Sunyata Satchitananda

  • A bright summer vision of Hekate holding keys beneath a dominant golden sun, standing barefoot in a field of flowers with birds and sacred trees.

    A Summer Solstice Blessing

    A mystical Summer Solstice blessing honoring the fullness of the Sun, the turning of the wheel, and Hekate’s subtle presence at the threshold where light begins its slow return toward shadow.

  • A dark moon with a faint glowing outline hangs over a shadowed landscape, with sparse stars, thin clouds, silhouetted trees, and two wolves with pale blue eyes near the treeline.

    The Dark Moon

    The Dark Moon is the moonless gate between what has ended and what has not yet begun. This essay explores the Dark Moon as a threshold of shadow, psyche, silence, and hidden renewal, with Hekate appearing as torch-bearer and witness at the edge of the unseen. It is an exploration of lunar darkness, subconscious tides,…

  • A glowing Tiger Eye pendant hangs in a rustic doorway at dusk, casting warm light across the threshold

    Threshold Magic: Worthless Becomes Priceless

    A personal encounter at a grocery-store threshold becomes a teaching on value, sovereignty, and Hekate’s quiet magic, as the word “worthless” is strangely received as “priceless.”

  • Hekate holding a torch at a dark crossroads, her light revealing the hidden inner self and the shadows of shame, fear, and healing

    The Torch-Bearer: What Hekate Reveals in the Dark

    Hekate’s torchlight does not only reveal the road ahead. It turns inward, exposing the shame, denial, wounds, and smallness we have tried to hide. This short essay reflects on the mercy of being seen clearly, and how healing begins when the hidden self no longer rules us from the dark.

  • A distressed traveler stands at a moonlit crossroads while Hekate holds a torch and offers guidance.

    The Weight of Waiting

    When life brings you to the crossroads, uncertainty can feel like anguish in the body: clenched gut, shortened breath, aching heart, racing mind. This essay explores the painful pause between who you have been and who you are becoming, where the next true step has not yet appeared, and where waiting itself becomes part of…

  • Hekate as a dark, majestic feminine presence at a misted crossroads, holding torches and keys, standing at the threshold between shadow and becoming

    Hekate: A Voice Across the Threshold

    A mythic introduction to Hekate as primordial steward of liminality, crossroads, keys, torches, the Void, and becoming. This essay opens the Mysteries section by presenting Hekate not merely as the goddess of witchcraft or ancient mythology, but as a living presence of threshold, transformation, shadowed passage, and the soul’s movement from one life into another.

  • Safe Sexual Healing book cover

    Safe Sexual Healing: the Book

    The authoritative guide to sexual healing ethics and safety by Sunyata Satchitananda ISBN 978-1982234423 Discover the bedrock of safe sexual healing

  • A seated man holds his chest and abdomen while symbolic archetypal figures emerge around him in a shadowed hall with light pouring through an arched doorway.

    Understanding Archetypes

    A Jungian exploration of archetypes, shadow work, dreams, and Active Imagination as pathways into the hidden patterns that shape personal growth and inner life.

  • Adult couple seated in Yab Yum meditation with foreheads touching, one hand on the heart, surrounded by warm candlelight and Tantra-inspired decor.

    Am I Too Big for Yab Yum?

    A frank, practical answer to a reader’s question about whether Yab Yum can work when partners have very different body sizes. This post explores comfort, cushions, knee and back safety, eye-gazing, breath, erotic energy, and Yab Yum as both meditation practice and sex position.

  • a group of people at a Tantra event sit cross-legged, eye gazing

    What You Should Know About Tantra

    A clear and protective guide to Tantra, neo-Tantra, kundalini, consent, Tantric Thrall, participation mystique, and the shadow side of Tantra events, workshops, and private sessions. Written from long practice and direct experience, this essay helps seekers understand both the beauty and the risks of modern Tantra before entering the space.