i was wondering if there was a spell that can expose someone for who they really are. in other words, a spell that will show someone as you see them kinda thing.

upthewitchypunx:

reluctantsonofawitch:

upthewitchypunx:

sylvaetria:

That’d be a curse, yes. I’m currently doing spellwork for a client that involves that.

I call these “veil lifting” spells and have found mine to be quiet effective. Sorry though, I don’t share spells. I just thought the naming of it could be a good place to start.

Huh. Now I’m curious if a veil lifting could also be used to stop misgendering from happening.

You could try it, but that’s not how my magical system works. Your witching may vary. in my system a veil lifting is like breaking a glamor or the projection someone puts of themselves into the world.

Misgendering, to me, is a heavy topic because you are dealing with the weight of world’s gender baggage passively absorbed by cis people as we grow up. If someone is a rigid jerk, that’s a more difficult task. Part of building spells for me is finding the holes and ways to tweak perception or small things in the world around me.

If I were to build a spell to ward against misgendering I would build it more around me and make it specific like a glamour projecting your best version of yourself. I’d do this from multiple angles like the way you look when you have multiple mirrors. I’d cast a glamour on me, and I’d make a charm to carry and probably build in a system that is rechargeable on a schedule like a spell jar that you shake daily or a candle affixed to the top and burned on a day of the week or the month or on a point in the moon’s cycle. The more the charm is embedded the less attention it needs in my system.

My trans and nonbinary friends have described misgendering as feeling like tiny knives. I’ve often wondered how that could be incorporated into trans magic. Like, a little mirror with a knife drawn on it to throw back the insult?

I could be way off base as I’m a relatively cis white woman but a very important thing in my life is to meet people where they are, not to treat a group different from me as a having a monolithic experience, and to shut up and listen when someone who experiences this world differently is speaking to their experiences.