Wicket Icons

Description: Around here, the summer temps linger through October and even into November.

Description: What began as a particular vein of Jewish mysticism (Qabalah) became during the Renaissance a critical source of magical practice in the Grimoire tradition, and continues to lend itself to mystics and magicians today.

Description: "I saw a fearsome woman approaching me, almost half a stadium's length high. In Her left hand She held a torch and in Her right a sword 20 cubits long. Below the waist She had snake-feet; above it She resembled a Gorgon, so far as concerns the look in Her eyes..." Lucian, Philopseudes, 170s CE

Description: Of watery caverns deep.

Description: Hail Hekate, Keybearer, Torchbearer, Gentle Nurse, unto whom I have sworn my oaths, I pray to you...

Description: Every August I celebrate the arrival of the Pleiades' meteor shower.

Description: I like to call this the Tree, but others have told me it's a bit creepy. I wonder what you see there?

Description: Hekate the Unnameable - Ineffable in Her Nature, so we come up with dozens of names and ideas to try to communicate a Goddess who spans Heaven and Hell. Watercolor, ink, and marker on paper.

Description: punica granatum, the fruit of the Underworld. Tart-sweet jewels that pop in your mouth. My favorite! original is acrylic on canvas, 5"x7"

Description: Flow.

Description: Golden Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, mistress of Ares, wife of Hephaestus, and to whom we are all beholden.

Description: The colors in this are delightful and will brighten any room.

Description: The colors of the beach.

Description: To honor Hekate's Sacred Fires, the modern rite created by Sorita D'Este.

Description: I love taking time in the wilderness.

Description: Sometimes it really is about the colors.

Description: Wealth and blood, These are the sacrifices of the Underworld.

Description: Thrasybulus found himself in danger, and prayed to the Gods, and to Hekate, whereupon She manifested as a pillar of light and led him to safety.

Description: Deep darkness with bursts of organic color and shape.

Description: Hekate had her followers throughout the Mediterranean, and by the 4th century CE, She was sometimes believed to be Nature Herself. Sometimes when I dream, it inspires art. Watercolor on paper, ink, tea, and dreamstuff.

Description: It's been so hot lately that all I want is to find a cold spring.

Description: Celestial grace.

Description: It may feel like summer but it's still spring.

Description: I love when the sky looks like this.

Description: Love this.

Description: I love how dramatic this one feels.

Description: Spiraling deeper.

Description: An experiment with old paint, that's now my favorite piece.

Description: An unlikely meeting, considering the Honey Badger (Mellivora capensis) is native to Africa and the American Badger (Taxidea taxus) is well... a North American critter.

Description: Lovely.

Description: We can't agree whether it's a Phoenix or a Dragon, but either way, we love it.

Description: Finally picked up some Golden fluid acrylics.

Description: Experimenting with ring pours.

Description: Hekate's mother is the Titaness of Stars, Asteria. As such, Hekate spans a connection between both the Heavens and the Underworld.

Description: I love the way these lines came out.

Description: It amazes me the way that mice can climb delicate blades of grass and use them to spot trouble on the horizon.