The winter solstice is on Saturday 21st December. Here's a list of pagan, witchy and magical events to celebrate the rebirth of the sun and the festive season until early January. 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 away including at Stonehenge.
Now - Friday 20 December. Swedenborg's Lusthus: Objects of Memory and Imagination exhibition. Venue: Swedenborg House, The Swedenborg Society, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH. Time: 10am to 5pm Monday to Friday. Free entry https://www.swedenborg.org.uk/
Wednesday 18 December; Monthly Gathering with Sacred Earth Activism online event. Time: 7pm. Free but donations welcome. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/sacred-earth-activism-32557618093
Wednesday 18 December; Tia Xixa Tarot Cafe. Venue: Ron's Coffee House, Holdrons Arcade, 135a Rye Lane, London SE15 4ST. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £16.96. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/bibis-circle-56277271483
Wednesday 18 December (3rd Wednesday each month); The More Mead Moot. Venue: The Hope pub, Carshalton, Surrey. Time: 7pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/Pagan-FutureFests-352385661439366/
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Wednesday 18 December (meetings postponed for time being but was 3rd Wednesday each month); Witches of Zoom CoA Gathering with House of Kia. Free online event. Time: 7.30pm. https://www.facebook.com/ZoomWitches
Wednesday 18 December; Der Doppelgänger, the Artist and Creative Will. Talk by Dr Vanessa Sinclair on Zoom via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society. Time: 8pm. Tickets · from £6.76. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619
Thursday 19 December (and other dates); Tea with a medium. Venue: The Atlantis Bookshop, 49a Museum Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1A 1LY. Time: 2.30pm Cost £55 https://theatlantisbookshop.com/
Thursday 19 December (and other days and times); The London Witches Bankside Walking Tour. Meet at: Southwark View Point, Minerva Square, London SE1 9DF. Time: 4pm. Tickets: £15.87. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-witches-history-bankside-walking-tour-tickets-945086096957?
Thursday, 19 December; Storytime Collection Launch/Winter Solstice Party. Venue: Enid Street Tavern, 87 Enid Street, London SE16 3RA. Time: 6.30pm Tickets £11.53 preorder including copy of collection, event is free entry on the night. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/storytime-collection-launchwinter-solstice-party-tickets-1079168665529?
Thursday, 19 December; Winter Solstice Live Sound Healing Installation. Venue: Arusha Gallery, 6 Percy Street London W1T 1DQ. Time: 7pm. Tickets £27.80. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/winter-solstice-live-sound-healing-installation-tickets-1099109880239
Thursday 19 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 19 December; PF London Yule 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 19 December; Winter Solstice Drum Circle. Venue: Shamanic Centre Caer Corhrain, Minster, Kent. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets tbc. https://www.facebook.com/shamaniccentrecaercorhrain
Thursday, 19 December (tbc but usually every fortnight); Inquisitive Spirit open circle. Learn Mediumship and Psychic development with a group. Venue: Bretons Manor, 411 Rainham Road, South Hornchurch RM13 7LP. Time: 7.30pm-9.30pm. Cost £10 per session Text 07549 638276 for details.
Friday 20 December (every Friday); Live Chat hosted by Rachel Patterson, author of Gods and Goddesses of England and the Kitchen Witch series of books. Time: 9am. Free. https://www.facebook.com/RachelPattersonbooks/
Friday 20 December (tbc but usually 1st and 3rd Friday each month); The Pagan Portal Podcast by Moon Books. Time: noon (or listen to recording later). Free event. https://open.spotify.com/show/11N4kNj65tTz9NFUcZTMa7?
Friday 20 December (and other dates); New Moon, Full Moon or Divine Union Cacao Ceremony, Heart Ritual and Gong Bath. Venue: Private location near Wandsworth Town/Clapham Junction, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £29.70. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-moonfull-moon-or-divine-union-cacao-ceremony-heart-ritual-gong-bath-tickets-943638406877?
Friday, 20 December; Winter Solstice Ceremony and Shamanic Journey by Indigo Earth. Venue: Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, Southern Grove, London E3 4PX. Time: 7pm. Tickets by donation. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-solstice-ceremony-and-shamanic-journey-by-indigo-earth-tickets-1092639777989?
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Saturday, 21 December; Winter Solstice Cacao Ceremony - Shamanic and Cosmic Journey. Venue: Islington Studios, 159-163 Marlborough Road, London N19 4NF. Time: 9am. Tickets £44.44. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-solstice-cacao-ceremony-shamanic-cosmic-journey-tickets-1099978899499?
Saturday, 21 December; Winter Solstice Celebration all-day Event. Venue: 19 Briset Street London EC1M 5NR. Starts 9.30am. Tickets from £79. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-solstice-celebration-event-tickets-1095075673819?
Saturday, 21 December; Walking in the Footsteps of your Year, at this Yule Solar Festival with Jeremy Rye. Meet London Stone (TBC prior to the walk), 111 Cannon Street London EC4N 5AR. Time: 10am. Tickets: £25. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/jeremy-rye-31055883021
Saturday 21 December; Winter Solstice Sweat Lodge organised by Aho Studio. In-person event. Venue: Berkeley farm, a few miles outside London. Time: 11am - 4pm. Tickets: £90. www.aho.community
Saturday 21 December; Invite the Light to Return - Winter Solstice Celebration with market stalls, Mummer's play, folk session, campfire and mulled cider. Venue: Glengall Wharf Garden, 64 Glengall Road London SE15 6NF. Time: noon. Tickets by donation. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/invite-the-light-to-return-winter-solstice-celebration-tickets-1108461972599?
Saturday, 21 December; Winter Solstice at Coldrum Stones with Kent Gorsed. Venue: Coldrum Long Barrow, West Maling, Kent. Time: noon. Free. https://www.facebook.com/kentgorsedd/
Saturday 21 December; Winter Solstice Tea Party With The Witches Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Road, London, SE9 6SH. Time: noon. Tickets: £25. https://www.wiccamoonuk.com/shop/events-and-workshops/winter-solstice-tea-party-with-the-witches/
Saturday, 21 December (tbc); Watchers of the Old Ways Yule Ceremony. Venue: Avebury Stones, Wiltshire. Time: meet at 1pm for 2pm start. Free public event. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064571657185
Saturday, 21 December; Women's Winter Solstice Healing Ceremony. Venue: Queen's Wood cafe, 42 Muswell Hill Road, London N10 3JP. Time: 2pm. Tickets £38/£42. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-winter-solstice-healing-ceremony-tickets-1107423185559?
Saturday, 21 December; Winter Solstice at Dash The Henge with Cunning Folk. A free ritual to celebrate Winter Solstice. Venue: Dash The Henge Store, 348 Camberwell New Road, London SE5 0RW. Time: 5.30pm. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/winter-solstice-at-dash-the-henge-tickets-1089739804089?
Saturday 21 December; Yule Celebration organised by Aho Studio. In-person event. Venue: Berkeley farm, a few miles outside London. Time: 6pm. Tickets: £20. www.aho.community
Saturday 21 December; Winter Solstice Open Circle organised by More Mead Moot. Venue: The Hope pub, Carshalton, Surrey. Time: 6.30pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/Pagan-FutureFests-352385661439366/
Sunday 22 Dcember (and other times and dates); Soul Restore Sound Healing. Venue: The Mandrake, 20-21 Newman Street, London W1T 1PG. Time: 11am. Tickets: £35. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-mandrake-17825575648
Sunday 22 December; Yule Winter Solstice Ritual with London Woodland Witches and Pagans. Meet at Queen's Wood Road, Highgate, London N6 5UU. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £7. https://www.meetup.com/londonwoodlandwitches/
Sunday 22 December; Winter Solstice online ritual with Crystal Wicca. Time 2pm. Tickets: £25. https://crystalwicca.co.uk/shop-events-1
Sunday 22 December; Anderida Gorsedd Winter Solstice open ritual. Venue: Long Man of Wilmington, Wilmington, near Eastbourne, East Sussex. Meet near the car park between 1.30pm and 2pm, walk up to the chalk hill figure at 2pm. Afterwards, the Giants Rest pub. https://www.facebook.com/groups/227609495203/
Sunday 22 December (tbc but usually on Sundays until 12 January 2025); The Way of Equalia course with Jocelyn Chaplin. Venue: The Serpent Institute, Kentish Town, London NW5 1UE. Time: 3pm-5pm. Each session can be attended on its own for £15, £60 for the whole course. For more details, contact jochaplin@yahoo.com or call
02074850264 https://www.serpentinstitute.com/?
Sunday, 22 December; Winter Solstice: Completion and Creativity Celebration. Venue: House of Transformation, 222 Kingsland Road #Unit 4 London E2 8AX. Time: 4pm. Tickets: £0 – £22.38. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-solstice-completion-and-creativity-celebration-tickets-1079417148749?
Sunday 22 December; Sacred Singing and Ritual for Luna Iter members, 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 later Entry: £10. https://www.hildegardmaier.co.uk/luna-iter or https://www.facebook.com/groups/1230392930656154
Sunday 22 December; Mindfulness Meditation. Venue: Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, 3 Pilgrim's Place, London NW3, 1NG. Time: 6pm. Free, but donations welcome. https://www.rosslynhillchapel.org.uk
Sunday 22 December; Winter Solstice pagan ceremony. Venue: Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, 3 Pilgrim's Place, London NW3, 1NG. Time: 7pm. Free, but donations welcome. https://www.rosslynhillchapel.org.uk
Sunday 22 December; Alchemy and Hermeticism - Leonora Carrington. Talk by Prof Evans Lansing Smith on Zoom via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society. Time: 8pm. Tickets · from £6.76. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619
Monday, 23 December (tbc but usually 4th Monday of the month); Nova Stella pagan moot. Venue: The Angel, City Road, London EC1Y 18D. Time: 7pm start of social for 8pm talk. Entry £4. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1472510443017948
Monday 23 December (tbc but usually every Monday); Tea With a Druid. Free online event by the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. Time 8pm. https://druidry.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/druidry
Saturday 28 December; London Heathen Kindred Blot to Holda. Venue: Greenwich Park, South London. Time: 1pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/1254843478936670/?
Saturday 28 December; New Year Manifestation Ritual. Venue: The Mandrake, 20-21 Newman Street, London W1T 1PG. Time: 4pm. Tickets: £50. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-mandrake-17825575648
Sunday 29 December; Goddesses, Gals and Rat Queens – Walking Tour with Maria Beadell organised by Treadwells. Meet at Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, London SE1 9DA. Time: 10.50am. Tickets: £18.50. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events
Sunday 29 December (last Sunday every 2 months); Hampstead Heath Spiritual Gathering and Walk with Spiritual Creatives. Meet at Hampstead Heath Railway Station, 4 South End Road, · London. Time: 11am. Tickets: Free. https://www.meetup.com/spiritualcreatives/
Sunday 29 December; Women's Parkbathe In South Norwood Lake and Grounds. Venue: South Norwood Lake and Grounds, Sylvan Road, London, SE25 4AN. Time: Noon. Free. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/parkbathe-34393467709
Monday 30 December (every full and new moon); Moon Space online ritual with Tree Carr via She's Lost Control. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15. https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events
Monday 30 December; Seasonal Social for London Fortean Society. Venue: The Cittie of Yorke pub, 22 High Holborn, London WC1V 6BN. Time:8pm. Free. www.facebook.com/LondonForteanSociety
Tuesday 31 December; Peace Fires New Year's Eve Event. Online event or light a candle wherever you are and wish for peace and healling throughout the world. Free. http://peacefires.org/
Friday 3 January (tbc but usually first Friday of the month); Holistic Sound Bath Meditation - Summoning The Sacred. Venue in Crystal Palace, SE London. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £25. https://www.makeitsacred.co.uk/holistic-sound-bath-meditation-summoning-the-sacred?
Saturday 4 January; Breaking the Chains Summit with Spiritual Tiik. Venue: Stanley Arts, 12 South Norwood Hill, London SE25 6AB. Time: 9.30am. Tickets £48.38. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/spiritual-tiik-29294295627
Saturday 4 January (tbc but usually first Saturday each month); Gong Bath. Venue: Upminster Sanctuary Pea Lane, Upminster, RM142XH. Time: 7pm. Tickets: tbc. https://upminstersanctuary.com/
Sunday, 5 January; Twelfth Nigh celebration. Mummers' Play, the Bankside Wassail and more seasonal entertainment with The Lion's Part. Venue: Shakespeare's Globe, Bankside and Borough Market, Southwark, London, SE1 9DT. This is a free event. For details visit https://thelionspart.co.uk/twelfthnight/index.html
Monday 6 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 6 and 13 January; The Suit of Swords in the Tarot: Winter and the Warm Embrace of Death. Start of 2-part class with Laetitia Barbier online via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £85. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/
Monday 6 January; "The Goddess Hecate" by Professor Ronald Hutton. Online talk via The Doreen Valiente Foundation. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets £8.08. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rollright-ritual-reinterpreted-by-doreen-valiente-tickets-1107879199509?
For details of events after 6 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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