a name. a legacy. purpose.

I'd like to forward a quote from Arianna Huffington that my friend Eric sent me today. It oddly echoed a tarot reading I had yesterday.
I begin to believe there is no mistake for the name Hermes who is Mercury which is Gemini which is Hermes. Serendipity. Alchemy.

"Then there is my favorite god: Hermes. Winged messenger in perpetual
motion, as an old man, or a fixed stone, Hermes embodies both action
and serendipity, and that which never changes. He is the guide of our
voyage and the guardian-spirit of our adventure.

Whenever things seem fixed, rigid, "stuck," Hermes introduces
fluidity, motion, new beginnings. He is the primordial divine child
-- the child who, if we're lucky, we never outgrow. Hermes' world is
a magical world full of signs and significance. He was the god who
first gave me, as a child, a sense of the miraculous all around me.
His spirit is fluid, trusting, open. Introducing the element of the
unexpected into our lives is one of the means he uses to spur us out
of our complacency, to break through the inertia and confinement of
habit and convention.

Hermes clearly represents a very important key to fearlessness: the
freedom of not having to be in control all the time, of not always
being the one who has to make things happen. His dual nature also
helps us accept life's paradoxes - that the only constant is change.
Which is why he is the god of connections, bridging realms and
dissolving frontiers between earth and the Underworld, men and gods,
life and death.

You don't have to be Greek to enjoy the benefits of the Greek gods.
Nor do you have to wait until you get to the other side to experience
Hestia's essence. Bridging the gap between ourselves and that
something greater than ourselves is available to us all the time.
It's the bridge between what we know and what we dimly perceive,
between what we are and what we are not, between what we are now and
what we can become.

As we make that connection, we gain perspective on our lives. When I
studies comparative religion at Shantaniketan University outside
Calcutta (founded by Rabidianath Tagore) I learned a lot from my
study of the Shinto form of Buddhism centered on mindfulness. Through
the simple act of paying careful attention -- whether to what we eat,
how we move, or where our thoughts wander -- we become aware of the
significance our minds attach to things. And in that awareness, we
recognize how interconnected everything is. All religions have
similar practices that can free us from the fear that results from
not feeling in control. As Hermes teaches us, it is so freeing to let
go and trust."