via the Byzantine Magical Treatise of Solomon (Hygromanteia) to the 16th-18th century grimoires of Western Europe, specifically the Clavicula Salomonis.

[citation needed] He migrated to London in December 1972, where his career alternated between book and magazine publishing and computer programming.

In 1973, he founded Askin Publishers Ltd, and became its managing director, in order to print editions of the magical writings of Dr. John Dee, Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, Austin Osman Spare and Aleister Crowley.

In 1976 he helped in the production of the Crowley Thoth Tarot card pack by arranging the re-photography of the original paintings in the Warburg Institute, which were later used in the revised edition published by U.S. Games Inc in that year.

[7] In 2000, he was nominated for Publisher of the Year at the PPA Awards in London for the magazine Feng Shui for Modern Living.

At the 27th International I-Ching Conference 2015 in Singapore, Skinner gave a lecture on the Hexagrams and Song Dynasty Feng Shui (14 November 2015).

In January 2022 Stephen was featured in the list of "The 100 Most Spiritually Influential People Living in 2022" in issue 68 of Watkins Mind Body and Spirit magazine.

In the past few decades he has made important contributions to clarifying the rather vague image from which Feng shui suffers in the West".

[23] His publishers include Periplus, Routledge, Tuttle, Salamander, Llewellyn Worldwide, Sterling, Nicholas Hayes, Penguin, Ibis Press,[24] Simon & Schuster, Inner Traditions,[25] Golden Hoard,[26] Haldane Mason, Parragon, Cico, Trafalgar, etc.