There is no goddess who fascinates me more than Circe. His mysterious story, all the different versions of his myth … Everything related to her intrigues me so much! In recent years, Circe has gained popularity again and many witches venerate it. Let’s know Circe better, the first witch.

Who is Circe?

Circe was a sorceress with many and extraordinary powers that lived on the island of EEA, later identified by some authors with Circeo, on the western coast of Italy. He transformed his enemies into animals and all those who offended her.

Homer the goddess flame and describes her home in Eea, the island of Alba, as a beautiful palace that rose in the middle of a dense forest; Around the house, lions and wolves, victims of Circe’s magical arts, terrified visitors.

The Homeric Circe is rich in the charm of ambiguities: a terrible goddess, a clear woman, a sorceress with many drugs. Odysseus divides his teammates into two groups and sends one to explore, but they fall victims of Circe’s spells, which transforms them into pigs.

Odysseus comes to his aid and, in the forest, he meets the god Hermes, which makes him immune to magic. Thus, it can penetrate the house of the sorceress and make it harmless. The episode constitutes the broader concession to the magical world found in Homer: in fact, magic is not usually present in epic stories, since it is an archaic element.

It is also important to note that women exclusively use magic in the Greek myth. There is, therefore, a fairly clear division of papers: the man is fortune teller and prophet, while the woman is sorceress.

Origins and myth of Circe

When we find Circe in the pages of the Odyssey, we encounter an archetype in transformation. An archetype that arises from the wild world of a divine archaic female, whose custody and transmit symbols; And as in all transitional figures, its specific figure is an ambivalence that must be explored through its contradictions.

Of the primitive nature of the goddess, priestess and shaman, Circe retains the typical characteristics: dominance on animals and vegetation, pharmaceutical knowledge, the art of magical tissue, the power of transformation.

Circe is an adept of Hécateque is a magic teacher and a lunar patron of the dark arts: a divinity linked to cyclicity, fertility, the scope of generation. The goddess who draws the dynamic future of the moon in her recurring epiphanies, in the incessant succession of birth, growth and decline, and is a virgin, wife and mother, old woman.

Related:
List of the 5 divinities associated with the moon [con relatos].

However, when the Hellenic universe breaks into the Mediterranean cultural scenario, Circe is engulfed by the Helios dynasty, the sun, which appropriates the old functions incorporating them not without contradictions to the hug of the new solar religion.

Helios, then Apollo, proclaims his power over the oldest female divinities, but his is still an adoptive paternity: in the nature of Circe they continue to prevail distant and forgotten inheritance, shadows that eclipse the dazzling brightness of the sun.

Related:
List of the three deities associated with the sun [con historias].

He lives surrounded by the primary element of life, water, in the solitude of an island that is also a virtual omphalos, a center from which to observe the world, in the limit of known geography.

A remote and inaccessible existence, its incubation of magical and herbarium knowledge. In this enchanted place, driven by dark forces, the hero is guided by the female soul towards a deeper understanding of existence. His island is a beyond: it is necessary to go through the lands of the dead if immortality is sought. And on that island, if you are lucky to find it, you die and then rise.

Circe weaves a great canvas: This is how Ulysses’s companions find when they cross the threshold of his house. Order the threads of chaos, weave destinations in the old work of creation. Around him, in the temple of an ancient mother goddess or a «lady of the beasts», they wander wild animals, domesticated as dogs, subjected to the magical song of her mistress.

Among its attributes it has a fairy wand, instrument of power, ancient prerogative of the gods; But its greatest magic is the metamorphosis that it is capable of performing in human nature, the alchemical knowledge exerted on the subject.

It can degrade man until he turns him into an animal, as in the spell he performs on Ulysses’s companions, which he transforms into pigs: icons of a regression to a lower state, but also sacred animals for the deities of the underworld.

It is an act in which the revenge of the power of women can be read symbolically about the male sphere that imposes its dominance through rationality, and that here, as a retaliation, is re -envisioned to a overthrown scheme of sordid bestiality; A punishment that, however, is also the recovery of a familiarity lost with nature. But if you want, Circe can also raise the human being to a higher level of consciousness.

Homer never defines her as a sorceress, always as a goddess: however, in the odyssey she already appears partially stripped of the ancient attributes of a healthy divinity, from which only destructive aspects seem to prevail. His knowledge of herbs and green magic is at a terrible and dangerous power: the filters that mixes and composes with skilled art are not medicines, but fatal, sad poisoning.

Its action, in the Hellenic feeling, is already that of a witch. The goddess that Homer also called «Polyphàrmakos – which means someone who dominates remedies, potions, drugs and poisons,» expert in remedies, soon became the poisoner, the sorceress. Old medications have become poisonous filters, fatal drinks. In the practice of its liturgies, Circe practices the rites of the sung herbs: preparing the spell, itch the malignant herbs and extracts the harmful juices, impregnating them of infernal formulas, and meanwhile murmurs delighted songs, mysterious tangas of words.

The figure of Circe, already distorted by the Greek culture compared to the splendor of its nature of Mediterranean goddess, retains the last glimpses of an ancient and suffocated universe, but remains a very important transition icon, which will constitute a fundamental reference for the following symbolic elaborations throughout the western world. Keeping alive the link between the ancient cultural substrate and the imaginary of wise woman, the most ambiguous and enigmatic aspects will end up imposing themselves in Circe.

The luminous archetype will suffer the attacks of a progressive debasement: philosophical, physical, iconic, and the youth and charm of the lovely sorceress will give way to the perdition of old age: a transfiguration imposed by the weight of the moral judgment, rather than by the natural succession of a new station of life.

Circe was first goddess and then sorceress. But, in the eyes of history, it was undoubtedly the first witch.

What is goddess Circe?

Circe is a goddess of witchcraft. It is also considered a goddess of fertility and generation.

How do you know what Circe is calling you?

• You feel the impulse to go to nature
• You feel you need to try new spells and rituals
• You feel attracted to your wand
• You feel the creative and transforming energy of magic around you

The best ways to connect with Circe

Invite it to a harvest ceremony

If when you are going to harvest that sacred moment and want to take things to another level, you just have to invite Circe to join you. She loves reaping vegetables, plants and herbs, and can certainly be part of this important part of your trade.

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Lovely prayer for Mabon [Canto de 5 minutos]

Create potions in your name

If you like magic and want to connect even more with Circe, you should try the potions. Love -up potions, potions of luck … It doesn’t matter, as long as you really want what you create the potion.

Free your potential and your female energy with your help

Do not be afraid of being yourself even though people want to let you down and make you feel that you are less than that. Believe in yourself, in your power, in your energy and even in your female potential asking for help to reveal everything to the world. Ask him to be your guide if you need it and join your search for true freedom.

How do you honor Circe?

Greetings to the sun

It is believed that Circe honors herself in the sun, since her father was Elio, God of the sun and heat. A few greetings in the sun can help you honor Circe and make you feel loved and respected, showing respect to your father.

Related:
List of the three deities associated with the sun [con historias].

Practice witchcraft

Circe was a follower of Hécate and a witch. Practicing witchcraft is the best way to honor it, becoming oneself a follower of the old inheritance.

Take time outdoors

Circe enjoyed nature and used it as the main source of his art. He went out and spent a while in contact with the elements.

Related:
3 deities to connect with nature [Cómo acercarse a ellas].

Plant some seeds

Circe was a green witch! He used herbs and created poisons throughout his life. Planting some seeds is another wonderful way to honor it. Not only are you going to have some fresh herbs for your next spells and rituals but you will also honor the generation, and Circe is also …