Πρόδομος (PRO-doh-moss). Before the House. At the threshold. Hekate standing in the space before you cross in. We may be through the threshold, through the descent and about to approach the underworld floor for Pluto Retrograde, but daily life necessitates daily magic. Threshold magic is perhaps the easiest to perform, just passing through your front door. Prodomos is our epithet of the day, and one of Her oldest and most practical faces. In the ancient Greek home, the prodomos was the vestibule, the covered space just before the door, neither fully outside nor fully in. And Hekate stood there. Her image was set at house entrances across Greece, guarding the seam between the street and the hearth. To call Her Prodomos is to name the goddess who lives in the pause before the door. She keeps a whole family of threshold-names: Propylaia (before the gate), Prothyraea (before the door), Strophaia (at the hinge). Hekate is never just inside or outside. She's the one who holds the doorway open while you decide whether to step through. Which is exactly why, after talking to Alyssa, I'm adding a new PDF to the classroom (also attached here): The Hekatean Home Grimoire — 37 rites! Prodomos is the whole idea behind it: you don't need a temple. You need your door, a key, and the willingness to notice what you walk past every day. Start with the next door you cross. This is for printing and using for your own Grimoire/Book of Shadows. I use a three-ring binder for mine. You may share this is you choose! 👇 What door are you standing in front of right now, the one you keep circling but haven't crossed? Name it here at our threshold. I'll go first. En Erebos, Phos. In darkness, light. Blessings, Tirza 🌿🗝️🌙 #MoondayTorchTalk #HekateanHealing #Prodomos 📚 Further reading: Aristophanes, Fragment 388 (source for Prodomos) | Matt Auryn, "The Many Epithets of Hekate" | The Hekatean Home Grimoire: 37 Rites for Hekate (in the classroom)😉