Magic as political act

[Eastling]

When she visited in mid-October after attending a wedding in California, my mother handed me the "souvenir ticket" from her visit to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Museum. I put it away and then took it out today to use in a ritual in honor of World AIDS Day: I wrote a spell on the back of it, then burned it and tossed the remains down with some trash.

#WorldAIDSDay pic.twitter.com/8CPpZIaeEb

— don't stop me meow (@comewhatmaenad) December 1, 2019

The point is to throw energy against the institutional forces still driving homophobia and stigma today.

I've also thought of doing a reading of the Bacchae with magical intent, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

Have you ever used magic for political purposes? Done a spell as a political act?

[Sefiru]

Have you ever used magic for political purposes? Done a spell as a political act?

For the last few years I've been doing an execration-type ritual on New Year's Day, and the times that I don't have any personal issues I want to banish, I use broader social problems. One year it was the Yoda Quartet (fear, anger, hate and suffering).