This seminar revisits ecofeminist theory, eco gothic scholarship, and often neglected magical traditions to examine how feminist imaginaries and occult practices contest capitalist patterns of extraction. Decolonial critiques have been effective in pointing out the problems of appropriating ancestral knowledge rooted in non Western traditions for caring for nature. In conjunction, political ecology theory has advanced a framework for understanding the ways nature has been commodified, along with the peoples and practices that have cared for those landscapes. This course explores yet another side of the social and pagan study of nature by revisiting ecofeminist theory, eco gothic scholarship, and the study and practice of magic. The seminar shows how ecofeminism harnesses occult strategies to challenge and disrupt capitalist extraction. By uncovering the “cults” that sustain the extraction of raw or human made materials—such as water, soil, air, minerals, infrastructures, and knowledge—we also inquire into how ecofeminist theories and practices draw on the occult, the subconscious, and witchy collective action to resist ongoing environmental exploitation. Although we have weekly in depth readings, a key aspect of the course involves students developing their own feminist pedagogical tools rooted in “occult traditions,” in partnership with multispecies theory, queer, eco sexual and eco science fiction perspectives, empowering the class to analyze texts critically and to design feminist based methods to address extraction.