Online and London Events for the Winter Solstice

Here is a list of online events and activities for pagans, witches and friends over the Winter Solstice - including the launch of my latest book with a seasonal visualisation on Friday. I generally list events in the UK, especially in or near London, but some are outside that time zone. If you know an online ritual, talk, meeting or workshop you want included, please email me at badwitch1234@gmail.com

Wednesday 9 - Thursday 10 December: Aphrodite's Flame Rite of the Flamekeeper. Celebrating the 11th anniversary of the creation of Aphrodite's Flame. Join Aphrodite's Flame Keepers to tend a candle flame in your own home. Details: https://www.facebook.com/aphroditesflame/

Wednesday 9 December; Wellbeing Wednesdays with Nadine and Caitriona. Online event. Two sessions: 12.30pm and 5.45pm. Tickets: £6 per session. https://behappiest.co.uk/

Wednesday 9 December; Social Online Gathering via Zoom. Organised by Aho Studio, 13 Prince Edward Rd, London, E9 5LX. Time: 7pm. www.aho.community and https://www.facebook.com/events/197156715284209/

Wednesday 9 December; Cord Cutting Meditation with Lucy Porter. Digital event organised by She's Lost Control. Time: 7pm. Tickets £5-£20 per session.  https://www.sheslostcontrol.co.uk/digital

Wednesday 9 December (every Wednesday); The Witching Hour on the Witches Inn YouTube channel. Time 8pm. Free. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw4Kl-MbdjsApFvodCnvANA

Thursday, 10 December; Work with Shamanism to Grow Personally and Professionally. Online event with Harriet Goudard every Thursday. Time: 10am. Free. https://www.meetup.com/awaken-the-inner-shaman-london/

Thursday 10 December; Celebrating the New Year - Russian style. Online taster course with Marina De Yong via City Lit. Tickets: £10. Time: 10am. https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/celebrating-the-new-year-russian-style

Thursday 10 December; Welsh traditions around Christmas and New Year. Online taster course with Clare Whitehead via City Lit. Tickets: £10. Time: 11am. https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/welsh-traditions-around-christmas-and-new-year?

Thursday 10 December; Wicca Moon late night shopping event from 7pm to 9pm both at the shop and via whatsapp or messenger. There'll be mulled wine, mince pies, and mini readings to boot! This is a special invitation occasion and you'll need the secret password to get in, so if you're interested in coming, email Shirlee at shirlee@wiccamoon.org.uk. Wicca Moon is at 50 Well Hall Road, London SE9 6SH. For further details visit www.facebook.com/WiccaMoonEltham/or www.wiccamoon.co.uk

Thursday 10 December; The Sun at Midnight. Online talk with Julian Vayne, via Treadwell's Online. Via Zoom. Time: 7pm start. Tickets: £20. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Thursday 10 December; Learn the Tarot - Major Arcana. Digital event organised by She's Lost Control. Time: 7pm. Tickets £20-£30.  https://www.sheslostcontrol.co.uk/digital

Thursday 10 December; Wassailing with Cunning Folk at South East London Folklore Society. Zoom talk about apples, wassails, doll wassails, and the bowl followed by storytelling and song. There will be a follow-up zoom session with storytelling and song on Friday 11 December for those who attend this talk. Time: 8pm. Tickets: £3 – £5. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wassailing-tickets-128483295997

Thursday 10 December; Prof Chris French on 'Twenty Years of Weird Science at Goldsmiths'. Online ASSAP talk (every Thursday). Time: 7pm. Free event. Tickets available to all ASSAP members. To join ASSAP, for £5 per year, visit http://www.assap.ac.uk/.

Friday 11 December (usually every Friday); Friday Live Chat hosted by Rachel Patterson, author of the Kitchen Witch series of books. Time: 9am. Free event. https://www.facebook.com/RachelPattersonbooks/

Friday 11 December: Online launch event for my latest book, Pagan Portals - Guided Visualisations, via Facebook Live. Free to join in. You can view PP - Guided Visualisations on Amazon, and find it on my author page at Moon Books. https://www.facebook.com/events/353859452274902/

Friday 11 December (usually every Friday); Psychic and Intuitive Skills Development. Online via Zoom with Mahesh Gordhan of the London School of Spirituality. Time: 8pm. Tickets: £5/£7.50. https://www.meetup.com/londonschoolofspirituality/

Friday 11 December; Herbal series - basil. Online talk via Children of Circe, a private pagan group run by Richard Levy and sponsored by the Doreen Valiente Foundation. You have to join the group to watch the videos: Time: 8pm. Free event. https://www.facebook.com/groups/725752541262809

Saturday 12 December; Christmas unwrapped: an exploration of the story, imagery, carols and traditions of Christmas. Online afternoon class with Beatrice Keyte via City Lit. Time: 1.30pm. Tickets: £29. https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/christmas-unwrapped-an-exploration-of-the-story-imagery-carols-and-traditions-of-christmas

Saturday 12 December; Yule Social - Quiz Night Hosted by CoA Divine Moon Moot. Time: 6pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/events/294092935122111/

Saturday 12 December; Online Practice Tarot readings Workshop via  Self-Development and Spiritual Workshops Central London. Time: 6pm. Tickets: £12. https://www.meetup.com/Self-Development-and-Spiritual-Workshops-Central-London/events/274112311/?

Sunday 13 December; Seasonal Spellcraft with the Seed Sistas. Online course through the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 11am-4pm. Tickets: Members: £65, Non-members: £85. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Sunday 13 December; Museum of Witchcraft and Magic Friends AGM and talk by Dr Jenny Butler on Witch or Wise Woman? Gaelic Tradition and Changing Worldviews in Irish History. Free for those with Friends of the MWM membership. Time: 3pm. http://friendsofthewitchcraftmuseum.co.uk/2020/11/11/next-friends-agm-now-online-sunday-13th-december/

Sunday 13 December; Book Club - discussion of Initiated: Memoire of a Witch by Amanda Yates Garcia  with Children of Circe, a private pagan group run by Richard Levy and sponsored by the Doreen Valiente Foundation. You have to join the group to take part: Time: 5pm. Free event. https://www.facebook.com/groups/725752541262809

Sunday 13 December; New Moon Breath Ceremony with Lisa Li via Zoom. Organised by Aho Studio, 13 Prince Edward Rd, London, E9 5LX. Time: 6pm. Tickets: £20. www.aho.community

Sunday 13 December; Winter Journey/Gaeafdaith. Christine Watkins tells the tale of Gawain and the Green Knight and Blanche Rowen and Mike Gulston bring seasonal songs. Zoom event hosted by Living Levels partnership. Time: 7.30pm. Free. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-journeygaeafdaith-tickets-128029883829

Monday 14 December; Waking the Water Ceremony, organised by Sacred Earth Activism. A ritual to do at a water course near you, in your own time. https://www.facebook.com/events/202821267645332/

Monday 14 December; New Moon eclipse in Sagittarius online gathering with Yasmin Boland. Time: noon. Free. https://www.facebook.com/events/356901672068819

Monday 14 December (usually every Monday); Mindful Still Life Monday Sessions with London Drawing, via Zoom. Two sessions: 12.30pm and 6pm. Free, but donations welcome. https://londondrawing.com/online-creative-sessions/

Monday 14 December; Solar Eclipse Kundalini Activation: The 12 Chakra System and Multi-dimensionality. Online event with Harriet Goudard. Time: 4pm. Tickets: £22. https://www.meetup.com/awaken-the-inner-shaman-london/

Monday 14 - 20 December; Witches Brew - 7-day series . Day 1: Cleanse and connect with ancestors - lavender; white tea and mugwort. Days 2: Health, wellbeing and balance - rose; mint; lemon balm; chamomile. Day 3: Tea of the Sun and Moon: chamomile and jasmine. Day 4: Tea of Enchantment: rose, jasmine and lemongrass. Day 5: Elemental Tea: black tea / English breakfast. Day 6: Liminal Tea - rosemary, jasmine. Day 7: Stimulate and protect - rosemary. Online talks via Children of Circe, a private pagan group run by Richard Levy and sponsored by the Doreen Valiente Foundation. You have to join the group to watch: Time: 5pm. Free event. https://www.facebook.com/groups/725752541262809

Monday 14 December; The Wheel of the Year: Yule. Online workshop with Rebecca Beattie, author of Nature Mystics, via Treadwell's Online. Via Zoom. Time: 7pm start. Tickets: £20. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Monday 14 December; New Moon Circle. Digital event organised by She's Lost Control. Time: 8pm. Tickets £5-£20 per session.  https://www.sheslostcontrol.co.uk/digital

Monday 14 December; Towards a Scientific Resurrection of Magic. Online talk by Dean Radin via the  Society for Psychical Research (SPR). Time: 8pm. Tickets free for members, £5 non members. https://www.spr.ac.uk/

Tuesday 15 December; Astrology Circle - All about Saturn. Digital event organised by She's Lost Control. Time: 7pm. Tickets £5-£20.  https://www.sheslostcontrol.co.uk/digital

Tuesday 15 December; Marks Against Evil. Talk via Treadwell's Online. Via Zoom. Time: 7pm start. Tickets: £10. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Tuesday 15 December (tbc but usually 3rd Tuesday of the month); Online Witches of London Gathering, hosted by Witches of London CoA Gathering and Children of Artemis. Time: 7.30pm. Free, but you must reserve a place. https://www.facebook.com/coawitchesoflondon/

Tuesday 15 December; Sacred Moon Circle. Online event hosted by

Ameerah Khan, Time: 7.30pm. Free, but you must reserve a place. https://www.meetup.com/bloodsisters/

Wednesday 16 December; New Moon Sound Journey. Digital event organised by She's Lost Control. Time: 8.30pm. Tickets £5-£15 per session.  https://www.sheslostcontrol.co.uk/digital

Thursday, 17 December; A Drink with the Idler. Online chat on Christmastide with historian Ronald Hutton and Tom Hodgkinson, plus philosopher Mark Vernon and host Victoria Hull. Time: 6pm. Tickets: £5.95. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-drink-with-the-idler-ronald-hutton-and-tom-hodgkinson-tickets-122990727577

Thursday, 17 December; Breathwork for Creativity. Digital event organised by She's Lost Control. Tickets: £5-£20. Time: 7pm. https://www.sheslostcontrol.co.uk/digital

Thursday 17 December; Spirits of the Season, edited by Tanya Kirk, discussed in the Cunning Folk reading group. Time: 7pm. Tickets: free. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cunning-folk-reading-group-spirits-of-the-season-tickets-128233551003

Thursday 17 December (tbc); Shooting the Wild Witch Breeze. Facebook Live Chat with Rachel Patterson an, witch and author, and pagan author Elen Sentier. A new chat video every two weeks on a Thursday. Time: 7pm.   Free. https://www.facebook.com/MoonBooks

Thursday 17 December; Learn the Tarot - Major Arcana pt 2. Digital event organised by She's Lost Control. Time: 7pm. Tickets £20-£30.  https://www.sheslostcontrol.co.uk/digital

Thursday 17 December; PF London Yule Online Ritual with Lodge Mercurius of the Companions of the House of Life School and Friends. Hosted by The Pagan Federation: London. Time: 8pm. Free, but bring a candle, food and drink, and a tarot deck. https://www.facebook.com/PaganFederationLondon/

Friday 18 December (tbc but usually every Friday); Friday Live Chat hosted by Rachel Patterson, author of the Kitchen Witch series of books. Time: 9am. Free event. https://www.facebook.com/RachelPattersonbooks/

Friday 18 December; Winter Solstice. Online talk via Children of Circe, a private pagan group run by Richard Levy and sponsored by the Doreen Valiente Foundation. You have to join the group to watch. Time: 8pm. Free event. https://www.facebook.com/groups/725752541262809

Friday 18 December; Yule Ceremony online with London Woodland Witches, Wiccans and Pagans. Time: 8pm.Free but you must reserve a place. https://www.meetup.com/LondonWoodlandWitches

Friday 18-Saturday 19 December; Aphrodite's Monthly Festival. Join Aphrodite's Flame Keepers to tend a candle flame from for as long as you wish in your own home, from dusk to dusk. You can use real candles or LED lights. Venue: Worldwide. Details: https://www.facebook.com/aphroditesflame/

Saturday 19 December; An Evening with Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki. Online talk as part of the Magickal Women Conference Spotlight Speakers. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £5. https://ti.to/magickal-women-conference/speaker-spotlights

Sunday 20 - Monday 21 December; Winter Solstice 2020 Live From Stonehenge. Online with Facebook Live via English Heritage and Stonehenge. Time: 3.16pm on the 20th for the sunset to 8.54am on 21st for the sunrise. Free. https://www.facebook.com/events/157169579436386/

Sunday 20 December; Solstice Eve Online Ritual with the Cunning Folk. Time: 7pm. Tickets: free. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/solstice-eve-tickets-128484640017

Monday 21 December; Winter Solstice Shamanic Medicine Ceremony via Awaken Your Inner Shaman London. Time: 11am to 6pm. Contributions are on a sliding scale. https://www.meetup.com/awaken-the-inner-shaman-london/

Monday 21 December; Avebury: Winter Solstice Meditation with Facebook Live, by the Henge Shop and Sue Coulson. Time: 9.45am. Free. https://www.facebook.com/events/303332254117712/

Monday 21 December; Winter Solstice Ceremony. Digital event organised by She's Lost Control. Time: 7pm. Tickets £5-£20 per session.  https://www.sheslostcontrol.co.uk/digital

Tuesday 22 December; Heron Drums Online Yule Celebration and Shamanic Drum Circle via Facebook or Zoom. Time: 7pm: Details: https://www.facebook.com/herondrumsuk/

Tuesday 22 December; Winter Solstice Celebration Across Cultures. Online talk by Jordana Belaiche. Time: 7pm. Tickets £0-£22. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-solstice-solstice-celebration-across-cultures-tickets-130420181273

Disclaimer: Please note that I am not responsible for the content of any of these events except my own book launch. Where a practitioner is offering information about magical protection, this is *not* medical advice.