Travis McHenry

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Travis McHenry practicing a ritual of Anubis on Esopus Island.

Travis McHenry is one of the foremost occultists of the modern era. His Tarot decks and grimoires have generated over $3 million dollars and sold more than 110,000 copies since 2018.

Early life

Travis Daniel McHenry was born 4 June 1980 in rural Benton, Pennsylvania, a town with a population of less than 1,000 people where the McHenry family has lived for over two hundred years; having first settled in the Fishing Creek Valley in the late 1700s on a 1,000+ acre tract of land deeded to Daniel McHenry by John Penn, the son of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania.

Travis was an unexceptional student in elementary school, being consistently reprimanded on report cards for having too much energy and being a distraction to others. In high school, he showed an aptitude for history, English, and acting, but repeatedly failed math classes.

He was accepted into the undergraduate theater program at Bloomsburg University during his first semester as a high school senior and would leave high school early to attend university classes in the evenings. He eventually dual majored in Theater and Anthropology.

Naval career

After college, Travis pursued a career in the United States Navy where he served for eight years as an Intelligence Specialist with a Top Secret/SCI security clearance on the USS Kearsarge (LHD-3). During his tour on the Kearsarge, he deployed to the Persian Gulf twice in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In conjunction with his first deployment to the Gulf, in June 2003, McHenry was responsible for planning and executing a non-combatant evacuation of U.S. Embassy personnel in Monrovia, Liberia during the Second Liberian Civil War in Operation Shining Express.

After his tour of duty onboard the USS Kearsarge was complete, he became an instructor at the Navy and Marine Corps Intelligence Training Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia. His primary specialties were Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection (ATFP) and foreign country military capabilities. He was honorably discharged from the military in October 2008.

Involvement with the occult

Travis McHenry with a statue of Baphomet at the Satanic Temple headquarters building in Salem, Massachusetts

Author of tarot and oracle decks

In 1993, Travis obtained his first Tarot deck, a version of the Rider-Waite Tarot, from a catalog after reading the book Eyes of the Tarot. He began a lifelong study of the Tarot which culminated in 2013 when he began to explore old books to learn the origins of the cards. Through this process, Travis learned the art of cartomancy.

In 2017, he created his first Tarot deck, The Demon-Possessed Tarot and later launched the deck on Kickstarter to incredible success. This success inspired Travis to found his own publishing company, Bloodstone Studios, to create Tarot decks, oracle cards, and limited edition grimoires. Since 2018, he has published more than a dozen decks and books.

In October 2023, after releasing his 10th divination deck, he began collaborating with author Damien Echols on a sigil-based oracle deck.

Editor-in-Chief of Occult Encyclopedia

In 2021, Travis created the Occult Encyclopedia, the wiki you are reading right now. He undertook this massive endeavor in order to share his love of religion and spirituality with the world and provide a judgment-free resource for people who wish to learn more about esoteric subjects. He writes under the username Occultwiki.

Priest of Anubis

In June 2021, Travis was initiated as a Priest of Anubis (wt inpw) using the rite created by the Coven of the Catta. The ceremony took place over the course of several days on Esopus Island, in the middle of the Hudson River.

Contributions to occultism

The primary contribution Travis has made to the occult community has been a revival in interest in working with the Goetic demons and Kabbalistic angels. His first two tarot decks are international best-sellers and are two of the most-pirated decks in the world.

Ritual of the Seventh Gate

Travis is the creator of a magic ritual known as the Ritual of the Seventh Gate. It is intended to invoke any demon, but more specifically, it was crafted to permit divination using the 72 Goetic demons.

The ritual has been widely popularized through McHenry's Occult Tarot and his grimoires, The Grimoire of Dark Souls and The Grimoire of Heaven and Hell.

Hell water

In 2020, during the height of the Covid-19 lockdown, Travis perfected the technique for creating a liquid intended to assist with invoking and working with demons. He coined the term "Hell water," as an infernal form of Holy water.

Ritual of the 144

This ritual is designed to simultaneously summon a multitude of spirits, the core 144 spirits being 72 demons and the 72 angels which rule over them:

Books by Travis McHenry

Tarot and oracle decks by Travis McHenry

Published by Bloodstone Studios

Published by Rockpool Publishing

Released through Simon & Schuster

  • Angel of the Day (2024)
  • Demon of the Day (2024)
  • Oracle of Heaven and Hell (2024)

External links

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