🧿 J.M. (they𓎛them) is an author, artist&arts educator, and astrologer ❇️ contemporary esoterica… LINX 🧞♀️ Mount Q Press of (جبل قاف)
They have taught and lectured widely on the subjects of lunar+stellar lore, Islamic esotericism, and the daimonic imagination, with notable platforms including Morbid Anatomy, Spiritus Arcanum, ISAR, NCGR, The Golden Dome School, and the Salem Witchcraft & Folklore Festival. This includes guest appearances on podcasts such as Rendering Unconscious, What Magic is This?, Spirit Box, Glitch Bottle, The Frightful Howls You May Hear, Within Orb, and Radical Elphame.
Their first full length book, Procession of the Night Theatre: An Exposition on the Lunar Stations (Revelore Press 2024) follows half a decade long research into the astrologies and magics of the lunar zodiac, initiated by their co-authorship and illustration of Ahmad al-Buni’s Shams al-Ma’arif: An Arabic Grimoire in Selected Translation (Revelore Press 2021) which deals extensively with like-mysteries. More published materials include essays, interviews, and illustrations with The Ingress, Hadean Press, The Mountain Astrologer, CAELi Review, Viridis Genii, and academic publications.
They are also the founder of Mount Q Press, an occult publisher dedicated to experimental and underrepresented voices in contemporary esoterica, with two forthcoming books Afterlife Astrology: Ancient Egypt and the Twelve Houses of the Sun and Beheni: A Contemporary Grimoire.
See the Classes and Events page for upcoming happenings.
*Art CV available upon request
CV / Previous Happenings
Publications
J.M. Hamade, “Al-Ayn Al-Kohl: The Jinn, Blackened Botanicals, and the Evil Eye,” Viridis Genii Series 10, Vol.5, July 2025
Howard Moore interviewing J.M. Hamade, “Tales of a Wayside Inn: Q&A with J.M. Hamade,” The Ingress, Quarterly Journal of NCGR-NYC, Winter 2025
J.M. Hamade, Procession of the Night Theatre: An Exposition on the Lunar Stations, Revelore Press, July 2024
Sasha Ravitch, cover illustration, The Red Dreaded Spindle, Hadean Press, October 2022
Sasha Ravitch interviewing J.M. Hamade, “Arabic Astro Magic: Mysteries of the Lunar Mansions,” The Mountain Astrologer Magazine, Issue #222, 2022
J.M. Hamade, “A Sable Passage: Black Light and the Magic of the Starry Road,” Conjure Codex 5, Hadean Press, October 2022
Ahmad ibn Ali al-Buni, Amina Inloes, J.M. Hamade, Sun of Knowledge (Shams al-Ma’arif): An Arabic Grimoire in Selected Translation, Revelore Press, December 2021
Lectures, Classes, Workshops
“Jinnetics: The Genius of the Dead,” hosted by Morbid Anatomy, online
“The Fixed Stars and Modern Art,” NCGR (National Council for Geocosmic Research) - NYC Chapter, co-taught with Daniel Larkin, online
“Barbault’s Basket and Alchemy” with Brian Cotnoir, Eliza Swann, and Danny Larkin, online and in person
“FIAT NOX: An Astrology of Darkness,” hosted by Morbid Anatomy, online
“Against Ares, Or the Psychology of Empire,” online
“A Starry Afterlife: Night Sky Explorations of Death and Resurrection,” hosted by Morbid Anatomy, online
“Distillation of the Pupil from the Eye: Practical Esoteric Explorations of the Evil Eye Talisman,” Viridis Genii Symposium, Lacey WA, in person
“Al-Ayn Al-Kohl: The Jinn, Blackened Botanicals, and the Evil Eye,” Viridis Genii Symposium, Lacey WA, in person
“Daemonic Doubles: The Twin, Shadow or Doppelgänger as Death and Inspiration,” hosted by Morbid Anatomy, online
“Eclipses, Dragon Gods, and World Snakes: The Serpent as Celestial Phenomena,” hosted by Spiritus Arcanum, part of The Serpentine Path series, online
“The Lunar Stations,” hosted by ISAR (International Society for Astrological Research), StarClub Webinars, online
“Snakes in Constellations, Fixed Stars, and Lunar Mansions,” The Theosophical Society of NYC, hosted by The Big Apple Astrology Group, online and in person
“Lunar Stations Laboratory XR,” 12 Week workshop series, hosted by CAELi, online
“Rulership as Poetry / Poetry as Rulership,” NCGR (National Council for Geocosmic Research) - NYC Chapter, co-taught with Daniel Larkin, online
“Lunar Stations Laboratory,” hosted by CAELi, online
“Procession of the Night Theatre with J.M. Hamade,” Watkins Books, London UK, in person
“The 12 Houses,” NCGR (National Council for Geocosmic Research) - NYC Chapter, co-taught with Daniel Larkin, online
“Connecting Dots: On the Stellar Origins of the Alphabet,” AstroMagia, online
“The Two Horns of Sharatayn: Tropical or Sidereal Lunar Stations?,” CAELi (Celestial Arts Education Library), Olympia Washington, online and in person
“On the Serpent’s Winding Verse,” for the Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival, Salem Massachusetts, in person
“The Lunar Stations,” The Theosophical Society of NYC, hosted by The Big Apple Astrology Group and Daniel Larkin, online and in person
“Night Hours of the Hidden Chamber: Horoscope Houses and the Egyptian Amduat,” for IAAM (AstroMagia), online
“Red Flesh Workshops - Alienation Module,” hosted by Sasha Ravitch, online
“…And the Flowers Bloomed Like Stars: Plants of the Lunar Stations and Fixed Stars,” Part 1 and 2, online
“Folk Around & Find Out IV: Folklore of the Future,” Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival, online
“Magic of the 1001 Nights,” Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival, online
“Constellating Hands: A Study in Sinistral/Dextral Dynamics,” AstroMagia, online
“The Egg Clothed in a Serpent Garland,” Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival, online
“Desiderare -From the Stars- A Conversation on Desire,” hosted by Sasha Ravitch, with Diana Rose Harper, Hawk, and more, online
“A House of Stars,” The Golden Dome School, online
“Beyond, Before, Besides Renaissance Astral Magic,” with Sasha Ravitch and Kadmus, AstroMagia, online
“Sable Crossings: Underworld Markings Along the Milky Way,” AstroMagia, online
“The Hall of Mirrors,” Salem Summer Symposium, online
“Re-Haunting Astrology: Towards a Chthonic, Sublunar, Astrological Spiritwork,” with Sasha Ravitch and Kadmus, Salem Summer Symposium, online
“Introduction to Astrology,” The Cauldron Black, online
“Al Khidr & The Oasis of Prophethood,” The Cauldron Black, online
“Imago: Liberation of the Images,” The Cauldron Black, online
“Through the Hour Glass Darkly: Lunar Mansions From an Arabic Grimoiric Perspective,” Salem Summer Symposium, online
Podcasts/Radio
What Magic is This?, podcast interview, “Jinn & Magic”
What Magic is This?, podcast, interview, “The World of Jinn”
Radical Elphame, podcast, interview, “28 Moons Later with JM Hamade”
Rendering Unconscious, podcast, interview, “J.M. Hamade on Procession of the Night Theatre: An Exposition on the Lunar Stations #346”
Radio Free Golgotha, “Speakeasy of the Dead - End Times”
Rendering Unconscious, podcast, interview with Majd H. Sayed and J.M. Hamade, “Non-European Astrologies, Djinn, Therapy, Trauma, War on Lebanon, and Genocide in Palestine #318”
SaturnVox, podcast, interview, “Pregnant Possibilities of the Night - On Image Magic and the Lunar Stations”
The Frightful Howls You May Hear, podcast, interview, “Encountering the Djinn with J.M. Hamade”
starnightdwell, podcast, 27 episodes hosted by J.M. Hamade, with guests including Sam Reynolds, Langston Kahn, Maria Molteni, Imani Harmon, Rose Aurora, Batool Desouky, and more.
Within Orb, CAELi Institute’s podcast, interview, “A Starry Tour Guide’s Travelogue”
Luminaries In and Out of Sect, podcast, interview, “Virgo Moon as Luminary Out of Sect”
Radio Free Golgotha, “Speakeasy of the Dead - Witch Flight”
The Cosmic Dispatch, panel, “Astrologer’s Roundtable March 2023,” Radio Kingston NY
Spirit Box, podcast, interview, “Al Khidr”
Radio Free Golgotha, podcast, interview, “The Feast of the Archangel Gabriel”
Astro Talk Talk, interview, “Moon Draws Upon Earth,” IG Live (@ art_of_the_zodiac)
The Cosmic Dispatch, panel, “Scorpio Season: Witches’ Roundtable,” Radio Kingston NY
Glitch Bottle, podcast, interview, “The Sun of Knowledge”
SaturnVox, podcast, interview, “The Artes of the Artist”
Radio Free Golgotha, “Speakeasy of the Dead - Execration”
The Cosmic Dispatch, panel, “Astrologer’s Roundtable,” Radio Kingston NY
Witchhassle, podcast, interview, “The Sun of Knowledge”
Spirit Box, podcast, interview, “The Sun of Knowledge”
What Magic Is This?, podcast, interview, “The Shams al Ma’arif”
Radio Free Golgotha, “Speakeasy of the Dead: The Long Night”
Liminal Light, podcast, interview, “Art, Imagination, and the Spirit World”
Radio Free Golgotha, “Speakeasy of the Dead - The Mighty Dead”
