Esoteric Writing Lab

Esoteric Writing Lab
A creative practice series for devotional, symbolic, and magical writing
Facilitated by Jessica Chappell
Location: Online via Zoom
Recorded for absentees: Yes
Prerequisite: None

Upcoming

Words for Sacred Places: 3-Part Course

On-Demand

The House of Memory: 3-Part Course

Part I: The Room
We begin with spaces: a bedroom, a kitchen, a garden, a hallway, a childhood home. Students will write from within remembered places, focusing on atmosphere, sensory detail, emotional pressure, and the strange intelligence rooms can carry over time.

Part II: The Object
In the second class, we work with objects that hold a charge. Students will explore how physical things gather memory, and how an object can become a point of longing, desire, identity, grief, attachment, or revelation.

Part III: The Voice
In the final class, we listen for what remains alive within memory. Students will write through monologue, confession, dialogue, and direct address, allowing buried voices, younger selves, ancestral echoes, and unfinished conversations to emerge onto the page.

The Planets: 8-Part Course

This course invites you to develop your own devotional texts, one for each of the classical planets. Each class, we enter a planetary current and write from it using a simple poetic vessel. The form changes each session. We will work with structures such as hymn, blessing, benediction, psalm, refrain, call-and-response, and litany.

Over eight classes, you will create a personal planetary cycle. By the end of the lab, you will have seven devotional texts, one for each of the classical planets, written in your own voice. These pieces can be used in ritual, meditation, prayer, altar work, or personal practice. The text you write here becomes a living companion you can return to again and again.