Claiming unconditional ownership of your own body has profound positive implications for mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and magical wellbeing.
Read MoreLunatic Mondays, a bilingual podcast from the Circle Sanctuary Network Podcasts, hosted an interview with me on Monday, September 28, 2020 at 5pm Pacific time. The one hour conversation most focused on the importance of centering gender diversity in my pagan writing. It is available to listen to anytime.
Read MoreIf your body includes a uterus that produces a period, you can perform menstrual magic. It is an incredibly powerful component for spellwork.
Read MoreWhen hurtful and exclusionary words come from authorities in pagan, pword, and magical circles, that diminishes our communities and supports an unwelcoming atmosphere for marginalized people. It can be hard to know how to avoid such harm, so here are some tips on why, when, and how to use gender neutral language.
Read MoreIn my experience, the elements are worlds away from the isolated energetic bastions of oppositional power which they are often portrayed as. On the contrary, I have found that each element, no matter how “pure” the conjuring or elemental, contains a seed of every other element. Rather than being isolated and oppositional, the elements are interdependent and interconnected in a balanced matrix, incapable of existing without each other.
Read MoreYou do not need to ascribe to any particular tradition or cosmology to find value in this book. It speaks to the human experience, in all its diversity. It is an exploration of that diversity, and how that diversity is reflected in you and your truest self and your truest practice, whether you yourself are queer, genderqueer, cis gendered, or heterosexual.
Read MoreOstara through Beltane in pagan circles tends to include a deluge of fertility themes. This time of year also usually includes a dominating emphasis on male-female sexual pairing, especially cis binary sexual pairing, yet they are far from the only kind of pairing or fertility that exists.
Read MoreThere are a lot of symbolic associations in pagan and magical practice which are often taken for granted. One such correspondence is directions and elements. Another is gender and elements. I mention these two in particular because they don’t make sense to a lot of modern practitioners, myself included.
Read MoreNonbinary pathways are often inherently liminal because they defy the standard paths and perspectives of our societies. I give my sincere and heartfelt thanks to everyone who was a part of the Nonbinary Ritual, and a part of my day at Pantheacon. It was an amazing experience, and I will treasure it always.
Read More7:00pm, Feb 15th, at Pantheacon 2020. People of all gender identities are welcome. The focus of the ritual will be to facilitate a nonbinary perspective of reality through celebration of nonbinary gender divinities, and the richness diversity brings to our communities. Traditionally binary divinities will be acknowledged and reframed as equal in import to any other gender and divinity. Attendees are invited to bring items that honor nonbinary beings, spirits, and people, that these items may receive group blessing. It is an open circle, but please be quiet and courteous if you enter or exit during the ritual.
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