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A Dangerous Wisdom: Gay Love Magic
Does Gay dating leave you feeling like one of the ugly stepsisters? Between the frogs posing as princes and the disappointing dilapidated towers--it's enough to make even the sanest of Gay men want to eat the poison apple just to sleep for a thousand years. Sometimes Gay dating isn't worth the Elbow Grease. In this book, Casey Giovinco assumes the mantle of your fairy godmother and teaches you A Dangerous Wisdom in order to break the dating curse.
- GenresWitchcraft
227 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 24, 2019
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July 2, 2019
As the author writes in his description of the book, “Sometimes Gay dating isn’t worth the Elbow Grease.”
I couldn’t help but wish there were books like Casey Giovinco’s A Dangerous Wisdom (Gay Witchcraft & the Male Mysteries when I was a young gay teen, barely coming of age, but charged with irrepressible hormones that demanded satisfaction. As an hereditary Witch, I was drawn to the books of Gordon Merrick and of course, the tales of 28 Barbary Lane, as told in the masterful Armistead Maupin Tales of the City series. And while these books served to intrigue and inform, eventually leading to my spending time in San Francisco, where I would become friends with some of the actual people the thinly veiled characters of Tales were inspired by, the fact is, nothing really offered me any real advice on how to navigate the waters of finding love.
Sure, I’d been doing love spells for others, as part of my work as a stregone mago (Italian Witch) for a few years, but never quite knew how to do that for myself.
So like many young gay Italians, the elders in our family’s tradition, encouraged me to become the Benedicario — a Catholic priest, initiated in the Older Mysteries, who could compassionately serve the needs of the streghe in Philadelphia and South Jersey. And I did.
Today, I think that story could have gone so much smoother, with so much greater clarity, self-love and confidence, had I the opportunity to read something as pragmatic and relatable as Casey’s "A Dangerous Wisdom".
From the anecdotal tales of his own youth and young adulthood, Platonic wisdom, and ancient mythos; to the rich, beautifully seductive spell-work and rituals detailed, this book, I found myself feeling reinvigorated, even as a 56 year-old engaged, polyamorous Witch, who has been fortunate to have had four great, long-term relationships in my life.
Like his Witchcraft tradition, Gala Witchcraft, which combines traditional coven-based Initiatory Wicca with the central goal of reawakening the Gay Mysteries, within this delightful read, Casey provides a unique approach to problem solving that helps Gay men to achieve lasting success in their personal relationships and lives in general.
I couldn’t help but wish there were books like Casey Giovinco’s A Dangerous Wisdom (Gay Witchcraft & the Male Mysteries when I was a young gay teen, barely coming of age, but charged with irrepressible hormones that demanded satisfaction. As an hereditary Witch, I was drawn to the books of Gordon Merrick and of course, the tales of 28 Barbary Lane, as told in the masterful Armistead Maupin Tales of the City series. And while these books served to intrigue and inform, eventually leading to my spending time in San Francisco, where I would become friends with some of the actual people the thinly veiled characters of Tales were inspired by, the fact is, nothing really offered me any real advice on how to navigate the waters of finding love.
Sure, I’d been doing love spells for others, as part of my work as a stregone mago (Italian Witch) for a few years, but never quite knew how to do that for myself.
So like many young gay Italians, the elders in our family’s tradition, encouraged me to become the Benedicario — a Catholic priest, initiated in the Older Mysteries, who could compassionately serve the needs of the streghe in Philadelphia and South Jersey. And I did.
Today, I think that story could have gone so much smoother, with so much greater clarity, self-love and confidence, had I the opportunity to read something as pragmatic and relatable as Casey’s "A Dangerous Wisdom".
From the anecdotal tales of his own youth and young adulthood, Platonic wisdom, and ancient mythos; to the rich, beautifully seductive spell-work and rituals detailed, this book, I found myself feeling reinvigorated, even as a 56 year-old engaged, polyamorous Witch, who has been fortunate to have had four great, long-term relationships in my life.
Like his Witchcraft tradition, Gala Witchcraft, which combines traditional coven-based Initiatory Wicca with the central goal of reawakening the Gay Mysteries, within this delightful read, Casey provides a unique approach to problem solving that helps Gay men to achieve lasting success in their personal relationships and lives in general.
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