Exist As Me

Steven Universe: Diamond Days concludes with an amazing hour long special event tonight, January 21st at 7:00pm on Cartoon Network!

Been posting these promos over on twitter for the past couple weeks. This run of episodes was such a wonderful bunch to work on, and the whole crew put so much into the finale. Don’t miss it! 

In light of my recent revelation, I’ve started doing some more in depth research into things sacred to Hekate and those used as offerings. I wanted to bring something for her to the Grove, to bring praise and thank her for her guidance so long ago, and so I share my discoveries with you. This will contain some UPG, inspired by research, as well as researched items themselves.

Offerings to Hekate:

Woods: Yew, Cypress, Hazel, Black Walnut or Willow

Dog shaped things, preferably black in color

Adopting an animal/Volunteering at an animal shelter

Lamb or Bull shaped things, again preferably black in color

Owl, Snake, or Crow shaped things

Frog/Toad shaped things

Hallucinogenic or poisonous plants such as Belladonna or Hemlock (Use at your own risk. I do not encourage the act of handling that which could be harmful to you.) Poppies are a safer alternative.

Herbal blends

Lavender

Dandelions

Garlic

Myhrr

Red Mullets (a fish)

Menstrual Blood or blood colored things

Bread

Cheeses

Honey

Apples, Figs, or Pomegranates

Incense or resins

Keys

Song

Fire

Earth/Stones from your travels

Sources:

http://www.neokoroi.org/religion/gods/hecate

http://www.neokoroi.org/religion/gods/hecate/articles/honoring_hekate

http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Hekate.html

My roommate recently came home pale-faced, like he’d seen a ghost. More like witnessed a massacre. Mass-firings were just done at his company. His job, he’d been assured, was safe. All of his coworkers weren’t so safe, and he had to get texts and phone calls from his work-friends, people he’d worked alongside for years, people he‘d gone out to have drinks with, learn they were no longer employed. To say he had survivor’s guilt would not be hyperbole.

Was this because the company had fallen on hard times? The pandemic has been rough for a lot of industries. No, actually, the company had turned a very nice profit both last year and previous, even in such a troublesome market.

The problem was, you see, the company’s stock price hadn’t risen quite as high as had been projected. They’d made money, sure. Quite a lot of money, in fact. But too many people had projected, i.e., bet the company would do better.

How did the company offset this “loss”? Easy: fire people. Quickest and easiest way to pad the numbers.

No but you don’t understand stock had fallen a percentage point! There was no other way!

We see it all the time. Hugely successful companies reporting ‘record-breaking’ profits then fire huge segments of their workforce - the very people responsible for those record-breaking profits. Why? The money “saved” on personnel costs can boost the stocks even higher!

If your company is struggling, not turning a profit, losing money, people expect layoffs. But to work hard, be successful, your company churning along strong and healthy, and you still lose your job? For what? Because half a percentage point that was dictated by speculation, guessing, by gambling that things would go up or down a certain amount on a graph of rich-people feelings?

I wonder how next year’s speculations will be affected with the information that the company laid off a lot of the people responsible for last year’s profits? Probably not much because the workers are just the components at the company; it’s the leadership that drives the ship, that makes the successes.Those leaders whose bonuses are coincidentally decided by, among other things, the stock price.

Between that and the terrible reviews for his VA performance as Mario, I think we have a decent shot at recasting Mario and/or at the very least, Garfield