Queering Your Craft: Witchcraft from the Margins

by Cassandra Snow, Mat Auryn (Foreword by)

Overview

“As evident through the pages of this book, Snow holds a vision for the queer aspirant who hears the call to witchery, to find healing, empowerment, strength, and pride through their craft. Through creative and unique journal prompts, introspection, rituals, and spells, Snow achieves this beautifully, and herein lays the perfect guide for the queer witch to stand in their power and stand beside others; truly queering our craft with compassion and pride.”
—Mat Auryn, author of Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick, and Manifestation

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 face in the world at large—a hierarchy that isolates and hurts those living beyond society’s binaries and boundaries. While there are books that address magick for resistance and queer myth, until now there has not been one that specifically addresses the practice of queer magick from an LGBTQ+ standpoint.

Queering Your Craft combines queer aesthetic and culture (like DIY culture and an emphasis on chosen family over formal covens) with pagan and metaphysical spiritual practice in a way that is commonplace but has not been written about until now. This book covers the personal, the collective, and the political, and how deeply intertwined all three are in a magickal practice for those who are LGBTQ+.

In this introduction to witchcraft, Snow presents why/how each concept is important to a queer craft, or how to approach it from a queer mindset. For example, conventional prayer, words, and symbols have always been problematic in a queer universe: How to make them work and still be true to yourself? The bulk of the book is about learning the craft. The latter portion is a grimoire of spells.

While accessible to beginning witches, Queering Your Craft provides new and inspiring information for longtime practitioners interested in a pure and personal approach that avoids the baggage of history and stereotype.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578637218
Publisher:	Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date:	11/01/2020
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	415,414
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Cassandra Snow is a professional tarot card reader who has practiced and studied magick for many years and is dedicated to making the arts of witch-craft and tarot accessible and easy to learn. Snow is the author of Queering the Tarot and also runs Gadfly Theatre Productions, a queer and feminist theatre company. Visit her at cassandra-snow.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword Mat Auryn xi

Introduction xvii

A Queer Witch Manifesto xxvi

1 Witchcraft 101 1

2 Magickal Best Practices 27

3 Working With The Elements 37

4 Magickal Timing, Moon Magick, and Sabbats 57

5 Toward a DIY Witchcraft 101

6 To Pray or Not To Pray 113

7 Queer Divination 119

8 A Queer Grimoire 137

Afterword 231

Appendix A Additional Correspondences 233

Appendix B Botanical Classification 247

Resources 251

Acknowledgments 253