Smash the Cis-tem. Pride and Summer Solstice
Queerness moves fluidly with the wheel of the year.
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Queer Greetings, you witchy reader, you! Blessed be during June Pride. How’s your spirit doing? I want to offer you my personal musings, a three card tarot reading for Pride, a poem, and a bonus video of me smashing a car with a baseball bat like a boss.
This was the third year in a row that Tranzmission raised money by letting us beat up on a donated vehicle. 30 seconds of hitting a car with a baseball bat made my body feel sore and alive. I looked like a sexy badass while doing it, if I do say so myself. So did everyone else! We were all thirsty, sticky, sweaty, and smiling. It was a fabulous ritual, cheering each other on while we raged against all that binds us. I always have a sacred sense of belonging wash over me when we find bold ways to express our rage, together. That’s the true spirit of Pride, after all… to celebrate the ways we can burn it all down and rise from the ashes… to process our rage through creativity and beauty… to change the world one brick at a time.
I pulled three cards for Pride: Three of Pentacles (from Fifth Spirit Tarot), Seven of Wands (from Spacious Tarot), and Justice (from Black Femme Tarot). It’s a befitting combination of cards that serve the soul of Pride well. Three of Pentacles is about manifesting through collaboration. Seven of Wands is about the passionate ways we protect those works of collaboration. Justice is about truth, cause and effect, karma, and accountability.
~Write this down and put it in your pocket with your favorite gemstone: By working together creatively and sharing our resources, we can hold our ground and conjure change. Carry this with you wherever and however you are choosing to engage with Pride month. May these words grow in all of our hearts and ripple out into the cosmos.~
Another message these three cards offer: hear the truth behind every corporation that slaps a rainbow on their swag. They are looking to capitalize off of us, not collaborate with us. If every corporation that showed up to Pride actually cared about the LGBTQIA+ community, then we’d feel safe at our jobs. We’d have health benefits we could pass on to our chosen family. Our voices would be taken seriously in the conference rooms. Our bosses wouldn’t be investing in homophobic politicians or funding the genocide in Gaza. These are th reason to bring in that Seven of Wands energy.
Pride and Litha: Queerness moves fluidly with the wheel of the year. My former tradition reenacted the battles between the Oak King and Holly King every summer and winter. These archetypes still hold a special place in my heart and I’ve built a relationship with their queerness and their liminal spaces rather than focusing on their duality and fights for supremacy. So I’d like to share one of my poems with you- I wrote it how I imagined a bard would sing it.
Within a sacred grove, within a sacred realm, two tree-folk meet.
Laden with baskets of food and wine, placed at each other’s feet.
Laughing, they do stumble into one another’s arms
Kissing softly and exchanging the songs of scared charms.
Feasting and dancing as the old sun is burning bright
The Oak and Holly drag queens celebrate the light.
The warmth that covers their bodies, as they kiss and cast a spell.
Their dancing is a ritual for the Summer Sun’s farewell.
Red berry and the acorn, celebrate the transition of light,
Together they are the Horned one, amidst this sacred rite.
There’s No supremacy here, no need to deal in hate.
Just lovers dancing ecstatic within the heat that they create.
This is solstice in the queer realm, the wheel turning spell.
Blessed be your chosen family.
Hail and farewell.
A bonus image because I am feeling myself with those calves and that ass!