Magical Online & London Events in the Next Weeks

Here is a listing of weird, wonderful and witchy events in London or online plus a few in other parts of the UK over the next couple of weeks. If you know of an event you want listed, please email the details to me at badwitch1234@gmail.com.

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 - 10 September. Monica Sjöö's art exhibition - The Time is Now and it is Overdue.  Venue: Beaconsfield Gallery, 22 Newport Street, Vauxhall, London

SE11 6AY. Open Wednesday – Saturday, noon – 5pm. https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/

Now to 6 January 2023; Wicked Spirits? Witchcraft and Magic. Exhibition at Colchester Castle, Essex, CO1 1TJ. https://colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/wickedspirits/

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/

Wednesday 31 August (and other dates); Reiki, Crystal Healing and Sound Bath. Venue: The Mandrake, 20-21 Newman Street, London W1T 1PG. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £45. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-mandrake-17825575648

Wednesday 31 August; Awakening Wednesdays: Online drop-in Group with Harry MacDonald via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 8pm. Tickets: £10 (free for members). https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 31 August (last Wednesday every month); Who are the Gods? Talk at Hertford Moot. Venue: The White Horse, 33 Castle Street, Hertford), Time: 8pm. https://www.facebook.com/groups/104788436218047

Wednesday 31 August; Sigil Magic (beyond and including Osman Spare). Online event by Richard Levy for members of the Children of Circe group via Facebook Live. Time: 8pm. Free event. https://www.facebook.com/groups/725752541262809

Thursday 1 September (and other dates); Morning Meditation. Free online event via Mirthy. Time: 9am. https://www.mirthy.co.uk/event-calendar/30-minute-morning-meditation/

Thursday 1 September; Ian Edwards  talking about The Chiasmata of Austin Osman Spare. Free online talk via Watkins Bookshop. Time: 5.30pm. https://www.meetup.com/WatkinsBooks

Thursday 1 September; Top 7 Plants for Healing. Lecture by Hannah Sanders, via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm, but recording available after. Tickets: £10. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Thursday 1 September (every Thursday); Talk on a paranormal subject for ASSAP members. Time: 7pm. Free event, Zoom link emailed to members. To join ASSAP for £5 per year visit http://www.assap.ac.uk/.

Thursday 1 September; Heron Drums 10 Year Anniversary - Online Ceremony on Facebook live. Time: 7.30pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/events/1304812386723832/

Friday 2 September (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 2 September; Chaos Magick to Save the World - Patricia MacCormack in Conversation. Online event via Treadwell's Bookshop. Time: 7pm, but recording viewable for 2 weeks. Cost: £10.  https://www.treadwells-london.com/ 

Friday 2 September (and other dates); Laughter Yoga Playshop. Time: Time: 7pm. Free online event but £2 donations welcome. https://www.meetup.com/freestuffandfreeevents/

Friday 2 September; The Witches Circle Monthly Class. Venue: Kallima Wellbeing Centre, 8A Adam Business Centre, Cranes Farm Rd, Basildon, SS14 3JF. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £16.76. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/kallima-wellbeing-centre-15972923230

Saturday 3 September, PF 50th Anniversary: Pagan Arts Festival by The Pagan Federation. Venue: St. Peter's House, 1 Forster Square, Bradford, BD1 4TY. Tickets · Free-£9.21 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pagan-federation-50th-anniversary-pagan-arts-festival-tickets-170444183140

Saturday 3 - Sunday 4 September, Seriously Strange. Paranormal conference by the ASSAP Events Team. Venue: University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7JP. Tickets: £80/£20. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seriously-strange-tickets-90155081275?

Saturday 3 September; Afternoon Talk on Traditional Folk Magic with teacher and cunning man Trefor Wickens. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Road, London SE9 6SH. Time: 2pm-4pm. Tickets: £20.00 per person. Pop in to reserve aspace or visit www.wiccamoonuk 

Saturday 3 September (and other dates); Drury Lane: Walking tour of Drury Lane, London, and environs with street theatre, songs and pub stops via Minimum Labyrinth. Time: 2pm. Tickets £19.50. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/minimum-labyrinth-4600043469

Saturday 3 September, The Golden Bubble by Jean Williams book launch. Venue: The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London, WC1N 1JD. Time: 7pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/767107141406838/

Sunday 4 September; Visit to London Rathayatra 2022- Krishna Chariot festival with London Woodland Witches, Wiccans and Pagans. Venue: Hyde Park London. Meet at 11.45am. Free. https://www.meetup.com/LondonWoodlandWitches/

Sunday 4 September (first Sunday of the month);  Nettle, Weaving and Nettle Weaving with Woodspirits. Meet at Cheshunt station before walking to Lee Valley Park. Time: 3pm. Free in-person event for members of Woodspirits group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/4032235040150960

Sunday 4 September; Story Co-operative with special guest Sandra Agard. Organised by London Dreamtime. Meet at the Electric Elephant Cafe, 186A Crampton Street, London, SE17 3AE, storytelling at Pullens Yards Hall, entrance on Crampton Street. Time: 3pm, but earlier if you want to order food. Free but you must reserve  a place. https://www.londondreamtime.com/calendar/

Sunday 4 September;  Woodland Bard Online - Blackthorn. Event by Walkwithtrees. Time: 6pm. Tickets: £7. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/jonathon-huet-at-walk-with-trees-30650264428

Sunday 4 September; Magickal Woman as Healer: the materiality and healing power of the magical talisman. Online talk with Sarah Bellisario via Magickal Women and Company. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £10. https://www.magickalwomenconference.com/events

Sunday 4 September; Phyllis Curott - Nature's Secret Magic. Online talk. Part of the Doreen Valiente 100th Year Celebration collection by The Doreen Valiente Foundation. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £7.06. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/doreen-valiente-100th-year-celebration-141779

Monday 5 September; A Witches' Seven Forces. Workshop with Rebecca Beattie, via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm start. Tickets: £10. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Monday 5 September; An Evening in Asgard - The Home of the Norse Gods. Part of the Scandinavian Folklore, Lena Heide-Brennand collection. Zoom talk  through The Last Tuesday Society and The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets · from £5.82. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Monday 5 September (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

Tuesday 6 September; Where Do I Start? First in 6-session course by Anthony Kesner. Online workshops via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 5.15pm. Tickets: £145. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Tuesday 6 September; Demystifyign Poeple. Venue: She's Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £35 per session.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Tuesday 6 September; Mediumship for Beginners. First in 12-session course by Anthony Kesner. Online workshops via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £230. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Tuesday 6 September; September Spooks: Ghostly Visions and Screaming Skulls. Talk by Sandra Lawrence, author of Miss Willmott's Ghosts. Organised by London Fortean Society. Venue: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields, London Bridge, London SE1 3SS. Time: 7pm Tickets: £5 / £2. http://forteanlondon.blogspot.com/

Tuesday 6 September; Botanical Candle-Making Workshop with Devil’s Botany and  Yougi. Venue: The Last Tuesday Society / Viktor Wynd's Museum of Curiosities, 11 Mare Street, London, E8 4RP. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £55. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/devils-botany-queen-of-the-meadow-338339

Tuesday 6 September; Lincolnshire Witches; Magickal Correspondences Workshop. Online event via Heritage Lincolnshire. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £11.37 – £16.76. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/heritage-lincolnshire-20095110961

Tuesday 6 September (first Tuesday each Month); Talk on Moon Magic at Romford Pagan Moot. Venue: The Golden Lion, 2 High Street, Romford. Time: 7.30pm. Entry £4. https://www.facebook.com/Romford-Pagan-Moote-634178063700381

Tuesday 6 September; Cú Chulainn. Part of the Celtic Myth by Dr. Mark Williams collection. 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

Tuesday 6 September (tbc but usually first Tuesday each Month); The Witches' Inn Moot. Venue: Halt and Pull pub in Horley. Time: 8pm. Free event. https://www.facebook.com/The-Witches-Inn-1568424150049437

Wednesday 7 September; Sensory Sound and Gong Bath. Venue: The Mandrake, 20-21 Newman Street, London W1T 1PG. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £40. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-mandrake-17825575648

Wednesday 7 September; Astro School. First session in 6-week online astrology evening class via She's Lost Control,. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £175.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Wednesday 7 September (tbc but usuallyfirst Wednesday of the month); Drumming and Meditation online with Taz Thornton. Time: 7pm Price: free. https://www.facebook.com/TazThorntonOfficial#

Wednesday 7 September; Drum Healing. Venue: She's Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Thursday 8 September; City of the Beast. Talk and signing by Phil Baker.  Venue: Watkins Bookshop, 19-21 Cecil Court, · London WC2N 4EZ. Time: 5.30pm. Tickets: free. https://www.meetup.com/WatkinsBooks

Thursday 8 September; Conner Habib: Hawk Mountain Launch and party. Hybrid event. In-person venue: Treadwells, 33 Store St, London WC1E 7BS, UK. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £5 or free for Zoom link https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Thursday 8, 15, 22 and 29 September; Seidr, an old Norse Shamanic Practice. Four-week course on Seidr, an old Norse shamanism, with Katie Gerrard and Andre Henriques. There will be an optional in-person rite on 1 October. Workshop via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm start. Tickets: £80/£90. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Thursday 8 September; Psychedelic Meditation. Venue: She's Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £35.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Thursday 8 September; Wicca Full Moon Ceremony by the Thames with Mani via London Woodland Witches, Wiccans and Pagans. Meet at the Millennium Bridge, Thames Embankment, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £5. https://www.meetup.com/LondonWoodlandWitches/

Thursday 8 September; Witch-bottles from the 17th–20th Century. Zoom talk with Brian Hoggard  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

Thursday 8 September; Vampires: A talk with Cunning Folk via South East London Folklore Society. Venue: The Electric Elephant Cafe, 186A Crampton Street, London, SE17 3AE,  Time: 8pm, Free but donations of £5/£3 welcome. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cunning-folk-7829505560

Friday 9 September; Full Moon 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/

Friday 9 - 11 September; 45th International Annual Conference of the Society for Psychical Research. Online event. Starts at noon. Tickets free for members. https://www.spr.ac.uk/

Friday 9 - 11 September; Beating Heart - Men's Tribal Gathering. Venue: Shamanic Centre Caer Corhrain, Kent. Camping event. Tickets: £100. https://www.facebook.com/events/689036902249938/

Friday 9 September; Moonology Full Moon Ritual with Yasmin Boland. On Facebook Live. Time: 7pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/yasminbolandmoonology

Saturday 10 September; Crystal Cacao Ceremony. Venue: She's Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 10am. Tickets: £35.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Saturday 10 September; Goddess Hecate: The Light Bearer. Workshop with Hernan Cotroneo, via the College of Psychic Studies. Online event. Time: 11am-5pm. Tickets: £105. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 10 September; Learn the Techniques of Remote Viewing. In-person workshop with Ann Théato. Venue: The College Of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB.  Time: 11am-5pm. Tickets: £115. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 10 September (and other dates); The Unburied Corner of London. Walking tour via Minimum Labyrinth. Time: 11.30am. Tickets £9.50/£12.50. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/minimum-labyrinth-4600043469

Saturday 10 September; Beginner's Guide to Crystals. Venue: She's Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 1pm. Tickets: £35.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Saturday 10 September; Women's Full Moon Circle for the Harvest Moon - part of the Women's Circles collection by The Reformed Bohemian. Online event. Time: 6.30pm. Tickets: £15. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-reformed-bohemian-39644491363

Saturday 10 September; Trolls in Nordic Myth and Folkore. Zoom talk with Dr. Tommy Kuusela through The Last Tuesday Society and The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets · from £5.82. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Saturday 10 September; Full Moon In Pisces Circle. Venue: She's Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 8pm. Tickets: £30.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Saturday 10 September; Secret Storytelling: High and Low Magic with London Dreamtime. Venue: Secret location near Mansion House Tube EC4. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets £10. https://www.londondreamtime.com/calendar/

Sunday 11 September; Permission to Grieve. Venue: She's Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 3pm. Tickets: £45.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Sunday 11 September; Luna Iter Ritual. In-person ritual in Hackney, East London for members of the group. 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/£6. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1230392930656154

Sunday 11 September; Sound Bath. Venue: Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, 3 Pilgrim's Place, London NW3 1NG. Time: 7pm. https://www.rosslynhillchapel.org.uk/

Sunday 11 September; Caribbean Folktales - an evening of storytelling with Wendy Shearer via Zoom 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

Note: I am not responsible for any of these events. Although I try to make sure the details on my listing are accurate, I do not always know about late changes or ticket availability etc. Please contact the organiser before attending any event.

Anyone Know Anything About This Oracle Set?

I was wondering if anyone who reads my blog knows anything about this oracle set. I saw it at a vintage market at the weekend and bought it out of curiosity. 

The box calls it The Great Prediction Game of Kem, but it doesn't actually seem to be a game. It contains a set of oracle cards in a blue bag, a book on the Cards of Kem giving meanings and suggestions for spreads and meditations, and several large pieces of paper with outlines for the spreads.  Maybe there were some game rules in it at one time? I don't know.

As you can seem, the artwork is probably best described as naive. It was created by John and Mary Drinkwater and published by Products of Kem. The book gives a Somerset PO Box number, but seeing as the set dates from 1986 I would imagine that's no longer valid. I tried Googling The Great Prediction Game of Kem and The Cards of Kem, but failed to learn more. So, I thought I'd share a photo here and see if anyone else has seen it before or knows anything about its history.

Do leave a comment if you know anything or have any other ideas about it.

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The Poetry of Witchcraft: Crone

This poem was inspired by the extract from the book Magical Aging, which I shared on this blog last week. 

Being an old witch myself, I approve of anything that shows the positive aspects of being elderly. However, I had a discussion querying the suggestion that the etymology of word "crone" is "crown". I've seen it suggested on some witchy websites, but the etymology sites I've checked think the word crone more likely comes from an Anglo-French word meaning carrion rather than the German word krone, meaning crown. Nevertheless, word similarities can be played with in creative writing, so I've used those ideas in a poem:

Crone

Crone.
Old woman.
Carrion corpse.
Witch...

Come closer.
Let me see
the silver
in your hair,
your crown
of wisdom.

Let me forget
older insults
and think more
of your journey
and the care lines
of time

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Messenger Oracle Divination: Change is Unavoidable

I drew a card for the world from the Messenger Oracle. It states change is unavoidable, and shows a picture of figure half tree, half man with autumn on one side and spring on the other. As the wheel of the year turns, and September approaches, it feels like the right card for the times. This is how the official meaning reads: 

"Every second of every day you undergo change. Your perception is altered by what you see, feel and experience from one moment to the next. Your body ages and moves closer to death... Autumn will always come to end the bounty of Summer, and the new hope of Spring will always follow Winter. Change is all around you. Do not let fear bind you to the past and prevent you from enjoying the present and future..."

With the late August bank holiday this weekend, I feel that's a good message. Enjoy the last days of summer and, when autumn comes, enjoy what that offers too. Do not overly fear the future or overly mourn the loss of past. Embrace each day and the changes it brings with love, peace and acceptance. Make the most of each moment.

You see my review of the Messenger Oracle deck here although a new edition recently came out, which I've linked to at the bottom. 

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Book Excerpt: Witch Wisdom for Magical Aging

Here's an extract from a new book, Witch Wisdom for Magical Aging: Finding Your Power through the Changing Seasons, by Cait Johnson:

Introduction: A Magical Invitation 

Several years ago, as I sat with a group of friends comparing our jowls and saggy arms and laughing uproariously, it occurred to me that unless we die young we’re going to get older. It’s seems like a journey to a strange land that none of us have ever visited before, and we don’t have a map. But wouldn’t it be nice if we did? 

Like everyone else, I hear the perpetual yawp of our culture nattering on about the Land of Aging being an ugly, dangerous place, and how we’d better spend a lot of money pronto so we won’t look like we’re well on the way. But I’m here to tell you: our culture has it all wrong. The Land of Aging can be filled with freedom and beauty, wisdom and pleasure. 

If you look at our language around aging women, you’ll notice the strangest phenomenon: the word crone actually comes from “crown,” not referring to any temporal hierarchy of power, but to the deep wisdom emanating from the head. And hag comes from the Greek word hagio, meaning “holy.” How the meanings have changed! 

Witch Wisdom celebrates the Wise Woman in all of us who knows how to turn inward, who hears the voice of her deep self, who tunes out the cruel messages of our culture and ignores the siren song of advertising that promises us youthful skin and hair (for a price) because she knows that wrinkles and gray hair can be beautiful, and that connection to her own vibrant spirit is what makes her fully alive. As novelist Ursula LeGuin writes, “For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young . . . It has to do with who the person is.” 

Old women are closer to the wild. We have learned so much, dreamed so much, done so much—just having weathered life past the age of 50 is an accomplishment! As we draw nearer to the mystery that is death, we become closer to Source. And having gone beyond so many of the other-pleasing concerns of younger women, we are free to embrace our magical uniqueness in a new way, living out our Crone Queen years with verve. Of course, the experience of magical aging is different at 55 than it is at 95; there are many phases of the journey, and they aren’t all easy. But they are all part of coming to terms with life, and we can embrace and celebrate this challenging and ultimately liberating time. 

And now a word about witches. Our culture is finally changing to embrace what witches really are: Wise Ones, healers, makers, connectors, transformers, lovers. We come in all ages, shapes, sizes, and ethnicities, although other cultures may call us bruja or mchawi or strega. Our English witch comes from the Old English “craft of the wise.”  

There is a place deep in our hearts where we are conscious and strong in our aging. In fact, we can imagine an entire generation of women sailing on magical brooms into our elder years with open curiosity and verve, celebrating our magic, our wisdom, and our connection to All That Is, embracing our queenly, croning selves and enjoying the hell out of the ride. Imagine how much happier you would be. Imagine how much kinder the world would be. I invite you to be a part of this revolution. I invite you to be an old witch.

Author Cait Johnson is a counselor, teacher, playwright, performer, and witch as well as having written six books. She trained with the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and has a private practice as an editor and intuitive counselor in New York’s Hudson Valley. https://caitjohnson.com/

Witch Wisdom for Magical Aging is published by Destiny Books/Inner Traditions. You can view it on Amazon.

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This Week's Pagan Events Online & Around London

Here is a listing of weird, wonderful and witchy events in London or online plus a few in other parts of the UK over the next couple of weeks. If you know of an event you want listed, please email the details to me at badwitch1234@gmail.com.

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 to 6 January 2023; Wicked Spirits? Witchcraft and Magic. Exhibition at Colchester Castle, Essex, CO1 1TJ. https://colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/wickedspirits/

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/

Wednesday 24 August (every Wednesdays); Evening Sound Bath Meditation. Venue: She's Lost Control, 42 Valentine Road, London. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £15.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Wednesday 24 August; Madeline Montalban: Magus of the Morning Star. Zoom talk by Julia Phillips through 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 24 August; Awakening Wednesdays: Online Drop-in Group with Harry MacDonald via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 8pm. Tickets: £10 (free for members). https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Thursday 25 August (and other dates); Morning Meditation. Free online event via Mirthy. Time: 9am. https://www.mirthy.co.uk/event-calendar/30-minute-morning-meditation/

Thursday 25 August; Moonology Dark Moon Ceremony with Yasmin Boland. On Facebook Live via the Hay House Facebook page. Time: 11am. Free. https://www.facebook.com/yasminbolandmoonology

Thursday 25 August; 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 25 August; Malcolm Stern talking about Slay Your Dragons With Compassion via Watkins Bookshop. Free online event. Time: 5.30pm. https://www.meetup.com/WatkinsBooks

Thursday 25 August (every Thursday); 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/.

Friday 26 August (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 26 - Monday 29 August; The Artemis Gathering Pagan Camp with talks, workshops, entertainment and a late night rock club. Tickets: £75/£60. https://witchfest.net/

Friday 26 - Sunday 28 August; The Art of Celtic Seership: Omens and Divination from Nature with Caitlín Matthews. (involves spending short periods outside, regardless of weather). Venue: Hawkwood College, Painswick Old Rd., Stroud, Glos GL6 7QW Prices (tbc). Single £420, Shared  £380, Non-Res £320 Deposit £120.  Quote course: 22-341. Tel: 01453 759034. https://www.facebook.com/caitlinmatthews.author

Friday 26 August; New Moon Ritual Virgo with Yasmin Boland. On Facebook Live. Time: 5pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/yasminbolandmoonology

Friday 26 August (and other dates); Laughter Yoga Playshop. Time: Time: 7pm. Free online event but £2 donations welcome. https://www.meetup.com/freestuffandfreeevents/

Friday 26 August; London Witches. Walking Tour with Maria Beadell organised by Treadwells. Meet outside Farringdon Tube Station. Time: 8pm start. Tickets: £16.50. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Friday 26 August (tbc but usually last Friday of the month);  The Pagan Federation Community Quiz. Free online event. Time: 8pm. https://www.facebook.com/groups/paganfed/events

Saturday 27 August; New Moon Sound Bath and Meditation With Spiritual Tiik London. Free Online Event. Time: 9.30am. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/spiritual-tiik-29294295627

Saturday 27 August; CACAO Ceremony Outdoors,  on Hampstead Heath, with Freya via London Woodland Witches, Wiccans and Pagans. Meet at Hampstead Heath near Parliament Hill, London, N6 6JS). Time: 11am. Tickets: £11 pay cash on the day. https://www.meetup.com/LondonWoodlandWitches/

Sunday 28 August; 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 28 August; J. Sheridan Le Fanu: Irish Master of Mystery – a Zoom talk by Jim Rockhill 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

Monday 29 August (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

Tuesday 30 August; Witch Priestesses in Conversation -  Rebecca Beattie and Suzanne Corbie talk about Wicca. Online event via Treadwell's Bookshop. Time: 7pm, but recording viewable for 2 weeks. Cost: £10.  https://www.treadwells-london.com/ 

Tuesday 30 August (last Tuesday each month); Heron Drums Shamanic Drumming Circle. Venue: Singleton Environment Centre, Ashford, Kent, TN23 5LW. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £10  https://www.herondrums.co.uk/servicesback/p/heron-drums-shamanic-drumming-circle

Tuesday 30 August; The Historical King Arthur. Zoom lecture by Professor Ronald Hutton through The Last Tuesday Society and The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets · from £5.82. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Tuesday 30 August; The Art and Science of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs. Talk by Dr Ellinor Michel at London Fortean Society. Venue: The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London, E1 7EX. Door time: 7:30pm, Start time: 8pm. Tickets: £5.50/£3.50. https://www.wegottickets.com/event/551658/

Tuesday 30 August; The Essential Guide to Everyday Angels presented by Margaret Ann Lembo. Free online event by The Crystal Garden and Llewellyn Worldwide. Time: 10.45pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/1253972608676061

Wednesday 31 August (and other dates); Reiki, Crystal Healing and Sound Bath. Venue: The Mandrake, 20-21 Newman Street, London W1T 1PG. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £45. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-mandrake-17825575648

Wednesday 24 August; Sigil Magic (beyond and including Osman Spare). Online event by Richard Levy for members of the Children of Circe group via Facebook Live. Time: tba. Free event. https://www.facebook.com/groups/725752541262809

Thursday 1 September; Ian Edwards talking about The Chiasmata of Austin Osman Spare. Free online talk via Watkins Bookshop. Time: 5.30pm. https://www.meetup.com/WatkinsBooks

Thursday 1 September; Top 7 Plants for Healing. Lecture by Hannah Sanders, via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm, but recording available after. Tickets: £10. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Friday 2 September; Chaos Magick to Save the World - Patricia MacCormack in Conversation. Online event via Treadwell's Bookshop. Time: 7pm, but recording viewable for 2 weeks. Cost: £10.  https://www.treadwells-london.com/ 

Friday 2 September; The Witches Circle Monthly Class. Venue: Kallima Wellbeing Centre, 8A Adam Business Centre, Cranes Farm Rd, Basildon, SS14 3JF. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £16.76. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/kallima-wellbeing-centre-15972923230

Saturday 3 September, PF 50th Anniversary: Pagan Arts Festival by The Pagan Federation. Venue: St. Peter's House, 1 Forster Square, Bradford, BD1 4TY. Tickets · Free-£9.21 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pagan-federation-50th-anniversary-pagan-arts-festival-tickets-170444183140

Saturday 3 - Sunday 4 September, Seriously Strange. Paranormal conference by the ASSAP Events Team. Venue: University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7JP. Tickets: £80/£20. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seriously-strange-tickets-90155081275?

Saturday 3 September (and other dates); Drury Lane: Walking tour of Drury Lane, London, and environs with street theatre, songs and pub stops via Minimum Labyrinth. Time: 2pm. Tickets £19.50. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/minimum-labyrinth-4600043469

Saturday 3 September, The Golden Bubble by Jean Williams book launch. Venue: The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London, WC1N 1JD. Time: 7pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/767107141406838/

Sunday 4 September; Visit to London Rathayatra 2022- Krishna Chariot festival with London Woodland Witches, Wiccans and Pagans. Venue: Hyde Park London. Meet at 11.45am. Free. https://www.meetup.com/LondonWoodlandWitches/

Sunday 4 September (first Sunday of the month);  Nettle, Weaving and Nettle Weaving with Woodspirits. Meet at Cheshunt station before walking to Lee Valley Park. Time: 3pm. Free in-person event for members of Woodspirits group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/4032235040150960

Sunday 4 September; Story Co-operative with special guest Sandra Agard. Organised by London Dreamtime. Meet at the Electric Elephant Cafe, 186A Crampton Street, London, SE17 3AE, storytelling at Pullens Yards Hall, entrance on Crampton Street. Time: 3pm, but earlier if you want to order food. Free but you must reserve  a place. https://www.londondreamtime.com/calendar/

Sunday 4 September;  Woodland Bard Online - Blackthorn. Event by Walkwithtrees. Time: 6pm. Tickets: £7. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/jonathon-huet-at-walk-with-trees-30650264428

Sunday 4 September; Magickal Woman as Healer: the materiality and healing power of the magical talisman. Online talk with Sarah Bellisario via Magickal Women and Company. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £10. https://www.magickalwomenconference.com/events

Sunday 4 September; Phyllis Curott - Nature's Secret Magic. Online talk. Part of the Doreen Valiente 100th Year Celebration collection by The Doreen Valiente Foundation. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £7.06. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/doreen-valiente-100th-year-celebration-141779

Note: I am not responsible for any of these events. Although I try to make sure the details on my listing are accurate, I do not always know about late changes or ticket availability etc. Please contact the organiser before attending any event.

Witchy Shopping: A Halloween Tray and Starry Scarf

I found this dark blue moon-and-sun tray at TK Maxx, which already has its Halloween range on display. I'm delighted as I was looking for something just like it for candle magic. 

In the past I've had candles fall over, melt too quickly, or send sparks flying onto my altar cloth, so putting them on a metal tray is an added safety measure. I'm sure this lovely tray will get used to carry cups of tea and coffee when I have friends round as well.

The tray is on a starry scarf which I also found when I was out shopping on holiday last week. It was in a charity shop for £1. On the first Sunday I was away I went to a boot fair and found another lovely scarf as well as some bowls suitable for scrying and glass candle holders. I shared a picture of them on Instagram, where you can find me as starzalucya.

You can also see my book on candle magic via publisher Moon Books.

Other previous related posts
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/08/shopping-soap-delivery-from-bewitched.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/07/witchy-shopping-raven-goddess-bundle-at.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/03/witchy-shopping-cardboard-coffins-for.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2021/01/my-candle-magic-book-has-sold-milestone.html

Coastal Scenes: Pictures from a Sussex Beach

I'm back from a week's holiday in Sussex, which was lovely. I had no internet where I was staying and I think it did me good to take break from blogging, spending hours on social media or doing much writing. As a freelance blogger and author there's always the pressure to do a bit of work every day even when I'm supposed to be on holiday, but everyone needs screen breaks!

I took the photos above on the beach I could see from the window of my bedroom. There were sunny days but also some thunder storms and I enjoyed the variety. I'll blog a bit more about some things I saw later, but I wanted to share these pictures first.

Previous related posts
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/08/im-having-summer-holiday-but-no-wifi.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2021/08/pagan-eye-collage-of-my-holiday-photos.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/05/sea-purification.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/03/review-traditional-witchcraft-for.html

I'm Having a Summer Holiday, But No WiFi

I'm away on holiday this week, but discovered there's no internet and hardly any phone signal. So, I won't be able to blog much. I'll try to upload photos to Instagram of places I visit and things I get up to. You can find me there as starzalucya. Getting out and about with a break from tech can be good every so often.

Pagan Eye: Reynard Junior the Young Fox

This photo of a young fox was taken by my friend and fellow witch Jane Mortimer. Like me, she has been enjoying watching cubs in her garden since springtime. This particular fox has become very friendly. Jane wrote: 

"I've managed to get a decent photo of our young fox visitor.  I think he's a he, and I've called him Reynard Junior.  He's one of three cubs that first appeared in our back garden in the spring, and we've watched him get bigger and bolder as the weeks have gone on. He started coming into our back room a few weeks ago, and got up on the sofa bed to look studiously at the bookshelves. Now he comes in, bold as brass and polishes off any cat food that's left over. I don't mind him coming in on the scrounge. Now we've all got wheelie bins in this area, it's so much harder for our urban foxes to find food."

I've been putting a bowl of water in my garden for wildlife this summer, but my cats won't allow young foxes into my house - they chase them out if they try to come in!

My Pagan Eye posts show photos that I find interesting - seasonal images, pagan sites, events, or just pretty pictures. If you want to send me a photo for a Pagan Eye post, please email it to badwitch1234@gmail.com Let me know what the photo shows and whether you want your name mentioned or not. For copyright reasons, the photo must be one you have taken yourself.

The photo is copyright Jane Mortimer.

Previous related posts:
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/05/pagan-eye-fox-cub-in-bluebells-by-trail.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2020/09/the-triple-tree-seeing-and-hearing.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2020/10/pagan-eye-apple-pie-for-feast-of-pomona.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/05/photos-ronald-huttons-queens-of-wild.html

Interview with Traditional Witchcraft Writer Lee Morgan

Lee Morgan is the author of books on Traditional Witchcraft and the Otherworld, as well as several fiction titles. His background in the esoteric ranges from academic to practical to the highly personal, including his road re-adjustment following life-saving surgery. I've interviewed him for A Bad Witch's Blog:

Q: You are the author of non-fiction books on Traditional Witchcraft and sorcery as well as novels and and your background includes a PhD thesis on occult literature as well as practicing traditional witchcraft and animistic spirituality. What started your interest in the esoteric?

A: Due to some rough life experiences at that time my PhD was never awarded, but yes, I wrote it, and researched it, and forced three non-practitioner markers to listen to me speak supportively about magic. As to my interest in the esoteric I suppose early visionary experiences with spirit visitation was the main source. Ever since that began I was looking to find a term for what had been activated and awakened. The stories of how people like Bessie Dunlop, the so-called faerie witch, got started had a lot of resonance for me.

Q: How would you best define your own spiritual and magical path or tradition?

Most of the time I prefer not to! Words have an off-kilter relationship with witchcraft, to my way of seeing things, it very much is a deed beyond names. I fall back when I must on the term Traditional Witchcraft because I follow a practice that has been passed from one person to another, which is not Wicca, and has a certain local focus making it unique in some ways, but recognisably similar to other forms of Traditional Witchcraft in other ways. Unlike a lot of people though I’m not deeply attached to the term and see being anti-Wicca as a bit 90s. In some ways I think it was initially a term that was created to express the fact that not all forms of witchcraft were Wicca, nor follow the same rules as those publicised at the time. Whether or not the era in which we need make that distinction so vehemently has passed I will leave up to the viewpoint of history, I suppose. If I had to define my path without those words I would say that it’s a form of sorcery only suitable for some people, those we describe as Marked. Those people have certain forms of perception already in place which can be developed further. It’s a life-way that involves stepping outside not just of the Hedge for flight, but also out of the standard viewpoints of society. It is Other. It is foreign to every culture. In some ways it is monstrous, and from that same place it derives its grace.

Q: Do you prefer writing fiction or non fiction and why? 

A: I would once have said fiction, but then there is a certain buzz to research and the positive reaction you get from providing people with well-tested tools that they can use to throw off limiting perspectives they got from inside the Hedge… We’re living in an era where I think shaking up worldviews is a potent undertaking. Whether or not the people receiving those tools class as witches to me is almost beside the point. I don’t actually care to extend that judgment outside of my own coven really. What interests me is providing insights from the eyes of the Other to people who are otherwise immersed in the limiting mindset inside the Hedge. Sometimes the alienness of both our life-way and our perspective can really liberate people who are ready to hear. I’m interested in doing that both through fiction and non-fiction. Fiction has the liberty of the fact you don’t need to reference your insights, yet people don’t always let it in the same way they do with non-fiction. I think a lot of that has to do with how we view fiction in our society, where storytelling isn’t viewed as having the same spiritual or intellectual heft that we accord to non-fiction. I think that’s a bit of a shame because there is still a difference between empowered storytelling and less powerful types… though it would take something thesis length to actually unpack what I think that difference is.

Q: Which are your favourites of the non-fiction books you’ve written?

A: I find that a difficult question as, due to my situation, my focus is currently on the things I haven’t written yet. I’m inclined to say Standing and Not Falling simply for the fact I’ve had some really great feedback from that, where people have said it changed, or even saved, their lives. 

Q: Apart from reading your books, what advice would you offer someone who wanted to learn about traditional witchcraft and the other forms of spirituality that you write about?

A: Ideally I’d say to find a good solid working group who is open to adopting and training them. Knowing how rare such groups seem to be I’d say instead to really dedicate to a process. Even if it’s something really simple, show up for it with a full heart and work it through, even if it’s something as simple as placing symbols of the ideas and habits you want to leave behind in a bundle and dropping it next to a real hedge, and you do that every month for a year, or cleaning your nails of your old faith every night for a year. The spirits that govern witchcraft will pay more attention to your persistence with this than they will to anything half-hearted or half-finished. Also, dedication to something beyond the self is important too, and this sense of connection and service should ideally extend to both human and other-than-human community. 

Q: I read that you had an operation earlier this year. I wish you all the best for recovery. Do you mind me asking whether that has changed the way you view your spiritual path and the way you practice?

A: I’ve had four operations and radiation this year and I cannot over-emphasis how life-altering it has been. A risk to the function you discover you care about the most, and being four months off dying from said situation, is quite a sobering thing to go through. The meningioma that was removed from my skull was quite sizeable (about as big as a tennis ball) and has certainly changed my whole cognition. It’s probably too soon to say much about that, beyond that the experience has altered the way I perceive the world in substantial ways. I’m still settling in though as the first MRI to look at the spot and see what my brain’s doing in there now does not occur until September. Until then the whole thing will have to remain a dark and delightful mystery that I haven’t yet been able to fully unwrap. 

Q: What are your plans for the future?

A: My novel ‘The Gusty Deep’ , an epic medieval folk horror offering exploring the life of the daughter of one of the Green Children of Woolpit and Robin Goodfellow will be published by Rebel Satori in September. I’m quite excited about that because it’s my first novel set in a different era. I wrote it to try to explore the place of the weird/wyrd and the queer people in other times. I also have a non-fiction witchcraft book cooking away. I’m trying to build up my physical strength to further our homestead so that we can improve our home for wayward witches and exiles down here in Van Diemen’s Land. 

Q: Is there anything else you would like to say?

A: I think witchcraft - or that queer business outside the perimeters of normal consciousness - has a lot to offer in this era of discontent and much-needed rebellion. Even for non-witches. I believe there is enough we can talk about despite privacy oaths to introduce some radical viewpoints. We don’t have to tame our ideas to talk on social media, or anywhere else, we can bring our strange along with us. Social media has its own magic that tends to push towards conflict, drama, and posing. As a sorcerer you don’t have to play along, you can do your own thing with this immense power. I really admire the practice of people like Bayo Akomolafe and Sophia Strand, to name two excellent writers who make the space their own. We have this access to a voice that shoots out around the world and so many people are on there bitching about how awful it is… Don’t play its game. Work within its magic with your own voice, give up caring what mediocre people think of you and use this free resource to say uncanny things. 

You can view A Deed Without a Name at Amazon. It is published by Moon Books.

Previous interview links
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/07/interview-with-soul-tender-and-animist.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/03/interview-jessica-howard-art-of.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/03/interview-rachel-patterson-on.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/03/interview-laurie-martin-gardner-and.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/05/interview-janet-munin-on-polytheistic.html

This Week's Pagan Events Online & Around London

Here is a listing of weird, wonderful and witchy events in London or online plus a few in other parts of the UK over the next couple of weeks. If you know of an event you want listed, please email the details to me at badwitch1234@gmail.com.

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 to 6 January 2023; Wicked Spirits? Witchcraft and Magic. Exhibition at Colchester Castle, Essex, CO1 1TJ. https://colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/wickedspirits/

 

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/

Wednesday 10 August (every Wednesdays); Evening Sound Bath Meditation. Venue: She's Lost Control, 42 Valentine Road, London. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £15.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Wednesday 10 August; Excellent Booke: A Manual of 16th century English Necromancy.  Zoom talk by Dr A Cummins 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 10 August; Awakening Wednesdays: Online Drop-in Group with Harry MacDonald via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 8pm. Tickets: £10 (free for members). https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Thursday 11 August (and other dates); Morning Meditation. Free online event via Mirthy. Time: 9am. https://www.mirthy.co.uk/event-calendar/30-minute-morning-meditation/

Thursday 11 August; 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 11 August;  Pathworking Afternoon. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Road, London SE9 6SH. Time: 3pm. Tickets: £5. Call to reserve a space: 0208 850 7803. Details: https://www.facebook.com/wiccamoonuk

Thursday 11 August; The Afterlife Tarot. Talk and signing by Ever Orchid  Venue: Watkins Bookshop, 19-21 Cecil Court, · London WC2N 4EZ. Time: 6.30pm. Tickets: free. https://www.meetup.com/WatkinsBooks

Thursday 11 August, The Magic of Sleep. Talk by Dr. Rebecca Beattie as part of the Festival of Sleep. Venue: Museum of the Home - Learning Pavilion, 136 Kingsland Road, London E2 8EA. Time: 6.30pm. Tickets: £10-£15. https://www.sleep.museumofthehome.org.uk/

Thursday 11 August; The Universe Within. Online talk with Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki via Magickal Women and Company. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £10. https://www.magickalwomenconference.com/events

Thursday 11 August; A Sea Witch in Conversation.  Levannah Morgan talks moon magic and sea mysticism with Christina Harrington. Free online book launch event for A Sea Witch's Companion via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm start.. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Thursday 11 August; Full Moon Ritual in Aquarius with Yasmin Boland. On Facebook Live. Time: 7pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/yasminbolandmoonology

Thursday 11 August;  Full Moon Celestial Sound Journey. Venue: She's Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15/£25.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Thursday 11 August (every Thursday); 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 11 August;  Full Moon In Aquarius Circle. Venue: She's Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 8pm. Tickets: £30.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Thursday 11 August; Giants: A talk with Cunning Folk via South East London Folklore Society. Venue: The Electric Elephant Cafe, 186A Crampton Street, London, SE17 3AE,  Time: 8pm, Free but donations of £5/£3 welcome. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cunning-folk-7829505560

Friday 12 August (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 12 August; Full Moon 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/

Friday 12 August;  Practical Magic: Incense Making. In-person workshop with Rebecca Beattie. 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.

Friday 12 August (and other dates); Laughter Yoga Playshop. Time: Time: 7pm. Free online event but £2 donations welcome. https://www.meetup.com/freestuffandfreeevents/

Friday 12 August; Women's Full Moon Circle for the Sturgeon Moon - part of the Women's Circles collection by The Reformed Bohemian. Online event. Time: 6.30pm. Tickets: £15. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-reformed-bohemian-39644491363

Friday 12 August; Wicca Full Moon Ceremony by the Thames with Mani via London Woodland Witches, Wiccans and Pagans. Meet at the Millennium Bridge, Thames Embankment, London. Time: pm. Tickets: £5. https://www.meetup.com/LondonWoodlandWitches/

Saturday 13 August; 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 13 August; Practical Magic: Magical Herbs. In-person workshop with Rebecca Beattie. Venue: Treadwell's Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London, WC1E 7BS. Time: 1pm-5pm. Cost: £60 per person.  https://www.treadwells-london.com/ or reserve a place by visiting the shop.

Saturday 13 August;  Positive Affirmations for Sensitive People. Online workshop with Mel Collinsvia the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £75. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 13 August; IRL Women's Sacred Healing Sharing Circle Meet Up.  Venue: Kyoto Garden, Holland Park, Holland Park Avenue, · London. Time: 3pm. Tickets: £5.80. https://www.meetup.com/soul-tribe-in-search-of-a-deeper-connection-with-others/

Saturday 13 August; Ancient Egyptian Tales - Adventure, Magic and Love. Storytelling by Kevin Groves. Free online event. Time: 4pm. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/kevin-groves-storyteller-32844359329?

Saturday 13 August; Launch Party for Paul Watson Art Show. The aart show itself will continue for three weeks. Venue: Treadwell's Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London, WC1E 7BS. Time: 6pm. Tickets: free.  https://www.treadwells-london.com/ or reserve a place by visiting the shop.

Saturday 13 August; Creating Talismans with Astrological Magic. Online workshop with Rebeccah Dean via Magickal Women and Company. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £10. https://www.magickalwomenconference.com/events

Sunday 14 August; Annual Osun River Ritual 2022 by Way Wive Wordz. Venue: Morden Hall Park, Morden Hall Road, London, SM4 5JD. Time: 11am. Free. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/way-wive-wordz-16931449271

Sunday 14 August; 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 14 August; The Magic of Cleopatra's Needle. In-person event by David Wassailer. Meet at Cleopatra's Needle, London. Time: 3pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/651754362910746/

Sunday 14 August; Labyrinth Walking Meditation. Venue: Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, 3 Pilgrim's Place, London NW3 1NG. Time: 7pm. https://www.rosslynhillchapel.org.uk/

Sunday 14 August; Touchstones of Belief: a Rich Legacy of Charms and Amulets in Scotland. Zoom lecture by Professor Hugh Cheape 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

Sunday 14 August; Paganism 101 Workshop. Online event by Covenant of Earth and Sky. Time: 8pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/714184329689151

Monday 15 August; Wytchery in the Park. Informal meet-up for members of the witchcraft training group. Meet in St. John's Lodge Gardens, Regents Park, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: Free. https://www.meetup.com/the-wytchery/

Monday 15 August; Near-Death Experiences: Four Decades of Research. Online talk by Jan Holden via The Society for Psychical Research. Time: 8pm. Tickets free for members, £5 non-members. https://www.spr.ac.uk/

Monday 15 August; The Green Girl and other Suffolk Stories by Kirsty Hartsiotis. Zoom event through The Last Tuesday Society and The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. Time: 9pm. Tickets · from £5.82. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Tuesday 16 August; The Role of the Shadow in Tarot & How to Read It. In-person workshop with Avril Price. Venue: College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 10am - 5pm. Tickets: £115. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Tuesday 16 August; Rose and Lavender Ceremony for Self Love. Venue: She's Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £25. https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Tuesday 16 August (date tbc); Witches of London Gathering with Children of Artemis. Venue: Cittie of Yorke, 22 High Holborn, London WC1V 6BN. Time: 7.30pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/childrenofartemis

Tuesday 16 August; Sacred Waters: Healing Holy Wells and Folk Science. Zoom lecture by Dr. Celeste Ray 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 17 August; Cunning Folk Reading Group - 'Weird Woods Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain' from the British Library Tales of the Weird series.. Online event. Time: 7pm. Price: Free. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cunning-folk-7829505560

Wednesday 17 August; Top 7 Herbs for Spells. Herbal lore talk with Hannah Sanders, via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm start. Tickets: £10. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Wednesday 17 and 24 August; Creating a Magical Servitor. Two-session workshop with chaos magician Mark Vincent, via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm start. Tickets: £40. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Wednesday 17 August (tbc, usually 3rd Wednesday each month); The More Mead Moot. Venue: The Hope pub, Carshalton, Surrey,  Time: 7.30pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/Pagan-FutureFests-352385661439366/

Wednesday 17 August; Sensory Sound and Gong Bath. Venue: The Mandrake, 20-21 Newman Street, London W1T 1PG. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £40. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-mandrake-17825575648

Wednesday 17 August; Cunning Libraries: Magic Books of Early Modern Folk Magicians. Zoom lecture by Dr Cummins 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

Thursday 18 August. Drum Circle run by Lynn Gosney. Venue: Shamanic Centre Caer Corhrain Kent. Time: 7.45pm. Entry: donations welcome. https://www.facebook.com/events/4881017145315028/4881017188648357/

Friday 19 August; Sacred Tea Ceremony and Earth Balancing Meditation with Sound Bath with Freya via London Woodland Witches, Wiccans and Pagans. Venue: Hampstead Heath, London. Time: 1pm. Tickets £7, you  must reserve a place. https://www.meetup.com/LondonWoodlandWitches/

Friday 19 August; Guyanese Kwe Kwe and Folk Songs practice sessions, organised by Way Wive Wordz. Venue: Johmard Community Centre, 65-67 High Street Colliers Wood, London, SW19 2JF. Time: 7.30pm. Free. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/way-wive-wordz-16931449271

Friday 19 August; London Witches. Walking Tour with Maria Beadell organised by Treadwells. Meet outside Farringdon Tube Station. Time: 8pm start. Tickets: £16.50. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Saturday 20 August; Spirit Portraits with Mediumship. In-person workshop with June-Elleni Laine. Venue: College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 11am - 5pm. Tickets: £110. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 20 August; Crystals for Psychic Self-Defense. Online workshop with Nicholas Pearson via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £80. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 20 August; Goddess Sekhmet Workshop. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Road, London SE9 6SH. Time: 3pm. Tickets: £20. https://www.wiccamoonuk.com/shop/events-and-workshops/goddess-sekhmet-workshop-august-20/

Sunday 21 August; Astral Projection Workshop. Venue: She's Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 11am. Tickets: £48. https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Sunday 21 August; 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 21 August; More Treasures from The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic. Zoom lecture with Simon Costin 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

Note: I am not responsible for any of these events. Although I try to make sure the details on my listing are accurate, I do not always know about late changes or ticket availability etc. Please contact the organiser before attending any event.