Enfys J. Book [they/them]

Eight golden-brown Schoggiweggli (Swiss Chocolate Buns), on a baking rack, fresh out of the oven.

Update: Here's how they turned out!

Schoggiweggli (Swiss Chocolate Buns) A recipe for Schoggiweggli (Swiss Chocolate Buns)! These homemade milk buns are studded with dark chocolate pieces and baked until golden.

I've been sick for a week, and tonight I finally had the energy to bake again.
I'm making a spin on this, by adding orange zest and using orange-infused dark chocolate.
https://tarasmulticulturaltable.com/schoggiweggli-swiss-chocolate-buns/

In case you need a surprisingly good Rush/Strongbad mashup in your life...here you go. https://youtu.be/3cRz00MKNFE?si=1ORzPqIIJ2XJsGDb

Against a brick background painted in the colors of the genderqueer flag, the cover of "Genderqueer Menopause" is superimposed, along with the quote, "This book covers all the sticky, tricky details and feelings associated with going through midlife hormonal and and other body changes as a genderqueer person." -Enfys J. Book

It's awesome to see so many people excited about this book! Check out my review: https://majorarqueerna.com/genderqueer-menopause-offers-essential-insights-for-trans-and-nonbinary-people/
#Genderqueer #LGBTQ

Trans Girl Scouts Sell 330,000 Boxes Of Cookies In Public Outpouring Of Support The total boxes sold is the highest in the history of EITM's trans girl scout cookie list.

1. In an incredible public outpouring of support, trans girl scouts on our girl scout cookie list have sold over 330,000 boxes of cookies.

Parents report to us that they are in tears from the support.

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The Notorious LTZ (Laura Tempest Zakroff) launched a Kickstarter for a New England Folk Oracle Set, and it looks STUNNING! Go grab those early bird rewards while you can!

http://kck.st/4rQoqwG

Against a brick background painted in the colors of the genderqueer flag, the cover of "Genderqueer Menopause" is superimposed, along with the quote, "This book covers all the sticky, tricky details and feelings associated with going through midlife hormonal and and other body changes as a genderqueer person." -Enfys J. Book

After a number of dysphoria-inducing experiences with the medical community in an attempt to manage perimenopause symptoms, this book brought me a breath of fresh air. https://majorarqueerna.com/genderqueer-menopause-offers-essential-insights-for-trans-and-nonbinary-people/
#LGBTQ #Genderqueer

Against a background of someone writing with a quill while surrounded by witchy artifacts, the cover of "Witches Among Us" is superimposed, along with the quote, "This is the book to hand to friends or family members who want to understand why someone would practice witchcraft." -Enfys J. Book

While reading "Witches Among Us" by Thorn Mooney I decided every witch should own two copies of it, so they have one to lend out.
https://majorarqueerna.com/witches-among-us-is-the-perfect-gift-for-the-pagan-curious/
#WitchSky

Enfys Book, a pink-and-black-curly-haired pale-skinned human with purple glasses, wears a long-sleeved sage green tee shirt that says "ICE is temporary - Minnesota is forever" in the shape of the state of Minnesota.

I really love my new shirt from The Birdhive https://birdhivedesigns.com/

Against a background of someone writing with a quill while surrounded by witchy artifacts, the cover of "Witches Among Us" is superimposed, along with the quote, "This is the book to hand to friends or family members who want to understand why someone would practice witchcraft." -Enfys J. Book

It's extremely rare for me to read a book on witchcraft and think, "I should buy a copy of this book for my dad," but here we are.

Full review of "Witches Among Us" by Thorn Mooney: https://majorarqueerna.com/witches-among-us-is-the-perfect-gift-for-the-pagan-curious/
#WitchSky

Enfys Book, a pale-skinned magenta-and-black-haired human with a side shave, wearing elf ears with plastic beads hanging from them, a skirt made of strips of tulle in every color of the rainbow, a black bodice over a black button-down shirt, sunset eye makeup, and a sparkly magenta fascinator hat with a striped spider on it.

Mid-body selfie of Enfys Book, a pale-skinned magenta-and-black-haired human with a side shave, wearing elf ears with plastic beads hanging from them, a skirt made of strips of tulle in every color of the rainbow, a black bodice over a black button-down shirt, sunset eye makeup, and a sparkly magenta fascinator hat with a striped spider on it.

My gala look for Sacred Space/Between the Worlds: "Deranged Circus Elf."

A member of my extended family is working on an Android app designed to provide good audio access to Project Gutenberg. To submit it to the Google Play store, he needs at least 20 testers to use the app regularly for 14 days. Testers can be blind or sighted, and both are wanted so their […]

Updated Trans Legal Risk Assessment Map
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans-national-legal-risk-assessment-a5d

I found myself talking about @pluralistic's books a surprising amount today, considering I'm at a metaphysical conference. #WitchesTalkAboutTheInternet

Against a background image showing tarot cards spread across a red tablecloth, the cover of "Tarot By Tempest" by Laura Tempesst Zakroff hovers, along with the quote, "A vital, original, and enjoyable guide through the art of tarot reading." -Enfys J. Book

ICYMI! I'm so excited to see Tempest at Sacred Space this weekend!
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"Tarot By Tempest" is all about math and the relationships between the numbers at the core of a standard 78-card Tarot deck. Full review […]

[Original post on kind.social]

A promo image showing Enfys J Book inside a circle that says Sacred Space & Between the Worlds and below it says "I'm presenting!" February 19th-22nd College Park, Maryland

I'm a featured teacher at Sacred Space/Between the Worlds this weekend. I'm presenting a workshop on queer rites of passage, a ritual for queer sovereignty and blessing, and I'm on two panels (including one on queerness and magickal practice that's going to be 🌶️🌶️). If you're there, come say hi!

Against a background image showing tarot cards spread across a red tablecloth, the cover of "Tarot By Tempest" by Laura Tempesst Zakroff hovers, along with the quote, "A vital, original, and enjoyable guide through the art of tarot reading." -Enfys J. Book

"Tarot By Tempest" is all about math and the relationships between the numbers at the core of a standard 78-card Tarot deck. Full review:
https://majorarqueerna.com/unlocking-tarot-reading-with-numbers-in-tarot-by-tempest/

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book […]

[Original post on kind.social]

Solar Eclipse in Aquarius 2026 – and Tarot Readings for Every Zodiac Sign The Solar Eclipse in Aquarius shows up on February 17th, 2026, at 7:01 AM ET, right on the Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse! Plus, this is a rare “Ring of Fire” where the Moon moves over the Sun in such a way that all you can see is a “ring of light.” Whoa! Long story short: this one packs a punch. Eclipses tend to be intense, so there is always an unpredictable edge when they arrive on the scene. In far-out Aquarius, this feels like a reset button for the collective. Something new is being born. A revolution? Cultural shift? Maybe both. The energy is dynamic, the people want change, and this lunation says: bring it! New Moons are a time for beginnings – out with the old, in with the new. Doors may open suddenly while others slam shut. Unexpected opportunities might point toward a new destiny. Remain where you are? Nope. It’s time to go forth and see what is possible. Remember, Aquarius is future-oriented. That means a new way is being shown. Don’t get left behind. Embrace change, even if it feels uncertain. Other Aquarius themes are friendship, humanitarianism, technology, and community. As more people become disenchanted with social media and AI, this Eclipse might spark an exodus. Analog life might suddenly make more sense than being tethered to phones that divorce us from human contact. Big tech is counting on AI to be the next thing, but the revolt is growing louder. This could be the beginning of a mass tipping point as the collective decides the environment is more important than lining billionaires’ pockets. On a personal level, friendships may change. If your social circle no longer fits, move on. Seek new communities, groups, and alliances. Aquarius is also associated with social justice. After a rough year of civil liberties being violated and rights taken away, something might give around this day. The pendulum wants to swing – and hit back hard. This Solar Eclipse is framed by a Mercury-Jupiter trine and the Sun’s entry into Pisces, a watery combo that means actions are fueled by emotion and compassion, both before and after the Eclipse. There is only one way to go from here: forward with love. And let’s not forget: a few days after the Eclipse, Saturn and Neptune align at 0º Aries, a rare occurrence that marks a significant fresh start. No matter how badly we mucked it up, we can begin again. Pay close attention to this week.- The cosmos seems to be setting us up for a redo. It’s the beginning of something much bigger. Giddy up! ### Here are some mini Solar Eclipse in Aquarius 2026 Tarot Readings for each sign of the zodiac using The Dawn Aquarius Tarot! **Aries:** Ace of Swords – Cut ties with the past. Your new beginning starts NOW. **Taurus:** Ace of Pentacles – An opportunity to improve your finances emerges soon. Say yes. **Gemini:** Three of Wands – Your ship is sailing in at last. Success is yours for the taking. **Cancer:** Justice – You’ve paid a huge karmic debt. Let it go. New options are available. **Leo:** Ace of Wands – The doors of opportunity are open. Carpe diem! Seize every day (and offer)! **Virgo:** Knight of Swords – You will be moving through a stormy period. Thankfully, you’re armed and ready. **Libra:** The Star – Your hopes and wishes are coming to fruition. Everything prospers you now. **Scorpio:** Queen of Pentacles – Continue tending to the seeds you planted. What you focus on grows wildly. **Sagittarius:** The Empress – You’re entering your abundant empire era. A rich harvest will be at your feet soon. **Capricorn:** Queen of Wands – Creativity blossoms. New ideas are at your fingertips. Express your bold self! **Aquarius:** Ace of Cups – Your cup overflows with love, joy, and possibility. The good vibes keep coming. **Pisces:** Six of Swords – You’re embarking on a new journey. Why look back when there is so much to look forward to? Blessings, Theresa @ Theresa Reed | The Tarot Lady 2026 **Got a business? Want to learn how to rock the cosmos for your best business year ever? Subscribe to the Astro-Biz Digest, my exclusive weekly forecast for entrepreneurs who want to ensure impeccable business timing.** Because in business, timing is EVERYTHING. Get your subscription popping here at The Astro-Biz Digest. **Extended card of the day interpretations, early sneak peeks, political astrology, classes, and more:** it’s all happening over on my Patreon account! Join now, stay as long as you want, and come ‘and go as you please. It’s all good! **Books:** Learn how to read tarot like the High Priestess with _Tarot: No Questions Asked – Mastering the Art of Intuitive Reading_. Get your astro-lingo down pat with _Astrology For Real Life: A No B.S. 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Happy solar eclipse in Aquarius - a rare "ring of fire" eclipse, too!
Details on what this eclipse means from astrologer Theresa Reed:
https://www.thetarotlady.com/solar-eclipse-in-aquarius-2026-tarot-readings-zodiac-sign/
#Astrology #WitchSky

Worked extra long today. Immediately spent an hour after that making dinner. Ate. Did more chores. Did some work on taxes. Finally have one precious hour to sit down and play BG3 with my spouse...and it's 10 minutes and 39% in downloading a massive update.😭

Got a topic you'd like to see me cover? Let me know! I'm particularly interested in writing more tips for allies, since those posts seem to be the most popular ones.

In the last year or so, I've depriorotized my blog for a variety of reasons, but mostly because I've been focusing on external publicity opportunities and conferences to promote "Queer Rites."

But I miss blogging, so I'm recommitting to my blog on majorarqueerna.com this year. Every Tuesday […]

European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women" The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."

Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.

It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Our latest.

A crocheted cactus in a purple pot with a tiny flower on top. It has eyes and a small smile.

Went to a local queer craft night tonight. Was instantly adopted by a fellow mask-wearer who invited me to sit next to them and their air purifier. People were very nice! I crocheted a happy little cactus! #QueerCommunity

Photo of a printed research review called "A Contemporary View of Menopausal Hormone Therapy" with blue blocks over some little bits of text.

Just want to shout out some incredible allyship from my doc. Before she printed out a research review for me on hormones and menopause, she took the time to block out everyplace it said "women" and said, "anyplace you see a block, just read it as 'people.'" I love her so much. 😭🥰

Cover of Thumper Forge's "The Chaos Apple" against a neutral background with a stack of books. The quote "I read this in the most chaotic way possible. I think Eris would approve." shows in the background.

Want to read about a book I consumed in the most chaotic way possible, and why I recommend it for every magickal practitioner's library? https://majorarqueerna.com/the-chaos-apple-is-full-of-silly-delights-and-rare-insights/

#WitchSky #ChaosApple #Llewellyn

TIL you can follow BlueSky accounts in an RSS reader without creating a BlueSky account yourself. Just add /rss to the end of any profile URL. (I imagine this does not work for private accounts or people who restrict visibility to BlueSky users only.)

OMG yes.
Get tix for GENDER HEIST - a livestream of an all-trans table read of "Oceans 11"
https://secure.givelively.org/event/trans-stories/joy-who-lived-2026/gender-heist
Featuring:
Vico Ortiz (Our Flag Means Death)
Ruha Taslimi (Dropout, Pretty Gay)
Sabrina Wu (Murderbot)
Petey Gibson (Broad […]

Cover of 2026 zine, "What's Up With COVID and What Can We Do About It? 2026 Edition"

New downloadable COVID zine by Hazel Newlevant, complete with citations. https://newlevant.com/COVIDzine The landscape has changed a lot since 2020 but news isn't being shared widely about the long-term health risks & best prevention techniqiues. Please read and share!

Cover of 2026 zine "What's Up with COVID and What Can We Do About It - 2026 Edition"

New downloadable COVID zine by Hazel Newlevant, complete with citations. https://newlevant.com/COVIDzine The landscape has changed a lot since 2020 but news isn't being shared widely about the long-term health risks. Please read and share!

Ancestor Work is an Exercise in Facing Uncomfortable Truths _Today’s offering comes to us from Rev. Ron Padrón. Rev. Padrón (he/him/his) is the creator of White Rose Witching. He is a gay Cuban-American hedge priest from the swamps of Florida, now living in the mid-Atlantic with his husband and their small werewolf. He is specifically interested in divination, Queer Ancestor veneration and necromancy, bio-regional druidry, and spiritual activism. He has presented at gatherings such as the Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival, Hallowed Homecoming, Free Spirit Gathering, and Sacred Space. He is a co-founder and co-editor of a punk spirituality zine, ALTAR PUNK, an interfaith project focused on reclaiming faith and spirituality from nationalist movements, and the founder of the PaganPunk Community Grimoire project, a collection of short zines on varying pagan topics._ * * * Ancestor work is inherently historical research. It involves an understanding and appreciation of the past. This can take many forms, depending on practice or culture, ranging from oral history, digging through old letters to learn more about someone, or scouring databases to piece together the lives of lesser known figures. My own practice of Queer Ancestor work tends to fall more into the latter, attempting to uncover the erased and hidden histories of same-sex or same-gender loving folks who lived before me. This work has taught me the importance of engaging honestly with the histories that you find; otherwise you run the risk of slipping into idolatry and hero worship. [Pixabay] We tend to cling to stories of our ancestors that highlight their valor and virtue. We want to walk in the footsteps of heroes, to continue the good work of those who came before us. We too often ignore, or actively erase, the uncomfortable parts of our past. Some of our ancestors were assholes, even the ones who did important work. Some of our ancestors were bad people who did horrible things. People too often avoid acknowledging the darker parts of our history because they assume it requires them to take on a mantle of guilt, sometimes for things that happened a century ago or more. In reality, being honest about our ancestors’ legacies means _we_ _take responsibility for repairing the harm they caused_. Guilt and shame are not necessary components of an ancestor honoring practice, but honesty and accountability are. When we choose to honor a lineage, we cannot cherry pick only what makes our ancestor – and by extension, us – look good. We take on the responsibility of sitting in the totality of the legacy they have passed down to us. The modern era of the United States of America has been a long, slow burn of a dishonest recounting of our history and insincere relationship with our ancestors by those in power. By “power” I do not only mean political power, but also cultural power. Those communities and demographics whose stranglehold over the country situates their identities as the default norm, while the rest of us are “special interests.” We see this in the sanctioned narratives in schoolbooks, the propagandized versions of history that get churned out in annual miniseries events, and live action tourist-trap reenactments that dot the country. Rainbow fist [DepositPhotos] Most importantly, for this current moment at least, we also see that in the narratives being chosen by those self-identified “resistors” to the burgeoning authoritarian theocratic regime of Donald Trump. Take a look at almost any social media post or Substack manifesto and you’ll find some combination of the following: * “This isn’t who we are!” * “America right now is 1930’s Germany!” * “ICE facilities are just like Nazi concentration camps!” * “We’re becoming just like Russia/Hungary!” This is by no means an exhaustive list, but the above showcases the current mainstream reaction to search for something elsewhere to explain the current situation in the United States. These are the psychic cries of a people unwilling to reckon with their own dark history, the shadows of this country’s ancestors, manifesting before our very eyes. Are the ICE facilities reminiscent of Nazi concentration camps? Absolutely, but it bears reminding that Nazi Germany studied our treatment of Indigenous communities and Jim Crow laws as blueprints for their Nuremberg Laws and forced displacement of “undesirables.” We also don’t need to reach across the Atlantic for an example of mass imprisonment of an ethnic group during the mid-20th, century given our incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Everything we are seeing in this current moment is deeply American. There is a direct line connecting the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort to the 1919-1920 Palmer Raids and the 1837 murder of abolitionist newspaper editor Elijah Parish Lovejoy. ICE is the direct descendant of slave-catchers and stop-and-frisk and the militarization of local police over the last 20 years. The Lost Cause and the Ku Klux Klan and the German American Bund are the ancestors of The Big Lie and MAGA and its various splinter-factions. (Ironically, Madison Square Garden shows up twice in this lineage for the same reason.) Far-right social media influencers are the spiritual inheritors of AM talk radio propagandists like Rush Limbaugh and the antisemitism of “The Radio Priest” of the 1930’s, Charles Coughlin. The tech-bros are the robber barons are the Southern planters, each of which pulled the strings of government through massive wealth in their time. Every system of oppression and second-class citizenry in the United States is some variation of Jim Crow, which is itself the post-Reconstruction specter of chattel slavery. The United States is incapable of healing as long as it refuses to be honest about its past. So long as we choose to ignore uncomfortable history and turn a blind eye to the moral failures of our ancestors we remain swept up in a form of idolatry and a fanatical secular religion. The work of justice and progress will always be undermined by the shameful history we choose to bury instead of taking responsibility. Yes, we should celebrate the histories and the ancestors that highlight those moments when we live up to the ideals of the American experiment. Shout from the mountaintop the names of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, of Cesar Chavez, of Harvey Milk, of Judy Heumann, and of everyone else who didn’t make it into the history books. However, ancestor work, especially in the modern era, must consist of more than celebration and aesthetically pleasing altars curated for social media. Ancestor work in a country marked by colonization, scapegoating, and exploitative resource extraction must also include healing – generational, community, and personal. And, the first step in healing is acknowledging that something is sick. * * * _The Wild Hunt_ is not responsible for links to external content. * * * To join a conversation on this post: Visit our _The Wild Hunt_ subreddit! Point your favorite browser to https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Wild_Hunt_News/, then click “JOIN”. Make sure to click the bell, too, to be notified of new articles posted to our subreddit.

New from Rev. Ron Padrón
https://wildhunt.org/2026/02/ancestor-work-is-an-exercise-in-facing-uncomfortable-truths.html