queering your craft witchcraft from the margins

Snow reclaims magickal practice as fully queer and queer-friendly. Then it’s about autonomy and taking charge of our lives. It is catharsis, first – something that helps us purge our emotions and heal.

In a politically difficult and tense world, witchcraft is a secret weapon. Throughout the book, she weaves in her core focus of magick as a tool for personal empowerment. Snow offers a queer-inclusive overview of various aspects of witchcraft: elements, sabbats, moon phases, astrology, working with deity, divination, and how to use magick in your daily life in a true DIY fashion. Queering Your Craft is a fantastic introduction to witchcraft for queer people who feel called to the path.

After enjoying Cassandra Snow’s Queering the Tarot ( here’s my review), I was eager to see what she wrote next. One of the newest books in the “witchcraft 101” world is Cassandra Snow’s Queering Your Craft: Witchcraft From the Margins, released earlier this month. I wish I’d had books like these as a baby pagan! I’m thankful to see so many of the new books in this category are less problematic than “the classics,” and many go beyond the basics and include brief overviews of a lot of the different aspects of magickal practice, like Tarot, astrology, herbalism, crystals, and kitchen witchery. Lately I’ve been reading a lot of “witchcraft 101” books, to update the reading list for my coven’s new members.

Queering your craft witchcraft from the margins