Last updated on February 13, 2020
Many magickal practitioners are turned off by Hermetic Qabala because, at first glance, it appears to be a deeply patriarchal and hierarchal tool with strong Abrahamic underpinnings: something both familiar and often repellant to those of us brought up in conservative, Abrahamic faiths. Today, we seek tools and traditions that are egalitarian, inclusive, and empowering – why bother studying this dusty, complicated, old magical tool?
In my work with the Tree, however, I’ve found that both the glyph and its associated imagery and energy flows are decidedly queer.
Read more: Qabala is queer, and it isn’t even sneaky about it – Major Arqueerna