Charcoal and mixed media on Paper

11 × 14 inches

Framed

This piece is available through The Wabash Project at Chaney Studios March - May 2026. Please reach out to them for details about availability or purchasing.

This title, “Guardian of the Threshold”  is from a lecture given by Dr. Safron Rossi on Hecate and Hermes as guardian figures in Greek mythology. This piece is an offering to Hecate, who is a Greek Goddess of magic, crossroads, and the dark of the moon. Astrologer Demetra George notes one pre-Greek genealogy that leads us to Hecate’s birth at the beginning of time as a daughter of Nyx, Ancient Night. She presides over ritual, death, and the secrets of regeneration. It is Hecate who meets Persephone, welcoming and embracing her after she was abducted by Hades and later released from the underworld.

One of Hecate’s powers lies in her capacity to bear seeing what must be seen. As Clarissa Pinkola Estes says in her book, Women Who Run with the Wolves: “To look and to not look away.” It is a skill we all need more of in these times. On an inner level, Rossi describes Hecate as “a guardian figure of the depths of the unconscious” one who can protect and support the work of reclaiming and welcoming what needs returned to the light of the sun, our conscious awareness, within ourselves.