I practice multiple ways of interacting with divine spirits. I believe that we are all divine spirits, undulating around each other. Multifaceted orbital lights! But the spirit of Mercury is often the loudest because I think that they like to interact with us too. Hermes is the child, the curious chatter in our minds, the conduit connecting disparate pieces to see if they fit. Mercury is a network of channels, electrical firings that spark in excitement at possibilities and funny feelings that lead us down or away from dark alleys. Mycellium living off the substrate of old ideas of ourselves.
Last night I woke up from a dumb dream about an ex (spoiler, he was still a dick in the dream world) and I went outside to see the night sky. This was just before 5 AM and the stars clearly had moved from where I usually say goodnight to them around 11ish. I have a skylight in my room so often they’ll peeked in at all hours as a surprise drop in guest. Always welcomed.
When I went outside to see this morning, there was one glorious star to the east. Brilliant in their glow, sparkling diamond like against the royal blue black sky. Venus, shining in her last few days in Aries before she comes home to Taurus. It’s my belief that she also likes to interact with us too, but more so in a formal, ritualistic way. She’s got her terms, her preferences and she’d really prefer you do things her way. Mercury, on the other hand, is like a pirate. There aren’t necessarily rules but guidelines that it follows. So, with the guidelines appropriate to Mercury, I will play with the rituals that I do with them. Change them up. While Hermes is at home in Gemini, the 8th house in my nativity, I especially like to work in deeply magical & occulted ways. The Magician’s table of using what I have at hand, the elements that are present and the ones missing, the astrology of the day and the astrology of preference, it’s all there for the creative making.
When the moon was new in Gemini a few weeks ago and then days later when Mercury was with the Sun, I interacted with the spirit of Hermes in a deliberately 8th House Mercury way: I shared the ritual with those that I am close to, those who I share karmic connections with in this life, those who also operate in occulted practices (those things we do in the dark like astrology or meditation)
And I am currently phoning in live from the Mercury Flow. The ritual itself will stay hidden, as is my perogative, but the outpouring of magic is overflowing the cup on my personal Magician’s table. Working with multiple, dutiful, practices of mundane and spiritual life, I am currently on the phone with Hermes. And I’m here to tell you, that they have a message for you: Call Me. (Hermes, not Christa but sure you can call me if you want)
If you ever needed the invitation to talk to a god, a spirit, a planet, an energy, a space in our time: Hermes is game. All games. Stories. Music. Magic. Interaction. Play. Writing. Medicine Making. Plant Walking. Put your feet into the Mercury Flow and you’ll begin to find yourself saying