Tonight is the dark moon — 0.6% illuminated, which is just a technical way of saying the sky is empty right now. No light. Just the threshold. Which means tonight's ✨New Moon Coven Circle✨ is happening at exactly the right moment. Join me on the Skool call in two hours, 9:00pm EST. We'll sit together at the edge of the old month before the new one begins. Bring whatever you've been carrying. The dark is a good place to set things down. Link is in the community calendar. See you there. 🕯️ En Erebos, Phos. In darkness, light. Blessings, Tirza 🌿🗝️🌙 #NewMoonCircle #HekateanHealing #DarkMoon #Deipnon #CovenCircle #HekateanHerbalism

I am doing the whole Pluto retrograde descent - shadow work is rough, dreams are wild! Anyone else on this too?

Hey, loves. Pull up a chair. Last night was the Deipnon. And it was beautiful. We gathered at Artes and Craft and did the work together. We swept. We released. We laid our offerings down. And we didn't look back. If you were there — thank you, some of you were!! Your presence made the space sacred. If you did the work at home — you were with us. The crossroads don't care about geography. And I was thinking of you guys as I placed my sweepings in the collective basket and lit Hekate’s candle. So now what? The slate is clean. The New Moon in Taurus is here. A fresh cycle begins. And this is the part nobody talks about — the morning after the Deipnon. You swept the house. You burned what needed burning. You stood at the gate and let the old month die. Now who stands guard at the door? Hekate Apotropaia. Averter of Evil. Protector. Deflection. We received this card from the oracle last night, after invoking that very epithet. Confirmation that she is moving in our world. In ancient Athens, her image was posted at the doorway of every home — not just to mark sacred space, but to ward it. The academic author Robert Parker confirms that Hekate's apotropaic role was domestic in ancient Greece— she prevented evil from entering the home. The Deipnon removed what had gathered. Apotropaia makes sure it doesn't come back. The Deipnon asks: what are you letting go of? Apotropaia asks: what are you no longer letting in? What are we slamming the door on? ❤️‍🔥 Torchlight For Today ❤️‍🔥 "Hekate Apotropaia, Goddess who spans all boundaries — You who stand upon the harbor, You who stand at the gate, You who stand at the crossroads of our lives — we ask that you smile upon us, that evil be turned away from us." — Traditional Hellenic prayer 👇 Sunday prompt: The house is swept. The new moon is here. What are you no longer letting in? What no longer gets past the door? Name it below. Apotropaia is listening. En Erebos, Phos. In darkness, light. Blessings, Tirza 🌿🗝️🌙 📖 Further reading: d'Este & Rankine, Hekate Liminal Rites

Hey, loves. Happy Moon-day. The first sliver is back. The Noumenia. The ancient Greek new month. Not the dark moon — the first visible crescent after it. The first light returning. This was the real beginning. Day one. The Athenians took this seriously. On the Noumenia, households made offerings to the gods of the home — Apollo Noumenios, Hermes, and others. They burned incense. Poured libations. Set garlands on the door. The message was simple: the old month is dead. We honor what protects us. We begin again with intention. And Hekate? Her Deipnon the night before was the sweeping. The clearing. The death of the old cycle. The Noumenia is what she cleared the path FOR. Saturday night we did the Deipnon together at Artes and Craft. We swept. We released. We stood at the gate. It was beautiful. The video is being posted today, which I will make into a separate post. This is what comes after the beautiful part — the quiet morning when the crescent appears and asks: now what? The ancients didn't waste this day. They treated it like a threshold because it is one. The very first light after the darkest night. Phosphoros handing back the torch. Don't let today pass unmarked. ❤️‍🔥 Torchlight For Today ❤️‍🔥 "The Noumenia was one of the most sacred days of the Athenian month — a day of new beginnings, household worship, and joyful celebration." — Jon D. Mikalson, The Sacred and Civil Calendar of the Athenian Year 👇 The house is swept. The crescent is here. What are you beginning? One word. One intention. Drop it below. En Erebos, Phos. In darkness, light. Blessings, Tirza 🌿🗝️🌙 #MoonDayTorchTalk #Noumenia #HekateanHealing #Crossroads #NewMoon

🧄 Day 1 of 30. The kitchen opens June 20th. New series. Every Thursday we go into the thicket — one plant at a time! We’ve got to do more herbalism together, it’s right in the name of the community after all. 😁😅 So. Garlic. It's in your kitchen right now. But what you might not know is garlic was the most commonly cited offering to Hekate across ancient sources. It was apotropaic — evil-averting. The ancient Egyptians used it against restless spirits. The Greeks left it at crossroads and doorsteps on the dark moon as part of the Deipnon, the monthly supper for Hekate and the dead. It wasn't symbolic, it was real protection, and it smelled like it. There's a reason garlic shows up in the folk magic of nearly every culture that grows it. It bites. It stings. It lingers on your hands for hours after you've touched it. That's not a flaw. That's the medicine. Things that protect you aren't always polite about it. Medicinally, garlic contains allicin — antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral. Galen called it a cure-all. Hippocrates prescribed it as a purgative. Olympic athletes chewed it before competition. Soldiers ate it before battle. I eat it raw in salad, lol. Three thousand years of use and the science still backs it up. You've been cooking with Hekate's most sacred ward your entire life. You just didn't know what it was doing. 🔥 This Week's Herbal Practice Take a whole bulb. Peel one clove. Hold it and name one thing you're warding your home against, a person, or a pattern. Place the clove at your front door. Leave it until next Thicket Thursday. Then dispose of it at a crossroads or in running water. The Hekatean Kitchen drops in 30 days, a level 3 class — 43 spells, rites, and daily devotions using the herbs, staples, and sacred foods already in your kitchen. No rare ingredients. No gatekeeping. Just your shelf, your hands, and a goddess who was always fed at the door. 👇 How do you use garlic? Roasted, raw, minced, smashed? Tell me what's on the stove tonight. En Erebos, Phos. In darkness, light. Blessings, Tirza 🌿🗝️🌙