S2 #98 / Dr. Lenni George on The Rites of Hekate

About this episode

Darragh Mason interviews Dr. Lenni George about her book on Hekate and the personal experiences that shaped it.

In this episode of Spirit Box , I sit down with Dr. Lenni George to talk about her new book, The Rites of Hekate: From the Dirt to the Divine . Released in December and praised by Peter Mark Adams, it’s a rare work that stands firmly in both scholarship and lived devotional practice without compromising either. We explore how the book came into being, and the very personal experiences that shaped it. Lenni shares the story of creating her moon and poison gardens — six white-flowering beds dedicated to lunar rites, a Strophalos wheel set into the soil, and a dark moon garden of baneful plants. What began as a strange inner shove became something tangible, culminating in the discovery of an old key unearthed from the earth — a potent symbol for a goddess of thresholds. Our conversation moves into a powerful regression hypnotherapy session in which Lenni encountered herself as a deaf beggar woman in medieval Europe. That experience took on deeper meaning as she was writing about Hekate’s hordes — the gathering of the lost and the forgotten. Later, while teaching in Greece, she saw how deeply that current resonated with others who recognized their own experiences of grief, death, and…

People in this episode

Host: Darragh Mason

Guest: Dr. Lenni George

Topics covered

• Hekate
• devotional practice
• hypnotherapy
• goddess mythology
• patriarchal narratives
• personal experiences

Keywords

• Hekate
• devotional practice
• hypnotherapy
• goddess
• mythology
• grief
• exile
• patriarchy

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Rites of Hekate: From the Dirt to the Divine

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