Out of the Broom Closet, into the Fire

Saturn and Neptune into Aries and Protection Spells

Yesterday, Saturn joined Neptune in Aries, which marks a time of structural collapse and confusion around what is real and not real. The last time Saturn and Neptune were conjunct was in 1989. Most notably, this was when the Berlin Wall fell. Saturn/Neptune conjunctions are also associated with spiritual panic and witch hunts (the McCarthy trials and Satanic panic happened under this conjunction).

For many of us, Neptune’s transit through Pisces (2011-2026), has been a time of embracing spiritual sovereignty, whether that means deconstructing Christian and capitalist narratives; embracing personal relationship with spirit through tarot, astrology, or witchcraft; diving into the otherworldly magic of science and technology; or any number of other esoteric and magickal practices.

Massive amounts of people, including me, have come out of the broom closet, outing ourselves as witches.

Photo by Charlie Harutaka on Unsplash

Then, the transit into Aries tests our authenticity. Are our spiritual practices cute and fun or are they part of who we truly are? Are we grounded in their personal meaning for us or are we superstitious and acting out of fear?

Saturn is angry in Aries, perhaps even impatient, and so the planet of consequences brings them quickly. If you act in integrity, you get consequences in line with that integrity, but if you act outside of it, Saturn lets you know right away through your body’s signals and your external results. Aries is a fire sign, and there is no need to touch the stove a second time before learning that it burns.

Photo by Tobias Rademacher on Unsplash

I am in a group online where I have seen a number of posts about “spiritual warfare,” something that I grew up thinking a lot about. The concept of spiritual warfare means that there are unseen threats that might undermine us, and through adherence to certain spiritual practices we can fight those threats.

In my view, this is an essentially misguided concept at least in part because it positions spirituality as potentially threatening, and outside of us, and offers solutions that feel tricky.

Truth is never tricky.

The unseen is only drawn to you if it corresponds with you. And I do not mean that as pressure to raise your vibration or pretend to be positive. Instead it is an invitation to deeply learn what corresponds with you, what is correct for you, and release anything that is not.

This requires boundaries and understanding who you are, which is harder than it sounds and completely worth it.

Healthy boundaries protect us from what is not correct for us, whether it is in the 3D reality or outside of it.

Here are a few ways to craft a basic protection spell to get started.

Protection Spells

Energetic boundaries:

• Find a space that both is safe in reality and also feels safe to you. This can be your bed if that is a safe space.

• With your eyes open or closed (whatever is comfortable and safe for you), pay attention to how the space feels on your skin. Your skin is the boundary between the inside of your body and the external world. Energetic boundaries are like skin but for your energy body.

• Picture or feel roots growing out of the lowest part of your body and into the ground.

• Picture or feel the bubble of the space around you. Notice how far your senses can perceive the space around you. If you close your eyes, can you sense what is happening in the room around you? Can you sense what is happening beyond the room you are in?

• Picture or feel the bubble of space around you becoming an actual bubble or an egg shell. What is inside the egg shell is yours, what is outside of it belongs to the universe. Your guides or the bubble itself evict any energy that is not the right fit for you.

• Now, picture or feel the bubble filling with whatever color your body and spirit crave.

• Sit inside that energy like you would a bath.

Communication Boundaries:

• Think of the person who most challenges your boundaries, comes into your space, or expects energetic or emotional labor from you.

• In your mind or out loud, say to that person three times, “No,” “Leave,” “Ew stop,” or “Go away.” Imagine yourself walking away from that person without inviting a response from them.

• Notice any objections that come up in your mind. Are there spaces where your mind thinks it is dangerous for you to enforce a boundary? Are there spaces where your mind thinks you need to comply or compromise your boundaries in order to be safe? Journal about the objections that come up or talk through them with a trusted person.

• What would the benefits of enforcing a boundary be for you?

• Do those benefits make it worth enforcing your boundaries despite your fears? Why/why not?

• If you choose not to enforce your boundaries, how can you take responsibility for the consequences to yourself and others?

Circle casting (attribution goes to the Cabot Kent Hermetic Temple for this):

• Find a wand, which can be a stick or kitchen spoon, but should be wood the length of your inner elbow to the tip of your longest finger. In a meditative state, tell the wand that you clear it of all positive and negative energies and forces that may come to do you harm. Then, tell the wand that you charge it to catalyze your thoughts and deeds to your will.

• Walking clockwise in a circle, say, “I cast this circle to protect me from all positive or negative energies or forces that may come to do me harm.”

• Walk two more times clockwise, and on the final turn, say, “The circle is cast. So shall it be.”

• Inside of the circle, do whatever magical or personal work you want to do. You can cast a circle before you go to sleep if you have disrupted sleep, too. The only problem here is if you have pets, they may break your circle and make it less effective.

• When your work is done, walk counterclockwise in the same circle and say, “The circle is open and remains unbroken. I send it out to the cosmos to do my bidding.” When I do my morning thought work and cast it as a spell, I say, “I send it out to the cosmos to contribute to healing myself and the collective unconscious.”

Protection potion (I follow Laurie Cabot’s protection potion from her Book of Shadows):

• 1/8 Ounce of Almond Oil

• 10 Drops of Patchouli Oil

• 10 Drops of Frankincense Oil

• 10 Drops of Myrrh Oil

• ¼ Teaspoon of Mandrake Root

• ¼ Teaspoon of Sea Salt

• Pinch of hair from your familiar

If you do not have these ingredients, you can use salt water as protection potion in a pinch. Tell the potion that its job is to provide protection for you and all it touches.

Boundaries and Harm. The principles of witchcraft say that you should do what you want, provided it does not cause harm. Sometimes people believe that if we enforce our boundaries and make choices that are healthy for us, it harms them.

This can feel confusing because we do not want to harm anyone, but it is also not appropriate to comply with harm to ourselves.

In that way it is important to remember these rules:

1. Suffering creates more suffering, but safety creates more safety. You being safe does not cause harm to someone else.

2. Putting energy toward someone who causes harm supports that harm.

3. You may have a duty of care to someone vulnerable, like a child or animal, but a caregiving relationship has inherent power imbalance. Caregiving relationships are not mutual or romantic. Most often caregiving relationships with peers cause harm on both sides.

4. From a space of safety, you are better able to offer support to others. Your safety is your responsibility and your first duty to your body.

Thanks for reading and bringing your magick to the world! If reality feels confusing and consequences feel unfair, ground into your energy and the information you get from your body. What is one safe thing you can do today?

Spell Casting as Protest

Protesting for Introverts (and Extroverts)

A spell is essentially an intention spoken out loud. Spells are most effective when they are linked to our bodies and our unconscious belief systems because these are spells we intentionally and unintentionally take action to pull into reality. This is why healing our unconscious programming is important for intentional spell casting. And also, you can’t wait until you’re totally healed to cast spells because you’re already doing it.

Right now, most places in the world, there is some sort of interaction between fascist violence and community care and safety. This is true from Congo to Palestine to Venezuela to Ukraine to Tibet to the government takeover of US cities and kidnappings and murder of citizens. Many of us have seen this interaction in our personal lives as well, realizing that we may have idealized relationships that were not actually safe. In each of these spaces we see oppressive and homogenizing forces encountering community values of safety, care, and inclusion.

Protest energy is essentially spell energy, and whether you protest from home or on the streets, establishing spaces of safety and care is an act that matters.

This is one image that to me captures the power of individual intent in protest:

(Polka Dotted Dress lady in New York flipping off ICE tanks. If you know who I should be crediting here for the photo and the protest spell, let me know, but it was not immediately obvious to me in my search, so my apologies if it’s you.)

“Fuck ICE” or “abolish ICE” are examples of protest spells often cast in group protests in the US right now.

Some do it cute:

(Photo I took at a 2025 protest.)

For more introverted protesters, one way to put this spell into being is to draw into your mind’s eye the thing or person you want banished from your space and then imagine drawing a white X over that image and casting it out of your mind. This acts as a protest banishment.

This is how one local store captured that protest spell as a visual:

(Shout out to Noisette Pastry Kitchen, which, as Jack Kerouac would say offers baked goods that are “delicious and, of course, nutritious.”)

Each of these examples show how we can use our individual correspondences and what resonates with us personally to draw out a protest spell. Some of us may protest in groups, on streets, at home, or in cookies. All of this matters.

For the most effective protest-spell casting, we can craft intentional spells, and I’ll go into examples of that below.

Superstition Versus Intention

One of the most important steps in making our protest intentional is to understand the difference between superstition and intention.

Superstition is essentially fear about technicalities. This can keep us stuck and self-scrutinizing. When we are vigilant that we might do something wrong, we are not taking action and this means that we are not protesting or creating the lives we want. This is the most basic way we let oppression win.

We can honor the power of the spell casting that we are already doing, understand that the spells we cast have impact, and also release superstitious fear.

Intention is a unification of your mind, body, and spirit toward a purpose. This means that your conscious self sets a direction for all of your parts to follow. If your body or spirit is not aligned with this direction, you will experience dissonance, and this gives you the opportunity to do personal alignment work, which is honestly both liberating and devastating to the institutions that keep us oppressed.

Banishing and Welcoming

Whether you are protest spell casting for yourself, another person, or for your local community, the most effective protest spells include what you are welcoming, even if you are primarily casting a protection spell.

So, for example, “fuck ICE” is essentially a version of a banishment spell. It is not the most clear language because we use the word “fuck” to mean so many things in English, and so “abolish ICE” is clearer banishment language, but I don’t think Spirit is confused by what we mean when we say “fuck ICE.” Getting too caught up in particulars like that can be an example of superstition fear taking over.

In witchcraft we typically say, “I cast this circle to protect us from all positive and negative energies and forces that may come to do us harm.” That is too long for a protest sign, maybe, but the sentiment is similar to banishment. Essentially, “should you bring harm to this space, that harm will be visited on you instead” or “this space is sacred and surrounded by safety” or “I’m rubber and you’re glue.”

Most protest focuses on banishment AND the most effective protests also remember to include what we want to see in place of the oppression we are banishing. For example, most protests remind us of neighborhood solidarity, music, dance, art, safety and support, diversity, belonging.

So, when you are creating your protest signs or casting your spells at home, what do you want to bring in? That is just as important, if not more important, as what you want to banish and protect against.

Protest-Spell Crafting

These are the steps I recommend for crafting a protest spell. You can talk these through with a friend, write them in a journal, or think them through in voice memos to yourself (whatever works for you):

1. What do you want to banish from your life or environment? What are you protesting? (e.g. “I want to banish violence” or “I want to banish government intrusion on my community.”)

2. What are ways that you might benefit from status quo? (e.g. I don’t like change, I want people to follow the rules as I see them, I don’t like seeing people upset, I don’t want to disappoint people, etc.). The more honest you are about this one, the more effective your spell will be.

3. If you imagine the banishment completely successful, and in its place, you find the ideal outcome for you, what would that be? (e.g. safety for everyone in my community, thriving business, supportive friendships, equitable and supportive leadership, etc.)

4. Be honest with yourself about whether you are willing to release the ways you benefit from status quo in order to welcome the ideal outcome for you. This is uncomfortable, but ultimately so is status quo. Be brave!

Now, write your spell. “No” is a powerful spell if it is paired with what you do want. So if your spell is a protest sign, it may look like “No violence” or “violence” on one side and then, “Safety for All” on the other side. If you’re good at creating fun slogans, you can get creative with this, but clarity is important.

If your spell is for you at home, I suggest writing it like this (just as an example you can adjust to your answers above), “I, [name], release violence from my life. I release attachment to status quo and resistance to change. I welcome safety for all in my community.” Then, light a candle to honor your intention or integrate this into your other altar practices. I like to burn spells like this (safely) because fire witchcraft is important to my practice.

Because the human brain does not hear the negative, and positive statements are more effective, it also works, especially for protest signs, to only include the statement of the ideal result you want. For example, it is more effective to tell someone “Please walk” than to say “Don’t run” because the human brain just hears “run.” Take this into consideration in your spells, but in my experience clear banishment in the form of a simple “no” can be helpful and effective.

Sabotage Spells

A sabotage spell happens when we speak into being the future we do not want to see. For example, many people say, “Voting doesn’t matter” or “It’s all fucked anyway” or “Things will never change.” Because the people who say these things usually want the opposite of what they’re speaking into being, these are sabotage spells.

Sabotage spells are something we all do, so there’s no need to fall into superstitious fear if this happens to you, feel bad if you catch yourself doing this, or suffer from the self-righteous expectation that you may be immune from this. If you accidentally speak into being a sabotage spell , all you need to do is bring that vision of the future or statement to your mind and then imagine a putting a white X over it. This neutralizes it so that you can move toward being more intentional with the spells you cast.

As Within So Without

One of the Hermetic principles that we follow in witchcraft and astrology is “as above, so below” and “as within, so without.” Spells are meant to transform us, align us, and magnetize what we do want to bring into being.

While spells have power in our outer environment that power primarily comes from the transformative power they have inside of us.

So, for example, a spell to try to control someone else’s karma or fate will bounce back to you in an unpleasant way that draws your attention to the issues you have around control. (For example, I did an ill-advised spell to try to welcome into being the Harris presidency and spent six months with rashes on my arms, which taught me a lot about control, ideals, and my relationship with my body.) Learn from me and don’t fuck with other people’s fate or karma.

Another example of this is that in an earlier post, I offered a hex on white supremacy. I highly recommend this to anyone, and also the spell is primarily meant to cleanse us of the infection of white supremacy within, so that we also heal our external environments. For me, my experience of this spell was like an exorcism of perfectionism from my body. Intense and incredibly liberating. And (did I say this already?) intense.

I say this because as you think about what you want to bring into being, consider your internal world and your body. As you cast a protest spell, you will receive the conditions to create that result within yourself, and sometimes that is hard.

Get support! Access therapy, coaching, yoga, basketball, or whatever modality supports you. Reach out if the modality for you is astrology!

Thanks for participating! If you or someone you know would like to dive into their astrology and personal magic, sign up for a consultation here.

Hex White Supremacy

A ritual of protection from the harms of unfair favoritism for whiteness

This is a hex for white supremacy that I wrote, which you can use to begin the process or continue the process of releasing yourself from the harms of white supremacy. This is not intended to be associated with any particular witchcraft tradition, but is based on my experience of working with clients and myself on the essentials of releasing from the oppression of white supremacy and my personal experience of magic and manifestation.

If you are doubtful about your ability to engage with magic or manifestation, you can read the spell and think about how to engage with these concepts safely. Then, start to notice how your actions and inactions impact the world around you. That is enough as a first step.

If you are curious or confident about your magic and manifestation powers, make this right and safe for you and those around you!

This is the handwritten text, and it is typed out below (scroll all the way down) for better accessibility:

This is the text of the hex on white supremacy I wrote, and it is typed below for accessibility

What is a hex? My personal definition of a hex is “A ritual spell of protection from active harm.” This is not necessarily the definition others use, and some use hexes to cause harm, which I believe to be contrary to the essential principles of witchcraft. People can turn anything into a weapon, though.

If you use a different definition of hex, you can keep that, but don’t come at me about my definition.

The primary principle of witchcraft is “an it harm none, do what ye will.” This contains within it personal sovereignty as an essential right and respect of the sovereignty of others as a guide for conduct.

One way to think about respecting the sovereignty of others is that a hex should avoid interfering with the karma of others. This is because any time you put your fingers into another person’s karmic cycle, you get karmic backsplash. The less you agree with someone else’s behavior, the less you should insert yourself into their karma.

What is white supremacy? White supremacy is a system of favoritism for whiteness and qualities associated with whiteness. The concept of biological race was invented in the 15th century by people with lighter skin (“whiteness”) in order to justify theft of goods and services from people with darker skin. Unfair favoritism for whiteness is a source of economic, physical, and emotional dysfunction and suffering.

All of us enforce white supremacy in one way or another in western society, unless we are actively working to unlearn the assumptions and undo our participation in the systems that uphold white supremacy. The harms from white supremacy also impact all of us, even those who appear to benefit from it. Perpetuating unfairness creates more unfairness. Likewise acting with courage creates more courage.

White supremacy and having light skin are very different things. Healthy honoring of white ancestral history does not ask for unfair favoritism and is not violent against other cultural backgrounds. For example, I have Celtic ancestral origins, and the Celts, like other cultures, honored seasons, the earth, and community. We have also perpetrated incredible harms against people different than us. Both can be true. We can be accountable for harms and also honor our abilities to learn and grow.

Timing. You can hex white supremacy anytime, but as I am writing this we are starting the new calendar year and heading toward a Cancer full moon. This feels, to me, like an auspicious time to bring energy of what it truly means to be in community to my spells.

The moon will be in Cancer in the early morning of Saturday, January 3, 2025, and so Friday the 2nd or Saturday the 3rd capture this full moon energy if you want to use it. The full moon means that the Sun will be in Capricorn and the Moon will be in Cancer. Capricorn energy is associated with institutions and systems, and Cancer energy is associated with loyalty to the community. This is a good time to root out places where those manifest in unhealthy ways and commit to healthy expressions of both energies.

Do not place a timing expectation on this spell. This means, you may have to do ongoing work related to releasing white supremacy from your life, and this spell marks a commitment to do that work, not an expectation that it happen with no effort.

Steps. These are the steps to safely conduct this spell. If you follow a witchcraft tradition, use your system for casting your circle as you would with any other spell. This is not meant to replace your tradition.

1. Write out the spell on a clean sheet of paper. Parchment paper (like resume paper) is recommended, and it is recommended to use non-recycled paper so that old writings don’t mingle with your writing.

2. Gather representations of the elements and any protective deities, spirits, and ancestors who help and support you. For example, a candle can represent fire; water in a cup (I recommend a cup with no writing) represents water; music or a feather can represent air; and a crystal, rock, or oil you love can represent earth. Don’t overthink this. The important part is your intention, not the technicalities. If you intend to burn the spell, also gather a cauldron, pot, or other fire-safe container to put the burning spell into.

3. Go to a quiet space where you will not be interrupted. Either cast a circle or imagine yourself inside of a protective energy bubble.

4. Once you have a clear picture in your mind of the protective bubble around you, say out loud or in your head, “I clear this space of all positive and negative energies that may do me harm.” Invite any supportive spirits, guides, or ancestors to be with you.

5. Light your candle if you have one (SAFELY! If you light a candle, make sure you are in a fire-safe space with a fire-safe container).

6. Say the spell out loud, or if it is not safe to do that in your space, read through it and say it in your head. If you wish to burn your spell, do that now. Otherwise, you can set it aside.

7. Put out the candle using your fingers or a candle snuffer. Do not use this candle for another spell, but you can still light it and burn it down, remembering this spell.

8. Say, “This circle is open and remains unbroken. I send it to the cosmos to do my bidding.”

Text of the spell:

I, [name], ask in the name of the Goddess and the God to be granted freedom from the oppression of white supremacy.

I ask that my community and I be protected from all those who would use positive or negative energies of white supremacy to cause harm. I ask that the positive or negative energies of white supremacist harm be returned to those who send them out, for the growth and thriving of all.

I honor the beauty of Blackness.

I ask for the courage to encounter conflict, understanding that fear of conflict protects white supremacy.

I embrace my own flaws and mistakes, banishing perfectionism and defensiveness that would protect white supremacy.

I honor the space my body takes up and the sovereignty of the space others occupy. I release white supremacist favoritism toward smallness.

I embrace the wisdom of subjective experience and reality, releasing the deception of objectivity, falseness of exclusivity, and limitations of either/or thinking.

I ask for ears to hear feedback about where I have hoarded power or resources, and where I have tolerated others hoarding power or resources, that I might be restored to healthy and thriving community.

I release favoritism to whiteness.

I ask that my internal changes be reflected in my external environment.

I ask this be correct and for the good of all, harming none.

In no way will this spell reverse or place upon me any curse.

So mote it be.

UPDATE: I cast this spell on January 2, 2026, in the evening. This was very different than the Patriarchy Hex for me, and the experience was more like an exorcism than a gentle acknowledgment. I was staying in an AirBnB in Palm Springs, and I set off the fire alarm, broke the circle, and later experienced intense shame around my own judgments about what it means to get in trouble. My guess is that this spell will be experienced very differently by white people like me than people of other races, though I cannot be sure until you tell me your experiences.

Thanks for participating! If you or someone you know would like to dive into their astrology and personal magic, sign up for a consultation here.

Hex the Patriarchy

A ritual of protection from the harms of unfair favoritism for maleness

This is a hex for the patriarchy that I wrote, which you can use to begin the process or continue the process of releasing yourself from the harms of the patriarchy. This is not intended to be associated with any particular witchcraft tradition, but is based on my experience of working with hundreds of clients on the essentials of releasing from the oppression of the patriarchy and my personal experience of magic and manifestation.

If you are doubtful about your ability to engage with magic or manifestation, you can read the spell and think about how to engage with these concepts safely. Then, start to notice how your actions and inactions impact the world around you. That is enough as a first step.

If you are curious or confident about your magic and manifestation powers, make this right and safe for you and those around you!

This is the handwritten text, and it is typed out below (scroll all the way down) for better accessibility:

Photo by me of the spell, which is typed below.

What is a hex? My personal definition of a hex is “A ritual spell of protection from active harm.” This is not necessarily the definition others use, and some use hexes to cause harm, which I believe to be contrary to the essential principles of witchcraft. People can turn anything into a weapon, though.

If you use a different definition of hex, you can keep that, but don’t come at me about my definition.

The primary principle of witchcraft is “an it harm none, do what ye will.” This contains within it personal sovereignty as an essential right and respect of the sovereignty of others as a guide for conduct.

One way to think about respecting the sovereignty of others is that a hex should avoid interfering with the karma of others. This is because any time you put your fingers into another person’s karmic cycle, you get karmic backsplash. The less you agree with someone else’s behavior, the less you should insert yourself into their karma.

What is the patriarchy? The patriarchy is a system of favoritism for fathers and first sons. Patriarchy as an economic concept that has fundamental anti-merit flaws and also has been warped into a number of cultural beliefs that unfairly favor men and maleness over other genders, such as rigid gender roles, infantilization of femininity, exceptionalism for upholders of patriarchy, forced birth policies, imposter syndrome, different body standards for men than other genders, stigmatization of emotion, and coercive silencing around abuse.

All of us enforce the patriarchy in one way or another in western society, unless we are actively working to unlearn the assumptions and undo our participation in the systems that uphold patriarchy. The harms from patriarchy also impact all of us, even those who appear to benefit from it. Perpetuating unfairness creates more unfairness. Likewise acting with courage creates more courage.

Patriarchy and masculinity are very different. Healthy masculinity does not ask for unfair favoritism.

Timing. You can hex the patriarchy anytime, but as I am writing this we are approaching the longest night in the northern hemisphere. There is a beautiful new moon in Sagittarius, and this feels, to me, like an auspicious time to bring nurturing, protective, and true energy to my engagement with harmful systems.

Night and the moon tend to be associated with the feminine principle, while day and the sun are associated with the masculine principle. Everyone has a spectrum of gender within them, not limited to masculine and feminine, and so when I say masculine and feminine I am not talking about men versus women.

Do not place a timing expectation on this spell.

Steps. These are the steps to safely conduct this spell. If you follow a witchcraft tradition, use your system for casting your circle as you would with any other spell. This is not meant to replace your tradition.

1. Write out the spell on a clean sheet of paper. Parchment paper (like resume paper) is recommended, and it is recommended to use non-recycled paper so that old writings don’t mingle with your writing.

2. Gather representations of the elements and any protective deities, spirits, and ancestors who help and support you. For example, a candle can represent fire; water in a cup (I recommend a cup with no writing) represents water; music or a feather can represent air; and a crystal, rock, or oil you love can represent earth. Don’t overthink this. The important part is your intention, not the technicalities. If you intend to burn the spell, also gather a cauldron, pot, or other fire-safe container to put the burning spell into.

3. Go to a quiet space where you will not be interrupted. Either cast a circle or imagine yourself inside of a protective energy bubble.

4. Once you have a clear picture in your mind of the protective bubble around you, say out loud or in your head, “I clear this space of all positive and negative energies that may do me harm.” Invite any supportive spirits, guides, or ancestors to be with you.

5. Light your candle if you have one (SAFELY! If you light a candle, make sure you are in a fire-safe space with a fire-safe container).

6. Say the spell out loud, or if it is not safe to do that in your space, read through it and say it in your head. If you wish to burn your spell, do that now. Otherwise, you can set it aside.

7. Put out the candle using your fingers or a candle snuffer. Do not use this candle for another spell, but you can still light it and burn it down, remembering this spell.

8. Say, “This circle is open and remains unbroken. I send it to the cosmos to do my bidding.”

Text of the spell:

I, [name], ask in the name of the Goddess and the God to be granted freedom from the oppression of patriarchy.

I ask that my community and I be protected from all those who would use positive or negative energies of patriarchy to cause harm. I ask that the positive or negative energies of patriarchal harm be returned to those who send them out, for the growth and thriving of all.

I ask for courage that my words and deeds align with fairness and equity for all genders, that I may correct patriarchal oppression when I see it, and that I rise to this challenge.

I ask for my eyes to be opened to any way I uphold the unfair advantages of maleness, so that I may return to balance.

I ask for my ears to be open to those who would reveal my blind spots about ways I uphold unfair advantages of maleness, so that I may return to balance.

I ask that the correction I make internally be reflected in my external environment.

I ask this be for the good of all, harming none.

In no way will this spell reverse or place upon me any curse.

So mote it be.

Thanks for participating! If you or someone you know would like to dive into their astrology and personal magic, sign up for a consultation here.

UPDATE: I cast this spell on December 17, 2025, and this was quite a mellow, affirming experience for me. In the weeks after, I was confronted with the experience of using the male gaze and scrutiny against myself. In all, this has been a supportive experience for me.