As light wanes and darkness grows, invoke the Dark Madonna to guide your journey. Every culture has a personification of the dark mother, representing the seasonal descent into darkness and the symbolic journey into our psyche and shadow material. Call on Nyx, the Greek goddess of the night, or Hecate, goddess of the crossroads, witchcraft, and the moon. Invoke either Persephone or her mother, Demeter, to join you as you journey down, examining loss, abandonment, separation, and pain.

O Dark Madonna, journey with me.
O Dark Madonna, journey with me.
Mary, mother of Jesus, be
with me in my grief.
Isis, mother of Horus,
provide healing relief.
Demeter, help me release
summer’s light.
Persephone, be with me as
I journey into night.
Nyx, stay by my side through
the dark night of the soul,
And Hecate, guide my journey,
that I may emerge whole.
O Dark Madonna, journey with me.