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Please read this, I really need help. I only have $72 in my account and have no income. I don't qualify for the stimulus, have an autoimmune disease so I can't work, and the state I'm in isn't helping. I know this is a long shot but I don't know what else to do. I need money for my cats insulin and other necessities. Even small amounts help right now. Thank you 💕

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How to Celebrate Beltane ღ

Ideas and crafts that will keep you and your guests celebrating all day and night.

💮 Outside 💮

Make a Maypole [x] or a mini Maypole [x] and dance around it with everyone, weaving the ribbons around the pole if your Maypole is large enough

Build a bonfire and jump over the fire or dance around it clockwise, making a wish as you do so

If you can, make two bonfires and walk between them to bless and purify yourself, or lead a line dance between them. Candles work as well.

Go on a picnic with those you invited over or eat outside

Face painting

Gather flowers and greens to exchange them with others

Make bouquets of flowers, a wreath of flowers, or wear flowers in your hair

Roll or wash your face in the morning’s dew for beauty, luck, and health

If it’s raining that day, wet your hair in the Beltane rain to bless the head

Bless ponds, rivers, and streams with wildflowers

Leave offerings for the Fae - milk, honey, oats, lavender, roses, etc.

Welcome in the dawn of May with singing and dancing

🏠 Inside 🏠

If you’re able to, have others come celebrate with you (please wear masks if not everyone is vaccinated)

Dress in your best clothes, usually whites and greens

Decorate your house with colorful ribbons and flowers

Adorn doors and other parts of your home with bells

Burn sweet, floral (rose, lavender, vanilla) incense or sexy (musk, patchouli, oakmoss) incense

Make flower crowns to wear [x] [x]

Create May baskets [x]. May Baskets were given or placed secretly on doorsteps to friends, the elderly, the sick, lovers, etc.

Play games with your guests, include icebreaker games, high-action contests, low-action contests, a dance, games that test the mind, and have some quiet interludes sprinkled between

Have music playing in the background of the party, play either energetic newer tunes or traditional Beltane music

If you have a partner or partners, make love to them on the Eve of May - either in your garden or decorate your room with flowers and plants before making love - Beltane is a holiday of love and fertility, but sex isn’t necessary to celebrate Beltane

If you’re single and looking for a partner, feel confident while you meet others, flirt, and embrace your sexuality on Beltane. Celebrate your body and your power during this day

🔮 For the witch 🔮

Decorate your altar with greenery, flowers, Hawthorns, leaves, acorns, wands, the athame, etc.

Create a faery garden for Beltane’s fae that come out

Cast spells such as fertility spells, love spells, good luck spells, protection of the home spells, protection spells, growth spells, etc. Sexual magic is also strong during this time

Practice divination - divination is easier than normal on days like Beltane and Samhain. Ask questions for yourself or others

Cast charms on small items like jewelry or key chains and give them to your friends and loved ones. Otherwise, make little sachets filled with herbs and flowers or sigils to give

Take a purifying, ritual bath using flowers and candles that match Beltane’s colors (red, pink, green, white, blue, yellow)

If you worship deities, give them offerings on this day or involve them in your spells. Some influential Greek deities during Beltane include Maia (Beltane honors Her), Apollo (for the start of summer), Demeter (traditionally worshiped on this day), Hestia (for home protection), Dionysus (for the Rising of Dionysus), and Aphrodite (for being a love and fertility Goddess)

🥧 In the kitchen 🥧

Between all the dancing, merry-making, and magic, a feast of food should be prepared for you and your guests. Making the celebration a potluck can lighten your workload

Traditional foods include fresh, in-season vegetables and fruits as well as…

Sweets, such as fruity desserts, chocolates, and honey, evoke the sweetness of love

Spicy foods correspond to the element of fire found in Beltane. Some ideas include curries, hot sauces, peppers, candied ginger, etc.

Aphrodisiacs and other romantic foods bring the sensual theme of Beltane into our food. Some items to consider serving or including in your cooking: almonds, asparagus, bananas, figs, nutmegs, oysters, pineapple, strawberries, truffles, and vanilla

Goats and cows are associated with Beltane and you can make plenty of meat-related dishes with them

Maybowl or May Wine is a flavored beverage customarily made for Beltane. Alcoholic versions use honey mead or white wine as the base; nonalcoholic versions use white grape juice, ginger ale, or other beverages. Fruits, herbs, and flowers are used in the punch

Make edible Maypoles using things like a cake, peppermint sticks, pretzel sticks, etc. and decorate them with the “ribbons” which can be licorice twists, Nerds ropes, colorful frosting, etc.

While nature has foods that look suggestive (bananas, papayas), you can also make certain foods into suggestive shapes yourself, like breads, cakes, chocolates, jello, popsicles, etc. and serve during this fertility festival

Have edible flowers to serve as small, quick snacks

Enjoy this wonderful, joyous day full of love, happiness, and growth!

Looking for alternative celebration tips if you’re celebrating Beltane by yourself? Then click here to see my other list [x]

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Honoring the lives lost in the Atlanta shooting

Xiaojie 'Emily' Tan, 49

Tan, 49, was the mother of Jami Webb, a recent graduate from the University of Georgia. She was a licensed massage therapist and the owner of Young’s Asian Massage, along with other businesses in the area, including another spa and a tanning salon, according to state records. She was “the sweetest, most kind-hearted, giving, never-met-a-stranger person,” a friend told Atlanta’s WSB-TV. Just one day away from her 50th birthday when she was killed, according to USA Today, Tan was described by her daughter as thoughtful, devoted to her family, and looking forward to traveling in her retirement.

Hyun Jung Grant, 51

Hyun Jung Grant was a Korean immigrant who worked at Atlanta’s Gold Spa. Her son Randy Park, 23, shared a tribute to his mother on GoFundMe: He said his mother was a single parent who “dedicated her whole life to providing for my brother and I.” She loved dancing and sushi, according to Park, who told The Daily Beast, “She wasn’t just my mother. She was my friend.” Park, who now has to raise his brother alone, is not buying law-enforcement officials’ suggestion that the attack was motivated by a supposed sex addiction, not racism. “That’s bullshit,” he said.

Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez, 33

Yaun Gonzalez, 33, was a mother of two — 13-year-old Mayson and 8-month-old Mia. She had worked all day on Tuesday at the Waffle House a few shops down from Tan’s spa business. She had been looking forward to having a relaxing night out with her husband, Mario Gonzalez, whom she married only last year, and the couple had reportedly never been to Young’s Asian Massage before. According to Fox 5 Atlanta, family members say that Mario Gonzalez, who survived the shooting, is “taking [the situation] hard.” Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez’s friends and family have set up a GoFundMe to address her funeral costs.

Paul Andre Michels, 54

Michels, 54, was a handyman at Young’s Asian Massage and the owner of an electric company. He was only recently hired for the role and excited to take it on after looking for more work during the pandemic, according to a friend who spoke with CBS46. An army veteran originally from Detroit, Michels is one of nine siblings and is survived by his wife of more than two decades. In an interview with the Guardian, his brother John Michels emphasized his kindness. “He was just a regular guy, very good-hearted, very soft-natured,” he said, while noting that Michels had expressed an interest in getting involved in the massage business.

Yong Ae Yue, 63

A licensed massage therapist, she was laid off at the start of the pandemic last year and was excited to finally start shifts at the spa again, her son Elliott Peterson, 42, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Friday morning. Yue’s youngest child, Robert Peterson, 38, agreed, recalling their mother as a kind and deeply caring woman. If you stopped by her house, she’d sit you down, ask if you’d eaten, and then insist on a trip to H Mart grocery store so she could make a meal.

Daoyou Feng, 44

Daoyou Feng, 44, began working at Young’s Asian Massage in recent months, according to Tan’s friend Hynson. She was kind and quiet, he said. Her relatives could not be reached for comment.

Soon Chung Park, 74

Soon Chung Park, 74, was also a worker at an Atlanta spa. Her family didn’t respond when reached for comment. Park previously lived in New York, where she has relatives, her son-in-law, Scott Lee, told the New York Times. “She got along with her family so well,” Lee told the newspaper.

Suncha Kim, 69

Suncha Kim, 69, worked at one of the spas in Atlanta. Her family could not be reached for comment. Kim, a grandmother, was married for more than 50 years, a family member told the Times. She enjoyed line dancing and worked hard, the relative said.

Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz, 30

Hernandez-Ortiz, 30, was the only survivor of the victims who were shot on Tuesday, and he remains hospitalized for multiple gunshot wounds in his “forehead, throat, lungs and stomach,” according to the Washington Post. He was shot while standing outside in the shopping center where Young’s Asian Massage is located. “He came from nothing and has come a long way; that is why I have faith he will survive this,” his wife Flor Gonzalez told the Washington Post. Gonzalez has also set up a GoFundMe to help with the costs of Hernandez-Ortiz’s medical care.

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I need help asap. Me and my partners bank made an announcement they won't give us our stimulus money until at least Wednesday.

Which is gonna totally screw me over. My bank account is overdrawn by 195$. We need to pick up my insulin, I am almost totally out. And I will be out by Wednesday so if I don't get paid that day I'm fucked and food for the rest of the month..we are also behind on rent for a couple of months. so we can't afford to lose any of our stimulus checks to overdraft fees.

If you can help in any way. Ten dollars or even juts reblogging this you'd be a life saver and we would be totally grateful to you forever

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Truly the healing powers of sitting in front of an open window at the beginning of spring