This is the summary of the 2025 Trans Rite conducted at home by mods @thegodwhocums, @flamingkorybante, and @candeladestructora.
We had reset the altar and put out new offerings a few days before the 20th, and when the night came around, I think we were all a little relieved that we hadn’t been trying to plan something bigger or more public for this year. Sitting around our home altar, playing AHNONI’s My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, I felt like we were getting back to basics.
In the divination we do every year to check with our Helping Spirits, make sure they're still up for participating, and ask if there's any changes they need us to make this year, we had two main takeaways. First, that our Mighty and Beloved Dead want the Rite to fit into a larger pattern of work with the Ancestors and Descendants throughout the year. And second, that our beloved Puta Madre Cecilia Gentili is happy and excited to join the team.
We welcomed her onto the altar with red lipstick, a red candle, and a cup of nice hibiscus tequila
We also burned a homemade smoke bundle of mugwort, rosemary, and lavender, as well as this 6witch3 Palo Santo and rosemary incense.
We lit candles and poured water for the Helping Spirits, and the three of us divided all of the names of this year's newly joined ancestors and read them quietly at the same time.
We had been trying to figure out how to give each recently passed sibling individual honor and respect without having ritual that was torturous or went past the point of being honoring. This felt like a good middle point between that very drawn-out experience and something like just having the papers with the names on the altar but not speaking them aloud, so I think we'll likely keep this method moving forward.
We then offered some prayers, including our base prayer, Audre Lorde's Litany for Survival, the Manifesto of the Order of Chaeronaea, the Mourner's Kaddish, INVOCACIÓN by Ashanti Dinah Ozco Herrera, and Maya Angelou's Still I Rise.
We then put on some more upbeat music, following the message from Cecilia in @candeladestructora's divination to "stop being so serious all the time!"
So of course we said "yes ma'am" and put on the following songs:
God Bless the Child by Sylvester
In Ale Gasn by Zalmen Motek and Adrienne Cooper
Libre y Peligrosa by Plena Combativa
We are Family by Sister Sledge
We closed by using the couplet to offer all of the grief from the rite to Agdistis. We used a river stone as a focal point, which just today we went out back and buried in the earth at the base of a tree to cleanse.
As Sylvia told us during our opening divination this year, FIGHT THE POWER. ✊🏽🤍
in solidarity/mir veln zey iberlebn/en la lucha,
Rocket (@flamingkorybante)
