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Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th October 2026
Two days of talks and workshops by exceptional Occult pioneers, practitioners and thinkers, unveiling new paths, forging beyond (but not being ignorant of) the established rules.
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Presenters Lineup 2026
Saturday 3rd October 2026
Jason Miller
Jason Miller is the author of six books, including the now classic Protection and Reversal Magick and Consorting With Spirits.
He teaches several courses online including, The Sorcery of Hekate Training, and Your First 30 Days Of Magic.
Joseph H. Peterson
Joseph H Peterson is an independent researcher and author. Primary areas of focus are the history of European beliefs in magic and witchcraft, as well as Zoroastrianism.
His Esoteric Archives website has made a great number of his translated grimoires freely available to the wider public. www.esotericarchives.com
María Alviz Hernando
María Alviz Hernando is a diviner, teacher and author of Tarot Tableau Revolution: A Breakthrough System to See the Whole Story in Your Readings.
Her divinatory and magical practices focus on real-life application and personal meaning over abstract esotericism.
Matthew Venus
Matthew Venus is an animist and witch based in Salem, MA. He is the author of Ensouling the Effigy: The Witch's Arte of Enspirited Objects, owner of Spiritus Arcanum occult shop, and co-founder of the Salem Witchcraft & Folklore Festival.
You can find him at SpiritusArcanum.com or on IG at @Spiritus_Arcanum
Giulia Turolla
Giulia is an Italian witch, High Priestess and teacher in the Temple of Ara tradition (Tempio di Ara, in Italy: www.tempiodiara.it ).
She graduated with honors in Archaeology and Ancient World Cultures and her field of specialization is ancient magical/religious technology and culture.
She offers courses focused on magic and witchcraft in the ancient World and in European magical traditions on her website www.boscodiartemisia.com and she is the author of the forthcoming book The Key to Ancient Greek Religion.
David Rankine
David Rankine is an author, esoteric researcher and sorceror who has been practising magic and grimoires for over 47 years. He works as the editor-in-chief for Hadean Press and lives in Spain with his family.
In recent decades he is best known for his work on titles like The Grimoire Encyclopaedia, Claves Intelligentarium, The Goetia of Dr Rudd, The Veritable Key of Solomon, Clavis Inferni and Claves Spirituum.
Benebell Wen
Benebell Wen is the author of I Ching, The Oracle (2023), The Tao of Craft (2016), and Holistic Tarot (2015).
She shares free educational content on various esoteric topics at youtube.com/@BenebellWen
Mat Auryn
Mat Auryn is the international bestselling author of Psychic Witch, Mastering Magick, and The Psychic Art of Tarot, and co-host of the award-winning THE CIRCLE IS podCAST with actress Rachel True.
In English alone, Auryn's books have sold more than half a million copies across all formats and have been translated into 13 languages, reaching readers around the world with his work on psychic development, witchcraft, tarot, and occult metaphysics.
Sunday 4th October 2026
Peter Mark Adams
Peter Mark Adams is an author, poet and essayist specialising in the ethnography of ritual, tarot, sacred landscapes, esotericism, consciousness and healing.
Peter is published by Scarlet Imprint, Theion, Inner Traditions and Corbel Stone Press.
BJ Swain
BJ Swain has explored numerous forms of magic in his 30 plus years of study and practice.
Currently he focuses on traditional forms of European magic including witchcraft, the grimoires, and earlier forms of sorcery.
Erin Kalashnikova
Erin Kalashnikova is a writer and researcher of the esoteric traditions of Japan and the broader East Asian world, with a particular interest in divination, ritual, and spirit-centered currents.
Her book "Kimon: The Demon Gate and the Hidden Currents of Spirits in Japan" will be released by Theion Publishing in the coming months.
Find out more at www.thehouroftheox.com
Aidan Wachter
Aidan Wachter is an animist magician/witch-thing.
They believe that magic is a natural part of the human experience and one that, when ignored, can lead to pathological states both in the individual and the societies they are part of.
They are the author of Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic, Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing the Past, & Telling True Lies, and Changeling: A Book of Qualities. Spirit & Stone will be published in 2027.
Dr Alexander Cummins
Dr Alexander Cummins is a contemporary cunning-man and historian of magic, with specialities in the dead (folk necromancy), divination (geomancy), the cunning-crafts of traditional British service magic, and the grimoires.
Dr Cummins’ work, classes, and services can be found at www.alexandercummins.com
P.T. Mistlberger
P.T. Mistlberger is a transpersonal therapist, world traveller, independent researcher, author of 8 books, and founder of several wisdom schools and inner work communities.
Kaitlin Coppock
Kaitlin Coppock is a ritualist, writer, and photographer. She is an animating force behind Sphere + Sundry, which produces ritually made organic, wildcrafted, and naturally perfumed Materia Magica on Talismanic and remedial-grade astrological elections.
To learn more, please visit www.sphereandsundry.com
Lon Milo DuQuette
Lon Milo DuQuette: Singer-songwriter, author of 20 books on magick, tarot, qabalah, and the works of Aleister Crowley.
He is U.S. Deputy National Grand Master of Ordo Templi Orientis.
The Forbidden Keys Conference will be held via Zoom
Timing:
LA: 6am - 3pm
Chicago: 8am - 5pm
New York: 9am - 6pm
London: 2pm - 11pm
Berlin: 3pm - midnight
Dubai: 5pm - 2am
Beijing: 9pm - 6am
Melbourne: 11pm - 8am
Video recordings of all talks will be accessible to anyone with a ticket
within 48 hours of the event*
Tickets: $100 USD