Lilith is a multilayered and multifaceted goddess who has had numerous mythologies throughout the ages. Mostly, she was known as the usurper of Adam, a woman who insisted on being on top, and who refused to bow to male authority. Lilith was powerful and clever enough to use the secret name of Yahweh to escape Adam and his maker and went onwards to newfound freedom and autonomy. She defied Adam. She defied Yahweh, and she defied the three angels he sent to bring her back. But for this act of defiance, she paid a heavy price. Lilith was banished to the wasteland where she became the personification of evil–feminine evil. Cast out for the last five millennia, she became the hated unknown. the blood sucker, the murderer of infants, the breaker of bones, the harlot, the witch, the hag, the succubus, the mother of nightmares, the unclean shadow–she who is built of wind and fire–the queen of the night. Lilith became the patriarchal scapegoat for a multitude of perceived female sins mixed with the wild, untamed darkness hiding beneath the surface within all women which had to be shackled and vilified at all costs throughout the ages.  Let us fast forward to the 19th century where Lilith made a strong resurgence with the Romanticists and the Pre-Raphaelites who imagined her as the ultimate femme fatale–a deadly siren no man can resist. A woman to be loved and feared in equal measures. Lilith haunted the romantic imagination of the industrial age, a precursor to the suffragette’s movement that was then soon to come. In the 20th century, Lilith played a vital role in the formation of Wicca, and she is known as the Queen of the Witches, or The Mother of Witches, who’s magical worship has endured in secret throughout the ages. Lilith represented an actualized woman who is judged not by her consort, but of her own merit. A woman who was true to herself rather than hide in another’s shadow or be subjugated to another’s will. Lilith has never compromised.   Today, Lilith is worked with in a myriad of ways, but mainly as the eternal dark goddess who leads us to find treasure in the land of shadows and helps us to bring that treasure to the light. She is the counterpoint, and the crux of the crossroads, and she has become a symbol of the divine feminine within most witchcraft traditions.
Lilith is associated with:
Owls
Peacocks
Serpents
Wolves
Scorpions
Lions
The dark of the moon
Meteorites
Sea water
Herbs, like Damiana, Jasmine, Patchouli, Cypress, Sandalwood, Rose
Graveyard dirt
Menstrual blood
The colors red and black
The dark, deep woods where things are silent and still
Red and dark, like red jasper, garnet and obsidian
All these associations and representations can be used as offerings to Lilith, along with specially crafted Lilith spirit offering bags, Lilith Spirit Key Talismans, incense and oil blends sacred to her. Mirall Bruja Occult Apothecary also offers Lilith statuary and jewelry as well as an hour long prerecorded lecture which dives deeply into Lilith’s various roles and mythologies throughout time immemorial.  Â
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