17/10/2025
When stepping into the Craft, the first goddess many are introduced to is Hecate.
Her story is well known and easily found with a simple search, but I’m not here to retell what you can read on Google.
Hecate is far more than mythology or words on a page she is power, wisdom, and shadow entwined.
She is a guiding force in my own practice and in the lives of many who walk the path of magic.
So rather than repeat her tale, I want to share with you the lesser known truths the deeper facts of Hecate that you may not know. 🌼🌼🌼🌼
Hecate is one of the few deities who rules over Earth, Sea, and Sky a true triple sovereign. She is not limited to witchcraft or the underworld; she’s a cosmic guardian of balance between realms.
The day to worship Hecate is on the Dark Moon/New Moon. 🌚🌚🌚 Her favourite colours are
Black, Silver, and Deep Purple, red or gold.
🧘🏼♀️🧘🏼♀️Through meditation she might appear in three forms and this depends on where you are in your life journey.
When Hecate appears brown hair & tanned skin,golden eyes she wears cloaks of white. This is a connection to the physical world, nature, and humanity she’s meeting you as a goddess who walks with you, not above you.
- It symbolises ancestral wisdom and the grounding of spiritual power into real, lived experience.
- She is reminding you that your magic and intuition come from the Earth itself through your body, not apart from it.
Her white cloak can symbolize:
- Protection— she is shielding you as you move through transformation.
-Purification — cleansing away confusion, fear, or energetic residue.
-Transition — white also marks the liminal space between life, death, and rebirth, her domain.
-It’s also a sign she’s coming to you not as darkness, but as light within darkness the balance she embodies.
The colour of divine fire, enlightenment, and sovereignty.
Her golden eyes represent the inner sun within the darkness
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Hecate may also appear  in cloaks of black or deep purple robes. Sometimes her face will be covered or blurred but her eyes will stand out colours of deep purple/ violet tones, her skin can appear pale and her hair is the colour of the night sky. 
Eyes like shadow or endless night represent the void; the space before creation, before light. They are not evil or cold, but infinite meaning she’s showing you the depth of the unseen, where the soul’s truth hides.
This form often appears when she’s guiding you through:
- Shadow integration (facing what’s been hidden within yourself).
- Spiritual rebirth or initiation.
- Times of endings, release, or major life change.
- When her eyes are shaded, it’s like she’s saying:
“Look not at what shines, look at what you’ve buried. There lies your power.”
Skin and Hair — Not Touched by the Sun
- This symbolizes withdrawal from the material or surface world, retreat into mystery.
- Pale skin and dim hair reflect her as Queen of the Night and the Dead, dwelling in places of silence and stillness the spiritual womb of rebirth.
- It may mean she’s asking you to slow down, go inward, listen deeply.
- It can also represent her timeless nature a being beyond life and death, beyond the cycles of the sun.
Shades of Darkness; the Form Between Forms
- When her entire presence feels made of shadow not solid, not ghostly, but moving darkness. She appearing in her liminal form, the Hecate who walks the borders between worlds.
- This often comes during meditation when you are:
- Crossing into deeper awareness,
- Confronting fears or trauma, or
- Being prepared to receive spiritual truth.
- She may not want you to see her clearly because she’s teaching you to feel truth without sight, to trust intuition over the mind.
This vision means she is meeting you in the depths, not to frighten, but to initiate.
It’s her saying:
“You are ready to see the unseen. You are ready to hold the night within you without fear.”
When Hecate appears with red hair and flames around her. —The Flame of Life and Transformation.
Red hair symbolizes life force, passion, and sacred fire , the spark of creation that burns within all things.
- In Hecate’s case, it’s the living flame of her torches made flesh. She becomes the fire itself, the spark that lights the way for lost souls and seekers.
- Red hair also carries the energy of courage, action, and vitality. She comes like this when:
- You are ready to transform or break free from stagnation.
- You’re being called to reclaim your passion or personal power.
- Something old must burn away to make space for renewal.
Fire is Hecate’s sacred element. Her torches are symbols of illumination in darkness, but fire also purifies and transforms.
When she appears surrounded by or made of fire:
- It means rebirth — she’s helping you shed that no longer serves.
- It means truth — fire burns away illusion.
- It means power — she’s awakening your inner will and magic.
🔥 She is both the flame that destroys and the light that guides.
When red and fire are together, it means awakening, resurrection, and power reclaimed.
It’s her saying:
“I burn away what is false so your truth can rise.”
When Hecate appears in meditation, she often shifts her form depending on what you need to learn or integrate at that time. Her appearances aren’t random they are deeply symbolic.
The Crone , The Mother ,The Torchbearer.
If Hecate appears in another form, with different symbols or feelings than the three main ones above. Pay attention to what she conveys in that moment; the energy she brings will reveal her guidance and message for you between these forms.
When Hecate comes to you on earth, seeing numbers of three digits of threes is a ssign she is here with you,
Where you need to face an important life decision or change in direction; where intuition, not logic, guides the way.

When lighting a candle and it is difficult to light or it flickers When the flame is a light is another sign and you might even feel a strong presence as you light a candle. 
🕯️ It’s her reminding you she walks beside you in darkness, illuminating hidden truths.
She comes in the forms of animals such as dogs, snakes, spiders, moths, frogs & Crows.
Hearing dogs bark in threes at night is a traditional sign of her passing.
🐾 If you feel calm instead of fear, she’s blessing, not warning.
