#lgbt magic

[candles-by-mokosh]

🌈💫 Self-Care Guide for LGBT Witches: Embracing Authenticity and Empowerment 💫🌈

1️⃣ Embrace Your Authentic Self: Celebrate and honor your unique identity as an LGBT witch. Embrace the power of self-acceptance and self-love, allowing your true essence to shine brightly in your magical practice. Remember that your individuality is a source of strength and magic.

2️⃣ Create Sacred Spaces: Cultivate spaces that reflect and honor your authentic self. Design an altar or a sacred space that incorporates symbols, colors, and items that resonate with your identity and spiritual journey. Surround yourself with affirming energy that uplifts and empowers you.

3️⃣ Connect with Community: Seek out and engage with the vibrant community of LGBT witches. Connect with others who share similar experiences, challenges, and triumphs. Attend local gatherings, online forums, or participate in LGBT witchcraft groups to foster a sense of belonging and mutual support.

4️⃣ Self-Reflection and Introspection: Set aside dedicated time for self-reflection and introspection. Engage in practices like journaling, meditation, or tarot readings to explore your emotions, desires, and aspirations. Use these moments of self-discovery to deepen your connection with your inner wisdom.

5️⃣ Mindful Magick: Incorporate mindfulness into your magical practice. Engage in rituals and spellwork with intention and presence. Allow your spells and rituals to reflect your personal journey and desires, infusing them with the powerful energy of your authentic self.

6️⃣ Energy Cleansing and Protection: As an LGBT witch, you may encounter unique energetic challenges. Practice regular energy cleansing and protection techniques to maintain your energetic well-being. Utilize methods such as smudging, crystal cleansing, or visualization to clear and shield your energy field.

7️⃣ Self-Care Rituals: Design self-care rituals tailored to your needs and preferences. Explore practices that nourish your mind, body, and soul, such as taking soothing baths, practicing yoga, engaging in creative pursuits, or indulging in self-care activities that resonate with your authentic self.

8️⃣ LGBT Empowerment Spells: Infuse your magical practice with spells that promote empowerment and support for the LGBT community. Craft spells that amplify love, acceptance, equality, and the dismantling of oppression. Let your magic be a force for positive change and inclusivity.

9️⃣ Boundaries and Self-Advocacy: Set clear boundaries and practice self-advocacy in all areas of your life. Protect your energy by saying no to situations that do not honor your authenticity or compromise your well-being. Surround yourself with people who support and uplift you on your journey.

🌈💫 Embracing Authenticity and Empowerment: A Journey of Self-Care 💫🌈

As an LGBT witch, your path is unique and sacred. Embrace your authentic self, connect with your community, and practice self-care rituals that nurture your mind, body, and soul. Let your magic be a catalyst for personal growth, self-acceptance, and positive change within yourself and the world around you.

✨⚡ Share your self-care practices, insights, and artwork as an LGBT witch using the hashtag #LGBTWitchSelfCare. Let's create a loving and supportive community where we celebrate the intersection of our identities and empower one another on our spiritual journeys. Together, we weave a tapestry of love, magic, and self-care. 💫🌈🌿

🌈💫 Blessed be, dear LGBT witches, as you embrace your authenticity and prioritize your self-care! 💫🌈

[electrocow]

Interact with this post if you wanna be my witchy friend!!

I dont have anyone irl to talk to abt this stuff and it high key makes me sad I dont have anyone else to interact with on here either 😥😢

To be specific I'm a white, 24 yr old nb bisexual hellenic pagan who works mainly with sigils and tarot (was previously mainly electronic but its lost its call)

I'd love to have casual witchy friends to talk about stuff with!!

[richieragz]

Nonbinary/genderqueer/androgyny glamour bath spell I’m making tonight to feel less icky in this ol’ flesh prison. Also made a bath sachet with lavender, pink salt, ginger and a cinnamon stick

[butyouvealwaysbeenthecaretaker]

Incidentally, I think there's a queer reading of Crowley sorely missing.

My husband has a joke about young Crowley going to his priest for help with his homosexual urges, and the priest explaining that it was a demon. And Crowley being "...ok well let's try talking to it" and lo! A magus was born.

I actually think there's more to it. Sex magic is part of what makes Crowley a lurid figure, buuuut...the interpretations people have of this are very, very hetero; just as the imagery of Baphomet has become a hyper-masc goat towering over a fragile pulp fiction cover naked witch babe.

But Baphomet is a bigendered figure, even if occult artists all too frequently choose not to draw the boobs, and choose not to draw Baphomet as a kind of woman instead of a kind of man. From the earliest sources in 20th century western occult tradition, magic and mages are defined as a combination of masculine and feminine energy in a single body. *Not* a Gardnerian or Dianic concept of male and female magic residing separately on male and female people. To work magic, the magus must become both symbolically male and symbolically female.

George Ives, one of the earliest British gay rights apologists described himself as "the soul of a woman in the body of a man". That was very much the science/politics of the day, a concept of inverts or uranians. Inverts were a group of people we would now recognise as gay or bi, or trans, or gender non conforming (including people who were simply GNC for the era, like women who didn't want to marry), all in one messy concept of "the genderwrongs". And as early lgbt people were hungry for any scrap of data they could find about themselves, a lot of people adopted this into their self-concept where we would now likely see these things as different.

Anyway, I think that when Crowley joined the Golden Dawn & encountered the concept of mages being both male and female, he related it to what Ives & Ulrichs and others were saying about queer men. Specifically, I want to quote Alan Moore on this from his educational comic Promethea: "the mage seeks to penetrate the mystery; but on finding it, becomes the mystery that is to be penetrated". I think this concept reads very, very differently to a queer person than it does to a straight one. The Golden Dawn's conception of sacred sexuality was drawn from the alchemical idea of the sacred marriage of the Sun and Moon, and used the imagery of a lance dipped into the holy grail; later adopted into Wicca as the knife dipped into the chalice.

In short, what Moore et al is saying is "mages are symbolically both male and female, though in practice their ritual role is one or the other as appropriate to their actual birth gender obvs, especially if anything sexual is happening." Whereas Crowley's reading is..."men can be either the penetrative or receptive partner in sex, and this fits with what Ives is saying about queer men being both male and female, and with what the Golden Dawn is saying about mages being both male and female. And if both parts of penetration constitute a magical act, then that isn't heterosexual: a mage both gives and receives, and that's the true pathway to sacred sexuality".

he's such an inveterate tinkerers that I'm pretty confident he also made the intuitive leap that gay sex, straight sex and lesbian sex would all have differing magical results. I also want to highlight that Thelema, while a bit dickish in the hands of your average straight Crowley fanboy, is 100% the religious tradition a closeted Victorian would develop for his own psychological survival: "everyone has a true desire in them and it is right for that person to express their desires, even if they desire something wrong"

I feel like the queer context for Crowley is almost entirely missing. Like, as the "wickedest man in Europe", the incarnation of the Beast, many people will know he spent an opium-fuelled month in bed with his boyfriend in Paris doing sex magic. That's part of his bad boy image. I think people are less capable of taking Crowley seriously as an actual queer human being, and understanding how deeply queer his religious philosophy is. I think his magical techniques and ideas are decontextualised a lot by people who don't get this (like, straight people who misunderstand "do what thou wilt will be the whole of the law" as "it's ok to be an asshole" rather than "don't be a drag, just be a queen, because baby you were born this way"). I think the way gendered magic ultimately developed in the 20th c was detrimental to queer people, who then had to reinvent their place in Wicca and in the ceremonial occult. When we've always been there, and Crowley's life, work and magic makes us not the sidenote, but the central magic practitioners who are most fully able to embody the work of the mage

tldr: pity Mathers wasn't into being pegged.

[funky-witch-ideas]

🌈✨LGBT+/Pride Grimoire Prompts!✨🌈

Pride month is approaching and personally I've been itching to work in my grimoire/bos, so here are some prompts to inspire you if this is also something you're interested in! - make a page using colors of the rainbow/ your pride flag - create a page dedicated to a queer deity (there are plenty! Even if it isn't explicitly said in their mythology, choose gods you connect with that you feel might be queer) - add glitter to a page! - write down a spell for protection from homophobic/transphobic/acephobic, etc. people - if you're trans, nonbinary, genderfluid, etc. create a spell, fragrance, candle, tea (anything you want) to promote confidence and make a page explaining the instructions - write a gratitude ritual acknowledging the history of pride and the efforts made by queer people years ago to help us get our rights - make a list of the crystals/flowers/symbols/ etc. that promote more feminine, masculine, and androgynous energies, depending on what you're looking for - create a glamour spell inspired by drag, OR create a ritual that is centered around you getting into drag - make a page full of one or many mantras that encourage self love - make sigils that encourage others to accept your identity/ prevent you from being misgendered/ keep negative people quiet while you're out with your significant other(s), etc. - write or draw a list of magickal tools/crystals/flowers, etc. that correspond with your pride flag colors - add pictures or drawings of queer people who inspire you - create a spell involving tie dye - make an LGBT+ inspired tarot spread I hope this was useful and that everyone enjoys pride month this year!!! (I know I'm a wee bit early, but I wanna be prepared)

[witch-hazy]

To all my strapping witches

If your harness has a vibe pocket, put a small love crystal (I use kunzite) in there. The sex will be magical (figuratively and literally 😘) and will boost any spell with sex involved 💕💖

Credit to my partner in craft @gardensexwitch

[sigil-smith]

My Transition is Smooth

[valyriance]

Nonbinary Girl sigil