Mystery School

I’d always dreamt of attending a school that taught magick—a school like Hogwarts or Brakebills or even Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. I wanted to experience a version of academia that believed in the incredible capabilities of the Human Being, and the mysterious yet powerful connection that we have to the world around us.

In 2021, without any of these magickal schools available to me, I became possessed—quite literally—by the idea of creating one. Walking to my car one day after work, I was stopped in my tracks by a flood of information. I had grand visions of a lush, luxurious campus, full of the amenities that students would need to nourish their bodies while they enriched their minds. I saw the teachers I would bring in, people from all points on the wheel of esoteric arts and sciences. I felt the freedom that would be available to each student to craft their courses along the lines of their interests and desires; the freedom available to each teacher to share their wisdom in a completely unique way.

This dream was vivid and enchanting, but I had no way whatsoever to act upon it. Narrow in my scope of imagination, all I could see was that I had no money to buy land or build a campus; no network from which to create a team of people to teach or provide those nourishing necessities; no way to take the burdens of bills, etc. off my students’ backs while they came to uncover more about themselves and their world.

I was stuck. But the dream stayed with me.

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One of the archetypes that I am drawn to interact with in this lifetime is that of Teacher: the mentor who helps us make our way; the seeker who shares what they have found. Teaching is one of the most powerful avenues of self-expression available to me. I’ve gravitated toward its idea since childhood—it was the first thing I “wanted to be when I grew up.”

My background is technically in teaching: I spent the vast majority of my college career pointed down the path of professorship, doing all the professor-y things that aligned with it, only to pivot at the last moment and end up teaching middle schoolers after my graduation instead. Somehow or another, teaching was inevitable. But it’s only recently that I’ve understood how to embody the archetype in a way that’s authentic to me.

“Teaching” in our current school system felt closer to indoctrination in my experience, and once I realized that, I left. At the time, since there were no job listings for a “professor of esoteric studies,” I thought I was leaving teaching behind for good. But then I had my vision, my grand realization that if what I wanted from the world didn’t exist yet, I could create it myself.

It took several years before a pathway that I deemed walkable could appear in my Reality; I had to drop a lot of walls around what I thought I was capable of, to balance the reality that I couldn’t create a physical campus with the reality that I could create something.

Maybe the big, beautiful campus will materialize one day in the way that I saw it, and maybe it won’t. I’ve learned very well that sometimes our visions are only carrots meant to entice us forward; a hunch that leads us in a certain direction rather than to a specific outcome. I’m okay with that, because I suddenly have a lot to say, a lot to share. Many things have come together and there are new ideas and imaginings striving to break free. And I see a way for them to do so—I see the baby steps.

I spend a lot of time learning, ingesting information about the myriad things that interest me in any given moment. And then, eventually, all the disparate pieces of knowledge that I’ve gathered coalesce into wisdom, and I feel that it is time to share. My school, birthed here and now on my website, will be the sharing place for all of that wisdom—the first iteration of the campus that I dreamt of, and an expression of teaching that honors my spirit.

My school will consist of two things to begin with: self-paced online courses and a book club. The first course that I am offering will be for those of us who are getting ready to experience our first Saturn return with its upcoming ingress into Aries. It will be offered in the Spring of 2025.

The “book club” is really intended to be more like an old enlightenment era salon. I’ve always dreamt about having one of those. While one day I hope for these salons to be held via livestream and even in-person, I’m starting with a pre-recorded series that I’ll upload here and on YouTube. The name of the salon is Alchemy of the Mind; each meeting will find us discussing a book that I deem incredibly useful and thought-provoking for a human to read while living on earth at this time. The first meeting will be shared in the Summer of 2025.

While I work on bringing these creations into the world, you can read a little more about them below!

Thank you :)

Many blessings on your own journey through the esoteric arts!

xx Lizzie