Embodying Authenticity with Jayne X Praxis: Sex, Sigils, & Sacred Clowning

Blessed Are the Binary Breakers

Jayne X Praxis (she/they) is many things — she’s Buddhist and a tantric witch; she’s an ordained minister and a Satanist; she’s a Sister of Perpetual Indulgence and a licensed therapist — but above all, Jayne is forever becoming more and more their authentic self, and they invite you to do the same through curiosity, humor, and embodied self-exploration.

Content Warning: swearing and sex talk; religious trauma; mentions of childhood sexual trauma.

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Talking Points:

• (0:00) Introducing Jayne
• (2:05) Growing up with a conservative minister father, anti-sex views; coming out as bisexual in college and engaging in gender-fuckery
• (6:30) Adding Jayne to their name, rolling it back after getting married, returning to gender fuckery and embracing nonbinary identity after divorce
• (12:49) Exploring spirituality: DnD; Wicca and paganism; ordination in the Universal Life Church; Shambhala Buddhism and embodiment
• (22:43) Tantric practices help Jayne recover her body, discover the connections between sexuality and gender
• (26:06) Resisting imposter syndrome to find political and spiritual meaning as a witch; discovering the magic in simply living as trans
• (34:22) The power in naming, sigils, storytelling; sex as spiritual; unlearning sexual shame
• (43:03) Satanism and Lucifer as queer rebel; shock can wake people up!
• (47:17) Sacred clowning: get people thinking by making them laugh; joining the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to spread joy and challenge guilt
• (1:06:00) Wrapping up: embrace authenticity and ask lots of questions

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Visit Jayne's blog: https://paregoric.wordpress.com/

Jayne's Resource Recs:

• Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels by Katie West and Jasmine Elliott (find⁠ here⁠)
• Witches, Sl-ts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive by Kristen J. Sollee (find ⁠here⁠)
• Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa (find ⁠here⁠)

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This show's theme song is "Aetherium" by Leah Horn. This episode also makes use of "Know No No-Nos" by Doctor Turtle