#gaywitches

[astrazero]

My revamp of, Drie Gratiën, by Peter Paul Rubens, 1630

[witchrog]

Spunni av liv og død As we transition into Pisces season, this Monday, we move from the analytical and expansive energy of Aquarius to a more intuitive and fluid state of being. While Aquarius seeks to map out the complexities of the universe, Pisces embraces the unknown and adapts to the ever-changing currents of life. It represents fluidity, intuition, and a deep connection to the subconscious.

Like a experienced priestess performing with grace, prepared for any challenge, Pisces integrates diverse knowledge on an intuitive level. Yet, this sensitivity can sometimes lead to anxiety as Pisces absorbs external energies, including the fears and anxieties of others. It's important to discern between personal emotions and external influences.

With Saturn and Neptune currently in Pisces, there's a call to develop stronger intuition, deepen spiritual connections, and navigate the unknown with resilience. Pisces encourages moments of solitude to nurture what's incubating within, introspection, rituals inside our own Sacred Space.

Moreover, Pisces symbolizes hidden threats like viruses and unseen enemies, highlighting the importance of mental and spiritual well-being and protection. This season urges us to cultivate inner strength and awareness while staying attuned to the subtle energies that shape our experiences. Venus and Mars have departed from cthonic Capricorn and entered electric realm of Aquarius. These days are quintessentially Aquarian, where we liberate ourselves from societal norms, imposed rules, and interpersonal limitations.

During their journey through Aquarius, Venus and Mars both encounter the Lord of the Underworld, Pluto, bringing deep and powerful transformations. Additionally, their challenging aspect with Uranus may cause disruptions, unexpcted change, and trigger breaking points in relationships, especially those that restrict our freedom and individiuality.

#incense #malewitch #astrology #malewithcesofinstagram #witchcraft #witchesofinstagram #darkphotography #ritual #occult #darksouls #mars #Pluto #venuspluto #uranus #faeriemagazine #darkaesthetic #folkwitch #traditionalwitchcraft #aquarius #spirituality #venusmarsconjunction

[swampcraft]

Breaking Up With Spreads

Since I recently resigned from the magazine I was writing for, I thought I would share my former upcoming article here for everyone to enjoy.

 In divinatory lingo, a spread is a pre-designed layout for the reader to arrange the cards or other lots as they are cast in a reading. 

Spreads definitely have their place in modern divination, in a professional reading a spread can act as an easily recognizable baseline and set the client’s expectation for the reading. Even most people who don’t read for themselves will recognize the 3 card past/present/future layout or perhaps the more complicated Celtic Cross arrangement. For personal readings spreads can be customized almost endlessly, although often the Little White Book that comes with a deck of cards may only offer 3 or 4 standard hits. 

And for many new readers these spreads can offer an ice breaker to learn the practice of reading a divination tool. 

However for many others, spreads can make divination feel clunky, daunting, and unapproachable. 

So why do we use spreads? Well, not all systems do, and I’d argue, not all systems need to. Some systems like I Ching and Astragals rely on casting multiple objects to receive one predetermined response. Likewise Ogham and Runes traditionally involved casting objects from a hand or vessel and interpreting how they landed in relation to the reader. 

It was in the 18th century that an Italian card game began to gain popularity as a divination system, and finally an oracle had arrived that suited itself to prescribed layouts that would become known as spreads. In 1911 Arthur Edward Waite helped publish the deck that most people would recognize as the modern Tarot deck using paintings produced by Pamela Coleman Smith, and a book to go with it. In this book he introduced the world to the Celtic Cross spread, claiming it had been in use in the British Isles for years, but exactly how long is anyone’s guess. 

Then a curious thing happened, in the 20th century, authors writing about runes began suggesting to “lay them out like tarot cards” even coming up with creative ways to design spreads around the very shapes of the runes themselves. By the late 20th century when other oracle decks began hitting the scene, the LWB offering 3 or 4 standard spreads just sort of stuck around as a practice and with notably few exceptions, authors and deck creators haven’t really explored other ways to use their tools that don’t completely mimic the Tarot. 

Which is unfortunate I think. I always find it refreshing to find the rare LWB that offers no reversal interpretations or explicitly says to pull a card a day and use it as a meditation tool, or a storytelling tool, or whatever. 

Some oracles lend themselves particularly well to single-twig daily readings 

For good or ill, the public perception of Divination as a practice centers largely around the image of a reader laying out cards in a spread. And I’d argue that this harms the practice twofold, on one hand there are those who are simply not going to engage with that, either because it seems hokey, or because frankly it feels a bit rude. Whether you believe your oracle puts you in contact with your angels, your ancestors or your God, maybe it feels a bit presumptuous to show up and say “Hey I need these 5 things from you then gtg kthxbai!”    When was the last time you approached a friend with a form letter to converse with them? So why would you want to approach your highest and closest advisors in such a way? 

Then on the other hand, while a spread can make divination accessible for some seekers, a script can also feel rather stifling to others. When there are ten cards on the table in front of you and the second doesn’t seem to make any sense, that can become overwhelming and quickly off-putting. Or a deck’s companion book says to lay these cards out in one of these prescribed spreads but none of the 4 spreads offered really make sense to the seeker’s motives. 

More and more, divination is being approached as a tool for inner work and creative problem solving rather than the future telling practices long associated with the Tarot. For readers with these intentions, past/present/future spreads and their ilk can seem irrelevant at best and outright cheesy at worst. These querents want to talk to their own shadows and deal in jungian archetypes and have no need of what they see as Woo. 

Many readers end up not getting the most out of their practice and often don’t understand why they can like their deck(s) so much but have such a hard time reading the cards to any satisfaction. 

If the last several paragraphs resonate with you, I’d suggest its time to consider a break up. 

Maybe not entirely. Maybe y’all can hook up from time to time so long as it doesn’t become toxic. The wondrous thing about divination is that it’s only as orthopraxic as you make it. The cards themselves don’t care how you use them. 

So start thinking about how you want to use those cards. Maybe that looks like straightforward one-card pulls. Ask a question, get an answer. 

Try throwing everything at the reading mat and see what sticks

Many spiritual development courses will suggest doing a one card pull in the mornings. Asking something like “What should I look for in the day ahead”  or “What matter most needs my attention today?” carry that lesson or seed thought with you throughout the day and see how it does or does not resonate with you in your evening journaling entries. Hah ha, like you keep a journal, I see you with your seven empty notebooks; They are not too nice to use, get to it!

But what if that one card makes NO SENSE? Then ask another question! Start a conversation. Get short if need be. Just be ready to get roasted in return from time to time. Nothing stings like your favorite cards calling you an idiot, but if your pasteboard advisors can’t put you in your place, who can?

But really, if you have laid down one card on the table then there are a good twenty plus ideas still in your hand(up to 80 or more depending on the oracle deck). Shuffle and ask. Now you’re talking in an active conversation instead of filling out a form letter. You can take this in any direction a conversation could hope to go. 

As you “talk” to your oracle, it may help to lay the cards out in a pattern if you intend to journal or otherwise review the reading at the end. I like to lay cards relating to/clarifying the same topic over top of each other, while cards that answer a question or relate to a new theme or action may be laid above, below or beside the previous card. 

There is no wrong way to do this, it’s seriously whatever makes the most sense for you in the reading. In this way you sort of build out your own custom single-use spread for each new reading. 

If you have been reading with spreads for a while this may take some adjustment. Even when creating your own custom spreads for readings, it can sometimes feel like you’re limited to a pool of “divination appropriate questions,” but now that reading has become a friendly chat you may think of entirely new questions that had never seemed askable before. 

And while we are at it, another thing you may consider doing the next time a card doesn’t make sense is to bring in another oracle tool altogether. Hold a pendulum over that sucker and interrogate it. Scry that shiny pasteboard surface like it’s John Dee’s mirror. Or alternately, just pick a card from a different deck. 

Over time you may find that two decks work particularly well together 

The faeries giving you the run-around? Grab that dragon deck and ask them for some insight. Or the cast of Dr. Who. Everything has an oracle deck nowadays, just look at the kickstarters! 

Before long you may find your readings take on a whole new level of significance and you may wonder why you ever used spreads in the first place. You may also find that spreads still have their usefulness from time to time (I do enjoy a particular 2-card spread when I’m doing my shadow work journaling, it keeps that practice consistent, insightful and brief).

Whatever direction your divination practice takes, the important thing is that it works for you, and that’s where getting one of those seven empty notebooks and starting to journal about your practice can really pay off. Note the way a reading makes you feel, note the way a reading pans out over the course of a day. Make notes of the times the reading provided insight that was way off base, or that was misunderstood in the moment. Keeping track of these details builds a database of information you can look at and audit. 

By making notes of your readings and looking back at them periodically, you can gain a greater sense of what individual techniques and ideas are paying off. What decks you work best with and on which days and topics you should just leave the divination to somebody else.

There are all kinds of options for growing your divination practice if that is something you want to develop, and I’d argue that one of the most important things to keep in mind is that it is absolutely okay to break up with a deck or a practice that you feel is holding you back. #

Happy Reading Y’all /|\ 

[laparosdivinos]

Lampião da Esquina - Documentário

Documentário Lampião da Esquina (2016)

Antes de tudo, saibamos reconhecer que um futuro alado só pode advir de um passado estudado.

Com isso e mente, apresento o tema com as palavras de Lima (2001), que afirma que O Lampião da Esquina “pode ser considerado o primeiro veículo de comunicação de massa voltada diretamente para a discussão franca e aberta dos direitos das minorias (negros, índios, mulheres) e, principalmente, da homossexualidade” no Brasil.

O documentário traz a história do jornal e de como foi publicá-lo em pleno período da ditadura através de entrevistas e relatos de diversos nomes de peso tanto dentro da comunidade LGBT quanto da cultura brasileira na totalidade, contando com grandes nomes como Leci Brandão, Ney Matogrosso, Laerte, Agnaldo Silva e muitos outros.

Embora a história em si já seja suficientemente instigante, é nas entrelinhas das histórias, nas falas e nos detalhes que os maiores tesouros se escondem. Um documentário para se ver bem atento até mesmo às diversas divergências e convergências de ideias dos entrevistados. Quais eram as reais relações dos movimentos das minorias com os movimentos de esquerda e com a ditadura da época? Por que a palavra “lésbica” era substituída por “feminista” nas publicações midiáticas? Qual foi a influência dos jornais undergrounds norte-americanos na criação do Lampião? Como era a relação do jornal com a militância e suas pautas? Por que acabou? Qual é o papel que a mídia teve (e tem) na construção da imagética do homossexual? Por que os filmes gays parecem carecer tanto de uma ótica gay? Como a AIDS impactou o movimento? Como as diferentes minorias se aliaram e discordavam nas pautas do jornal? Como escolha da linguagem impactou nos feitos do jornal? Como esses pioneiros veem o movimento LGBT atual (2016)?

Essas e muitas outras perguntas são provocadas e trabalhadas de muitas formas nesse incrível documentário. Sem trato de palavras, sem higienização. Muitas vezes só causos contados, noutros só desabafos e opiniões. Pode concordar ou discordar (total ou parcialmente) do que é apresentado, como eu mesmo fiz muito ao longo do estudo. Só não pode mesmo é deixar de ver.

De qualquer forma, fica a indicação dessa obra que deveria ser obrigatória para qualquer LGBTQ+ Brasileiro que queira minimamente entender sua história (e pensar no seu futuro). Há sempre muito mais por trás das coisas do que o atual mundo das ilusões capitalizadas nos diz.

FONTE: LIMA, Marcus Antônio Assis. Breve Histórico da imprensa homossexual no Brasil. Biblioteca On-line de Ciências da Informação, 2001.

Link para o ducumentário no Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsyTMvs6S8I&t=367s&ab_channel=NiltonMilanez

Sirius Cor Leonis

[jamiesonwolf]

I've reached the end of one part of the cycle that I've been on. In order to honour what I've been through and the challenges I've faced, I want to celebrate today. I need to ground myself for the next phase of the journey and remember that I have not been alone throughout it. For each step, there has been someone to help, listen, offer assistance and love and give kindness. I have not been on my own and that is something to celebrate. So today while I ground myself, I will light a candle to celebrate everyone who has made this journey easier. You have my thanks and my love 💓 Cards from The Practical Magic Inner Witch Tarot and Oracle. #Tarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #tarottribe #practicalmagic #practicalmagicinnerwitchtarot #practicalmagicinnerwitchoracle #innerwitch #groundedbythemoon #celebrate #kindness #loveisallaround #love #change #journey #cycle #nextstep #gay #gaywitch #spiritualaf #sparkleon #shinebright #likeadiamond #cardoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/Coze3lvuwlg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[aquaoculon]

Кузьминки - день Косьми та Дем'яна

1листопада відмічається у народі дивне свято, присвячене святим лікарям-безсрібникам, Космосу та Деміану, в народі ставшим Кузьмою та Дем’яном.Їх ще називали “курниками”, або “курячими святими”, “кашниками”, “трудниками”. Всі ці назви пов’язані з кінцем заготівлі різного їдла, і початком холодів, коли люди різали курей та їли каші.У цей день варили густі каші на курячому бульйоні, закликаючи…

[churchofsatannews]

HORNS Magazine is back with two new issues!

While the COVID-19 pandemic took us offline for a while, you never lost your HORNS. Explore the latest editions of the only homoerotic magazine that caters to Gay and Queer Occultists, Witches, and Pagans. SPRING EQUINOX 2024 HORNS Magazine, Issue 7, Spring Equinox 2024 Our first ever Spring Equinox issue features The Iron Witch, Jeff Cullen: author of the upcoming Liber Phorbias: A Contemporary…

[superglitterstranger]

Love is Love 🌈 Queer Spirituality Book List🌈 All things gay and mystical. Read up on LGBTQIA spirituality from our times worshiped as the divine beings we truly are to our modern reemergence! Claim that cosmic queer power and get educated in our communities mystical and magickal roots. Abraca-yaaaas! 🏳️‍🌈 👉 Check it out now at: https://bookshop.org/shop/sacredspacebooks Brought to you by Sacred Space Books and @sacredblogspace #gay #queer #lgbtqia #queerspirituality #gaywitch #gaywicca #gaypagan #gaybooks (at Hollywood, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoqPeeQvvK2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[spencerreidsreads]

PART 2: CRIMINAL MINDS FIC RECS - (S.R and A.H)

(Link to part 1 and part 3)

Part 2 of my fic recs masterlist! Once again if I have included your work and you would like it removed please let me know!

A list of fics and authors I have absolutely loved reading!

Spencer Reid:

@dream-a-little-bigger-x - Annotations… Tongue Tied… I Think He Knows

@gubler-me-up - Ace… Too Much Caffeine… Confidential Information

@basketonthedoorstepofthefbi - Wingwoman

@cacoetheswriting - A Promise of Forever… For You and I… Unrequited Love & pt2

@fandom-imagines-stories - Trapped Secrets

@valentinedaughtler - The Seduction Bet

@latenightreadingpdf - Brewed Connections

@moon-light-jukebox - Our Boy… Morning Coffee… Learning Styles… Don’t go

@its-rach-writes - No Goodbyes

@a-simple-gaywitch - A Simple Act of Kindness… Ohana

@motherjoel - Hostile… Shameless… Fine Line pt1, pt2, pt3… Cup of Sugar… From Heaven Above

@mariasont - Sundress Season

@rebeccccccaaa - Poker Face

@spencessmile One Step At a Time

@ahopelessromantic - No Grave

@write-orflight - Like Real People Do (series)… Galileo (series)…Cherry Wine

@ddejavvu - Passive Aggressive

@luveline - Masterlist

@railingsofsorrow - 5 Hours Apart

@nereidprinc3ss - Drunk in Love

@atlabeth - Take My Breath Away

@galaxy-siren - I Thought I Lost You

@mggpleasedontlookhere - It Should’ve Been You pt1, pt2… Endgame pt1, pt2, pt3… Liar Liar pt1, pt2… To Be True, Not To Be True pt1, pt2, pt3

@qlossytbh - The Double Tuck… In Order To Protect You… Scratch Therapy… Especially If… Can We Have One?

@t1red-twilight - 1.5 Pints

@aliteralsemicolon - 3 Days, 4 Hours and 55 Minutes

@icarryitin - Effortless

@bellasprettywords - Loml

@uranometrias - Guilt’s a Motherfucker pt1, pt2

@aperrywilliams - That Wasn’t Fake

@marvelwitchergilmore - Cardigan

[kaylasficrecs]

spencer reid recs

flower delivery | drabble, fluff | @ddejavvu

amidst the chaos | one shot, flangst | @a-simple-gaywitch

affection starved | drabble, fluff | deactivated blog

passive aggressive | imagine, flangst | @ddejavvu

falling asleep on someone | drabble, fluff | @ddaz3d-and-cc0nfused

guilt | two shot, angst (fluff in part 2) | @holly-the-trash-writer

touch | one shot, angst | @smurphyse

the guaranteed way to get to sleep | imagine, fluff | @radiant-reid

how to lie to a behavior analyst | series | @thatgirlstrawberry

come to bed | imagine, fluff | @thatgirlstrawberry

twisted | series | @dreamwritesimagines

insecure in bed | drabble, fluff, smut | @0anonnymouslyours0

easy fix | imagine, fluff | @judeswhore

his angel | drabble, fluff | @spencersties

habit of scratching | drabble, fluff | @ddejavvu

double vision in a rose blush | imagine, fluff | @irndad

just ten minutes | drabble, fluff | @actually-safer-to-kiss

a well-kept secret | one shot, flangst | @astrophileous

see it in your eyes | imagine, angst | deactivated blog

you look... sexy | imagine, fluff | @thegettingbyp2

my angel | one shot, flangst (more angst) | @imagining-in-the-margins

rib cage | one shot, angst | @imagining-in-the-margins

coffee at midnight | imagine, flangst (more fluff) | deactivated blog

sweet talk | imagine, fluff | @weird-is-life

unnecessary | imagine, fluff (little angst) | @mrs-weasley-reid

husband!spencer and moving | drabble, fluff | @junipers-archive

soft mornings | imagine, fluff | @gtgbabie0

film festival | imagine, fluff | @railingsofsorrow

it's not your fault | imagine, flangst | @dreamsontheirway (tw)

candlelit kisses | imagine, fluff | @gtgbabie0

this is me trying | one shot, trifecta (smut/angst/fluff) | @strawbeerossi

here for you | one shot, flangst | @weird-is-life

absolutely | one shot, flangst | @once-upon-an-imagine

speak your truth | imagine, flangst | @letstevengrantsleep

lemon & honey | imagine, fluff | @dreamsontheirway

all your being | imagine, fluff | @reidsaurora

chrysanthemums | drabble, fluff | @irndad

i love you | imagine, flangst | @gtgbabie0

truth | one shot, flangst (more angst) | @radiant-reid

drunk and needy spence | drabble, fluff | @autisticallyreid

decoy | one shot, flangst | @violetrainbow412-blog

domestic!spencer | drabble, fluff | @radiant-reid

keys to his place | imagine, fluff | @ddejavvu

meeting the team for the first time | imagine, fluff | @tinyluvs

reaching | drabble, fluff | @secretlovezz

the morning after | imagine, flangst | @actually-safer-to-kiss

sick with you | imagine, fluff | @buckyysdoll

loverboy | imagine, fluff | @queerpumpkinnn

too difficult to love | drabble, flangst (more fluff) | @radiant-reid

getting the hang of this "girlfriend" thing | imagine, fluff | @cookiescribble

[astrazero]

The First kiss of Adam & Steve .

My revamp of, The First kiss of Adam and Eve, by Salvador Viniegra, 1891

[amanofbeautyisajoyforever]

"Midnight visions", by Alson Castro

Watercolor on paper

#gay #gayart #artgay #watercolor #aquarela #faun #satyr #pan #gaywitch

[artiststarme]

To Keep Track of My Own Fic...

Here is the updated part list for "What If Steve Were To Leave Hawkins?". This fic is now finished and the end result has 20 parts!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Part 10

Part 11

Part 12

Part 13

Part 14

Part 15

Part 16

Part 17

Part 18

Part 19

Part 20: Epilogue

Now on Ao3!

Updated Taglist: @nickavalens @conversesweetheart @themostunoriginalpersonever @swimmingbirdrunningrock @eddiethegreatteddybear @harrumphingtons @call-me-big-eyes @moonshadows-13 @glittergluekintsugi @cpidcupk @doubleb11 @mentalcyborg @amoris-no-smut-allowed @purple-lemonade @labels-are-for-the-weak @thebrazilianatheist @rajumat @livelaughlexa @5ammi90 @colorful565 @marvelousforlife @chaoticcoffeequeen @gregre369 @suddenlyinlove @thegreatmistake @stillfullofshit @nburkhardt @batxsignalsx @newunknowns @thosemessyvibes @tailsfromthecrypt @luciana-rowan @bird-with-pencils @adaed5 @lolawon @flustratedcas @iwillfindmyneverland @messrs-weasley @skoomy-doompy @yearningagain @forest-fogg @bitchysunflower @stardust-era @newtstabber @bobatrash-queen @notjasontxdd @ohlook-afrog @00biscuit @grtwdsmwhr @oxidantdreamboat @the-witch-forever-lives @estrellami-1 @whatthemeepever @a-simple-gaywitch @imzadidragonfly @freddykicksasses @krimsonsimp @whatthefuccck @delta-piscium @anaibis @tinynebula @darkwitchoferie @evix-syne666 @tawghasa @pyrohonk @lillys-weird-world @superduckmilkshake @paintsplatteredandimperfect @tiny-enthusiast @whalesharksart @krazyperson @username-i-guess @ilikechocolatemilkh @awkwardgravity1 @romanticdestruction @espressopatronum454 @idontgetpaidenoughforthisshit

[swampcraft]

Spinning a bobbin a day lately! On the left is my Nepenthes colorway, on the right is Midnight Dreary, both are 100% Merino and will be available in rolags in the Etsy shop this week. In the middle is my newest colorway Leesa Phrank which is my own hand dyed Shetland wool. I hope to have rolags available in the Etsy shop before spring so stay tuned! #spinnersofinstagram #handspunyarn #handdyed #wool #colorways #nepenthes #midnightdreary #witchesofinstagram #gaywitch #bobbins #merinowool #shetland https://www.instagram.com/p/CoCwC47uLug/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[laparosdivinos]

Manifesto da Wicca Inclusiva de Ivonne Aburrow - Tradução por Sirius Cor Leonis - PARTE III

Continuando:

Bolos e vinhos devem ser feitos de forma inclusiva. Alguns de nós usam a simbologia do Amante e do Amado ao invés de masculino e feminino. Nós também desenvolvemos uma consagração do vinho com duas taças, onde nós despejamos o vinho de uma taça na outra com as palavras “eu encho sua taça com amor”. A taça vazia é passada adiante e cada pessoa enche a taça do próximo com essas palavras. Outra forma de fazer os ritos de bolos e vinhos é compreendendo que todos temos energias 'masculinas' e 'femininas', ou que a polaridade última é entre espírito e matéria, ou é entre o eu e o outro, ou o raio descendente e as águas primordiais, ou alguma outra variação inclusiva.

Nós acolhemos diferentes particularidades e necessidades especiais em saúde mental. Essas incluem mas não se limitam a neurodivergência, dislexia, canhotos e aphantasia. Deveria ficar a cargo de cada indivíduo bruxo determinar se está ou não bem o suficiente para estar num círculo, ao invés da promoção das políticas excludentes de alguns covens Wiccanos. A magia ritual também pode ser muito terapêutica. A Wicca Inclusiva segue o modelo social de visão sobre as necessidades especiais e deficiências na qual parte do pressuposto de que as pessoas são desabilitadas quando a sociedade falha em acomodar suas diferenças, ao invés de serem vistas como intrinsecamente 'deficientes'. Um exemplo para assegurar a inclusão é não fazer com que as pessoas copiarem à mão o Livro das Sombras do coven porque isso pode ser extremamente desencorajador para pessoas com dislexia e dispraxia. Outra prática é não dizer à canhotos que devem segurar seus athames com a mão direita. Oferecer alternativas de movimentos e dança para pessoas com mobilidade reduzida, tornar os materiais de leitura disponíveis em diferentes formatos e ser mais sensíveis em relação às pessoas com disforia são caminhos que podem tornar os círculos mais inclusivos.

Nós praticamos abertura com outras culturas e etnias. Nós não insistimos em uma base genética para cultura (qualquer pessoa pode culturar quaisquer deuses de quaisquer culturas). Precisamos estar cientes da existência do racismo sistêmico que é a forma como certos grupos étnicos são oprimidos em áreas como empregabilidade, moradia, acesso à justiça, policiamento e sociabilidade em geral. Nós trabalhamos magia para aliviar a opressão e para engajar na resistência à opressão ao lado dos oprimidos.

Nós tentamos evitar a apropriação cultural. Ao fazê-lo, nós reconhecemos que a apropriação cultural ocorre quando há uma diferença de poder (usualmente devido à história do colonialismo) entre os exploradores e os explorados. Nós não devemos tratar as culturas indígenas como meras mercadorias ou curiosidades. Apropriação cultural é quando alguém da cultura colonizadora ou de alguma forma culturalmente dominante pega um ritual ou significativa prática sagrada de alguma cultura subjugada, subvalorizada ou colonizada, tirando de seus contextos e drenando seus significados.

Nós somos abertos ao Kink, ao poliamor e à monogmia. O BDSM seguro, são e consensual (e o kink ciente dos riscos e consensual) são variantes saudáveis da sexualidade humana e podem trazer experiências espirituais profundas. Tanto o poliamor quanto a monogamia (contanto que sejam igualitários e consensuais) também são variantes da sexualidade humana naturais e saudáveis. As trocas de energia em relacionamentos são saudáveis quando são completamente consentidas e conscientemente trabalhadas. Tanto para relações poliamorosas ou monogâmicas quanto para os covens Wiccanos, a confiança, comunicação e transparência são as chaves.

Nós promovemos a cultura do consentimento. Numa cultura do consentimento, o indivíduo é considerado como o melhor juiz de suas próprias vontades e necessidades. Buscar o claro consentimento para as interações sociais (especialmente se envolver o toque ou contato sexual) é a norma esperada. Porque cada adulto está completamente no comando de seu próprio corpo e mente, é uma violação tentar forçar alguém a alguma atividade contra a vontade ou forçadamente abstê-los de quaisquer atividades que estes desejam (contanto que esta atividade não seja danosa a si mesmos ou aos outros). Em um coven inclusivo todos os membros devem ter o direito de consentir ou recusar toda a magia que os envolva, todas as formas de toque e todas as ações rituais.

A Wicca Inclusiva evita o etarismo. Nós recebemos membros de todas as idades acima dos 18 anos e acomodamos as necessidades dos membros mais velhos. Geralmente há uma restrição mínima de 18 anos de idade em covens Wiccanos para assegurar que os participantes tenham maturidade física e emocional para lidar com o simbolismo erótico e sua energia. Nós escutamos as preocupações e vozes dos membros de todas as idades. Nós recomendamos aos indivíduos abaixo de 18 anos que busquem informações e recursos úteis para iniciar seus caminhos de forma responsável.

Nós somos body-positive (pró diversidade dos corpos). A Wicca Inclusiva não admite preconceitos com os peso e demais características do corpo. Corpos vêm com todas as formas e tamanhos. Eles são lindos, não importando a forma, tamanho, quantidade de pelos, cicatriz ou quaisquer outras diferenças que possam ter.

Nós tentamos acomodar os membros com poucos recursos financeiros. Isso envolve organizar os eventos segundo rotas acessíveis aos transportes baratos, não organizar atividades sociais caras, evitar uma lista de leituras extensa e cara, não esperar [ou requerer] que as pessoas comprem equipamentos caros. De forma similar, nós não insistimos que os membros do coven tenham ou alcancem um nível educacional particular ou pertençam a uma determinada classe socioeconômica.

Nós ouvimos as visões de mundo de todos os membros e valorizamos a contribuição de suas ideias. A perspectiva de uma pessoa nova pode ser incrivelmente valiosa, e também as questões como “mas por que fazemos aquilo daquela forma?” podem fazer o grupo pensar e reavaliar suas práticas mágicas. Cada um traz diferentes experiências e perspectivas para o círculo e todas são bem-vindas. O princípio simples no coração da Wicca Inclusiva é empatia e respeito. Ser inclusivo é sobre respeitar e celebrar as experiências e qualidades que os outros trazem ao círculo empatizando com suas perspectivas. Se você tem respeito, empatia, compaixão e amor, então todo o resto é possível de ser trabalhado.

Leia mais em:

Yvonne Aburrow (2014), All acts of love and pleasure: Inclusive Wicca. Avalonia Books.

Jo Green (2016), Queer Paganism: A spirituality that embraces all identities.

Yvonne Aburrow (2020), Dark Mirror: The inner work of witchcraft

Lupa Greenwood (2012), Talking about the Elephant: An Anthology of neopagan perspectives on cultural appropriation.

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