Hello. I would like to ask if there’s any spirits known that I can contact without much ceremony involved, that can lead me to an idea or two of things worth working on? Specifically some kind of a computer programming project, I really want to upskill but the issue is I’m not sure doing what exactly.
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Definitely Mercurius/Hermes! You can simply ask Them without any ceremony. Although, I’d recommend asking Them before a fire (Like a candle), and giving a gift like a glass of water or such.
You could simply light the fire and say something like:
"Oh, Mercurius, Great God who possesses all knowledge, I ask that You help lead me to coming up with a worthwhile idea for a computer programming project (Or whatever you’d like to ask here).
Thank You, Mercurius, I give this water as a gift to You."
And then pour out the water on some soil or down the drain.
I have little experience, but working with Mercurio/Hermes has helped me. Maybe if you don’t want to get so fully involved in working with some entity, you can go for a well-consecrated pentacle of Mercury and activate it to help you with ideas.
It depends on your preferences.
Mercury as a planetary sphere
Mercury as the god (so Hermes, Thot, Odin…)
Paimon as goetic demon
Raphael as angel.
Also think of sylphs, spirits of places like libraries or schools…
A note on that: The Greeks and Romans from around the 1st Century AD saw the Gods the Planets are named after and the Planets Themselved as one and the same. That is, the Planet Mercury is seen as the God Mercurius. In Platonism, the Gods are simultaneously seen as beyond the Cosmos, so different Gods may multiple Planets and Stars, or multiple Gods possess the same Planet, as Plotinus says that the Planet Venus (“Aphrodite” in Greek) is sometimes said to belong to Aphrodite, and sometimes said to belong to Hera (See: Plotinus, Enneads, Ennead 3 part 5). And Iuno (The Latin name of Hera - The Greeks and Romans saw Iuno and Hera as the same Goddess) is said to rule over the Stars that circle around the Northern Pole (Statius, Thebaid, Book 10, 67-69). The Stoics would not have seen the Planets as belonging to multiple Gods, however, since they did not believe anything is beyond the Cosmos (See: The Planet Mercury would entirely be seen as the same as Mercurius, from my understanding).
However, in earlier times the Planets are not necessarily seen as the Gods They are named after, as the Planet Venus in Greek works is called “The Star Sacred to Aphrodite”, and the Planet Mercury is called “The Star Sacred to Hermes” (See: Plato, Timaeus), for example.
Regardless of whether the Planets and the Gods They are named after are seen as the same or not, the Stars and Planets were still seen as Gods (See: Corpus Hermeticum Book III; Ovid, Metamorphoses; Plato, Timaeus - Although, in Timaeus, the Stars in particular are referred to more broadly as Divine Beings)
King paimon 100% for me. Literally the best at this, he really paves a way for you.