On Hekate and Keys

So as part of our SoK work, we were asked to write something for the community. I thought long and hard about what to write, and didn’t really know for a long time. I don’t feel like much of a scholar where Hekate is concerned. I feel I’m better at creative things than academic work. Hekate brings out my creativity, not my inner research nerd. There’s still a part of me that wants to write a piece of fiction to try to explain all the things I’ve experienced since beginning the SoK practice back in July, and maybe I might do that some day when I feel like I know how that would work.

Then again, most of my scholarly energy goes into Sobek work, if I’ll be honest, if only because who else is doing it? There’s plenty of others who are doing a much better job of researching Hekate than I would do. So, this left me with no real idea of what to write to give back to the community.

I spent some time in meditation with Hekate, but our conversations were less than helpful, and all I settled on was keys. I don’t know if this is the kind of thing we’re meant to write, but this is all I feel compelled to write. So much of my response to this work is personal. I can talk about keys and locks and thresholds and their place in history, but to be honest, none of that feels like what I need to write about right now, so this is what you’re getting.