Wednesday 20 December 2023

Magickal Events Near London & Online Over Yuletide


The winter solstice is in the early hours of Frdiay, 22 December in 2023. Here's a list of pagan, witchy and magical events to celebrate the rebirth of the sun and the festive season until the new year. I've listed a mixture of online and in-person things to do over Yuletide. Many are in or near London, but some are further affield. 

Now - 31 December;  Documenting British Folklore in Paint, Photography and Sculpture. Exhibition by Ben Edge at The Viktor Wynd Museum of UnNatural History. Venue: 11 Mare Street, London, E8 4RP. https://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/museum/

Now - 22 December; Exhibition - Histories and Hauntings.  Venue: Swedenborg House, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH. Tickets free https://www.swedenborg.org.uk/

Now - Saturday 23 December; Aleister Crowley Beastly Trumps - an art exhibition of the work of RH Stewart. Venue: The Gardner Room at The Atlantis Bookshop, 49A Museum St, London WC1A 1LY. Time: During shop opening hours. Free entry. https://theatlantisbookshop.com/

Now - 25 February; Fantasy: Realms of Imagination. Exhibition at the British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London, NW1 2DB. Adult tickets £16, teenagers £8, under 11 free: https://fantasy.seetickets.com/timeslots/filter/fantasy-realms-of-imagination

Wednesday 20 December (most Wednesdays); Live Chat hosted by Rachel Patterson, author of the Gods and Goddesses of England and the Kitchen Witch series of books. Time: 9am. Free. https://www.facebook.com/RachelPattersonbooks/

Wednesday 20 December; College of Psychic Studies Guided Tour with Curator and Archivist Vivienne Roberts. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £10. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 20 December (usually second Sunday of the month but will be 20 December this month); Luna Iter Ritual. In-person ritual in Hackney, East London for members of the group, guests and seekers on the path. 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. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1230392930656154

Wednesday, 20 December; Winter Solstice Cacao and Blue Lotus Ceremony. Venue: Neals Yard Meeting Rooms, 14b Neal's Yard, London WC2H 9DP. Time: 6.30pm. Price: £65.71. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-solstice-cacao-and-blue-lotus-ceremony-tickets-763891458917?

Wednesday 20 December (every Wednesday); Feeling Sound Bath. Venue: She's Lost Control, 42 Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events


Wednesday 20 December; Cunning Folk Reading Group - Haunters at the Hearth; Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights edited by Tanya Kirk. Online event. Time: 7pm. Price: Free. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cunning-folk-7829505560

Wednesday 20 December; Sacred Earth Activism Monthly Gathering. Free online event. Time: 7pm. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sea-monthly-gathering-tickets-502764932447

Wednesday, 20 December; Winter Solstice Cacao and Drum Circle. Meet at West Hampstead Station, West End Lane, London NW6 2LS. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £35. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-solstice-cacao-and-drum-circle-tickets-759153026137

Wednesday, 20 December; Winter Solstice Sacred Circle. Venue: St Peter in the Forest Church, 18 Woodford New Rd, London E17 3PPTime: 7pm. Tickets: tbc. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-solstice-sacred-circle-tickets-731149928117?

Wednesday 20 December; Monthly Self-Love Circle - Release, Repair and Reclaim. Venue: Fire and Alchemy Spiritual Sanctuary, 52 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3EP. Time: 7.15pm. Tickets: £25. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/fire-alchemy-58665271283

Wednesday 20 December (tbc but usually 3rd Wednesday each month); Witches of Zoom CoA Gathering. Free online event. Time: 7.30pm.  https://www.facebook.com/ZoomWitches

Wednesday 20 December; Chilling ghost stories of the Scandinavian countries with Lena Heide-Brennand on Zoom through The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society. Time: 9pm. Tickets · from £5.49. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Wednesday 20 December; Solstice Eve Online Celebration with Cunning Folk. Time: 11pm. Free. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cunning-folk-7829505560

Thursday 21 December; Avebury Winter Solstice Meditation at the Stones. Venue: Avebury, Wiltshire. Free. Time: 3.30pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/658808636278330/

Thursday 21 December; Poetry Evening. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Rd, London · NW1 6XT, Time: 7pm. Tickets Free https://www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiner-spiritual-science/events/

Thursday 21 December (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 https://assap.ac.uk/

Thursday 21 December; Winter Solstice Ceremony. Venue: She's Lost Control, 42 Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £25.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Thursday 21 December; Winter Solstice Cyber Circle online via She's Lost Control. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Thursday 21 December; PF London Winter Solstice Open Ritual via Pagan Federation London. Venue: Pirate Castle, Gilbey's Wharf Oval Road NW1 7EA London, UK Time: 7.20pm. Entry £8 for PF members, £10 for non-members (cash only). https://www.facebook.com/PaganFederationLondon

Thursday 21 December; (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/

Thursday 21 - Friday 22 December;  The Winter Solstice will stream live again this year from inside the passage tomb at Newgrange, Ireland from 8.30pm. https://heritageireland.ie/winter-solstice/

Friday 22 December; Winter Solstice 2023 Stonehenge Sunrise. Managed Open Access to the Stonehenge stone circle, Salisbury. Car park open from 5.15am (charged); free access to the monument at 7.45am. You can also watch the event via live online streaming by English Heritage. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/things-to-do/solstice/winter-solstice-2023/

Friday 22 December; Winter Solstice Circle. Venue: The Magick Room, Richmond Road, London Fields, Hackney E8 3NJ. Time: 6.30pm. Tickets: £34.97. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-solstice-circle-tickets-765697631227?

Friday 22 December; Journey Through Winter Solstice - A Shamanic Healing Journey. Venue: Fire and Alchemy Spiritual Sanctuary, 52 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3EP. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £35. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/fire-alchemy-58665271283

Friday 22 December; Strumpets and Harlots Festive Special Walking Tour with Maria Beadell's organised by Treadwell's Bookshop. Meet at Covent Garden tube Station, Long Acre, London WC2E 9JT. Time: 8pm. Tickets: £18.50. https://www.treadwells-london.com/

Saturday, 23 December; Winter Solstice Celebration - Return of the Light. Venue: Brixton Studios (Market Row), 408 Coldharbour Lane, London SW9 8LF. Time: noon. Tickets by donation. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-solstice-celebration-return-of-the-light-tickets-769802007527?

Saturday, 23 December;  A Blot for Holda. A meeting of Druid, Heathen and Pagan groups and solitaries for a winter ceremony to honour the Goddess Holda. Venue: Greenwich Park, Greenwich, South · London. Time: 1pm. Free but bring offerings for Holda and food and drink. https://www.meetup.com/The-Kith-of-The-Tree-and-The-Well/events/296794176/

Saturday, 23 December; Lilith Dorsey Lunchtime Book Signing. Pop in for a free Yuletide drink and hello, to meet African Traditional Religions advocate practitioner Lilith. Venue: Treadwell's Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London, WC1E 7BS. Time: 1pm. Tickets free.  https://www.treadwells-london.com/ or reserve a place by visiting the shop.

Saturday, 23 December (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, just turn up or attend online via Zoom  Meeting ID: 856 2417 8240, Passcode 377295  http://crossbones.org.uk

Sunday 24 December; Pagan Yule Celebration. Venue: Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, 3 Pilgrim's Place, London NW3 1NG. Time: 11am. Free, just turn up. https://www.rosslynhillchapel.org.uk

Monday 25 December; Full Moon Peace Fires. Light a candle or fire for peace wherever you are in the world, for 10 minutes or longer and state the intention: “Let there be peace on earth and love for one another.” Free.  http://peacefires.org/

Wednesday 27 December; Thames Full Moon Ceremony 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/events/

Wednesday 27 December; Moon Space Online Moon Coven with She's Lost Control. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Wednesday 27 December (every Wednesday); Feeling Sound Bath. Venue: She's Lost Control, 42 Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Thursday 28 December; Antone Minard on The Mari Lwyd: Death, Beer, and Poetry in Victorian Wales on Zoom through The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society. Time: 8pm. Tickets · from £6.72. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Friday 29 December (and other dates); Witches and Witchcraft History - Pay What You Can Walking Tour by Wonders of London. Meet outside the exit of Tower Hill Station by Trinity Square Gardens, Tower Hill Station, London EC3N 1JL. Time: 6pm  Tickets by donation https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/witches-witchcraft-history-pay-what-you-can-walking-tour-london-tickets-687827950917?

Friday 29 December; Yule Special London Witches Walking Tour with Maria Beadell's organised by Treadwell's Bookshop. Meet outside Farringdon tube Station, London EC1M 6BY. Time: 8pm. Tickets: £18.50. https://www.treadwells-london.com/

Saturday 30 December; Online book launch - Practical Candle Magic - by author, Rachel Patterson. Time: 7pm. Free. Streaming live to https://www.youtube.com/c/RachelPattersonwitchauthor

Sunday 31 December; New Year Manifestation Ceremony. Venue: The Mandrake, 20-21 Newman Street, London W1T 1PG. Time: 11am. Tickets: £40. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-mandrake-17825575648

Sunday  31 December; New Year's Eve Global Healing with Peace Fires. Online event or light a candle wherev er you are and wish for peace and healling throughout the world. Free.  http://peacefires.org/

Monday 1 January; Taking Nature's Hand: January. What has nature in mind for you this month? Online event with Jeremy Rye.  Time: 7pm. Tickets: £20. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/jeremy-rye-31055883021#

Monday 1 January; Candlelit New Year's Day Gong Bath Sound Meditation. Venue: Soma Space, 3 Honor Oak Park London SE23 1DX. Time: 8pm. Tickets: £25. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/theresa-royle-18442369190

For details of events after 1 January 2024 please visit my events page.

Notes: I'm not responsible for the content of these events. I don't always know about changes or cancellations to events I don't run - tbc means to be confirmed. Contact event organisers directly with questions but please let me know if you are aware of something that needs correcting, via badwitch1234@gmail.com . Where a practitioner is offering information about magical wellbeing and healing, this is *not* medical advice. The picture at the top is from Dicken's A Christmas Carol.

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