The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/hermes/page/3)
There is nothing strange and unapproachable, to me, about the fear of stepping outside my own door. There is nothing more sacred than the relief of coming back. There is nothing more sacred, to me, than the relief of stepping outside my own door. There is nothing strange or unapproachable about the fear of coming back.
“When I got some energy back, I sat down to tend my altars. The small chores of cleaning, sorting, and reorganizing took all of my attention. As I worked, I couldn’t shake the feeling that the tattoo had changed something, had somehow shown that I was serious enough to have some credit.” Luke Babb writes on the lessons and absences that made up their December holidays in 2021.
Luke Babb and Bat Collazo collaborate on a two-part series of conversation and context surrounding “the godspouse,” Pagans whose practice includes romantic or erotic love toward a deity.
“It took me a very long time to realize the kind of worship that feels most real to me is living into the energy of my gods. To me, this feels a little like a deliberate practice and a little like the forces that make pets look like their owners.”
The first images from the BepiColombo mission to Mercury were transmitted back to Earth on Friday, just as Mercury enters retrograde motion from Earth’s perspective.