Those who worship only Avidya enter darkness; but into even greater darkness go those who are attached only to Vidya.
The wise tell us that Vidya and Avidya yield different results, and that both must be understood together.
He who knows both Vidya and Avidya together crosses death through Avidya and attains immortality through Vidya.
— Ishavasya Upanishad
Hekate is a miraculous mother whose wisdom is simultaneously terrifying and liberating. Hers is the Underworld Path of Terror and Beauty. It is the Path of Becoming Unfuckwithable.
Hekate is the divine paradox of uncorked rage that unapologetically chooses a side, while simultaneously breaking free of all false binaries...through even more uncorked rage!
This is the mystery at Hekate's crossroads.
As everything gets more polarized, as opposing elements get more and more strongly opposed in this dying world, there is terrifying transformative potential in all of this chaos, uncertainty and violence.
The path is paradoxical, which is why it's called nondual (Advaita). In practice, nonduality is a lot crazier and a lot more difficult than how Advaita writers and teachers describe it.
We are churned this way and that by the serpent-rope that purges poison from the ocean of milk, flung from one extreme to the other repeatedly. The depths of rakshasa consciousness, the heights of the devas, then back again, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, until, by a mysterious alchemical miracle, the Goddess appears.
Notice that sweet, gentle Lakshmi is churned out of a poison-filled milk ocean by opposing forces (asuras and devas), while the terrifyingly violent Bagalamukhi (who is 100% murderous, like Hekate, yet also a goddess of sacred opposites...also like Hekate) emerges from a pure, auspicious turmeric ocean.
Have you noticed how strange opposites are clashing together throughout our world, and sometimes inexplicably joining together? So much mindless, unconscious action from all corners, and yet it is not simply useless divisiveness (or the manipulations of an elite cabal that's trying to prevent a class war - not entirely).
What's really happening is that everything that was suppressed in the Underworld is erupting, and this world cannot spiritually bypass anymore.
An old world is rapidly dying, and simultaneously creating something new.
Many strange alliances, and other clashes of opposites, are reaching fever pitch in our world because we are being churned. Because what was suppressed in the collective unconscious is breaking free.
The contradiction is itself a meditation. Opposing forces are burning in the binaries until their conflict births That which has no opposite.
The friction, the motion of the churning, the division and the heat, is bringing all our poisons out. This is not a time for false unity, false peace or sweet words that bypass the roiling seas underneath. We are burning in our differences, going back and forth between opposites: left and right, friend and enemy, right and wrong, this and that.
It will break our hearts, but the heartbreak is also illumination. The heart breaks open.
This is exactly how it is on the Twin Flame path as well, and it's why Twin Flame Union is advaitabhavana: the awareness of not being two.
We are learning that all this churning, burning and friction are movements within the One/None. At the center of Hekate's crossroads all directions converge into one powerful point, the Axis Mundi.
Do you feel squeezed at Hekate's crossroads? Do you feel cornered into a liminal space that the conventions of false binaries erased? Stay there. Don’t rush to one side merely to relieve the anxiety of uncertainty. Hold your ground in the center until that squeeze, that uncomfortable liminal pressure, breaks the cage.
This is the place of pressure where consciousness must expand beyond "either/or" into "both/and."
It is the center point of Hekate's crossroads, where sacred alchemy takes place. Where the tension between two crossing roads dissolves into a luminous higher truth.