Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year Pagan Events

Here are some of the events that could interest pagans over Valentine’s Day and the week ahead. Chinese New Year falls on 19 February this year – the start of the Year of the Sheep – but it is celebrated in London on Sunday 22 February with a big free festival.

Thursday, 12 February; Sci-fi’s Gifts to Paganism. Talk by Ian ‘Cat’ Vincent. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.30pm – 9pm. Advance booking required. Call 0207 419 8507. For further details: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Thursday, 12 February; Vanished City; London’s Lost Neighbourhoods. Talk by Thomas Bolton at South East London Folklore Society (SELFS). Venue: The Old King’s Head, Kings Head Yard, 45-49 Borough High St, London SE1 1NA. Entry: £2.50 / £1.50 concessions. Meetings are the second Thursday of each month. http://www.selfs.org.uk/ To guarantee a seat, email [email protected]

Thursday, 12 February; The Wild Women’s Club – Love and Relationships. Venue: Nutri Centre Bookshop, The Hale Clinic, 7 Park Crescent, London, W1B 1PF. Time: 7pm – 9pm. Tickets: £12. http://www.alternatives.org.uk/

Thursday, 12 February; Enfield Town Circle Pagan Moot. Venue: Crown and Horseshoes pub, 15 Horseshoe Lane, Enfield, Middlesex EN2 6PZ. Time: 7pm to 11pm. This moot takes place on the 2nd Thursday of every month. For more details join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/EnfieldTownCircle/

Friday 13 February; The Bleeding Heart Walk with London Fortean Society and Haunt London. Meeting at Bleeding Heart Yard, off Greville Street, London EC1. Nearest rail: Farringdon, nearest tube: Farringdon and Chancery Lane. Time: Time: 7pm. Cost: £5 For more details, visit http://forteanlondon.blogspot.co.uk/

Friday 13 February; Group Healing Night with the London College of Spirituality. Venue: Westminster Quakers Meeting House, 8 Hop Gardens, off St Martins Lane (alleyway between Gymbox and Cote Brasserie) London WC2N 4EA. Time: 7pm. Cost: £10. Details: http://www.meetup.com/londonspirituality/

Friday 13 February; Unlucky – London Dreamtime storytelling at a secret ruin in Peckham. Time: 9pm. £3. Adults only, advance booking essential, email [email protected]. For more details visit http://londondreamtime.com/calendar/

Saturday 14 February; Union of Love – Balancing the Masculine and Feminine run by Anna and Aang of the London College of Spirituality. Venue: Latvian House, 72 Queensborough Terrace, , London, W2 3SH. Time: 11am. Cost: £20. Details: http://www.meetup.com/londonspirituality/

Saturday 14 February; Nolava’s Greening – Spring into the season with the Mother of Fire. Workshop at Cobwebs at Cauldrons at Romford Shopping Hall. 1pm-4pm. Cost is £24. http://www.cobwebsandcauldrons.co.uk/

Saturday 14 February; Gallery talk – Love and lust in Greek myth. Venue room 13, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time: 1.15pm-2pm. Cost free. For more details call 020 7323 8181 or visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar.aspx

Saturday 14 February; The Bleeding Heart Walk with London Fortean Society and Haunt London. Meeting at Bleeding Heart Yard, off Greville Street, London EC1. Nearest rail: Farringdon, nearest tube: Farringdon & Chancery Lane. Time: Time: 6.30pm. Cost: £5 For more details, visit http://forteanlondon.blogspot.co.uk/

Sunday 15 February; Tarot Workshop – The Fools Journey. A workshop focused on the major acana with Cobwebs at Cauldrons at Romford Shopping Hall. 10am-4pm. Cost is £40. http://www.cobwebsandcauldrons.co.uk/

Sunday 15 February; Dawn of the Oak. Pagan moot on the third Sunday of each month. Venue: Upstairs at The Castle, 34-35 Cowcross Road, Farringdon, London EC1M 6DB (near Farringdon tube). Time: 3pm-6pm.

Sunday 15 February; The Occult Mysteries of Africa. Talk by Israel Ajose. Venue: 50 Gloucester Place, London W1U 8EA. Starts at 6pm. Tickets: £7, £5 concessions, £4 TS members. For full details: http://www.theosophicalsociety.org.uk

Monday 16 February: Psychic Circle run by Shamanic Spirit at a venue in Croydon, South London. The circle is held on Mondays fortnightly starting at 7.30pm. Cost £5. For more details and to book places call 07952 041477. For more information, visit http://shamanicspirit.co.uk/

Monday 16 February: Temple of the Heart with Aang organised through the London College of Spirituality. Venue: Latvian House, 72 Queensborough Terrace, London, W2 3SH. Time: 7.15pm to 9pm. £15. http://www.meetup.com/londonspirituality/events/

Monday 16 February: Love and the Nature of Consciousness with Rupert Spira. Venue: Alternatives. Venue: St James’s Church Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL. Time: 7pm – 8.30pm. Tickets £12/£8 online. For more details and to book tickets: http://www.alternatives.org.uk/

Tuesday 17 February; The Karma of Human Relationships in Steiner’s Mystery Dramas. Talk by Adrian Locher. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London NW1 6XT. Time: 7.30pm – 9pm, Cost: £3.50 (£1 concessions, students and under 25s), No bookings required, just turn up. http://www.rsh.anth.org.uk/

Wednesday 18 Feb; South London Wicca Meetup meeting in a pub in Tooting hosted by Wiccan High Priestess Caroline Westbury. Start time 7pm. Details at: http://www.meetup.com/South-London-Wicca-Meetup/

Thursday 19 February; Pearls of Consciousness: An Invitation to Meet Remarkable Beings. Talk by Dominica at Watkins Books, 19-21 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ. Time: 6.30pm. Free event. For more details Tel 020 7836 2182 or visit the website http://www.watkinsbooks.com/

Saturday 21 February; Incense Making workshop with Christina Oakley Harrington. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 1pm to 5.30pm. Tickets £30. Advance booking required. Call 0207 419 8507. For further details: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Saturday 21 February; Shakti Dance: The Yoga of Dance with Debbie Reynolds of the London College of Spirituality. Venue: Conference Room, Nutford House, Nutford Place, Marble Arch, London W1H 5UL. Time: 2PM. Cost: £15. http://www.meetup.com/londonspirituality/

Saturday 21 February; Drum Mantra Ecstatic Dance Journey and Sound Healing Ceremony with Urubu. Time: 7pm-10.30pm. Cost: £20. Location is in London but is shown only to members of the meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/london-ecstatic-dance/

Sunday 22 February; London’s Chinese New Year Festival to celebrate the start of the Year of the Sheep. The event starts at 10am with a parade from Duncannon Street to Shaftesbury Avenue, followed by free performances in Trafalgar Square. Free, public event. http://www.chinatownlondon.org/

Sunday 22 February; Astrology – your year ahead with Cobwebs at Cauldrons at Romford Shopping Hall. Time: 10am-1pm. Cost £30http://www.cobwebsandcauldrons.co.uk/

Sunday 22 February; Awakening Chakra Energies Through Sound. Workshop with James D’Angelo. Venue: Theosophical Society, 50 Gloucester Place, London W1U 8EA. Starts at 2pm. Tickets: £15, £10 concessions, £7 TS members. Later in the day, at 6pm, James D’Angelo is also doing a talk on the healing power of sound. For full details: http://www.theosophicalsociety.org.uk

Sunday 22 February; Contemplative Druid Events is running at Introduction to Contemplative Druidry for Druids and fellow travellers. Facilitated by James Nichol, Elaine Knight and Julie Bond, this will begin with a short introduction to the development of contemplative Druidry over the past three years and the writing of James Nichol’s book Contemplative DruidryFrom there on the taster will be experiential, including a group sitting meditation and the practice “Awen Space”. Venue: the Bonnington Centre 11 Vauxhall Grove, London SW8 1TD. Time 2.30pm-5.30pm. Cost: £15 waged and £10 unwaged .Contact [email protected] for further information or to make a booking. http://contemplativedruidevents.tumblr.com/

The information above is correct to the best of my knowledge, but I do not organise any of these events and am not responsible for them. If you spot anything that needs changing or know of any other pagan events that you would like to see listed, please email [email protected]

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