The Dark Road, the Key, and the Table — What's Happening at Artes & Craft on May 16
Hey, loves. I want to pull back the curtain on something I've been building for weeks — something that lives at the exact intersection of everything I teach here about shadow work, release, and stepping into your own authority at the threshold. On May 16, my dear friend Scott and I are leading Hekate's Deipnon Esbat with the Moonfire Coven at Artes & Craft in Hartford, Michigan — the largest pagan and metaphysical shop in the Midwest, and the place I'm honored to call my local ritual home. If you've taken my shadow work classes, if you've sat with me on the YouTube channel while I guided you through trance — this ritual is the living, breathing, smoke-and-salt version of everything we work on together in this space. The Deipnon is the ancient Greek practice of setting a supper for Hekate on the last night of the lunar month — the dark moon — when She walks the crossroads with the restless dead. Households swept clean, gathered the remnants, and left them at a place where three roads meet alongside eggs, garlic, fish, honey cakes, and wine. It was shadow work before anyone called it that. This year the dark moon falls in Taurus at 4:01 PM EDT — the final exhale before Uranus settles fully into Gemini. The Sun, Moon, and Mercury are all conjunct, asking us to remember our own worth and use our voices. And remember, Pluto just went retrograde! If there was ever a Deipnon cosmically designed for deep release and rebuilding, it's this one. I can't share every detail — some things belong to the room — but I can tell you this much: there will be a full traditional altar with Hekate's triple form at center, offerings arranged and named aloud element by element. Every person in the circle will bring sweepings from their own home and write what they're ready to leave behind. There will be a guided crossroads meditation where Hekate asks two questions that will follow you home. And there will be something at the end I'm not going to tell you about yet, except to say: the old ways sometimes ask you to walk outside.