Day 1 - Opening Ritual with the Queer Ancestors with Daniel (he/him)


This was originally held on World Aids Day, which was the first day of our Queer Pagan Advent Calendar in December 2020. Even if most likely it's not World Aids Day today, you can still engage with it. Every Day is a great day to connect to the Queer Ancestors... plus: you energetically join the over 400 people who have already visualized our circle and feel held by it. As we are never alone! <3


If you want to take part, be sure to prepare:

- heat up your room

- 2 big towels and a small one if you have

- a bowl of hot water, maybe adding some oils or flower petals

- massage oil

(The recording is just an opening for a potentially much longer and deeper encounter with yourself. So at the point where I stop talking, allow yourself to continue... on and on and on if your curiosity guides you further. ... some of us have a learned response to stop at the end of a guided journey, but actually that might just be the beginning of it... Enjoy!)

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May this practice nourish and empower the liberation and the wellbeing of all beings everywhere.


Further Suggestions for Day 1

Do exactly what you would usually do in a day. Whenever you engage with your body -and you realize that you are- take one conscious breath, feel your body and observe what is present.

I like to invite you to bring awareness to the ways, routines and habits of touching ourselves, under the shower, when washing our face, applying lotion, brushing our teeth? When and how are we scratching ourselves, clenching the jaw, contracting our feet? How do we touch ourselves in bed before we go to sleep? Many times during the day, taking a moment to breathe and feel into it.

You are encouraged to apply this to your usual protocol of self-pleasure: Jerk off today and, doing so, reenact a well-known scenario: use your vibrator and toys, stimulate yourself as you would usually do, watch porn, look at hot people on tinder -if that is your habit-, and insert moments of pausing. Just adding some gentle breaths into your usual practice, sensing into your body and see what unfolds. Maybe it takes you somewhere else. Follow that sensation. Maybe you continue and return to the original exploration. If you have no ongoing self-pleasure routine, that's perfect too. In that case you can just rest your hands on your heart and genitials and say hello to them. 'Hi, welcome to your 21 days!'

There's nothing that needs to happen. This is really to become more aware of our current relationship with our body, of how often and how we tend to it. It is our intention to shed some light on the love that we give ourselves and also the moments where we treat ourselves in a mechanical, automatic way. Not to judge any of this, but to look a little deeper into our relationship with our body."


(💦 A note on EJACULATION: if you are used to ejaculating often, this could be a brilliant opportunity to move the energy differently. During these 3 weeks you are invited to keep your liquids inside until the Solstice, our last day, and devote this ejaculation to an intention, a vision, something you want to call into the world. Powerful stuff. There will be guidelines for that. So just sense if that option and opportunity to break a habit calls you.


💎 A note that applies for every day: if this practice doesn't speak to you, do something else that brings you to a similar space, do something totally different, do nothing, but spend some conscious time with your body and its needs!)