The Forbidden Pantheon—darker, deeper, and more dangerous.
Six gods of the threshold. Six faces of death, desire, and rebellion.
Join me for The Forbidden Pantheon: Sovereignty and the Chthonic Divine—an hour-long journey through the history, myths, and modern worship of:
Hades | Pan | Osiris | Anubis | Lucifer| Baphomet
Each session closes with a guided visualization into the presence of the god themselves—not to worship, but to sit with what they awaken in you.
You will leave each lecture with deeper knowledge, direct inner experience, and a stronger claim to your own sovereignty.
Let’s dive a little deeper…
Why chthonic gods matter?
The chthonic are not the demonic, nor are not the evil. They are the under—under the soil, under the city, under the ego, under the dream. The Olympians rule what is visible, and the chthonic rule what is buried—namely ancestors, instinct, decay, seed, shadow—it is the slow alchemy of compost becoming a rose. Chthonic gods do not promise to lift you out of your body, rather they promise to meet you in it—in grief, and longing, and in the raw places where “love and light” has no language. Hades does not fear your darkness. Anubis does not flinch at your corpse. This is why they matter: they are the gods who will sit with you when you have nothing left to perform.
Why shadow matters now?
We are living in an era of curated light. Optimization. Manifestation as armor. And yet, anxiety levels are through the roof, loneliness is endemic, the collective psyche is fracturing along every fault line we tried to bury. The world unstable and AI further distorts illusion from truth. The center cannot hold. When you refuse the shadow, the shadow does not disappear. Instead, it runs the show from the basement. It becomes the unexplained rage, the addiction, the paralysis, the sudden collapse, or the endless doom scroll. To work with the chthonic divine is to stop outsourcing your darkness to the enemy, the ex, the other political party, boredom, disenfranchisement, or your own shame. It is to say: This belongs to me. Show me what you are holding. It is not nihilism, it is the only real maturity I know.
Why sovereignty matters spiritually?
Most spiritual paths offer surrender—to God, the guru, the universe, or the collective. And there is a place for that. But surrender without sovereignty is just a prettier cage. Sovereignty means you are the final authority of your own inner life. You can receive transmission, initiation, and guidance without giving away your yes. The chthonic gods inherently know this. Hades does not beg. Lucifer does not demand worship. Pan does not ask permission. They offer an encounter, and you get to decide what to do with it. In an age of spiritual influencers, lineage wars, and “my deity is more real than yours,” sovereignty is the antidote to spiritual colonialism. You sit with a god and you feel what moves. You bow to nothing but your own depth. That is the path for this series—and it one of many.
Why this isn’t sensationalism?
Sensationalism runs on fear and spectacle. It needs the demon, the curse, or the forbidden as a threat. I am offering none of that. There will be no “darkest ritual ever revealed,” or promises of power over others. Instead, there will be scholarship. There will be silence. There will conversations, and the sharing of knowledge and ideas. There will be visualization practices that are deep and grounded. And there will be a standing invitation to leave behind whatever does not serve you. The only thing “forbidden” here is the lie that you must sell half your soul to be holy.
The Forbidden Pantheon: Sovereignty and the Chthonic Divine
A live, weekly occult salon on Zoom.
Saturdays at 10:30 AM PST. Starting May 30th.
You are invited to the circle.
The Forbidden Pantheon is not a course, nor a lecture series. It is a live online occult salon—a gathering of people who want to sit with the gods we were told to fear and ask better questions.
Every Saturday at 10:30 AM PST, we meet on Zoom for approximately one hour. No recording can replace the felt sense of a live circle, but recordings will be available
How it works:
For six weeks, in each session we explore one chthonic god — history, myth, and modern devotional currents—then close with a guided visualization to sit quietly in their presence. You do not worship them, rather you sit with what they awaken in you.
What you take home:
- Scholarship that honors the mystery
- Direct inner experience (not just ideas about the gods)
- A growing sense of your own sovereignty
- A tribe that talks about death, desire, and rebellion like normal Saturday morning conversation
Who belongs here:
Anyone. Truly. Whether you are a seasoned occultist, a curious beginner, a Jungian nerd, or someone who just realized “love and light” left a whole layer of yourself unexplored—you are welcome.
The arc of the series moves from confronting the underworld within → embodying instinct → dying to who you are not → meeting the guide → awakening rebellion → integrating the whole.
The lineup:
- Hades—Descent, sovereignty, the unseen self—May 30th, 10:30 AM PST. The necessary descent into the unconscious. Hades as the lord of hidden riches. Shadow work begins with consenting to go inward.
- Pan—Ecstasy, instinct, divine wildness—June 6th, 10:30 AM PST. After descent, you meet the raw, untamed life force—panic, pleasure, nature not tamed by reason. Pan awakens the body’s sovereignty.
- Osiris—Death, dismemberment, rebirth—June 13th, 10:30 AM PST. Osiris teaches that sovereignty requires dying to false selves. You cannot rule your own life without letting old structures be torn apart.
- Anubis—Thresholds, death, sacred guidance—June 20th, 10:30 AM PST. After Osiris comes the guide of the weighing of the heart. Anubis brings discernment: what stays, what goes, and what is truly yours.
- Lucifer—Illumination, rebellion, light-bearing—June 27th, 10:30 AM PST. With discernment, you can now rebel—not reactively, but consciously. Lucifer as the archetype of liberating knowledge, and the Fall as ascent.
- Baphomet—Reconciliation of opposites, chthonic sovereignty—July 11th, 10:30 AM PST. The final integration: light/dark, above/below, male/female, animal/divine. Baphomet is the crowned self who refuses to be split.
Cost: $22
All salon sessions are on Zoom and are presented by The Crooked Path. Register at The Forbidden Pantheon You will receive the link each Saturday morning. Come when you can. Stay as long as you like. The circle is forming now.
The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.
—Jung, Symbols of Transformation
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Written and spoken by Scarlett Amaris
Music and recording by Nick Kelley
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