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Liber Khthonia: A Contemporary Witchcraft & Devotional Tradition of Hekate
A Contemporary Witchcraft & Devotional Tradition of Hekate.
Swirling all around us is the celestial energy of creation, ignited at the beginning of time. This energy is the pure power of manifestation, divine, and undying, it is the Witch Flame that gives potency to witchcraft and ensouls the entire cosmos. There is one Goddess Who carries the Witch Flame, Who anoints certain individuals with this creative power. She is Hekate, a millennia old Goddess worshipped and celebrated as the Soul of the Cosmos, Goddess of Crossroads, and Queen of Witches.
Much of what we know about Hekate comes from academia, and most cult traditions center around ancient traditions. Liber Khthonia: A Contemporary Witchcraft & Devotional Tradition of Hekate, by Jeff Cullen connects the ancient knowledge of the past with the relevance of the present sharing a practical, unique contemporary cult. He combines his decades of knowledge in ancient Hellenic cult with familial traditions, and experience in world religions presenting something that is rooted in antiquity, yet thriving.
Liber Khthonia teaches the contemporary witch how to connect with Hekate in powerful, physical ways bringing the dynamis of the Goddess into your life like never before. In addition to creating your personal cult, constructing potent cult objects, awakening sacred images, and empowering your Witch Flame, this book also teaches you rites of witchcraft straight from the author’s personal grimoire. This book breaks with the conventional Wicca based traditions that are widely available and lets the contemporary witch discover their own power through unshackled freedom driven by their personal desire, inspired by Hekate, and burning with the ethereal Witch Flame!
In this book you will find:
Introduction
History
The Mask at the Crossroads: Who is Hekate?
The Concept of Polytheism and Witchcraft in the Mediterranean
Cult Titles
Identifying and Refining Your Cult
Shrine or Altar
The Agalma (Cult Image)
Lustral Water and Sacred Fire
Tools of Hekate
Festivals and Sacred Days
Prayer and Rituals
Other Gods
Herbs, Roots, and Stones
Recipes for Sacred Incenses, Oils, and Potions
Witchcraft
Swirling all around us is the celestial energy of creation, ignited at the beginning of time. This energy is the pure power of manifestation, divine, and undying, it is the Witch Flame that gives potency to witchcraft and ensouls the entire cosmos. There is one Goddess Who carries the Witch Flame, Who anoints certain individuals with this creative power. She is Hekate, a millennia old Goddess worshipped and celebrated as the Soul of the Cosmos, Goddess of Crossroads, and Queen of Witches.
Much of what we know about Hekate comes from academia, and most cult traditions center around ancient traditions. Liber Khthonia: A Contemporary Witchcraft & Devotional Tradition of Hekate, by Jeff Cullen connects the ancient knowledge of the past with the relevance of the present sharing a practical, unique contemporary cult. He combines his decades of knowledge in ancient Hellenic cult with familial traditions, and experience in world religions presenting something that is rooted in antiquity, yet thriving.
Liber Khthonia teaches the contemporary witch how to connect with Hekate in powerful, physical ways bringing the dynamis of the Goddess into your life like never before. In addition to creating your personal cult, constructing potent cult objects, awakening sacred images, and empowering your Witch Flame, this book also teaches you rites of witchcraft straight from the author’s personal grimoire. This book breaks with the conventional Wicca based traditions that are widely available and lets the contemporary witch discover their own power through unshackled freedom driven by their personal desire, inspired by Hekate, and burning with the ethereal Witch Flame!
In this book you will find:
Introduction
History
The Mask at the Crossroads: Who is Hekate?
The Concept of Polytheism and Witchcraft in the Mediterranean
Cult Titles
Identifying and Refining Your Cult
Shrine or Altar
The Agalma (Cult Image)
Lustral Water and Sacred Fire
Tools of Hekate
Festivals and Sacred Days
Prayer and Rituals
Other Gods
Herbs, Roots, and Stones
Recipes for Sacred Incenses, Oils, and Potions
Witchcraft
328 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2020
About the author
Jeff Cullen
9 books11 followersJeff Cullen is a self taught artist located in Chicago, Illinois, specializing in subjects of the occult and esoteric. Inspired by his mother and two sisters, he began his journey in Paganism in the summer of 1998 after a long childhood fascinated by witchcraft. Being raised in the wooded hills of Central New York, he spent a lot of time communing with Nature and Her spirits. He and his sisters would cast spells and weave magic in the deep woods, craft tools and runestones from Her elements, and construct temples in fallen trees. By doing so, he was initiated into Her mysteries through secret and personal rituals. After years of learning the Craft from the forest, he moved to Chicago where he began to seek guidance in many of the perils of city life.
Hekate, Goddess of Crossroads and Queen of Witches answered the call and he knew She was the secret guide behind many of the events of his life. Guided by his patron gods, Hekate and Pan, as well as minor workings with other deities and spirits, Jeff has become quite adept in witchcraft and divination through the art of rune casting. As he creates his art, he channels the deity or spirit in their most primal and sacred form which results in a dark yet unique creation.
Hekate, Goddess of Crossroads and Queen of Witches answered the call and he knew She was the secret guide behind many of the events of his life. Guided by his patron gods, Hekate and Pan, as well as minor workings with other deities and spirits, Jeff has become quite adept in witchcraft and divination through the art of rune casting. As he creates his art, he channels the deity or spirit in their most primal and sacred form which results in a dark yet unique creation.
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April 8, 2022
Congrats on being my first 1-star read of the year. I don't have the mental faculties after finishing this to better articulate why this book bothered me the way it did, but just as a short list
-conflates the Hellenic ideal of Hekate with Roman practices, often without elaborating when we've switched over, AS well as further mixing it with Christian topics such as hell and summoning demons - no, not daemons as known in Hellenic spheres.
-says that ethics in Witchcraft is imaginary because so many practices exist. At least Jeff get points for mentioning how many non-western practices will often be colonized, but that does very little to save the author and the irony is QUITE clear considering a few times it is mentioned he is initiated in Haitian Voudu... as (from what I've garnered) a white dude.
-says that the only real ethic code Western witches follow is that of Wicca which is,,, so incredibly false
-advocates for the collection/procurement of human bones, Ashes, and graveyard dirt, without ever really talking about the laws surrounding the collection of such or even how to do so safely????
-also advocates for using said human remains as spell ingredients vs the tools/companions they actually are
-says Modern day butchers who don't get purified will turn into soulless animal torturers. This is paraphrasing - barely.
All in all, I felt very wrong/odd by chapter 3 and the last couple of chapters were such an intense downward spiral. It's incredible he managed to keep all the batshit stuff for the end, though the misinformation is littered throughout the whole book.
-conflates the Hellenic ideal of Hekate with Roman practices, often without elaborating when we've switched over, AS well as further mixing it with Christian topics such as hell and summoning demons - no, not daemons as known in Hellenic spheres.
-says that ethics in Witchcraft is imaginary because so many practices exist. At least Jeff get points for mentioning how many non-western practices will often be colonized, but that does very little to save the author and the irony is QUITE clear considering a few times it is mentioned he is initiated in Haitian Voudu... as (from what I've garnered) a white dude.
-says that the only real ethic code Western witches follow is that of Wicca which is,,, so incredibly false
-advocates for the collection/procurement of human bones, Ashes, and graveyard dirt, without ever really talking about the laws surrounding the collection of such or even how to do so safely????
-also advocates for using said human remains as spell ingredients vs the tools/companions they actually are
-says Modern day butchers who don't get purified will turn into soulless animal torturers. This is paraphrasing - barely.
All in all, I felt very wrong/odd by chapter 3 and the last couple of chapters were such an intense downward spiral. It's incredible he managed to keep all the batshit stuff for the end, though the misinformation is littered throughout the whole book.
September 13, 2022
I don't follow Hecate, but this book ended up in my possession at any rate, so I'm sure there was some reason for it. It's not great, but it's decent and plenty of use can be gained from it.
The author talks mainly of his own experience as a devotee of Hecate and how his witchcraft practice has evolved over the years to become what he writes about in this book. There's a good bibliography in the back of the book, so I'm guessing the material here is fairly authentic, but as I said, I don't follow Hecate and know little about the goddess, so I can't say for certain if that's true. It just seems to be from the perspective of an outsider.
The author does talk about using human remains in some spells and rituals, though he makes note to acquire these remains LEGALLY, not by digging up bodies or any such nonsense. He also makes mention that collecting graveyard dirt is not necessarily legal and where he mentions poison plants, they're marked as being toxic with an asterisk.
On the subject of plants, where toxic plants or rare plants are spoken of, the author gives reasonable substitutions. I appreciate that, because, although it's true I can go digging around to find an alternative myself, having that info right there makes things a lot neater and faster.
I personally appreciate that the author doesn't shy away from telling off the concepts of Wicca (3-fold Law, what you cast comes back to you amplified, etc). It's highly refreshing to see somebody fearlessly stand up to such silly concepts. He's correct, such "morality codes" were not present in ancient practices and were, largely, introduced to the public by Gerald Gardener in the 50's. He says don't go casting curses willy-nilly, which is a philosophy I hold myself, but don't be afraid to blast a mofo if they deserve it.
Those that already have a practice with Hecate probably won't need this book. Those interested in learning about the goddess or are going to be working with Her and are newer to it may benefit from it. As for me, this is just another pagan/witchcraft/occult book that will be part of my collection and probably won't get used for actual ritual or spells.
The author talks mainly of his own experience as a devotee of Hecate and how his witchcraft practice has evolved over the years to become what he writes about in this book. There's a good bibliography in the back of the book, so I'm guessing the material here is fairly authentic, but as I said, I don't follow Hecate and know little about the goddess, so I can't say for certain if that's true. It just seems to be from the perspective of an outsider.
The author does talk about using human remains in some spells and rituals, though he makes note to acquire these remains LEGALLY, not by digging up bodies or any such nonsense. He also makes mention that collecting graveyard dirt is not necessarily legal and where he mentions poison plants, they're marked as being toxic with an asterisk.
On the subject of plants, where toxic plants or rare plants are spoken of, the author gives reasonable substitutions. I appreciate that, because, although it's true I can go digging around to find an alternative myself, having that info right there makes things a lot neater and faster.
I personally appreciate that the author doesn't shy away from telling off the concepts of Wicca (3-fold Law, what you cast comes back to you amplified, etc). It's highly refreshing to see somebody fearlessly stand up to such silly concepts. He's correct, such "morality codes" were not present in ancient practices and were, largely, introduced to the public by Gerald Gardener in the 50's. He says don't go casting curses willy-nilly, which is a philosophy I hold myself, but don't be afraid to blast a mofo if they deserve it.
Those that already have a practice with Hecate probably won't need this book. Those interested in learning about the goddess or are going to be working with Her and are newer to it may benefit from it. As for me, this is just another pagan/witchcraft/occult book that will be part of my collection and probably won't get used for actual ritual or spells.
February 3, 2021
A well-done book for modern devotees of the goddess Hekate. This book is solid, and contains a wealth of information and ideas, both historic and modern, to get your personal practice with Hekate off the ground and then some.
This book was worth purchasing and I highly recommend adding it to your shelves. This is possibly the best book on Hekate that is available on the market as of this review.
This book was worth purchasing and I highly recommend adding it to your shelves. This is possibly the best book on Hekate that is available on the market as of this review.
September 23, 2025
★★★★☆ 4.5 / 5 stars
Jeff did an amazing job with the book on The Goddess Hekate. It was informative about who she is as a Goddess, touches on her Epithets, how to establish a relationship and worship Hekate, rituals, invocation and more. The only thing that was a little overwhelming and extravagant is some of the rituals. I don’t really have access to shipwreck artifacts lol?? Its unfortunate that I don’t have the money to purchase all the herbs, tools and materials for some of the rituals, nor do I have a lot of energy to expend as a disabled practitioner, but hopefully one day down the road I will be able to preform them. I will definitely be referring back to this book often, especially when referencing herbs and doing rituals to honor the Goddess. Also very appreciative of the lack of Wiccan undertones, and deconstructing our Abrahamic Religion views. This is a real gem, thank you Jeff Cullen and Hail Hekate
Jeff did an amazing job with the book on The Goddess Hekate. It was informative about who she is as a Goddess, touches on her Epithets, how to establish a relationship and worship Hekate, rituals, invocation and more. The only thing that was a little overwhelming and extravagant is some of the rituals. I don’t really have access to shipwreck artifacts lol?? Its unfortunate that I don’t have the money to purchase all the herbs, tools and materials for some of the rituals, nor do I have a lot of energy to expend as a disabled practitioner, but hopefully one day down the road I will be able to preform them. I will definitely be referring back to this book often, especially when referencing herbs and doing rituals to honor the Goddess. Also very appreciative of the lack of Wiccan undertones, and deconstructing our Abrahamic Religion views. This is a real gem, thank you Jeff Cullen and Hail Hekate
September 15, 2025
As someone with chronic fatigue I don’t see myself doing any of these spells and rituals. I’m not sure who has shipwreck artefacts, shark teeth and some ‘lightening-struck oak bark’ lying around but go for it if you do 😂
Interesting book, enjoyed it and learnt a lot, but not for the sleepy witches.
Interesting book, enjoyed it and learnt a lot, but not for the sleepy witches.
June 1, 2025
I loved this book. It is different from many of the more contemporary reads. It is a combination of historical info and personal gnosis and practice. I really appreciate the authenticity of the author. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking to learn more about Hekate and to find new ideas and ways of incorporating her worship and magic into your practice.
August 29, 2026
Liber Khthonia is valuable precisely because Jeff Cullen understands that reconstruction and revival are not the same intellectual project. He is deeply interested in the historical Hekate, her cult titles, Mediterranean religious practice, and the surviving evidence for her worship, but he has no apparent desire to pretend that a twenty-first-century witch can simply step backward into antiquity. Instead, he uses the historical material as the foundation for a deliberately contemporary cultus: devotional, magical, polytheistic, personal, and unabashedly alive.
That distinction immediately elevated the book for me. There is a peculiar tendency within modern paganism to treat historical authenticity as though it required ritual taxidermy, preserving ancient religion in a condition so rigid that it ceases to develop. Cullen takes a more interesting position. Tradition here becomes a conversation between historical precedent, personal revelation, inherited practice, and present religious need. He tells the reader how his own cult of Hekate functions while repeatedly making room for the reader to develop something particular to their own relationship with the goddess.
The discussion of cult itself is one of the strongest parts of the book. Cullen considers epithets, shrines, sacred objects, offerings, festivals, prayer, fire, purification, and the agalma or cult image as components of an integrated devotional system rather than as isolated correspondences. His treatment of the agalma is especially significant. Within historical polytheism, a divine image could participate in a category of sacred presence considerably richer than the modern idea of a statue functioning merely as a visual reminder of a deity. Cullen recovers something of that sacral understanding and provides practical methods through which the image becomes an active focus of divine relationship.
This is representative of his method throughout. Historical concepts are consistently pushed toward operative consequences. Lustral water becomes something to prepare and use. Sacred fire becomes an actual ritual technology. Epithets become means of approaching distinct dimensions of Hekate. Festival observance becomes a way of structuring devotional time. Cult objects are constructed and awakened rather than simply discussed.
Cullen's Hekate is also refreshingly difficult to reduce to the familiar contemporary caricature of a vaguely lunar crossroads goddess. He takes seriously the enormous complexity of her historical development and the multiplicity contained within her titles and manifestations. The resulting deity feels appropriately vast: chthonic yet celestial, liminal yet cosmic, connected with witchcraft without being confined by it. Particularly important is the book's attention to Hekate as a cosmic power, which situates her within philosophical and theurgical currents that are often omitted from more popular treatments.
The concept Cullen calls the Witch Flame provides the book's distinctively modern metaphysical center. Whatever one makes of the terminology itself, it gives coherence to his understanding of witchcraft as participation in an ensouled and dynamically creative cosmos. Hekate consequently becomes more than the patroness of a collection of spells. She is bound to the very possibility of magical agency.
This metaphysical element also helps explain why the latter portions of Liber Khthonia move so easily from devotion into operative witchcraft. Cullen includes practical material involving ritual tools, plants, stones, incenses, oils, potions, spirit work, poppets, malefic magic, and other workings without erecting the artificial wall between "religion" and "magic" that modern readers sometimes impose upon ancient material. His witchcraft can be devotional without becoming morally sanitized. He is quite willing to discuss coercive and baneful operations alongside more conventionally acceptable workings, while emphasizing responsibility rather than pretending such practices have never belonged to the history of magic.
I was particularly interested in the initiation Cullen provides for formal dedication to Hekate. He openly identifies it as a synthesis informed by his own initiatory experiences and research rather than attempting to pass it off as an ancient survival. That transparency is admirable. Modern occult traditions have always been synthetic; the intellectually honest question is whether the synthesis is coherent, effective, and explicit about its sources. Cullen's is.
Liber Khthonia therefore succeeds in two directions simultaneously. For someone approaching Hekate devotion, it offers the infrastructure necessary to move from admiration of a goddess toward an actual religious practice. For the practicing witch, it provides a system in which devotion generates magical relationship rather than remaining adjacent to it.
Most importantly, Cullen understands that a living cult cannot consist exclusively of archaeology. Historical research gives us the surviving grammar of ancient religious experience, but contemporary practitioners still have to speak with it. Liber Khthonia is compelling because Cullen is willing to do precisely that: to study the old language carefully, and then use it to say something of his own.
That distinction immediately elevated the book for me. There is a peculiar tendency within modern paganism to treat historical authenticity as though it required ritual taxidermy, preserving ancient religion in a condition so rigid that it ceases to develop. Cullen takes a more interesting position. Tradition here becomes a conversation between historical precedent, personal revelation, inherited practice, and present religious need. He tells the reader how his own cult of Hekate functions while repeatedly making room for the reader to develop something particular to their own relationship with the goddess.
The discussion of cult itself is one of the strongest parts of the book. Cullen considers epithets, shrines, sacred objects, offerings, festivals, prayer, fire, purification, and the agalma or cult image as components of an integrated devotional system rather than as isolated correspondences. His treatment of the agalma is especially significant. Within historical polytheism, a divine image could participate in a category of sacred presence considerably richer than the modern idea of a statue functioning merely as a visual reminder of a deity. Cullen recovers something of that sacral understanding and provides practical methods through which the image becomes an active focus of divine relationship.
This is representative of his method throughout. Historical concepts are consistently pushed toward operative consequences. Lustral water becomes something to prepare and use. Sacred fire becomes an actual ritual technology. Epithets become means of approaching distinct dimensions of Hekate. Festival observance becomes a way of structuring devotional time. Cult objects are constructed and awakened rather than simply discussed.
Cullen's Hekate is also refreshingly difficult to reduce to the familiar contemporary caricature of a vaguely lunar crossroads goddess. He takes seriously the enormous complexity of her historical development and the multiplicity contained within her titles and manifestations. The resulting deity feels appropriately vast: chthonic yet celestial, liminal yet cosmic, connected with witchcraft without being confined by it. Particularly important is the book's attention to Hekate as a cosmic power, which situates her within philosophical and theurgical currents that are often omitted from more popular treatments.
The concept Cullen calls the Witch Flame provides the book's distinctively modern metaphysical center. Whatever one makes of the terminology itself, it gives coherence to his understanding of witchcraft as participation in an ensouled and dynamically creative cosmos. Hekate consequently becomes more than the patroness of a collection of spells. She is bound to the very possibility of magical agency.
This metaphysical element also helps explain why the latter portions of Liber Khthonia move so easily from devotion into operative witchcraft. Cullen includes practical material involving ritual tools, plants, stones, incenses, oils, potions, spirit work, poppets, malefic magic, and other workings without erecting the artificial wall between "religion" and "magic" that modern readers sometimes impose upon ancient material. His witchcraft can be devotional without becoming morally sanitized. He is quite willing to discuss coercive and baneful operations alongside more conventionally acceptable workings, while emphasizing responsibility rather than pretending such practices have never belonged to the history of magic.
I was particularly interested in the initiation Cullen provides for formal dedication to Hekate. He openly identifies it as a synthesis informed by his own initiatory experiences and research rather than attempting to pass it off as an ancient survival. That transparency is admirable. Modern occult traditions have always been synthetic; the intellectually honest question is whether the synthesis is coherent, effective, and explicit about its sources. Cullen's is.
Liber Khthonia therefore succeeds in two directions simultaneously. For someone approaching Hekate devotion, it offers the infrastructure necessary to move from admiration of a goddess toward an actual religious practice. For the practicing witch, it provides a system in which devotion generates magical relationship rather than remaining adjacent to it.
Most importantly, Cullen understands that a living cult cannot consist exclusively of archaeology. Historical research gives us the surviving grammar of ancient religious experience, but contemporary practitioners still have to speak with it. Liber Khthonia is compelling because Cullen is willing to do precisely that: to study the old language carefully, and then use it to say something of his own.
December 4, 2021
An excellent and thorough overview of working with Hecate. The book weaves the goddess’ history with personal experience and broader practices quite well. I also appreciated the fact this book challenges the conventional wisdom around baneful workings and even offers guidance in doing them.
November 6, 2022
I know this is a popular book on Hekate but it is definitely not for me.
I don't like Mr. Cullen's tone or style and this book really could have used an editor.
That being said, if his version of Hekate speaks to you, great, enjoy the book, but as I said it doesn't work for me.
I don't like Mr. Cullen's tone or style and this book really could have used an editor.
That being said, if his version of Hekate speaks to you, great, enjoy the book, but as I said it doesn't work for me.
February 7, 2023
Not really my cup of tea, because I see Hekate as much more than the Queen of spookiness. If that's your jam, you'll love this. Otherwise, you might be put off by the recommendations to get grave dirt, animal remains, etc.
August 11, 2026
Actual rating: 3.5
This was a very interesting reading, with quite a few possibly controversial information and opinions. The book starts with a general and yet exhaustive introduction to the Goddess Hekate through various ages and cults, presenting Her different aspects.
Then, it shows several ways to work with such aspects, and devotional practices according to which version of the goddess you are evoking. The author gives us prayers, rituals, and tools from both ancient traditions and his own experience.
However, some ingredients are not so easy to procure and/or might require the practitioner to go aginast their own beliefs, like using animal ingredients. The issue is not at all including such ingredients or practices, but I would appreciate a valid alternatives.
Also, while highly informative and interesting, the mixing of practices like Voodoo and Masonry with ancient Greek worship and didn't resonate with me - but it might be useful for other devotees and witches!
This was a very interesting reading, with quite a few possibly controversial information and opinions. The book starts with a general and yet exhaustive introduction to the Goddess Hekate through various ages and cults, presenting Her different aspects.
Then, it shows several ways to work with such aspects, and devotional practices according to which version of the goddess you are evoking. The author gives us prayers, rituals, and tools from both ancient traditions and his own experience.
However, some ingredients are not so easy to procure and/or might require the practitioner to go aginast their own beliefs, like using animal ingredients. The issue is not at all including such ingredients or practices, but I would appreciate a valid alternatives.
Also, while highly informative and interesting, the mixing of practices like Voodoo and Masonry with ancient Greek worship and didn't resonate with me - but it might be useful for other devotees and witches!
February 4, 2026
I’m currently still reading this. This is the best book I’ve found so far on modern Hekate rituals and tips and suggestions on ways to work with Hekate. Note that some of the practices may not be correct for you (or for me) but the book does say you can choose which ingredients are right for you — Hekate won’t mind if it feels right. You can order many of the things online if you wish.
Recommend after reading some basic background mythology of Hekate— Hekate: Liminal Rites by Sorita d'Este and David Rankine is great, as is Circle for Hekate - Volume 1: History & Mythology by Sorita d'Este.
Definitely a good suggestion for those interested in practical information, not just a historical record.
The book does focus on the aspect of Hekate as The Queen of Witches, so bare that in mind when reading the book. I’m going to adapt some of these things into my personal practice.
Recommend after reading some basic background mythology of Hekate— Hekate: Liminal Rites by Sorita d'Este and David Rankine is great, as is Circle for Hekate - Volume 1: History & Mythology by Sorita d'Este.
Definitely a good suggestion for those interested in practical information, not just a historical record.
The book does focus on the aspect of Hekate as The Queen of Witches, so bare that in mind when reading the book. I’m going to adapt some of these things into my personal practice.
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October 23, 2024An interesting book, the author did a good job sharing his beliefs and practices but also mentioning other traditions, lore, etc. It has many references to other books and a good bibliography, something that I LOVE in this kind of books. In this book you can find many examples of rituals and spells that you can take as they are, or if you are like me, let them inspire you. I find it to be beginner's friendly book.
Can't say I agree with everything of course, but my oh my it would be weird -and may I say fruitless- if we all agreed 100%!
Aesthetically it is beautiful and has an air of mysticism. I have the paper cover, it needs you to be somewhat gentle with it (like, don't shove it in a bag with 10 more things)
Overall I am happy with it, gj to all involved!
Can't say I agree with everything of course, but my oh my it would be weird -and may I say fruitless- if we all agreed 100%!
Aesthetically it is beautiful and has an air of mysticism. I have the paper cover, it needs you to be somewhat gentle with it (like, don't shove it in a bag with 10 more things)
Overall I am happy with it, gj to all involved!
July 20, 2025
4.5 ☆ Such a great book, I throughly enjoyed it. He shares some of the history of Hekate aswell as his personal experiences. I particularly enjoyed the prayers, insense/oil blends, and rituals he shares throughout the book. I think any Hekate devotee would love and make good use of this book. I'm excited to try some Jeff's rituals especially the dumb supper, awakening the icon, and making a vessel. It's just great work 👏
October 28, 2021
Extremely thorough, detailed and footnoted, covering Hekate's history and titles, tool-making, alter set-up, sacred days, Her associated herbs and stones, spells and many recipes for incense, oils and potions and more. Any devotee of Hekate should easily find much of value here both on a first read-through and as an ongoing reference.
May 8, 2024
There are some good prayers and rituals in here. Most of the knowledge present in the first half of the book I knew about, but I think the original content is clear and well written. It's also organized very well. I think this book is for someone who admires another's craft.
November 3, 2024
I feel like this book helped me a lot, but it's very extravagant at times. I know he says to tailor it to your own practice, but if you were to follow what he wrote without completely, you'd be spending an arm and a leg.
February 24, 2023
A wonderful book on Hekate. Beautiful art and original tech.
May 14, 2025
An excellent tome that gives a comprehensive overview on establishing a devotional practice to the multifaceted Goddess of Witches, Hekate. Highly recommended!
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