I’m Rowan (he/him), a 46-year-old Luciferian queer witch and mystic living in Angus, Scotland with my husband and furry familiars.
I founded The Forge as part of my broader work of the Veythariel Flame crossroads – the place where I actively guide others through personal transformation and teach people to work respectfully with Underworld entities.
I have navigated the path of radical transformation several times, and it is a journey that is never truly finished.
I am a queer trans man and I know what it feels like to find yourself in the darkness and then rebuild your life from the ground up, even when the whole world tells you that you must be something else.
I also know what it is like to leave the structure, financial security and respectability of a high-flying career as a professional accountant to set up my own business and follow my true calling.
Now, I live my personal truth out loud – queer, trans, pagan, witch, bridge between worlds – in full awareness of what that truth costs me.
I do not promise that this work is easy – it is not. Our world loves to pigeonhole everyone into neat little boxes that it can control and deploy into the machinery of society. And I will not be able to walk this path for you, resolve every obstacle along the way or guarantee what you will find on the other side – this journey is yours and yours alone.
What I can do is walk beside you on that journey, because I know how lonely this path can feel and how much of a difference someone holding the map and the torch for you can make.
That is also why I refuse to divide this work into neat categories of spiritual or practical.
I don’t live in false divisions. I’m both grounded and very spiritual. Rational and intuitive. Tough when needed, gentle when it matters. I don’t believe we become whole by choosing one side and disowning the rest. I believe we become whole by integrating what we were taught to separate.
That belief isn’t philosophical for me.
It’s how I survived.