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1-Year Occult Apprenticeship Program

The 1-Year Occult Apprenticeship is an intensive initiatory training for those who are ready to move beyond collecting knowledge and begin genuine transformation. Over the course of a year, we will meet twice each month for one-to-one mentoring, initiatory rites, and advanced esoteric training designed to cultivate psychological maturity, occult competence, and authentic inner authority. Rooted in a trauma-informed, Chaos Magick framework, this apprenticeship is about understanding the mechanisms of consciousness, working directly with transformative forces, and developing the discernment and sovereignty required to walk your own path with autonomy and authenticity.

Welcome To My Occult Apprenticeship

Qabalistic Initiation & Psychological Transformation

The Qabalistic Tree of Life and Tree of Death provide the central initiatory framework for the apprenticeship, functioning as a complete map of psychological, spiritual, and occult development. Throughout the year, we will systematically work through these currents, exploring each sphere not as an intellectual concept but as a living initiatory gateway capable of producing profound inner change.

You will learn how each sphere reflects distinct aspects of consciousness, identity, trauma, power, and evolution, while gaining practical methods for engaging these forces through ritual, contemplation, invocation, and direct experience. Rather than treating the Sephiroth and Qliphoth as opposing systems, you will come to understand how both currents contribute to a balanced process of transformation, shadow integration, and psychological maturation.

This structured initiatory progression provides a coherent path through which your practice can continually deepen while remaining grounded, integrated, and personally meaningful.

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Chaos Magick Training & Advanced Occult Practice

This apprenticeship provides comprehensive training across a wide range of occult disciplines, all approached through a practical and psychologically grounded framework. At its heart is Chaos Magick; the study of belief, perception, symbolism, and consciousness as technologies for transformation.

Together we will explore subjects including ritual magick, inner alchemy, sigil work, magical psychology, altered states of consciousness, spirit work, archetypal interaction, and practical occult methodology. You will learn how belief systems influence perception and experience, how narratives shape identity, and how magical practice can be used to consciously restructure both.

A significant focus of the training is understanding the relationship between trauma and initiation. Rather than bypassing psychological material in pursuit of mystical experiences, you will learn how unresolved conditioning often becomes the very substance through which authentic initiation unfolds. This creates a practice that is both spiritually profound and psychologically integrated.

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Spirit Work, Inner Alchemy & Creating Your Own Magical System

A major objective of the apprenticeship is to develop genuine magical independence. Rather than remaining dependent upon inherited traditions or the systems created by others, you will learn the underlying principles that allow you to think, create, and work as an occult practitioner in your own right.

Training includes working with angels, demons, planetary intelligences, and other spiritual forces from both esoteric and psychological perspectives. We will examine these intelligences as autonomous beings, symbolic gateways, and archetypal currents capable of facilitating profound inner transformation, allowing you to develop a balanced and mature relationship with spirit work.

As your understanding deepens, you will also learn how to construct your own magical systems, rites, initiatory structures, symbols, egregores, and spiritual currents. By the conclusion of the apprenticeship, the aim is not simply for you to have learned numerous systems, but to possess the knowledge, discernment, and confidence to create authentic magical work that emerges from your own experience and understanding.

Mentorship Curriculum Break-Down

 

The Apprenticeship consists of two one-to-one online sessions each month. The first session follows a progressive Qabalistic initiatory journey through the Tree of Life and Tree of Death, working through the Sephiroth and Qliphoth as complementary dimensions of initiation. The second session combines the Decoding/Source Emergence process with progressive training in Chaos Magick & advanced alchemical practice.

The Qabalistic workings progressively expose the practitioner to the forces, virtues, distortions, shadow material and initiatory ordeals associated with each sphere. Alongside this, the practical curriculum develops from foundational alchemy into advanced servitor engineering, egregores, spirit systems, initiatory design and eventually the construction of original magickal cosmologies.

The first half of the year centres upon Decoding: dismantling conditioning, inherited identity and unconscious structures. The second half moves into Reformation and Source Emergence, where the practitioner progressively develops the capacity to direct belief, create magickal structures and consciously author their own systems of practice.

Month 1


Session 1 — The Earth Sphere

 

The initiatory journey begins within the terrestrial sphere of Malkuth and its Qliphothic counterpart, Nahemoth, confronting embodiment and material existence in both their ordered and distorted forms. We work with incarnation, physical reality, survival, security and manifestation, while confronting material fixation, fear, inertia, disconnection from the body and the shadow structures that govern the practitioner's relationship with the physical world. This establishes the ground of the entire Qabalistic journey: not an escape from matter, but an initiation through it.
 

Session 2 — Introduction to Chaos Magick & The Decoding Process Part I: Cracking of the Name

 

The Decoding Process begins by attacking the apparent solidity of identity. We examine the names, roles, histories, labels and narratives through which the practitioner continually reconstructs the experience of I.

Magickal Training — Foundations of Magick, Alchemy & the Elemental Wheel: We establish the fundamental mechanics and models of magick, introduce alchemy, angels and demons, and begin direct work with the classical elements. Each week is dedicated to engagement with a different element, creating an experiential foundation for the work ahead.

Month 2

 

Session 3 — The Lunar Sphere

 

The journey enters Yesod and Gamaliel, descending into the lunar foundations of the psyche. This sphere governs the subconscious, dreams, sexuality, fantasy, memory, instinct and the imaginal world through which deeper forces enter conscious experience.

The initiation confronts both the generative power of imagination and its distortions: projection, illusion, obsession, unconscious fantasy and the capacity of unresolved material to masquerade as spiritual revelation. The practitioner begins confronting what exists beneath the personality they consciously recognise.

Session 4 — The Decoding Process Part II: Fracturing Subconscious Constructs

 

We begin exposing and fracturing the hidden associations, emotional programs and conditioned responses operating beneath conscious awareness.

Magickal Training — Invocation, Gnosis & Subconscious Magick: Learn how invocation, ritual identification, trance and gnosis can be used to penetrate the programmed self and deliberately interact with deeper layers of consciousness that govern experience.

Month 3


Session 5 — The Mercurial Sphere
 

The Mercurial initiation enters Hod and Samael, confronting the machinery through which consciousness names, categorises and explains reality. Hod governs language, intellect, symbolism, communication and rational organisation; its shadow reveals deception, intellectual imprisonment, false certainty and the ability of language itself to manufacture convincing realities. The practitioner begins recognising that the structures through which they understand reality are themselves constructions.

Session 6 — The Decoding Process Part III: Fracturing of False Logic

 

We examine the hidden premises beneath apparently rational thought, challenging inherited logic, absolutism and the tendency to mistake internally coherent narratives for objective truth.

Magickal Training — Paradigm Shifting & Belief as a Tool: Learn to deliberately enter and utilise different systems of belief, developing one of the fundamental capacities of Chaos Magick: the ability to wield a paradigm without becoming unconsciously imprisoned by it. This is the sacred art in which the Shamanic world refers to as shapeshifting. 

Month 4

 

Session 7 — The Venusian Sphere

The Venusian initiation enters Netzach and A'arab Zaraq, confronting desire, attraction, pleasure, sexuality, relationship, creativity and emotional investment. Here the practitioner encounters obsession, projection, seduction, dependency, idealisation and the forces through which desire can enslave consciousness. The work exposes what the practitioner pursues, what they attach themselves to, and what those attachments reveal about the deeper structure of the self.

Session 8 — The Decoding Process Part IV: Collapse of Obligation

We confront the internal architecture of should: inherited expectations, guilt, approval, loyalty and the invisible contracts through which conditioning continues to govern behaviour.

Magickal Training — Divination, Symbolic Intelligence & Depth Stacking: Develop symbolic literacy through divination and learn how to construct depth-stacked prayers using multiple interacting layers of symbolism, correspondence and intention.

Month 5

Session 9 — The Solar Sphere

The Solar initiation enters Tiphareth and Thagirion, confronting the centre around which identity organises itself.

Tiphareth concerns integration, consciousness, sacrifice, individuality and the emergence of a coherent centre; Thagirion exposes the counterfeit sun: inflation, spiritual narcissism, false illumination, identification with exceptionalism and the construction of increasingly sophisticated spiritual identities. The practitioner confronts both the possibility of genuine individuation and the ways the ego can appropriate initiation itself.

Session 10 — The Decoding Process Part V: Dissolution of the Centre

We challenge the assumption that the self must possess a singular, permanent centre and explore the multiplicity and fluidity existing beneath constructed identity.

Magickal Training — Thoughtforms & Magickal Intelligence: Learn how thoughtforms can be deliberately constructed, programmed, strengthened and interacted with, establishing the foundation for later servitor and egregore work.

Month 6

 

Session 11 — The Martial Sphere

The Martial initiation enters Geburah and Golachab, confronting force in both disciplined and destructive forms.

Geburah brings severity, courage, judgement, severance, discipline and the capacity to destroy what can no longer remain. Golachab exposes rage, cruelty, domination, destructive compulsion and force divorced from conscious direction.

The practitioner is brought into direct relationship with anger, aggression, power, conflict and the capacity to consciously wield destructive force as part of transformation.

Session 12 — The Decoding Process Part VI: Rupture of Suppression

We confront the structures through which anger, desire, creativity, grief, passion and other unwanted forces have been suppressed, allowing previously rejected material to become consciously available.

Magickal Training — Passion, Alchemy & Transformation: Learn to construct specific rituals, depth-stacked prayers and invocations for self-transformation, using symbolism, emotional force and directed intention as technologies of inner alchemy.

Month 7

 

Session 13 — The Jupiterian Sphere

The Jupiterian initiation enters Chesed and Gha'agsheblah, confronting expansion, authority, abundance, power and the capacity to establish order. Chesed reveals the constructive force of growth, leadership and benevolent authority, while its Qliphothic dimension exposes excess, entitlement, unchecked expansion and the corruption that occurs when power ceases to recognise limitation. The practitioner confronts their relationship with success, influence, prosperity and the responsibility required to hold greater power.

Session 14 — The Decoding Process Part VII: The Pit of Desire

The culmination of Decoding confronts desire beneath conditioning, scarcity, obligation and external expectation. When inherited structures begin losing their authority, the practitioner encounters the far more difficult question: What do I actually want?

Magickal Training — Servitor Creation: Learn how to design, construct, program, activate and work with purpose-built magickal intelligences, marking the transition from using existing structures toward consciously creating them.

Month 8

 

Session 15 — The Abyss

The journey reaches the Abyss, the rupture separating the constructed individual consciousness from the Supernal dimensions of the Tree. Here the practitioner confronts uncertainty, contradiction, attachment to knowledge and the need for identity to maintain itself through explanation. The work approaches the Abyss as a confrontation with the limitations of everything the practitioner has previously used to establish certainty about themselves and reality. The initiatory current of Da'ath and Choronzon becomes central: knowledge, fragmentation, dispersion and the confrontation with the structures that resist dissolution.

Session 16 — Source Emergence: The First Movement

 

The emphasis now changes. Rather than continually asking what must be dismantled, we begin observing what moves when inherited structures cease automatically determining direction.

Magickal Training — Advanced Servitor Engineering & Egregore Bootstrapping: Progress beyond individual servitors into networks, complex constructs and larger magickal structures, learning how deliberately engineered components can be bootstrapped into increasingly autonomous egregoric systems.

Month 9

 

Session 17 — The Abyss Part II

The second Abyss working deepens the confrontation with Da'ath, Choronzon, fragmentation and non-knowing.

The practitioner confronts the impulse to immediately reconstruct certainty after deconstruction: replacing one identity with another, one doctrine with another, or one spiritual narrative with a more sophisticated version of the same structure.

The work demands the capacity to remain within uncertainty long enough for something genuinely new to emerge.

Session 18 — Source Emergence: The Awakening of Inspiration

As the compulsion to immediately reconstruct the old begins to weaken, we turn toward inspiration: the emergence of symbols, ideas and creative movements that are not simply repetitions of inherited identity.

Magickal Training — Spirit Systems & Pantheon Construction: Learn how interconnected spirits and intelligences can be organised through functions, relationships, correspondences, mythology and hierarchy, creating the foundations of an original magickal system.

Month 10

 

Session 19 — The Saturnine Sphere

The Saturnine initiation enters Binah and Sathariel, confronting the Great Mother as structure, limitation, time, death, understanding and form. Binah gives boundary to otherwise limitless possibility: the womb and tomb through which force becomes form. Sathariel reveals concealment, restriction, oppressive structure, isolation and the darkness produced when form becomes imprisonment. The practitioner confronts mortality, limitation and discipline, learning that genuine creation requires the willingness to sacrifice infinite possibility in order to give something definite form.

Session 20 — Source Emergence: The Opening of Expression

 

What has emerged internally must now become expressible. Inspiration begins acquiring language, symbolism, ritual and structure through which it can enter the world.

Magickal Training — Initiatory System Design: Learn how progressive systems of initiation can be constructed through stages, spheres, rituals, thresholds, correspondences and integration. The practitioner moves from undergoing initiation toward understanding how initiatory processes themselves are designed.

Month 11

 

Session 21 — The Uranian Sphere

The Uranian initiation moves into a trans-Saturnian current of rupture, liberation, revolution and intelligence beyond established order. After Saturn establishes structure, Uranus introduces the force capable of breaking structure open. The practitioner confronts both genuine liberation and its shadow: compulsive rebellion, instability, alienation and destruction performed merely for the sake of opposition. The initiation asks whether the practitioner can transcend established structures without unconsciously defining themselves against them.

Session 22 — Source Emergence: The Fire of Creation

Inspiration now becomes active creation. The practitioner begins trusting their capacity to generate original symbols, rituals, entities, practices and systems rather than continually depending upon inherited occult structures.

Magickal Training — Egregores, Currents & Advanced Magickal Engineering: Explore how spirits, rituals, symbols, initiations and practices can be integrated into larger magickal currents and living occult systems.

Month 12

 

Session 23 — The Neptunian-Plutonian Sphere

The final sphere initiation moves beyond ordinary personal consciousness into the combined Neptunian and Plutonian currents of dissolution, death, regeneration, transcendence and primordial creative force. Neptune dissolves boundaries and exposes consciousness to the imaginal, mystical and transpersonal depths beyond ordinary identity, while also confronting illusion, intoxication and loss of differentiation. Pluto carries the practitioner through death, hidden power, decomposition and regeneration: the destruction through which fundamentally new forms become possible. Together they complete the movement from established identity through dissolution and into the deeper creative field from which new structures can emerge.

Session 24 — Source Emergence: The Awakening of Direction

After dismantling inherited narratives, confronting desire, crossing uncertainty, discovering inspiration and developing expression, the final question becomes: What am I consciously choosing to create? Direction is no longer treated as something that must be discovered externally. It becomes the conscious organisation of belief, intention and creative force.

Magickal Training — Cosmology Creation & Occult System Architecture: Bring together everything learned throughout the year to explore the construction of complete magickal cosmologies through worlds, spheres, spirits, currents, mythology, correspondences, initiatory pathways and ritual technologies. The practitioner moves beyond simply performing magick within existing systems and begins understanding how entire systems of magick can themselves be created.

 

Final Integration — Conscious Source Embodiment

 

The Apprenticeship culminates in Conscious Source Embodiment: the integration of the entire movement from conditioning to conscious creation. The objective is to fundamentally transform the practitioner's relationship with belief itself: developing the capacity to enter systems deeply, undergo genuine initiation through them, consciously wield their symbolism and eventually create new structures without becoming imprisoned by the structures they create.

The progression of the Apprenticeship is therefore one of initiation, deconstruction and authorship:

Enter the spheres. Confront their shadows. Decode the inherited self. Cross the threshold of uncertainty. Discover what emerges. Give it form. Create consciously.

1-Year of Mentorship & Initiation: £3,000

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