Lux Occult

106. RETROSPEKTIVE & After the Fall w/ Aidan Wachter

Feb 20, 2026
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Aidan Wachter
Aidan Wachter, author and magician behind Six Ways and the Black Book hypersigil methods, discusses looking back at his time in Thee Temple of Psychic Youth and launching After the Fall. Conversations touch on deconditioning, occult politics and right-wing co-option, mutual aid and imagining post-empire futures. Short, reflective, and provocative.
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Language And Metadata As Deconditioning Tools

  • Aidan says deconditioning via metadata and language is central: societies program continuity and language can be reclaimed.
  • He advocates redefining corrupted terms (e.g., 'woke') rather than abandoning them to the right.
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Empire As The Root Pathology Of Interlocking Harms

  • Aidan defines 'empire' as the pathology underpinning patriarchy, racism, misogyny, and extraction, insisting they must be addressed together.
  • He frames current crises as interlocking 'polycrisis' needing systemic unmaking and remaking.
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Systemic Collapse Can Signal Opportunity To Reimagine

  • Aidan suggests the collapse of a system that fights everything may signal it's in death throes and opens possibility for replacement.
  • He urges imagining multi-generational functional societies as an antidote to dystopic inevitability.
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