My predictions on SPN S6, unspoiled

This will be somewhat incoherent because I doubt I'll edit it. Spoilers up to episode 7.

Crowley: I think he has some angelic assistance. I don't believe he could, even as king of Hell, pull Samuel's soul from Heaven. I question whether he can get into Lucifer's cage. My thought is he knew the plan to box up Lucifer, he told Bobby he saw Sam's swan (hee) dive into the cage, and he had a plan ready for the occasion. He was able to pull Sam out at the last minute and still have Lucifer (and Michael?) fall in. But I hope he pulled all of Sam out and just stashed the soul part somewhere because I'm not sure I believe he could get into the cage once it was locked, so if Sam's soul is in there, I'm not sure Crowley can retrieve it for him.

Mothers: I think it's all about the girls this time and all the alpha male, our father, etc., par for the SPN course stuff is, this year, a red herring. The alpha vamp said: We all have our mothers. The only reason I can think for Samuel to make a deal with Crowley would be for his wife or daughter, and Deanna has never been a big part of the show. I think Mary is supposedly in Purgatory. Crowley is clever. He could threaten Samuel's descendants with something, he could find some other leverage (hee), but how much better to make Samuel want to find what Crowley wants him to find. If he's convinced his daughter is stuck in Purgatory with the freak souls, he would agree to find Purgatory for Crowley.

Why Mary would be there, if she is, is a mystery to me. Obviously Crowley couldn't put her there if he doesn't know how to get to it, so somebody else did. Maybe Zachariah when he was messing with the boys, but why he wouldn't mention it. And do the angels know where it is? Doubtful.

However...My earlier crackpot theory had to do with Kali, who was pissed about the Western Judeo-Christian apocalypse and getting beat down by Lucifer, coming back in the confusion that happened when the apocalypse fizzled out to gain some power on the continent and bring the pagans back into ascendancy. She could be bringing in the monsters from Greece and Japan that aren't usually in the states. She could have a plan or just be stirring up trouble.

But also, with the whole Mother idea, the feminine powers coming back into play after the male Christian/Jewish/Muslim god and his male archangels and mostly male (vessel-wise anyway) angels, Kali might fit in. What if the mother of the alphas is Gaia? The new showrunner is a woman, so meta-wise it would even fit if the mother goddess came back into play this year.

Anyway, like I said, incoherent, but I think it would be awesome for the pagans, for the feminine, to have a shot at ruling the SPN verse this year. You do not want to piss off the mother goddess!

ETA: Also, if in this 'verse Purgatory is for the so-called freak souls, could it also be for the pagan souls? That might keep Kali or Gaia in the game as far as that arc of Crowley trying to take it over.