Hekate symbolizes the dark, or waning, moon – the time when the moon withholds its light before it illuminates the night sky once more. This phase of the moon is thought to symbolize the light held within all women – an inner light that can illuminate our own lives as well as others. As goddess of the dark moon, Hekate was affiliated with storms, howling dogs, and willow trees, whose long, elegant branches often look like the arms of a supernatural being at night. The goddess is symbolized by a golden key, able to unlock untold riches from heaven and earth. In the famous story of Demeter & Persephone, it is Hekate who leads the bereft goddess to the sun god, Helios, thus reuniting mother & daughter.
— KRIS WALDHERR ⚜️ The Book of Goddesses, on Hekate/Ἑκάτη, (2006)













