You have reached the home site of The United Rite and the New Orleans grove of the Minoan Brotherhood, the Grove of the Blessed Thistle. The United Rite is a project dedicated to exploring the queer male mysteries, re-queering witchcraft, and reclaiming our traditions from their hiding places in folklore.
The United Rite
The United Rite‘s mission is to support, educate, and empower queer men through the power of witchcraft and the ancient arts.
The New Orleans Grove
The Minoan Brotherhood is a fraternal mystery tradition for men who love men. Our roots are in British Traditional Witchcraft. The Brotherhood operates within a male+male spiritual framework drawing on the Cretan mythos. The Brotherhood’s primary deities are the Great Mother Rhea and her divine son Asterion. Learn more about the New Orleans Grove.
Breeding Devils in Chaos — a re-queering of the male mysteries — and Puck You: Walking the Crooked Path of Queer Resistance. Learn more.
Available in hardcover and paperback editions from Rebel Satori Press and Amazon.
Proceeds support the United Rite’s mission.
News & Articles
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Festival of the Sea and the Land
The Sea Mother The sea has long been a place where the Goddess’s presence is strongly felt. Vast, ever-changing, and alive with power, the sea is at once nourishing and dangerous. Across traditions, goddesses of the sea are rulers of waves and storms and keepers of the hidden depths, the tides, and the creatures that…
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Devotion, the Path of Union
In Liber Astarte, Aleister Crowley describes devotional service as a magical discipline of love, surrender, and sustained attention to the divine. The deity itself, he suggests, is less important than the intensity and sincerity of one’s devotion — though he still counsels choosing wisely, “one suited to thine own highest nature.” Across traditions, this path…
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Equipoise and the Art of Being Still
Balancing Between Presence and Preparation Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines equipoise as “a state of equilibrium.” It’s a simple definition, but it opens onto something much larger: how we live, how we hold ourselves in our environment, and how we make space for both presence and change. Meditation and mindfulness practice are, at heart, about maintaining balance—an…