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Queering Your Craft by Cassandra Snow — Witchcraft from the Margins
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Queering Your Craft by Cassandra Snow is the definitive guide to witchcraft from queer, trans, and marginalized perspectives — reframing traditional magical practice to center LGBTQ+ lives, experiences, and identities. Snow draws on her practice as a professional tarot reader and witch to create a genuinely inclusive, politically aware craft that speaks directly to the next generation of practitioners.
Description:Quick Specs
- Author: Cassandra Snow
- Publisher: Weiser Books
- Format: Paperback
- Best for: LGBTQ+ Practitioners, Queer Witchcraft, Intersectional Magic, Beginners and Experienced Witches
Queer Witchcraft: Filling the Gap in Mainstream Occult Books
The dominant strand of modern witchcraft literature, from Gerald Gardner's foundational texts through the explosion of popular Wicca books in the 1990s, was built on a framework of gendered polarity: the God and the Goddess, the masculine and feminine principles in ritual balance, heterosexual coupling as the metaphysical engine of magical power. For queer practitioners, this framework creates a persistent friction. The tools, the language, the ritual structures, even the sabbat narratives tend to assume a gender binary and a heteronormative cosmology. Most books have ignored this, some have patched it with gender-neutral language, and a very few have rebuilt from different foundations. Queering Your Craft by Cassandra Snow belongs to that third, rarer category.
Snow is a Minneapolis-based tarot reader, writer, and activist who has worked at the intersection of queer community building and spiritual practice. The book is structured in two major sections: the first works through the foundational concepts of witchcraft from a queer perspective, examining where mainstream frameworks create unnecessary restrictions and offering alternatives rooted in queer cultural values like DIY practice, chosen family over formal hierarchy, and accessibility across class and ability lines. The second half is a practical grimoire containing spells and rituals designed specifically for queer experience. These are not adapted mainstream workings but original pieces addressing the specific needs and concerns of LGBTQ+ practitioners. Browse my witchcraft books collection to see how this title sits within the broader spellcraft shelf.
What This Book Does and Who It Serves
The specific spells in the grimoire section are one of the book's clearest strengths. Workings like "A Spell for Chosen Family Members" and "A Spell to Strengthen Community Bond and Collective Love and Power" address experiences that are central to queer social life but largely absent from mainstream occult literature. Snow also addresses the intersection of queerness with class, disability, and religious trauma, acknowledging that a practitioner working on a tight budget, in a small apartment, or recovering from an evangelical background has different practical needs than the idealized witch of most how-to books.
The book works as an introduction to witchcraft for queer practitioners coming to the craft for the first time, and as a recontextualization guide for experienced practitioners who want to examine and revise which inherited frameworks they use by default. The grimoire section, with its original queer-specific spells and journal prompts connecting craft practice to lived experience, provides content not available elsewhere in the current landscape of witchcraft publishing. It is a grounded, practical, and politically honest contribution to a genre that has historically been neither. For companion reading, explore my full books and journals collection.
How to Use Queering Your Craft
Approach this book as both an introductory witchcraft guide and a practical grimoire, working through its two major sections in sequence or as reference material.
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Read Part One for Foundational Reframing
The first half recontextualizes standard witchcraft concepts, altars, elements, sabbats, moon work, from a queer lens. Even experienced practitioners benefit as a prompt to examine which inherited frameworks they use by default.
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Work Through the Grimoire Section
The back half is a grimoire with spells written for queer experience, including workings for chosen family and community bonds. These are original rituals, not repackaged mainstream spells with gender-neutral language swapped in.
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Use the Journal Prompts for Shadow Work
Snow includes journal prompts connecting craft practice to lived queer experience, such as how religious trauma and disability intersect with practice. These work well as standalone shadow work exercises outside a full read.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I carry this book because the gap it fills is real and has been real for a long time. The dominant witchcraft publishing tradition has been slow to move away from gendered polarity frameworks and heteronormative ritual assumptions, and most attempts at inclusivity have stopped at swapping pronouns rather than rebuilding underlying structures. Snow goes further, drawing on queer cultural values and lived experience rather than simply de-gendering existing content. This is not a diversity checkbox book; it is a genuine reconception of witchcraft for practitioners whose lives and communities do not fit the mainstream template.
Frequently Asked Questions
This book is for LGBTQ+ practitioners at any level, from beginners to longtime witches wanting to revise heteronormative frameworks in their practice. Snow also notes it is useful for non-queer allies seeking to build more inclusive spaces.
Most witchcraft books assume heteronormative frameworks: gendered polarity, male-female deity pairs, and cisgender-centered language. This book dismantles those assumptions and offers alternatives built from queer cultural values.
Yes. The second half is a grimoire with spells for queer experience: a spell for chosen family, a spell for community bonds, and workings for identity and collective power. These are original queer-centered workings, not adapted mainstream spells.
Cassandra Snow is a Minneapolis-based tarot reader, writer, and activist. Snow has extensive experience reading for and within LGBTQ+ communities and brings that lived perspective directly into this book on queer witchcraft.
