This Week's Pagan Events In and Near London

Here are some of the events in and around London that could be of interest to pagan over the next week or so.

Now – 3 December; Voices of the Winter Hearth – A mixed media art exhibition exploring the theme of winter in a time of folklore and superstition. Situated in a Grade 1-listed church, in the candlelit and richly atmospheric setting of the belfry, it conjures the bleak yet beautiful landscape of winter, interspersed with images of myth and folk tales. Venue: St John on Bethnal Green, London E2. Opening Times: Saturdays and Sundays 1pm – 6pm; Thursdays 6pm-9pm. Free entry Website: http://www.stjohnonbethnalgreen.org/?p=1879190. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/winterhearth?ref=hl Twitter: @thewinterhearth

Thursday 26 November; Sacred Circle : Stepping into your Light with Himesh. Venue: Latvian House, 72 Queensborough Terrace, London, W2 3SH Time: 7pm. Tickets £5. Details and booking: http://www.meetup.com/londonspirituality

Thursday 26 November; Fortnightly Druid Order Open Introductory Evening. A chance to learn more about at The Druid Order (A.D.U.B.) at an evening with talks and a meditation. Venue: Treadwell’s, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Price: £5 on the door. For more details, visit http://thedruidorder.org/druidorder/Meetings.html

Thursday 26 November, Lewis Carroll and the Supernatural. Talk by Jenny Woolf, author of the biography The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: Understanding the Author of Alice in Wonderland.Hosted by London Fortean Society. Venue: The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. Time: 7.45pm. Tickets: £4/£2. https://www.facebook.com/events/1181998771828449/

Friday 27 November, Tea and Stroll at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London for Inspiration and Healing at the V&A India Festival. Meet at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL at 9.45am. Full details and reserve your place here: http://www.meetup.com/londonspiritualcommunity/events/226945678/

Friday 27 November, Sir Isaac Newton: England’s Greatest and Mystic. Lecture by Dr Edi Bilimoria at Rilko (Research Into Lost Knowledge). Public lecture. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35, Park Road, London, NW1 6XT. Time: 6.45pm, lecture starts 7.15pm. Entrance: £7/£5. http://www.rilko.net/EZ/rilko/rilko/home.php

Friday 27 November; The Low-Down on Desire: The Spiritual Way To Success, Abundance, Romance with Elena of the London College of Spirituality. Venue: Columbia Hotel (Regency Suite), 95 – 99 Lancaster Gate, London W2 3NS. Time: 7pm. Price: £10. For more details and to book places visit http://www.meetup.com/londonspirituality/

Saturday 28 November; Seriously Bewitched Conference co-organised by ASSAP (the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena) and the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Venue: Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW. Time: 10am – 7pm. More details: https://www.facebook.com/groups/7552750587/

Saturday 28 November; Healing Portraits Workshop with the Sensing Energy and Intuition Development Meetup Group. Venue: Latvian House, 72 Queensborough Terrace, London, W2 3SH. Time: noon. Cost: £20. Book and pay online: http://www.meetup.com/Sensing-Energy-and-Intuition-Development/

Sunday 29 November; Meditation at Russell Brands Trew Era Cafe, 30 Whitmore Road, London N1 5QA. Starts 10.15am. Free event. Details: http://www.meetup.com/londonspiritualcommunity

Sunday 29 November; The Kith of the Tree and the Well Heathen Moot. Upstairs at The Horseshoe Inn, Melior St, London SE1 3QP. Time: 2pm.

Sunday 29 November; London Witches are joining The People’s March for Climate Change, Justice and Jobs with Mani of London Woodland Wiccans Meet-up group. The venue is currently being kept a secret but is on Park Lane, London. Time: Noon. More details and to reserve a place: http://www.meetup.com/London-Woodland-Witches-Outdoor-Pagans/

Monday 30 November; Lecture: Finding belief: on the origins of religious consciousness. Venue: BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time: 1.30pm-2.30pm. Free event, booking essential. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar.aspx

Monday 30 November; Death, the Last God.Talk by Anne Geraghty. Venue: Alternatives. Venue: St James’s Church Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL. Doors open 6pm. Talk: 7pm – 8.30pm. Tickets £12/£8 online. For more details and to book tickets: http://www.alternatives.org.uk/

Monday 30 November; Tarot Archetype Mini Workshop: the Devil Card with Marysia Kay. Venue: Treadwell’s, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: Time: 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start. Tickets £10. For further details: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Tuesday 1 December; Sound Meditation. Venue: Goose Green Clinic, 57 East Dulwich Road, London SE22 9AP. Time: 10.45am. Cost:£12/£10. More information and booking: http://www.meetup.com/Holistic-SoundBath-Meditation-Summoning-The-Sacred-Dulwich/

Tuesday 1 December; Talk on History of Wicca Part 3: Alex Sanders. Venue: Souk Medina Tea Room, 1a Short’s Gardens, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9AT. Time: 6pm-9pm. Free event. http://www.meetup.com/London-Pagan-Circle/

Tuesday 1 December; Crowleymass – celebrating the Lesser Feast of Aleister Crowley. Venue: The Atlantis Bookshop, 49a Museum Street, London, WC1A 1LY. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £10, advance reservation essential. Call the Shop on 020 7405 2120..

Tuesday 1 December; Telephone Calls from the Dead,Lecture by Cal Cooper. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm-8.30pm. Cost: £10/£12 Advance booking advised. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Tuesday 1 December; Drumming Circle run by Shamanic Spirit at a venue in New Addington, Croydon, South London. Every second Tuesday starting 7.30pm. Cost £10. For more details and to book places call 07952 041477. For more information, visit http://shamanicspirit.co.uk/

Tuesday 1 December; Cobwebs and Cauldrons Moot and Yule Craft Fair. Venue: White Horse Pub, Chadwell Heath, Essex. Moot takes place on the first Tuesday of every month. 7.30pm start. http://www.cobwebsandcauldrons.co.uk/

Wednesday 2 December; Bad Santa – The Evil Side of Christmas. Talk by Deborah Hyde at Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub. Venue: Star and Garter Pub, 60 Old Woolwich Road, Greenwich, SE10 9NY. Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/375097159327878/

Wednesday 2 December; Students’ Demonstration of Trance with Elizabeth Roberts. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm-8.30pm. Cost: £10/£12 Advance booking advised. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 2 December; Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram workshop with Marysia Kay. Venue: Treadwell’s, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: Time: 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start. Tickets £15. For further details: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Wednesday 2 December; The Witches’ Inn Gathering. Venue: The Feathers Hotel Merstham in Merstham, Surrey RH1 3EA. Starts at 8pm. Moots are normally on the first Wednesday of each month. For more details and to reserve a place visit: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Witches-Inn/1568424150049437

Thursday 3 December; Be Your Own Fairy Tale: Working with Storytelling for Positive Life Change.Book signing and talk by Alison Davies 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/

Thursday 3 December; Polar Otherworlds. Lecture with Dr Shane McCorristine. Venue: Treadwell’s, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: Time: 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start. Tickets £8. For further details: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Thursday 3 December; Class – Freedance and Relaxation with Lizzie Adams of the London College of Spirituality. Venue: Latvian House, 72 Queensborough Terrace, London, W2 3SH. Time: 7pm. Price: £10. For more details and to book places visit http://www.meetup.com/londonspirituality/

Thursday 3 December; Experience Rosslyn Chapel as a Temple of Initiation with Jackie Queally of Sacred Sites and Sacred Walks. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London NW1 6XT. Time: 7.30pm. Booking and details: http://www.meetup.com/Sacred-Sites-and-Sacred-Walks/

Friday 4 December; Wind Down to Winter Festive Sound Bath with Diana Vernon MCSH. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm-8.30pm. Cost: £18/£20 Advance booking advised. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 5 December; Study Day: Myth in the Greek and Roman worlds. Venue: BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time: 10.30am-4pm. Tickets £23, booking essential. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/

Saturday 5 December; Global Wicca Event: Wicca and Witchcraft Tools – Walking tour of Spiritual stores in Central London. Meet outside Treadwells’s Books, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS at 11.45am. Details and to reserve a place: http://www.meetup.com/Global-Wicca-Earth-Healing-Temple-London/

Saturday 5 December; Hendon Heathens Moot, Venue: Greyhound Pub, Church End, Hendon, London, NW4 4JT. Time: 6pm. Hendon Heathens meets at this pub the first Saturday of every month.

Sunday 6 December; Meditation at Russell Brands Trew Era Cafe, 30 Whitmore Road, London N1 5QA. Starts 10.15am. Free event. Details: http://www.meetup.com/londonspiritualcommunity

I try to make sure all the details in my events listings are correct, but I am only human and sometimes make a mistake. If you spot something that needs changing, or if you know of an event that you want listed, please email the details to me at [email protected].

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