Hecate

But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive trees bearing rich fruit.

Only tender-hearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Perseus, heard the girl from her cave, and the lord Helios, Hyperion's bright son, as she cried to her father, the son of Kronos.

But he was sitting aloof, apart from the gods, in his temple where many pray, and receiving sweet offerings from mortal men.

So he, that son of Kronos of many names, who is ruler of many, and host of many, was bearing her away by leave of Zeus on his immortal chariot, his own brother's child, and all unwilling.

But no one would tell her the truth, neither God nor mortal man, and of the birds of omen none came with true news for her.

Then for nine days Queenly Dio wandered over the earth with flaming torches in her hands, so grieved that she never tasted ambrosia and the sweet draught of nectar, nor sprinkled her body with water.

But when the tenth enlightening dawn had come, Hecate, with the torch in her hands, met her, and spoke to her, and told her the news.

Queenly Demeter, bringer of seasons and giver of good

Lady Macduff, read by Elsie.

Hecate, read by Ruth Golding.

First Witch, recorded by Jennifer Stearns, Concord, New Hampshire.

Second Witch, read by Christian Hughes.

They are assailable.

Then be thou jocund.

Ere the bat hath flown his cloistered flight, Ere to black Hecate's summons the shard-born beetle With his drowsy hums hath rung night's yawning peal, There shall be done a deed of dreadful note.

What's to be done?

your vessels and your

spells provide your charms and everything beside i am for the air this night i'll spend unto a dismal and fatal end great business must be wrought ere noon upon the corner of the moon there hangs a vaporous drop profound i'll catch it ere it come to ground and that distilled by magic's lights shall raise such artificial sprites as by the strength of their illusion shall draw him on to his confusion he shall spurn fate scorn death and bear his hopes above wisdom grace and fear and you all know security is mortal's chiefest enemy End of Hecate's monologue from Macbeth.

Act III, Scene V.

This recording is in the public domain.

I don't know if you follow my YouTube channel or not, but I did.

Hecate was calling to me for a long time and I was ignored.

That's so funny that you said that.

I was just...

And I tried to record it three times.

I thought there was something wrong with the garage band.

And of course Hecate works in threes.

So it was interesting.

And one day, in a dark place, in a forest, she came to a crossroads, and there was a figure there, a woman, a woman with three faces, one old, one young, one quite young, And this woman sang and said, Greetings, Demeter, goddess of all growing things.

And Demeter said, Hecate, Hecate, please tell me, you who know the darknesses of this world, who know the underside of things, please tell me, where is my daughter? My dear daughter has been lost.

Have you seen her? Do you know where she is? And Hecate said, Speak to the sun god Helios, for he sees all things.

But I know this, Demeter.

This occurrence, this happened because of an old agreement between Zeus, the cloud gatherer, and his brothers.

I do like working within the shadows.

I do work with Hekate.

a lot but it's funny because this year I actually just started working with Helios so I'm definitely working with this duality but I still really I really love coming back to the shadow side of it all I love coming back to the dark side of it all because I think that there's so much to learn there and I think it can be a very transformational place and I know that it can be an uncomfortable place for a lot of people But I think that's where most of the answers you're looking for actually come from.

I really like to dissect the shadows and learn from the shadows a lot.

Hyperion the Titan god wed Thea, the Titan goddess, and their children were Hellas, the bright sun, and Selene, the clear moon.

And Coeus wed Phoebe, and their children were Leto, who was kind to gods and men, and Asteria of happy name, and Hecate, whom Zeus honored above all.

Now the gods who were the children of Cronus and Rhea went up into the mountain Olympus, and there they built their shining palaces.

But the Titan gods who were born of Heaven and Earth went up to the mountain Othrys, and there they had their thrones.

And Demeter, finding the girdle of her child in the spring, knew she had been carried off by violence.

She lighted a torch at Enna's burning mountain, and for nine days and nine nights she went searching for her through the darkened places of the earth.

Then, upon high and dark hill, the goddess Demeter came face to face with Hecate, the moon.

Hecate, too, had heard the cry of Persephone.

... uh, for Jay to reach out to her, and there was a very special ceremony that Halloween.

To Hecate.

We talk about this a lot when we have other content creators on, but just trying to strike that balance of, like, getting all your work done and all the fun stuff, like the business stuff that you wanna do, but also trying to find time for yourself in October.

And I...