Author Interview: Robin Corak on Goddesses & Writing

In this post I've chatted to Pagan priestess Robin Corak, continuing my interview series Authors on Their Own Writing:  

Q: Out of all that you've written, which is your favorite published work?

A: I have a special relationship with all of the books I have published, but out of the Moon Books publications I've authored I would have to say that Persephone: Practicing the Art of Personal Power is my favourite.

Q: What’s it about?

A: Persephone explores the various versions of the myth of Persephone and how we can learn from her lessons. The book also identifies ways we can work with Persephone on shadow work, communicating with our beloved dead, discernment and self sovereignty. There are guided meditations and hands on activities to assist with this. 

Q: Why is it your favourite?

A: I think Persephone holds a special place in my heart because she was my first full book that I wrote but also because I have loved her myth for as long as I can remember. For reasons described in the book, Persephone is one of the first goddesses that I felt a strong connection with and I continue to resonate with her story, particularly as I continue to go deeper and deeper in my work with her as time goes on. In addition, I have had multiple readers tell me this book helped them in various aspects of their lives, which is so meaningful to me as I see my writing, in part, as a service to the deities I work with and to others. 

Q: Tell me a bit more about yourself and anything else you’ve written.

A: I've always loved to write but never thought of doing it as a profession until eight years ago. I have a background in non-profit management and was for many years a CEO of a large, social services non-profit organization. Currently, I am retired but still do consulting, training, and coaching on topics such as leadership development diversity, equity and inclusivity, and non-profit management. I am also a certified life and business coach, end-of-life doula, and I present at various pagan conferences nationally and internationally. I live in the San Juan Islands in Washington state with my husband and a cat who thinks she is royalty. 

In addition to Persephone, I've written Demeter (Moon Books), Dream Magick (Llewellyn), and Medusa Rising (Llewellyn) the latter of which will be out in December this year. I also recently had an essay and a song published in a new devotional Arianrhod anthology entitled "Silver Wheel", published by Ninth Wave Press. 

Q: What are you working on now?

A: I am currently working on a book about the nine Muses of Greek mythology which is scheduled to be released in late 2027 or early 2028. 

Robin's website can be found here: www.phoenixawenrising.com

You can also reach Robin on social media via Facebook at facebook.com/robincorak or on Instagram at instagram.com/robincorak/

Links to books: 

Persphone: Pagan Portals - Persephone from Moon Books
Demeter: Pagan Portals - Demeter from Moon Books
Dream Magick: Dream Magick | Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.
Medusa Rising: Medusa Rising | Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.
Silver Wheel: Silver Wheel: A Devotional Anthology Honor of Arianrhod | Barnes & Noble®

(Please note: I earn commission from some links)

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https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2026/07/authors-on-their-writing-feminist-witch.html
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2026/08/author-interview-irish-writer-geraldine.html
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2026/07/authors-on-their-own-writing-green.html
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2026/09/authors-on-their-writing-primis-nati-on.html 
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2026/09/authors-interview-kim-gardner-autumn.html

Autumn Equinox Events in & Near London & Online

The Autumn Equinox, when the day and night are in balance is often celebrated on September 21 in the Pagan Wheel of the Year, although in 2026 it falls on Spetember 23rd astronomically. Whichever date you prefer, there are celebrations from now until the end of the month. Here's a listing of pagan and witchy events in or near London, because that's where I live, but I also a few festivals further afield and plenty of things online (bolded) that you can enjoy anywhere.

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 8 November;  The Occult Temple of Agape - Exhibition. Venue: Viktor Wynd's Museum of Curiosities, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP. Time: 6pm. Tickets free. https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/museum/

Now - 25 October; Richard Dadd - Beyond Bedlam exhibition. Venue: Royal Academy, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD Time: 10-6pm every day. Tickets £15. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/

Now to 9 January 2027; Anne Ryan’s Folkmoot art exhibition on London archaeology. Venue: London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE, 12 Walbrook, London, EC4N 8AA. Free entry during opening hours. https://www.londonmithraeum.com/bloomberg-space/

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`

Saturday 12 - 16 September. Open House Days. Venue: Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH. Time: during opening hours. Tickets free. https://www.swedenborg.org.uk/

Wednesday 16 September;  Ganesh Chaturthi Festival. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Road, Eltham SE9. Time: from 11am. Free, just pop in any time during opening hours. https://www.wiccamoonuk.com/shop/ or https://www.facebook.com/wiccamoonuk/

Wednesday 16 September;  Academy of Witchcraft Advanced Course. Start of a Year of Study. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Road, Eltham SE9. Time: Contact the shop for details. Total cost of the course is £700, or monthly payments of £65  https://www.facebook.com/wiccamoonuk/

Wednesday 16 September; Sacred Gong Meditation with Joe Summerfield Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time 7pm. Tickets: £45. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 16 September (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 16 September; Work with the Ancient Neters of Egypt. Start of  6-session course with Pixie P Carney. Online event via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £200. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 16 September; The Aura: Energy, Intuition and Spirit. Start of  2-session course with Sarah-Jane Jay. Online event via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £95. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 16 September (tbc but usually 3rd Wednesday each month); The More Mead Moot. Venue: The Hope pub, Carshalton, Surrey. Time: 7pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/Pagan-FutureFests-352385661439366/

Wednesday 16 September; Sister Wounds  HERstory Part 1 with Bibi's Circle . Venue: Outdoors if the weather is good, otherwise indoors at Rons Coffee House, Holdrons Arcade 135a, Rye Lane London SE15 4ST. Time: 7pm. Tickets £9.92. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/bibis-circle-56277271483

Wednesday 16 September; Astrological Sound Bath with Nicole Bettencourt Coelho. Venue: Treadwell's Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London, WC1E 7BS. Time: 7pm. Cost: £30 per person.  https://www.treadwells-london.com/ or reserve a place by visiting the shop.

Wednesday 16 September; Mushrooms and the Occult Imagination. Talk by Julian Vayne via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm start, delayed viewing available. Tickets: £15. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Wednesday 16 September;  Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World with John Blair. Talk online via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society.  Time: 8pm. Tickets ·from  £6.59. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Thursday 17 September;  Old Ways, New Sounds: Folklore, Hauntology and Identity in British Music

By ResearchWorks - Guildhall School of Music and Drama. One-day conference. Venue: Lecture Recital Room, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Silk Street, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DT. Starts 9.30am. Free. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/7588084359?

Thursday 17 September (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 17 September; The Magical Influence of Roman Egypt. In-Person Talk by Jules McArthur . Venue: Treadwell's Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London, WC1E 7BS. Time: 7pm. Cost: £10.  https://www.treadwells-london.com/ or reserve a place by visiting the shop.

Thursdays 17 September; Your Soul’s Journey: Past and Future Lives. Start of  2-session course with Kim Chestney. Online event via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £95. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Thursday 17 September; PF London Autum Equinox Open Ritual via Pagan Federation London. Venue: Pirate Castle, Gilbey's Wharf Oval Road NW1 7EA London, UK Time: 7.15pm. Entry £8 for PF members, £10 for non-members (cash only). https://www.facebook.com/groups/pflondon

Friday 18 September (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 18 September (tbc but usually 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 18 September;  The Alchymical Garden of Michael Foy with Sean Jefferson. 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

Friday 18 September (and other dates); Thoth Tarot study group. Free online event. Time: 7pm. https://www.meetup.com/astrotarotkitchen/events/

Friday 18 September; Autumn Equinox Womens Circle  Venue: 105 Northumberland Road, 

Harrow HA2 7RB.  Time 7pm. Tickets:  £27.80. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/65070727793?

Friday 18 September (recurring event); 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 18 September; An Evening of Tarot Insights with Avril Price. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time 7pm. Tickets: £30. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Friday 18 September (and other dates); Hex and the City Walking Tour with  Maria Beadell of Herstorical Tours. Meet: Cowcross St, Farrringdon, London EC1M 6BY. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £25. https://www.herstoricaltours.co.uk/

Saturday 19 September  Arcadia Festival: Arcadia Full Bloom. Family friendly event. Venue: Stanley Arts, 12 South Norwood Hill, London SE25 6AB. Time 10:30am till 5:30pm. Tickets £20. https://stanleyarts.org/event/arcadia-festival-arcadia-full-bloom/?

Saturday 19 September; Hedge Witches Herbal Kitchen. Venue: Atlantis Spiritual Centre, Crews Hill, 

Enfield EN2 9DG. Time 11am. Tickets:  £27.80. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/110820030781?

Saturday 19 September; Magical Mediumship workshop with Tony Stockwell. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time 11am. Tickets: £130. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 19 September; Autumn Equinox Day Retreat with Cacao and Fire Ceremony plus Gong Bath.nVenue: Private Location near Wandsworth Town/Clapham Junction. Time: 11,45am. Tickets from £48.43. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/7885666957?

Saturday 19 September; Sacred Sweat Lodge Ceremony Celebrating Autumn Equinox. Venue: Shamanic Centre Caer Corhrain Kent. Run by Lynn Gosney. Time: noon start Tickets £30 min donation, email lynn.gosney@hotmail.com for info and to book. https://www.facebook.com/shamaniccentrecaercorhrain/

Saturday 19 September (Saturday closest to the festival); Autumn Equinox at Coldrum Stones with Kent Gorsed. Venue: Coldrum Long Barrow, West Maling, Kent. Time: noon. Free. https://www.facebook.com/kentgorsedd/

Saturday 19 September; The Second Harvest - An Autumn Equinox Gathering. Venue: Cultivate Colindale, Quakers Course, Edgware NW9 5YT. Time: noon start Tickets free. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/45400815533?

Saturday 19 September; Shamanic Drumming. Venue: Flopsy Wood, Cock Lane, Hoddesdon EN11 8LS. Time  noon. Tickets £20. https://www.facebook.com/HertsEvents

Saturday 19 September;; Practical Magic Tea Party. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Road, Eltham SE9. Time: from noon. Tickets  £30. https://www.wiccamoonuk.com/shop/ or https://www.facebook.com/wiccamoonuk/

Saturday 19 September;;  The Second Harvest - An Autumn Equinox Gathering by Wayward as Part of London Design Festival. Venue: Cultivate Colindale, Quakers Course, Edgware NW9 5YT. Time: from noon. Tickets free. https://www.waywardplants.org/events

Saturday 19 September; Connecting the Trees - A Call to Arms. Ritual with South East London Pagans. Venue: Brockwell Park, South London. Time: 12.30pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/events/998302583233584/?

Saturday 19 September (Saturday closest to the festival); Autumn Equinox free and open Gorsed of Caer Abiri ritual at Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire. Meet at the Red Lion pub from noon for druidic ceremony at 1.30pm. Offering of bread, mead, or Bardic performance always welcomed. Free event, just turn up. https://www.facebook.com/groups/49080749624/

Saturday 19 September; "Rough Magic" fireside story telling for adults for the Autumn Equinox. Venue: Lesnes Abbey Lodge, Abbey, New Rd, London SE2 0AX. Tickets £13.70. Time: 6.30pm. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/10715162746?

Sunday 20 September (closest Sunday to the festival); Pagan Federation Online Autumn Equinox Festival. Starts 10am. Free. https://www.facebook.com/paganfederation/events

Sunday 20 September; TKT Autumn Equinox Nature Connections Walk. Meet at Parliament Hill Bandstand, Hampstead Heath, London NW5 1QR. Time 10:30. Tickets free. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tkt-autumn-equinox-nature-connections-walk-tickets-2000602273254?

Sunday 20 September; The Violet Light workshop with Joan Osbornel. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time 11am. Tickets: £130. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Sunday 20 September; Systemic Constellations and Yoga Nidra with Gráinne McAnallen and Andrea Langlois. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time 11am. Tickets: £130. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Sunday 20 September; Celebrate Autumn Equinox. Venue: Flopsy Wood, Cock Lane, Hoddesdon EN11 8LS. Time:  noon. Tickets £20. https://www.facebook.com/HertsEvents

Sunday 20 September (closest Sunday to the festival); Druidic Ritual to celebrate the Autumn Equinox on Primrose Hill with the Loose Association of Druids. Gather in the Hawthorne Grove at Primrose Hill, London, NW1 8YH, at 12.30pm to prepare the site for the ritual at 1pm. Nearest tube: Chalk Farm. Bring a small contribution of food and drink to share. https://www.facebook.com/LooseAssociationOfDruidsOfPrimroseHill

Sunday 20 September; NW Kent Pagans Equinox Ritual. Venue: Coldrum Long Barrow, West Maling, Kent. Time: 1pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/events/1110371714996877/?

Sunday 20 September (date tbc but usually 3rd Sunday each month); Dawn of the Oak Pagan moot. Venue:  Walham Green - JD Wetherspoon, 472 Fulham Rd., London SW6 1BY. Time: 2pm. https://www.facebook.com/groups/dawnoftheoak/ 

Sunday 20 September (usually closest Sunday to the festival); Autumn Equinox ritual for members of the Woodspirits group. Venue: Highgate, London. Time: 2pm. https://www.facebook.com/groups/4032235040150960

Sunday 20 September;  Forest Bathing in South Norwood Lake and Grounds. Meet at Sylvan Road, London SE25 4AN. Time: 1pm. Free. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/parkbathe-34393467709

Sunday 20 September (closest Sunday to the festival); Anderida Gorsedd Autumn Equinox 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 20 September (closest Sunday to the festival); Autumn Equinox Festival. Venue: Flopsy Wood, Cock Lane, Hoddesdon EN11 8LS. Time noon. Entry £20. https://www.facebook.com/HertsEvents

Sunday 20 September; Southwark Hysteries with  Maria Beadell of Herstorical Tours. Meet: Green Dragon Court, London SE1 . Time: 3pm. Tickets: £22.50. https://www.herstoricaltours.co.uk/book

Sunday 20 September; Envisioning a Better World - guided meditation outdoors. Venue: Plot 9, Restell Close, London,  community. Venue: Plot 9, Restell Close, 143 Maze Hill, London, SE3 7UB. Time: , 3pm – 5pm. https://dandelion.events/o/the-envisioning-community/events?

Sunday 20 September; Equinox Ritual 2026 with London Woodland Witches and Pagans. Meet at Queens woods cafe', 42 Muswell Hill Rd, London N10 3JP, to be led into woods to the ritual spot. Time: 5pm. Tickets £8.30. More info: https://mani.org.uk/ or visit  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/mani-woodland-witch-34325436803

Sunday 20 September (closest Sunday to the festival);  Autumn Equinox Wheel of the Year: 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 20 September;  Divining the Past, Present, and Future: Oracles Series 2. Start of 4 part series with Marguerite Johnson. Talk online via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society.  Time: 8pm. Tickets ·from  £24.96. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Sunday 20 September;  Astrology in Renaissance with Michelle Pfeffer. Talk online via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society.  Time: 8pm. Tickets ·from  £6,59. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Monday 21 September; Remote Viewing in Action. Start of  6-session course with Ann Théato. Online event via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 8am. Tickets: £200. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Monday 21 September; Bibi's Circle  Autunm Equinox. Venue: Outdoors if the weather is good, otherwise indoors at Rons Coffee House, Holdrons Arcade 135a, Rye Lane London SE15 4ST. Time: 6pm. Tickets free. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/bibis-circle-56277271483

Monday 21 September; Autumn Equinox Sound Bath. Venue: Chelsea Physic Garden, 66 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London SW3 4HS. Time: 6pm. Tickets: £25. https://www.chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk/visit/whats-on/

Monday 21 September (recurring event); Welcome Men's Circle. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London, NW1 6XT. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: optional donation of £5 - £15. https://rsh.anth.org.uk/whats-on/

Monday 21 September; Introduction to Horary Astrology: Aspects, Dignities and Debilities with Jadranka Coic via the Astrological Lodge of London. Online event. Starts 6.45pm. Tickets £6/£9. https://astrolodge.co.uk/

Monday 21 September; RIntuition, Decision-Making and Business class with Aude Firmin. Online event via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £90. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Monday 21 September; Theosophy. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London, NW1 6XT. Time: 7pm. Tickets free https://www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiner-spiritual-science/events/

Monday 21 September; The History of Witch Hunts in Europe with Diane Purkiss via Seed talks. Online event.  Time: 7pm. Tickets £17 - £26.50. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/seed-talks-online-1262239?

Monday 21 September; Develop the Intuitive Mind: Foundation. Start of  6-session course with Maria Antoniou. Online event via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £200. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Monday 21 September; The Healing Power of Colour. Start of  5-session course with Mark Wentworth. Online event via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £180. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Monday 21 September; Tarot Foundation. Start of  10-session course with Avril Price. Online event via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £280. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Monday 21 September; The Medium's Journey. Start of  10-session course with Gary Wright. Hybrid event via The College of Psychic Studies. In-person Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB.  Time: 7.15pm. Tickets: £290. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Monday 21 September; Space and Aura-Cleansing for Spirit Work. Start of  6-session course with Tia Price. Online event via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £165. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Monday 21 September;  Autism and Past-Life Memory: What We're Learning with James Matlock. 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/

Monday 21 September;  Freyja: Norse Goddess of Sexuality with Olof Ormika Lindqvist . Talk online via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society.  Time: 8pm. Tickets ·from  £6.59. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Monday 21 September (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

Tuesday 22 September (every Tuesday); 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 22 September; Learn Morris Dancing. Venue: Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London, NW1 7AY. Time: 6.30pm. Tickets £10.50 per class, £77 for a term. https://www.efdss.org/

Tuesday 22 September; The Templars' Lost Sacred Feminine. Online talk by Helena B. Scott via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £22. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Tuesday 22 September; Meeting Ourselves in Film. Start of  5-session course with Mark Wentworth. Online event via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £180. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Tuesday 22 September; Beyond the Dream Gateway. Start of  10-session course with Tree Carr. Online event via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £290. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Tuesday 22 Septembert; 7 Essential Roots For Witches. Online Class with Hannah Sanders via Treadwells Online. Time: 7pm start, delayed viewing available. Tickets: £15. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Tuesday 22 Septembert;  Sláine: The Horned God with  professional storyteller Jason Buck. Venue: Canal Cafe Theatre, Delamere Terrace, Little Venice, London W2 6NG, UK

020 7289 6054. Time: 7pm. Tickets:  £18.50. https://canalcafetheatre.com/our-shows/slaine/?

Tuesday 22 September (and other dates); Trippy Tuesdays: Surreal Still Life Drink and Draw with Devil’s Botany. Venue: Viktor Wynd's Museum of Curiosities, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP. Time: 7pm. Tickets  from £26.20, includes a cocktail. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-last-tuesday-society-viktor-wynd-museum-33776720489

Tuesday 22 September; Scottish Peasants in the Magical Landscape with Julian Goodare. Talk via the Folklore Society online. Time: 7pm. Tickets £6. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-folklore-society-32190494089

Tuesday 22 September; Equinox Special  Enfield Town Circle Moot. Venue: Crown and Horsehoes, Horseshoe Lane, Enfield, EN2 6PZ.  Time: 7.30pm. https://www.facebook.com/groups/EnfieldTownCircle/

Wednesday 23 September; Autumn Equinox at Stonehenge. English Heritage allows managed free open access to the stones for the sunrise, although the car parking is charged. Access to stones from: 5.15am-8.30am. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/things-to-do/autumn-equinox/

Wednesday 23 September; Unlock and Manifest Your Abundance. Online class by Abiola Abrams via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £95. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 23 September (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 23 September; 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/

Wednesday 23 September; Autunm Equinox 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  You can also view the vigil online.   http://crossbones.org.uk  

Wednesday 23 September; Tarot Intermediate. Start of  10-session course with Avril Price. Online event via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £290. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 23 September; Exploring the Dream Realms. Start of  10-session course with Tree Carr. Online event via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £280. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 23 September; Witch Choir  with Nicole Bettencourt Coelho. Venue: Treadwell's Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London, WC1E 7BS. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15.  https://www.treadwells-london.com/ or reserve a place by visiting the shop.

Wednesday 23 September (and other dates); Gong Bath. Venue:  Akasa, Hackney Wick,  London E9. Time: 7pm. Tickets:  from £23.46. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/sunita-kaur-34415293427

Thursday 24 and Friday 25 September; Reiki 1 with The Reiki Academy - Claire Hall and Olivia Griesser. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time 9.30am. Tickets: £247. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Thursday 24 September; Pantheon with Rachel Roberts. 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 24 September; Drum Circle. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Road, Eltham SE9. Time: 6.30pm. Tickets  £15. https://www.wiccamoonuk.com/shop/ or https://www.facebook.com/wiccamoonuk/

Thursday 24 September; Witch Hunting in Blighty: Then and Now. Talk via Pints of Knowledge. Venue: The Alma, Wandsworth, SW18 1TF. Time: 7pm. Tickets £20.25. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/pintsofknowledge

Thursday 24 September; Develop the Intuitive Mind: Intermediate. Start of  10-session course with Maria Antoniou. Online event via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £290. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Thursday 24 September; Hookland with David Southwell – In-Person Lecture by David Southwell . Lecture and Soirée with Dr Anna Milon. Venue: Treadwell's Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London, WC1E 7BS. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £tbc. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Thursday 24 September; A Journey with Spirit. Start of  10-session course with Gary Wright. Hybrid event via The College of Psychic Studies. In-person Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB.  Time: 7.15pm. Tickets: £280. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Thursday 24 September; Psychometry: Learn to Read Objects. Start of  10-session course with Tia Price. Online event via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £240. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Thursday 24 September (tbc but usually last Thursday every month); Hertford Pagan Moot. Venue: The White Horse Pub, 33 Castle Street, Hertford, Herts SG14 1HH) (45 mins from central London). Time: 8pm. https://www.facebook.com/groups/104788436218047

Thursday 24 September;  The Lost Mythology of Celtic Goddesses - Candlelight History with Kim Willis via Seed talks. Online event.  Time: 8pm. Tickets from £15. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/seed-talks-online-1262239?

Friday 25 September (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 25 - Sunday 27 September; The Rainbow Tribe: Medicine Wheel Festival. Venue: Berkeley farm, Berkeley Farm, Lambourne End, Manor Rd, Essex RM4 1NH , a few miles outside London. Tickets:  £75. https://www.aho.community/

Friday 25 September; Festival of Astronomical Ideas. Talk of talks including The Strange Story of Astroarcheology  by Professor Ronald Hutton, author of Triumph of the Moon and Blood and Mistletoe, via Gresham College. Venue: Gresham College, Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, London EC1N 2HH. Time: 11am. Tickets tbc. https://www.gresham.ac.uk/

Saturday 26 September; Norfolk Witches and Pagans Autumn Equinox Fayre Hosted by Earth Spirit Events, Venue: Charles Burrell Centre, Thetford. Time: 10:30am - 4pm. Entrance £3 at the door, or purchase tickets at www.earthspiritevents.co.uk

Saturday 26 September; The Sisterhood of the Rose workshop with Mel Collins. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time 11am. Tickets: £130.  https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 26 September; Inner Child Healing workshop with Giancarlo Serra. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time 11am. Tickets: £130. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 26 September (and other dates); Crowley Crawl 2026 with Marco Visconti, author of The Aleister Crowley Manual. Venue: London walk. Time: 2pm. Tickets £50, For £70 for walk plus visit to cocktail bar. https://www.marcovisconti.org/events

Saturday 26 September; A Journey to Lemuria with Gemma Petherbridge. Online via The College of Psychic Studies. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £90. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 26 September; Psychic Development Workshop. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Road, Eltham SE9. Time: 2pm. Tickets  £30. https://www.wiccamoonuk.com/shop/ or https://www.facebook.com/wiccamoonuk/

Saturday 26 September; Healing the Mother Wound (with Family Constellations) By Emma Hewitt. Venue: FKin Wellbeing Studio, 79 Church Road, London SE19 2TA. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £49.46. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/38061527643?

Saturday 26 September;  Woodland Witches Full Moon Ritual with London Woodland Witches and Pagans. Meet at  Richmond Park Terrace Gardens (by Holyhock Cafe), Petersham Road, Richmond TW10 6UX. Time: 5.30pm.   Free entry, but donations welcome on the day. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/mani-woodland-witch-34325436803 or https://www.facebook.com/PaganFrontiersOfLondon.

Saturday 26 September;  Full Moon Celebration with South East London Pagans. Venue:  One Tree Hill, Honor Oak, South London. Time: 7pm. Free. https://www.facebook.com/groups/7046502195365834

Saturday 26 September  (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 26 September (usually 4th Friday or Saturday of the month);   Online event via the Folklore Library and Archive. Time: 8pm. Tickets:  £tbc. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-folklore-library-archive-68703440013?

Sunday 27 September; Shamanic Group with Les Fuller. All welcome Venue: Woodford Church at 9 Grove Crescent, South Woodford, London E18 2JR. Time 11am-3pm. Tickets: £10. http://woodfordchurch.com/

Sunday 27 September; Automatic Art and Spirit Communication with Anji Main. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time 11am. Tickets: £130. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Sunday 27 September; Deep Listening with Blanc Sceol. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time 1pm. Tickets: £95. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Sunday 27 September;  Meeting of Heathen Kindred Blot (was Kith of the Tree and the Well). Venue:  The Horseshoe Inn, 26 Melior Street, London SE1 3QP. Time: 1.30pm. Entry £3. https://www.facebook.com/groups/dawnoftheoak/events and https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/113978234531?

Sunday 27 September; Storytelling Sunday: Uncanny, organised by Connection With Wonder. Venue: Love Shack, 299 Cambridge Heath Road, #Arch 298 London E2 9HA. Time: 2pm. Tickets £6.66. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/3858279213?

Sunday 27 September;  Live Music and 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 27 September;  Palmistry in Britain and the United States with Joan Navarre . Talk online via The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society.  Time: 8pm. Tickets ·from  £6.59. 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 these events except my own talks and workshops. 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 Also please note I earn commission for some links.

Crafting Dilemma: Was I Wrong to Rip Up a Book?

I so enjoyed making a junk journal last month that I signed up for an online course to learn more about collaging with scrap paper. The photo at the top shows one I made. The course was with Catherine Rains. It consisted of 5 video classes over 10 days showing how to turn scraps of paper into material suitable for a work of art, then how to put them together into pictures. 

The paper includes things you might have around the house like magazines, tissue paper, and regular white paper, but also old books. I admit to having a twinge of conscience over using that last thing as part of the project. Going through my shelves I found a very tatty book of psalms and common prayers from my school days. It was decades old and falling apart, I have no personal attachment to it as I've never been a member of the Church of England and I'm now Pagan. 

But, despite all that and the fact that the book isn't rare and no charity shop would want it, it still felt sacrilegious to destroy any book, let alone one connected to any spiritial path. I got over my qualms and tore out pages, painted them, ripped them up, and glued patches as part of the collage. 

What do you think? Should I have tried to find a different book? Is it wrong to destroy any book just for the sake of art?

Please leave a comment and let me know your thoughts.

Other previous related posts

https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2026/07/upcycling-crafts-pretty-paper-hand-fan.html
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2026/03/upcycling-crafts-paper-flowers-from.html
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2025/04/craft-slow-stitch-scraps-and-scents-egg.html
https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2025/01/rounding-year-time-to-start-new-journal.html

Pagan Eye: Launch of Magick at Word on the Water

Here's a photo of Dr Thomas Waters at the launch of his new book Magick: Decoding the Visual Culture of Spells, Illusions and Psychic Powers. The event took place last week at the lovely bookshop on a boat, Word on the Water, moored at Regent's Canal Towpath, London N1C 4LW.

The photo was kindly sent to me by Cathy O'Sullivan, who works at publisher Thames and Hudson. I'd hoped to be at the launch myself, but when I got to my local station I discovered all trains into the city were cancelled due to animals on the track - something a little unusual in London. I'm nevertheless hoping to read a copy of Magick sometimes soon and post a review.

The book is available via publisher Thames and Hudson's website 

You can also view Magick on Amazon. 

(Please note I earn commission from some links)

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.

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Author Interview: Kim Gardner & the Autumn Goddess

I've chatted to High Priestess Kim Gardner, continuing my interview series Authors on Their Own Writing. Kim talks about her new book, Carpo, and her personal journey of healing trauma through working with the goddess of autumn, ripening, and empowerment:

Q: Out of all that you've written, which is your favorite published work?

A: Without hesitation, it’s my work on Carpo.

Every writer has pieces they are proud of intellectually, frameworks that are airtight, arguments that are sharp, prose that does its job. But Carpo is different. It’s the work where I stopped writing from behind a professional shield and put my actual heartbeat onto the page. It wasn't built from detached analysis. It was pulled straight out of lived survival, meaning it asked far more of me than anything else I've ever put into print.

Q: What’s it about?

A: On the surface, the book traces the mythic footprint of Carpo, one of the ancient Greek Horae who presided over autumn, the harvest, and the quiet ripening of the earth. In mythology, autumn isn’t merely about abundance, it is the season of descent, of turning inward, of shedding what cannot survive the coming winter.

Beneath that archetypal frame, however, the book is a deeply intimate chronicle of walking through the terrain of Complex PTSD and ADHD.

Trauma fragments our relationship with time and safety. Neurodivergence often makes a rigid world feel like a constant friction burn. For years, living at that intersection felt like carrying an invisible storm. Carpo became my way of making sense of that storm. The book explores what happens when we stop treating our wounds and neurodivergent brains as deficits to outrun, and instead approach them through the lens of ripening, recognizing that true healing isn't linear, that gathering our fragmented pieces takes its own season, and that genuine self-reclamation only happens when we learn to sit with our hardest truths without turning away.

Q: Why is it your favourite?

A: Because there was nowhere left to hide, and that terrifying exposure became my greatest source of freedom.

In my professional life, competence is often measured by control, poise, and having the answers. Writing Carpo demanded the exact opposite. It forced me to strip away every polished layer of defense and speak candidly about dissociation, emotional dysregulation, hypervigilance, and the profound exhaustion of masking just to get through a day.

It is my favourite because it turned private grief and internal chaos into tangible medicine. When you take the experiences that made you feel most isolated and broken, lay them bare, and discover they resonate as a roadmap for someone else’s healing, the pain transforms. It gave purpose to every dark corridor I had to walk through.

Q: Tell me a bit more about yourself and anything else you’ve written.

A: My life and craft exist at a crossroads where organizational discipline meets deep, unvarnished human truth.

Professionally, I’ve spent over two decades in human resources and strategic leadership, stepping into complex, high stakes environments to untangle organisational knots. My work focuses on building cultures rooted in psychological safety, operational clarity, and accountability. I help leaders bridge the painful divides between field reality and executive intention. Much of my writing in that space explores the hidden drag on human potential: the silent friction, unaddressed conflict, and organizational latency that stall execution.

Yet the older I get, the clearer it becomes that we never leave our humanity at the office door. I recently published a book exploring precisely this dynamic: the quiet, pervasive ways our unexamined life experiences, developmental wounds, and survival strategies follow us straight into boardrooms, project sites, and team dynamics. We often disguise our trauma responses as perfectionism, hyper-independence, or conflict avoidance, wondering why our work environments burn us out. My writing aims to give people the language to see those mirrors clearly, bridging the gap between internal self-awareness and how we actually lead and collaborate in the real world.

Q: What are you working on now?

A: I’m currently writing the natural continuation of this seasonal journey: a book centered on Thallo, the goddess of spring, blossoming, and Carpo’s mythic sister.

If Carpo represents the autumn work, the descent into the soil, facing the shadows, gathering the harvest, and learning how to endure the pruning, Thallo is about what happens when life insists on returning. It explores the vulnerability of breaking through the frozen ground, navigating the tender uncertainty of renewal, and stepping boldly into bloom after trauma. It’s an exploration of emergent potential. It is about what it takes to stop merely surviving the winter, and instead learn how to inhabit your full, vibrant expansion.

Carpo is published by Moon Books in the Pagan Portals series, and you can find the details here.  It's due to reach shops in November but can be pre-ordered now.

You can also view Carpo on Amazon.

(Please note: I earn commission from some links)

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https://www.badwitch.co.uk/2026/07/authors-on-their-writing-feminist-witch.html
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