Occult London: Tarot Exhibition at Atlantis Bookshop

Tarot is all the rage in London right now. The pictures on this post show displays at Tarot Then and Now, an exhibition of decks, art, and other related items that's currently on at the Atlantis Bookshop. There's a second exhibition at the Warburg Institute: Tarot – Origins and Afterlives. I blogged about that when it first opened.

Yesterday, I popped into Atlantis to compare the two. They're very different. The Warburg exhibition offers a historical overview from a scholarly perspective, but the one at Atlantis shows fascinating, rare, and unique objects owned and used by dedicated practitioners. Bali and Geraldine Beskin run the Atlantis Bookshop, and their family collection of occult items goes back generations. You can see original plates used for printing the Thoth cards, Austin Osman Spare's pen holder and pictures, an original copy of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, and some really unsual sets including one with a Peanuts theme. 

When I chatted to Bali in the shop afterwards, she confided to me that there's a third tarot-related event taking place in London. I quizzed her, but she was only allowed to give me vague details. Apparently filming is taking place in the city, and the company involved had ordered dozens of tarot decks as props and set dressing. I'm very curious to know what that's all about... 

Tarot Then and Now is in the Gardner Room, downstairs at the Atlantis Bookshop, 49A Museum St, London WC1A 1LY. It's free to visit and is open daily, Monday to Saturday, 10.30am to 6pm, until 30 April 2025. You can find out more here: https://theatlantisbookshop.com/

Other previous related posts
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2023/04/pagan-eye-renate-von-charlottenburgs.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/12/pagan-eye-occult-art-show-at-atlantis.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2024/05/my-copy-of-austin-osman-spare-tarot-has.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/11/ithell-colquhouns-taro-at-college-of.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/08/anyone-know-anything-about-this-oracle.html

Eclipses: This March sees a Blood Moon & Sun in Shadow

In the early hours of Friday March 14, people in England will be able to watch a lunar eclipse. It will be visible in London between 3.57am and 5.09am. Although Londoners will only see a partial eclipse, viewers in some parts of the world, including America and Ireland, will get to see the eclipse in full. This is the first lunar eclipse of 2025, the second taking place in early September.

Blood Moon

A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun and the moon are on opposite sides of the Earth. The Earth casts a shadow over the moon, making it turn red and giving it the name Blood Moon. A eclipse only happens when the moon is full.

The full moon is always a time when emotions run high, but the lunar eclipse changes the normal lunar energy. It can make things a more unstable. Anything in your life that's causing you stress or grief may come to a head. However, the lunar eclipse is a good time for doing divination to explore emotional responses to change as well as to see possibilities the future may hold.

Solar Eclipse

On March 29, there will be a partial solar eclipse. Londoners will be able to experience this from 8.50am to 12.43pm, with the maximum effect at 10.47am. Remember not to stare at the sun directly, as it can damage your eyes.

Solar eclipses have often been anticipated as times of change and great upheaval - more so than lunar eclipses. At the moment it seems change and upheaval are becoming a daily occurence. Nevertheless, as pagans and witches, we can harness the energy of a solar eclipse to work magic to bring about the changes we want. 

A solar eclipse can be a time to turn the tables on those in power, even to see unpleasant bosses or rulers get their comeuppance. In Mayan mythology, the God of Eclipses is Ah-Ciliz. According to Godchecker.com Ah-Ciliz is a servant of the sun who waits upon him at table. Every so often, he turns the tables on him by devouring him, which causes a solar eclipse. 

The Spring Equinox

The spring equinox falls on Thursday, March 20, in 2025. As pagans know, this is traditionally seen as a time of balance between the darker and lighter halves of the year. It is a day of equal day and night. With a lunar eclipse falling shortly before this festival, and a solar eclipse taking place shortly afterwards, the force of balance can be used to influence the forces of change that come with the solar and lunar eclipses.

Those of us who would like to find more balance in their own lives, and in the world, could employ equinox energy. Here are links to a spell and a visualisation with that in mind:

• Equinox Candle Spell to find Balance in Life
• The See-Saw: A Guided Visualisation for the Equinox

Other Previous Related Posts

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/07/solar-eclipse-myths-and-meanings.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2024/09/super-harvest-moon-partial-eclipse.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2016/11/charging-spell-candles-by-light-of.html

Magical Online & London Events in the Next Weeks

Here's a list of events for pagans, witches and those with similar interests over the next couple of weeks. I mainly include in-person things in or near London, because that's where I'm based, as well as online talks and workshops you can do anywhere, and festivals further afield.  

Now - 30 April; Tarot: Origins and Afterlives Exhibition. Venue: The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB. Free entry with prebooked timed tickets  https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/

Now - 30 April; Tarot Then and Now exhibition. Venue: The Atlantis Bookshop, 49a Museum Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1A 1LY. Times: Mon-Sat 10.30am-6pm, Wednesdays until noon. Talks: Wednesday from 14.30pm. Free entry to exhibition, talks priced separately https://theatlantisbookshop.com/

Now - 31 May; Hereafter Exhibition. Venue: Swedenborg House, The Swedenborg Society, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH.  Time: 10.30am-5pm Mon-Fri. Free but book a ticket https://www.swedenborg.org.uk/

Every Wednesday and Friday; College of Psychic Studies -  pop in to have a look around the lovely building.  Venue: College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 11am-5pm weekdays. Free entry. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co

Wednesday 12 March (and other days); The London Witches Bankside Walking Tour. Meet at: Southwark View Point, Minerva Square, London SE1 9DF. Times: 4pm and 6pm. Tickets: £14.36. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/march-offer-london-witches-history-bankside-walking-tour-tickets-945086096957?

Wednesday 12 March (2nd Wed each month); Enfield Town Circle Moot. Venue: Crown and Horsehoes, Horseshoe Lane, Enfield, EN2 6PZ.  Time: 6pm. https://www.facebook.com/groups/EnfieldTownCircle/

Wednesday 12 March; Tour of Viktor Wynd's Museum + a Devil's Botany Absinthe. Venue: Viktor Wynd's Museum of Curiosities, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP. Time: 6pm. Tickets from £12. Price includes a cocktail with Devil’s Botany. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-last-tuesday-society-viktor-wynd-museum-33776720489

Wednesday 12 March; 7 Signs for News. Workshop with Hannah Sanders via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm start, delayed viewing available. Tickets: £15. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Wednesday 12 March (second Wednesday of the month);  Power of Deity class. Training group workshop by the Wytchery. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store St, London WC1E 7BS, UK. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £10. https://www.meetup.com/the-wytchery/

Wednesday 12 March; Ancestral Connections and Healing with Family Constellations with Emma Hewitt of Salamay Tarot and Healing Arts. Online event. Time: 7pm. Tickets  £16.96. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/emma-hewitt-salamay-tarot-healing-arts-38061527643

Wednesday 12 March; The Power of Psychic Reiki: Harnessing Intuition to Enhance Your Reiki Practice. Start of 6-part online workshop by Nicholas Pearson via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets £190. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 12 March (every Wednesday); Sound Bath. Venue: She's Lost Control, 42 Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Wednesday 12 March; Gobekli Tepe. Talk by Hugh Newman on Zoom via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society. Time: 8pm. Tickets · from £6.76. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Wednesday, 12 March (every Wednesday); Tibetan Sound Bowl Meditation online with Spiritual Tiik. Time: 8.30pm. Tickets £12.74. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/spiritual-tiik-29294295627

Thursday, 13 March; Midweek Meditation with the College of Psychic Studies. Online event. Time: 3pm. Tickets: free for members/£7.50 non members. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk

Thursday 13 March; The Watkins Book of African Folklore. Online talk by Helen Nde via Watkins Bookshop. Time: 5.30pm. Free but reserve a place https://www.watkinsbooks.com/events

Thursday 13 March;  The Witch Hare. In-Person Talk and Workshop with Storyteller Joanna Gilar. Venue: Treadwell's Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London, WC1E 7BS. Time: 7pm. Cost: £22 per person.  https://www.treadwells-london.com/ or reserve a place by visiting the shop.

Thursday 13 March; Magick Without Tears Moot. Event by Marco Visconti Fitzroy Tavern, 16 Charlotte St., London W1T 2LY. Time 6pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/635169485713897/?

Thursday 13 March; Baphomet Magic. Start of 2-Part Workshop with Julian Vayne via Treadwell's online. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £200. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Thursday 13 March; Full Moon Ceremony and Lunar Eclipse Magic by the Thames with London Woodland Witches and Pagans. Meet at Millennium Bridge, Thames Embankment, · London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £5. https://www.meetup.com/londonwoodlandwitches/

Thursday 13 March;  Full Moon Women's Gong Bath Ceremony. Venue:  Akasa, 5a Prince Edward Rd, Hackney Wick,  London E9 5LX. Time: 7pm. Tickets:  from £24.54. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/sunita-kaur-34415293427

Thursday 13 March; Full Moon Women's Gong Bath. Venue:  Akasa, 5a Prince Edward Rd, Hackney Wick,  London E9 5LX. Time: 7pm. Tickets:  from £24.54. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/sunita-kaur-34415293427

Thursday 13 March; Full Moon Celebration with South East London Pagans. Venue: One Tree Hill, London SE23. Time: 7.30p6m. Free. https://www.facebook.com/groups/7046502195365834

Thursday 13 March (tbc but usually every fortnight); Inquisitive Spirit open circle. Learn Mediumship and Psychic development with a group.  Venue: Bretons Manor, 411 Rainham Road, South Hornchurch RM13 7LP. Time: 7.30pm-9.30pm. Cost £10 per session  Text 07549 638276 for details.

Thursday 13 March; Peredur: A Mabinogion Tale. Talk by Cunning Folk at South East London Folklore Society. Venue: The Electric Elephant Cafe, 186A Crampton Street, London, SE17 3AE. Time: 8pm, Free but £5/£8 donations welcome. Turn up on the night or email cunningfolkmusic@gmail.com to book a space.  https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cunning-folk-7829505560

Friday 14 March; Power Up the Connection to Your Spirit Guides. Workshop with Claire Broad. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 11am. Tickets: from £125. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Friday 14 March; Unlock the Mysteries of Tarot. Part of  6-week online course with rest less events. Time: 11.30am. Tickets £3.99 per lesson. https://events.restless.co.uk/event-calendar/unlock-the-mysteries-of-tarot-6-week-course/

Friday 14 March (every full and new moon); Moon Space online ritual with Tree Carr via She's Lost Control. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Friday 14 March; Tarot for Beginners. Start of 8-week course with Raine McManus. Time: 7pm. The cost for the course: £160. https://www.facebook.com/events/1306653543902329/?

Friday 14 March; Full Moon Gong Bath. Venue: Secret Soul Sanctuary, Sydenham Hill, London SE23 3PH. Time: 7.45pm. Tickets from £20.21. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/claire-the-soul-nurturer-35479207053

Saturday 15 - 16 March;  Conjuring Creativity, Art and the Esoteric. Venue:  71 - 75 Powerscroft rd., London. Time starts 9am Tickets: from £56. https://www.facebook.com/events/400313003142022/?

Saturday 15 March; Witchfest Market. Venue: Cheese and Grain, Justice Lane, Frome, BA11 1BE

Time: 9am-3pm. https://witchfest.net/events/

Saturday 15 - 16 March; Shamanic Energy Healing Course with Copal Daselva. Hosted by Aho in London, Hackney Wick. E3 2NX. Time: 10am-6pm. Tickets: £51 deposit, £444 full price, £333 lower income price, £254 unwaged https://www.aho.community/

Saturday 15 March; Dowsing for Energetic Health. Workshop with Vicky Sweetlove. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 11am. Tickets: from £125. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 15 March; The Re-Emergence of the Isis and Magdalene Energies. Workshop with Mel Collins. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 11am. Tickets: from £125. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 15 March; Demonology ~ As It is. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Road, Eltham SE9. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £20. https://www.wiccamoonuk.com/shop/events-and-workshops/demonology-as-it-is/?

Saturday 15 March; Fairy Whispering/Oracle of the Fairies Signing by Karen Kay. Venue: Watkins Bookshop, London, 19-21 Cecil Ct, London WC2N 4EZ, UK. Time: noon. Free but reserve a place https://www.watkinsbooks.com/events

Sunday 16 March; Healing the Wounds of Love: The Heart Chakra. Workshop with Anna Parkinson. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 11am. Tickets: from £125. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Sunday 16 March; Unlock Your Potential with Crystals and Essential Oils. Workshop with Gemma Petherbridge. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 11am. Tickets: from £125. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Sunday 16 March (and other times and dates); Soul Restore Sound Healing. Venue: The Mandrake, 20-21 Newman Street, London W1T 1PG. Time: 11am. Tickets: £35. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-mandrake-17825575648

Sunday 16 March; Poppets and Magical Doll-Making Workshop with me, Lucya Starza. Price includes a Cocktail with Devil’s Botany. Venue: Viktor Wynd's Museum of Curiosities, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP. Time: noon. Tickets from £31.94. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poppets-magical-doll-making-workshop-with-lucya-starza-live-tickets-692548169217

Sunday 16 March; Spring Equinox Ritual with Mani and London Woodland Witches and Pagans. Meet at Richmond Park Gate, Richmond Park (Richmond Park Lodge), London TW10 5HU. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £7. https://www.meetup.com/londonwoodlandwitches/

Sunday 16 March;  Dawn of the Oak Pagan moot. Venue: The Sir John Oldcastle, Farringdon Road/Greville Street, London EC1M 3JF. Time: 2.30pm. https://www.facebook.com/groups/dawnoftheoak/

Sunday 16 March (every Sunday); Mindfulness Meditation, following by Sound Bath Meditation. Venue: Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, 3 Pilgrim's Place, London NW3, 1NG. Time: 6pm. Free, but donations welcome. https://www.rosslynhillchapel.org.uk

Sunday 16 March; Storytelling Craic Up - Irish storytelling for St Patrick’s with Giles Abbott Venue: Viktor Wynd's Museum of Curiosities, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP. Time: 7pm.  Tickets: £10/£15  https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/museum/

Monday 17 March (usually Mondays each week); Astrology talks/events. 6pm: Ritual. 7pm: Azimene Degrees and Past Lives. Talk by Wanda Sellar; 8.30pm. Hybrid event via the Astrological Lodge of London. In-person venue: Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London, NW1 6XT. Tickets £9 for non members/£6 members. https://astrolodge.co.uk/

Monday 17 March; Finding Purpose at the Spring Equinox. Class with Rebecca Beattie, author of The Wheel of the Year and Planetary Magic, via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm start, delayed viewing available. Tickets: £15. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Monday 17 March; Theosophy. Online discussion group via Rudolf Steiner House. Time: 7pm. Tickets free https://www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiner-spiritual-science/events/

Mondays 17 and 24 March; An Introduction to Animal Healing and Communication. 2-part online workshop by Elizabeth Whiter via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets £90. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Monday 17 March; Kenneth Anger and The Occult Sixties. Talk by Gary Parsons. Venue: Viktor Wynd's Museum of Curiosities, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP. Time: 7pm.  Tickets: £20.  https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/museum/

Monday 17 March; Skeletons in the Closet: The Ossuaries of Europe. Talk by Cat Irving on Zoom via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society. Time: 8pm. Tickets · from £6.76. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Monday 17 March; Revisiting the Poltergeist phenomenon inside a collaborative project around and online Macro-PK database. Online  presentation by Dr Eric Dullin, hosted by the Society for Psychical Research via Zoom. Time: 8pm. Tickets: Free for members/£5 non members. https://www.spr.ac.uk/

Monday 17 March (tbc but usually every Monday); Tea With a Druid. Free online event by the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. Time 8pm. https://druidry.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/druidry

Tuesday 18 March - 4 April; Dormitorium : The Film Décors Of The Quay Brothers. Venue: Swedenborg Hall, The Swedenborg Society, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH.  Time: 10am-5pm Mon-Fri. Free  https://www.swedenborg.org.uk/

Tuesday, 18 March; Yoga for Mind, Breath and Body. Venue: Beckenham Place Mansion, Place Park, The Mansion, Beckenham BR3 1SY. Time: 6.15pm. Tickets: £12. https://www.beckenhamplace.org/whatson/

Tuesday 18 March; Elias Ashmole and the Cottingley Fairies. A Folklore Society online talk by John Clark. Time: 7pm. Tickets £6. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-folklore-society-32190494089

Tuesday 18 March; Cleansing the Chakras. Start of 8-part online course by Anna Parkinson via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets £245. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Tuesday 18 March; The Devil's Bargain. Talk by Ed Simon on Zoom via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society. Time: 8pm. Tickets · from £6.76. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Wednesday 19 March; College of Psychic Studies Guided Tour with Curator and Archivist Jacqui McIntosh. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £12. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 19 March (and other dates); Tea with a medium. Venue: The Atlantis Bookshop, 49a Museum Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1A 1LY. Time: 2.30pm  Cost £55 https://theatlantisbookshop.com/

Wednesday 19 March; A Quest into the Akashic Records. Workshop with Vicky Sweetlove. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 5pm. Tickets: from £85. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 19 March; Queer Tarot. Round table discussion regarding the current Warbug Institute exhibition. Venue: IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Time: 6pm. Tickets: free. https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/

Wednesday 19 March (3rd Wednesday each month); The More Mead Moot. Venue: The Hope pub, Carshalton, Surrey. Time: 7pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/Pagan-FutureFests-352385661439366/

Wednesday, 19 March; Festival of Independent Creative Practice: Dancing with the Devil. Performance at Rose Bruford College, Burnt Oak Lane, Sidcup DA15 9DF. Time: 7pm. Tickets:  £2 – £10 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/festival-of-independent-creative-practice-dancing-with-the-devil-tickets-1254495412549?

Wednesday, 19 March; Dark Fairytales and Creative Writing. Part of a series of workshops by Bernadette Russell via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm start, delayed viewing available. Tickets: £15. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Wednesday, 19 March; Healing Circle: Spring Equinox. Venue: Kave cafe, 2 Hammersmith Broadway, London W6 7AL. Time: 7pm. Tickets free. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/healing-circle-spring-equinox-tickets-1267809776169?

Wednesday 19 March; The Intuitive and Psychic Self. Start of 6-part online course by Daniel Pitt via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets £190. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 19 March (Not the usual second Wednesday of the month). The Green Children of Woolpit. Talk by Deborah Hyde at Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub. Venue: The Duke of Greenwich, 91 Colomb St, SE10 9EZ. Time: 7:30pm. free but suggested donation: £4). https://sitp.online/sitp/greenwich

Wednesday 19 March;  Glastonbury Goddess Temple Spring Equinox Ceremony online. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets (donation): £5. https://goddesstemple.co.uk/

Wednesday 19 March; Horror and Hilarity: The Théâtre du Grand-Guignol. Talk by Richard Hand on Zoom via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets · from £6.76. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Wednesday, 19 March; Witches Film Screening + Q and A with director Elizabeth Sankey. Venue:  ArtHouse Crouch End, 159A Tottenham Lane London N8 9BT. Time: 8pm. Tickets:  £9.92. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/witches-film-screening-qa-with-director-elizabeth-sankey-tickets-1205321080799?

Thursday 20 March; Stonehenge Spring Equinox Managed Open Access. English Heritage is allowing open access to the 5,000-year-old megalithic monument on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire from approximately 5.45am until  8.30am. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/

Thursday 20 March; Spring Equinox: Druid ceremony at Tower Hill. Start at The Ship, 3 Hart Street off Mark Lane, London, EC3R 7NB. Starts 10.45am. Free. https://www.meetup.com/saturday-morning-folklore-club/events/304538601/

Thursday 20 March; The Secret Life of Chocolate. Talk and signing by Marcos Patchett. Venue: Watkins Bookshop, London, 19-21 Cecil Ct, London WC2N 4EZ, UK. Time: 5pm. Free but reserve a place https://www.watkinsbooks.com/events

Thursday, 20 March; Spring Equinox Sound Bath and Yin Yoga: A Journey to Balance and Harmony. Venue: Beckenham Place Mansion, Place Park, The Mansion, Beckenham BR3 1SY. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15. https://www.beckenhamplace.org/whatson/

Thursday, 20 March; Pagan Revivals, Ancient and Modern. Lecture and Soirée with Robin Douglas Venue: Treadwell's Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London, WC1E 7BS. Time: 7pm. Cost: £10 per person.  https://www.treadwells-london.com/ or reserve a place by visiting the shop.

Thursday, 20 March; Spring Equinox Sacred Circle. Venue: St Peter-in-the-Forest, 18 Woodford New Road, London E17 3PPTime: 7pm. Tickets:  £38.62 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spring-equinox-sacred-circle-tickets-1266418855889?

Thursday 20 March; PF London Spring Equinox Open Ritual via Pagan Federation London. Venue: Pirate Castle, Gilbey's Wharf Oval Road NW1 7EA London, UK Time: 7.30pm. Entry £8 for PF members, £10 for non-members (cash only). https://www.facebook.com/PaganFederationLondon

Thursday 20 March; Spring Equinox Celebration with South East London Pagans. Venue: Peckham Rye, London SE15. Time: 7.30pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/groups/7046502195365834

Thursday, 20 March; MYth Premier Screening and Cocktail. Venue:  art'otel London Hoxton, Powered by Radisson Hotels, 1-3 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3DT. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets Free. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/myth-premier-screening-and-cocktail-tickets-1249562718729?

Friday 21 March; Drum Birthing Workshop with Lynn Gosney. Venue: Shamanic Centre Caer Corhrain, Minster, Kent. Starts 8.45am. Tickets £225/£250. https://www.facebook.com/shamaniccentrecaercorhrain

Friday 21 March (usually every Friday); Live Chat hosted by Rachel Patterson, author of Gods and Goddesses of England and the Kitchen Witch series of books. Time: 9am. Free. https://www.facebook.com/RachelPattersonbooks/

Friday 21 March; Atlantis Bookshop's 103rd Birthday Celebration. Pop in for a cup of tea and some cake. Venue: The Atlantis Bookshop, 49a Museum Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1A 1LY. https://theatlantisbookshop.com/

Friday 21 March; Authentic Andean Shamanism with a Peruvian Curandero. Workshop with Dr Ruben Orellana and Michele Costa-Lukis. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 11am-5pm. Tickets: £125. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Friday 21 March (1st and 3rd Friday each month); The Pagan Portal Podcast by Moon Books. Time: noon (or listen to recording later). Free event. https://open.spotify.com/show/11N4kNj65tTz9NFUcZTMa7?

Friday 21 March (every fortnight until July 25);  Practice Reading Tarot. Free online event. Time: 7pm. https://www.meetup.com/astrotarotkitchen/events/

Friday 21 March; Spring Equinox Drum Journey with Kate. Venue: She's Lost Control, 42 Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £30.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Friday 21 March; Tarot for Beginners. Part of online 8-week course by Rain McManus. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £160 for the entire course. https://www.facebook.com/events/1306653543902329/?

Friday 21 March; A Demonstration of Psychic and Mediumistic Powers with Daniel Pitt. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £27. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Friday 21 March; London Witches Walking Tour with Maria Beadell's organised by Treadwell's Bookshop. Meet Meet outside Farringdon tube Station, London EC1M 6BY, UK. Time: 7.50pm. Tickets: £20. https://www.treadwells-london.com/

Saturday, 22 March; Magick, Art and Alchemy Conference 2025. Venue:  Ryde Castle Hotel, 16 Esplanade, Ryde PO33 2ED. Starts 9am. Tickets from £40 early bird rate. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magick-art-alchemy-conference-2025-tickets-886296886847

Saturday 22 March; The Round Table and The Grail: Quest for the Sacred Chalice. Workshop with Mike Bais. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 10am-5pm. Tickets: £125. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 22 March; Undoing Stress in the Nervous System to Prepare for Spiritual Development. Workshop with Ann Mathie. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 1pm-5pm. Tickets: £90. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 22 March; Drum Circle with Emma Hewitt of Salamay Tarot and Healing Arts. Venue: Forest Hill Friends Meeting House, 34 Sunderland Road, London SE23 2QA. Time: 2pm. Tickets  £20. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/emma-hewitt-salamay-tarot-healing-arts-38061527643

Saturday 22 March; Reading the Runes Workshops. Start of course online course by Laura Daligan. Time: 3pm. Tickets: £150 for the entire course, or pay by instalments. https://www.lauradaligan.com/

Saturday, 22 March; Wild Witchcraft Conference 25. Speakers include author Rachel Patterson and founder of Witchfest Merlyn Hern. Venue: Merchistoun Hall, Waterlooville, PO8 9LJ. Time: 10.30am-5pm. Tickets:  £25. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/witchfest/1431506?

Saturday, 22 March; Witchcraft in the Modern World: 1900 to the present. Class with Ethan Doyle-White. Venue: City Lit, Keeley Street, London. Time: 10.30am-1pm. Tickets: £69/£55/£45. https://www.citylit.ac.uk/

Saturday, 22 March; Sacred Sweat Lodge for Spring Equinox. Venue: Shamanic Centre Caer Corhrain Kent. Run by Lynn Gosney. Time: 11.30am. Tickets £30, email lynn.gosney@hotmail.com for info and to book. https://www.facebook.com/shamaniccentrecaercorhrain/

Saturday, 22 March; Tarot – Origins and Afterlives British Sign Language Tour. Venue: The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB. Time: noon. Tickets: free. https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/

Saturday, 22 March;  Spring Equinox at Coldrum Stones with Kent Gorsed. Venue: Coldrum Long Barrow, West Maling, Kent. Time: noon. Free. https://www.facebook.com/kentgorsedd/

Saturday, 22 March; Candle Magic workshop based on my book Pagan Portals - Candle Magic. Venue: Treadwell's Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London, WC1E 7BS. Time: 1pm. Cost: £22 per person.  https://www.treadwells-london.com/ or reserve a place by visiting the shop.

Saturday, 22 March (tbc); Free and open Gorsed of Caer Abiri Equinox ritual at Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire. Meet at the Red Lion pub from noon for druidic ceremony at 1.30pm. Offering of bread, mead, or Bardic performance always welcomed. Free event, just turn up. https://www.facebook.com/groups/49080749624/

Saturday 22 March; Ostara Ritual. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Road, Eltham SE9. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £20. https://www.wiccamoonuk.com/shop/events-and-workshops/ostara-ritual-to-isis/

Saturday, 22 March; Paul McKenna on Power Manifesting via by Mind Body Spirit. Venue: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Street, London WC1R 4RL. Time: 3pm. Tickets from £50.64. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/mind-body-spirit-6186126875

Saturday, 22 March; Spring Equinox Wise Woman Workshop with Mary Betteridge. Venue: Embody Wellness, 11 Saint George Wharf, London SW8 2LE. Time: 3pm. Tickets  £38.62 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spring-equinox-wise-woman-workshop-mary-betteridge-tickets-1255554259589?

Saturday, 22 March; Spring Equinox Ceremony and Shamanic Journey by Indigo Earth. Venue:  Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, Southern Grove, London E3 4PX. Time: 5pm. Tickets by donation. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spring-equinox-ceremony-and-shamanic-journey-by-indigo-earth-tickets-1258841913049?

Saturday, 22 March; Woodland Earth Hour Ritual with Mani and London Woodland Witches and Pagans. Meet at Queen's Wood Road entrance to Queen's Wood, Highgate, London N6 5UU. Time: 6.30pm. Tickets: Free. https://www.meetup.com/londonwoodlandwitches/

Saturday, 22 March; Eostre Ritual By Cunning Folk. Venue: Dash The Henge Store, 348 Camberwell New Road, London SE5 0RW. Time: 7pm. Tickets free. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cunning-folk-7829505560

Saturday, 22 March; Saturday Gong Bath. Venue: Secret Soul Sanctuary, Sydenham Hill, London SE23 3PH. Time: 7.45pm. Tickets from £20.21. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/claire-the-soul-nurturer-35479207053

Sunday 23 March; Trance Mediumship: Training Day with Sarah Tyler-Walters. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 11am-5pm. Tickets: £125. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Sunday 23 March; Shamanic Group with Les Fuller. All welcome Venue: Woodford Church at 9 Grove Crescent, South Woodford, London E18 2JR. Time 11am-3pm. Tickets: £10. http://woodfordchurch.com/

Sunday 23 March; Druidic Ritual to celebrate Spring Equinox on Primrose Hill with the Loose Association of Druids. Gather in the Hawthorne Grove at Primrose Hill, London, NW1 8YH, at 12.30pm to prepare the site for the ritual at 1pm. Nearest tube: Chalk Farm. Bring a small contribution of food and drink to share. https://www.facebook.com/LooseAssociationOfDruidsOfPrimroseHill

Sunday 23 March; Black Jaguar Medicine: Sister Otorongo and Soul Loss Retrieval Ceremony with Pixie P Carney. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 1pm-5pm. Tickets: £90. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Sunday 23 March (tbc); Anderida Gorsedd Imbolc open ritual. Venue: Long Man of Wilmington, Wilmington, near Eastbourne, East Sussex. Meet near the car park between 1.30pm and 2pm, walk up to the chalk hill figure at 2pm. Afterwards, the Giants Rest pub. https://www.facebook.com/groups/227609495203/

Sunday 23 March; Storytelling Sunday: Haunted Dolls by Cunning Folk. Venue:  Love Shack, 299 Cambridge Heath Road #Arch 298, London E2 9HA. Time: 2pm, Tickets £6.66.  https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cunning-folk-7829505560

Sunday, 23 March; Throne of Light: A Glorious Spring Equinox Celebration at Hackney Henge. Venue: Nature’s Throne, Capital Ring London E5. Time: 2pm, Tickets donations welcome. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/throne-of-light-a-glorious-spring-equinox-celebration-at-hackney-henge-tickets-1238572436499?

Sunday 23 March (usually second Sunday of the month); Ritual in the Tower (Luna Iter). In-person ritual in Hackney, East London for members of the group, guests and seekers on the path. Meet at the Pembury Tavern, 90 Amhurst Rd, London, from 4.30pm, moving on to a historic site to start the ritual at 6pm. Entry: £8. https://www.hildegardmaier.co.uk/luna-iter or https://www.facebook.com/groups/1230392930656154

Sunday 23 March; Morris. Max Reeves' Book Launch and a Day of Dance to Celebrate, before the Crossbones Vigil. Venue: Crossbones Graveyard, Southwark. Location: Redcross Way, London, SE1 1TA. Time: 3pm. Free, just turn up 

Sunday 23 March; Crossbones Vigil to honour the outcast dead of Crossbones Graveyard, Southwark. Location: Redcross Way, London, SE1 1TA. Time: 6.45pm for 7pm. Free, just turn up   http://crossbones.org.uk

Sunday 23 March; Ostara Pagan Ceremony. Venue: Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, 3 Pilgrim's Place, London NW3, 1NG. Time: 7pm. Free, but donations welcome. https://www.rosslynhillchapel.org.uk

Sunday 23 March;  The Maternal Body in the Early Modern Age. Talk by Olivia Langford on Zoom via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society. Time: 8pm. Tickets · from £6.76. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

For activities after these dates please visit my events page. 

Please note that I am not responsible for the content of these events except my own talks and workshops. Contact organisers directly if you have questions or to check ticket availability. Where a practitioner is offering information about magical healing, this is *not* medical advice. If you're running an event you want included, please email me at badwitch1234@gmail.com Also please note I earn commission for some links.

Rounding the Year: A Daffodil in my Garden

Daffodils seem to be out everywhere after a few days of sunshine. The picture above shows one of many growing in my garden.  They are an iconic flower of March and the weeks around the Spring Equinox. However, seeing them always makes me feel a little sad because this is the time of year that my mum died. 

She loved the daffodils that grew around our house. Shortly before she died I picked a large bunch of them to put in a vase near her bed. Now, the sight of them reminds me of her, and the happy memories are tinged with lingering grief.

Sharing seasonal photos

Inspired by ideas in my book Rounding the Wheel of the Year, I share seasonal pictures, art, crafts, words and customs as well as a record of what's happening in nature. 

Where to Find my Books

If you want to buy Rounding the Wheel of the Year  and any of my other Pagan Portals witchcraft books, or my Gothic novel Erosion  you can find them via my publisher Moon Books, which is part of Collective Ink: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com

You can also find my books at London bookshop Treadwell's at 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury: https://www.treadwells-london.com/

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http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2024/12/rounding-year-wintery-bare-trees-in.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2025/01/rounding-year-wassailing-apple-trees.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/03/pagan-eye-daffodils-blooming-in-my.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2023/02/pagan-eye-first-spring-daffodils-of-year.html

Historic Spring & Yew Tree in Tunbridge Wells

 

Tunbridge Wells, in Kent, is famous for it chalybeate springs, the water from which was fashionably drunk for health-giving properties in the 18th and 19th centuries. The best known spring can still be seen at the Pantiles in the town, but another can be found at nearby Dunorlan Park. 

I went to the park for a picnic and a walk in the warm, sunny weather last Saturday. While I was there I video'd the iron-rich water bubbling to the surface. An ancient yew tree stands on the grassy bank above it, which you can see in the photo below. 

Water from the spring feeds a small stream that feeds a lake in the centre of the park. Dunorlan was once the private grounds of a Victorian mansion. The building is no longer there. The grounds are now a public park, but are still laid out much as they were in the 19th century.  If you want to find out more about the park, here's a link: https://tunbridgewells.gov.uk/community-and-leisure/parks-and-play-areas/dunorlan-park

However, the spring was there long before the Victorian mansion. From what I can gather it was once called Burnt House spring. Descriptive Sketches of Tunbridge Wells and the Calverley Estate, published in 1816, described it as a "romantic spot" and also mentioned the wide brick basin that still exists. 

Previous related posts
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2023/07/pagan-eye-sacred-spring-on-sussex-beach.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2021/12/sacred-sites-st-cedds-well-north.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2024/09/review-pagan-portals-sulis-by-rachel.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/11/pagan-eye-spring-of-dionysus-at-dion-in.html