posted December 13, 2011 03:27 PM            

I found an article on Hekate:

"Hekate is primarily a goddess of the Underworld, holding dominion over death and rebirth. This is meant both in the literal sense and in the metaphorical as well. For life is filled with many deaths and rebirths aside from that of the flesh. Because of this the Dark of the Moon especially is her time of the month, since it is a time of endings and beginnings, when what was is no more, and what will be has yet to become.

Hekate guards the limenoskopos (the doorstep), for she is a goddess of liminality and transition. Of being on and crossing boundaries. This includes not only the boundary between life and death, but any boundaries, such as those between nature and civilization, waking and sleep, sanity and madness, the conscious and the subconscious minds. Indeed, any transition can be said to be her domain. As such she is also goddess of the crossroads, where the paths of one's life fork and a person must choose which future to embark upon. In ancient times these were believed to be special places where the veil between the worlds was thin and spirits gathered.

Hekate is also the goddess of psychological transformation. Her Underworld is the dark recesses of the human subconscious as well at that of the Cosmos. Many have accused her of sending demons to haunt the thoughts of individuals. What they fail to understand is that the demons are not hers, but their own. By the light of her twin torches Hekate only reveals what is already there. These are things which the person needs to see in order to heal and renew. However, if they are not prepared for the experience of confronting their Shadow then it can truly feel like they are being tormented. Hekate is not motivated by cruelty, nor is she seeking to harm. But her love can be tough love. She will prompt a person to face the things that they must, whether they like it or not.

Then and now Hekate is a goddess of Witchcraft and those who walk between the worlds. In the ancient world she was the patroness of those magicians- often women and the transgendered - who practiced magic, herbalism, and religion outside of the boundaries of the established temples and civil authorities of Greece. This is one reason she and her followers have often been feared and reviled. They stand with at least one foot outside of the conventional world.

She is not commonly portrayed as such, but I also see her as a shamanic deity. Her Underworld is the abode of the Shadow-Self and the journeys of the shaman to confront it. It is also the place of the shamanic ordeal of death, dismemberment, and rebirth. A place of otherworldly spirits who may aid or hinder the practitioner. Likewise, her followers are people who walk between the worlds, whether the worlds of magical and mundane, urban and rural, men and women, conventional and unconventional society. For all those who need a companion on the dark pathways they must walk, Hekate goes with them. While she may not be the deity many people would like, she is the one whom they need. Because of this I believe that she comes to those who require her, whether or not they were looking for her.

While some Greeks describe her as a virgin goddess, it bears noting that to the Ancient Greeks the word virgin did not always mean a girl uninitiated into sexual intercourse, but could also mean a woman not beholden to any man. In this sense, Hekate is indeed a virgin goddess. While in the more common sense of the word she certainly is not, for she is held to be the mother of several children, such as the god Museus and the Witches Medeia and Kirke (Circe).

In modern Neo-Pagan practice Hekate is typically identified as an aspect of the Crone, and as such is most often portrayed as an old woman. This is in contrast to ancient vase murals which depict her as being an adult woman in her prime. As with many things about this goddess, this is a perception that has changed over time. However, the Crone aspect of the modern Triple Goddess is not truly defined by her age, but rather by the powers her age represents (that of wisdom, magical potency, annihilation, and the transformative journey through the Underworld), and those indeed fall under Hekate's domain. So while perhaps not historically accurate, this is not a demotion or devaluing of her, but rather the way in which modern Neo-Paganism fits her into its philosophy (this difficulty with integrating her into their cosmology is something that we will see Neo-Pagans share with the Ancient Greeks as well).

Hekate is more often than not portrayed as carrying two torches and is known as "The Torch-Bearer". She carries these because of her role as a guide through the transition of the Underworld. One torch shows a person where it is they currently stand, the other where they might go. In this manner she reveals the mysteries of transformation to those who enter her realm of darkness. Hekate is also shown carrying a key, for she is the opener and closer of the door to the Underworld. In modern interpretations she is the guardian of and guide through the individual's Unconscious mind as well. So again, she is the key to the deeper mysteries. She also has a scourge (whip) which is the umbilical of rebirth and renewal. Her dagger (which later became the athame of Wicca) cuts delusion and is a symbol of ritual power.

The black poplar and yew trees are sacred to Hekate, as is the willow tree. Wild animals are also loved by her (something I believe originates from her earliest days as a prehistoric fertility deity), and she is sometimes shown with three animal heads - the dog, snake, and lion, or alternately the dog, horse, and bear. The serpent, long connected to the chthonic powers of death and rebirth due to the shedding of its skin and its living beneath the earth, is strongly connected with her. In fact, she is often shown holding a snake in one hand.

However, her primary animal form and familiar is the dog, and she was at one time considered to be "The Dog of the Moon". She is associated with the three-headed dog Kerberos who guards the gates of the Underworld. The Dog Star Sirius, whose rising foretold the annual flooding of the Nile, is also considered sacred to her. According to legend Hekate can be seen walking the roads and graveyards at night, particularly during the dark moon, accompanied by her howling dogs - which are usually black in color. Furthermore, it was said that when she chose to walk the earth invisible to the eyes of humans, dogs could still see her, as it was believed they could see all disembodied spirits. So if they started baying at night it meant Hekate or some other ghost or apparition was near, and a dog howling at the moon was considered to be a harbinger of death. As Virgil writes: "Then earth began to bellow, trees to dance and howling dogs in glimmering light advance ere Hekate came."

The waning crescent moon and the new moon are associated with Hekate, as they are symbols of death and renewal. She is strongly connected to the moon in fact. The Witches who followed her in the ancient world, such as Medeia, were attributed powers such as the ability to draw the moon from the sky. Some believed that after the death of the body, the soul was gathered up by the Moon as it passed overhead. While on the other hand new souls were transmitted from the Sun to the Moon, which in turn sowed them into new bodies at the same time it was gathering up the old souls. Here we see how Hekate's power of the Moon was in fact only a facet of her position as Goddess of the Underworld.

Hekate is also associated with a curious wheel shaped design, known as Hekate's Wheel, or the "Strophalos of Hekate". It is a circle which encloses a serpentine maze with three main flanges, that in turn are situated around a central, fiery spiral. The symbolism refers to the serpent's power of rebirth, to the labyrinth of knowledge through which Hekate could lead humankind, and to the flame of life itself: "The life-producing bosom of Hekate, that Living Flame which clothes itself in Matter to manifest Existence" (according to Isaac Preston Cory's 1836 translation of the Chaldean Oracles). The three main arms of the maze correspond with her being a triple goddess, as well as goddess of the three ways, and that she has dominion over the earth, sea, and sky. " http://home.comcast.net/~subrosa_florens/witch/hekate.html

posted December 13, 2011 04:24 PM            

Hekate is conjunct Sirus, the Dog star (1 deg orb) in my chart, which is something that is mentioned in your article - I wonder if that has any significance??

It also conjunct Logos, Nefertiti and Ur.

Hekate also forms an exact grand trine with Neptune and Chiron in my chart. Here I am sensing something like this .... The compassionate (Neptune) gatekeeper (Hekate) who faces the darkness of deep seated wounding in order to find healing (chiron)and transformation (hekate)

posted December 13, 2011 07:44 PM            

I have Hekate 17 deg in Gemini house 1
sextile Psyche
sextile Eris
conjunct Itokawa
conjunct Persephone
sextile Ceto
square Rhadamanthus
trine MC
trine Kalliope
trine Amphitrite
trine ARMC
square Heracles

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posted December 15, 2011 06:06 PM            

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posted December 15, 2011 06:16 PM            

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I am going to study Hekate and report back. I am seeing you, a lot in charts. This is my sign to get on the ball

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My hekate conjuncts my Jupiter with 3.5 degree, squares pluto with 1 degree, quintiles Mars, bi-quintiles neptune, trines mercury with 2.5 degree.

posted January 20, 2012 06:44 AM            

Nothing else is scary or overtly negative in the composite, Even Nessus is not afflicted at all in the composite.

Strangely, Paul's chart has the standard Nessus affliction [Nessus square Sun] plus Chiron opposing Hekate exact. Ofcourse both Mercury and Saturn are retrograde. Paul's chart also has the possible kidnapper dynamic of Pluto conjunct Persephone with Mercury and Eros bang in the stellium.

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posted February 02, 2012 07:28 PM            

Hekate was so revered in ancient Greece,that,at one point,it became politically inconvenient to have such a powerful female deity. So,if you are researching,you should be careful with early texts,for many is written in order to defame her. From gorgeous goddess she became an old hag.

posted February 05, 2012 07:54 PM            

The aspects that it has are:
3 degrees conjunct Jupiter
3 degrees conjunct Circe (which is near exact conjunct my Jupiter)
Near exact quincunx Uranus
Near exact conjunct the MC

Also, my Jupiter has an aspect with Cerberus as well, it is a 2 degree trine. My Jupiter is at 7 degrees Leo and is in the 9th house.

posted June 10, 2012 11:59 PM            

Here is the initial post from the locked thread by @FrozenQueen:
http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum24/HTML/205660.html

Asteroid 100 HEKATE is a large main-belt asteroid. It orbits in the same region of space as the Hygiea asteroid family, though it is actually an unrelated interloper. Its albedo of 0.19 is too high, and it is of the wrong spectral class to be part of the dark carbonaceous Hygiea family.
HEKATE was the 100th asteroid to be discovered, by J. C. Watson on July 11, 1868. It is named after Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft in Greek mythology, but its name also commemorates it as the hundredth asteroid, as hekaton is Greek for 'hundred'.
Mythology of Hekate
Queen of the Night, triple-faced Hekate (heh-KAH-tee) is one of the most ancient images from a pre-Greek stratum of mythology and an original embodiment of the Great Triple Goddess. She is most often linked with the dark of the moon and presides over magic, ritual, prophetic vision, childbirth, death, the underworld, and the secrets of regeneration. Mistress of the crossroads, this lunar goddess dwells in caves, walks the highways at night, makes love on the vast seas, and is the force that moves the moon.

Her three faces reflect the triple extension of her powers over heaven, earth, and underworld, Here in the realm of nature she was honored as Selene, the moon, in heaven; Artemis, the huntress, on earth; and Hekate, the destroyer, in the underworld. In this triad form she had control over birth, life, and death.

HEKATE, due to her associations with death and regeneration, is also an important aspect in Reptilian charts along with KAALI and Venus.
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In my chart, HEKATE conjuncts the dark goddess KAALI alongwith TRANSYLVANIA in the 8th house in Pisces.

Where is your HEKATE?

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posted July 15, 2012 06:18 AM            

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Hekate on NN,in Pisces.

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Wow! That is some soul destiny you have!!!!

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Hekate was so revered in ancient Greece,that,at one point,it became politically inconvenient to have such a powerful female deity. So,if you are researching,you should be careful with early texts,for many is written in order to defame her. From gorgeous goddess she became an old hag.

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posted July 15, 2012 07:11 AM            

I've got Hekate in Leo, it exactly conjuncts my Moon, and Lucifer is another 1,5 degrees appart, so this is a triple conjunction, i guess. My SN isn't far apart, too.

Interestingly enough, this conjunction is also conjunct a fixed star Acubens.

posted July 15, 2012 09:08 PM            

This one's for your inner child : the Queeeeen of The Night!

June Anderson, Queen of the Night in AMADEUS (Mozart)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3JHcZsiM1g&feature=related