Queer Chaos Magick: A Practical Pagan Path for Times of Change

Дата публикации: 23-07-2026 21:18:58

Life can feel overwhelming and stressful—but what if chaos is the nature of reality and our role is to harness the disorder rather than to fight against it? Change is the force at the heart of everything and that change is inherently queer, writes Devi Dillard-Wright. Queer Chaos Magick is a primer packed with practical ways that you can... Read more »

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Life can feel overwhelming and stressful—but what if chaos is the nature of reality and our role is to harness the disorder rather than to fight against it?

Change is the force at the heart of everything and that change is inherently queer, writes Devi Dillard-Wright. Queer Chaos Magick is a primer packed with practical ways that you can channel magick through the everyday life you are living right now, make space for all versions of yourself, and live into your highest potential. All you need is a journal and a willingness to look and imagine. Embracing chaos, you’ll go beyond binaries to find endless pathways to explore and potential futures to embrace, limited only by your imagination.

In a time of upheaval and uncertainty, chaos magick is a spiritual path to finding the peace you crave, exploring and embracing your gender and sexuality, and living your life to the fullest and brightest.

Keep reading for an excerpt of Queer Chaos Magick, shipping 8/3 from Microcosm HQ or coming to a Microcosm dealer near you 9/1!

Introduction

As an LGBTQIA+ person reading this book, you fall somewhere on the rainbow spectrum. You may have found acceptance and support in your journey, or you may have found rejection and scorn in our cisheteronormative world. You probably regularly experience subtle forms of marginalization, which overlap with other kinds of oppression, like discrimination based on race, class, and disability. 

Being queer—which I will use here as an imperfect umbrella term—can be both a sparkly riot of fun and an absolute spiral of doom (sometimes on the same day). 

In the face of these things, magick helps queer people to reclaim their power: to bring into being what were once only internal thoughts. By feeding desire and imagination, we make manifest what we most urgently hope and require. 

Magick is a technique of transmutation, which takes mental and imaginative space and brings it into the physical and social plane. And magick takes for its inspiration our wishes, hopes, and dreams. It captures them on paper, harnesses these deep feelings in ritual and meditation, and casts them out into the universe, where they become real. 

So whether you are looking for love or money or power or fulfillment, this book is for you. Whether you are simply curious or already have a longstanding practice, you will find something in these pages that advances your practice. 

But this book isn’t just about magick in general. This is a book about chaos and queerness. A queer point of view on the world means accepting that weird things happen, that nonlinear changes take place, that sometimes things can leap from state A to state B or from state A to state D all of a sudden.

Case in point, I wrote this book when a great deal of change was taking place in my life—after a move from Georgia to Massachusetts, a career change from higher education to K–12, and my kids suddenly becoming tweens and teenagers. Everything felt out of control, and I turned to magick to help me deal with uncertainty and achieve my goals.

I also taught philosophy for more than fifteen years. Philosophy informs what I write here, albeit indirectly, and I have been inspired by Hinduism, New Thought, the Golden Dawn, and Thelema, along with the more recent idea of chaos magick. In this book, you will also see mentions of queer theory and disability studies. 

That being said, as a practitioner of magick and just as a human being, I believe in taking whatever works, in good pragmatist fashion. That is to say, we should take whatever sources help us to live deeper and fuller lives. So if something feels constricting or belittling in this book or in your own magickal practice, get rid of it. And if something feels freeing and encouraging, hold onto it. 

In the pages to come, we’ll cover how queerness, chaos, and magick intersect, to empower you on your own journey toward being magickal you.

The Queer Magick of the Universe

You may wonder why I wrote this book specifically for LGBTQIA+ people. 

First, I think that our communities may be more drawn to the occult and the paranormal than cisgender and/or heterosexual people, just by the nature of our experiences. LGBTQIA+ people have most likely experienced different shades of discrimination within institutional religions. And that bad history, together with a real craving to experience the mystery and awe-inspiring potential of the universe, makes the DIY approach of the “New Age” or “Mind-Body-Spirit” movement more appealing than mainstream western religions. 

Second, I’m willing to bet that LGBTQIA+ people have had more brushes with the paranormal than the average straight, cis person. Something about the experience of marginalization, of being alienated from the mainstream, makes us more sensitive to the strange and unusual. We develop a sixth sense out of a survival instinct, yes, but we also want to see the flip side of the world that others ignore. It only makes sense that people who see the world differently in terms of gender and sexuality would also be more open to a different, more “queer” metaphysics. 

Our heternormative world operates on mutually exclusive, binary categories of male and female (and never the twain shall meet). This goes alongside a metaphysics of discrete, separate objects that do not interact with one another, save in the Newtonian, billiard ball sense. Compare this to a queer metaphysics, in which we can speak of “objects” only as a convenience for complex unfolding possibilities. Just as there are more than two genders, indeed, a field of infinite possibilities, so it is the case that there are myriad ways in which events impact other events.

Queer metaphysics blurs the lines between subject and object, near and remote, inside and outside. An object or thing is really a process, a snapshot in time of an unfolding dynamic, a complex field of interactions. Because reality itself changes infinitely, our categories of thought will always be one step behind. 

Better then to acknowledge the limits of our understanding. When we conceive of reality in process, we can see how it could be possible for two remote things to impact one another, and we can tear down the dividing wall between the “mental” on one side and the “physical” on the other. 

In other words, observing a state of reality changes that reality, so that we can’t really say what would have occurred in the absence of observation. We can say then, that what we call reality depends upon perspective, as any one event can be described in thousands of different ways from different vantage points. 

If change defines the universe, and if reality amounts to nothing more than overlapping observations, it follows that the real fulcrum of change will be at the place where the observer and the event meet. Change the observation and change reality itself. Change the point of view and change reality. Queer the relationship between observer and observed, and interesting things begin to happen. 

Having made so many trips around the sun, we can come to believe that we already know how things work. We tend to blunt our own capacity for surprise by hanging onto outworn assumptions and tired truisms. But what we have experienced up until now need not determine what we experience in the future. Our knowledge about the world is based on statistical averages, or what has tended to be the case in our everyday experience.

Magick allows us to live into the interface of the mundane and the otherworldly, deliberately seeing into the strangeness, the queerness of reality itself. Behind what seemed immutable, we find flux and anarchy. Beneath the harsh and unchanging cards we have been dealt in life, we find the ability to shuffle and change hands. 

When we accept reality as change, it means that tomorrow things may be radically different than they were today. This idea of constant flux can definitely be intimidating, because it takes away assurance that we live in a reliable universe. But, at the same time, it also means that the circumstances and tendencies that bind and restrict us will also fall away. We can leave the nagging problems of yesterday in the past, knowing that each day brings something genuinely new.

Embrace the creative potential of chaos with Queer Chaos Magick, shipping 8/3 from Microcosm HQ or coming to a Microcosm dealer near you 9/1!

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