Pagan Events in London over Chinese New Year

Today is Chinese New Year and the start of the Year of the Goat. Although this isn't specifically a pagan celebration, it is marked in London with a big free festival. Here are details of that and lots of other events that could be of interest to pagans.

This week: Chinese New Year half-term activities for families with children: Year of the Goat. Venue: Great Court, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time: 11am-4pm. Free event, just drop in. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar.aspx

Thursday 19 February; Pearls of Consciousness: An Invitation to Meet Remarkable Beings. Talk and book signing by Dominica at Watkins Books, 19-21 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ. Time: 6.30pm. Free event. For more details Tel 020 7836 2182 or visit the website http://www.watkinsbooks.com/

Thursday 19 February; Spiritual Q and A with Social: Meaning of Dreams with Kathleen O'Hara of the London College of Spirituality. Venue: Latvian House, 72 Queensborough Terrace, , London, W2 3SH. Time: 7pm. Cost: £10. Details: http://www.meetup.com/londonspirituality/

Tuesday 17 February; The Mystical Aspects of the Bosnian Pyramids with Sacred Sites and Sacred Walks. Talk by Chris Street. Venue: Eurythmy Room, 3rd Floor, Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London NW1 6XT. Time: 7.15pm, Cost: £12, Bookings and info: marionbriggs148@btinternet.com or http://www.meetup.com/Sacred-Sites-and-Sacred-Walks/.

Saturday 21 February; Incense Making workshop with Christina Oakley Harrington. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 1pm to 5.30pm. Tickets £30. Advance booking required. Call 0207 419 8507. For further details: info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Saturday 21 February; Shakti Dance: The Yoga of Dance with Debbie Reynolds of the London College of Spirituality. Venue: Conference Room, Nutford House, Nutford Place, Marble Arch, London W1H 5UL. Time: 2PM. Cost: £15. http://www.meetup.com/londonspirituality/

Saturday 21 February; Drum Mantra Ecstatic Dance Journey and Sound Healing Ceremony with Urubu. Time: 7pm-10.30pm. Cost: £20. Location is in London but is shown only to members of the meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/london-ecstatic-dance/

Sunday 22 February; London's Chinese New Year Festival to celebrate the start of the Year of the Sheep. The event starts at 10am with a parade from Duncannon Street to Shaftesbury Avenue, followed by free performances in Trafalgar Square. Free, public event. http://www.chinatownlondon.org/

Sunday 22 February; Astrology - your year ahead with Cobwebs at Cauldrons at Romford Shopping Hall. Time: 10am-1pm. Cost £30http://www.cobwebsandcauldrons.co.uk/

Sunday 22 February; Awakening Chakra Energies Through Sound. Workshop with James D'Angelo. Venue: Theosophical Society, 50 Gloucester Place, London W1U 8EA. Starts at 2pm. Tickets: £15, £10 concessions, £7 TS members. Later in the day, at 6pm, James D'Angelo is also doing a talk on the healing power of sound. For full details: http://www.theosophicalsociety.org.uk

Sunday 22 February; Contemplative Druid Events is running at Introduction to Contemplative Druidry for Druids and fellow travellers. Facilitated by James Nichol, Elaine Knight and Julie Bond, this will begin with a short introduction to the development of contemplative Druidry over the past three years and the writing of James Nichol’s book Contemplative Druidry: People Practice and Potential.From there on the taster will be experiential, including a group sitting meditation and the practice “Awen Space”. Venue: the Bonnington Centre 11 Vauxhall Grove, London SW8 1TD. Time 2.30pm-5.30pm. Cost: £15 waged and £10 unwaged .Contact grovelight@hotmail.co.uk for further information or to make a booking. http://contemplativedruidevents.tumblr.com/

Sunday 22 February; Planetary Gridwork: Green Park's Circle of 13 Trees with the Family of Light Spiritual Community. Meet at Green Park Station, Piccadilly, London W1J 9DZ at noon. For more details and to reserve a place visit: http://www.meetup.com/familyoflight/

Monday 23 February; Music of the Plants with Tigrilla Gardenia. Venue: Alternatives. Venue: St James's Church Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL. Time: 7pm - 8.30pm. Tickets £12/£8 online. For more details and to book tickets: http://www.alternatives.org.uk/

Monday 23 February; Meditation and Journeying Circle run by Shamanic Spirit at a venue in New Addington, Croydon, South London. Starts 7.30pm. Cost £10. For more details and to book places call 07952 041477. For more information, visit http://shamanicspirit.co.uk/

Monday 23 February; Crossbones Vigil to honour The Goose and the outcast dead of Cross Bones Graveyard. 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/

Tuesday 24 February; Carol Felstead and the creation of a Satanic Myth in the United Kingdom. Talk by Dr Kevin Felstead. Venue: the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Room LG01, New Academic Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW. Talks start at 6.10pm. Free event. For more details, contact Duncan Colvin on d.colvin@gold.ac.uk or visit http://www.gold.ac.uk/apru/speakers/

Tuesday 24 Febraury; Drumming Circle run by Shamanic Spirit at a venue in New Addington, Croydon, South London. Every second Tuesday starting 7.30pm. Cost £10. For more details and to book places call 07952 041477. For more information, visit http://shamanicspirit.co.uk/

Tuesday 24 February; 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

Thursday 26 February; The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day. Talk by Professor David J. Hand at the London Fortean Society. Venue: The Vaults Bar, Dirty Dicks, 202 Bishopsgate, City of London EC2M 4NR. Time: 7.30pm - 10.30pm. Entry: £3/£2 concessions. For more details, visit http://forteanlondon.blogspot.co.uk/

Thursday 26 February; The Immortal Mind: Science and the Continuity of Consciousness Beyond the Brain.Talk and book signing by Anthony Peake at Watkins Books, 19-21 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ. Time: 6.30pm. Free event. For more details Tel 020 7836 2182 or visit the website http://www.watkinsbooks.com/

Thursday 26 February; LGBT and Vodou in Haiti. Talk by Gabriel Toso at Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Tickets £7. Advance booking required. Call 0207 419 8507. For further details: info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Friday 27 February; Yoga and Gong - Vauxhall Gong Bath. Venue: Bonnington Centre, 11 Vauxhall Grove, London SW8 1TD. Time: 7pm. Cost: £15. Details and booking: http://www.meetup.com/Vauxhall-Gong-Bath/events/219503831/

Friday 27 February; Springtime - The Morning of the Year. Talk by Louise Coe at Rilko (Research Into Lost Knowledge). Venue: 50 Gloucester Place, London W1U 8EA. Doors open 6.45pm, lectures starts 7.15pm. Entrance: £8/£6. http://www.rilko.net/EZ/rilko/rilko/home.php

Saturday 28 February; Winter Goddess Ancestral Women's Workshop at Caer Corhain Shamamic Development Centre of the Isle of Sheppey, 1 Southleas farm cottages, Lower Road, Minster, Sheppey ME12 3SW. Time: 9.30am - 5.30pm. Cost: £35. For more details and information on how to book, call 07885682295 or 01795 874542 or visit;http://www.touchtheearthuk.com/

Saturday 28 February; The London Medieval Society Colloquium: Magic and Miracles. Speakers: Sophie Page, author of Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe,Hilary Powell (Hearing the Voice); Jacqueline Borsje, and Hetta Howes. Venue: Lock Keeper's Cottage, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End London E1 4NS. Time: 11am to 5pm. Free registration. http://londonmedievalsociety.com/

Saturday 28 February; Tantra: A journey into the senses with Mahasatvaa Ma Ananda Sarita, organised by Alternatives. Venue: Colet House, The Study Society, 151 Talgarth Road , London, W14 9DA. Time: 10.30 am - 5pm. Tickets £65/£55. Details: http://www.alternatives.org.uk/

Sunday 1 March; Tarot Workshop - The Fools Journey. Workshop at Cobwebs at Cauldrons at Romford Shopping Hall. 10am-4pm. Cost is £40. http://www.cobwebsandcauldrons.co.uk/

Sunday 1 March; Walks in Nature: Rickmansworth Lakes with the Family of Light Spiritual Community. Meet at Rickmansworth station, Station Approach, Rickmansworth WD3 1QY at 11.30am. For more details and to reserve a place visit: http://www.meetup.com/familyoflight/

Sunday 1 March; Sacred Geometry: Hidden Patterns and Awareness of Eternity. Talk by Malcolm Stewart. Venue: 50 Gloucester Place, London W1U 8EA. Starts at 6pm. Tickets: £7, £5 concessions, £4 TS members. For full details: http://www.theosophicalsociety.org.uk

I do not organise any of these events myself and am not responsible for them. Although I try to be as accurate as possible, it is always worth checking the details if you want to go to an event. If you know of an event that you want listed, please email the details to me at badwitch1234@gmail.com.