Category: What Is Hermekate?
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The Heart of the Matter: Hermekate and Hieros Gamos
One powerful function of eclipses is said to be that of revealing secrets, and I’ve also written in an earlier post that I’d be elaborating on the connections between Hermekate and eclipses; as such, it should come as no surprise that the recent Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio–sign of secrets, intrigues, and occultism per se–brought with […]
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This brief and timely segue is just for kicks; an interesting and thoughtful tale of synchronicity (or–dare I speculate–fate?) that goes a long way toward illustrating how Hermekate has unfolded magically. For the first time on the blog, I’ll explain the uncanny background behind this site’s banner. The story begins with my first marriage, seems […]
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Of Chalices and Chariots – Part III: En Oino Aletheia
I used to sit and look at lists of Qabbalistic correspondences and wonder at the relevance of at least half of the pieces of information I was looking at. What was I supposed to actually do with all of these connections? You’re telling me all of these things correspond with one another, and I’m quick […]
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Of Chalices and Chariots — Part II: The Oracle of the Bottle
In Part I of this series, I spent more time than I’d originally intended describing my experience as a worker for The Theosophical Society and how it informed the Saturn Ritual I performed in 2013. Basically, I’d compromised my spiritual health by trying to force myself to fit in with a spiritual culture that simply […]
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Of Chalices and Chariots — Part I: A Quixotic Quest’s Commencement
Note: More than an analysis of a Self-Initiatory working and its long-term unfoldment, this post is as much an intrinsic part of finishing that work and is thus something I consider to be a magical working in and of itself. I am writing and publishing it now as a matter of timing, both magical and […]
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Saturn Comes Back Around
In Part II of my Hermekate as Sigil series, I made reference to “The Saturn Ritual,” which was complimentary to my self-initiation ceremony, but also carried the initiatory narrative forth. There are some similarities in purpose here with Chöd rituals, and as I think about it now, a central part of the symbolism is also […]
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Hermekate as Sigil – Part III: Semiotics
This post owes a great debt to Toby Chappell’s book Infernal Geometry and the Left-Hand Path: The Magical System of the Nine Angles by broadening the horizons of my relationship with the V-Sigil. The thought had once occurred to me to look into the structure or form of the sigil for clues to its deeper […]
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Hermekate as Sigil – Part II: Evolution of Meaning
There’s a lot I hope to accomplish in this post, and it’s possible I’ll need to break its two main objectives down further into two separate posts to make this a series of three, but we’ll see what happens. The post covers a time span from 2012 to the present, so roughly 10 years, so […]
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Hermekate as Sigil – Part I: Origin
In this post, I laid the groundwork for much of this blog’s future content by framing Hermekate as a product of personal gnosis; I also introduced the sigil that began as a representation of my “magical identity” and which I later came to identify with Hermekate. In this post, I’ll begin to explain how that […]
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Hermekate As A Call for Occultural Solidarity
This aspect of Hermekate is quite possibly the one for which I harbor the greatest amount of doubt in my heart. It’s also one of the ones I hold out the most hope for, and those two facts are likely connected. Speaking of connections, it’s probably best to begin by explaining how the word “Hermekate” […]
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