#nonbinary witch

Set up an altar for Pride month and included my grandfather and his partner of 37 years, plus some queer community ancestors.

my blog is a safe place for all of my LGBTQIA+ brothers, sisters, and siblings.

♡ wild fae brat critter thing ♡

Thank you for your question! Here's an easy spell I'd suggest - when it comes to spellwork, let yourself mess around and be creative; try different things, edit and adjust this however your intuition guides you and see what works/what doesn't!!!

Create the image of yourself you want to portray - draw them, write a song about them, describe them as 2012 wattpad fanfic writer would, whatever you want and helps create the image best! Make yourself your muse! Focus more on the feelings and perception than specific physical attributes. Envision building this version of you from the ground up - this shall become your mask, your projection.

It can help to have a physical object to tie it to - a piece of jewellery, or shoes, or even things like your glasses. After you've "built" your mask, attach it to your physical item - this can be done through a simple incantation, clear instructions, and the visualisation of tying, stitching or even gluing your mask to the physical item.

You can honestly customise this process however you like - it could be done entirely with energy work and visualisation if that's where your strength lies. If you prefer tactile and tangible actions then you could craft a small doll of your desired projection, filling it full of your ideal energy and projection, and physically attach it to your every day bag, or keys etc.

When you put on the jewellery, glasses, attach the keyring etc, take a moment to visualise pulling that mask over yourself and moulding into you - it isn't an uncomfortable, ill-fitting mask that hides you, it is a second skin that melds to your body and emphasises/highlights what you already are. Remember that it is not about changing your physical appearance, but about changing the energy you project and other's perceptions of you.

There's also other stuff you could add or mess around with - like making this charm be fuelled by misgendering (anytime someone misgenders you, that energy is pulled into the charm and charges it).

Wiccegender

(pronounced witch-eh gender)

Wiccegender is a noungender that encapsulates a gender identity with a significant connection to identifying as a witch, practicing witchcraft, and concepts like the witch archetype within literature and pop culture while also simultaneously encapsulating a gender identity with a significant connection to concepts like womenhood or femmeness. You don't have to blanketly identify as a woman to identify as wiccegender, though. A wiccegender person may identify with womenhood but not explicitly call themselves a woman or may not identify as a woman or with womanhood, but does identify as a femme and with femmeness. A wiccegender person may also feel that being a lesbian or sapphic is a significant part of their gender identity. A significant part of wiccegender is recognizing how the patriarchy has used the word witch and the witch archetype as a weapon and reclaiming that. Wiccegender doesn't exclude people who express themselves/dress in a way that's stereotypically masculine, but as an identity does decenter men and manhood. Wicce is actually the Old English term for a woman who practiced magic. Though to re-clarify, you don't need to in any way identify as a woman to identify as wiccegender. For me, a big appeal of xenogenders is reconstructing gender identity in a way that decenters the language of the gender binary.

Magic.

With thanks to Rose Priest for the newspaper text, and Liv Dugdale for the front page art. Found their article in The Skinny and it was resonating with the collage I was making.