Safa Mirror

This workshop explores Persian Magick as a historically rooted and experientially viable system of occult knowledge shaped by centuries of engagement with power, resistance, and cosmic order. Originating in the priestly caste of Zoroastrian Iran, it evolved through Greco-Egyptian Hermeticism, Islamic occult sciences, and European esotericism—transforming across cultures and crises.

Rather than a relic of the past, Persian Magick is a living practice for personal healing, collective resistance, and global transformation. The ceremonial traditions of the Magi, once invoked to guide Kings and empower Warriors, remain essential today for resisting and dismantling the political powers that endanger life on earth.

Participants will explore how these rites functioned historically and learn how to adapt them for their own use—not as tools of destruction, but as disciplined responses to unrest. These practices offer agency in the face of violence, war, and systemic collapse.

Complementing the workshop is its performative counterpart: Suspended Refrain, in collaboration with Roja. While the workshop provides historical and practical insight, the performance embodies the principles of Persian Magick—channeling collective entanglements and transforming emotional burdens through ritual, music, and poetry.

Safa Mirror is a trans-disciplinary artist, researcher, and tarotière based in Amsterdam. With a background in engineering and performing arts, her work merges ceremonial magick, Sufi poetry, and contemporary ritual into practices of transformation and resistance. She is a resident reader at Black Moon Botanica and a researcher of esotericism at the Embassy of the Free Mind.

Safa offers rituals, lectures, and workshops across Europe that awaken mysticism through embodied experience, having presented at the European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism, and led workshops at the Occulture Conference and La Società dello Zolfo. Her practice seeks to bridge Eastern and Western occult traditions, using both scholarship and performance to reclaim ancestral knowledge as a living force.

As a queer Muslim living in Europe, Safa’s work is rooted in lived experience—transforming historical practices into tools for survival, healing, and political agency, while embodying resilience through her art and teaching.

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