Keeping Her Keys: An Introduction to Hekate's Modern Witchcraft - Second Edition

by Cyndi Brannen

Overview

The ancient goddess Hekate offers her keys of magick and mystery in the revised second edition of the internationally bestselling introduction to Hekate’s Modern Witchcraft, Keeping Her Keys. Designed as a program of self-study for deepening knowledge, strengthening practice, and discovering your own unique power, chapters cover the fundamentals from Hekate’s history to self-initiation. Animals, green witchcraft, meditations, reflective writing and more fill the pages, empowering the reader with the skills for claiming, and keeping, these keys offered by Hekate. Written by Cyndi Brannen, PhD, this book abides at the crossroads of the deeper world of Hekate and contemporary life. Through the lessons, readers are guided through exercises, rituals, and practices merging personal development with spirituality and magick.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789040753
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	12/01/2024
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dr. Cyndi Brannen is an outlaw witch devoted to Hekate and witchcraft. She teaches The Sacred Seven: A Course in Applied Modern Witchcraft. Cyndi has enjoyed a varied life as a psychologist, spiritual teacher and healer, social justice advocate, policy consultant, relentless outdoor adventurer and incurable optimist. Her blog, Keeping Her Keys, is a mixture of all these things with an emphasis on personal growth through Hekate and witchcraft, and it is this blog that inspired her new book of the same name. Cyndi lives in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Lesson 1 Modern Hekatean Witchcraft 8

Lesson 2 Keeping Her Keys 20

Lesson 3 Working with Hekate 44

Lesson 4 Hekate and Her Many Names 59

Lesson 5 Hekate's Characteristics 76

Lesson 6 Honoring Hekate 89

Lesson 7 Hekate's Wheel of the Year 110

Lesson 8 Hekate's Symbols 121

Lesson 9 Correspondences 134

Lesson 10 Hekate's Garden 155

Lesson 11 Divination 169

Lesson 12 Types of Sacred Space 175

Lesson 13 Spell Crafting 197

Becoming a Keeper of Her Keys: Self-Initiation 222

Initiation Self Test 240

Endnotes 243

Additional Prayers 247

About the Author 253

Acknowledgements 254