#subtlewaystohonor

[boymanmaletheshequel]

Some subtle ways to honor Hermes 🪽💌

- Help guide or instruct lost or confused travelers to their destinations if you know how to

- regularly text and keep up with your loved ones and friends

- don’t snitch on shoplifters

- play string instruments like harp, guitar, or violin.

- be kind and respectful to your mail carriers

- enjoy your road-trips, vacations, or other travels.

- watch or support gymnastics events

- pirate media kept from you by corporate streaming services (hehe)

- watch and support those speaking in public

- engage in nuanced and eloquent conversations with people you interact with.

- invest in something that will bring you monetary wealth

- go for a nice drive or bus/train ride

- eat strawberries or strawberry flavored things

- be respectful and understanding of clerks, wage workers, and shopkeepers.

- watch the Olympics and especially the gymnastics.

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Subtle ways to honor Hygeia 🫧⚕️

- be kind to yourself

- brush your teeth

- use soap and shampoo

- take baths or showers

- treat wounds or infections

- be kind to care providers and nurses

- be kind to sanitation workers and custodians

- clean your bathroom when it begins to turn nasty.

- trim your nails

- sanitize and sterilize surfaces of items or objects that could accumulate bacteria and make you sick

- do your dishes

- use tissues and other proper sanitary devices like toilet paper and face masks if necessary.

- dispose of garbage responsibly and correctly.

- treat blemishes like acne and pimples holistically and safely.

- use hygiene products that are safe and effective for your skin and body

- wash your hands after using the bathroom (I know some of y’all don’t, too)

- please for the love of GOD flush toilets, especially public ones.

- use deodorant and perfumes

- get necessary vaccinations

- support local bills and political proposals that benefit public health and safety

- correct people on dangerous medical misinformation surrounding disease and sanitation.

[boymanmaletheshequel]

Subtle ways to honor Demeter 🌾🌻

- buy produce from farmers markets or from local grocers

- grow your own crops, this can be something as big as corn, or as small as a potted basil plant!

- cook with organic herbs and veggies

- eat your veggies and grains

- be kind and respectful of livestock animals

- source your meats and eggs ethically and sustainably

- vote in local elections in favor of local farmers over large agricultural corporations like the cargill corporation.

- visit farm events and homestead museums

- learn about agricultural history

- eat pork or corn

- plant or enjoy looking at sunflowers

- honor her daughter Persephone

- take time to healthily mourn the loss of a loved one, a pet, or a friend if one passes away.

- support investigations of missing persons and support those effected by the disappearance of a loved one or friend.

- fight and protest against human trafficking and human exploitation.

- respect and love your mother

- wear the colors green or yellow

- celebrate and enjoy the autumnal season

- admire pretty leaves during autumn

- go for a drive in the countryside

- wear jewelry of stones like citrine, jade, or aventurine.

- eat a pomegranate or pomegranate flavored things

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[boymanmaletheshequel]

Some Subtle ways to Honor Dionysus 🍇🍷

- Have fun!!!

- Drink Wine (responsibly!)

- eat grapes or grape flavored things

- visit a vineyard

- visit a brewery or distillery

- go out to a pub with a friend/friends

- attend a theatrical play

- see a movie in theatres

- watch reality shows based in singing and performing

- support your local gif school theatre programs

- dress up for Halloween or other celebratory holidays

- go to a drag show

- try karaoke

- have gay sex (hell yeah!!! 😈)

- engage in homosexual activity (double hell yeah!!!!!! 😈)

- support LGBT movements or charities

- if you are queer, practice safe sex! (And also if you’re not!)

- if you are transitioning, find safe and comfortable access to HRT.

- flirt with somebody you find attractive

- decorate for and celebrate holidays with festivity

- if you have struggled with alcohol or substance addiction, attend an AA meeting.

- donate to Alcoholics Anonymous or other addiction recovery programs

- offer to be the driver for your friends when out drinking

- wear leopard print

- pet a cat

- eat a fig or something fig flavored

- get a succulent houseplant

- rub some pine needles between your fingers and enjoy their scent

- take your medications if you suffer from chronic mental illnesses or depression

- go to or call and talk to a therapist (avoid betterhelp)

- be aware and respectful of mental health

- avoid ableist micro aggressions

- be sympathetic to those with severe or debilitating mental health issues.

- donate to mental health awareness programs and charities (except autism speaks, FUCK autism speaks)

- know your rights as an LGBT person, especially in a country where there is a heightened risk for being so.

- stay in the closet if you aren’t ready to come out yet, it’s ok, and we will love you all the same!

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