Magical Online & London Events in the Next Weeks

Here's a list of events for pagans, witches and those with similar interests. I include online things you can do anywhere (bolded so you can see them easily) plus in-person talks and workshops in or near London, and some festivals further afield.

Now - 25 May; Hawaiʻi - a Kingdom Crossing Oceans exhibition. Venue: British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Adult tickets £18. https://www.britishmuseum.org/

Now - 5 June; The Everyworld Redux exhibition. Venue: Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH. Time: 10.30am To 5pm, Monday To Friday With Saturday Openings. Tickets free. https://www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/the-everyworld-redux/

Now to 2 May; Conspiracies exhibition. Venue: Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB. 11am to 6pm. Free entry. https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/conspiracies

Now to end of May; Dark Secrets: The Esoteric Exhibition. Venue: The Vaults, Leake Street, SE1 7NN. Open Wednesdays to Sundays. Tickets from £21. https://darksecretsexhibition.com/london/

Now – 29 November; The Coming of Age Exhibition - including displays on witches and crones. Venue: Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. Open daily 10am-6pm.  Free. https://wellcomecollection.org/

Now to 16 May; Broken, Burnt, Buried. Exhibition of Egyptians objects deliberately broken as part of ritual and religious practices. Venue: Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology, Malet Place, London WC1E 6BT. Free. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/

Now – 16 May; Witch/Craft. Art and Photography exhibition by Anne Jackson’s and Sara Hannant. Venue: St Barbe Museum, New Street, Lymington, Hampshire, SO41 9BH. Open Monday – Saturday 10am-4pm. Adult tickets £6. https://www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/witch-craft/?

Now – 13 September; The Material Heart: Front Line to Home Front. Exhibition of WWI folk art. Venue: Fashion and Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3XF.  Open: Tuesdays – Saturdays, 11am – 6pm. Tickets free with general museum admission ticket or a ticket to the Paint, Pattern, Print exhibition that's also on, costing £11.50. https://fashiontextilemuseum.org/

Now on; Vikings: The Immersive Experience. Venue: Dock X, Unit 1 Canada Water, Surrey Quays Rd, London SE16 2XU.  Opening hours: daily from 9am. Adult tickets from £23 and children from £16. https://vikings-immersive.co.uk/london/?

Now - 1 November; Exhibition: The Saxons. Venue: Discover Bucks Museum, 9 Church Street, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP20 2QP. Time: Monday – Saturday 10am – 4pm. Sunday noon – 4pm. Adult tickets from from £5.90. https://discoverbucksmuseum.digitickets.co.uk/tickets

Every Tuesday to Sunday except over bank holidays; College of Psychic Studies -  pop in to have a look around the lovely building.  Venue: College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 11am-4pm. Free entry. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk

 https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Most lunchtimes and some other times: Meditation - in-person or online. In-person venue: Inner Space, 36 Shorts Gardens, Covent Garden, London · WC2H 9AB. Time: 1pm (for lunchtime meditation). Free. https://www.meetup.com/inner-space-covent-garden/events/

Every lunchtime: Rainbow Spirit offers a shared vegetarian lunch from a flat in Soho, London, for all people LGBT+Allies. The foundation is British witchcraft. Each meal is followed by Ancestor Circle, passing the talking stick. Alcohol-free event. To attend join the Whatsapp chat group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LhDxaCzGsmE2YI6AReyw3W

or email: rainbowawakening1@gmail.com

Various dates; London Witches and Chilling History Bankside Walking Tour. Meet at Southwark View Point, Minerva Square, London, SE1 9DF. Times various. Tickets around £15. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/enthral-experiences-58960674733

Wednesday 6 May; Self-Healing: Chakra by Chakra. Start of 8-session course run by Julia Shepherd, via the College of Psychic Studies. Online event. Time: 10am. Tickets: £255. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 6 May (and other dates); Tea with a Medium. Venue: The Atlantis Bookshop, 49a Museum Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1A 1LY. Time: 2.30pm  Cost £60 https://theatlantisbookshop.com/

Wednesday 6 May; Dionysus: Lord of Misrule. Hybrid talk by Professor Ronald Hutton, author of Triumph of the Moon and Blood and Mistletoe, via Gresham College. In-person venue Gresham College, Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, London EC1N 2HH. Time: 6pm. Free to register for online viewing. https://www.gresham.ac.uk/

Wednesday 6 May; Isis, Mithras and Christ: iconography and mythology. Start of 10 session course with Micheal Bloomfield. Venue: City Lit, Keely St, London. Time 6pm. Fee £210.  https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/isis-mithras-and-christ-iconography-and-mythology/rc221-2526?

Wednesday 6 May (and other dates and times); Viktor Wynd Museum Guided Tour and a Devil's Botany Absinthe. Venue: Viktor Wynd's Museum of Curiosities, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP. Time: from 6pm. Tickets from £12. Price includes a Cocktail with Devil’s Botany. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-last-tuesday-society-viktor-wynd-museum-33776720489

Wednesday 6 May (usually first Wednesday of the month); Drumming and Meditation online with Taz Thornton. Time: 7pm. Free  https://www.facebook.com/TazThorntonOfficial

Wednesday 6 May;  Amanda Edmiston Traveller's Tales and Healing Herbs. Online talk via the Folklore Centre. Time: 7pm. Tickets £5. https://www.folkloremythmagic.com/

Wednesday 6 May; The Queer History of Magic, Myth and Legends, with Seed Talks. Venue: The Blues Kitchen, Brixton, London. Time: 7 PM. Tickets From £13.50. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/36463428713?

Wednesday 6 May (most Wednesdays); Gong Bath. Venue:  Akasa, 5a Prince Edward Rd, Hackney Wick,  London E9 5LX. Time: 7pm. Tickets:  from £23.46. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/sunita-kaur-34415293427

Wednesday 6 May; Beyond Nine Forests: Tales of Hidden Bulgaria concert and book launch. Venue: Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London, NW1 7AY. Time: 7.30pm Tickets £15. https://www.efdss.org/

Wednesday 6 May (every Wednesday); Feeling Sound. Venue: She's Lost Control, 42 Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £18.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Wednesday 6 May;  Annouchka Bayley’s Elizabeth Bathory. Talk online via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society.  Time: 8pm. Tickets ·from  £3.35. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Thursday 7 May - Saturday 30 May (except Wed 20 May);  Austin Osman Spare and his books exhibition. Venue: The Atlantis Bookshop, 49a Museum Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1A 1LY. 

Open: Mon-Sat, 11am~6pm. Free entry. www.theatlantisbookshop.com

​Thursday 7 May (most Thursdays); Shamanic Dance with Luisa Passalacqua. Venue near Wandsworth Town Station, London. Time: 11am. Tickets donations (or free) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/luisa-passalacqua-16972493584?

​Thursday 7 May (every Thursday); Midweek Meditation with the College of Psychic Studies. Online event. Time: 3pm. Tickets: free for members/£7.50 non members. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk

​Thursday 7 May; Thai Tattoo Magick: The Initiatory Practices of Thai Buddhist Magicians, with Sheer Zed. Talk and signing, Venue: Watkins Bookshop, 19-21 Cecil Ct, London WC2N 4EZ. Time: 5pm. Free but reserve a place https://www.watkinsbooks.com/events

Thursday 7 May; Hoax: A Ghost, a Witch, and a Princess in the Age of Enlightenment. Talk at London Fortean Society. Venue: Conway Hall, London, WC1X 8. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15. https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/

Thursday 7 May; Aleister Crowley and Frieda Harris's Thoth Tarot. Event with Kingfisher Coven. Venue:  Lost Souls Pizza Camden, 245 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1BA.  Time: 7pm. Tickets: £6.13 https://www.eventbrite.com/o/keith-broad-kingfisher-coven-88810783003

Thursday 7 May; May Day Seasonal Living Craft Workshop (Beltane) by Jana Des Forges. Venue: Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton Street, London N1 6SH. Time: 7.15 PM. Tickets:  £18.04. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/105547489551?

Thursday 7 May; On the Nature of Rituals and Repetition with Inna Didenko. Talk online via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society.  Time: 8pm. Tickets ·from  £3.35. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Friday 8 May (and other dates); Drum Birthing Workshop with Lynn Gosney. Venue: Shamanic Centre Caer Corhrain, Minster, Kent. Starts 8.45am. Tickets £225/£250. https://www.facebook.com/shamaniccentrecaercorhrain

Friday 8 May (every Friday); Live Chat hosted by Rachel Patterson, author of Gods and Goddesses of England and the Kitchen Witch series of books. Online event. Time: 9am. Free. https://www.facebook.com/RachelPattersonbooks/

Friday 8 May; Water by Jalal Ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, with Haleh Liza Gafori. Online event via Watkins Bookshop. Time: 5pm. Free but reserve a place https://www.watkinsbooks.com/events

Friday 8 May; Travel with the Sacred Drum with Heather McDonald. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time 6.30pm. Tickets: £45. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Friday 8 May; Welcome Women's Circle. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House | 35 Park Road, London, NW1 6XT. Time: 7pm - 9pm. Tickets: optional donation of £5 - £15. https://rsh.anth.org.uk/whats-on/

Friday 8 May (and other dates); Cosy Candlelit Gong Bath by Claire The Soul Nurturer. Venue: Secret Soul Sanctuary, Sydenham Hill, London SE23 3PH. Time: 7.45pm. Tickets: £20.21. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/claire-the-soul-nurturer-35479207053

Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 May; Experience Braco's Gaze: Small Intimate Sessions. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Various times from 10am. Tickets: from £30. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 9 May; The Soul (Esoteric) Planetary Rulerships . Talk by Wanda Sellar. Online talks via the Astrological Lodge of London. Times 10.30am. Tickets £9/£6. https://astrolodge.co.uk/

Saturday 9 May; Greco-Egyptian Magic with Hekate. In-Person Workshop with Jules McArthur.  Venue: Treadwell's Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London, WC1E 7BS. Time: 1pm. Tickets: £50. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Saturday 9 May; Crystal Divination workshop with Nicholas Pearson, via the College of Psychic Studies. Online event. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £95. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 9 May; Grandfather Night time Ceremony with Renato Guerrero. Venue: Berkeley farm, a few miles outside London. Time: 4pm-8am. Tickets:  contact Renato for further details on Bookingssonidosmedicina@gmail.com. https://www.aho.community/

Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 May; Knights Templar Symbolism and Alchemy. Two-day workshop with Helena B. Scott via the College of Psychic Studies. Online event. Time: 4.30pm. Tickets: £240. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Sunday 10 May;  Group Family Constellation Workshop  by Avideya. Venue: House of Transformation, Hoxton, Unit 4, 222 Kingsland Road, E2 8AX. Time:  from 10am to 5pm.  Tickets £75.47. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/avideya-30020254011

Sunday 10 May;  British Museum and the Magical Revival Walking Tour with Caroline Wise organised by Treadwell's. Time: 10.50am. Meet outside the British Museum (North Entrance), Montague Place, London, WC1B 3DG. Tickets: £50. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Sunday 10 May; Mixed Adult Forest Bathing in South Norwood Lake and Grounds. Meet at Sylvan Road, London SE25 4AN. Time: 11am. Free. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/parkbathe-34393467709

Sunday 10 May; Broom Day 2026, a celebration of community and local history. Venue: The Glades, High Street, Bromley BR1 1DN. Time: from 11am to 4pm. Free but donations to charity welcome. https://www.theglades.co.uk/events/broom-day-2026-at-the-glades?

Sunday 10 May (and other dates and times); Soul Restore Sound Healing. Venue: The Mandrake, 20-21 Newman Street, London W1T 1PG. Time: 11am. Tickets: £30. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-mandrake-17825575648

Sunday 10 May; Orpington Alternative Market. Venue: The Priory, Church Hill, Orpington. Time: 11am. Free entry. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1335736923852705/

Sunday 10 May; Crystals workshop at North West Kent Pagans Moot. Organised by NWK Pagans for members of the group. Venue: Chislehurst Caves, NW Kent. Time: 11.30am. https://www.facebook.com/groups/445487428816887

Sunday 10 May; Navigating End-of-Life Care. Workshop with Tree Carr. Online event. Time: 1pm. Tickets: £95. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Sunday 10 May; May Luna Iter - Beltane with a Difference (Ritual in the Tower). 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: £10. https://www.hildegardmaier.co.uk/luna-iter or https://www.facebook.com/groups/1230392930656154 

Sunday 10 May; Fallen Angels: 12th House in Astrology. Class with Carmen Turner-Schott. Online event. Time: 6pm. Tickets: £90. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Sunday 10 May; Sound Bath Meditation. Venue: Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, 3 Pilgrim's Place, London NW3 1NG. Time: 7pm. Free, but donations welcome. https://www.rosslynhillchapel.org.uk

Sunday 10 May; Book Curses through Book History - Dr Eleanor Baker. Talk online via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society.  Time: 8pm. Tickets ·from  £3.35. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Monday 11 May;  Ascending with Angels workshop Led by David Goddard. Venue: The Atlantis Bookshop, 49a Museum Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1A 1LY. Time: 6.30pm  Cost £40 https://theatlantisbookshop.com/

Monday 11 May; Undertakers and Death. Talk by  Dr Dan O’Brien. Venue: Viktor Wynd's Museum of Curiosities, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP. Time: 6.30pm. Tickets  from £10.90, includes a cocktail. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-last-tuesday-society-viktor-wynd-museum-33776720489

Monday 11 May; Chart Discussion followed by talk on  Rectification of the Horoscope with Primary Directions by  Alexey Borealis. Online talks via the Astrological Lodge of London. Starts 7.15pm. Tickets £6/£9. https://astrolodge.co.uk/

Monday 11 May; Cleansing Your Space and Aura. Start of 2-session course run by Tia Price, via the College of Psychic Studies. Online event. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £90. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Monday 11 May (usually a Monday early in the month); South East London Pagans Moot. Venue: The Ivy House, 55 Stuart Road, London, SE15 3BE. Time: 7.30pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/groups/7046502195365834

Monday 11 May; Horror Everything: 2016 – Forever. Talk by Dr Joe Ondrak at Greenwich Skeptics. Venue: The Plume of Feathers, 19 Park Vista, Greenwich, SE10 9LZ. Time: 7.30pm. Ssuggested donation: £4. https://greenwichskeptics.org/

Monday 11 May (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

Monday 11 May; How Chemistry Shaped Alchemical Allegory - Sergei Zotov. Talk online via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society.  Time: 8pm. Tickets ·from  £3.35. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Monday 11 May; Implicit Psi with Deborah Patton. Online  presentation hosted by the Society for Psychical Research via Zoom. Time: 8pm. Tickets: Free for members/£5 non members. https://www.spr.ac.uk/

Tuesday 12 May (and other dates);  Journalling and Creative Writing for Wellbeing. Online via Rest Less Events. Time: 2.30pm. Tickets £3.99 per class. https://events.restless.co.uk/event-calendar/

Tuesday 12 May (and other dates); Yoga for Mind, Breath and Body. Venue: Beckenham Place Mansion, Place Park, The Mansion, Beckenham BR3 1SY. Time: 6.15pm. Tickets: £12. https://www.beckenhamplace.org/whatson/

Tuesday 12 May; An Evening of Fairy Tales and Folklore with Dr Sharon Blackie hybrid event with Seed Talks. In-person venue: Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY. Time: 7pm. Tickets From £13.50. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/36463428713?

Tuesday 12 May; Develop the Intuitive Mind: Beginner. Start of 6-session course run by Maria Antoniou, via the College of Psychic Studies. Online event. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £200. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Tuesday 12 May; Strange Tales from the Seance Room with Dr Kate Cherrell. Talk online via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society.  Time: 8pm. Tickets ·from  £3.35. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Wednesday 13 May; I'll be talking about my writing, including my inspiration for my gothic novel Erosion, at Wednesday Waffle, a regular meeting to chat about books and writing. Venue: Beckenham Library,  22 Beckenham Road, Beckenham, BR3 4 PE. Time: 10am-11.30am. Free but reserve a place by phoning 020 8650 7090 or email beckenham.library@gll.org.

Wednesday 13 May; Under the Same Moon - Pocket Altar, organised by Bibi's Circle. Venue: Rons Coffee House, Holdrons Arcade 135a, Rye Lane London SE15 4ST. Time: 5.30pm. Tickets tbc https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/56277271483?

Wednesday 13 May (tbc but usually 2nd Wed each month); Training group workshop by the Wytchery. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store St, London WC1E 7BS, UK. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £10. https://www.meetup.com/the-wytchery/

Wednesday 13 May; Magic Mirrors for Protection. Class with Hannah Sanders via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm start, delayed viewing available. Tickets: £15. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events 

Wednesday 13 May (tbc but usually 2nd Wed each month);  Enfield Town Circle Moot. Venue: Crown and Horsehoes, Horseshoe Lane, Enfield, EN2 6PZ.  Time: 7pm. https://www.facebook.com/groups/EnfieldTownCircle/

Wednesday 13 May; Foraging for Healing Herbs with Adele Nozedar. Talk and signing, Venue: Watkins Bookshop, 19-21 Cecil Ct, London WC2N 4EZ. Time: 5pm. Free but reserve a place https://www.watkinsbooks.com/events

Wednesday 13 May; The Power of Psychic Reiki. Start of 6-session course run by Nicholas Pearson, via the College of Psychic Studies. Online event. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £200. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 13 May; Hand Reading for Beginners. Start of 10-session course run by Robin Lown, via the College of Psychic Studies. Online event. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £280. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 13 May; The Ancient Alchemical Process and How To Use This To Higher Your Vibration. Start of 6-session course run by Pixie P Carney, via the College of Psychic Studies. Online event. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £200. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 13 May; Exploring the Dream Realms. Start of 10-session course run by Tree Carr, via the College of Psychic Studies. Online event. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £280. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Thursday 14 May; Magick Without Tears Moot. Venue: Fitzroy Tavern, 16 Charlotte St., London W1T 2LY. Time 6pm. https://www.facebook.com/groups/mwtpubmoot

Thursday 14 May; Navigating States of Dazzling Darkness. Talk online via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society.  Time: 6pm. Tickets ·from  £3.35. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Thursday 14 May; Heartspaces - Heart and Soul spiritual gathering. Venue: Essex Hall, Essex Street, London WC2R 3HY. Doors at 6.30PM. Free. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/121061473538?

Thursday 14 May; Brigit: Goddess, Saint and Fairy Woman. Talk by Pauline Breen, via the College of Psychic Studies. Online event. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £22. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Thursday 14 May; Journey Through The Dreamiverse. Start of 10-session course run by Tree Carr, via the College of Psychic Studies. Online event. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £305. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Thursday 14 May; Wyrd Stuff. Talk by Cunning Folk at South East London Folklore Society. Venue: The Electric Elephant Cafe, 186A Crampton Street, London, SE17 3AE. Time: 8pm, Free but £5/£8 donations welcome.  Email cunningfolkmusic@gmail.com to book a space or visit  https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cunning-folk-7829505560

Friday 15 May; UCL Special Collections Open Morning: Magic and Western Esotericism. Venue: UCL Special Collections, South Junction Reading Room, Basement Level Main Building, Gower Street, 

London WC1E 6BT. Time: 10 am to noon. Tickets free. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-special-collections-open-morning-magic-and-western-esotericism-tickets-1986427018686?

Friday 15 May; Alchemy and Art with Kate Southworth. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time 11am. Tickets: £130.  https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Friday 15 May (1st and 3rd Friday each month); Pagan Portal Podcast by Moon Books. Time: noon (or listen to recording later). Free event. https://open.spotify.com/show/11N4kNj65tTz9NFUcZTMa7?

Friday 15 May; Le Calendrier Magique. Talk by Laetitia Barbier. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time 7pm. Tickets: £25. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Friday 15 May; Tarot Advanced. Start of 10-session course run by Avril Price, via the College of Psychic Studies. Online event. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £305. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Friday 15 May;  Way of the Witch monthly online circle with Samantha K. and Jacqui C. Time: 8pm. Tickets: £10. https://www.meetup.com/sammi-k-shamanic-practitioner-psychic-medium/events/

Saturday 16 May; The Merrie Merrie Month of May at the VWML - Library and archive day. Venue: Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London, NW1 7AY. Time: 1pm - 5pm free entry. https://www.efdss.org/

Saturday 16 May; Breaking Convention One Day Summit 2026, organised by  Seed Talks. Hybrid event. In-perosn venue: Woolwich Works, 11 No 1 Street, London SE18 6HD. Starts 10am. Tickets: £29 - £207.67. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/36463428713?

Saturday 16 May; Brothers Fireside Gathering. Venue: Berkeley farm, a few miles outside London. Time: noon. Tickets:  free. https://www.aho.community/

Saturday 16 May;  In-person Scrying workshop - divination using crystal balls, mirrors and water, with me - Lucya Starza. Venue: Treadwell's Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London, WC1E 7BS. Time: 1pm. Cost: £25 per person. Find out more or book tickets here:  https://www.treadwells-london.com/events-1/the-art-of-scrying-in-person-workshop-6

Saturday 16 May; Soul-Loss Retrieval Ceremony with Pixie P Carney. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time 1pm. Tickets: £95. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 16 May; Moon Magic Circle. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Road, Eltham SE9. Time: 2pm. Tickets free. https://www.wiccamooninherservice.co.uk/ or https://www.facebook.com/wiccamoonuk/

Saturday 16 May; Antlered Goddesses: A Challenge to Tradition? Online talk with Anna Milon via Romancing the Gothic . Time 7pm. Tickets free or by donation. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/antlered-goddesses-a-challenge-to-tradition-with-anna-milon-tickets-1983270165453?

Saturday 16 May; Tree Folk Tales. Online event via the Folklore Library and Archive. Time: 8pm. Tickets:  £6.13. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-folklore-library-archive-68703440013?

Saturday 16 May (every full and new moon); Moon Space online event via She's Lost Control. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Saturday 16 May;  Hex and the City Walking Tour with  Maria Beadell of Herstorical Tours. Meet: Cowcross St, Farrringdon, London EC1M 6BY. Time: 8pm. Tickets: £25. https://www.herstoricaltours.co.uk/

Sunday 17 May; Live from Norway: Celebrate the 17th of May! Live Stream with Lena online via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society.  Time: 9am. Tickets ·from  £3.35. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Sunday 17 May; Tarot and the Sacred Circle with Avril Price. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time 11am. Tickets: £130. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Sunday 17 May; The Soul Sings with Joan Osborne. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time 11am. Tickets: £130. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Sunday 17 May; Meditation for Magic. In-person workshop with Lucia Ring-Watkins. Venue: Treadwell's Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London, WC1E 7BS. Time: 1pm. Cost: £25 per person. Find out more or book tickets here:  https://www.treadwells-london.com/events-1/the-art-of-scrying-in-person-workshop-6

Sunday 17 May;  Dawn of the Oak Pagan moot. Venue: The Sir John Oldcastle, Farringdon Road/Greville Street, London EC1M 3JF. Time: 3pm. https://www.facebook.com/groups/dawnoftheoak/ or  https://allevents.in/london/dawn-of-the-oak-london-pagan-and-heathen-meeting-15th-february-2026-tickets/80001854227648

Sunday 17 May; Witch Fulfilment: The Witch as Theatrical Type with Jane Barnette Talk online via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society.  Time: 8pm. Tickets ·from  £3.35. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

For activities after these dates please visit my events page. 

Please note that I am not responsible for the content of any of these events. Contact organisers directly if you have questions or to check ticket availability. Where a practitioner is offering information about magical healing, this is *not* medical advice. If you're running an event you want included, please email me at badwitch1234@gmail.com I earn commission from advertisers for some links.

Occult London: The Labyrinth at Fen Court

This is the labyrinth at Fen Court, in the City of London, which I walked for World Labyrinth Day on Saturday. You can, of course, visit at any time you like as it's in a tiny public garden off Fenchurch Street. I'd been feeling stressed in the morning before I visited, but walking the labyrinth as a moving meditation very much helped improve my state of mind.

The lovely couple in the background gave their permssion for me to take the photo with them in the background. They both walked the labyrinth after me.

Fen Court also contains a sculpture called The Gilt of Cain', by Michael Visocchi, which commemorates the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Nearby is The Garden at 120 - a recently opened rooftop green space with a viewing platform. It's normally free to visit and you can just turn up, but was closed for a private event on Saturday. I plan to go another time.

Aldgate East Station labyrinth

I used Aldgate East Station to get to Fenchurch Street and took the opportunity to find and photograph the labyrinth there too. It's part of a series created by Mark Wallinger for the Art on the Underground programme. There are  270 in the series with one at each of London's Underground stations that existed in 2013.  You can see it in the photo below. 

Other previous related posts
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2023/03/occult-london-maze-and-labyrinths-in.html
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/10/book-review-labyrinth-walking-radiant.html
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2026/04/occult-london-atlantis-bookshop.html
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2023/05/occult-london-sir-john-soanes-museum.html
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2017/07/occult-london-london-stone-myths-and.html
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/01/review-occult-london.html

Occult London: A Path to Follow on World Labyrinth Day

Today is World Labyrinth Day, when everyone is invited to walk a labyrinth at 1pm local time. As the WLD website says, this is "to help create a rolling wave of peaceful energy passing from one time zone to the next around the globe."

You don't have to walk it with your feet - you can follow a small path with a finger or just your eyes if it's public art on a wall! 

The photo above shows a labyrinth at London's Cannon Street Station. It is part of a series created by Mark Wallinger for the Art on the Underground programme. There are, according to TfL, 270 different labyrinths designed by Mark, with one at each of London's Underground stations that existed in 2013. 

A Guinness World Record Tube challenge is to visit them all in the shortest time. I've not done that, but I do look out for them when I use a station that isn't a part of any of my regular journeys. 

Today I am planning to find more labyrinths in London, and walk one I've not visited before. I'll share photos at a later date.  I've been fascinated by labyrinths for many years. I've walked them when I get the opportunity, I've read about them, visited them, written about them, and drawn them on paper. Here are links to some of my earlier posts:

• Walking the Labyrinth at Julian's Bower
• Book Review: Labyrinth - Walking the Radiant Path
• Occult London: Maze and Labyrinths in Underground Art
  
• Mansion House Station
  
• Bermondsey and Southwark
• Into the Labyrinth: The Knossos Exhibition's First Room
• Review: Ariadne's Thread - Ancient Minoan Rites

World Labyrinth Day is a modern-day custom, but walking labyrinths is such a widespread folkloric custom in general that I've given this post a "folklore" tag too.

Green London: Beltane Flowers on the Street Where I Live

Today is Beltane, or May Day, a time to celebrate flowers (as well as frolicking). But, of course, it's also Friday and the bank holiday isn't until Monday. Even if you're working today, take a break and go for a walk to see what's blooming. Just looking at trees, plants and blossom can lift your mood and help you feel in touch with the energy of the season.

I took the photos in the collage above in the streets around where I live in South East London. Most were growing wild on verges. I've been blogging regularly about London's green spaces in an effort to dispel a prevalent myth in the pagan community that it's just all concrete. Even in the City, which is of course heavily built up, there are still places where nature thrives, while Greater London has huge areas of woods, commons, parks and beautiful gardens. 

You don't need to know the names of plants in order to enjoy their beauty, but here's what I think are in the pictures:

• Calendula
• Rose
• Wild cabbage
• Hawthorn
• Pink sorel
• Lilac
• Three-cornered leek

I did a very similar thing back in March, and you can see that post here, to compare: https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2026/03/green-london-flowers-on-street-where-i.html

The photos on this post were all taken by me. Please do not use them without my permission.

Other previous Green London Posts
badwitch.co.uk/2026/02/green-london-urban-park-and-ancient.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2025/03/green-london-londons-first-botanical.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2025/03/green-london-japanese-gardens-in.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2023/09/green-london-riverview-walk-river-pool.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2023/10/green-london-ancient-woodlands-around.html
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2025/04/green-london-rookery-streatham-common.html

Folklore & Customs: May Eve, Walpurgis & Mischief Night

May Eve is sometimes called "the other Halloween". In Northern England in bygone centuries it was celebrated as Mischief Night with rowdiness and trickery. Steve Roud in The English Year quotes an 1896 book on customs as reporting:

"At Oldham, the Eve of May is known as Mischief Night when it was custom for people to play tricks on their neighbours. My informant remembers seeing a thatched house, in a village near Oldham, adorned with mops, rakes and brushes, on top of whcih were stuck mugs, tubs, and pails."

An article on Grimsby Live went further, saying it was a night for firestarting and lighthearted devil-worship:

"Around Grimsby it was the original ‘Mischief Night’, when the normal rules of society did not apply and friends would get together to play pranks, start fires or hold ‘Satanic’ rituals."

While human troublemakers were obviously a nuisance, supernatural ones such as fairies were more generally feared in the UK. They were more easily kept out, however, by placing seasonal flowers over doorways. Hawthorn blossom (pictured above) is the most widespread floral protection, but in Lincolnshire there was a tradition of hanging up cowslips (pictured right), which look a bit like primroses. 

Walpurgis Night

April 30th is also Walpurgis Night, named after Saint Walpurgis, an 8th century nun who lived in Germany and was canonised when healing oil supposedly flowed from her tomb. Sadly, she beecame more associated with protection against - and persecution of - witches. As I wrote in Rounding the Wheel of the Year:

"In parts of Europe, especially Germany but also England, it’s known as Walpurgis Night when witches were thought to gather and were historically seen as not the nice folk we are now. People would protect their homes against them."

It's a traditional time to light bonfires to ward against harmful entities. Fire customs might have originated long before the early modern era's witch burnings.* In some countries that horrible form of execution became part of seasonal celebrations. In the Czech Republic, April 30th is Pálení čarodějnic, or "Burning of the witches". Witch effigies or puppets are thrown onto large bonfires as part of public displays. 

May Eve witchcraft traditions are most famously associated with Germany's Walpurgisnacht or Hexennacht, which translates as Witches' Night. Witches were said to hold a large sabbat on the Brocken, the highest peak in the Harz mountains. Nowadays this has been adopted as a time of celebration by modern practitioners of the Craft, showing that the way we view folklore and customs can change with the times.

*Note: It's always worthwhile pointing out that not all countries burnt those accused of witchcraft. In England hanging was the usual execution method, but burnings did happen in places including Scotland, Germany, and Switzerland.

The Wheel of the Year

My Pagan Portals book Rounding the Wheel of the Year offers more ways to acknowledge and celebrate the seasons in ritual, magic, folklore and nature. You can view Rounding the Wheel of the Year on Amazon, find it at esoteric bookshops or via my publisher Moon Books: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/moon-books/our-books/pagan-portals-rounding-wheel-year

(Please note: I earn commission from some links.)

Other previous Related Posts
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2026/01/rounding-year-when-snowdrops-bloom.html
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2026/02/rounding-year-daffodils-narcissus.html
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2014/04/news-beltane-walpurgisnacht-and-witch.html
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2015/04/news-walpurgisnacht-beltane-may-day.html
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2025/01/game-review-call-of-hill-witchcraft-larp.html