Keeping Her Keys: At The Crossroads of Modern Life and the Deeper World

MINISODE: Bit of an update on my next book and the new podcast.

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And Hail Hekate.

The Goddess Hekate and her "daughters," Circe and Medea, mythic figures that evoke the mysteries of the deeper world. Associated with magic, witchcraft, and the natural world, they offer keys to exploring our interior life, and ways to understand our journey. In this episode, learn about their symbolic energies, and experience a guided meditation to Hekate's Well.

We've been getting loads of queries about our fall course offerings, so we made this short episode walking you through our foundational and premium training programs.  

Foundational - Covina Monthly Subscription or Annual Membership 

Premium  The Journey Through Hekate's Cave (no prerequisite) and The Mystai: The Mysteries of Hekate's Temple (Completion of Lampadia required).  

Apply to join Covina for a free preview so you can decide if this is the right field of study for you.   

Learn more at keepingherkeys.com

Join me and Tania Ciolek, along with our special guests, for Part 2 of Crossroads and Keys, exploring the keys of magick, medicine and mystery.

There's a key inside of you that unlocks the gate to wholeness. The journey inward to living from the soul invites us to explore the deeper world. This is the heroic quest for a life that is empowered and enchanted. In this episode, we explore how to banish what prevents us from opening that gate. 

Thanks so much for listening to the Keeping Her Keys Podcast 1.0. I'll be back in the fall with an expanded focus, exploring the crossroads of modern life and the deeper world.

Request to join my soul school, The Covina Institute, to access the entire Crossroads and Keys Retreat for free.

Are you being called to become more? Does a mysterious woman haunt your dreams? Do you experience synchronicities? In the Keeping Her Keys book, I wrote about how the Goddess Hekate comes to awaken us to return to our soul. In this first part of my recent Crossroads and Keys Retreat, we explore the secrets for manifesting our own unique keys.

When I melt down those keys into one, the emergent form is full of magick, medicine and mystery. The way to manifest our "keys" - healing, abundance, and living from the center of our lives - is by turning to the deeper world inside of us.

This is the second to last episode of the Keeping Her Keys Podcast 1.0. I'll be back in the fall with a fresh start. I wanted to finish up the "accidental" KHK 1.0 podcast with this episode, and the following one, as an expression of appreciation for all my listeners.

To access the entire FREE Crossroads and Keys Course, you can request to join my soul school, The Covina Institute.

This is an exploration of Hekate and four of her closest companions: Artemis, Circe, Medea and Persephone, including a guided ritual. 

Come Goddesses and Witches,  

Ancient but new,

To this place,

I beckon you.  

Artemis,

Medea,

Persephone,

Circe,

Hekate,

I welcome you!

Sovereignty goes beyond independence, it’s about standing in the full power of your true self. What better time to claim yours than on the day that the sun shine’s the longest? Calling upon Five Sovereign Rebel Goddesses: Artemis, Medea, Persephone, Circe and Hekate in the brightest light brings them, and you, out of the moon’s shadow, allowing you to stand fully in your witches' power. Summon their sovereign power on the Summer Solstice.

This ritual focuses on specific aspects of the Fab Five mentioned above. The ritual evokes these interconnected goddesses to activate within you the five archetypes of the sacred feminine: wild, witch, warrior, wise and wounded.

Read the article that explores these goddesses in depth here.

Within The Covina Institute, we celebrate this ritual live on the Summer Solstice, and explore these goddesses in depth. Learn more here.

This is a journey into Hekate's Garden to experience the splendor of her magick, medicine and mystery.

Recorded live during the Beltane Botanical Salon (May 1, 2021).

The Garden of the Goddess beckons.

Hekate is Mother of the Eternal Garden,

With her first breath she created the Green World and her witches.

Her daughters are our sisters.

Eternal Circe and Medea,

And the others.

They are the witches’ great teachers and companions.

High Priestesses of the Garden

They offer the keys to their magick, medicine and mystery.

Will you claim them?

The Garden of Hekate, the Great Mother Goddess from which all the world flows, is the spiritual home for the practice of pharmakeia, the ancient art, craft, and science of plant spirit witchcraft. Pharmakeia is an art, a craft, and a science. It is the use of botanicals for corporeal purposes, the crafting of magical formulations, and the art of transcending. It is holistic plant spirit witchcraft, transmitted by Hekate and her witches for our use today. Enter her mysteries with the heart of the Nyssa, the spirit of beginning. The Nyssa is the spiritual crossroads that we enter when we answer the call of Hekate to return to the practice of holistic plant spirit witchcraft. 

- from Entering Hekate's Garden: The Magick, Medicine and Mystery of Plant Spirit Witchcraft

Go deeper into Hekate's Garden by applying to join The Covina Institute. Learn more at keepingherkeys.com

This is a recording of the live Beltane Botanical Salon held on May 1, 2021 with Cyndi Brannen and Amy Blackthorn. 

Hail Hekate, Hieros Pyr.

She who is the sacred witch-fire.

Hail to Circe and Medea, Original, eternal Daughters of Fire.

Hail to the Hieros Pyr, The sacred witch-fire.

Hail to the ash, smoke and flame,

And to the plants which render same.

Through your sacred smoke, I am cleansed.

Through your bright flame, I banish all that harms.

Through your alchemical ash, I am transformed.

Hail to Hekate, Hieros Pyr.

Hail to the plant spirits who render your fire.

Hail to smoke, ash and flame, Whose powers I now claim.

- from Entering Hekate's Garden: The Magick, Medicine and Mystery of Plant Spirit Witchcraft  



The wonders of Hekate's Garden offer us a pathway back to the soul. Embarking on the journey of plant spirit magick, medicine and mystery is an incredibly healing journey. In this podcast, we cover a range of topics, from the fundamental archetypes of plants to how to connect with these amazing allies.   



You can experience the meditation that was part of the salon which was a mystical journey into Hekate's Garden in the Keeping Her Keys SoundCloud: https://bit.ly/hekatesgardenmeditation



You can watch the previous botanical salons featuring Cyndi and Amy:



Coping With Chronic Illness and Witchcraft - https://youtu.be/D6nivLnrSJk

Practicing Botanical Witchcraft - https://youtu.be/cwC2uFWGnf0

Learn more about Cyndi's work at keepingherkeys.com

More about Amy at https://amyblackthorn.com/

The essential daily practice described in the Keeping Her Keys book.

The previous episode described the foundations of the meditation.

Purchase the Keeping Her Keys book from major online booksellers.

Go deeper into your awakening: Apply to join The Covina Institute:

https://members.covinainstitute.com

The core meditation described in the Keeping Her Keys book. The next episode contains the guided audio meditation.

In this episode, learn how the meditation was developed, and how it awakens the soul while drawing us into Hekate as Anima Mundi (World Soul).

Purchase the Keeping Her Keys book from all major online booksellers.

Go deeper into your awakening by applying to join The Covina Institute:

https://members.covinainstitute.com