Hermes Waves Hello
I think I just got my anniversary present from Hermes.
I went out with Dominic today, because I needed some time out and he's free most days and looking to get out himself; we bummed around Inner Harbor and I took him out to lunch. Toward the end of our trip out, in the middle of conversations about video games, shitty movies, assholes we know/used to know and various and assorted bullshit, he suddenly tells me he's got to ask me something as he's reaching into his bag and pulling something out.
"Is there some association with Hermes and keys?" he asks me.
So I tell him that I at least have an association of keys with Hermes.
And then he pulls an old skeleton key out of his bag and gives it to me.
He says this key was something that he picked up some time in childhood, something he's always carried around with him for some unknown reason. And the last few weeks he suddenly started thinking about me and Hermes and it got stuck in his head that he needed to give me that key next time he saw me.
There is no ancient association between Hermes and keys that I am immediately aware of, though I don't think its too far fetched considering his connections to boundaries, door ways, liminal places, transitions, etc. But even still, my associating keys with Hermes is largely a personal thing, the connection comes from the particulars of my relationship with him and the (potential) direction my mystical work is going in. One of those things that is relevant to me and maybe no one else. Its one of those things I probably wouldn't discuss in any great detail (or mention at all) unless you know those particulars (since I really wouldn't be able to explain otherwise). Now Dominic is aware of some things because my relationship with Hermes began morphing in this direction when we were still living together so I told him about it, but because I was out of contact with him for a while there he's not aware of a lot of the things that have come out of these changes, not aware of how things played out or any personal associations that came out of it.
So, no, he didn't know about the keys and how that plays into things. Not until I gave him the brief summary after he delivered the gift.
Its little things like that that really help make all this real, that really confirms that I'm on the right path, that I'm not fucking crazy or merely talking with the voices in my head. Its things like this that kept me going during this last shitty year, that helped every time I stopped and wondered if any of it was real; there is just too much that can not be explained away as mere coincidence.
And I really needed this right now, because life has not been good. No, I'm not going to get into why, not publicly, not behind filters, not in chat or private emails; some things are still personal, you know. Its being worked out either way, slowly but its working out. Either way, this little affirmation from him was just what I needed.
Now, I just need to figure out what to do with the key...
I went out with Dominic today, because I needed some time out and he's free most days and looking to get out himself; we bummed around Inner Harbor and I took him out to lunch. Toward the end of our trip out, in the middle of conversations about video games, shitty movies, assholes we know/used to know and various and assorted bullshit, he suddenly tells me he's got to ask me something as he's reaching into his bag and pulling something out.
"Is there some association with Hermes and keys?" he asks me.
So I tell him that I at least have an association of keys with Hermes.
And then he pulls an old skeleton key out of his bag and gives it to me.
He says this key was something that he picked up some time in childhood, something he's always carried around with him for some unknown reason. And the last few weeks he suddenly started thinking about me and Hermes and it got stuck in his head that he needed to give me that key next time he saw me.
There is no ancient association between Hermes and keys that I am immediately aware of, though I don't think its too far fetched considering his connections to boundaries, door ways, liminal places, transitions, etc. But even still, my associating keys with Hermes is largely a personal thing, the connection comes from the particulars of my relationship with him and the (potential) direction my mystical work is going in. One of those things that is relevant to me and maybe no one else. Its one of those things I probably wouldn't discuss in any great detail (or mention at all) unless you know those particulars (since I really wouldn't be able to explain otherwise). Now Dominic is aware of some things because my relationship with Hermes began morphing in this direction when we were still living together so I told him about it, but because I was out of contact with him for a while there he's not aware of a lot of the things that have come out of these changes, not aware of how things played out or any personal associations that came out of it.
So, no, he didn't know about the keys and how that plays into things. Not until I gave him the brief summary after he delivered the gift.
Its little things like that that really help make all this real, that really confirms that I'm on the right path, that I'm not fucking crazy or merely talking with the voices in my head. Its things like this that kept me going during this last shitty year, that helped every time I stopped and wondered if any of it was real; there is just too much that can not be explained away as mere coincidence.
And I really needed this right now, because life has not been good. No, I'm not going to get into why, not publicly, not behind filters, not in chat or private emails; some things are still personal, you know. Its being worked out either way, slowly but its working out. Either way, this little affirmation from him was just what I needed.
Now, I just need to figure out what to do with the key...