tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72242986610565507612024-03-13T05:20:31.451-07:00Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe: Exploring and Honoring Sacred Mxgender MysteriesThe Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe is a tradition within Starflower Coven devoted to exploring and honoring sacred mxgender Mysteries. Our Priestxes embody the experience of identity beyond the gender binary, and celebrate the glittering prism of Divine existence that is Powerful, Delightful, Enthusiastic, Playful, Transformative, Magickal, Compassionate, and Reverent.
If work here inspires you, you are welcome to use and distribute it with appropriate credit. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02372878161923894711noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-35659017099831781112019-01-20T13:36:00.000-08:002019-01-22T11:24:54.850-08:00Witches of Transgression: Breaking It Down<h3 class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">AN
INVITATION TO THE WITCHES OF THE WORLD - PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!</span></b></span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">2019
Witches of Transgression Working:</span></b></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-top: 0.25in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">Breaking
It Down</span></b></span></span></span></h2>
<div style="line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">The
Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe is a Mystery Tradition within
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Starflower
Coven</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">
devoted to exploring and honoring sacred mxgender Mysteries. Our
Priestxes embody the experience of identity beyond the gender binary,
and celebrate the glittering prism of Divine existence that is
Powerful, Delightful, Enthusiastic, Playful, Transformative,
Magickal, Compassionate, and Reverent. We invite people of all
genders or none, but especially mxgender and non-binary people, to
join us in doing a public, world-wide working to bring a better world
into being. By performing this ritual in our own spaces all over the
world each Full Moon, we grid the Earth with the energy of the
Divine, toward a shared vision of intentional change.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">I
want to participate. What should I do?</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">If
you would like to join us in this effort, please:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Share
this working and its intent with other people you know, or in your
own social media, using the hashtag #witchesoftransgression</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Follow
our </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://divinespiralingrainbowtribe.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">blog</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Perform
the following ritual at your own altar each Full Moon between now
and December 12, 2019. We begin Jan. 21, 2019, but join us whenever
you wish. You can find this year's full moons listed below.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">January
21st</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">February
19th</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">March
21st</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">April
19th</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">May
18th</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">June
17th</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">July
16th</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">August
15th</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">September
14th</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">October
13th</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">November
12th</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">December
12th</span></span></span></span></div>
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</ol>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">THE
RITUAL WORKING: EVERY FULL MOON</span></b></span></span></span></h2>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">You
will need:</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">An
object to crush or break for each full moon-- some options include
stones, ceramics, or even simply an aluminum can!</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">A
tool to crush your object with-- a hammer, your boots or heels, the
sidewalk</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">A
copy of our ideals</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">The
Working:</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Hold
your object in your hands. Send all the energy of what has been
oppressing you into it. This can be personal, like your creepy
teacher or friends who misgender you, or political, like unfair
workplace policies about what clothes are considered professional
for people of your gender or laws keeping you from getting
identification that matches your gender. The personal and political
are deeply intertwined. Place your object on the ground.</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Contemplate
our ideals and the ways you embody them and act upon them. Do not
dwell on the fears and pains of the past. Instead, know that the
world we wish to create is already coming into being. When you feel
ready, recite the Witches of Transgression prayer.</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: transparent;">Feeling
all your rage and love, send that energy down and crush/break/stomp
your object until it is obliterated. Know that </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: transparent;">your
personal power and your power as part of a community is helping to
bring the world we want into being.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<br />
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">I
whirl at the edge of the universe</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">Like
my Ancxters before me</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">I
am a breaker of chains</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">My
love is unstoppable</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">Holding
the Now to my heart</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">Embodying
the future unfolding</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">There
is nothing to fear</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">I
am a Witch of Transgression</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Watch
out for shards! You can bury your crushed pieces if appropriate, or
put them in the trash if not.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">The
Community</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Witches
of Transgression is open to all mxgender and non-binary people,
people questioning their gender identity, and those who question the
authority of the gender binary. </span></span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">You
may also wish to join our sisters in the Mothers of the New Time
prayer, our brothers in the Fathers of Change prayer on the dark
moon, and families in the Children of Promise working.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">Our
Ideals</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<br />
<ul>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Honor
for elders, respect for their survival strategies, attention to
their stories and the complexities of their lived experiences,
continual respect for their choices including correct gendering
throughout end-of-life care and into death.</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: transparent;">Communities
connected by love and solidarity that center and amplify the needs
and voices of </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: transparent;">those
who have been oppressed, bringing healing and justice</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">A
world that creates and maintains spaces of creativity, playfulness,
and innovation.</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: transparent;">Alternatives
to the prison industrial complex that better serve the needs of
those who have been oppressed</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Equitable,
accurate and accessible information and education which recognizes
the intersectionality of sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender
expression</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">The
establishment of public policies and laws which recognize and
support the equal rights of all people, regardless of sex,
sexuality, gender identity, gender expression, and any other aspects
of being and identity.</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Reclamation
of the natural and sacred roles of mxgender people in their
communities and cultures; reclamation of repressed histories,
stigmatized words and expressions; recognition that gender diversity
is a sign of a healthy and holistic culture and restoration of that
vitality to our living communities and societies by co-creating
cultures of hospitality and freedom of being and expression.</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Respect
for the self-determined identities of all people; accurate use of
the names, gender identities, titles, and pronouns an individual
claims, whether they are new or established; acknowledgment that an
individual's identity may change over time or society's
understanding of their identity may change; easy correction of
medical or legal forms that do not reflect an individual's current
identity.</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: transparent;">Accessible
and appropriate medical care for all people, especially vulnerable
populations such as the homeless and incarcerated; medical
professionals knowledgeable about the particular health issues of
trans, mxgender, and intersex people; medical forms that allow a
person to indicate their sex, gender, and pronouns, and allow for
these to change over time; an end to restrictive requirements for
changing gender or sex.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Honor
for children; an end to unnecessary medical intervention in the
bodies of intersex infants and youth; respect for clothing, toys,
friendship and other activities of childhood that do not enforce a
strict gender system, but allows for safe, respectful exploration
and discovery; an end to gender assignment before an individual is
able to inform others of their identity; resistance to the
systematic oppression that threatens children who in some way
transgress gender</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: transparent;">Honor
for our transcestors and ancxtors; respect for the various ways
their identities have been</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: transparent;">expressed
over the millennia; honor for the unique cultural and spiritual
roles they played; honor for individuals that played important
roles; acknowledgment of the hardships they faced; reverence for our
named and unnamed transcestors and ancxtors.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Feel
free to add any of your own ideals here.</span></i></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">These
are the ideals of the Witches of Transgression</span></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">We
are all forms of identity intersection in body, mind and spirit</span></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">We
resist, refuse and reject unkind, unnecessary, and unnatural attempts
to control or conform</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">our
inherent sense of selfhood</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">From
the gleams in the eyes of the parents to the legends after we die, we
call for an openness and</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">loving
curiosity about gender, sex, ability, spirituality, and all aspects
of unique, individual selfhood</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Respect
the unknown without labeling it and honor that which has been
self-identified.</span></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">SO
MOTE IT BE!</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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Starting January 1st, 2019, the Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe invites non-binary, trans, and intersex people, as well as anyone who questions the gender binary, to join in singing with us. We sing daily, to remind ourselves of our place in community and to send out that energy to others.<br />
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"I am unchained, iridescent, and wild<br />
I am uncontained, the rainbow prism's child<br />
I am truth, I am flesh, I am joy, I am blood<br />
I am stars, I am wonder, I am healing, I am love."<br />
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by Rainbow Melissa ra Karit and Ravensong PhoenixfireAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02372878161923894711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-32539322204132547752018-11-21T10:31:00.000-08:002018-11-21T10:31:58.739-08:00Wot: With Water We Heal
<h3 class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">AN
INVITATION TO THE WITCHES OF THE WORLD - PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!</span></b></span></span></span></h3>
<h2 class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-top: 0.25in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">2018
Witches of Transgression Working:</span></b></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-top: 0.25in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">With
Water We Heal</span></b></span></span></span></h2>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">The
Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe is a Mystery Tradition within CAYA
Pagan Congregation devoted to exploring and honoring sacred mxgender
Mysteries. Our Priestxes embody the experience of identity beyond the
gender binary, and celebrate the glittering prism of Divine existence
that is Powerful, Delightful, Enthusiastic, Playful, Transformative,
Magickal, Compassionate, and Reverent. We invite people of all
genders or none, but especially mxgender and non-binary people, to
join us in doing a public, world-wide working to bring a better world
into being. By performing this ritual in our own spaces all over the
world each Full Moon, we grid the Earth with the energy of the
Divine, toward a shared vision of intentional change.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">I
want to participate. What should I do?</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a><br /><br />
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">If
you would like to join us in this effort, please:</span></span></span></span></div>
<br /><br />
<br />
<ol>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Share
this working and its intent with other people you know, or in your
own social media, using the hashtag #witchesoftransgression</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Follow
our </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://divinespiralingrainbowtribe.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">blog</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Perform
the following ritual at your own altar each Full Moon between now
and December 22, 2018. We begin Jan. 1, 2018, but join us whenever
you wish.</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ol>
<h2 class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-top: 0.25in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">THE
RITUAL WORKING: EVERY FULL MOON</span></b></span></span></span></h2>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">You
will need:</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">A
bottle or jar to keep your Rainbow Water in</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">A
dark bowl</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Stones
to add to your Rainbow Water (optional)</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">A
copy of our ideals</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">The
Working:</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Fill
your bottle with water. Holding it in your hands, visualize rainbows
sinking into the waters. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">You
may also wish to add small crystals to your water. Fill your dark
bowl most of the way with</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">tap
water. Go outside under the stars. Add a little Rainbow Water to
your bowl and scry. What </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">needs
healing inside you? How can you heal the world? Contemplate our
ideals and the ways</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">you
embody them and act upon them. Do not dwell on the fears and pains
of the past. Instead, </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">know
that the world we wish to create is already coming into being. When
you feel ready, anoint</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">yourself
with the water from your bowl and recite the Witches of
Transgression prayer.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<br /><br />
<br />
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">I
whirl at the edge of the universe</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">Like
my Ancxters before me</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">I
am a breaker of chains</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">My
love is unstoppable</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">Holding
the Now to my heart</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">Embodying
the future unfolding</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">There
is nothing to fear</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">I
am a Witch of Transgression</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<br /><br />
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">On
the last full moon of the year, on Dec. 22, 2018, pour any remaining
Rainbow water into a natural body of water such as a river or the
ocean.</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">The
Community</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Witches
of Transgression is open to all mxgender and non-binary people,
people questioning their</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">gender
identity, and those who question the authority of the gender binary. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">You
may also wish to join our sisters in the Mothers of the New Time
prayer, our brothers in the Fathers</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">of
Change prayer on the dark moon, and families in the Children of
Promise working.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">Our
Ideals</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<br /><br />
<br />
<ul>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Honor
for elders, respect for their survival strategies, attention to
their stories and the complexities of their lived experiences,
continual respect for their choices including correct gendering
throughout end-of-life care and into death.</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Communities
connected by love and solidarity that center and amplify the needs
and voices of </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">those
who have been oppressed, bringing healing and justice</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">A
world that creates and maintains spaces of creativity, playfulness,
and innovation.</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Alternatives
to the prison industrial complex that better serve the needs of
those who have been </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">oppressed</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Equitable,
accurate and accessible information and education which recognizes
the intersectionality </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">of
sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender expression</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">The
establishment of public policies and laws which recognize and
support the equal rights of all </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">people,
regardless of sex, sexuality, gender identity, gender expression,
and any other aspects of </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">being
and identity.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Reclamation
of the natural and sacred roles of mxgender people in their
communities and cultures; </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">reclamation
of repressed histories, stigmatized words and expressions;
recognition that gender </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">diversity
is a sign of a healthy and holistic culture and restoration of that
vitality to our living communities </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">and
societies by co-creating cultures of hospitality and freedom of
being and expression.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Respect
for the self-determined identities of all people; accurate use of
the names, gender identities, </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">titles,
and pronouns an individual claims, whether they are new or
established; acknowledgement that </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">an
individual's identity may change over time or society's
understanding of their identity may change; </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">easy
correction of medical or legal forms that do not reflect an
individual's current identity.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Accessible
and appropriate medical care for all people, especially vulnerable
populations such as </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">the
homeless and incarcerated; medical professionals knowledgeable about
the particular health </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">issues
of trans, mxgender, and intersex people; medical forms that allow a
person to indicate their </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">sex,
gender, and pronouns, and allow for these to change over time; an
end to restrictive requirements</span></span><br /><span style="background: transparent;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">for
changing gender or sex.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Honor
for children; an end to unnecessary medical intervention in the
bodies of intersex infants and </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">youth;
respect for clothing, toys, activities, friendship and other
activities of childhood that do not </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">enforce
a strict gender system, but allows for safe, respectful exploration
and discovery; an end to </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">gender
assignment before an individual is able to inform others of their
identity; resistance to the </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">systematic
oppression that threatens children who in some way transgress gender</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Honor
for our transcestors and ancxtors; respect for the various ways
their identities have been </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">expressed
over the millennia; honor for the unique cultural and spiritual
roles they played; honor for</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">individuals
that played important roles; acknowledgement of the hardships they
faced; reverence for </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">our
named and unnamed transcestors and ancxtors.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Feel
free to add any of your own ideals here.</span></i></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">These
are the ideals of the Witches of Transgression</span></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">We
are all forms of identity intersection in body, mind and spirit</span></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">We
resist, refuse and reject unkind, unnecessary, and unnatural attempts
to control or conform</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">our
inherent sense of selfhood</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">From
the gleams in the eyes of the parents to the legends after we die, we
call for an openness and </span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">loving
curiosity about gender, sex, ability, spirituality, and all aspects
of unique, individual selfhood</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Respect
the unknown without labeling it and honor that which has been
self-identified.</span></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">SO
MOTE IT BE!</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02372878161923894711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-61348743124964555302018-10-23T12:43:00.001-07:002018-10-23T12:43:28.669-07:00Witches of Transgression: With Water We Heal
<h2 class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-top: 0.25in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">With
Water We Heal</span></b></span></span></span></h2>
<div style="line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">The
Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe is a Mystery Tradition within CAYA
Pagan Congregation devoted to </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">exploring
and honoring sacred mxgender Mysteries. Our Priestxes embody the
experience of identity </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">beyond
the gender binary, and celebrate the glittering prism of Divine
existence that is Powerful, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Delightful,
Enthusiastic, Playful, Transformative, Magickal, Compassionate, and
Reverent. We invite </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">people
of all genders or none, but especially mxgender and non-binary
people, to join us in doing a </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">public,
world-wide working to bring a better world into being. By performing
this ritual in our own spaces</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">all
over the world each Full Moon, we grid the Earth with the energy of
the Divine, toward a shared vision </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">of
intentional change.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">I
want to participate. What should I do?</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a><br /><br />
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">If
you would like to join us in this effort, please:</span></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<ol>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Share
this working and its intent with other people you know, or in your
own social media, using </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">the
hashtag #witchesoftransgression</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Follow
our </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://divinespiralingrainbowtribe.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">blog</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Perform
the following ritual at your own altar each Full Moon between now
and December 22, 2018. We begin Jan. 1, 2018, but join us whenever
you wish.</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ol>
<h2 class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-top: 0.25in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">THE
RITUAL WORKING: EVERY FULL MOON</span></b></span></span></span></h2>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">You
will need:</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">A
bottle or jar to keep your Rainbow Water in</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">A
dark bowl</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Stones
to add to your Rainbow Water (optional)</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">A
copy of our ideals</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">The
Working:</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Fill
your bottle with water. Holding it in your hands, visualize rainbows
sinking into the waters. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">You
may also wish to add small crystals to your water. Fill your dark
bowl most of the way with</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">tap
water. Go outside under the stars. Add a little Rainbow Water to
your bowl and scry. What </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">needs
healing inside you? How can you heal the world? Contemplate our
ideals and the ways</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">you
embody them and act upon them. Do not dwell on the fears and pains
of the past. Instead, </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">know
that the world we wish to create is already coming into being. When
you feel ready, anoint</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">yourself
with the water from your bowl and recite the Witches of
Transgression prayer.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">I
whirl at the edge of the universe</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">Like
my Ancxters before me</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">I
am a breaker of chains</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">My
love is unstoppable</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">Holding
the Now to my heart</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">Embodying
the future unfolding</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">There
is nothing to fear</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b><span style="background: transparent;">I
am a Witch of Transgression</span></b></i></span></span></span></div>
<br /><br />
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">On
the last full moon of the year, on Dec. 22, 2018, pour any remaining
Rainbow water into a natural body of water such as a river or the
ocean.</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">The
Community</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Witches
of Transgression is open to all mxgender and non-binary people,
people questioning their</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">gender
identity, and those who question the authority of the gender binary. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">You
may also wish to join our sisters in the Mothers of the New Time
prayer, our brothers in the Fathers</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">of
Change prayer on the dark moon, and families in the Children of
Promise working.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">Our
Ideals</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<br /><br />
<br />
<ul>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Honor
for elders, respect for their survival strategies, attention to
their stories and the complexities of their lived experiences,
continual respect for their choices including correct gendering
throughout end-of-life care and into death.</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Communities
connected by love and solidarity that center and amplify the needs
and voices of </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">those
who have been oppressed, bringing healing and justice</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">A
world that creates and maintains spaces of creativity, playfulness,
and innovation.</span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Alternatives
to the prison industrial complex that better serve the needs of
those who have been </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">oppressed</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Equitable,
accurate and accessible information and education which recognizes
the intersectionality </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">of
sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender expression</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">The
establishment of public policies and laws which recognize and
support the equal rights of all </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">people,
regardless of sex, sexuality, gender identity, gender expression,
and any other aspects of </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">being
and identity.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Reclamation
of the natural and sacred roles of mxgender people in their
communities and cultures; </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">reclamation
of repressed histories, stigmatized words and expressions;
recognition that gender </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">diversity
is a sign of a healthy and holistic culture and restoration of that
vitality to our living communities </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">and
societies by co-creating cultures of hospitality and freedom of
being and expression.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Respect
for the self-determined identities of all people; accurate use of
the names, gender identities, </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">titles,
and pronouns an individual claims, whether they are new or
established; acknowledgement that </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">an
individual's identity may change over time or society's
understanding of their identity may change; </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">easy
correction of medical or legal forms that do not reflect an
individual's current identity.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Accessible
and appropriate medical care for all people, especially vulnerable
populations such as </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">the
homeless and incarcerated; medical professionals knowledgeable about
the particular health </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">issues
of trans, mxgender, and intersex people; medical forms that allow a
person to indicate their </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">sex,
gender, and pronouns, and allow for these to change over time; an
end to restrictive requirements</span></span><br /><span style="background: transparent;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">for
changing gender or sex.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Honor
for children; an end to unnecessary medical intervention in the
bodies of intersex infants and </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">youth;
respect for clothing, toys, activities, friendship and other
activities of childhood that do not </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">enforce
a strict gender system, but allows for safe, respectful exploration
and discovery; an end to </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">gender
assignment before an individual is able to inform others of their
identity; resistance to the </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">systematic
oppression that threatens children who in some way transgress gender</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">Honor
for our transcestors and ancxtors; respect for the various ways
their identities have been </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">expressed
over the millennia; honor for the unique cultural and spiritual
roles they played; honor for</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">individuals
that played important roles; acknowledgement of the hardships they
faced; reverence for </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: transparent;">our
named and unnamed transcestors and ancxtors.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Feel
free to add any of your own ideals here.</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">These
are the ideals of the Witches of Transgression</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">We
are all forms of identity intersection in body, mind and spirit</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">We
resist, refuse and reject unkind, unnecessary, and unnatural attempts
to control or conform</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">our
inherent sense of selfhood</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">From
the gleams in the eyes of the parents to the legends after we die, we
call for an openness and </span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">loving
curiosity about gender, sex, ability, spirituality, and all aspects
of unique, individual selfhood</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Respect
the unknown without labeling it and honor that which has been
self-identified.</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">SO
MOTE IT BE!</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02372878161923894711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-90683282941049006742018-09-29T13:55:00.000-07:002018-09-29T13:55:42.265-07:00Invocation for Inanna's Ancient Priestxes<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-adc82da4-7fff-b5e8-4788-6bca53c83945" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">O you holy ones of Inanna</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">You Priestxes of ancient times</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">We call to you</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">To the <i>kurgarra</i>, musicians of the goddess</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Shaking and stamping and strumming</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Making sounds pleasing to Her ears</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">To the <i>sal-zikrum</i>, the women-men priests of the goddess</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Dressed in your sacred garb</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">To the <i>kulu’u</i>, the <i>kalum</i>, who composed the hymns singing her praise</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The fire of Inanna burned in your hearts</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">As she has burned in ours</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">To the<i> assinnu</i>, you lament singers of Inanna</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Swaying and calling to Her</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Grieving her as she hung underground</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">And to <i>asushummir</i>, made of light</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Made of dust to slip between the worlds</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Neither man nor woman</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">You descended between the gates </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">To bring the waters of life, the food of life,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">To Inanna, so She could rise again</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">O you holy ones of Inanna</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Alight like I am alight</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">In between like I am in between</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Be here now</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Ancestors, we call you home</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Hail and welcome!</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02372878161923894711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-22228466217432670692018-08-19T19:40:00.001-07:002018-08-19T19:40:22.392-07:00Art: Paneros at the Edge of the World<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Anticipation</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="font-size: small;">That moment when, having completed Eir journey, Paneros drops Eir last apple seed into the waters.</span> </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02372878161923894711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-25164120080877748652018-07-29T12:59:00.002-07:002018-07-29T12:59:44.246-07:00Witches of Transgression<h3 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-48cec1df-e79b-56a4-4514-2ad334ab6ca2" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 14pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">AN INVITATION TO THE WITCHES OF THE WORLD - PLEASE </span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 17pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">2018 Witches of Transgression Working:</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 17pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">With Water We Heal</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe is a Mystery Tradition within CAYA Pagan </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Congregation devoted to exploring and honoring sacred mxgender Mysteries. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Our Priestxes embody the experience of identity beyond the gender binary, and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">celebrate the glittering prism of Divine existence that is Powerful, Delightful, Enthusiastic, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Playful, Transformative, Magickal, Compassionate, and Reverent. We invite people of all </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">genders or none, but especially mxgender and non-binary people, to join us in doing a public, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">world-wide working to bring a better world into being. By performing this ritual in our own spaces </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">all over the world each Full Moon, we grid the Earth with the energy of the Divine, toward a shared </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">vision of intentional change.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I want to participate. What should I do?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">If you would like to join us in this effort, please:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Share this working and its intent with other people you know, or in your own social </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">media, using the hashtag #witchesoftransgression</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Follow our </span><a href="http://divinespiralingrainbowtribe.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">blog</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Perform the following ritual at your own altar each Full Moon between now and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">December 22, 2018. We begin Jan. 1, 2018, but join us whenever you wish.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 17pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">THE RITUAL WORKING: EVERY FULL MOON</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You will need:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A bottle or jar to keep your Rainbow Water in</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A dark bowl</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Stones to add to your Rainbow Water (optional)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A copy of our ideals</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Working:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fill your bottle with water. Holding it in your hands, visualize rainbows sinking into </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the waters. You may also wish to add small crystals to your water. Fill your dark bowl </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">most of the way with tap water. Go outside under the stars. Add a little Rainbow Water </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to your bowl and scry. What needs healing inside you? How can you heal the world? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Contemplate our ideals and the ways you embody them and act upon them. Do not </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">dwell on the fears and pains of the past. Instead, know that the world we wish to create </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">is already coming into being. When you feel ready, anoint yourself with the water from </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">your bowl and recite the Witches of Transgression prayer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I whirl at the edge of the universe</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Like my Ancxters before me</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I am a breaker of chains</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My love is unstoppable</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Holding the Now to my heart</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Embodying the future unfolding</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">There is nothing to fear</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I am a Witch of Transgression</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">On the last full moon of the year, on Dec. 22, 2019, pour any remaining Rainbow </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">water into a natural body of water such as a river or the ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 17pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Community</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Witches of Transgression is open to all mxgender and non-binary people, people questioning </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">their gender identity, and those who question the authority of the gender binary. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You may also wish to join our sisters in the Mothers of the New Time prayer, our brothers in </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the Fathers of Change prayer on the dark moon, and families in the Children of Promise working.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 17pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Our Ideals</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for elders, respect for their survival strategies, attention to their stories and the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">complexities of their lived experiences, continual respect for their choices including correct </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">gendering throughout end-of-life care and into death.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Communities connected by love and solidarity that center and amplify the needs and voices </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of those who have been oppressed, bringing healing and justice</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A world that creates and maintains spaces of creativity, playfulness, and innovation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Alternatives to the prison industrial complex that better serve the needs of those who have</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> been oppressed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Equitable, accurate and accessible information and education which recognizes the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">intersectionality of sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender expression</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The establishment of public policies and laws which recognize and support the equal rights </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of all people, regardless of sex, sexuality, gender identity, gender expression, and any other </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">aspects of being and identity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reclamation of the natural and sacred roles of mxgender people in their communities and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">cultures; reclamation of repressed histories, stigmatized words and expressions; recognition </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that gender diversity is a sign of a healthy and holistic culture and restoration of that vitality to </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">our living communities and societies by co-creating cultures of hospitality and freedom of being </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and expression.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Respect for the self-determined identities of all people; accurate use of the names, gender </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">identities, titles, and pronouns an individual claims, whether they are new or established; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">acknowledgement that an individual's identity may change over time or society's understanding </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of their identity may change; easy correction of medical or legal forms that do not reflect an </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">individual's current identity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Accessible and appropriate medical care for all people, especially vulnerable populations such </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">as the homeless and incarcerated; medical professionals knowledgeable about the particular </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">health issues of trans, mxgender, and intersex people; medical forms that allow a person to </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">indicate their sex, gender, and pronouns, and allow for these to change over time; an end to </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">restrictive requirements for changing gender or sex.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for children; an end to unnecessary medical intervention in the bodies of intersex infants </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and youth; respect for clothing, toys, activities, friendship and other activities of childhood that </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">do not enforce a strict gender system, but allows for safe, respectful exploration and discovery; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">an end to gender assignment before an individual is able to inform others of their identity; </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">expressed over the millennia; honor for the unique cultural and spiritual roles they played; </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02372878161923894711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-82181460867777408162018-07-25T09:18:00.001-07:002018-07-25T15:20:22.471-07:00Roots of our Rebellion<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-align: left;">These are frightening times to be a gender variant individual. Every day, we read a story in the news telling us of another trans person killed or injured in a hate crime, of yet another right we've fought for being threatened to be taken away from us by those currently in power. It's enough to want to crawl into a hole with our sisters and brothers and kindred, and not come out until the whole thing is over. Thing is, we're the ones who make the change necessary to bring about a culture where trans women are accepted as the women they are, trans men are accepted as the men they are, and nonbinary folks are accepted in the many varied expressions of gender (or none) that we are. I was poignantly reminded of this as last month, I took a pilgrimage back to the roots of our rebellion.</span></div>
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I kicked off my summer in New York City this year, and went with my wife and beloved DSRT member Baba Jaina Bee to the Stonewall Inn, ground zero of our people's liberation. We had a couple drinks, soaked up the vibe gleaned from decades of queer history, pulled some oblique strategy cards, and honored the leaders and rebels who had sat at that same bar. I even commandeered the men's room and used a urinal for the second time in my life.</div>
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Afterward, we went to the parklet across the street from the Stonewall and blessed it with every rainbow song we could think of: Daily Practices from this year and yesteryear, the Rainbow Home song, and every song to every mxgender deity we could remember. At that point, we got an idea.</div>
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We immediately absconded to a local florist in the West Village and grabbed several large, lush bouquets, and walked them down to the end of the Christopher Street Pier, just as Marsha P. Johnson used to do. We liberated the flowers from their wrappings, and, mindful of the fishermen on the end of the pier, and in full view of the Statue of Liberty, we tossed the flowers off the pier and sang a brand new song to Marsha:</div>
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<i>Nutty as a fruitcake</i></div>
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<i>So all can be free</i></div>
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Mesmerized, we kept singing that song and watched the flowers in their beautiful and garish array as they floated down the Hudson. We walked back along the pier back into the city, noticing the beautiful diversity of people of all shapes, sizes, and genders of people sunning themselves. We enjoyed a wonderful meal at a gluten free Mediterranean restaurant on Hudson Street, and then parted company to take that energy into the evening.</div>
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When I most feel like hiding away and giving up, I call to my mind the memory I just shared with you, and I ask myself, what if Marsha didn't fight? Where would we be? That pilgrimage to the roots of our rebellion gave me the strength I needed to jump back into the fray.</div>
Raven Malouf-Renninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14729370154423518876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-84228161764495121752018-06-24T12:56:00.001-07:002018-06-24T12:56:33.609-07:00Witches of Transgression: With Water We Heal<h3 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-25ef449e-3356-4152-3eed-493e67e38a64" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 14pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe is a Mystery Tradition within CAYA Pagan Congregation </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">devoted to exploring and honoring sacred mxgender Mysteries. Our Priestxes embody the </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Compassionate, and Reverent. We invite people of all genders or none, but especially </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">mxgender and non-binary people, to join us in doing a public, world-wide working to bring a </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">better world into being. By performing this ritual in our own spaces all over the world each </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Full Moon, we grid the Earth with the energy of the Divine, toward a shared vision of intentional </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Share this working and its intent with other people you know, or in your own social media, </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Perform the following ritual at your own altar each Full Moon between now and December </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fill your bottle with water. Holding it in your hands, visualize rainbows sinking into the </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of the way with tap water. Go outside under the stars. Add a little Rainbow Water to your </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I am a Witch of Transgression</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">On the last full moon of the year, on Dec. 22, 2019, pour any remaining Rainbow water into </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">a natural body of water such as a river or the ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Witches of Transgression is open to all mxgender and non-binary people, people questioning </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">their gender identity, and those who question the authority of the gender binary. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You may also wish to join our sisters in the Mothers of the New Time prayer, our brothers in the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fathers of Change prayer on the dark moon, and families in the Children of Promise working.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for elders, respect for their survival strategies, attention to their stories and the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">complexities of their lived experiences, continual respect for their choices including correct </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">gendering throughout end-of-life care and into death.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Communities connected by love and solidarity that center and amplify the needs and voices </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of those who have been oppressed, bringing healing and justice</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A world that creates and maintains spaces of creativity, playfulness, and innovation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Alternatives to the prison industrial complex that better serve the needs of those who have </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">been oppressed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Equitable, accurate and accessible information and education which recognizes the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">intersectionality of sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender expression</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The establishment of public policies and laws which recognize and support the equal rights </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of all people, regardless of sex, sexuality, gender identity, gender expression, and any other </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">aspects of being and identity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reclamation of the natural and sacred roles of mxgender people in their communities and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">cultures; reclamation of repressed histories, stigmatized words and expressions; recognition </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that gender diversity is a sign of a healthy and holistic culture and restoration of that vitality to </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">our living communities and societies by co-creating cultures of hospitality and freedom of being </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Respect for the self-determined identities of all people; accurate use of the names, gender </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">identities, titles, and pronouns an individual claims, whether they are new or established; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">acknowledgement that an individual's identity may change over time or society's understanding </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of their identity may change; easy correction of medical or legal forms that do not reflect an </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">individual's current identity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Accessible and appropriate medical care for all people, especially vulnerable populations such </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">as the homeless and incarcerated; medical professionals knowledgeable about the particular </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">health issues of trans, mxgender, and intersex people; medical forms that allow a person to </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">indicate their sex, gender, and pronouns, and allow for these to change over time; an end to </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">restrictive requirements for changing gender or sex.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for children; an end to unnecessary medical intervention in the bodies of intersex infants </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and youth; respect for clothing, toys, activities, friendship and other activities of childhood that </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">do not enforce a strict gender system, but allows for safe, respectful exploration and discovery; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">an end to gender assignment before an individual is able to inform others of their identity; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">resistance to the systematic oppression that threatens children who in some way transgress </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">gender</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for our transcestors and ancxtors; respect for the various ways their identities have been </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">expressed over the millennia; honor for the unique cultural and spiritual roles they played; honor </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">for individuals that played important roles; acknowledgement of the hardships they faced; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">reverence for our named and unnamed transcestors and ancxtors.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Feel free to add any of your own ideals here.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">These are the ideals of the Witches of Transgression</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We are all forms of identity intersection in body, mind and spirit</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We resist, refuse and reject unkind, unnecessary, and unnatural attempts to control or conform our </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">inherent sense of selfhood</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">From the gleams in the eyes of the parents to the legends after we die, we call for an openness and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">loving curiosity about gender, sex, ability, spirituality, and all aspects of unique, individual selfhood</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Respect the unknown without labeling it and honor that which has been self-identified.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02372878161923894711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-64308972669179165942018-06-17T11:55:00.000-07:002018-06-17T11:55:22.918-07:00Trans March ChantTrans March is coming soon, and we'll be out there in the streets. We hope to see you there!<br />
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Here's a chant for anyone who wants to use:<br />
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<i>We want justice/ for our people/ sex worker liberation</i><br />
<i>We want peace/ in the streets/ no cops beating us down </i><br />
<i>We want safety/ for our children/ bathroom access for all</i><br />
<i>We want freedom/ from oppression/ we won't take it anymore! </i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02372878161923894711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-31197760162870731212018-05-28T13:05:00.000-07:002018-05-28T13:05:10.874-07:00Witches of Transgression<h3 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-7b721eb9-e7e0-618e-f239-7d943cbe57cf" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 14pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">AN INVITATION TO THE WITCHES OF THE WORLD - PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe is a Mystery Tradition within CAYA Pagan Congregation</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">devoted to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">exploring and honoring sacred mxgender Mysteries. Our Priestxes embody the </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">existence that is Powerful, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Delightful, Enthusiastic, Playful, Transformative, Magickal, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Compassionate, and Reverent. We invite </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">people of all genders or none, but especially </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">mxgender and non-binary people, to join us in doing a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">public, world-wide working to bring </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">a better world into being. By performing this ritual in our own spaces </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">all over the world </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">each Full Moon, we grid the Earth with the energy of the Divine, toward a shared </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">vision </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of intentional change.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">If you would like to join us in this effort, please:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Share this working and its intent with other people you know, or in your own social media, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">using </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the hashtag #witchesoftransgression</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Follow our </span><a href="http://divinespiralingrainbowtribe.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">blog</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Perform the following ritual at your own altar each Full Moon between now </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and December 22, 2018. We begin Jan. 1, 2018, but join us whenever you wish.</span>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 17pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">THE RITUAL WORKING: EVERY FULL MOON</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A bottle or jar to keep your Rainbow Water in</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A dark bowl</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A copy of our ideals</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Working:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fill your bottle with water. Holding it in your hands, visualize rainbows sinking into the waters. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You may also wish to add small crystals to your water. Fill your dark bowl most of the way with</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">tap water. Go outside under the stars. Add a little Rainbow Water to your bowl and scry. What </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">needs healing inside you? How can you heal the world? Contemplate our ideals and the ways</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">you embody them and act upon them. Do not dwell on the fears and pains of the past. Instead, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">know that the world we wish to create is already coming into being. When you feel ready, anoint</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">yourself with the water from your bowl and recite the Witches of Transgression prayer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Like my Ancxters before me</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I am a breaker of chains</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My love is unstoppable</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Holding the Now to my heart</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">There is nothing to fear</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I am a Witch of Transgression</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">On the last full moon of the year, on Dec. 22, 2018, pour any remaining Rainbow water </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">into a natural body of water such as a river or the ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Witches of Transgression is open to all mxgender and non-binary people, people questioning their</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> gender identity, and those who question the authority of the gender binary. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You may also wish to join our sisters in the Mothers of the New Time prayer, our brothers in the Fathers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of Change prayer on the dark moon, and families in the Children of Promise working.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 17pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Our Ideals</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for elders, respect for their survival strategies, attention to their stories and the </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">complexities of their lived experiences, continual respect for their choices including correct </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">gendering throughout end-of-life care and into death.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Communities connected by love and solidarity that center and amplify the needs and voices </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">those who have been oppressed, bringing healing and justice</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A world that creates and maintains spaces of creativity, playfulness, and innovation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Alternatives to the prison industrial complex that better serve the needs of those who have</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">been </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">oppressed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Equitable, accurate and accessible information and education which recognizes the </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">intersectionality </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender expression</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The establishment of public policies and laws which recognize and support the equal rights </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of all </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">people, regardless of sex, sexuality, gender identity, gender expression, and any other </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">aspects of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">being and identity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reclamation of the natural and sacred roles of mxgender people in their communities and </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">cultures; </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">reclamation of repressed histories, stigmatized words and expressions; recognition</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that gender </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">diversity is a sign of a healthy and holistic culture and restoration of that vitality to </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">our living communities </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and societies by co-creating cultures of hospitality and freedom of being </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and expression.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Respect for the self-determined identities of all people; accurate use of the names, gender </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">identities, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">titles, and pronouns an individual claims, whether they are new or established; </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">acknowledgement that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">an individual's identity may change over time or society's understanding </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of their identity may change; </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">easy correction of medical or legal forms that do not reflect an </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">individual's current identity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Accessible and appropriate medical care for all people, especially vulnerable populations such</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> as </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the homeless and incarcerated; medical professionals knowledgeable about the particular </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">health </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">issues of trans, mxgender, and intersex people; medical forms that allow a person to </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">indicate their </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">sex, gender, and pronouns, and allow for these to change over time; an end to </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">restrictive requirements</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> for changing gender or sex.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for children; an end to unnecessary medical intervention in the bodies of intersex infants </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">youth; respect for clothing, toys, friendship and other activities and choices of childhood that </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">do not </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">enforce a strict gender system, but allows for safe, respectful exploration and discovery; </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">an end to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">gender assignment before an individual is able to inform others of their identity; </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">resistance to the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">systematic oppression that threatens children who in some way transgress </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">gender</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for our transcestors and ancxtors; respect for the various ways their identities have</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">been </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">expressed over the millennia; honor for the unique cultural and spiritual roles they played; </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">honor for</span> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">individuals that played important roles; acknowledgement of the hardships they faced; </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">reverence for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">our named and unnamed transcestors and ancxtors.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Feel free to add any of your own ideals here.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">These are the ideals of the Witches of Transgression</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We are all forms of identity intersection in body, mind and spirit</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We resist, refuse and reject unkind, unnecessary, and unnatural attempts to control or conform</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> our inherent sense of selfhood</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">From the gleams in the eyes of the parents to the legends after we die, we call for an openness and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">loving curiosity about gender, sex, ability, spirituality, and all aspects of unique, individual selfhood</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Respect the unknown without labeling it and honor that which has been self-identified.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">SO MOTE IT BE!</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02372878161923894711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-13668672785198857312018-05-27T17:55:00.001-07:002018-05-27T17:55:56.164-07:00The Elements of Loving
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Last night, we celebrated the Loving Moon, exploring the presence of love and pleasure in our lives. Enjoy the poetry of these elemental invocations in all their sensual expansiveness!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></span></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"> We
call to the East and Air</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">To
communication:</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">To
our power to say “no”</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">To
our power to say “yes”!</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">We
call to the breeze that caresses our naked skin</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Soft
sighs</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">And
the joyful sound of pleasure shared</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">The
vibration of air between lips that have not yet touched</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">To
the sparkling intensity of that which is new</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">To
the East, we say</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Hail
and welcome, Air!</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">We
call to the South and Fire</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">To
the passion that flares</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Electric
heat coursing through our veins</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Hearts
thumping, sweat slicking us</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">We
call to the rising of desire</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">The
hot flush that paints our cheeks red</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">To
the movement of our bodies as we pursue</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">What
we want</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">To
the South, we say</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Hail
and welcome, Fire!</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">We
call to the West and Water</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">To
the ache of our hearts</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Swelling
with love</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Sending
waves of blood through our bodies</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">As
the oceans send waves crashing on the shore</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">We
call to the fluidity of intimacy,</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">the
sweet wetness of our bodies</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">The
luscious honey taste of love</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">To
the West, we say</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Hail
and welcome, Water!</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">We
call to the North and Earth</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">To
the arch of the night, covering the earth</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">To
the upthrust mountains</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">The
folds and recesses of valleys</span></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 198%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">The
secret places which we discover through exploration</span></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 198%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">We
call to the power of being present in our skin</span></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 198%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">The
way we occupy troubled spaces</span></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 198%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Renaming,
reshaping, reclaiming</span></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 198%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Declaring
what and how to touch</span></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 198%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">We
call to our power to make each other real</span></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 198%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">To
the North, we say</span></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 198%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: transparent;">Hail
and welcome, Earth!</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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As we develop a better sense of deities
over time, we want to share our findings and encourage others to
share their experiences as well. Though some of this information is
taken from text sources in ancient Greece, much of it comes from my
direct experiences with Phanes. If you have had different knowledge arise from your work with Phanes, please share in the comments!</div>
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Pantheon: Greek</div>
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Pronouns: He/His/Him or Ze/Zir/Zim or
They/Their/Them</div>
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Original Text: Orphic Hymn to Phanes</div>
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Phanes is also found mentioned in a
number of other myths. For example, in fleeing from an angry pursuer,
Hermes disguises Himself as Phanes at one point.</div>
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Attributes: Creator, Parent, Intersex</div>
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Phanes is the first deity who is
roughly similar to humans in the Orphic lineage. Ze remembers the
beginning of the Universe, the wonder and joy of life sparking.
Phanes is ancient, even more so than most of the deities I've worked
with. This early Creator has a sense of largeness and of the
quietness of the Universe before it was populated about Them.</div>
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Phanes is also the Father/Progenitor of
Nyx. He fathered Darkness. He passes the royal scepter that
symbolizes and bestows power down to a daughter. We can gain rich
insights into Phanes when we consider what it means for a parent to
willingly give power to a child, for a Father to give over power to
His Daughter, for a Light bringer to cede power to the Night.</div>
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Phanes is, as the Orphic hymn says,
“twofold.” Ze is the oldest deity of the Greek pantheon to be
known as a hermaphrodite, though today we use the word intersex. The
deity “from whom the race of gods and mortals springs” contains
and encompasses male and female.
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Offerings: myrrh, anything you make</div>
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Phanes' hymn begins, “fumigations
from myrrh”. I have offered Him incense made from myrrh, and He
seemed to enjoy that.</div>
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As a Creator deity, Phanes really loves
offerings made by the one doing the offering. Creating art, song or
dance would be a good offering. So, too, would be building something.</div>
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Trance: Receiving the Messages of
Phanes</div>
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Using whatever visualization you
usually use to enter trance (drifting down on a cloud, walking a
descending spiral path...), enter a trance state.</div>
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Feel space open up around you. You are
floating, weightless, in a vast darkness. Around you are the soft
glow of distant stars. Breathe in the hugeness of the space around
you. Take in the silence. Marvel at its beauty.</div>
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Slowly, become aware that there is
another being approaching you. You can barely make out the outline of
this being, only sense the great shifts in movement. You catch a
glimpse of enormous wings, of a golden snake sliding over the
shoulders and torso of this being. You feel the steadiness and intent
of this being.</div>
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You are in the presence of Phanes.</div>
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Phanes begins to glow, emitting a soft
light. Details become more distinct. You are caught by the majesty of
Phanes' presence. You watch, mesmerized, as the light concentrates in
Their hands, forming a ball. Phanes molds the ball carefully, then
sends it spinning off into the darkness. You realize you are seeing
the creation of a world.
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With great reverence, you approach
Phanes. You ask for Their wisdom. Listen close.</div>
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When you have received all that Phanes
has to say, thank Them. Move away, until you are held once more in
darkness. Let the message sink in. Slowly return to normal
consciousness.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02372878161923894711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-68801493131595456732018-04-29T11:04:00.000-07:002018-04-29T15:04:04.740-07:00Witches of Transgression<h3 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-7b721eb9-e7e0-618e-f239-7d943cbe57cf" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 14pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe is a Mystery Tradition within CAYA Pagan Congregation devoted to </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">exploring and honoring sacred mxgender Mysteries. Our Priestxes embody the experience of identity </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">beyond the gender binary, and celebrate the glittering prism of Divine existence that is Powerful, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Delightful, Enthusiastic, Playful, Transformative, Magickal, Compassionate, and Reverent. We invite </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">people of all genders or none, but especially mxgender and non-binary people, to join us in doing a </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">public, world-wide working to bring a better world into being. By performing this ritual in our own spaces</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">all over the world each Full Moon, we grid the Earth with the energy of the Divine, toward a shared vision </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of intentional change.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">If you would like to join us in this effort, please:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Share this working and its intent with other people you know, or in your own social media, using </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Follow our </span><a href="http://divinespiralingrainbowtribe.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">blog</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Perform the following ritual at your own altar each Full Moon between now and December 22, 2018. We begin Jan. 1, 2018, but join us whenever you wish.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A bottle or jar to keep your Rainbow Water in</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A dark bowl</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fill your bottle with water. Holding it in your hands, visualize rainbows sinking into the waters. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You may also wish to add small crystals to your water. Fill your dark bowl most of the way with</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">tap water. Go outside under the stars. Add a little Rainbow Water to your bowl and scry. What </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">needs healing inside you? How can you heal the world? Contemplate our ideals and the ways</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">you embody them and act upon them. Do not dwell on the fears and pains of the past. Instead, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">know that the world we wish to create is already coming into being. When you feel ready, anoint</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">yourself with the water from your bowl and recite the Witches of Transgression prayer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Like my Ancxters before me</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I am a breaker of chains</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My love is unstoppable</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Holding the Now to my heart</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Embodying the future unfolding</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">There is nothing to fear</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">On the last full moon of the year, on Dec. 22, 2018, pour any remaining Rainbow water into a natural body of water such as a river or the ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Witches of Transgression is open to all mxgender and non-binary people, people questioning their</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> gender identity, and those who question the authority of the gender binary. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You may also wish to join our sisters in the Mothers of the New Time prayer, our brothers in the Fathers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of Change prayer on the dark moon, and families in the Children of Promise working.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for elders, respect for their survival strategies, attention to their stories and the complexities of their lived experiences, continual respect for their choices including correct gendering throughout end-of-life care and into death.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Communities connected by love and solidarity that center and amplify the needs and voices of </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">those who have been oppressed, bringing healing and justice</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A world that creates and maintains spaces of creativity, playfulness, and innovation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Alternatives to the prison industrial complex that better serve the needs of those who have been </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">oppressed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Equitable, accurate and accessible information and education which recognizes the intersectionality </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender expression</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The establishment of public policies and laws which recognize and support the equal rights of all </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">people, regardless of sex, sexuality, gender identity, gender expression, and any other aspects of </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">being and identity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reclamation of the natural and sacred roles of mxgender people in their communities and cultures; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">reclamation of repressed histories, stigmatized words and expressions; recognition that gender </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">diversity is a sign of a healthy and holistic culture and restoration of that vitality to our living communities </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and societies by co-creating cultures of hospitality and freedom of being and expression.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Respect for the self-determined identities of all people; accurate use of the names, gender identities, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">titles, and pronouns an individual claims, whether they are new or established; acknowledgement that </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">an individual's identity may change over time or society's understanding of their identity may change; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">easy correction of medical or legal forms that do not reflect an individual's current identity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Accessible and appropriate medical care for all people, especially vulnerable populations such as </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the homeless and incarcerated; medical professionals knowledgeable about the particular health </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">issues of trans, mxgender, and intersex people; medical forms that allow a person to indicate their </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">sex, gender, and pronouns, and allow for these to change over time; an end to restrictive requirements</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> for changing gender or sex.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for children; an end to unnecessary medical intervention in the bodies of intersex infants and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">youth; respect for clothing, toys, activities, friendship and other activities of childhood that do not </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">enforce a strict gender system, but allows for safe, respectful exploration and discovery; an end to </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">gender assignment before an individual is able to inform others of their identity; resistance to the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">systematic oppression that threatens children who in some way transgress gender</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for our transcestors and ancxtors; respect for the various ways their identities have been </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">expressed over the millennia; honor for the unique cultural and spiritual roles they played; honor for</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">individuals that played important roles; acknowledgement of the hardships they faced; reverence for </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">our named and unnamed transcestors and ancxtors.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Feel free to add any of your own ideals here.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">These are the ideals of the Witches of Transgression</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We are all forms of identity intersection in body, mind and spirit</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We resist, refuse and reject unkind, unnecessary, and unnatural attempts to control or conform</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> our inherent sense of selfhood</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">From the gleams in the eyes of the parents to the legends after we die, we call for an openness and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">loving curiosity about gender, sex, ability, spirituality, and all aspects of unique, individual selfhood</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Respect the unknown without labeling it and honor that which has been self-identified.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02372878161923894711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-18148639334432857202018-03-28T20:22:00.001-07:002018-03-28T20:22:45.005-07:00On Medical Dignity for Nonbinary PatientsEarlier this month, I landed in Urgent Care after four weeks of battling what I can only call a "supercold". The infection had settled in my lungs, and I couldn't fully exhale without coughing violently. My albuterol inhaler was of no help. So I did what needed to be done and got myself to the doctor. Historically, as a fat nonbinary femme, I've found doctor's offices anxiety producing at best, and shaming at worst. Fortunately, aside from being called by my deadname over and over, the Urgent Care folks treated me like a human being. A nebulizing treatment restored my ability to breathe, but the relief that my ordeal was over faded when they got the results back from the chest x-ray.<br />
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I will never forget the doctor's words. "The good news is that you don't have pneumonia. We did see on the x-ray that your heart is just a little bit enlarged. We encourage you to follow up with your primary care doctor." I froze. I hadn't been to a doctor in years, due to factors mentioned in the first paragraph of this post. This was a wake up call that I needed to see someone. I needed a functioning body to do my Work in the world, and the memory of my father dropping dead last summer was still all too fresh. I got home from the clinic and arranged to see the same doctor who has been taking care of my wife, a transwoman, with competence, care, and compassion.<br />
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This medical group has definitely joined the 21st century. As I filled out my New Patient forms online, I noticed that there were more than just the two tickyboxes designating Male and Female. There was also a large blank space on the form that said, "Is there anything else we need to know about your gender?" What a breath of fresh air! I gratefully typed "I am a mxgender nonbinary femme. My pronouns are zie/zir." The next space below asked what name I preferred to be called. I breathed a sigh of relief that I wouldn't have to endure hearing my deadname at this clinic *EVER*.<br />
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I have since had two appointments at that clinic, with a doctor who specializes in trans and nonbinary health. In both visits, she treated me as an expert on my own body, never once shaming me. My usual defensiveness on the examining table melted away. Minutes before my diagnosis of hypertension, she told me as she put on the blood pressure cuff, "There is no good or bad reading. It's just a number that will help me take care of you." Thanks to her, I am on the road to healing my heart.<br />
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I count myself to be very lucky to have medical insurance through my wife's employer, and to live in the city of San Francisco, where I have the opportunity to access competent, caring, and compassionate medical care in a clinic that sees me for exactly who I am, with no judgments. Many of my trans and nonbinary siblings are dying from lack of care and from being dismissed by doctors who can't and won't understand what they are going through. I pray and fight for the day when all of my siblings have access to the care I now enjoy.Raven Malouf-Renninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14729370154423518876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-11223191562716537962018-03-26T13:41:00.000-07:002018-03-26T13:41:12.062-07:00Witches of Transgression— With Water We Heal<h3 dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-7b721eb9-e7e0-618e-f239-7d943cbe57cf" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 14pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe is a Mystery Tradition within CAYA Pagan Congregation devoted to exploring and honoring sacred mxgender Mysteries. Our Priestxes embody the experience of identity beyond the gender binary, and celebrate the glittering prism of Divine existence that is Powerful, Delightful, Enthusiastic, Playful, Transformative, Magickal, Compassionate, and Reverent. We invite people of all genders or none, but especially mxgender and non-binary people, to join us in doing a public, world-wide working to bring a better world into being. By performing this ritual in our own spaces all over the world each Full Moon, we grid the Earth with the energy of the Divine, toward a shared vision of intentional change.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Perform the following ritual at your own altar each Full Moon between now and December 22, 2018. We begin Jan. 1, 2018, but join us whenever you wish.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fill your bottle with water. Holding it in your hands, visualize rainbows sinking into the waters. You may also wish to add small crystals to your water. Fill your dark bowl most of the way with tap water. Go outside under the stars. Add a little Rainbow Water to your bowl and scry. What needs healing inside you? How can you heal the world? Contemplate our ideals and the ways you embody them and act upon them. Do not dwell on the fears and pains of the past. Instead, know that the world we wish to create is already coming into being. When you feel ready, anoint yourself with the water from your bowl and recite the Witches of Transgression prayer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">On the last full moon of the year, on Dec. 22, 2018, pour any remaining Rainbow water into a natural body of water such as a river or the ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Witches of Transgression is open to all mxgender and non-binary people, people questioning their gender identity, and those who question the authority of the gender binary. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You may also wish to join our sisters in the Mothers of the New Time prayer, our brothers in the Fathers of Change prayer on the dark moon, and families in the Children of Promise working.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for elders, respect for their survival strategies, attention to their stories and the complexities of their lived experiences, continual respect for their choices including correct gendering throughout end-of-life care and into death.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Communities connected by love and solidarity that center and amplify the needs and voices of those who have been oppressed, bringing healing and justice</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A world that creates and maintains spaces of creativity, playfulness, and innovation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Alternatives to the prison industrial complex that better serve the needs of those who have been oppressed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Equitable, accurate and accessible information and education which recognizes the intersectionality of sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender expression</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The establishment of public policies and laws which recognize and support the equal rights of all people, regardless of sex, sexuality, gender identity, gender expression, and any other aspects of being and identity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reclamation of the natural and sacred roles of mxgender people in their communities and cultures; reclamation of repressed histories, stigmatized words and expressions; recognition that gender diversity is a sign of a healthy and holistic culture and restoration of that vitality to our living communities and societies by co-creating cultures of hospitality and freedom of being and expression.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Respect for the self-determined identities of all people; accurate use of the names, gender identities, titles, and pronouns an individual claims, whether they are new or established; acknowledgement that an individual's identity may change over time or society's understanding of their identity may change; easy correction of medical or legal forms that do not reflect an individual's current identity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Accessible and appropriate medical care for all people, especially vulnerable populations such as the homeless and incarcerated; medical professionals knowledgeable about the particular health issues of trans, mxgender, and intersex people; medical forms that allow a person to indicate their sex, gender, and pronouns, and allow for these to change over time; an end to restrictive requirements for changing gender or sex.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for children; an end to unnecessary medical intervention in the bodies of intersex infants and youth; respect for clothing, toys, activities, friendship and other activities of childhood that do not enforce a strict gender system, but allows for safe, respectful exploration and discovery; an end to gender assignment before an individual is able to inform others of their identity; resistance to the systematic oppression that threatens children who in some way transgress gender</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for our transcestors and ancxtors; respect for the various ways their identities have been expressed over the millennia; honor for the unique cultural and spiritual roles they played; honor for individuals that played important roles; acknowledgement of the hardships they faced; reverence for our named and unnamed transcestors and ancxtors.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We resist, refuse and reject unkind, unnecessary, and unnatural attempts to control or conform our inherent sense of selfhood</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">From the gleams in the eyes of the parents to the legends after we die, we call for an openness and loving curiosity about gender, sex, ability, spirituality, and all aspects of unique, individual selfhood</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-62406655319512502392018-03-05T20:04:00.000-08:002018-03-14T18:58:06.357-07:00Retraction of Statement of Solidarity with Yeshe<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-3aa9fd27-f979-dd3f-97be-cb5a631971d9" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rabbit, with </span><a href="http://divinespiralingrainbowtribe.blogspot.com/2017/04/dsrt-and-rmc-statement-of-solidarity.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">this Statement of Solidarity</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> which we now retract. We have recently </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">received information concerning multiple allegations of transphobic actions on </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">her part that have caused us immeasurable concern. We believe those who have </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">shared their experiences with us. We will protect their confidences and their safety. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">caused and extend our sincere apologies. If you feel you need further information </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">or would like to discuss accountability with us, please contact us at </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="mailto:divinespiralingrainbowtribe@gmail.com" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">divinespiralingrainbowtribe@gmail.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Let this be our public declaration that we will fight to protect our trans, enby, agender, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">intersex, gender questioning, gender abolitionist, and other beautifully gender diverse </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">kin with our hearts, souls, minds and guts. We are stronger together.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02372878161923894711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-71072722571920298932018-02-28T14:23:00.001-08:002018-02-28T14:23:49.076-08:00On Becoming: A message from Panprosdexia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Earlier this month, as we prepared for our first Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe sabbat of the year, Panprosdexia made it clear that they wanted to be the deity honored in the upcoming ritual. It made sense for us to be honoring the agender, asexual, unpartnered deity of the Tetrad ++ whose name is All Acceptance for a rite that honors who each of us truly are as well as who we are becoming.<br />
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In preparation for last weekend's Rite of Becoming, I sat with Panprosdexia and listened to the messages that came through. While we are just getting to know one another, we found a commonality in our affinity for ravens, and that opened the line of communication. In the intervening weeks between the first planning meeting and the rite itself, they had a lot to say. When working with Deity that I don't plan to aspect, I will often draw a Tarot card to see if it is in line with the messages I have been receiving.<br />
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Drawing from Paulina Cassidy's Joie de Vivre deck, I pulled the Two of Coins:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flexibility. Motion, Balance, Focus, Change. Life isn’t an easy ride. The key to becoming involves an acceptance of the flow, and acceptance of who we are, and from that we learn how to navigate balance and become who we are meant to be.</span><br />
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This was completely in line with the messages I had been receiving from Panprosdexia:<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f5358347-de7f-104c-365c-822e14021639"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finding quiet time is essential. You need that quiet space in the dark to really meet yourself without distractions and find out what is really important. I hold containers of space. If you fill that space with what is expected of you, you’re not making room for who you actually are. You’re allowed to ask who you really are. It’s OK. It’s why I made this space for you. Even the things you are the most worried about revealing to the world I hold close, because that is who you are. And it is when you are able to be with me, and accept yourself as I accept you, that you are able to truly Become. In the darkest of places when you feel most alone, I will be there to take your hand.</span></span><br />
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That same night that I shared Panprosdexia's message with those present at ritual, I was welcomed as an official member of the Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe. In preparation, I have been working to empty my vessel of others' expectations of me, and I bring to this Work what I truly have to offer.<br />
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Written by Ravensong Phoenixfire<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>Raven Malouf-Renninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14729370154423518876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-52668275297259208502018-02-24T14:47:00.000-08:002018-02-24T14:47:15.208-08:00To Phanes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Invocation for Sovereign Phanes <br />
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"Great Winged One<br />
Protogonos, come<br />
We follow thee from dark to light<br />
O scepter bearing Father of Night<br />
Sovereign Phanes, come."<br />
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- Written by Rainbow Melissa ra KaritAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02372878161923894711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-69530729688369372812018-01-22T20:16:00.000-08:002018-01-22T20:24:55.454-08:00How we gender (or don't) our children<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I recently re-read </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><a href="http://www.thegenderbook.com/">the GENDER book</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">. First and foremost, this was a good reminder that I </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">have more </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">to learn (and always will!) about gender identity, and other identities, and how </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">to honor people’s chosen </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">identities. But more specifically it got me thinking about how we </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">gender children, especially really young </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">children who haven't declared a gender for </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The book got me thinking more consciously about how we as a society assign gender </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(typically based </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">on a binary understanding of sex) to babies. I started noticing this </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">behavior </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">in particular when I was </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">pregnant. The most common first question was ‘Is it a </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">boy or a girl?’, and since I didn’t want to know </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">until the birth I used humor to move through </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">these moments, as gently as I could making the (often </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">entirely unconsidered) point of how </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">useless it is to know a fetus’s genitalia. I typically responded with </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">‘It’s a human!’ </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I still want to say ‘My kiddo is a human!’ when people ask if my child is a boy or a girl </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(although now </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">they assume one or the other, most often based on shoe color it seems, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">and ask if they're correct). It </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">feels a bit more pedantic to me now though to try to use that </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">same humor, because I <i>do</i> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">use male pronouns, and precisely because he has a penis. So </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the humor still works when I get the </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">sense that I’m interacting with someone who will </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">appreciate the ridiculousness of pink shoes meaning </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">someone is female and a girl. But in </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">other settings, I find myself just answering the question and moving </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">past the interaction. It’s </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">such a strange feeling, because part of me is thinking in those moments: ‘Why </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">do you want </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">to know my child's sex in order to determine how you want to interact with them?’ The </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">question seems so intrusive, and irrelevant. But being frustrated in those moments doesn’t </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">really help </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">me understand where people are coming from, and it doesn’t help me move </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">through my days with </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">gratitude, both of which are aspects of myself that I highly value. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reading </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the GENDER book</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> again </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">got me thinking more about what I can </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">creatively do</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> about </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">this discomfort.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My main action around this discomfort is to find a term of endearment that is not gendered </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(my go-to </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">is “kiddo”), and to catch myself when I refer to children with assumed-gender </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">pronouns, and instead </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">use the term ‘kiddo(s)’ to refer to kids, or ‘children’ if I’m feeling all </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">the right direction of not gendering </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">people in general...until they actually have a chance to tell </span><br />
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<br /><br />Saturday, January 6th, 7:00PM<br />Doors open at 7:00PM, circle is cast at 7:15PM<br />Please arrive on time, no one is admitted after the circle is cast.<br /><br />Home of Truth Cottage, 1300 Grand Street, Alameda<br />The Cottage is around the back, take the side path through the garden to find us.<br /><br />$10-$20 donation accepted, no one turned away for lack of funds<br /><br />The
mxgender Priestxes of Come As You Are Pagan Congregation invite people
of any and all genders - or none - to join us in exploring our divine
nature as children of the stars. Together, we open our hearts to mystery
and make a wish for the future.<br /><br />You are welcome to bring something to charge on the altar, as well as cakes and ale to share after.<br /><br />Our Mission:<a href="http://www.cayacoven.org/rainbow/"> The Rainbow Moon Circle</a>
is a safe and sacred space for all to explore the spectra of gender and
identity. We honor the holistic experience of self-determined identity
and its infinite intersections. We celebrate the glittering prism of
Divine existence that is powerful, delightful, enthusiastic, playful,
transformative, magickal, compassionate, and reverent. Live the Spectra!<br /><br />Join us on<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/RainbowMoonCircle/about/"> Facebook</a><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/118216258784560327066"> </a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-78061242062718509912018-01-02T20:05:00.002-08:002018-01-02T20:05:46.262-08:00Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe Daily Practice 2018The Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe invites anyone who lives outside the gender binary or who questions the authority of the gender binary to join us in using this song as part of your daily meditations, prayers, or other workings.<br />
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"I call this body my home<br />
Rainbow brilliance wherever I roam<br />
I am trans-itory perfection.<br />
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I call this heart my home<br />
Here, I'm magickal, loved, and known<br />
I touch my heart to your heart<br />
I touch my heart to your heart."<br />
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Written by Kitsune Hearthweaver, Shell Selvans, and Rainbow Melissa ra Karit<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe is a Mystery Tradition within CAYA Pagan Congregation devoted to exploring and honoring sacred mxgender Mysteries. Our Priestxes embody the experience of identity beyond the gender binary, and celebrate the glittering prism of Divine existence that is Powerful, Delightful, Enthusiastic, Playful, Transformative, Magickal, Compassionate, and Reverent. We invite people of all genders or none, but especially mxgender and non-binary people, to join us in doing a public, world-wide working to bring a better world into being. By performing this ritual in our own spaces all over the world each Full Moon, we grid the Earth with the energy of the Divine, toward a shared vision of intentional change.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Share this working and its intent with other people you know, or in your own social media, using the hashtag #witchesoftransgression</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Perform the following ritual at your own altar each Full Moon between now and December 22, 2018. We begin Jan. 1, 2018, but join us whenever you wish.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fill your bottle with water. Holding it in your hands, visualize rainbows sinking into the waters. You may also wish to add small crystals to your water. Fill your dark bowl most of the way with tap water. Go outside under the stars. Add a little Rainbow Water to your bowl and scry. What needs healing inside you? How can you heal the world? Contemplate our ideals and the ways you embody them and act upon them. Do not dwell on the fears and pains of the past. Instead, know that the world we wish to create is already coming into being. When you feel ready, anoint yourself with the water from your bowl and recite the Witches of Transgression prayer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">On the last full moon of the year, on Dec. 22, 2019, pour any remaining Rainbow water into a natural body of water such as a river or the ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Witches of Transgression is open to all mxgender and non-binary people, people questioning their gender identity, and those who question the authority of the gender binary. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You may also wish to join our sisters in the Mothers of the New Time prayer, our brothers in the Fathers of Change prayer on the dark moon, and families in the Children of Promise working.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for elders, respect for their survival strategies, attention to their stories and the complexities of their lived experiences, continual respect for their choices including correct gendering throughout end-of-life care and into death.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Communities connected by love and solidarity that center and amplify the needs and voices of those who have been oppressed, bringing healing and justice</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A world that creates and maintains spaces of creativity, playfulness, and innovation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The establishment of public policies and laws which recognize and support the equal rights of all people, regardless of sex, sexuality, gender identity, gender expression, and any other aspects of being and identity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Respect for the self-determined identities of all people; accurate use of the names, gender identities, titles, and pronouns an individual claims, whether they are new or established; acknowledgement that an individual's identity may change over time or society's understanding of their identity may change; easy correction of medical or legal forms that do not reflect an individual's current identity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Accessible and appropriate medical care for all people, especially vulnerable populations such as the homeless and incarcerated; medical professionals knowledgeable about the particular health issues of trans, mxgender, and intersex people; medical forms that allow a person to indicate their sex, gender, and pronouns, and allow for these to change over time; an end to restrictive requirements for changing gender or sex.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for children; an end to unnecessary medical intervention in the bodies of intersex infants and youth; respect for clothing, toys, activities, friendship and other activities of childhood that do not enforce a strict gender system, but allows for safe, respectful exploration and discovery; an end to gender assignment before an individual is able to inform others of their identity; resistance to the systematic oppression that threatens children who in some way transgress gender</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Honor for our transcestors and ancxtors; respect for the various ways their identities have been expressed over the millennia; honor for the unique cultural and spiritual roles they played; honor for individuals that played important roles; acknowledgement of the hardships they faced; reverence for our named and unnamed transcestors and ancxtors.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">From the gleams in the eyes of the parents to the legends after we die, we call for an openness and loving curiosity about gender, sex, ability, spirituality, and all aspects of unique, individual selfhood</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02372878161923894711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-84755771395788332892017-12-03T18:55:00.000-08:002017-12-03T18:55:37.888-08:00Witches of Transgression: BORN IN THE FIRE<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 18pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Honor
for elders, respect for their survival strategies, attention to their
stories and the complexities of their lived experiences, continual
respect for their choices including correct gendering throughout
end-of-life care and into death.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Communities
connected by love and solidarity that center and amplify the the needs
and voices of those who have been oppressed, bringing healing and
justice</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A world that creates and maintains spaces of creativity, playfulness, and innovation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alternatives to the prison industrial complex that better serve the needs of those who have been oppressed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Equitable,
accurate and accessible information and education which recognizes the
intersectionality of sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender
expression</span></div>
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establishment of public policies and laws which recognize and support
the equal rights of all people, regardless of sex, sexuality, gender
identity, gender expression, and any other aspects of being and
identity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reclamation
of the natural and sacred roles of mxgender people in their communities
and cultures; reclamation of repressed histories, stigmatized words and
expressions; recognition that gender diversity is a sign of a healthy
and holistic culture and restoration of that vitality to our living
communities and societies by co-creating cultures of hospitality and
freedom of being and expression.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Respect
for the self-determined identities of all people; accurate use of the
names, gender identities, titles, and pronouns an individual claims,
whether they are new or established; acknowledgement that an
individual's identity may change over time or society's understanding of
their identity may change; easy correction of medical or legal forms
that do not reflect an individual's current identity.</span></div>
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and appropriate medical care for all people, especially vulnerable
populations such as the homeless and incarcerated; medical professionals
knowledgeable about the particular health issues of trans, mxgender,
and intersex people; medical forms that allow a person to indicate their
sex, gender, and pronouns, and allow for these to change over time; an
end to restrictive requirements for changing gender or sex.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Honor
for children; an end to unnecessary medical intervention in the bodies
of intersex infants and youth; respect for the clothing, toy, activity,
friendship and other preferences of children without regard to gender
norms; an end to gender assignment before an individual is able to
inform others of their identity; resistance to the systematic oppression
that threatens children who in some way transgress gender</span></div>
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for our trancestors and ancsxtors; respect for the various ways their
identities have been expressed over the millennia; honor for the unique
cultural and spiritual roles they played; honor for individuals that
played important roles; acknowledgement of the hardships they faced;
reverence for our named and unnamed transcestors and ansxtors.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We are all forms of identity intersection in body, mind and spirit</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We resist, refuse and reject unkind, unnecessary, and unnatural attempts to control or conform our inherent sense of selfhood</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From
the gleams in the eyes of the parents to the legends after we die, we
call for an openness and loving curiosity about gender, sex, ability,
spirituality, and all aspects of unique, individual selfhood</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Respect the unknown without labeling it and honor that which has been self-identified.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224298661056550761.post-85061640961710432982017-11-20T11:19:00.001-08:002017-11-20T11:19:06.444-08:00Body Temple/Body Dysphoria
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I decided early that the social
messages we receive about our bodies are bullshit. At eleven, I was
furious at the world that sent my best friend on a series of diets
urged on by her mother. At thirteen, I was heartsick watching another
friend disappear, shrinking down between nibbling at the cracker she
insisted would be her entire lunch. At fourteen, I declared fiercely
that bodies- my body, my friends' bodies, the bodies of everyone,
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Supported by this core belief and
committed to keeping my relationship with my body positive, I
experienced very little of the tumult common to teenagers. I didn't
diet and encouraged my friends not to, either. I refused to count
calories or weigh myself obsessively. I stopped shaving my legs and
armpits at fifteen. I learned the basics of makeup and then only
brought it out for special occasions. All the while, I told my
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I've written at length elsewhere about
my process of coming out as genderqueer, so I won't rehash it here.
Suffice it to say that at some point between "Huh, maybe I'm a
little genderqueer" and "I'm here, I'm genderqueer, get
used to it", my relationship with my breasts got complicated.
With buzzed short hair, masculine clothes, and no problems using my
body to take up space, I'm a fairly transmasculine individual. (Most
of the time, at least. Sometimes I like pretty things.) My chest came
to be a locus for people's assumptions about my gender identity.
Which is really just a dressed up way of saying most people think
boobs = woman.</div>
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I resent that. And it is really, really
difficult to keep that resentment from spilling over into resentment
of my breasts/ chest itself. Whether I get tangled up in my head all
on my own or someone does or says something that makes me feel on
display, my chest can be tricky. It hurts that it should be hard. I
want to inhabit my whole body, my whole self, joyfully.</div>
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I have some tools to keep connected to
my sacred body when the dysphoria is kicking up. Some of them date
back to adolescence, some of them are newer. Mostly, I've found that
being in my body takes determination.</div>
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Take a deep breath and envision
healing light flooding the body part causing your dysphoria.</div>
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Or, place your hands over the body
part in question and do the same thing.</div>
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Repeat out loud to yourself, "This
is my ________ (gender) body, the is my ________ (body part)."
So, for me, "This is my genderqueer body, this is my
genderqueer chest." Make it a mantra.</div>
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Notice how you're holding
yourself. If you're tensing or twisting somehow to minimize whatever
body part is causing you distress, consciously relax. You get to be
comfortable physically and emotionally. </div>
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Stare down anyone who looks at you
in a way that makes you uncomfortable.</div>
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Visualize your entire body, and
let yourself take up all that space. </div>
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<li>Remind yourself that inhabiting your body does not change
your gender or give anyone permission to misgender or otherwise hurt
you.<br />
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I hope these ideas help you stay safe
in your sacred body, regardless of how else you are feeling. How do
you fight negative social messaging about your body? Share in the
comments.</div>
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Crossposted to<a href="http://livingeverydaysacred.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/body-temple-body-dysphoria/" target="_blank"> Everyday Sacred </a></div>
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