TRIPLE HECATE SPREAD

By Ellen Lorenzi-Prince
©2001 - 2004 All rights reserved

Hecate is my favorite Crone, a goddess of fire and darkness, magic and transformation. She initiates and guards all transitional states. Hecate provides the gateway, the magic, which can connect us to the great and nameless creatrix, She who may heed our prayers. In olden times, Hecate's statues stood not in temples of her own, but always at the threshold to other sacred places, before temples of many gods and goddesses including Cybele and Zeus. In relief or vase painting Hecate stands beside other goddesses, or leads their way with her torches. In literature and surviving custom, Hecate and her ghosts were held responsible for causing madness and misfortune, and it was to Hecate one prayed to be delivered from madness and misfortune. Hecate is both by your side and leading the way.  

This spread invokes Hecate to speak with you, sharing her advice for developing your wisdom, power and courage. The layout is in three sets of three for a total of nine cards.

  2     1     3 

5     4     6

8     7     9

  She is the Goddess of Crossroads

1.     Your Crossroads

This card represents your current situation, a moment of choosing that is at hand, or a pivotal point in your life right now.

2.     The Choice Within

This card represents advice Hecate offers on the direction and instruction to accept within yourself at this crossroads. 

3.     The Choice Without

This card represents advice Hecate offers on the direction to take in the outer world from this point of choosing.

  She is the Queen of Ghosts

4.     What Haunts You

This card represents a piece of your past that you have been unable to let go, unable to forgive, or unable to fully claim.

5.     What Helps You

This card represents what resources are available to you to help you move forward, to get beyond the pain or mistakes of the past, or to integrate the lessons or power left behind.

6.     What Waits For You

This card represents what is awaiting you in your future should this ghost become dismissed or integrated into your life. If you see this outcome as purely negative, then there is a great deal of fear involved in getting beyond this particular ghost. Extra help from a wise friend or counselor is indicated

She is the Goddess of Witches

7.     Your Magic

This card represents the aspect of your personal power Hecate suggests that you work with right now.

8.     The Opportunities Within

This card represents how this power may be used for your benefit in the inner realms.

9.     The Opportunities Without

This card represents how you may exercise or express this power in the outer world.