Hermes: hey idiot, there’s some stuff you haven’t taken care of in your life and i know you’re purposefully avoiding it so i’m going to keep bombarding you with certain letters and emails until you GET THE MESSAGE YOU DUMBASS
Also Hermes: so you’re ready to face the facts and get serious. okay. i can respect that. good luck, keep working at what you need to get done. i’m here.
(sends job opportunities and multiple signs like birds and foreign currency in weird places to let me know that everything is gonna be okay if i just keep going)
Also Hermes: i see you’re ordering that divination deck you always wanted.
….>:)
(proceeds to slow the mail delivery down an extra week)
(proceeds to place some wasps near the mailbox to make it harder for my insect-fearing ass to get my mail)
(i finally receive the deck)
(it’s missing a card)
they don’t call him the Trickster God for nothing.
but he’s still pretty cool.
I’m dying to know which card was missing!
It’s from a deck of animal medicine cards, where each card has a different animal that represents a different energy or approach to a problem. It’s the one by David Carson and Jamie Sams.
I was missing card number 28 – Armadillo. Who represents Boundaries.
Not sure if that’s a sign for how I need to handle the current situation or just a pun seeing as he’s the god of boundaries.
actually, update: i looked it up online. the Armadillo card represents boundaries, not physical, but metaphorical. it represents being able to allow yourself to feel emotions, bond with people, and deal with the hardlines of reality WHILE ALSO setting ground rules between you and other people and things, as well as not absorbing the negativity around you or letting it drag you down into despair. it’s like, developing a thick skin, but also letting allow yourself to experience life.
it pretty much is a sign for how i need to handle the situation i have at hand.
so to recap, it’s a message in the form of advice in the form of a pun in the form of a trick in the form of a method of divination that had to be delivered through a job area he rules over through an online trade website which is also something he rules over. the longer i think about it, the deeper this goes.
I don’t think I ever told you guys this but there’s a third part to this story
I bought the tarot deck from a lady who gladly sent me an extra card to make up for the one I was missing. So when I received it in the mail, the first thing I did was get out my medicine cards to place it where it belonged between card 27 and card 29.
While I placed it where it belonged, I moved card 27 and something slowly, slowly peeled off from the back. I picked it up.
It was the fucking Armadillo card. Number 28. It had been stuck to the back of card 27 all along. I was never “missing” it.
Keep in mind that I looked through that deck about 20-30 times over to make sure that card was “missing.” I inspected each card carefully to make sure that not only was I missing 28, it also that it was the ONLY one missing. I touched 27 before several times. It didn’t feel or look suspicious in the slightest. It didn’t feel thicker or heavier. It looked like a normal card.
So long story short, I got a tarot deck in the mail after a long wait, missed a card, ordered the card, got new card in the mail and then found out I was never missing that card in the first place. Amazing. Fucking amazing prank. No one else could have ever come up with something like this. And it took like weeks to come to completion. I hate getting played but even I got to admit – fucking amazing prank.
I ended up giving the extra Armadillo card to Hermes. It’s on his altar to this very day.
Hermes 