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Book

Queering your craft : witchcraft from the margins

Call Number

  • 133.43 S6741 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Newburyport, MA : Weiser Books, 2020.

Physical Description

xxv, 255 pages ; 23 cm

Summary

"Witchcraft has always belonged to the outsiders and outcasts in society, yet so much of the practice enforces and adheres to the same hierarchy we are faced with in the world at large-a hierarchy that isolates and hurts those living beyond society's binaries and boundaries. Until now there has not been a book that specifically addresses the practice of queer magick from an LGBTQ+ standpoint. This book combines queer aesthetic and culture with Pagan and metaphysical spiritual practice in a way that is commonplace in practice but previously not written about-and covers the personal, the collective, the political, and how deeply intertwined all three are in a magickal practice for those who are LGBTQ+"--

Contents

  • Introduction
  • A Queer Witch Manifesto
  • Witchcraft
  • Magickal Best Practices
  • Working With The Elements
  • Magickal Timing, Moon Magick, and Sabbats
  • Toward a DIY Witchcraft
  • To Pray or Not To Pray
  • Queer Divination
  • A Queer Grimoire
  • Afterword.

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