Has anyone chose to dress up as a different gender to strengthen their magickal practice?

[magick&psionics]

I often felt empowered when Id used dress up as the opposite gender for my practice of witchcraft and the results really showed quite a bit. Plus I got to know my dark feminine side as well which really helped in the practiced of witchcraft which got me closer to the dark goddess.

Had anyone ever had something similar going on?

 

[Mycelial_Adept]

Many peoples have used this practice in magic for thousands of years. But clothes are just clothes and what signifies general gender/sex norms of one time period and location can be completely different at a different point in time or location. It's more about how it is making you feel, what it is helping your mind turn towards, than the way the cloth/etc is styled. You find power where you find power.

 

[akenu]

Is it because women get only 70 mana points to every 100 mana points guys get?

 

[magick&psionics]

Is it because women get only 70 mana points to every 100 mana points guys get?

No not at all. It's because I as a born man can used a little boost to my feminine points in my practice

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Many peoples have used this practice in magic for thousands of years. But clothes are just clothes and what signifies general gender/sex norms of one time period and location can be completely different at a different point in time or location. It's more about how it is making you feel, what it is helping your mind turn towards, than the way the cloth/etc is styled. You find power where you find power.

That's dope. But I also feel like certain clothes and makeup can help strengthen witchcraft. Idk its something symbolic to me that makes me feel empowered when I cross dress to practice witchcraft. Especially because azazel is the reason why cosmetics exist in Bible mythology

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Many peoples have used this practice in magic for thousands of years. But clothes are just clothes and what signifies general gender/sex norms of one time period and location can be completely different at a different point in time or location. It's more about how it is making you feel, what it is helping your mind turn towards, than the way the cloth/etc is styled. You find power where you find power.

Thank you

 

[Phillian]

I think they are just an expression. To my understanding, the only shift there was, based on your testimony, was your intention, and because you associate dressing in a certain garment, clothes, and makeup with that ritual/practice, you enhance your intention because you are projecting your energy into those items. I believe this is also why special clothes and garments are used in rituals: whether conscious or not, you grant them sacred value when you put them on, so you are already manifesting even before you wear them.

So, in short, I think clothes and items only help amplify the energy because you project your manifestation willpower into them; it has nothing to do with the "labeled" gender society created around those clothes. I mean, I personally can tell I feel better when I dress in something special when I am performing spells and rituals than when I am doing the same in daily-life outfits, because I am already manifesting before I dress up.