Pride Month can be kind of a weird time for a lot of folks. It's a celebration, and a vigil. It's a reminder of how far we've come and how far there is to go, and honoring who we've lost along the way.
This is a spell to acknowledge that grief while worshipping queerness. It’s a prayer asking ancestors for protection as we carry on their work. And it’s an invocation to call our energy back to what Pride is all about: defending queer communities, and queer love in all its forms.
Make a shrine to queerness.
Include pictures or other icons of LGBTQ+ ancestors & elders who have passed on. These can be people you know personally, or figures you admire (Marsha P Johnson & Sylvia Rivera should definitely be included for Pride celebrations). Arrange them so they surround pictures or icons of your living LGBTQ+ friends and family.
Add an 8-color rainbow flag or a picture of one. The creator of the eight-color Pride flag assigned these meanings to each of the stripes, if you feel like calling in an energy for each one:
Pink: Sex/love
Red: Life
Orange: Healing
Yellow: Sunlight
Green: Nature
Turquoise: Magic/Art
Indigo: Serenity
Violet: Spirit
Light a candle (if you can't you can use carnelian, or a picture of a flame) and ground yourself. Envision a giant protective bubble surrounding your space, sparkling with every color of the rainbow. In this bubble you are safe and warm, and you are supported. The ancestors are here with you.
Focus on each ancestor in turn and thank them for their work, especially their sacrifices. Thank them for their visibility. Take your time doing this, and really talk specifics; they deserve to be honored for paving the way. If you’re able to make offerings to them (things like flowers or libations), now is the time.
Hold the rainbow flag as you ask the ancestors to bless your LGBTQ+ family and friends with the color of each stripe:
Bless them with the pink blush of queer love, with endless pleasure.
Bless them with the red fire of a long, fulfilling life free from violence.
Bless them with the orange glow of healing, for wounds both physical and psychic.
Bless them with yellow sunshine to illuminate the unhidden beauty of their queerness.
Bless them with the green vibrance of Earth, whose natural order knows no binary.
Bless them with the turquoise veil of magick and art, as the queer (especially QTPOC) community has always driven culture.
Bless them with the indigo cloud of serenity, that they may lay down the burden of being misgendered, outed, closeted, targeted.
Bless them with the violet cloak of Spirit, that they may walk through this world guided and protected by queer ancestors and angels.
Sit for a moment in this space, try to feel the colors of the flag rippling all around you, and around your loved ones. Stay as long as you can.
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Paige Curtin is HausWitch's Spell Specialist and HWIC of the Secret Circle.
