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Christian Day

The truth when told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. - William Blake

About Me

First off, I'm a professional psychic reader and Witch , and I've got a whole group of really gifted psychic readers working on my new site, Psychics for Hire !


Salem Tarot
My first web site, launched in 1995! Salem Witches' guide to Tarot with free .. Tarot readings, Tarot decks, Tarot postcards, Tarot card history, and live Tarot readers.

Festival of the Dead
Shawn Poirier and I created this annual Halloween event series in Salem, Massachusetts, that explores death’s macabre customs, heretical histories, and strange rituals. Hosted by the foremost authorities on the spirit world, Festival of the Dead beckons guests to step through the veil into a realm where spirits await.

Sorcery of the Sun
This August, join me, Sandra Power, and the Salem Witches for the first harvest as we cast a spell of summer over the city of Salem, honoring the power of light and the wonder of the faeries who walk among us. Dine, dance, divine the future, and delve into spiritual mysteries.

More About Me
How do I describe me? I'm a lot of things: gay man, professional psychic and Witch, event host, singer, genius, scholar, humorist, political gadfly, graphics designer, web developer, author-in-progress, friend, and lover ... if the spirit moves me.

I created Salem's annual Festival of the Dead with fellow Salem Witch (and Witch King—what the heck does that make me???) Shawn Poirier . Shawn and I created the Festival as a means of gathering like-minded people to explore the spectre of death in all his many guises, to confront our own fears of mortality, and to find its deeply spiritual side. Now going into our fourth year, we've introduced Salem to Sexy vampiress Countess Bathoria , "America's favorite Satanist" Joe Netherworld , gothic DJ addambombb , classes where kids learn to contact spirits , and the scintillating Black Cat Burlesque . The only thing sure anymore is that everyone wants to see what we'll do next!
My new summer event series is Sorcery of the Sun , which I run with Salem Witch Sandra Mariah Power, and am co-author with Sandra of Salem Tarot and Salem Witch . Together with Shawn, we're hosting The Pirates and Wenches' Buccaneers' Ball , which promises to be one of our most carousing parties yet!
Of course, while playing the infant terrible, I've managed to eke out really great connections in the business and political communities. I meet with merchants and attraction owners all over town. I'm probably the first Salem Witch ever to have a private audience with the mayor to talk about tourism and marketing. I've worked with over 40 businesses to create the "Ruby Slippers" campaign featured in publications like Boston's gay newspaper Bay Windows, which helped folks to see that I'm not just some freak in a top hat and that both Shawn and I have our fingers on the pulse of what Salem is and can be. We've found allies in folks like published fetish photographer Scott Lanes , whose photos dominate the campaign. Rather than "ditch the Witch" in order to become some uber-generic "cultural destination," I say with as much strength as I can that " There's No Place Like Salem ."
I'm also a professional psychic, working in The Magic Parlor in Salem and on Keen.com . This is something I traded in the corporate digs last year for and haven't looked back. I decided was done working for passive-aggressive assholes and religious bigots. If I can't define my income entirely on my own terms, I'd rather be poor. I was there, many times in life, and I made it through. My wise mom always said a plain meal in peace is better than a banquet in fear. I'm very lucky to have found a banquet that I can really savor. I'm already doing really well between events and readings, and when I do anything now, it's according to my rules.
Of course this path I've chosen makes life complicated as well. While there are always a million friends out there wanting to make your acquaintence for purposes both sincere and not, dating is a lot more difficult. Gay guys, notorious for their cookie cutter dependence on theme don't seem to want to look outside of those boxes. You can be a jock, a bear, a twink, a leather dad, a gym queen, or and A&F prep, but god forbid you stray from those. I've often wondered if the gay subculture is a macrocosmic metaphor for the Village People ... or worse, the Spice Girls! I guess, I'd be Tarot Spice, which is why I chose that for my AIM name! These fags don't seem to understand that Witches are people just like everyone else. We like movies, restaurants, hanging with friends, and trips to tropical islands (St. John USVI pics coming soon!). They want so desperately to be accepted in society but they are often the first not to accept.
But, while it's definitely made the dating scene a little weird these past few years, I wouldn't trade it for the world. All the TV shows, newspapers, and magazines I've been featured in or on, the friends I've met on all ends of the spiritual, social, and political spectrums, and the dearest friends I hold close to my heart have made this incredible journey one I'll never forget. While I'll never be a cookie cutter fag, I'll always strive to be fun, interesting, and diverse. I'm definitely into exploring dating again, but on my own terms. I'll never change who I am for someone who does not have the courage to be themselves. At the end of my life, I want to look back and say "I did that!", not "I fit in!"

My Interests

abandoned asylums, absolutely fabulous, adrienne barbeau, afro-caribbean, akumal, ancient history, anne rice, barbra streisand, black magic, books, brian froud, brian lumley, cajun food, candles, carnivale, carnivals, caves, celtic, celtic music, celtic spirituality, cemeteries, chinese, chocolat, chocolate, cirque du soleil, clive barker, coffee, countess bathoria, cuddling, danvers state hospital, dating, day of the dead, dead can dance, dead like me, death, demons, discworld, divination, doctor who, douglas preston, edward gorey, egypt, eileen brennan, elvira, enya, faeries, faery, family guy, fantasy, festival of the dead, folklore, freaks, gay, gay men, ghede, ghost hunting, ghost stories, ghosts, gore, gothic, gravestones, graveyards, halloween, harry potter, hearses, hecate, horror, horror movies, horror stories, howard stern, incense, indiana jones, john waters, karaoke, labyrinth, left hand path, lincoln child, lord of the rings, loreena mckennitt, love, macabre, madeleine l'engle, magic, magick, margaret cho, marion zimmer bradley, media, melantha blackthorne, metaphysics, middle earth, money, movies, music, myst, mysticism, mysts of avalon, mythology, necromancy, new orleans, news, nightmare before christmas, nightmares, occult, october, paranormal activity, pendergast, phi phi, photoshop, power, pumpkins, reading, revenge, salem, samhain, serial killers, sex, singing, south park, spellcasting, spells, spirits, st john, star wars, stephen king, stevie nicks, strangers with candy, sushi, tarot, tea, terry prachett, thailand, the neverending story, the west wing, the wizard of oz, tim burton, tolkien, twelfth of never, vampire stories, vampires, voodoo, voudoun, web design, west wing, winning, witchcraft, witches, wonder woman, wrought iron, x-files, zombies.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who appreciates this:

Or this:

or this!

Music:

Barbra Streisand, Loreena McKennit, Patti Labelle, Linda Eder, Madonna, Celine Dion, Billy Joel, Aerosmith, Enya, Clannad, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, Journey, Anita Baker, Whitney Houston, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, Martina McBride, Shania Twain, Cher, Diana Ross, Carly Simon, Donna Summer, The Bee Gees, Melissa Etheridge, Michael Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Tina Turner, Olivia Newton John, Dixie Chicks, Dolly Parton, Kitaro, The Eagles, James Taylor, George Michael, Elton John, Rob Zombie, Dead Can Dance

Movies:

The Color Purple, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Exorcist, Serial Mom, Gorillas in the Mist, X-Men, The Women, Indiana Jones, Evita, Superman I and II, Rosemary’s Baby, True Lies, Terminator 2, The Fifth Element, Auntie Mame, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Star Wars, Silence of the Lambs, The Witches of Eastwick, Titanic, Halloween, Jaws, Yentl, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Misery, Excalibur, Practical Magic, Labyrinth, Legend, Star Trek series, Thelma and Louise, The Craft, Ruthless People, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, The Omen I, II, III, Poltergeist I and II, Somewhere in Time, Coffy, Hellraiser I and II, The Long Kiss Goodnight

Television:

The X-Files, The West Wing, Desperate Housewives, Commander in Chief, Beauty and the Beast, Doctor Who, House MD, Ugly Betty, Heroes, Till Death Do Us Part, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Maude, All in the Family

Books:

Too numerous to list, but favorites include Dracula, The Silva Mind Control Method, 78 Degrees of Wisdom, The Davinci Code, The Hobbit, and my all time favorite, The Lord of the Rings.

Heroes:

Howard Stern

My Blog

My letter to the editor

Greetings friends,I wrote the following letter to the editor recently that I thought I would share here on MySpace. It was printed this past week in both the Salem Gazette and the Salem News and I've ...
Posted by Christian Day on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:38:00 PST

A Victory for Community!

My new friend Autumn used the phrase "I was shown a community that I was told does not exist" to describe the recent memorial of my best friend Shawn Poirier. That phrase was very powerful for me beca...
Posted by Christian Day on Fri, 25 May 2007 06:01:00 PST

Sorcery of the Sun 2007!

Greetings friends,As some of you may know, Salem Witch Sandra Mariah Power and I also host an event series in August called Sorcery of the Sun! Check it out at:www.sorceryofthesun.comTickets to this y...
Posted by Christian Day on Sun, 06 May 2007 04:16:00 PST

Witches on Parade! [pass it on!]

Please pass this on as a MySpace bulletin to everyone you know!WITCHES ON PARADE!Thursday, October 4th, 2007, at 5:30pm in Salem, MassachusettsJoin the Witches of Salem as we march in Salem's annual H...
Posted by Christian Day on Fri, 04 May 2007 01:35:00 PST

Festival of the Dead's first Christian event!

It has been an ongoing goal of mine to continue to broaden Festival of the Dead to defy the boundaries of religion, culture, and continent as we explore the customs and concepts of death. As my friend...
Posted by Christian Day on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:26:00 PST

Dragon Ritual Drummers at the Witches Ball 2007!

Greetings from Salem,Festival of the Dead is proud to announce that the Dragon Ritual Drummers will be performing at The Official Salem Witches' Halloween Ball on October 26th, 2007 here in Salem, Mas...
Posted by Christian Day on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:50:00 PST

Signs of Community

Recently, friends and I have been talking about community and what it means. We often hear the term "Witch community" tossed around in Salem with various adjectives attached, most of them negative, su...
Posted by Christian Day on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:29:00 PST

A Great Victory for Salem!

I wish Shawn were at the City Council meeting tonight to share the fruits of our long work. Along with John Flaherty of the Fool's Mansion, Shawn and I approached the council over a year ago in order ...
Posted by Christian Day on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:19:00 PST

Shawn's still causing a ruckus. LOL

So some lady got bent because Shawn got the front page of the Standard Times in New Bedford. I loved reading the responses at the bottom. Shawn, you stir controversy even in death and I love it!Click ...
Posted by Christian Day on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:29:00 PST

Call me legion, for we are many.

I wanted to send a heartfelt thank you to the many hundreds of people who have sent their condolences for Shawn and for those who have offered their kind words. I also wish to thank those who have sto...
Posted by Christian Day on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:42:00 PST