…feeling a bit an outsider and the unconscious says to him no no do your own job and you are one of the builders Hermes Trismegistus said in one active imagination to an alchemist I am the friend of whoever is lonely the unconscious doesn't speak to you…

…a moment is kairos, which designates a numinous coincidence of favorable or unfavorable facts pointing to the manifestation of a god. Hermes was believed most often to be behind such coincidences. When there was, for instance, a sudden general silence in a…

…to be behind such coincidences. When there was, for instance, a sudden general silence in a conversation, the Greeks said that Hermes had walked through the room. Kairos was represented in art as a beautiful youth with winged feet like Hermes. One had…

…the Greeks said that Hermes had walked through the room. Kairos was represented in art as a beautiful youth with winged feet like Hermes. One had to catch him by his hair if one wanted to make use of his swift appearance. Fortuna, the goddess of luck,…

…feeling of love and happiness. I did not dare to tell him, but I got rather frightened because I thought at once of Hermes, the guide of souls, fetching and leading the dead to the beyond. As it soon became clear, the health of this man had…

…instance in Persia as the Dana, a feminine being, a beautiful girl, or as a person of the same sex, like for instance as Hermes in the dream of this Italian analysand, either as the anima or as the self. But we must not forget that these distinctions…