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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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…
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The Lightning-Struck Tree
Tarot, Oak, and Sacred Transformation In New Orleans, this is the season when the air grows heavier, the afternoons darken without much warning, and thunderstorms begin to roll in with greater regularity across the Crescent City. The sky becomes restless this time of year, charged with that familiar tension between beauty and violence that anyone…