Star Club Course Leaders

Sef reading tarot at a friend's wedding
An edited image of Sef in a pulpit

Sef Salem - Sorcerer & Founder

I began studying magic at an early age when my father healed a family friend’s dog using “healing hands” as he called it. As I had an enquiring and engineering-focused mind, I set out to learn about Reiki and other forms of healing to help with my mother’s arthritis, and made a nuisance of myself at local occult bookshops. Along the way I fell in with witches, Thelemites, Chaotes, Druids, and other magical practitioners, and found my strong suit was in ceremonial magic focusing on conjuration of angels using the Grimoire of Armadel.

In 2009 I joined Ordo Templi Orientis, and by 2014 I had started an international group ‘Gentlemen 4 Jupiter’ and had worked with the Illuminates of Thanateros for a year in Devon on the Western Watchtower project, and I moved to Glastonbury to facilitate a new O.T.O. group which drew dozens of practitioners in to experience initiation in Glastonbury. I have lectured across the U.K. and Europe including London, Manchester, Swansea, Dublin, and Gdansk, and enjoy facilitating events where practitioners can come together and learn from one another.

In 2014 I inherited the Glastonbury Occult Conference and created The Visible College to promote academic research into the occult. During these events I spent many evenings discussing and practising new magical techniques which became what is now the Star Club Framework, first trialled at the 2017 Occult Conference with two hundred people chanting our first ever Mantra and Affirmations together.

I left these projects in 2018 after some personal hardships and moved to Bristol, where I continued to practice and teach magic. I was ready to launch Star Club as a group training system, and invited Dr. Halo Quin to lead the course with me, bringing in their extensive knowledge and history with our Natural Magic, Divination, Sympathetic, and Ecstatic Praxes. The first Cycle of Star Club ran during 2019 and had excellent successes for the Practitioners, and we have gone from strength to strength with each following Cycle.

Since 2022 I have returned to the occult community offering lectures and workshops to other groups, and in 2023 I have taken the Oath of the Abyss and formally took instruction in A∴A∴

I have some further projects coming up - I look forward to meeting you in person soon.

Halo in their natural element

Dr Halo Quin - Author & Witch

Hi, I’m Halo, and I’m a Dr of philosophy, an enchantress, and a changeling bard. If that sounds like fun, then know you can live a magical life too.

I’m also a practicing witch of *mumble mumble* years who knows that the world is magical, and that we are here for more beauty, pleasure, and play than we even imagine.

My witchcraft is Red, meaning it’s rooted in embodiment, devotion, and relationship, and guided by the Queen of Faery and the deities of Love and Passion… so it’s blissful, honestly.

My books include “Gods and Goddesses of Wales”, “Folktales, Faeries, & Spirits”, “Crimson Craft – sexual magic for the solo witch”. (Books!)

I’m a singer-songwriter crafting magical music.

And I’m here to help magical, neurodivergent people, and other wonderfully wyrd misfits, experience life as magical.

Through performance, books, art, and teaching, I draw on 25+ years of magical experience to encourage self-knowledge, self-acceptance, self-healing, and self-enchantment for the wonderful, magical, wyrd folk of this realm. (That includes you.)

In this way, together, we re-enchant the world. If you’ve felt that kiss of magic and long for more… you’re in the right place.

My work is rooted in embodiment and love, guided by the gods, the spirits, and the divinely erotic power of Life.