It’s been a while but I’ve managed to make a Greek pantheon hard enamel pin set to match my Egyptian one! I’ll be kickstarting it from September 25th to October 25th if you wish to pick up a Greek or Egyptian pin!
Yooooooo so I saw a cool thing that I wanted share! Tom Swiss the Zen Pagan on Patheos had an idea: a revised version of #filmstruck4, where it’s #mythstruck4 instead. You share the four myths that ‘define’ you, or had the most significance to your life. I hope you guys see this and reblog with your myths; I’d love to read them! 😀
Here’s mine… all Greek except one, no particular order of significance:
1. The Egyptian story of the Shipwrecked Sailor – this is less a myth and more of a fairy tale, I think, but I’m not really clear on what the semantic difference is 😛 I had a picture book as a kid of this story… a sailor was the only survivor of a shipwreck and he washed up on an apparently deserted island. On this island was a huge snake, 30 cubits long and calling himself the Lord of Punt, who carried the sailor back to his (the snake’s) home, and told him he was a welcome guest on the island and could help himself to anything the island had to offer until he was rescued. The moral of the story was supposed to be along the lines of ‘sometimes misfortune leads to adventure’ and it’s the one single story that got me interested in ancient cultures and their myths in the first place 🙂 I’d like to write this out someday too
2. The myth of Ares and the Aloadai: I assume most of you know my feelings about this story.. two apparently undefeatable giants are assaulting Olympus, with the intent of stealing away Hera and Artemis, and no one can figure out how to defeat them. Ares charges in anyway, without a good plan (his m.o.), and gets captured and imprisoned – in a jar. He’s held there for over a year, and the myth clearly states that he was weakened to where he was almost dying by the time Hermes and Artemis tricked the giants into killing each other and broke him out. This story was what made me want to read more about Ares, and the more I read, the more I realized that I absolutely love this misunderstood god ❤
3. Hermes teases the baby nymphs: It was a tough call between this one and the story where Hermes farted on Apollo when they first met. But I’ve been absolutely enchanted with the domesticity of this – just the fact that no matter how many thousands of years ago, gods or mortals alike, tiny naughty children exasperate their mothers, and the cool dorky uncle figures pretend to be scary monsters to playfully tease the kids. This might be the moment I saw how *relatable* these figures are.
4. Icarus falls: obviously 🙂 this isn’t even particularly my favorite myth, believe it or not! But it’s the one that Started It All. That one day last winter when I was scrolling through Tumblr, looking at posts about Supernatural and the Avengers, and somehow saw Erinye’s famous post and was so captivated that I *had* to write about it, and I’m so glad it happened 😀
Please reblog and add your own!!
My Hermes highlight of the day was drinking coffee on an airplane while listening to music and flipping through magazines
I get this question a lot and honestly, your time and attention is plenty! Other deities may require you to do special things for Them, but Hermes is a little more laid back. Start slow, follow your instincts, be genuine in your interactions with Him, and everything else will fall into place. ♥️
☉ Sun symbol: The zodiac circle with the centre point symbolising the light of consciousness. The alchemic symbol of Gold. The Crown ♌
Leo symbol: The heart centre opened and emanating outward toward the world, the lion’s mane – a creature present in every spiritual teaching and myth as a chalice of courage, power, rule, and magnificent beauty.
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Moon symbol: Silver. The endless circle of conception, birth, life, and death by the swelling into full moon pregnancy and retreating as she wanes back to earth. The lesser work of Mercury, the sap of animate water concealed in Mercurious ♋ Cancer symbol: The Beehive, The syzergy (egg) of solar pouring into lunar, and earth
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Mercury glyph: The Caduceus of Hermes. The sphere beneath the cross of matter – The Word of God made flesh, with a lunar crescent crown relating to the Goddess
♊ Gemini symbol: The Gateway to the Astral Realm. Duality. Two columns of the Temple ♍ Virgo symbol: Mercury is the outcome or a product of the inverted M, Ma, Maia, Mother with the fish of Pisces splitting from the side to symbolise the harvest of spiritual enlightenment
♀ Venus symbol: Copper. Feminine. The mirror of Isis, Buddha’s necklace ♉ Taurus symbol: Written the symbol ♉ becomes ‘α, ‘ A’ the first letter of the alphabet “I am Alpha and Omega the First and the Last the Beginning and the End” Soul and Spirit
♎ Libra symbol: The scales symbolising the natural order of existence to return into balance. The centre sphere symbolises the sun falling in the autumnal equinox
♂ Mars symbol: Masculine. Iron. The Warrior’s Armour, Sword, and Spear to win the love of Venus ♈ Aries symbol: “You have been submitted to all kind of ordeals and you have emerged triumphant. Walk with the Child of your Christified Will in your arms. hese two children symbolize two paths that open before you, like the great “V” of Victory.”
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Jupiter symbol: The 4 of fortune, the cross earth reaching into the horizon and revealing possibility ♐ Sagittarius symbol: The arrow dipped in the blood (the energetic force) of the defeated Hydra in Scorpio that exalted him to half spirit, for the power to dominate and devour the residual ego and duality
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Saturn symbol: The scythe of time that cuts the silver cord before the cross of matter (earth) the crescent sickle a symbol of harvesting and cultivating the circle of spirit ♑ Capricorn symbol: The signature of God that can never be truly replicated
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Uranus symbol: The first Atlantean. Heaven. The Chakras. The Antenna of Lightning Intuition ♒ Aquarius symbol: The parallel horizons containing the air (breath, the message) rising and descending between heaven and earth
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Neptune symbol: The 3 pointed triad of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and the Goddess trinity of Sophia, Isis, and Mary ♓ Pisces glyph: Two fish united by a hyphen between the hands of Neptune, one human and one divine
Pluto symbol: The light of consciousness within the circle of spirit is the passageway between worlds. The Crown worn by Isis.
♏ Scorpio symbol: The externalised sphere directing the evolved masculine (sexual magic) force available to all conscious spiritual warriors
Just put in my resume and application for a job I really want!! I hope I get it, I really need money lol💚💚
Hermes, thank you for this opportunity 😊✨
good luck
Two months ago I needed a job, like desesperately and I remembered to be lying on my bed and suddenly something came to me and I said: Hermen will help me. A week after I had not one but two jobs. Just wanted to share my experience. Good luck.
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