Every threshold is hers and every threshold is a decision
Resonance
Those protecting a home those at a crossing
Symbols
DoorHingeHawthornBeans
Mythology Summary
Cardea is the Roman goddess of thresholds and hinges, who protects the doorway and, in Ovid, the cradle — the power that decides what crosses. Her rites used hawthorn and beans, and her festival was the first of June.
Modern Practice
Cardea is called on to protect a home, to guard a threshold, and at any crossing where something is being let in or kept out. Her practice is physical: a charm at the door, a line of salt, an offering left outside.