What happens when you worship Hecate? What is Hekate the Goddess of? What is the power of Hekate?
I have so many feelings today, and it’s not just being a Cancer in Cancer season.
I saw this comment at 3:00 a.m. and it hasn’t left my heart or mind, since:
This person was probably just entering the foster care system when I had the thought to write a Hekate book.
But I immediately thought, “No, DON’T!”
Why I almost DIDN’T write Hekate: Goddess of Witches –
- There were people who would be mad about it
- Some people wouldn’t like it
- It would be hard
Guess what? All of those things came true.
The people whom I worried would be mad that I wrote the book? I’m pretty sure they’re still mad. There are people who don’t like the book. I hear from them all the time (mostly on Goodreads). And it WAS hard.
But yet, the book exists. And so do I.
And that person in the comments found the book when they needed it.
What if I had let the ridiculous concerns about people’s thoughts and disapproval stop me from doing this work? Their thoughts and disapproval, as present as they may be, have absolutely NO bearing on how I live, now. If I had chosen them, my work would not have helped the person in the comments.
Naturally, if I had not written the book, they would have found a way without me as they are clearly gifted and exceptional on their own. But what an honor it is to have my work included in their thoughts about their own journey! This will stay on my heart forever.
Friends, if you have a thought to do something and your first response is, “No, DON’T!” It might be exactly what you need to do.
For some reason, the thing we fear doing most is the thing we probably need to be doing.
Maybe we fear the responsibility. We tell ourselves we fear failure, but we may actually fear success even more.
But what if there is a person out there, struggling with life as you struggle to decide whether you should do your work? What if what you create is what they need? What if it helps them a little further along their path? What if it even saves them?
Isn’t that worth the risks, real or imagined?