Nothing we would not use ourselves
Every object in the shop is in use on someone’s working altar here. If a sample arrives and none of us reaches for it twice, it does not get listed — however well it would sell.
Since 2014
A sanctuary built by practitioners, for practitioners
Hub of Healers began as a trestle table on a Saturday market and became a workshop, an archive and a school. What has not changed is the test we apply to everything: would we use this ourselves, every week, for twenty years?
A letter from the founder
I spent eleven years reading professionally before I taught anyone anything, and most of what I learned in that time was about restraint. When to say less. When to decline a question. When the honest answer is I don’t know, and neither does the deck.
The occult trade does not reward that restraint. It rewards mystique, scarcity and confident nonsense — and it has done for two centuries. We built the Hub as a working argument against that: name the supplier, print the harvest year, send the election chart, teach the contraindications alongside the technique.
What we sell is not magic in a box. It is well-made equipment and carefully-built instruction, and what you do with either is entirely yours. That is not a smaller claim than the one our competitors make. It is simply one we can stand behind.
Marguerite Vale
Founder · reader for twenty-two years
Five principles
How we decide what to sell and what to teach
These are not marketing lines. They are the criteria an item is actually judged against before it is listed.
Say where it came from
Latin binomials, mine names, harvest years, the cooperative that tapped the resin. Occult retail has hidden behind mystique for a long time; we would rather print the supply chain on the label.
Teach the limits, not just the technique
Our courses spend real time on what a practice will not do, which questions to refuse, and when to send someone to a doctor instead. A teacher who never says "this is outside my scope" is not teaching, they are selling.
Be free to say no
The kundalini screening call is free precisely so that turning someone away costs us nothing. A good number of applicants are told to wait six months, or not to do it at all — and a practice that can only ever say yes is a sales funnel wearing robes.
Show your working
Every stone names its mine, every herb its binomial and harvest moon, every oil its infusion date, every candle its measured burn time. When Ilias reads a chart he sends you the cast chart itself so you can check his working. If you cannot audit a claim, you should not have to take it on trust.
The road here
Twelve years, briefly
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2014
A market stall in Glastonbury
Marguerite sold second-hand decks and hand-blended resins from a trestle table on Saturdays. It was meant to fund her reading practice.
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2017
The first course
Forty-one people paid for a tarot course that did not yet exist. It was written in eleven weeks and it is still the spine of Tarot Without the Book.
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2020
The bench opens
A silversmith, a chandler and a potter joined, and the Hub started making rather than only sourcing. The first beeswax pours and hand-raised chalices came off the bench that October.
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2023
Clinical training
Amara brought hospice-grade documentation practice to the energy-healing track. It became the most demanding course we run.
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2026
Where we are now
Six teachers, fourteen thousand students in sixty-two countries, and a shop that still refuses about half of what it is offered.
The faculty
The people who teach, and who sit with you
Each of them still works in the discipline they teach or offer. None of them is a full-time educator, and several take clients the same week they record a lesson.
Marguerite Vale
Founder · Reader for twenty-two years
Marguerite takes a small number of mentees at a time, because the work does not scale and she would rather do it properly for four people than badly for forty.
Lakshmi Iyer
Yogacharya · Nineteen years teaching, trained in Chennai
Lakshmi trained for seven years in the Krishnamacharya line in Chennai before teaching anywhere. She is polite but immovable on the point that asana is the third limb of eight, and that a studio which teaches only the third is teaching a third of a thing.
Devraj Anand
Kundalini teacher · Twenty-eight years in lineage
Devraj trained in Rishikesh over eleven years and has spent much of the time since helping people whose kundalini practice went wrong elsewhere. He is markedly slower and more cautious than the market around him, on purpose.
Dr Kavita Sharma
Sanskritist · Initiated practitioner in the Śrīvidyā line
Kavita holds a doctorate in Sanskrit and an initiation in the Śrīvidyā tradition, and is unusual in having both. She teaches the texts as texts and the practice as practice, and is precise about which is which.
Amara Oyelaran
Reiki Master · Crystal practitioner
Amara brings the same documentation discipline to crystal work that she brings to reiki: consent taken properly, contraindications known, and honest notes afterwards.
Serafina Duarte
Angelic practitioner · Sixteen years of devotional work
Serafina came to angelic practice through the classical grimoire tradition and stayed for the devotional side of it. She is careful about the difference between genuine contact and the mind supplying what it hopes to hear, and she teaches clients to test that themselves.
Dr Ilias Konstantinou
Traditional astrologer · Translator of Hellenistic sources
Ilias came to astrology through classics, translating Vettius Valens before he ever cast a chart. He reads by traditional method, shows his working, and will tell you when the chart is ambiguous rather than smoothing it over.
Sunita Rao
Numerologist · Third generation of a Mumbai practice
Sunita learned Chaldean numerology from her grandmother and Pythagorean from a correspondence course she resented at the time. She works both, and is candid about where they disagree.
Theo Mbeki
Oneironaut · Former sleep-lab technician
Theo spent four years running polysomnography before he ever wrote up a projection. He works from real sleep architecture, which is why his claims are unusually modest and his results unusually good.
Consecrated & cleansed
Every tool is cleared, charged and sealed before it leaves us.
Taught by practitioners
Courses led by working readers, healers and astrologers — not theorists.
Lifetime access
Buy a course once; return to it for as long as the Hub stands.
Sat with a person
Readings and healings with practitioners who record their work and name their limits.
Discreet worldwide post
Unmarked, padded, insured. Shipped to 60+ countries.
A note on the site itself
Three veils, one collection
The Hub is built as three complete visual worlds rather than a light-and-dark toggle. Each has its own palette, typography, corner geometry and atmosphere. Pick the one you want to read in — it will remember you.
Questions are welcome, including sceptical ones.
If you want to know where a stone was mined, what a course actually covers, or whether we think a practice will help you at all — write and ask. We answer daily.