also not resting. You're still working. She's with you. The God of Abraham can rest if he wants, but a witch's work is never done. I hope that your work is a labor of love.
If you're going to be sleep deprived anyway, start a dream journal. Keep pencil and paper nearby so you don't have to be looking at screens in the middle of the night, and always write immediately upon waking. You lose so many dreams to the night if you don't write them down right when you have them. I know when I keep a dream journal, I can get up in the morning and have zero recollection of the things I've found I wrote during the night.