The Forbidden Pantheon
Mythology for those who refuse the stories they were given.
“The gods cast into shadow still have something to teach us.”
An ongoing esoteric salon exploring mythology through accessible scholarship, psychological insight, and guided inner experience—with sovereignty as the thread running through them all.
Current Cycle · Seven Weeks
The Banished and the Unbroken
Inanna · Ereshkigal · Lilith · Circe · Demeter · Medusa · Morgan le Fay
Seven figures exiled, demonized, diminished, or rewritten—and the forms of sovereignty their stories still contain.
Each session weaves together three threads: mythology presented as accessible scholarship, a psychological lens centred on sovereignty, and a guided visualization that brings the other two into direct inner experience.
Week Two · Ereshkigal
The one who stays.
While Inanna descended and returned, Ereshkigal remained as queen of the underworld—sovereign of all that is buried, forgotten, and transformed.
She teaches that sovereignty is not always about rising above. Sometimes it is the power to remain present with what is hard, heavy, and real—and claim it as your own.
Saturday, July 25 · 10:30 AM Pacific / 6:30 PM GMT
Live on Zoom · $22
Mythographic Gallery
The Seven Figures
Inanna · Portrait
Inanna
Descent · Surrender · Transformation
The Queen of Heaven enters the underworld willingly and discovers that sovereignty may require releasing everything that once signified power.
Ereshkigal · Portrait
Ereshkigal
Depth · Endurance · Presence
The sovereign who remains below and teaches that true power does not always need to ascend. Sometimes it simply endures.
Lilith · Portrait
Lilith
Refusal · Exile · Self-possession
She chose exile over submission and became monstrous in the stories of those who could not tolerate her refusal.
Circe · Portrait
Circe
Exile · Mastery · Wholeness
Cast onto an island, she made it her kingdom and transformed solitude into knowledge, practice, and sovereign power.
Demeter · Portrait
Demeter
Grief · Withdrawal · Boundaries
Her refusal stops the world, revealing that sovereignty is not endless giving but knowing when to withdraw without apology.
Medusa · Portrait
Medusa
Gaze · Boundary · Protection
Her gaze becomes the boundary that does not negotiate or soften for those who approach her with violence.
Morgan le Fay · Portrait
Morgan le Fay
Magic · Reclamation · Avalon
Rewritten as an antagonist, she remains the sovereign healer of Avalon whose authority survives every attempt to revise her story.
The Salon Method
Mythology
History and myth presented with rigour, clarity, and an awareness of how stories change across cultures and centuries.
Sovereignty
A psychological exploration of what each figure reveals about power, boundaries, desire, grief, exile, and self-possession.
Guided Encounter
A visualization designed as an introduction and synthesis—not an act of worship, but an invitation to sit with what the figure awakens within you.
You leave each lecture with deeper knowledge, direct inner experience, and a stronger claim to your own sovereignty.
The First Cycle
Sovereignty and the Chthonic Divine
Death · Desire · Rebellion
Hades · Pan · Anubis · Lucifer · Baphomet · Osiris
Six figures of the threshold explored through their histories, myths, modern reception, and the forms of sovereignty they awaken.
“Sovereignty begins when the story told about you is no longer the story that governs you.”