pootriarch reviewed Luminary by Kate Scelsa
Energetic, anti-binary
4 stars
"Anti-binary" is the best way I can explain the author's thesis: You've been taught that you must live within these behavioral guardrails, you must endure back-breaking work, and then you either Win or you Lose. And you've been taught wrong.
The cover and the title may prime you for a lot of card- and chart-reading, and while there are chapters on that, the "magic" is spread lightly throughout. Magic is one of the things that The Man says has no value or dismisses as fakery or superstition—but far from being worthless, these may be the way you find meaning.
Unlike the author, I do not identify as a witch, or queer, or even particularly anti-capitalist. But I am sold on her use of these themes to orient us toward our own truths and away from The System. There's plenty to learn for all of us who'd be leading fulfilling lives …
"Anti-binary" is the best way I can explain the author's thesis: You've been taught that you must live within these behavioral guardrails, you must endure back-breaking work, and then you either Win or you Lose. And you've been taught wrong.
The cover and the title may prime you for a lot of card- and chart-reading, and while there are chapters on that, the "magic" is spread lightly throughout. Magic is one of the things that The Man says has no value or dismisses as fakery or superstition—but far from being worthless, these may be the way you find meaning.
Unlike the author, I do not identify as a witch, or queer, or even particularly anti-capitalist. But I am sold on her use of these themes to orient us toward our own truths and away from The System. There's plenty to learn for all of us who'd be leading fulfilling lives if we weren't listening so much to our detractors. Who, by the way, hold 99% of the wealth and power in our all-men-created-equal liberal democracies. Nobody said it was going to be easy. But one lovely day, we'll see our collective power and feed the grasshoppers to the bird. Tweet tweet.