Some of the members of the group asked me to remind them when it was the day of my birth. Today is that day. July 2 1995 a baby girl was born. Forged through fire and brimstone she evolved into one bad bitch 🐦‍🔥 thank you for being you and for well wishes today. I love this community so much and I wish we could all get together and eat cake and share a glass of wine 🍷 🌙 🍰

Plato says the soul isn't a throne. It's a chariot, and something in you is always trying to bolt.🐎 In the Phaedrus, the philosophers draw one of the oldest maps of the inner life: the soul as "a winged charioteer and his team." We drive a mismatched pair. One horse is "fine and good and of noble stock." The other is "opposite in every way”. It’s the one that lunges, bolts, and drags the whole chariot off the road toward whatever it wants right now. That dark horse is the reactionary ego. Not evil. Not something to kill. Something to rein. The charioteer's job isn't to unhitch it and leave it in a field. It’s our job to hold both horses pulling the same direction long enough to see clearly and get to where we’re going faster. If that image feels familiar, it should. It's sitting right there in your tarot deck. The Chariot card shows a driver behind two sphinxes or horses, one black, one white, pulling in opposition. The whole meaning of the card is that mastery isn't force. It's holding the tension. You don't win by making the black horse disappear. You win by driving both. Here's the Hekatean turn Plato doesn't make. He gives us the charioteer and the horses. We add the crossroads and the torch. The reactive horse does its worst damage in the dark, like when you don't notice it's veered off track, away from the path you’d like to take. Shadow work is charioteering by torchlight: you go down, you look at the dark horse, you learn its name. Hekate Enodia stands with a light in the direction you should go. 🔦 Torchlight For Today: "One of these horses is fine and good and of noble stock, and the other opposite in every way. So in our case, the task of the charioteer is necessarily a difficult and unpleasant business." — Plato, Phaedrus 👇 Name your dark horse. What does the reactive part of you lunge toward every time? I'll go first. En Erebos, Phos. In darkness, light. Blessings, Tirza 🌿🗝️🌙 #WisdomWednesday #HekateanHealing #Phaedrus 📚 Further reading: Plato, Phaedrus (246a–254e, the chariot and the two horses) — Nehamas & Woodruff translations | Plato, Republic Book IV (tri-soul beneath the chariot) | Ellen Dugan, Witches Tarot (the Chariot, card VII) | Cyndi Brannen, Keeping Her Keys (Hekate and shadow work at the crossroads)

The deck is shuffled and the crossroads are open. This is our one day a week for card readings, so if there's a question sitting in your chest, today's the day to let the Oracle speak to it. Now, readings! Hekate Enodia, She of the Way, has 60 doors in the Oracle of the Hekatean Path. One of them has your name on it. And on a day like today, the door She opens might not be the one you were heading toward. It'll be the one the road was bending you to. 🗝️ Drop a number from 1–60 in the comments. I'll shuffle and count to find the message She left at the wayside shrine for you. Then I'll pull a supporting card from the Witches Tarot to light the way forward— because She doesn't just show you the door. She hands you the torch. You don't have to share your question if it's private. Hold it in your mind as you choose, and trust the number that pulls at you. First come, first drawn. I'll work through the comments as they land today, in between my errands and Tuesday responsibilities. They may come in slow, but every reading will come. 🔦 Torchlight For Today: "Hekate met her, holding a torch in her hands… 'Swiftly I tell you all the truth.'" — the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, where Hekate comes to grieving Demeter with light and word of where her daughter has gone, the torch-bearer who meets you in the dark and tells you where the road went 👇 Drop your number. Let Her of the Way show you what the reroute has been bending you toward. En Erebos, Phos. In darkness, light. Blessings, Tirza 🌿🗝️🌙 📚 The decks: Oracle of the Hekatean Path by Kenn Payne & Chris Butler | Witches Tarot by Ellen Dugan

Since Tirza is taking the weekend off I thought it would be nice if we could all share our favorite low spoons/limited energy spells that are really there for you when you need them and you know them like the back of your hand? I’m thinking spells that could be done from bed, spells that could be done on the train/in the car/however you commute, spells which are accessible and subtle, yet potent and powerful. Mine will be in the comments Alt text of image: Image of a number of houseplants, featuring an alocasia leaf and flower.

I recently planted some lavender by my door step and just wanted to share c: it's species is called La Diva Big Night 😂🪻