20/08/2026
Gratitude prayer for Hekate: I come to you not asking to be saved from the darkness, but thanking you for teaching me how to walk through it. Thank you for meeting me in the shadows when I could no longer pretend they were not there.
For placing your torch in my hand and showing me the parts of myself I had buried, the wounds I had hidden, the grief I had swallowed, and the truths I was afraid to name.
You did not remove the darkness. You taught me that I could survive inside it. You stood beside me while old versions of me died. You watched me shed what could no longer follow me. And when I reached the crossroads between who I had been and who I was becoming, you reminded me that endings are sacred too.
Thank you for protecting me while I descended into my own depths. For guarding the threshold while I faced my shadows. For reminding me that there are things born in darkness that could never have been created in the light.
So when the shadows rise again, do not take them from me. Give me the courage to face them.
Give me the wisdom to understand them. Give me the strength to sit among the bones of everything I have outgrown and choose what deserves to rise with me.
Hekate, walk beside me into the places I fear.
Hold your torch above the truths I need to see.
Turn your key within every locked chamber of my soul until there is nowhere within myself I am afraid to enter. For I am learning that the darkness was never my enemy. Sometimes, it was where you were waiting for me.
Hail Hekate.
Goddess of the Crossroads.
Keeper of Keys.
Torchbearer in the darkness.
I honour the shadows you have helped me face and the woman who has risen from them.
