About
Solis Illuminatum is a collection of makers and practitioners of many backgrounds and identities, unified in by the amorphous label of “Pagan.” We aim to provide simple and high quality tools for magical practitioners. We believe in empowering the self while building respectful partnerships with people and spirits alike.
Please continue scrolling down to see individual members, our land acknowledgement, and our ethical commitments.
Our Members
Damian Han
Creator of Solis Illuminatum, Damian is a queer PoC witch, Left-Hand Path practitioner, hard polytheist, and urban gardener. His work primarily focuses on reclaiming the inner divine while simultaneously rediscovering and reengaging with spirits of land, ancestors, craft, and calling.
Laurel McGahey
Crow in the Lupine is the result of 13 years experience as a solitary, queer witch with a focus on spirit keeping, hearth-craft and divination. All the offerings through Crow in the Lupine focus on the enrichment of the self, home and our relationship with the spirits. Bring a little magic into everyday life.
Our Land Acknowledgement
Members of Solis Illuminatum acknowledge that we represent a spiritual diaspora which is practiced on a land which has been stolen from Indigenous and First Nations Peoples of North America. This history of violence, erasure, colonialization, and appropriation of North America as well as many people and cultures through the world, has also been woven into modern Pagan practice. Though we represent a diverse collection of practices, we honor the myriad spirits of Earth, Heavens, Oceans, Underworlds, Fauna, Flora, and Ancestors. As such, we must acknowledge the history and continued societal structures which continue to do harm to First Nations Peoples as well as the environment we share this space with.
Solis Illuminatum pledges to listen and learn from voices of First Nations People to make decisions regarding the selling of spiritual tools which are derived from First Nations practices: e.g. White Sage, Palo Santo. We extend this as well to practices appropriated from closed traditions throughout the world, even those that modern “Pagan/New Age/Wiccan” practices have been using for decades without question or self-interrogation: e.g. Tantra. We will also do our best to be responsible partners in sourcing our raw material especially, but not limited to, products which are processed in ways which harm people and land from former colonies and/or where indigenous people have a history and/or continue to fight for their rights, land, and culture.
It is only with continued learning and effort we start to break the cycle of harm, even those we may not be aware are being perpetrated. Solis Illuminatum invites all people, no matter the faith, to question established norms and listen to Indigenous voices.
Ethical Sourcing
Members of Solis Illuminatum seek out small local farms, businesses with similar environmental commitments, and grow or sustainably forage the plant and/or animal materials in our products. We do not use endangered species to make our products and support sustainable farming practices whenever and where ever possible.
Non For Profits We Support
The following is a list of non for profits members of Solis Illuminatum support through sales of certain items in the store:
The American Indian Center (Chicago)
HANA Center