iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

That Immigrant Witch 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇷🇻🇪 @elhoimleafar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Some new acquisitions 🐈‍⬛ - Queer Devotion. - Radical Tarot. - Fifth Spirit Tarot. By Charlie Claire Burgess. - Tarot For You And Me. By Gary D’ Andre & Jess Vosseteig - Rainbow Tarot. By So Lazo. The Oracle of Daydreams & Moonbeams. By Tess Whitehurst. #witchythings #witchystuff #witchybooks

1254

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

cody 🌱 @bramblebug.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

also if you are queer and interested in finding (or re-finding) a spiritual connection within your identity, I highly recommend “Queer Devotion” by @thewordwitch.bsky.social. I am only in the beginning of this read and I am so much appreciating every bridge being built so far.

142

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The recent post about trans men being erased in history made me think of Joan of Arc, who I believe was a trans man. After reading Queer Devotion by @thewordwitch.bsky.social (which is an amazing book) I’m pretty sure of this. www.thewordwitchtarot.com/queer-devotion

thewordwitchtarot.com

Queer Devotion | Charlie Claire Burgess

A liberating exploration of the queer divine in deities and figures of myth and legend that opens pathways for LGBTQIA+ people to revere the divinity within and create an affirming spiritual practice,...

173

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Hey, y’all! After burning out hard post-book launch, I’m slowly returning to social media! While I was away, I started a new project—a queer horror novel 🔪🩸🌈💉—and I’m halfway done. 😁 So my presence will still be spotty from the writing cave.

0210

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

Mora S. Rosa 🍄✨ @rosasininho.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I was inspired by this amazing books by @thewordwitch.bsky.social that I recommend to everyone seeking to explore the Divine Queer #witchsky

A book titled “Queer Devotion” in front of a shelf

1111

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

It’s liiiiive!!! This is the podcast recording that I was so excited about last month. ☺️💚 Listen in for one of my favorite interview convos ever, on one of my very favorite podcasts!!

3122

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Just recorded a VERY COOL interview with a podcast I’m a huge fan of! We were originally supposed to record 2 weeks ago, but I got sick. I pulled cards for whether to reschedule. For no, I pulled The Hanged One. For yes, Page of Pents. And here he is again in my daily draw today! TAROT WORKS Y’ALL.

Two cards from The Gay Marseille Tarot propped on the corner of Charlie’s altar. The cards are the Ace of Coins (Pentacles) and the Page of Coins (Pentacles). The Ace has a stylized coin with leopard print and a 4-petaled violet in the center, with budding vines growing from it. The Page shows a trans guy in green overalls that show his top surgery scars, a straw hat, and a diabetic arm patch. He stands in a tilled garden and holds up a larger-than-life coin in one hand and smiles at it.

1212

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Literally SCREAMING that @kristenkorvette.bsky.social is reading my book!! *Witches, Sluts, Feminists* was so powerful for me. It’s the first place I read other queer and trans witches articulating that queerness, transness, and Other-ness can be a source of power. ❤️‍🔥

2201

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

Joy @joy-shines.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Beginning @thewordwitch.bsky.social 's *Queer Devotion* tonight, and I love that I'm reveling in the chapter on Aphrodite after spending the day thinking on last year's Pride month ritual dedicated to Kybele...and planning for this year's to Inanna.

2202

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Yesterday’s book release party for QUEER DEVOTION was epically lovely!! Here’s just a few of my favorite shots. Thank you so much to everyone who came out to celebrate with me and to Seagrape Apothecary for hosting! My heart is full. 🌈💗

Charlie is standing behind a podium and speaking. They’re wearing a black suit vest with a silver watch chain, black knee-length trouser shorts, and Doc Marten combat boots. Their bare arms are covered in black and grey tattoos. Their hands are lifted in front of them because they talk with their hands. To their left is an ASL interpreter and to their right is a display of Queer Devotion books and limited edition candles that Charlie collaborated on with Seagrape Apothecary.

A wide shot of the reading that shows the room with every seat full! Charlie stands at the front. The room is paneled in warm wood behind them. To the right is a wall of geometric bookshelves filled with books, candles, and witchy goods and a dusty pink rainbow mural. Edison bulbs dangle from a gnarled tree limb that extends across the space overhead. Guests sit in an assortment of folding chairs, couches, and along a long wood table with benches.

Charlie is wearing a face mask and giving a thumbs up beside an absolutely luxurious, decadent, and gigantic charcuterie board piled with fruits and cheeses, which is probably the fanciest thing that has ever been assembled in their honor.

Charlie is holding a large bouquet of flowers in rainbow colors and laughing with a huge smile on their face.

1231

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Just got my hands on this new book by @thewordwitch.bsky.social so I haven't read much of it yet but I'm excited to! The mix of our closely shared values & gender/sexuality experiences with a perspective on #spirituality very different from mine is in the sweet spot of fascination & learning for me!

Photo of "Queer Devotion: Spirituality Beyond the Binary in Myth, Story, and Practice" by Charlie Claire Burgess laid on top of a rainbow colored kuffiyeh.

3324

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This is TOMORROW!! After postponing the Queer Devotion release party for over a week, I’m COVID-free and ready to party! 🎉🕺🌈🪩 If you’re in PDX, join me at Seagrape Apothecary tomorrow, 5/29, 5-7pm for readings, refreshments, giveaways, a limited batch candle collab, & lots of queer joy!

A flyer with a photo of Charlie and the Queer Devotion book cover on a mint green background that says “Queer Devotion Book Release Party. New date! Thursday, May 29th, 5-7pm. Seagrape Apothecary, 2823 NE Sandy Blvd, PDX. Masks required & provided.”

1241

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

QUEER DEVOTION sighting in the wild at @alwaysherebooks.bsky.social, where I’m doing an author talk, Q&A, and book signing this Saturday, 5/31, 6-8pm!

Copies of Queer Devotion stacked face-up on a table, surrounded by other books by LGBTQIA+ authors, including “Marsha” by Tourmaline, “The Starving Saints” by Caitlin Starling, and the new “WITCH” anthology. The overall vibe is of brightly colored queer joy.

Queer Devotion sits face-out on a light green shelf next to Fifth Spirit Tarot and Radical Tarot (all by Charlie). A shelf talker card under the book says “Upcoming event! Join us for an evening of readings, Q&A, and devotion with Charlie Burgess. May 31st, 2025.”

0100

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

Siri // 🥀🐺 @sirivplouff.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Happy pub day @thewordwitch.bsky.social!!!! This one is STUNNINGLY GOOD

2101

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

When it’s your book’s publication day and you’re sick but still festive 😂🥳

1180

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Get this book! It’s so good!

1101

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

Tamsin the Sword ⚔️ Monster 🧌 @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 20/05/2025

I got to read a pre-release copy of @thewordwitch.bsky.social's breathtakingly beautiful book, and I can categorically state that, if your interests lie anywhere within a standard deviation of queerness and spirituality, you need this book. 🥰

1113

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

MY BOOK IS BORN 🌈💞🎉 Queer spirituality is revolutionary in a world that demonizes us, but history tells us that queer & trans people have been part of the sacred story from the beginning, and we’re not going anywhere. WE’RE HERE. WE’RE QUEER. AND WE’RE DIVINE. 🌈💖🪽 bookshop.org/a/101472/978...

A selfie of Charlie holding a copy of Queer Devotion and smiling big. The book cover is illustrated in the style of medieval illuminated manuscripts, but with queer figures of myth and history added, including Joan of Arc, Venus, a satyr, and Sappho feeding grapes to a woman whose head rests in her lap. Charlie has a huge smile and is wearing tortoiseshell glasses and a black suit vest with a watch chain. Their short hair is half brown and half platinum and curls around their forehead. Their arms are covered in black and grey tattoos of botanicals and insects.

66613

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

My book comes out TOMORROW!! 🥳🎉🌈 But the release party is not happening tomorrow, because I have COVID. The party WILL go on — just on a new date! Thurs. May 29th! 🕺 I am congested, but not defeated! See you then!

A flyer that says “Queer Devotion Book Release Party, NEW DATE, Thursday, May 29th, 5-7pm. Seagrape Apothecary, 2823 NE Sandy Blvd, PDX. Masks required & provided.”

4255

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

My book comes out in 4 DAYS! 🌈📣 Here’s an excerpt! “[The Divine & queerness] both are realities that were once alive within us, inseparable from us, knitted into our souls and cells as children—until the world got in the way...” queerlydevoted.substack.com/p/re-memberi...

queerlydevoted.substack.com

Re-membering after Dismemberment

An excerpt from QUEER DEVOTION

0140

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Was taking photos with my book for release day and accidentally eye fucked the camera 😜

A selfie of Charlie looking steamily at the camera. They are smirking very slightly and filtered sunlight is lighting their short, wavy, split-dyed hair from behind. They’re wearing tortoiseshell glasses and a black suit vest with a watch chain. Their exposed arms are covered with black and grey tattoos of botanicals, insects, and a crow.

5300

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

LESS THAN 1 WEEK TILL QUEER DEVOTION!! 💞🌈💫🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🙏🏻😇

A graphic with a quote from Queer Devotion by Charlie Claire Burgess: "Queerness is indefinable in its vastness of wild and strange diversity, incapable of totalizing categorization. So is the Divine. If you believe in a celestial Creator/ix of the cosmos, a being unfathomable to the human mind, that's pretty queer. If you believe that God is in everyone, then God is all-gendered and all-sexed, attracted to every type of body and gender under the sun—ipso facto, queer. If you believe further that God/dess or Goddexx or the Divine is in everything, in nature as well as in humans, then the Divine is human and nonhuman. The Divine is animal and vegetable and mineral, flame and liquid and gas and the void of outer space.”

1234

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

Real Nature Magic 🔮✨ (they/them) @realnaturemagic.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

In @thewordwitch.bsky.social 's 'Queer Devotion' Class to celebrate the release of their latest book with the same title 📚 🌈 ✨ Loving discourse around gender-queer representations of Venus, & reinterpreting Mythos in gender-queering ways. Diversity is Holy.

1151

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Currently enjoying a glass of Dionysos’s sacred gay juice beside my altar to trans Aphrodite after spending 2 hours exploring the Queer Divine with an incredible group of folks in my Queer Devotion class. [bathing in queer joy]

1240

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

As an author and English major, I’m duty-bound to repost this as tribute to the citation gods.

080

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Most. predictable. gender. reveal. ever.

28212

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Check me out on the INCREDIBLE Astrology for Writers newsletter with @jeannakadlec.bsky.social ! 🤩 We talk about spiritual journeys post-religion, transcestors, the magic of transition, searching for queer histories amidst erasure, and of course QUEER DEVOTION. It’s real good! Go read it! 🌈

0103

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Happy book release day to this extraordinary queer tarot anthology!! 🎉 There’s an essay on the court cards as interstitial elements by me, alongside writing by a host of your favorite queer tarot ppl! TYSM to @mxcassandrasnow.bsky.social for bringing this together! bookshop.org/a/101472/978...

bookshop.org

Tarot in Other Words: An Essential Anthology by Leading Queer Tarot Writers

An Essential Anthology by Leading Queer Tarot Writers

0338

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I’ve pulled the 5 of Wands in my daily draw 3 of the past 6 days send help

190

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Y’all I was up till 2am last night finishing the 21-page take-home PDF for my Queer Devotion class because I can’t stop when I’m on a roll and I pathologically over-provide. 😅 MAKE IT WORTH IT, TAKE MY CLASS 🙏🏻🌈💞 You’ll love it, I know you will!! www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-devo...

A flyer graphic for Queer Devotion: The Class! Liberate Your Spiritual Practice. May 10th, 6-8pm PT, online or in-person, Seagrape Apothecary, 2823 NE Sandy, PDX. In the center is an image from Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s painting of Joan of Arc, where she holds a sword in both hands raised over her shoulder and gazes upward with an intense look of devotion.

A flyer graphic for Queer Devotion: The Class! What You Can Expect in this Class: Explorations of queer & trans-aligned deities & sacred stories from history, myth, and legend. Divinity beyond the gender binary. Expansions of what deity & devotion can mean through the lived practice of queering. Tools for starting or refreshing an affirming spiritual practice that can bolster us through challenging times. A PDF handout to take home + class recording available to rewatch for 30 days. May 10th, 6-8pm PT, online or in-person, Seagrape Apothecary, 2823 NE Sandy, PDX.

4184

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

Bridgette The Strange @thestrangewitch.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Hey #WitchSky #TarotSky We’re well into the next phase of #Taurus season - Six of Pentacles. Since I just read this section in @the-red-read.bsky.social , I’ll drop a quote from their book: “The Six of Pentacles is about unconditional love being in acts we perform because it is of our nature,

tarot study template
astrological correspondence

RULING ELEMENT
RULING PLANET

RULING MAJORS
PLANETARY PLACEMENT
ASTROLOGICAL °

TYPE OF ENERGY

@thestrangewitch

six of pentacles
second decan of taurus

earth
venus
moon in taurus

ruling majors: the hierophant the high priestess

ruling degrees:
10-19° taurus

sublime intuitive energy

@thestrangewitch

2192

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

Eli Lawliet, Ph.D., The Gender Doula @thegenderdoula.com · 01/05/2025

If you wanna "protect the dolls" you need to be offering material $upport at every opportunity. So here's a great opportunity :)

184

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Help distract me from pre-book launch anxiety! 1 like = 1 lore. Let’s goooooo

4490

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Yesterday I went to the PPS school board budget meeting to support a friend arguing for her job and her department. I was heartened to hear the public comments, every single one of which was arguing for arts & cultural programs, special ed, translators, library staffing, counselors, & ofc teachers

1392

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

J 🩵🐚🏳️‍⚧️ @jaziru.com · 30/04/2025

I just bought this and can ALREADY TELL that it will have a profound effect on my spirituality as woven through my dedication to Aphrodite. thanks @thewordwitch.bsky.social! can't wait!

141

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Pre-order my book! Smart, knowledgeable people say it’s good! 🥰 Comes out in *less than 3 weeks!!*

0163

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Lately I’ve been getting YouTube ads for male performance enhancement and Newsmax polls, so I’ve either successfully convinced them I’m a white man (thanks, HRT!) or my watch history of ghost hunting shows has them convinced I’m gullible (their target demographic).

0100

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Listen, I fully believe in ghosts. I also fully believe in watching YouTube ghost hunting shows and every time they hear a knock, scratch, or creak, yelling at the TV, “YOU’RE IN AN ABANDONED BUILDING; ANIMALS EXIST.”

1282

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

My personality is 25% devil’s advocate 25% transgender joy and rage 25% niche topics in queer ancient mythology, medieval heretical Xtian sects, and the fabrication of the figure of the witch in the rise of capitalism 25% fairy smut

0150

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Last night, a friend’s 21-yr-old son told me that reverse racism & misandry are real problems, only 2 genders exist but he respects my pronouns, all who don’t accept Christ into their heart go to hell, & described in detail a blowjob from a “lower mid” girl with a snaggletooth. Gen Z is not alright.

7251

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

Tamsin the Sword ⚔️ Monster 🧌 @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 26/04/2025

They followed me home. That means I get to keep them, right? h/t @ltzwitch.bsky.social @alixeharrow.bsky.social @thewordwitch.bsky.social

A stack of books and boxed oracle cards: Brittany Lyn Batchelder’s THE AVIAN TAROT, Laura Tempest Zakroff’s SIGIL WITCHERY ORACLE, Megan Bannen’s THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY, Alix E. Harrow’s THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES, and Charlie Claire Burgess’ RADICAL TAROT.

3582

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A fun new game I like to play is guessing which executive order folks on my socials are freaking out about now. If I’m wrong, I take a drink. If I’m right, I take a drink. Wait this is just drinking.

2270

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

This is why I’ve been mum this week while folks praise his inclusion of LGBTQ people. Funny how quick the T becomes silent. Also, I have a whole chapter in Queer Devotion dedicated to upending his trans-exclusionary doctrine of “infinite dignity” that locates said divinity in binary biological sex.

3649

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I pulled something in my back/shoulder while weight lifting and it hurts THE WORST when I’m on the computer. Does this mean I get the day off? 🥺

2170

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

Eli Lawliet, Ph.D., The Gender Doula @thegenderdoula.com · 23/04/2025

I had the pleasure and honor of reading an advanced copy of this book and you ABSOLUTELY should pre-order this ASAP!

132

Reposted by Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)

Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I cannot recommend this book enough!

391