London & Online Pagan Events for the Summer Solstice

The Summer Solstice, the most celebrated festival of the pagan Wheel of the Year, takes place on 21 June in 2022. Here are some of the magical rituals, talks, workshops and exhibitions taking place over that time. There's a mixture of online things you can do anywhere, in-person events in or near London, and a few big events further away including at Stonehenge.

Now to 17 July; The World of Stonehenge. Exhibition at the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Tickets: £20/£10/free for members. https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions-events

Every Wednesday and Friday; Open Days at the College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 11am - 4pm. Free, just pop in. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Now - 25 September. Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic. Exhibition at the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Tickets: £15 for adults/free for members. https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions-events

Now - 23 June. LlewellynCon 2022. Ten days of interactive presentations, giveaways, and more. Free online event with Llewellyn Worldwide. https://www.facebook.com/LlewellynBooks/

Wednesday 15 June; Fairy Media: Exploring fairies, technology and the supernatural with Christine Ferguson and Efram Sera-Shriar. Time: 6pm. Free online streaming tickets available. https://www.leedsinspired.co.uk/events/fairy-media-exploring-fairies-technology-and-supernatural-christine-ferguson-and-efram-sera?

Wednesday 15 June (tbc but usually every Wednesday); W!tchy B!tchy Sisterhood Bookclub: Reading group session. Venue: Princess Louise, 208 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7EP. Time: 6.30pm. Free. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/43585355653

Wednesday 15 June (tbc but usually 3rd Wednesday every month); The More Mead Moot. Venue: The Hope pub, Carshalton, Surrey,  Time: 7.30pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/Pagan-FutureFests-352385661439366/

Wednesday 15 June (most Wednesdays); Evening Sound Bath Meditation. Venue: She's Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £15.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Wednesday 15 June; Myths of the Sun: A talk with Cunning Folk via South East London Folklore Society. Time: 8pm, Free online event. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cunning-folk-7829505560

Wednesday 15 June; Witchcraft, Wunderkammer and Weirdness!: Steve Patterson’s Cornish Cabinet. Zoom talk through The Last Tuesday Society and The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. Time: 8pm. Tickets · from £5.82. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Wednesday 15 June (every Wednesday); The Witching Hour on the Witches Inn YouTube channel. Time 8pm. Free. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw4Kl-MbdjsApFvodCnvANA

Thursday 16 June; Midweek Meditation with the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 3pm. Tickets: free for members/£7.50 for non members. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Thursday 16 June; A Colourful Dose of Optimism. Online talk by Jules Standish via Watkins Bookshop. Time: 5.30pm. Tickets: free. https://www.meetup.com/WatkinsBooks

Thursday 16 June; Renaissance Lives - Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy. Online talk via The Warburg Institute. Time: 5.30pm. Free but you must reserve a place. https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/

Thursday 16 June; Goddess Healing Circle June - Summer Solstice by Goddess Meets. Venue: OMNOM Restaurant, 116N Upper Street, London, N1 1QP. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £20-£35. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/goddess-meets-40266535403

Thursday 16 June; Women in the Occult. A magical conversation: Manon Hedenborg White with Julian Vayne via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm start. Tickets: £10. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Thursday 16 June; The Andean Cosmovision. Online workshop with Puma Quispe via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £75. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Thursday 16 June; Fertility Series: Baby Loss Honouring Circle. In-person event via She's Lost Control. Venue: She's Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £35.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Thursday 16 June; Cunning Folk Reading Group - Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales by Vernon Lee. Online event. Time: 7pm. Price: Free. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cunning-folk-7829505560

Thursday 16 June (every Thursday); Chris Roe on A modern collection of spontaneous after-death communication cases: Mapping their phenomenology and impact. Talk on a paranormal subject for ASSAP members. Time: 7pm. Free event, with Zoom link details emailed out to members. To join ASSAP, for £5 per year, visit http://www.assap.ac.uk/.

Thursday 16 June; Sound Bath for Jupiter Magic - Experiential Session. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store St, London WC1E 7BS, UK. Time: 7pm start. Tickets: £30. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Thursday 16 June; Drum Circle by Lynn Gosney. Venue: Shamanic Centre Caer Corhrain, 1 Southlees Farm Cottages, Lower Road, Kent ME12 3SW. Time: 7.45pm. Tickets by donation. https://www.facebook.com/events/1677738165915824

Thursday 16 June; Hilma af Klint and the occult milieu in turn of century Sweden.  Zoom talk by P Faxneld through The Last Tuesday Society and The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. Time: 8pm. Tickets · from £5.82. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Friday 17 June (every Friday); Friday Live Chat hosted by Rachel Patterson, author of the Kitchen Witch series of books. Time: 9am. Free. https://www.facebook.com/RachelPattersonbooks/

Friday 17 June; Solstice Late at the British Museum with music, film, talks and more. Venue: British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time: from 6pm. Tickets: free but advance booking essential. https://www.britishmuseum.org/events/solstice-late

Friday 17 June; Meditation Session Global Fusion Music and Arts Free Stuff. Time: Time: 6.15pm. Free online event. https://www.meetup.com/freestuffandfreeevents/

Friday 17 June; Kitchen Witch Summer Solstice Ritual. Online event by members of Kitchen Witch Coven of Natural Witchery. Time: 7pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/1009973019910478/

Friday 17 June; Yoga with Gobal Fusion Music and Arts Free Stuff. Time: 7.30pm. Free online event. https://www.meetup.com/freestuffandfreeevents/

Saturday 18 June (and other dates); Meditation and Loving Kindness Workshop via Mirthy. Time: 10.30am. Tickets: £2.99/free. https://www.mirthy.co.uk/event-calendar/meditation-loving-kindness/

Saturday 18 June; Reiki 1 Workshop. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Road, London SE9 6SH. Time: noon. Tickets £60. https://www.wiccamoonuk.com/

Saturday 18 June; Summer Solstice Gorsedd 2022 by Kent Gorsedd at Coldrum Stones, West Malling, Kent. Time: noon. Free event. https://www.facebook.com/events/1214796522679961/

Saturday 18 June, Free World Folk Music Festival. Venue:  Ladywell Fields, London SE4 1JF. Starts 1pm. https://www.meetup.com/freestuffandfreeevents/events/286440380/

Saturday 18 June; Essential Tools for Communicating with Spirit. Online workshop with Casey Mackey via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £80. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 18 June; Celebrating the solstice through time and space. Venue: British Museum, BP Lecture Theatre, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time: 1.30pm. Tickets £10/£8.

www.britishmuseum.org/events/celebrating-solstice-through-time-and-space

Saturday 18 June; Psychedelic Magic. In-person workshop with Julian Vayne. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store St, London WC1E 7BS, UK. Time: 11am-5pm. Tickets: £100. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Saturday 18 June; Free and Open Gorsedd For the Summer Solstice at Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire. Meet at the Red Lion pub from noon for ceremony around 1.30pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/3167448503543780

Saturday 18 June; Sweat Lodge organised by Aho Studio. In-person event. Venue: Berkeley Farm, a few miles outside London. Time: 1pm - 6pm. Tickets: £80. www.aho.community

Saturday 18 June; Essential Tools for Communicating with Spirit. Online talk by Casey Mackey via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £80. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 18 June;  Summer Solstice Ceremony by Indigo Earth. Inclusive event with priest of Indigo Earth Joseph Atiase. Venue: Hackney Marshes, 146 Lea Bridge Road, London E5 9RB. Time: 6pm. Tickets by donation with money going to the charity Mermaids. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-solstice-ceremony-by-indigo-earth-tickets-348634664667

Saturday 18 June; Shamanic Fire Ceremony Hosted by Adalet Salaheddin via Aho Studio. In-person event. Venue: Berkeley Farm, a few miles outside London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: free but you must reserve a place. www.aho.community

Saturday 18 June; OBOD Online Alban Hefin/Summer Solstice Ceremony. Online event by Order of Bards Ovates and Druids (OBOD). Time: 7pm. Free to watch on the OBOD FB Facebook Page or the OBOD YouTube Channel. Bring a candle and a sprig of oak. https://www.facebook.com/events/421060409890219/

Saturday 18 June; Transformation and Shapeshifting. Online event by Jason Buck Storyteller and Rosalind Buck performer. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets · £2.50-£9.50 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/333549083287

Saturday 18 June; Summer Solstice 2022 - Ecstatic Dance, Cacao Ceremony, Sound Journey, Gong Bath by URUBU Ecstatic Dance, Wellbeing and Embodiment. Venue: Siobhan Davies Studios (Roof Studio), 85 Saint George's Road, London SE1 6ER. Time: 8.15pm. Tickets by donation (£20 recommended). https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/urubu-ecstatic-dance-wellbeing-amp-embodiment-8588572090

Sunday 19 June;  Shamanic Group with Les Fuller. All welcome Venue: Woodford Church at 9 Grove Crescent, South Woodford, London E18 2JR. Time 11am-3pm. Cost: £10. http://woodfordchurch.com/

Sunday 19 June; The Mass of Baphomet. In-person workshop with Julian Vayne. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store St, London WC1E 7BS, UK. Time: 11am-5pm. Tickets: £100. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Sunday 19 June; Mythic London Super-Walk. Three hour walk with Caroline Wise, co-author of The Sceret Lore of London. In-person event via Treadwell's. Meet outside St Clement Danes, Strand, St Clement Dane Church, Strand, Temple, London WC2R 1DH. Time: 11.20am start. Tickets: £30. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Sunday 19 June; Anderida Gorsedd Summer Solstice 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 ritual site at 2pm. https://www.facebook.com/groups/227609495203

Sunday 19 June; Woodland Midsummer 2022 Ceremony and Seasonal Gathering with Mani via London Woodland Witches, Wiccans and Pagans. Meet at the entrance to Queen's Woods, Queenswood Rd, Highgate, London N6 5UU). Time: 2pm. Tickets: £7/£5. https://www.meetup.com/LondonWoodlandWitches/

Sunday 19 June; Dawn of the Oak. Pagan moot. Venue: The Sir John Oldcastle, Farringdon Road/Greville Street, London EC1M 3JF. Time: 3pm. https://www.meetup.com/The-Kith-of-The-Tree-and-The-Well/

Sunday 19 June; Accoustic Elephant with Cunning Folk. Venue: The Electric Elephant Cafe, 186A Crampton Street, London, SE17 3AE, Time: 4pm, Free but you must reserve  a place. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cunning-folk-7829505560

Sunday 19 June; Full Moon Sekhem Sound Healing. Venue: She's Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Tickets: £25. Time: 5pm. https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Sunday 19 June; Wheel of the Year: Litha Summer Solstice Celebration

with Tatiana Spencer. Venue: Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, 3 Pilgrim's Place, London NW3 1NG. Time: 7pm. http://www.rosslynhillchapel.com/

Monday 20 June; Solstice Eve Online Ritual by Cunning Folk. Time: 7pm. Free online event. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/solstice-eve-online-ritual-tickets-345684851697?

Monday 20 June; Rediscovering the Lunar Zodiac. Online talk on astrology by Oscar Hofman via the Astrological Lodge of London. Time: 7pm. Tickets £10. https://astrolodge.co.uk/events/

Monday 20 June; Festival of Abundance! Summer Solstice Online Open Ritual. Zoom event by the Rebel Witch Inner Circle. Time: 7pm. Free but you must reserve a place. https://lilithwildwood38792.ac-page.com/summersolstice

Monday 20 June (every Monday); Candlelit Lunar Yoga. Venue: She's Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15 per session.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Monday 20 June; Clues about Poltergeist Activities using Quantitative and Qualitative Studies: An historical overview. Online talk by Dr Eric Dullin via The Society for Psychical Research. Time: 8pm. Tickets free for members, £5 non-members. https://www.spr.ac.uk/

Monday 20 - Tuesday 21 June; Summer Solstice at Stonehenge. English Heritage is allowing managed free open access to the stones for the sunset and sunrise. Details: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/things-to-do/solstice/  The event will also be livestreamed on YouTube and on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/englishheritage  

Monday 20 June; William Lilly’s Astrology – Part Two (1). Online talk by  Jadranka Coic via the Astrological Lodge of London. Time:  8.30pm. Tickets: £10. https://astrolodge.co.uk/events/

Tuesday 21 June;  Summer Solstice nature walk and activities by London Wildlife Trust. Venue: 

Walthamstow Wetlands, 2 Forest Road, London, N17 9NH. Time: 7am. Tickets free. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/london-wildlife-trust-7357843879

Tuesday 21 June; 6th Annual Summer Solstice 26-Hour Global Healing Event with Peace Fires. Light a candle or fire for peace wherever you are in the world, for just for 10 minutes or an hour or longer and state the intention: “Let there be peace on earth and love for one another.” Free. Details: http://peacefires.org/

Tuesday 21 June; Starting Your Psychic Journey. Start of 6-week online evening class with Gary Wright via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 5pm. Tickets: £160. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Tuesday 21 June; Cornwall’s Knockers, Sea Monsters, and Pesky Piskies. Online talk by folklorist and historian Ronald M. "Ron" James. Event organised by the Folklore Society. Time: 6pm. Tickets: £5. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-folklore-society-32190494089

Tuesday 21 June (and other dates); Sensual Awakening Tea Ceremony and Feminine Embodiment. Venue: The Mandrake, 20-21 Newman Street, London W1T 1PG. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £45. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-mandrake-17825575648

Tuesday 21 June; Theatre, Performance and Magic. Emily Carding, a Shakespearean actor, talks about magic and performance with Julian Vayne: private ceremonies to public ritual via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm start. Tickets: £10. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Tuesday 21 June; Forged in Darkness: The Many Paths of Personal Transformation. Online talk with Jungian psychologist Joanna LaPrade via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £16. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Tuesday 21 June; Summer Solstice Circle and Sound Healing Ceremony. Venue: She's Lost Control, 42 Valentine Road, London.  Time: 7pm. Tickets: £35.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Tuesday 21 June; Women's Circle for the Summer Solstice - part of the Women's Circles collection by The Reformed Bohemian. Online event. Time: 7pm. Tickets: by donation. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-reformed-bohemian-39644491363

Tuesday 21 June; Solstice Flower Crown Workshop and Botanical Cocktails with Devil’s Botany. Venue: The Last Tuesday Society / Viktor Wynd's Museum of Curiosities, 11 Mare Street, London, E8 4RP. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £42.39. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solstice-flower-crown-workshop-botanical-cocktails-with-devils-botany-tickets-315717759317?

Tuesday 21 June; Journey To The Sun: A Sound and Light Experience by Cherub. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London, NW1 6XT. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £26.64. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/journey-to-the-sun-a-sound-and-light-experience-tickets-357145540927

Tuesday 21 June; Summer Solstice Sacred Circle in Epping Forest organised by Nicky North. Meet at Peterhouse Church and Community Centre, London E17 3PW and travel into the forest together for a ritual. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £22.15. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-solstice-sacred-circle-tickets-346589487487?

Tuesday 21 June; Summer Solstice Nature Connection Evening with by London Wildlife Trust. Venue: Meet where Spa Hill meets Beulah Hill, opposite The Beulah Spa Harvester Pub, 41 Beulah Hill, 

London, SE19 3DS. Time: 7.30pm. Free. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-solstice-nature-connection-evening-tickets-354524962707?

Tuesday 21 June; The Cinematic Zombie: 1930 - 1969.  Zoom talk by Dr Louise Fenton through The Last Tuesday Society and The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. Time: 8pm. Tickets · from £5.82. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Wednesday 22 June; North Sea Water In My Veins: The Pre-Christian Spirituality of the Low Countries. Free online book launch event with author Imelda Almqvist. Time: 7 - 9pm. https://pregnant-hag-teachings.teachable.com/p/book-launch-for-north-sea-water-in-my-veins

Thursday 23 June; Rethinking Natural Magic: New Perspectives on Giambattista Della Porta. Online conference via The Warburg Institute. Time: 2.30-pm. Free but you must reserve a place. https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/

Thursday 23 June; Postcards to the Future. Online talk by Anne Whitaker via Watkins Bookshop. Time: 5.30pm. Tickets: free. https://www.meetup.com/WatkinsBooks

Thursday 23 Sunday - 26 June;  Pagan Tribal Gathering. Venue: Near Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Tickets: Adult £65, Children £25. https://www.pagantribalgathering.org.uk/

Thursday 23 June (every 23rd of the month); Crossbones Vigil to honour the outcast dead of Crossbones Graveyard, Southwark. Location: Redcross Way, London, SE1 1TA. Time: 6.45pm for 7pm. Free. Details here: http://crossbones.org.uk/category/events/ 

Thursday 23 June; Workshop: The Magical Use of Herbs in the Shakespearean era. Online talk. Part of the Doreen Valiente 100th Year Celebration collection by The Doreen Valiente Foundation.  Time: 7pm. Tickets: £5.98 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/doreen-valiente-100th-year-celebration-141779

Thursday 23 June; The Magical Symbolism of the Hieroglyphs. Online talk by Wendy Berg via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £16. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Thursday 23 June; PF London Midsummer Open Ritual by the Kith of the Tree and Well with Pagan Federation London.  Venue: Pirate Castle, Gilbey's Wharf Oval Road NW1 7EA London, UK Time: 7pm. Entry £8 for PF members, £10 for non-members. https://www.facebook.com/groups/pflondon/

Thursday 23 June; The Welsh Folk Witch - Mhara Starling in Conversation with Julian Vayne via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm start. Tickets: £10. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Thursday 23 June; The Occult Foundations of Nazism.  Zoom talk by Michael Fitzgerald through The Last Tuesday Society and The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. Time: 8pm. Tickets · from £5.82. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Firday, 24 June;  The Pagan Federation Community Quiz. Free online event. Time: 8pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/528945192106314/

Saturday 25 June;  Celtic Day 2022. A celebration of the Celtic languages — Cornish, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh; 12 short lectures and taster courses hosted by City Lit. Venue: Keeley Street, Covent Garden, London. Starts 9.30am. Tickets: £39. https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/celtic-day-21-22

Saturday 25 June; Lithomancy - Using Crystals as Oracles. Workshop with Gemma Petherbridge. Venue: She's Lost Control, 42 Valentine Road, London.  Time: 10am. Tickets: £35.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Saturday 25 - Sunday 26 June;  Wicca Introduced. Event by Children of Artemis. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store St, London WC1E 7BS, UK. Time: 10.30am start. Tickets: £36/£42. https://witchfest.net/

Saturday 25 June; Crystal Grid Workshop with Gemma Petherbridge. Venue: She's Lost Control, 42 Valentine Road, London.  Time: 1pm. Tickets: £35.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Saturday 25 June; Southwark Festival of Words: Story Night with London Dreamtime and Southwark Libraries. Venue: John Harvard Library Borough High St SE1. Time: 6.40pm. Tickets: Free but must be booked. https://www.designmynight.com/london/whats-on/something-a-little-different-events/southwark-festival-of-words-story-night-2022

Sunday 26 June; Ely's Summer Pagan and Alternative Fayre 2022. Venue: The Maltings, Ely Riverside, Ship Lane CB7 4BB. Starts: 10am. https://www.facebook.com/events/1407812876566394/

Sunday 26 June; Shamanic Plant Spirit Ceremony. Venue: She's Lost Control, 42 Valentine Road, London.  Time: 11am. Tickets: £25.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Sunday 26 June; Summer Solstice HoldaBlót at Greenwich Park, SE London.  A meeting of Druid, Heathen and Pagan groups and solitaries. Time: meet at 1pm for 12pm rite. Free. https://www.meetup.com/The-Kith-of-The-Tree-and-The-Well/events/286461467/

Sunday 26 June; Woodland Bard Online - Hazel pt 2. Event by Walkwithtrees. Time: 6pm. Tickets: £7. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/jonathon-huet-at-walk-with-trees-30650264428

Sunday 26 June; The Erotic and Angelic Body. Workshop with Gabriela Herstik via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm start. Tickets: £20/£18. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Notes: I am not responsible for the content of these events. I don't always know about changes or cancellations - tbc means to be confirmed. Contact event organisers directly if you have questions. I generally list things in the UK, especially in or near London as well as festivals and conferences further afield and some online things outside that time zone. Where a practitioner is offering information about magical wellbeing and healing, this is *not* medical advice.