The Spring Equinox on March 20 is when the day and the night are of equal length as we move through spring towards summer. Pagans celebrate this time as the festival of Ostara. Here is a list of open rituals and other pagan events in London and some in other part of Southern England taking taking place over the Spring Equinox and next week:
Now to Saturday 22 March; Ethel Le Rossignol: Exhibition of a Series of Psychic Drawings Given Through Her Hand as an Assurance of Survival After Death. Venue: The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London WC1N 1JD. Time: Mon–Sat, 12pm–6pm. http://www.thehorsehospital.com/now/a-goodly-company-ethel-le-rossignol/
Wednesday 19 March; How Hermetic was Renaissance Hermetism? Lecture by Professor Wouter Hanegraaff, Professor of the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam and author of Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture.
Venue: The Warburg Institute Lecture Room, University of London, School of Advanced Study; Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB. Time: 4.30pm. Admission free without ticket. http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/home/Wednesday 19 March; Secrets from the Soul: The Cutting Tradition. Storytelling with London Dreamtime at the Grant Museum of Zoology; Rockefeller Building, University College London, London WC1E 6DE. Time: 6.30pm start. Free event, book tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/secrets-from-the-soul-stories-discussion-about-fgm-tickets-10150577651
Wednesday 19 March; Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics.Book Launch Party with Marco Pasi. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7pm to 9.30pm, speeches 7.46pm. Free event but advance booking essential. For further details: info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/Wednesday 19 March - Sunday 23 March; Magical Art/e. Free art exhibitions, talks and live music in a 13th century tower in East London. Venue: St Augustine's Tower Hackney, Behind 354 Mare Street, St John's Churchyard, Hackney, London E8 1HR. For full details, visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/819937231355341
Thursday 20 March; London's Myths and Legends. Talk by Robert Stephenson. Venue: Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury Street, London EC2V 7HH. Tickets are free but must be booked in advance. http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visiting-the-city/archives-and-city-history/guildhall-library/Pages/default.aspx GHLevents@cityoflondon.gov.uk
Thursday 20 March; Astrology Decoded.
Talk and book signing by Sue Farebrother at Watkins Books, 19-21 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ. Time: 6.30pm-7.30pm. Free event. For more details Tel 020 7836 2182 or visit the website http://www.watkinsbooks.com/Thursday 20 March; Croydon CoA Witches Gathering with talks and social activities at 1 Matthews Yard, Off Surrey Street, Croydon. 8pm start. Entry: £1/£2. For more details visit: http://www.witchfest.net/
Thursday 20 March; The Oldest Sex Magic Text? An Early Mesopotamian Tablet. Lecture at Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Tickets £10, advance booking recommended. For further details: info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/
Thursday 20 March; Shamanic Spirit Circle run by Shamanic Spirit at a venue in Croydon, South London. The circle is held monthly on Thursdays starting at 7.30pm. Cost £5. For details and to book places call 07952 041477. For more information, visit http://shamanicspirit.co.uk/.
Friday 21 March; Unlimited Mediumship with Q and A with Daniel Pitt. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm-8.30pm. Cost: £10/£12 Advance booking advised. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit http://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/index.html
Friday 21 March; Earthstars, the Goddess, the Grids and the Grail. Talk by Chris Street, author of Earthstars: London, City of Revelationand Earthstars: Geometric Groundplan Underlying London's Ancient Sacred Sites.
Venue: Steiner House, 35 Park Rd, London NW1. Time: 7.30pm start (doors open at 7pm. http://www.earthstars.co.uk/ http://www.rsh.anth.org.uk/Saturday 22 March; Spring Equinox Mantra Dance. Strict Dress Code: White/Theme of gods and goddesses. Venue shown only to members of the meet-up group. Cost: £18 for meetup members, on the door is £25. http://www.meetup.com/london-ecstatic-dance
Saturday 22 March; Woodland Spring Equinox ritual with Hern's Tribe at an outdoors venue in Croydon. Time: 1pm start. Meet at Coombe Lane tram stop in Croydon at 1pm. All welcome, free event but bring food and drink to share and wear suitable walking shoes and outdoor clothing. For full details, visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/638690759510275/
Saturday 22 March; Druidic ceremony to celebrate the The Equinox and the balance of light and dark at Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire. Meet at the Red Lion pub from Noon for ceremony around 1.30pm. The ritual should end at 3.30pm, then back to the pub. Offerings of bread, mead and song or poetry welcome, wear robes if you have them. Overnight camping is allowed in the overflow car park on 23 March.
Sunday 23 March; Spring Equinox pub Meetup and Wiccan Training with the London Wicca Meetup Group. Meeting at a pub in the Clapham area for training and to celebrate the Spring Equinox. Time: 12.30pm. For full details, visit: http://www.meetup.com/The-London-Wicca-Meetup-Group/events/166780722/
Sunday 23 March; Anderida Gorsedd Spring Equinox open ritual at the Long Man of Wilmington, Sussex. Meet near the car park between 1.30pm and 2pm for a walk up to the chalk hill figure at 2pm. Afterwards back to the Giants Rest pub in Wilmington for a social drink together.
Sunday 23 March; Celebration of the Equinox. Wheel of the Year ritual drawing from Celtic earth/pagan traditions at Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, 3 Pilgrim's Place, London NW3 1NG. Time: 7pm. Tel: 020 7433 3267. http://www.rosslynhillchapel.com/
Sunday 23 March; Crossbones Vigil to honour The Goose and the outcast dead of Cross Bones Graveyard. Bring a flower, a ribbon, a totem or memento to tie to the shrine. Gather from 6.45pm for a 7pm start in Redcross Way outside the Memorial Gates, SE1 1TA, opposite the Boot and Flogger pub, just north of the junction with Union Street. Nearest tubes Borough or London Bridge. The event is free, but donations are welcome. For more details, visit http://www.crossbones.org.uk/
Sunday 23 March; Mountains of the Mind. Talk by Colum Hayward, author of Meditation Lifestyle.Venue: The Theosophical Society, 50 Gloucester Place, London W1U 8EA. Time: 6pm. Fee £7, TS members: £5. Website: www.theosoc.org.ukMonday 24 March; Alchemy’s Mutus Liber. Lecture by Paul Cowlan. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Price: £7. For further details, email: info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/
Monday 24 March; The Golden Teachings, Awaken your Heart, with Aang, arranged through the London College of Spirituality. Venue: Latvian House, 72 Queensborough Terrace, London, W2 3SH. Start: 7pm. Cost: £15. For more details and to book places visit http://www.meetup.com/londonspirituality/
Monday 24 March; How Philosophy Saved My Life. Talk by Jules Evans, author of Philosophy for Life: And other dangerous situations.
Venue: Alternatives, St. James's Church, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL. Time: 7pm to 8.30pm. Tickets £12/£8 concs. Advance booking required. To book tickets and for more info visit the Alternatives website: http://www.alternatives.org.uk/Site/Talks.aspxTuesday 25 March; The Salon of the Third Eye - Occulture Vol I Book Launch with Steve Ash. Venue: The Lost Theatre, 208 Wandsworth Road, London Sw8 2JU. Time: 7.315pm. Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1431755273735447/
Tuesday 25 March; Chertsey Moot. A social moot held on the last Tuesday of the month at the Golden Grove pub, Ruxbury Road, St Annes Hill, Chertsey, Surrey, KT16 9EN. All welcome. From 8pm to 11pm. For more details, email: sian_ap_pysgotwr@yahoo.co.uk
Tuesday 25 March; Belief Systems and Self Healing. Talk by Vernon Frost. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm-8.30pm. Cost: £10/£12 Advance booking advised. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit http://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/index.html
Wednesday 26 March, The Circle of Ankerwycke monthly moot is at the Bells pub, 124 Church Street, Staines-upon-Thames TW18 4ZB. This long running and very friendly moot always has a warm welcome for new members. Time: 8pm. Further details from 07733554321, 07735528320 or email brockwitch@yahoo.co.uk
Wednesday 26 March; Magic in 17th Century England. Lecture by Alexander Cummins, author of The Starry Rubric: Seventeenth-Century English Astrology and Magic.Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Tickets £7, advance booking recommended. For further details: info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/Thursday 27 March. The London Fortean Society. Venue: The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. Cost: £3/£2 concessions. Time: 8pm - 10pm. Just turn up, no need to book in advance. The society meets on the last Thursday of each month. For more details, visit http://forteanlondon.blogspot.co.uk/
Friday, 28 March; The Cerne Giant. Lecture by Peter Knight at Research into Lost Knowledge Organisation (Rilko). Venue: Theosophical Society, 50 Gloucester Place, W1U 8EA. Doors open 6.45pm. Admission £8 non-members, £6 members. http://www.rilko.net/EZ/rilko/rilko/home.php
Friday 28 March; Is There Anybody Out There? A Shamanic Mediumship Demonstration with Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, author of The Shaman Within.
Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm-8.30pm. Cost: £10/£12 Advance booking advised. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit http://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/index.html
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