Sigil Presentation: Mabon Sigil

Hello, pornies! I hope you all had a blessed Mabon / Autumn Equinox yesterday. For me these are being pretty calm days, which I enjoy A LOT.

Mabon is the Autumn Equinox, where day and night last exactly the same. We take a moment to pay our respects to the impending darkness and give thanks to the dwindling sunlight. It's considered a time of mysteries, a time to honor the Deities of Aging and the World of Spirits, a moment of balance, when we stop and relax and enjoy the fruits of our personal crops, and finish the old business while we prepare for a period of rest, relaxation and reflection. Based on this, I crafted a sigil for Mabon.

How to use this sigil:

• Draw it in a candle when honoring your Ancestors.
• Trace it in you lips before giving thanks for anything you may feel grateful for.
• Sign a letter of thanks with it and burn it to send the message to the universe.
• Trace or draw it in your feet to get conected to the Earth, your Ancestors and your path.
• Any other use you can imagine!

Kinky regards, K!

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Celebrate Bisexual Day + Sigil!

Pornies! Hello over there! How are you doing? Today’s a special day for me and many LG(B)T folks around the world: Celebrate Bisexuality Day!

I was 11 years old when I discovered I liked boys as well as girls, maybe even younger, but it was around that age that I realized I wasn’t just into the opposite sex. I remember playing a crappy real-time game on my PC and telling this nice gay stranger by chat that I was bisexual, and that he insisted that I was way too young to be sure about that.

I have been told that kind of things over and over again, by straight and gay people as well, and I cannot help but wonder: How can people be so sure about what you feel, what you like? People often tend to think they know you better than you know yourself, something I’m sure many bisexuals have experienced.

We are often told we are an impossibility, that we have to choose, even that we are living in denial or confusion by claiming to like both sexes. My last boyfriend once even told me he was hurt when I said his friend I am bi “in his face”, that I didn’t respect him for doing it.  It’s hard to be denied, but then I remember that the best things are myths and legends: faeries, witches, even Alice listed six impossibilities when she was in Wonderland.

If we are a myth, if we are a legend, why not take that power and turn reality inside out? People don’t believe in bisexuality or in witches, and here we are, hidden among them, some us embracing both words as part of who we are. We are both Alice and Chesire, the Fairy Godparents and the Wicked Witches of the four fucking cardinal points.

I strongly believe there is something sacred in being bisexual, in the way we experience the world. We are constantly between the worlds, be it straight or gay, physical or spiritual. We are walking myths, walking dreams. Why not taking that magic and giving it a purpose? That’s why I designed a Bisexual Witch sigil, or, as I like to call it, the Walking Myth sigil.

How to use this sigil?

• Draw it in your skin to recover your lost power.
• Burn it at your altar to honor those bisexuals who came before you and either thank them for existing or ask for their help and guidance.
• Draw it in the air before you go out into the street and go through it (Through the Looking Glass vibes anyone?) to be cleansed and protected.
• Meditate in front of it about what it means to be bisexual for you, how it defines who you are and are not, and how it may have influenced your Craft.
• Any other use you can imagine!

I hope every single beautiful bisexual soul has an amazing day today, hope you are free to express who you are, that you are blessed with acceptance and love, but if for whatever reason you cannot, know it will get better, no matter what they tell you or what you think. And if you are a witch, rock that sacred power we share. If we are to be myths, remember the best things are!

Kinky regards, K

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Sigil Presentation: Harvest Moon Sigil

Hello pornies! How have you been these days? Mine, pretty relaxing, finally. This was one fell of a busy weekend, to be honest.

I hope you all had a wonderful Harvest Moon! Here's is the sigil I used for the celebration, focused on home, peace, celebration and reward.

How to use this sigil?

1. Put it in your home's front door to protect and bless it (on the inner side, we don't want mortals to see it.)
2. Write the names of those who are under lots of stress (you included if you need), and draw the sigil, covering all of the names, to send peace and calm.
3. Draw it with you fingers in any gift you give and receive during these season to bless it.
4. Meditate with it, giving thanks for what you have done so far.
5. Any other use you can imagine!

Kinky regards, K!

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Book review: Beautiful Untrue Things

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Hello pornies! How are you feeling today? In the mood to read a bit of history? I hope so, because today’s book is about one of the most prominent gay authors of the Victorian era.

Not long ago (lie, a couple of months, actually,) I got a copy of Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife, by Gregory Mackie, which tells us about what happened after Oscar Wilde’s death and how people tried to manipulate his name for their own benefits selling forgeries: fake letters and manuscripts that they advertised as original and long-lost texts.

One may think at first that there is nothing interesting in investigating old documents and reading about the history of fake papers, but trust me on this one: you’ll never guess what a pandemonium the literary market became after the Wilde’s passing: from legal disputes to psychic messages with the author, or even a whole manuscript supposedly written with the Ouija board!

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I won’t lie, Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife was really heavy and hard to follow. However, it sparks your curiosity over and over again with the interesting facts and anecdotes including in each chapter, each of which speaks about notorious manuscripts and histories.

Gregory Mackie surprised me with the amount of research done, and as soon as I had a question about something, he was already giving the answer! There are no hole in this book, which, I have to say, is surprising. The author included all the juicy details of Wilde’s literary afterlife, leaving the reader satisfied.

Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife may not be a book for everyone, it’s true, but I consider it fundamental if Wilde is one of your Mighty Dead, an ancestor you wish choose to honor. After all, can anyone name one gay author that has given the world so much to talk about even after his death? I will be keeping an eye on Gregory Mackie on my radar, that’s for sure! Thanks to the publisher for the copy!

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Poem: The Boy in Red

The boy in red

There was a black, black town,

In the black, black town, there was a black, black house,

In the black, black house, there was a black, black room,

In the black, black room, there was a black, black bed,

In the black, black bed, there was a boy in red.

“Get me out, get me out”, he said,

“Out of this house and out of this place!

I shall see the world and shall the Earth,

Run in the woods and discover its glades!

And I see the rain and I see the stars,

I dream with the light and dream with the air,

Yet I cannot walk and I cannot play,

And I want to dream and want to create!”

Poor boy in red, poor boy in red,

He always prayed and hoped for the best.

Poor boy in red, poor boy in red,

In the black, black bed he’s sleeping again.

The boy in red

There was a black, black town,

In the black, black town, there was a black, black house,

In the black, black house, there was a black, black room,

In the black, black room, there was a black, black bed,

In the black, black bed, there was a boy in red.

“Get me out, get me out”, he said,

“Out of this house and out of this place!

I shall see the world and shall the Earth,

Run in the woods and discover its glades!

And I see the rain and I see the stars,

I dream with the light and dream with the air,

Yet I cannot walk and I cannot play,

And I want to dream and want to create!”

Poor boy in red, poor boy in red,

He always prayed and hoped for the best.

Poor boy in red, poor boy in red,

In the black, black bed he’s sleeping again.

Kinky regards, K!
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Book review: Honoring Your Ancestors

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Hi pornies! How are you feeling today? This has been one hell of a busy last week! I still need to catch up with tons of things, but always find the time to read. I need it more than breathing, nonetheless, and now that there are a lot of books waiting for me, well, let’s just say that my eyes are pleading for mercy.

Last week I finished reading Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration by Mallorie Vaudoise, a book I had my eyes into for a while and decided to give it a try. Why not? It will be interesting to see a non-Pagan perspective in the matter, I told myself, since the author has a more African religious practice, and so it was!

Honoring Your Ancestors is a somewhat short and light book, so it took no time to have it done once I started with it. I liked that the author kept the subject simple and a general, non-religious tone. This makes it way much easier for the readers to identify which practices they can include in their own ancestral veneration, no matter their belief.

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Mallorie Vaudoise explains who the Ancestors are, their types, how we can interact with them in a healthy way, heal ancestral trauma, keep our (and their) energy clean, and how even our house can be an Ancestor we can honor with simple acts such as praying, cleaning and meditation. Simplicity is the key in Honoring Your Ancestors. You don’t need expensive materials, exotic herbs and complicated chants.

This book also explains how to develop mediumship and use it to communicate with the Ancestors in a simple way, and although I consider it just an introduction in the subject, it’s a very good one. Mallorie Vaudoise uses enough of her own experiences as examples when she needs to illustrate a point, which helps a lot when picturing what must be done.

Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration by Mallorie Vaudoise, is a valuable and useful book for those interested in keeping in touch with their roots, their family and feed their ancestral veneration practice. I’m currently working with the journaling prompts included, and they have helped me a lot to clarify many thoughts I had prior to this book. It’s definitely my favorite part of the book!

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