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Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them)
@thewordwitch.bsky.social
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Gender anarchist, dirty Aquarius, devoted heretic, that witch // books: QUEER DEVOTION (5.20.25), RADICAL TAROT // decks: FIFTH SPIRIT TAROT, THE GAY MARSEILLE TAROT // www.thewordwitchtarot.com
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Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · Jan 24
For the new folks, I’m a queer & trans nonbinary author/illustrator working at the intersection of queerness, witchcraft, & spirituality. I’m the author of RADICAL TAROT and QUEER DEVOTION (May ‘25) and the author/illustrator of 2 queer tarot decks. I love pugs and houseplants and hate natzis. 💕
An image of Charlie’s books and tarot decks. Queer Devotion (book) has a medieval illuminated manuscript design featuring queer/trans figures in the margins, including Joan of Arc, Venus, a satyr, and two gay couples. The Gay Marseille Tarot (deck) shows a Cupid with purple hair shooting 3 arrows tipped with hearts in the colors of the trans flag. Fifth Spirit Tarot (deck) shows a person with blue hair wearing a binder, raising their hands to touch palms with their mirror image made of stars. Radical Tarot (book) has a bold title surrounded in the corners by tarot’s suit symbols in the form of a sloshing teacup, a hand raising a sword, a wooden staff with flowers growing from it and a salamander perched on top, and a row of dangling crystal pendulums.
thewordwitch.bsky.social
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.
July 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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rosasininho.bsky.social
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
July 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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bozsle33.bsky.social
#tarot

I've just read this, and I wanted to share with you.

From The Fifth Spirit Tarot Guide by Charlie Claire Burgess @thewordwitch.bsky.social

9 of Swords:
A nightmare is scariest in the dark. Turn on the lights.
July 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
thewordwitch.bsky.social
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!!
spiritspodcast.com Spirits Podcast @spiritspodcast.com · Jul 23
This week, author and artist Claire Burgess joins us to talk about their work around tarot and the intersection of spirituality and queerness. Listen in for our witchy awakenings, getting rid of the binary in tarot readings, and so much more! Out now on all your podcast apps.
July 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
thewordwitch.bsky.social
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.
June 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
thewordwitch.bsky.social
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. ❤️‍🔥
kristenkorvette.bsky.social 𝕶𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖓 𝖏. 𝖘𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖊́𝖊 @kristenkorvette.bsky.social · Jun 1
No better way to kick off Pride Month than by diving into the Queer Divine 🔮

@thewordwitch.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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joy-shines.bsky.social
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.
June 2, 2025 at 4:33 AM
thewordwitch.bsky.social
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.
May 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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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.
May 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
thewordwitch.bsky.social
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.”
May 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
thewordwitch.bsky.social
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.”
May 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Happy pub day @thewordwitch.bsky.social!!!! This one is STUNNINGLY GOOD
thewordwitch.bsky.social Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · May 20
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.
May 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
thewordwitch.bsky.social
When it’s your book’s publication day and you’re sick but still festive 😂🥳
May 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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arianaserpentine.bsky.social
Get this book! It’s so good!
thewordwitch.bsky.social Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · May 20
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.
May 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com
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. 🥰
thewordwitch.bsky.social Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · May 20
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.
May 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
thewordwitch.bsky.social
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.
May 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
thewordwitch.bsky.social
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.”
May 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
thewordwitch.bsky.social
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...
Re-membering after Dismemberment
An excerpt from QUEER DEVOTION
queerlydevoted.substack.com
May 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
thewordwitch.bsky.social
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.
May 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
thewordwitch.bsky.social
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.”
May 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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realnaturemagic.bsky.social
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.
May 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
thewordwitch.bsky.social
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]
May 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
thewordwitch.bsky.social
As an author and English major, I’m duty-bound to repost this as tribute to the citation gods.
iamhectordiaz.com Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · May 8
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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weedenkim.bsky.social
Most. predictable. gender. reveal. ever.
miriam.blacksky.app Christmas Miriam 🎄 @miriam.blacksky.app · May 8
BREAKING: WE HAVE A NEW POPE
A chimney thing with white smoke
May 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
thewordwitch.bsky.social
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! 🌈
May 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM