Gay witchcraft
Pamela Colman Smith, the visionary artist behind the iconic Rider-Waite tarot deck, revolutionized the world of tarot reading with her vivid and symbolic illustrations. As the first to depict all 78 tarot cards with detailed, full-scene imagery, Smith transformed tarot into a more intuitive and visually engaging practice. Her groundbreaking work... See more
r/WitchesVsPatriarchy - Reddit
There are lots of different strains of witches in literature, from the hag (Macbeth’s Weird Sisters) to the foreign witch (Sycorax and Medea) to Circe’s own type, the sexy witch. But they all have one thing in common: they are women with more power than other people—men especially—think they should have.
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When women were first organizing and identifying as capital-“L” lesbians en masse in the 1960s and 1970s they often looked to female-dominated or goddess-worshipping cultures as models for how to live and thrive outside patriarchal Western society. In Ancient Egypt, the cat goddess Bastet gave blessings and offered love and domestic security, while... See more
‘Cat Knows How to Ignore Men’: A Brief History of Lesbian Cat Ladies
While we can’t definitively know historical figures’ sexual orientations, Pamela Coleman Smith was likely a lesbian. Coleman Smith and her companion of forty years, spiritualist Nora Lake, socialized with lesbian and bisexual women during the first half of the 1900s. Coleman Smith was never linked to a man.
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Pamela Coleman Smith designed what is still the most popular tarot deck in production: the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck
Dianic Wicca was born out of the second-wave feminist movement and was founded by Zsuzanna Budapest. It “embraces the Goddess but spends little time on her male counterpart,” and has long been associated with lesbianism, while still welcoming any woman. Dianic Wicca focuses on Mother Nature as the “life-giver and life-sustainer.” It promotes the... See more
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Feminist historian Riane Eisler describes how our Neolithic and Paleolithic ancestors imagined a woman’s body and pussy as a magical vessel. As she explains, our ancestors marveled at the way it bleeds in rhythm with the moon, miraculously creates life, and produces milk to feed its offspring. Not to mention the magical way a woman can cause a
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