A review by xxivo
Sacred Gender: Create Trans and Nonbinary Spiritual Connections by Ariana Serpentine

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

I found this book both at the start of a journey of wanting to do more spiritual things in my life, but also while still being in a second gender crisis of a sort.

I used to identify as a trans guy but have lately shifted that to calling myself a nonbinary guy and this book definitely helped with that.
This book gave me many texts and exercises that made me think about my gender in a way I had never done before, or seen before. Most books or websites that help you with figuring out stuff keep it quite factual, while this book took it to a whole deeper level of exploring the self. 

The way this book made me write about my gender was thus completely new to me and it ended up to be quite important to try it form this angle. The exercises gave me answers about myself I did not expect beforehand. The way I described my gender through them was way more nonbinary than I had anticipated. That definitely surprised me but I also was so glad to have found words for it because of the book.

This book also talks about trans ancestory and how to connect with your trans elders. I found this really difficult as I had never dabbled into these kind of things, but ended up enjoying it a lot. I still feel like I have a lot to learn though and I will come back to these passages soon again.