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Queer Rites: A Magickal Grimoire to Honor Your Milestones with Pride
Queer people go through all kinds of unique milestones and rites of passage as we grow into our true selves. Whether you are coming out, attending your first Pride parade, or changing your pronouns, this book will help you enter these rites of passage thoughtfully and spiritually.
Explore rituals for taking on a drag persona, hosting a funeral for your deadname, acknowledging chosen family, hosting a polyamorous handfasting, and more. Enhance your rituals with a variety of partners, including deities and community ancestors (such as queer activists and leaders).
Featuring a wealth of queer-specific rituals not offered elsewhere, this book helps connect your lived experiences to your magickal practice. Regardless of your skill level or spiritual tradition, Queer Rites makes it simple to commemorate occasions in a way that resonates with your unique and wonderful self.
Includes guest ritual writers Storm Faerywolf, Misha Magdalene, Brandon Weston, and Rev. Ron Padrón
Explore rituals for taking on a drag persona, hosting a funeral for your deadname, acknowledging chosen family, hosting a polyamorous handfasting, and more. Enhance your rituals with a variety of partners, including deities and community ancestors (such as queer activists and leaders).
Featuring a wealth of queer-specific rituals not offered elsewhere, this book helps connect your lived experiences to your magickal practice. Regardless of your skill level or spiritual tradition, Queer Rites makes it simple to commemorate occasions in a way that resonates with your unique and wonderful self.
Includes guest ritual writers Storm Faerywolf, Misha Magdalene, Brandon Weston, and Rev. Ron Padrón
- GenresSpiritualityPaganismLGBT
240 pages, Paperback
Published January 8, 2025
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About the author
Enfys J. Book
9 books27 followersEnfys J. Book (they/them) is an author, priestx, blogger, teacher, performer, singer, songwriter, and comedian. They wrote the Gold COVR award-winning Queer Qabala: Nonbinary, Genderfluid, Omnisexual Mysticism & Magick (Llewellyn, June 2022); co-authored (with Ivo Dominguez, Jr.) Sagittarius Witch (Llewellyn, 2024); and wrote the forthcoming Queer Rites: A Magickal Grimoire to Honor Your Milestones with Pride (Llewellyn, 2025).
They are also a founding member of the “funny, filthy, feminist, fandom folk” band The Misbehavin’ Maidens, the creator of a website on queer magick called majorarqueerna.com, and the host of a podcast called “4 Quick Q’s: Book Talk with Enfys,” where they interview pagan authors using questions determined by a roll of the dice. They have taught many classes on tarot, Hermetic Qabala, magickal rites of passage, and queering one’s magical practice at conferences and events around the world.
By day, Enfys is a technical account manager at a tech company, specializing in content migration and onboarding new customers.
As a nonbinary, bisexual pagan and performer, Enfys employs a queer lens to break down limiting binaries in magickal practice, and advocates for bi, trans, non-binary/genderqueer, queer-, and asexual visibility and inclusion through their writing and music.
They are also a founding member of the “funny, filthy, feminist, fandom folk” band The Misbehavin’ Maidens, the creator of a website on queer magick called majorarqueerna.com, and the host of a podcast called “4 Quick Q’s: Book Talk with Enfys,” where they interview pagan authors using questions determined by a roll of the dice. They have taught many classes on tarot, Hermetic Qabala, magickal rites of passage, and queering one’s magical practice at conferences and events around the world.
By day, Enfys is a technical account manager at a tech company, specializing in content migration and onboarding new customers.
As a nonbinary, bisexual pagan and performer, Enfys employs a queer lens to break down limiting binaries in magickal practice, and advocates for bi, trans, non-binary/genderqueer, queer-, and asexual visibility and inclusion through their writing and music.
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February 6, 2025
This book is so needed. To paraphrase what Ariana Serpentine said in her foreword to this magical grimoire: queer people don’t often have rites of passage to celebrate their milestones. That all changes with this book.
I loved that these rituals were deeply approachable for anyone at any place in their path, while still being provocative and powerful. The inclusion of protection magic for queer people and sex workers was something I was happy to see. So many reasons for these vulnerable communities to have all the protection they can get these days.
This is a book that people should have in their coven libraries, available for reference when rites of passage arise that need to be celebrated.
I loved that these rituals were deeply approachable for anyone at any place in their path, while still being provocative and powerful. The inclusion of protection magic for queer people and sex workers was something I was happy to see. So many reasons for these vulnerable communities to have all the protection they can get these days.
This is a book that people should have in their coven libraries, available for reference when rites of passage arise that need to be celebrated.
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June 25, 2025This is a great resource for queer rites of passage: coming out to yourself, coming out to others, getting married / handfasted, cutting or renewing ties with non-affirming people, saying goodbye to your deadname, taking on a new name, and more.
May 21, 2025
What a lovely book. It really got me thinking about how I would perform these rites as Hellenic Polytheist clergy someday.
Sadly, my biggest personal takeaway was that I have little to no interest in eclectic magic. I seem to have gone off the Hellenic reconstructionist deep-end. But this book is going to be so special to so many people.
Sadly, my biggest personal takeaway was that I have little to no interest in eclectic magic. I seem to have gone off the Hellenic reconstructionist deep-end. But this book is going to be so special to so many people.
February 24, 2025
It is important to have rites. This book puts that into perspective and can allow to create rites that fit your needs.
March 24, 2025
Such a great book
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