The Blood Moon Energy, The Eclipse, Hekate and a Dream Paralysis

'The Nightmare" by Swiss Artist Henry Fuseli (1781) Wikipedia.

On the Night of the Blood Moon Eclipse on March 13th -14th 2025, I happened to have a Dream Paralysis that shook me to my core. This night was marked by Astrologers, Astronomers, Clairvoyance, Spiritualists, and Witches as an immense powerful Celestial Event. This was do to the fact that it was a Full Moon in Piscis, accompanied by a Moon Eclipse that will turn our Moon Goddess into a blood red hue.

My story goes like this… When dusk came, I did my Full Moon devotional to Hekate. I lit up her candles in her altar, recited her Hymn (The one I made for her in “The Rite to Her Sacred Fires” initiation ceremony), ignited some incense, and filled up her special glass with fresh water. Something simple but meaningful. As I proceeded to do my full Moon devotional, I felt tired, almost exhausted, but I pulled through. Then ten o’clock was marked on the clock, and that’s when I kind of gave up because I was feeling extremely sleepy, and so, I called it quits (Mind you, I always go to bed between midnight and one o’clock). I took advantage of the situation, and went to bed, and I fell asleep immediately. This was a miracle because these days I am sleep deprived thanks to a mother who has been diagnosed with dementia. But that is another story. 

Then it happens! As I was deep in my sleep, I felt this presence, that took over me. The entity felt masculine, and it was sexual! It was feeling me up, and I panicked! I immediately knew that it was a Sleep Paralysis Demon, or was it? After many years of not having them, they came back. It felt ominous that it happened on this powerful night!

This type of Sleep Paralysis started as a kid, throughout my teens, and then adulthood. Incredibly, when I claimed myself as a Witch, they kind of stopped, and when I became a Hekate devotee they definitely stopped even more. Years have passed before I experienced another Sleep Paralysis until this powerful night. 

You see, when I was a kid, I was raised Christian like many of us in this group in some way or another. Going back to the late 70s and early 80s when Satanic Panic was in full circle ones more. Pastor and Priests used to love preaching about Demons, the Devil, demonic possessions, and exorcisms. Consequently, these events used to freak me out something fears. Especially to a kid that was rejected, and in some way alone for being too feminine, too different. For those who don’t know I am a transgender woman. Back then there was no language yet to described my situation, so I was labeled Gay or Homosexual. Subsequently, this little girl trapped in a boy's body, was feeling sort of alone, vulnerable, and afraid of the night. As a result, I used to have sleep paralysis frequently, and in particular the ones where I was awake, but I couldn’t move or speak. So frighting. 

Now, moving on and getting back to present day, and to my newly fresh Dream Paralysis… I remembered the Ephesia Grammata, as I was being tightly hugged, and chocked by this demon. The Ephesia Grammata goes like this: ASKION KATASKION LIX TETRAX DAMNAMENEUS AISION. These words were introduced to me in a Facebook group page dedicated to Hekate, by a devotee named Tina Georgities. Thank you, Tina!

For those who don’t know about Ephesia Grammata, these words are used to advert evil, the evil eye, and especially evil spirits. But the dream paralysis was too strong, and I couldn’t say them! If you’ve experienced a SP, you know how it goes. So, then I tried to call Hekate, and it wasn’t coming out either. So, then I thought to myself… “Maybe I should call her in her ancient name Ekath”. And my voice started to come out, lowly and distorted like if I was being possessed… my voice was deep and dark! I kept saying Ekath, Ekath, Ekath but in a low deep voice… then lauter and lauter… Ekath, Ekaath, Ekaaath, then screaming EKAAAAAAAAAAAAATH! The demon kept holding me tighter. Then, He’s grip was around my breasts and the inner of one of my thighs. 

Surprisingly, the dream paralysis became more bizarre than it already was. My vision widens... as if my soul came out of my body. I could see my sister getting up from her bed panicked due to my screams. I was seeing everything! She approaching my bedroom door and proceeded to knock franticly, and called me- “GINA, GINA, GINA! ARE YOU OK? OPENED THE DOOR!  Apparently I have locked the door. I never lock the door because of Mom. Mother wonders around at night. Thank Goddess I woke up from the nightmare. My poor sister was shaking, and so was I. Also, I woke up with a huge headache. I said to my sister- “it was a dream paralysis”, and she answered- “I’ll say! It's that Hekate cult you are in” (She’s still a Christian). So, I said- “well she was the one who woke you up so you can save me… that was the name I was shouting in Ancient Greek”. She was like “I don’t want to know anymore... good night” and she went back to bed. 

I was terrified and dazed. When I looked at the time it was 2:00 o'clock in the morning, and I remembered that I have seen a post on Instagram telling us that the exact time the eclipse was supposed to happen between 2 and 3 o’clock in the morning. So, shaking and with a little bit of courage, and still not knowing why, I opened the window, and looked out the window to find the Moon but no luck. I left the window open, and I proceeded to use Palo Santo to cleanse the room (I was aiming for sage but I was too nervous so I grabbed the first thing I saw). Then I went to the kitchen to eat something, because I thought I needed to ground myself from that experience. Still holding my Palo Santo in hand. I grabbed some dark chocolate that was on the fridge door, went back to my room, and grabbed Kenn’s and Chris's Hekatean Path Oracle deck, and the card that came out was New Moon-Beginnings.

I was like “What?”, we all know that New Moons are beginnings, and the New Moon is also Hekate’s sacred face Moon. I kept asking her... “beginnings?”. I looked up in the booklet for the meaning of the oracle card, and it talked about (paraphrasing); "renewal, and Hekate’s power being buoyant and full of promise in the new cycle of the Moon". I was confused with this sort of uplifting message after having this horrible nightmare. So, I started analyzing the situation and I realized that the Full Moon became a New Moon when the eclipse took place. Because this is exactly what happens to the Moon when it becomes the face of the New Moon, the shadow of the earth covers the Moon’s surface and it hides the Moon in the sky. But the Moon wasn’t hidden this time because the rays of the sun filtered through the earth shadow making it appear red. Blood red. 

Then I remembered that in The Full Prayer to Hekate Selene for Everything, in the last paragraph of the prayer it addresses Hekate as “Who drink blood (hence the blood Moon), Who brings death and destruction, and who feast on hearts, flesh eater, who devour those dead untimely and you who make grief resound and spread madnesses. The message felt that Hekate was in her Brimo epithet in this powerful night, and that she will devour anything that is causing us fear, she will devour and drink their blood, she will bring death and destruction to those who are dead inside that only want to hurt others causing us harm, in order to glorify themselves. I realized she showed me her power in the form of a Sleep Paralysis and made me reflect that these types of dreams came back because I was feeling fearful. Thanks to the current event on our country, especially with this administration targeting the trans community.

To my realization she gave me words of wisdom with the oracle card that no matter what we can make the best of any situation, that her power will guide us through

these liminal times. That we can begin a new chapter, that everything has a purpose. That we can create and manifest a great life despite what goes around us. That we need to stay focused and manifest the magical life we deserve. 

In conclusion, we are her witches now, we have her power. She has blessed us with the power of witchcraft, intuition, creativity just like she did for Media, Cerci, and many other witches, and witchers throughout history. This is how she works, in the shadows, making us reflect in our most vulnerable and scary moments. When Hekate came to me for the first time, she came to me in a dream, and she gave me a scenario where I was at home with my nephews who were for some reason kids at that moment, playing in the living room. A man, a white man, walked right into our home, with no invitation and with a face of ill intentions, holding a knife to his hand. I shield the kids and he grabbed me and put the knife to my neck. I called out Hekate and with the same knife she cut his head off, and gave his head to me in a black velvet box. I grabbed the box, and at the same time an altar appeared before me. Following my intuition, I place the velvet box with the head, in altar before me, then I hear her voice loud and clear telling me “This is how I work. Do you still want to walk with me?"

by Georgina Quinones

Member since January, 2023.