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Motherwit and Outside the Charmed Circle
I really want to tell you about these two books but my brain is sludge. But here! I will try! Here are two magic-y books that seem interesting for multi stuff, if you are so inclined! One is new. The other is not.
The new one is Misha Magdalene's Outside the Charmed Circle: Exploring Gender & Sexuality in Magical Practice. It talks some about noncorporeal personhood, but most interesting is "Chapter 8: Between the Mundane and the Divine: On Negotiating Consent with Gods." There's sections on saying no to gods and dealing with gods who don't take no for an answer. It seems neat and maybe relevant to folks with that kind of thing? Folks with divine headmates?
The older one (from 1981) is Diane Mariechild's Mother Wit: A Feminist Guide to Psychic Development. I got it very dubiously, and got served a large slab of humble pie, which I wasn't graceful about. This one is very much an exercise book, try-what-works and dump-what-doesn't, and a lot of those exercises are stuff for relaxing, tuning into your psychological landscape, and working with headspace stuff. Some of the exercises are fun. It's very second wave goddess-y feminism, if that's a thing you like/dislike.
We will keep Mother Wit because it's the first resource we've found on headspace healing which is an ongoing problem we've had in here, and a lot of the exercises have worked better than we expected to. Outside the Charmed Circle will be liberated probably to who-is-page for a talk thing.
The new one is Misha Magdalene's Outside the Charmed Circle: Exploring Gender & Sexuality in Magical Practice. It talks some about noncorporeal personhood, but most interesting is "Chapter 8: Between the Mundane and the Divine: On Negotiating Consent with Gods." There's sections on saying no to gods and dealing with gods who don't take no for an answer. It seems neat and maybe relevant to folks with that kind of thing? Folks with divine headmates?
The older one (from 1981) is Diane Mariechild's Mother Wit: A Feminist Guide to Psychic Development. I got it very dubiously, and got served a large slab of humble pie, which I wasn't graceful about. This one is very much an exercise book, try-what-works and dump-what-doesn't, and a lot of those exercises are stuff for relaxing, tuning into your psychological landscape, and working with headspace stuff. Some of the exercises are fun. It's very second wave goddess-y feminism, if that's a thing you like/dislike.
We will keep Mother Wit because it's the first resource we've found on headspace healing which is an ongoing problem we've had in here, and a lot of the exercises have worked better than we expected to. Outside the Charmed Circle will be liberated probably to who-is-page for a talk thing.