Forty Gates

Forty gates. One gate at a time. A complete Taoist magick training you can actually finish.

Most books on ritual practice hand you a drawer of other peoples charms and leave the real questions unanswered: What comes first? What do you practise every day? How do you know a piece of work is learned rather than merely read?

Forty Gates is a progressive training, not a collection. Each of its forty gates is a complete unit of work — teaching you can test, drills you repeat until they settle, one rite given in full, and a self-check that tells you honestly whether you are ready to move on. The altar comes before the charms. The daily rite comes before the seasonal wheel. And underneath every rite stands the inner-alchemy foundation — breath, stance, the dantian, guarding essence, refining qi, settling spirit — introduced early, practised daily, and deepened gate by gate.

Inside youll discover:

How to build and keep a home altar, and consecrate your own censer, brush, ink, paper and seal

The complete daily rite cycle — morning invocation and evening return — plus weekly, lunar and seasonal calendars

Charm craft in full: construction, activation, placement and clean retirement, for protection, clarity, prosperity and rest

Spirit etiquette and offerings taught with boundaries, honesty and respect

Safe, graded inner-alchemy practice: dantian work, breath counts, standing and walking rites

A seven-day and a thirty-day gate that bind the whole training into an ordinary life

Who this book is for

For the practitioner who owns three charm books and no training. For the qigong or Taoism student who wants the magick face of the tradition taught as a discipline, not a novelty. For any ritual practitioner, from any tradition, who wants a daily practice with a spine.

DaoJun Lyons writes practical Taoist magick workbooks built on one rule: no gate without drills, no rite without a self-check, and no promise the practice cannot keep.

One gate at a time. That is the whole method — and it is enough.