The Curriculum

A first season of practice for anyone: safety, breath, the journal and the altar, then a taste of the Moon, the planets, the tarot and the first ritual every magician learns.

The Golden Dawn way: daily banishing and the Middle Pillar, the Tree and its names, the planets and their times, and the making of talismans and tools.

Kitchen-table magic through the year: the Moon and the festivals, candles and knots, herbs, oils and stones, and good relations with the ancestors and the land.

Reading signs, from the cards to the sand to the glass: tarot in depth, runes and Ogham, geomancy, dreams and scrying — and honest records of what came true.

The magic of the North: the sources and the runes, chanted galdr and the seeress's trance, the Icelandic staves, the land-spirits — and the folk magic and festivals of the northern year.

The ancient path of god-work: the Hermetica and the magical papyri, words of power and the seven vowels, the Headless Rite, the tokens of the gods, and the soul's ascent through the planets.

Technique over doctrine: intention and will, sigils and gnosis, servitors and rituals of your own design — tested like experiments.

The history and ideas behind the practice: five thousand years of magic, the Hermetica and alchemy, the Qabalah, astrology's long story, and how the grimoires came to be.

Practice that turns inward: meditation and vision, the subtle body, dreams and the body of light, alchemy as a map of change, and the mirror of self-knowledge.

Magic beyond the Western grimoires: the shaman's drum and the seeress's high seat, the five phases and the Lo Shu, the Arabic science of letters, the charms of ordinary people and the living traditions of the Americas — read with respect for the peoples they belong to.

Crowley's system from its foundations: the Golden Dawn rituals it grew from, the Book of the Law, the daily adorations of Liber Resh, the record and exercises of Liber E, the Qabalah and the Thoth Tarot, and the Holy Guardian Angel.