How to pray so that the gods will hear you.

hearthfirehandworks:

If you say your prayer out loud, it will be heard.

If you say your prayer silently, in your head, it will be heard.

If you say your prayer standing or kneeling or lying motionless at your altar, it will be heard.

If you say your prayer while you wash the dishes or fold the laundry, it will be heard.

If you say your prayer slowly and mindfully, each word hanging in your mind like a leaf on a tree, it will be heard.

If you say your prayer quickly, with the words racing through your head so fast you are barely aware of them, it will be heard.

If you say your prayer calmly, with precision and measured meaning, it will be heard.

If you say your prayer desperately or in a panic, with no sense or coherence, it will be heard.

The gods will hear you when you call, they will listen when you pray.

doe-eyed-harpy:

Speaking of Hermes, while setting my altars up in the new place I realized that he is in possession of hare shaped chocolate and I asked him if I could give it to Eros (via tarot). I ended up pulling a card that implied thievery and betrayal and if that isn’t the most dramatic answer to “can you share one of your many chocolates” I don’t know what is.

patrickyfuckinstumpy:

soldierpallaton:

your-villainous-neighbour:

heartachemotel:

eratomusings:

eratomusings:

Yall think the gods take classics classes for fun

Professor: whys your drawing look like that lol artemis would be paler

Apollo, twin sister to Artemis, has seen her at least once a week for 4,000 years:

professor: ares is the god of war and is evil.

ares:

Professor: Hades is the god of the underworld and is therefore evil and cold and heartless

Persephone, who has seen her husband cry secret tears of Manly Anguish every time she has to go live with her mother for six months:

Professor: Not even the crack of dawn was safe from Zeus.

Zeus:

Professor: Medusa was cursed by Athena because she was asking for Poseidon to rape her

Athena, who gave her the gift of protection from greedy eyes:

thecosmicjackalope:

hymnalnights:

hermes doesn’t always answer my prayers, but when he does it’s about as subtle as a brick to the head

example: today i lost my id and was searching all over for it. kind of jokingly i said “hey hermes can i get some help?” looked down and it was right beside me.

message received ig

My job entails transportation so I’m always driving around the city during the week. I tend to see a lot of hawks on streetlights or flying near roads. Just today it snowed and I saw none perched on top of the lights like they usually are so I thought to myself “stay warm hawk friends” and then as soon as I thought that, a hawk flies around in a circle by the side of the road almost as if to say “we will.”