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The Celtic Goddess Brigid has been known as a goddess of the sacred flame and also of sacred wells. She watches over women who wish to become pregnant and also children. She is honored by warriors, blacksmiths, and poets. Brigid is honored at Imbolc by many witches and pagans. In Ireland, February 1st marks the Feast of St. Brigid, honoring her role as a saint and foster mother to Christ in the Christian faith. Visit this spread at Imbolc, Candlemas, or whenever you wish to connect with Brigid for advice on your own soulful transformations and dreams for growth and joy.

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blacktattoo-love

wanderingredleaves

Hestefotograf

dndaddyissues

warlocks w/ chaotic evil patrons:

maureen2musings

the physical world we live in is just the beginning

visualldreams

midnight4ever

lsleofskye

Maui, Hawaii | micahphoto_

lepuslunamgrimoire

Anoint yourself or objects for protection.

From Scott Cunningham’s The Complete Book of Incense, Oils, and Brews

coastal-witch-deactivated202308

This sounds like a great sun oil recipe 😍 for the protective properties of the sun ☀️

maureen2musings

Arctic curiosity

longingforthevoid

maureen2musings

The fox queen of Lamar

tinmanlee

maureen2musings

One of Iceland’s many incredible canyons

mblockk

maureen2musings

The first frost of Autumn

chaitdeshphotography

cielmeowtan

What else do the halflings do?

They protecc.

marauders4evr

Abled Person: Hey man, can you hold this wad of $2,000 and this one penny for me while I open my wallet?

Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL!

The United States Government:

(Watch how many people don’t get this.)

marauders4evr

#raises hand #i dont understand #please explain?

In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.

It doesn’t matter what it’s for.

You’re saving up for a new wheelchair?

For college?

To put a downpayment on a house?

Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?

Your benefits immediately get cut off if you’re a cent over $2,000.

And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.

So say you get $400. If they find out you’re twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.

“What if I spend the money that day?”

Doesn’t matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.

And yes, this system literally kills people.

locuas642

Remember when “Guardians of the Galaxy” came out? one of Rocket Racoon’s creators, Bill Mantlo, suffered an accident in 1992 and has irreparable brain damage.

before the movie came out, Marvel gave him an exclusive preview screening. SOme people were upset because they felt if Marvel was really wanted to thank mantlo, they should have donated money to Mantlo’s family.

Bill Mantlo’s brother had to come out and explain: If Marvel gave them monetary aid, Bill Mantlo would lose his financial assistance.

rootbeergoddess

That’s so utterly depressing.

sushinfood

disgusting

beeskeepony

I have friends on welfare who won’t pick up a penny in the street because they’d risk the welfare they struggled to get for 10 years.

raenboow

oh look another fucked up thing in this world. let’s just add it to the list. number 63858b

luvtonique

My brother has been on California State SSI for autism for the last 10 years, and he absolutely has to (no joke, HAS TO) spend all 720 bucks of his SSI every month, because if he puts it in the bank he risks losing his SSI altogether.

Sometimes, at the end of the month, he has no idea what to do with his money because the whole month went by and he still has 400-ish bucks in his account, and he fucking panics because he doesn’t want to get anywhere near 2,000.

And here’s the funnest part of the story!

One day he did a huge commission on Second Life and wound up earning 1500 bucks off of it, and he told the guy to donate it 500 bucks at a time over 3 months. The guy didn’t want to, and just donated all 1500, which put my brother at 2,036 bucks.

The state IMMEDIATELY (I’m talking less than an hour) called him up to tell him over the phone that they were canceling his SSI, because they noticed he had gone over the 2,000 buck threshold. He had to tell them that someone had made a charitable donation to him and that this was not a common occurrence in any way shape or form, and upon not believing him, my mother had to call to talk to them as his legal caretaker and say basically the same thing until they called off the cancellation of his SSI money.

He also had to cancel his renter’s assistance because it put him to 1,062 a month, so if he went 30 days without spending any money they’d cancel his SSI altogether. Like, none of us in the family have any fucking clue why that regulation is in place and it’s the stupidest shit in human history.

Please, legal side of Tumblr, tell me what positive reasoning this law has?

sodomymcscurvylegs

Happy 4th of July everyone! This is what the “nation of opportunity” looks like.

xfirecorex

There’s something called an ABLE account that can help. If you are on SSI and were diagnosed as disabled before the age of 26 you can apply for an ABLE account that will allow you to save up to $99,000. More people need to know about this!