Wednesday 12/11/2019 #HumpDayPost
Happy Hump Day Dear Ones!
We are drawing closer to the weekend and the holidays as well!
Wednesday (Hump Day) is a magical day, associated with Hermes by the Greeks and Oden (called Wotan) by the Nordic people, incidentally, they are both cross-cultural representations of a similar type of Universal Power as well as similar vibrations of an enchanted Architype. Both Odin and Hermes rule over the art, science, and games of divination. Odin was supernaturally inspired during a self-initiated shamanic rite involving putting out one of his eyes and hanging himself upside down from the World Tree of the Nordic Mythos, ‘Yggdrasil”, where whilst hanging by a rope from one leg, one eye put out one still with normal sight, the knowledge, wisdom, and power of the runes came to him, the runes are the magical alphabet of the Nords, etched on rocks, wood chips, crystals or bone pieces they are used in divination by casting them onto a clothed layout and then interpreted by how and where they land. Doesn’t this story of Odin’s ritual that leads him to cosmic perception which he articulated into the runes make one who knows Tarot think of the Hanged Man #12 of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck and the 2 of Spades in the Illuminated Tarot (Hanged Man is merged in its meanings with the 2 of Swords)! I wonder if Odin’s rite played a role in the design of the card, or was Odin enacting an old, forgotten initiation rite, that was perhaps well known in those times? Makes you ponder a bit doesn’t it?
Hermes is another type of this frequency, except his technique, is a bit more playful, and yet still very deep in his “knowing, calculated, and well-planned moves”. As part of Hermes’ well-crafted plan to acquire certain powers and domains, he convinced his half-brother Apollo, The God of Prophesy, into trading him the domain od divination. Apollo found it all too easy to grant the rulership of divination to his younger half-brother, he found it to be childish and trivial, I mean when you can know what’s in Zeus’ mind, why would you need divination. But Hermes in his sly and playful wisdom knew he would be gaining so much more as well. Divination is a practice that most often involves a medium or device that is agitated I some fashion to induce randomness of various symbols or meanings that the divinatory device represents. Shuffling a deck of cards, casting stones on a cloth layout, observing where the tea leaves have settled in a client's cup after they drink, these all are in his domain, and luck, change, games, and gambling came under his domain as well. Here we have the Image and character of another Tarot Card, The Magician #1 in the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, and the King of Spades in the Illuminated Tarot (merged with the King of Wands). The Magician is sometimes known as the Gambler, the Con-artist, or Games Master. These, of course, are titles that only give different emphasis on certain frequencies, given off by the same quality of vibration.
Wednesday is associated with both the Gods, Odin, and Hermes and by proxy, the two tarot cards, The Hanged Man and The Magician. This makes for a magical day, where the week can make a turn for any direction, any mood or mindset can be turned around or transformed into something else. There is also no coincidence that playful and lusty Hermes, as well as vigorous and wildly, passioned Odin are both associated with a day known as “Hump Day”, I feel the implications are there, so I’ll leave that one as it is.
Wednesday Correspondences
Concepts: Half-way point (of all things, beginning, and end, life, and spirit, yin, and yang, etc.), turning point, chance, change in perspective, self-awareness, alchemy
- Divination, transformation, gambling, marketing, sales, wealth, luck, insight, initiation, manifestation, wisdom, Magic in general, traveling, evolution, transfiguration, prosperity
Major Arcana: The Magician, The Hanged Man
Minor Arcana-King of Wands (clubs), 2 of Swords (spades)
You may copy the Wednesday Correspondences to your own Book of Shadows, or Spellbook for your personal magic records.
May the Wheel Turn in Your Favor!
-Kyle W.M. | The Hollywood Witch Doctor
Illuminated Tarot Deck -Caitlin Keegan
Rider-Waite Tarot by A.E.Waite and Pamela Smith
Odin’s Myths in the Nordic Mythos
Classical Greek Myths with stories of Hermes.
