Hello people, I'm Ginny Metheral and I am a fourth generation witch. As a fourth generation witch I'm often asked what deities I worship and in answer to that none I don't worship. However I understand and realise the potential that there is in invoking the spirit of a 30 and so for today's video I wanted us to look at seeking heckity. So who was heckity? Was she an Egyptian goddess? Was she an Anatolian goddess? Was she Greek? Well in answer to that we don't actually know. Possibly she came, the name came from hecka, the Egyptian goddess, the frog-headed goddess of childbirth, with which heckity is associated. There were many shrines and temples laid out for her, including shrines within the own home. We just don't know where she comes from. However there is one thing that is very definitive about heckity and all her guises and that is she is associated as the goddess of witchcraft and magic. The Greeks had her as a triple goddess, so three faces looking in different directions and hence she was placed at shrines on crossroads, crossroads were dangerous places from as far back as we can remember until about the 1800s certainly and so heckity was used as a goddess of the crossroads which she protected and helped travellers passing through. This in turn was taken to mean that she was also considered a goddess of drawways and so you often see ancient depictions of heckity holding two lighted flames in either hand and this is to show that she is lighting the way through the darkened drawways. The Greeks had heckity closely associated with dogs amongst other animals but mostly dogs and they were always female, female dogs always having puppies in the old days and so they used to sacrifice the female dog and her puppies to heckity at crossroads. Should you hear the howling of howls, this presages her interest meaning should you hear dogs howling it possibly means that heckity is coming. Dogs were also guardians of drawways and entranceways for example Cerberus the three eddies dog who guarded the entranceway to Hades both from keeping living people going in and the ghosts coming out. I think heckity became associated with ghosts and spirits through the dog association. She became a psychopom which means she's a guardian for those spirit who are heading on their final journey from earth to heaven or hell and back again depending on which way they're going obviously. Her own dog was known as heckubah. To her other lovely name is an I love to name heckubah they know why it just pleases me. Part of the heckity's iconography I think was associated with her was that she was goddess of plant more both medicinally and poisons and particular plants that were associated with her webbelladonna, dittiny, acanite or moksard and mandrake, all of which are highly poisonous and also have an effect on your psychic self you know they can open your third eye as well killing you at the same time. So in the 1700s the ladies who put bella donna in their eyes to make the pupils expand and become huge and dark and actually send them completely high as a kite which I think is why they did it actually because it couldn't have been pleasant putting these things in their eyes but I think the after effects were heckity has been worshiped for over 7,000 years and she has always been associated with magic and sorcery this in the changing of the plants and the poisons that she created and this sorcery magic became known as witchcraft and it has a particularly female aspect to it heckty being the head of the female witches. She was hugely popular throughout ancient Greece and they used to have a lunar meal for her and this could either be an offering at her shrine or the family would gather together and use the meal in honor of heckity. This happened on a new moon or when you see the first crescent of a new moon after that date every month they would sit down and worship heckity some moon gathered foods in a meal which is still a completely charming way to worship heckity. She is the goddess of the moon and is worshiped as such. She was well established in the British folklore by the time of Shakespeare he has heckity being the goddess which over the weird systems the three witches of Hubble, Bubble, Dyerland, Trouble fame. I always rather liked I thought they were the best bit about Macbeth myself because quite frankly I never really did Shakespeare and quite I'd quite keen on my literature but Shakespeare not for me unfriend. Although heckity has dominion over the plants and their poisons she is a kind and tender hearted goddess. As shown I heard accompanying those spirit from the place of the living to the place of the dead where they finally rested. In Greek mythology she used to accompany the goddess Demeter from Hades into the spring the sunshine and then back again in the autumn when winter took hold. She was very kind hearted yet implacable filled with mercy yet ruthless. So you have to be careful when invoking heckity in your magic about what you're invoking her for. Turnio Pagan and Wicken Roots are as an association of the chrome or the third phase of the moon so she's an older witch hence why they say that sometimes younger witches like to associate with heckity they the picture is a sexy woman but in fact she is not certainly the old chrome film at it. It is the ancient Greek goddess heckity who is as beautiful womanly form. She really came to prominence with the Blackburn cult in Los Angeles in the 1920s. This was a cult headed up by Mary Blackburn and she used heckity as her goddess of worship. So the queens of the cult were buried with seven dogs and they would sacrifice many dogs to heckity in their rituals. A bit grim isn't it? I think the cult fell done after Mary was done for grand last of me but you know at the time it was a big deal. So how would you ask heckity to help you in your magic? Well she helps primarily with those things that she is associated with. So her animals are circles, cold cats, bores, dogs and mayors, female horses and so if you wish to work magic with any of these animals it is a great thing to invoke heckity to help you with that. Raise the serpent in the spring for example which heckity would be most useful to do so with. Heckity is great for invoking for protection so warding your property if you wanted extra help with this I would use heckity. And quite frankly extra help for warding your home is always a good thing in my opinion. However be warned if you are going to invoke the goddess heckity and seek her out make sure that the magic is just and true because although heckity is merciful she is also ruthless and you will reap what you sow when you invoke her. So if you are going to send out a curse the rebound from that curse if you use heckity will come straight back at you so be very careful about how you invoke her and say whatever purpose you would like to have in mind I would recommend doing an altar to heckity. You could do an altar for example to help you with childbirth. She is the goddess of that after to help you with your dogs or horses or snakes to help you when creating your potions. I've said I do like a bit of potion work and finally I'd use her in spirit work. If you want to commune with those souls that have passed over or under the news heckity to channel your spirit medium. Do tell me about how you invoke heckity and what was you invoke her for? 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