#transmythology

[somewhereonmypath]

All-Soul, All-Body, All-Love, All-Power

I've recently started reading the TransMythology by P. Sufenas Virius Lupus. As I'm going through it I might post my thoughts about it and interpretations. I think it would be cool for future people interested in the Mythos of the Tetrad++ to have multiple points of reference instead of just the book and a few wordpress blogs.

[kitchen-light]

The Roman god Vertumnus had no fixed identity whatsoever; he changed his gender, age, and physical form at will. Vertumnus was the deity of the seasons, change, and the flourishing of plants. There's a play on his name in the Latin verb vertere, which means "to change". An ancient scholar named Servius wrote: "Divine powers are seen to be of each sex, since they are incorporeal and adopt whatever physique they wish." There was considerable discussion about this in antiquity; not everyone agreed with Servius, but there are considerable positive paradigms here to build the foundations of a history of genderfluidity.

Helen Morales, from the chapter “Transmythology”, from “Antigone Rising | The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths”, (Wildfire, Headline Publishing Group, 2020)

[thegodwhocums]

Let us not make a procrustean bed of trans issues and force deities of the past onto it, let us instead awaken trans and other gender-variant deities from their own beds! There is no possibility of blasphemy against existing powers and their human followers if the deities in question are our own, and we never have to "take them back," because they have always been ours to begin with!

P. Sufenas Virius Lupus, All-Soul, All-Body, All-Love, All-Power: A TransMythology

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[trans-pagans]

Resources for Trans and Nonbinary Witches and Pagans

This is the start of a summer-long project I’m taking on to create a substantial list of resources for trans and nonbinary witches and pagans. The same information can also be found here on my blog if that formatting works better for you.

Please take a look at what I already have and let me know if:

You know of something that should be included in one of the existing categories

There’s another category that you would like to see included on the resource page

There’s some reason that a resource should be taken down such as Inactivity or bigoted language

Something is in an incorrect category

I’m doing my best to gather and screen resources, but this is the sort of project that’s hard to do without community involvement. I will also be posting updated lists throughout the summer as well as updating the list on my resource page so please feel free to check in and see if new resources should be added.

Thanks for your help and I hope you find this list useful 💙  

Books:

Gender and Transgender in Modern Paganism - Circle of Cerridwen Press

All-Soul, All-Body, All-Love, All-Power: A TransMythology -P. Sufenas Virius Lupus

Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries - Lee Harrington

Casting a Queer Circle: Non-binary Witchcraft - Thista Minai

Trans & Nonbinary Friendly Pagan & Witchcraft blogs:

@northern-seidmadr

@ecletic-pagan-enby

@magickalmeanderings

@chinese-trans-witch-boy

@witches-ofcolor

@genderwitchcraft

@nbwitchthings

@transtarot

@lokeanwelcomingcommittee

@fangwitch

@transguypagan

In Person Trans & Nonbinary Friendly Pagan & Witchcraft Groups:

Spirals (College group: UMass Amherst)

Lavender Magick (Seattle, Wa)

Hampton Roads Pagan Meet Up (Norfolk, Va)

Star City Pagan Social Meetup (Roanoke, Va)

Our Lady Of the Earth Sky (Redmond, Wa)

Hogtown Hearth (Gainesville, FL)

Articles:

A Non-Binary Beltane

Beyond the gender binary in pagan practice

Queer and Trans Identities in Pagan Mythology

How Witchcraft is Empowering Queer and Trans Young People

Online Trans & Nonbinary Pagan Groups:

Trans and Nonbinary Pagans Amino

Trans Pagan Facebook

Rainbow Pagans Facebook  

Nonbinary, Trans, Intersex and Queer Pagans Facebook

Trans and Pagan Facebook 

[wittedknitch]

The first day of the Trans Rite of Elevation. The altar is set with candle, water, crystals, and seashells. I surround it with crystal point and grounding stones like onyx and haematite because the altar is in the bedroom, which I share with Blonde Bastard and so I can't have it 'leaking'. I am using rose quartz, amethyst, and sodalite as offering crystals, as well as gathered sea shells from the local beach as a reminder everyone is family and no one is truly alone (The Sea is our Mother).

It is elevated today with "All-Soul, All-Body, All-Love, All-Power: A TransMythology", the first epic poem about he birth of the Tetrad++, deities I work with who are all trans and/or genderqueer and whom I call upon to help in the rite.

[aroacepagans]

I saw your post about trans paganism books. Any that you reccomend?

Gender and Transgender in Modern Paganism by Circle of Cerridwen press is a collection of short essays, stories, and poems by trans pagans (mostly trans women) and has some really interesting stuff in it.

Casting a Queer Circle: Non-binary Witchcraft by Thista Minai is a book about an alternative queer spiritual tradition called Spectrum Gates, but it also gives some really good explanations about why we do magickal practices in certain ways so that’s pretty cool. 

And then I actually just ordered this one so I haven’t read it yet, but All-Soul, All-Body, All-Love, All-Power: A TransMythology by P. Sufenas Virius Lupus is also supposed to be good.

I’ve also got a list of trans pagan resources here on my trans-pagans blog that includes a book list with some ore generally queer pagan books so you might find that useful.

Hope that helps!

[ixlander]

[ID] TRANS GRIT

Cooper Lee Bombardier

On the mild Sunday evening I became a trans curmudgeon, I sat circled up with two-dozen others in folding chairs: all on a spectrum of gender in the neighbourhood of my own. We ranged in age from high school to near-retirement. Many a year or less into transition, or else trying to decide whether or not to swing a leg over in this rodeo at all. I wasn’t seeking support so much as a sense of connection, to be among others like me. Strange to progress from the constant of change to this olde-trans status with no segue, no half-time show. All flux, and then it was everything else in life that I needed to deal with. A young trans guy, anxious and lost in a mass of too-big clothes, shared with utter despondency that someone from a doctor’s office was rude to him on the phone. He’d crumbled in the face of rudeness, his forward process stymied by the molasses of agonism, this ticket-taker saying: you’re too short to ride, sorry. He’d hung up the phone, unable to access the care he needed. Welcome to the rest of your life as a transsexual, I wanted to say. I slouched in my plastic chair like a delinquent student. A cascade of similar tales ricocheted around the room from other younger folks, volleyed in a manner that precluded any true listening or reflection. You think rudeness is the worst of it? I thought, Microaggressions? You cannot wither in the face of those who don’t want to help you. You’ll need to learn how to either charm them into being your greatest proponent or else clamp your will to their pant legs with the persistence of a pitbull until they help you! Voilà! In an instant I’d become that guy: olde-trans. A goddamn trans curmudgeon. Perhaps I no longer belonged at a meeting if I couldn’t brim with empathy for the plight of this kid and his vexing phone call. Perhaps the agony, excitement, and wanting a high-five for each achievement, for me, was long gone. I joined this rodeo a decade and a half ago, and my ass was sore from years of rough riding. I was well aware of the judgment that stewed in me and how little my Buddhist practice made a dip in that mucky soup. I wanted to say, across the room, Buck up, little camper. You’re gonna have to be tougher than this. You’re gonna need some grit to do this. The folding plastic chair chewed at my back as I remembered the hurdles and trials and obstacles and violence and discrimination that trans people I know have overcome for years to be who they are. We were busy confronting and surviving macroaggressions and lack of access. I thought of my early mentors who smuggled, shared, and used black-market hormones, or friends who, long ago, lay alone in hotel rooms for a week post-surgery without anyone to help them. People I’ve met who sought hormones and surgery from doctors twenty, thirty years ago, knapping a wheel out of stone. No Harry Benjamin to jump through, no WPATH to walk. People who turned tricks, went on fertility drugs and sold their eggs, or took out student loans to afford surgery; others who shot street steroids or self-castrated in prison. I thought about trans women friends from the Navajo Nation, who told me stories about pumping parties on the rez where women self-injected hardware-store silicone into their breasts. I thought about a friend whose almost transmythological tale about being forced to self-aspirate a hematoma in his chest after top surgery I’d heard about years before we’d ever met, and this was in pre-social networking days. I thought of the countless hours I’ve spent being told no, that something was unavailable, illegal, or impossible. Or just not right: like a bearded man needing a pelvic ultrasound or mammogram. I thought of the time when, after many years of being on T and procuring top surgery without health insurance, I finally got coverage and then made many long calls appealing to a middle-aged white Texan man at the insurance company to explain why the hysterectomy I was seeking pre-approval for was not part of a not-covered “sex change.” “Look, Hal,” I’d explained to this stranger, “I’m not trying to get away with anything here. These are just the parts I was born with, and they’re causing me significant pain.” I was frustrated by these young trans people for being so easily discouraged and deterred. If transitioning taught me anything, it was that I needed to possess the will to do whatever it takes to survive.

cooper lee bombardier, from trans grit, from the remedy: queer and trans voices on health and health care, edited by zena sharman, 2016

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[somewhereonmypath]

Did you ever finish reading or post your thoughts about the TransMythology book?

I didnt finish reading it but I might in the future, thank you for reminding me!

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