I've been doing beach rituals to Hekate Einalia this whole summer (Hekate as goddess of the sea) and it's taken me until this weekend to really understand what I was sensing with Her. Because this whole summer it's like She was in my blind spot - I would do rituals to Her and get really confused because She was knocking on a place in my consciousness where I'm totally dissociated from the deep ocean and my connection to the planet.
Hekate Einalia rages for Her dying fish, for the disappearing red coral that is Her menstrual blood, for the exploitation of the abundant resources of Her waters. She rages for the serpents and mermaids and sirens of Her waters, many of whom have been bound and forced into work by magicians. She rages for Her stolen seashells, which many of Her sea children rely on. She screams as pollutants and garbage are dumped in Her waters, and She weeps when the innocent victims of our cruel world throw themselves off bridges and cliffs to drown in Her embrace.
When that Titan submersible exploded under the Atlantic last summer and a billionaire's superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily recently, that was Her. That was Her taking sacrifices as payment for everything they took from Her waters.
The rage of the Ocean Mother has been rocking me, shaking me out of a zombie trance, on a deeply unconscious level. I have not been able to even articulate what She brings up in me until now, and I've been doing beach rituals for Her since May. Her sea tides have been slowly syncing up with my menstrual cycle, and I could feel something very deep shifting within me...but I couldn't understand Her until now.
Hekate Einalia isn't some smiling, sweet water goddess. She's a shark. She's an ancient, terrifying monster out of the Mariana Trench. She is the Mother of the Sea and you will not fuck with Her resources or Her sea creatures. Her life-giving waters are not to be taken for granted.
She isn't a joke, She isn't tame, and She isn't fit for commercialized witchcraft. I think that was part of what blinded me to Her true, wild sea nature. I need to distance myself from these consumerist occult communities, because even on a subconscious level, their superficiality disconnected me from the very goddess I was doing rituals to.
Hekate Einalia has woken me up to places in my consciousness that have become very...mechanical. Very dissociated, as I've needed to dissociate while in survival mode. She washes away the influences of popular, politically correct opinions about Her and slave-like thinking in witchcraft communities. Her divinity is dangerous and seemingly unnatural in a world so severed from the Ocean Mother's deep, underwater currents. She has firmly returned me to the wild truth of Her sovereign nature, which is quite alien to human civilization.
Humans evolved from the sea and She is our original source, the Ocean Mother of the ancient, primordial sea creatures that crawled onto shore for the first time and eventually learned to walk upright on two legs.
That might also be why I felt like She was hitting me all summer in my blind spot, in a place where I had fallen into an amnesiac state. If humans evolved from the sea millions of years ago, then doing rituals on the beach to Hekate Einalia may have connected me to my oldest genetic memory.
Either way, Hekate Einalia has re-affirmed to me that this ancient Anatolian and Titan goddess, this queen of the crossroads, land, sky, and sea, is much wilder than the politically correct, consumerist, mainstream-friendly aesthetic witchcraft community understands.
Even the Hekate communities that have popped up everywhere have diluted Her, domesticated Her, commodified Her, and made Her "fit" into this profoundly sick society. In doing so, they have been subtly influencing me away from Her true, deep nature.
She does not fit into this profoundly sick society.
She rips apart all forms of social control, oppression, delusion, lies and hoards of stolen wealth. She brings clarity to those of us who have been glamored by a parasitic elite so that our souls could be caged and siphoned, like the souls of Her beloved water spirits who are held captive by certain kinds of magicians and forced to bring abundance to their wicked masters.
She is the Witch who stands in opposition. She is Holy Darkness. She is the Queen of the Underworld and the Queen Under the Sea. She is the leftest of the Left Hand. She is the mother of all monsters of the nightside, and Her real face will seem monstrous to a society that enslaved souls and danced in the sunlight while ignoring their own shadow, letting it sink deep underwater.
This isn't a politically correct goddess. At all. It's like being in the presence of a Dragon. She will make you own your wild, authentic Divine Feminine nature even if it makes you a social pariah. She is not one for half measures, and frankly, She wants blood. She wants sacrifices of human flesh to Her waters, as payback for the exploitation. She is not interested the deaths of kind-hearted innocents. She wants the life blood of the oligarchs and their yes-men/yes-women who did this to Her oceans.
It's pretty consistent with the lore in some ways. Remember, a defixiones tablet (a curse tablet) had to be thrown in the sea for it to work in the Greco-Roman world.
My entire trauma bond with false collectivism, a worn allegiance to a false and exploitative civilization, is finally being released. Hekate wanted me to do this for years, and showed me many signs about my life purpose in relation to the collective, but there was no way for me to actually believe what She was showing me. The true horror and rot beneath the surface was just completely inconceivable to me at the time. I could not see what Hekate was trying to make me see. Now I can.
Hekate Einalia's huge waves crash through deep denial.
In integrating what Hekate Einalia is bringing up for me, an entire old paradigm is breaking apart. Totally smashing to pieces, like shattered mirrors.
Hekate is strict with me and will demand my complete integrity, which means 100% loyalty to my own soul and the willingness to see beyond the surface of things. She didn't even let me share Her secrets with my Twin Flame. My Twin has to either evolve or She will literally allow him to drop dead and I am not able to interfere with that - not with his free will, nor with Her stern gaze upon him.
She not only ends all codependency with my Twin, She also ends all codependency with a doomed civilization.
She is Holy Darkness and it has taken me a while to fully accept the extent of Her fearsome nature. The more I accept what I'm really feeling and sensing from Hekate Einalia, the more I find clarity, peace, and a restored, private connection to Hekate.