My friends know me as a “Grammar Nazi”, proofreading and editing literally everything literature based. Just yesterday I helped a kid with their writing, and – no joke – two minutes after I was done they walked over and handed me a small pile of change. No thank you or anything, just the cash. (60 cents, if you were wondering.) I highly suspect this was Hermes’ doing… any ideas what this might mean? (BTW, the cash went into my Hermes’ offering jar-bank, it seemed fitting enough!)

Awww hahaha that’s so sweet, a tip from Hermes! Some kids are taught to give money and small objects to adults especially if they have younger siblings who might swallow them. The timing, however, is where Hermes came in and gave them a nudge!

The number 6 is a UPG that me and @sixsaltysweets talk about all the time, so I find the amount of 60¢ interesting too. My mom likes to check the year on the coins she finds and reflect on what was happening in her life during that time. It’s neat to hear everyone’s experiences and beliefs regarding coins!

mythologyofthepoetandthemuse:

Of all the classical manifestations of the primordial Great
Goddess who called Hermes into the world as the prototype of the
secret lover, Hecate is the most Hermetic. As a messenger
(angelos) she must be winged, just like her purely celestial
Doppelgängerin, Iris. Like Hermes, Hecate guides souls; and at
crossroads, represented by the Hecataia which were built up on
three-cornered pillars, she appears just as out of place in the
classical world as do the four-cornered roadside Herms. At every
new moon she there received cakes and smoked offerings, as did
Hermes. With Hermes she guards the gates and with him, too,
brings wealth and good fortune to barns.
Karl Kerenyi “Hermes Guide of Souls”

A detail of a 3rd century CE Roman statue of Hecate (or Hekate), goddess of the Moon. As here, she is often depicted having three heads and bodies. (Vatican Museums, Rome).

Source: mythologyofthepoetandthemuse

So I saw an ask being answered about finding foreign currencies and? When I was a kid there was this bag full of mostly new stuff that people were going to throw away and I remember I found dirhams in but there were a few marocain families living near so do you think it was a coincidence or, you know, a Hermes-made coincidence?

It totally could be! I was also drawn to Hermes-ish things as a child like foreign currency, maps, wings, etc. I also had a pet turtle and rabbit growing up (ironically they both escaped and ran away).

So yeah, sometimes deities influence the things we like long before we learn about Them, like a little seed tucked away for later.