"We ride with purpose.
We create our own transmutation."
Panama City, Panama. A place where the Pacific and the Atlantic almost touch — where two worlds have collided for centuries, where trade, knowledge, and culture have passed through like tides. It is a city that has always understood that things transform. That what enters on one side does not leave the same on the other.
It is here that Picatrix was born.
"The board is our talisman. The session is our working."
The Picatrix is the most influential handbook of astral magic to reach the West — Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm, "The Goal of the Sage," compiled in Arabic in Muslim Spain over a thousand years ago from more than two hundred older sources. It is not a book of theory. It is a book of making: how to build an object at the exact moment the sky is right, so that the object carries that moment inside it forever after.
We read it differently. We read it on a board.
"Both demand that you fall. Both demand that you get up. Both transform you in the process."
Picatrix was founded by Jorge Lau — a Panamanian who grew up on the Atlantic coast, in Colón, a port city that taught him early that the world is a crossroads, and that knowledge arrives from unexpected directions.
Jorge came to skateboarding not just as a sport but as a discipline — a practice with its own codes, its own physics, its own demand for patience, repetition, and will. Over time, he noticed something: the culture around skating was shifting. The raw, intentional edge that had defined it was being diluted. The weight was leaving.
He wanted to bring it back — not through nostalgia, but through depth. He turned to the sources that had always fascinated him: alchemy, astrology, the esoteric traditions that mapped the invisible architecture of the world. And he found that skateboarding and the occult speak the same language.
Picatrix is what emerged from that collision. A brand built on the belief that riding with purpose is itself a form of magic. That a line is an intention. That a trick landed is a transmutation — of fear into motion, of doubt into mastery.
"The oldest alchemical ambition: to create something that does not decay."
Picatrix is not built for a season. It is built to endure — to carry meaning beyond the moment of its making. Every garment in the collection is a vessel for that intention: the symbols are real, the philosophy is lived, and the work behind every design is the work of someone who believes that what you wear, and how you move, matters.
Jorge built Picatrix with permanence in mind — something that could outlast trends, outlast him, and carry the knowledge forward to those who come after. That is the oldest alchemical ambition: to create something that does not decay.
This is that work.
This is what we make. This is what we wear.
This is why the symbol on your tee is not decoration —
it is a charged object, given meaning by the act of riding in it.
PICATRIX SKATE GRIMOIRE
Panama City, Panama · ☿