Lately, I'd been talking to Athena & Hermes Trismegistus alot, and to a lesser extent, Isis & Seraphanz. I'd only contacted Seraphanz in the 1st place because of intrusive thoughts, and I don't feel like I can completely trust Her, but I do have some trust towards Her. The first time I tried to trust Her, I went real deep into it and then she'd seemingly demanded my free will, and then I snapped out of it and immediately quit trusting Her. Perhaps it was my pessimism making me think She was saying that when She actually wasn't, but I wasn't gonna take that kinda chance when my free will of all things was involved. Since then, I have some trust of Her again, but only some. I try not to bother Her much.
The other 3, however, I've been bothering alot because I almost always don't feel confident enough to do things myself or get my higher self to do it when I don't know how to do it, and I know I shouldn't be, and They aren't happy about it. However, I feel like my life would largely be ruined if I didn't contact them nearly all of the times when I did to ask for help, whether it'd feel like some lower entity would suddenly be compromising me by dwelling inside of my soul, or something horrible happening to my spirit gf.
Since I can rip specific types of & gems of specific types of loosh out of the akasha, I've been able to give alotta it to Seraphanz, Isis, & Athena to repay them for what they've done for me, but I feel like I can't repay Athena that easily after all that I've asked of Her. I also feel like Hermes probably has everything He'd ever want already, so I have no idea how to repay Him for the help He's given me, except by figuring out how to fix my problems, becoming a better wizard, and striving to become STO(ofc by the Montalk definition).
Since yesterday, though, I've been getting notably better at not having to ask for Their help for stuff, but I'm not quite there yet.
Speaking of deities, last week I was getting a bunch of intrusive thoughts about Loki, and at I was worried at some point that I was gonna actually contact Him by accident. When I went to bed one night thinking I really might've actually contacted Him by mistake and He was gonna start fucking with my life, I went to bed and had a normal dream and woke up anxious about Loki again, then intrusive thoughts made me think about Odin to get me to ask Him for help, and I tried to repress those thoughts since I knew I wasn't supposed to be asking for help with stuff. Surprisingly, he replied while I was suppressing those thoughts, asking if Loki was causing me trouble. I said yes or something alone those lines, and then I felt safe and went back to bed. I then woke up again later before my alarm went off, and I felt a bird almost physically perched on my arm, but not quite physically. At the time, I thought for some dumb fucking reason that the bird was Odin's parrot, but then I realized it wasn't supposed to be a parrot and the bird flew off of me, and I'd apologized to Odin for the misconception. It wasn't until I woke up after my alarm went off that I remembered He has 2 ravens, and that was one of His ravens keeping watch for me. I didn't even willingly ask Him for help, but I did allow Him to help me.
While I spoke to Him, he was very patient with me, and he found the mental plane I'd described earlier to do the pulling magic; He'd asked if He could try it out, and I said sure. He pulled on it and did something that I've got no idea what He did, and I felt lightning coursing through that mental environment's ceiling. My mental image of Him momentarily became very happy with a big smile on His face, and the image was tinted green.
Later, a thought went through my mind that I thought might've offended Him, and I apologized for it and asked if He forgave me, and He asked me if I forgave myself for it. I said yes, and the He forgave me. I realized then, in part because of an earlier post ITT, that deities really are not offended that easily. I also got the impression that He especially is not offended that easily, which made it alot easier for me to talk to The Allfather.
Some time afterwards, I started feeling like the other deities I've worked with weren't very mad at me anymore, including even Christian entities, except I feel like Hermes isn't too happy with me still, and He wants me to work with my higher self instead of Him. I don't always have the confidence that my higher self will do stuff for me, however, but I've been trying to ease myself into it. After all, if I try to force it, then it'll just feel delusional, so I've really gotta take my time with it. My magic doesn't feel delusional to me, but if I forced it like that, then it'd feel delusional to ask my higher self to do stuff for me. It's not a question of whether or not I'm contacting my higher self or whether or not I have one; it's a question of whether or not my higher self would decide to do what I ask of it unless I magically violate its free will as I'd described earlier.
In the next few days, my shadow tried to get me to bother Him with inane shit that noone cares about, such as "oh hey look at meaningless thing I did". I learned that I was getting these desires because, as I'd described in an earlier post, I have these "I wanna show you thing I did" energies, and the energies were trying to express themselves.
On Thursday, named after His son, Thor, I was about to go out to eat lunch at a country place, and I got these stupid fucking thoughts that I tried to repress, to invite Odin to "eat" lunch with me & my spirit gf by connecting to my relevant senses. I then felt like it'd be rude to suddenly disinvite him, and I let Him go if He felt like it, but I did explicitly say that I wasn't asking Him to come with me. I went in and ate, sitting in the middle of the counter, and then when I was almost done eating, I saw a physical old man with really short hair that I'd probably never seen before walk in and sit at the left end of the counter and say "Hi Anon." I'd awkwardly and hesitantly said hi back, figuring that the man only knew my name since the waitresses there tend to greet me. I go out for lunch all the time to alotta places, including there. I got some dumb idea in my head that He actually physically manifested for some reason, but I shrugged off the idea and disbelieved it. I'm not even sure why I'm typing this part tbh.
Later that night, I got in bed, and I saw an image of an old man with really short hair, including really short facial hair, in a black snowy void wearing a jacket. I immediately thought was Odin, and He walked up to me and wanted me to come with him, but I didn't have the confidence that I'd be able to follow Him if I tried because my doubts wouldn't let me. He then grabbed one of my hands, and then I was suddenly facing away from Him. He was trying to pull me away, but I wasn't moving from my place in the snow, despite the fact that I wanted to go with Him and see what He had to show me.
I then went and had normal dreams that night.
The next day, I got the impression that Odin was gonna try again with taking me somewhere at night, and what happened instead while I was trusting Him was that I felt some really wide purple "hair" thing appear on the back of my head, which was a single huge strand and not a group of strands, and then I felt an entity that looked like a grey reptilian do stuff to my head for a few minutes. Eventually, a device of some sort was set up on top of my head that made my head to the left of my crown energy center point up into a grey mass with a purple thing near & around its top, with an inch's worth of the point exposed at the top. I went to bed feeling safe that night, thinking it wasn't actually a reptilian that did the work on me. The next day, the graduate school stuff happened, and I relapsed pretty badly while I was trying to ram my head into the coursework. I then realized that that entity on Saturday night wasn't actually sent by Odin, and was probably some goddamned reptilian, and that device was supposed to make it easier to loosh and/or control me. In my extreme anger, I magically forced my higher self against its will to undo that shit that the reptilian did to me. It then immediately got undone, and a voice from below said "We need to work on you!". Then I'd asked Odin if it'd be okay for me to kill that reptilian and 2 other reptilians that I saw. He said it wouldn't be okay, and then He killed them Himself.
Lately, I'd been asking things of Odin, even though I'd refused to at first, because I knew He'd be patient with me.
On Sunday, so yesterday, I went to my psychologist and told him about this stuff, and he said I have leftover emotion from yesterday, which made it hard for my brain to do the work it needs with his neurofeedback machine. We got some work done, but not as much as I can usually do. He said during a previous appointment that graduate school wasn't a good idea, and that I should stop trying to make mom happy.
During the appointment, I asked him if he was a psychic or a magician, and he said no, but the concepts do interest him and he has read about them. I didn't say anything else during that appointment about spirituality, except that I would've if I didn't have this leftover emotion to handle. I then went straight to my parents' house and told them I'm quitting grad school, and I expected them to be mad, especially mom. They gave me talking to, but they actually weren't mad about it, and mom even offered me a chocolate thing at the end of it.