Halloween Pagan Events in London & Elsewhere

It is Halloween – or Samhain as many pagans like to call it – on 31 November. Here are some of the events in London plus a few in other parts of the UK over the next 10 days or so that could be of interest. If you know of an event that you want listed, please email the details to me at [email protected].

Now – Wednesday 28 February 2018; Harry Potter: A History of Magic. Venue: PACCAR Gallery, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB. Timed slots every day. Tickets £16 adult, £8 child. Enquiries: 01937 546546. https://www.bl.uk/

Now to the end of 2017; Poppets, Pins and Power – an exhibition on the craft of cursing at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Boscastle, Cornwall. http://museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk/

Now to 31 December; The London Stone on Display. Venue: Museum of London, 150 London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN. Free exhibition during museum opening hours. http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london

Now – Sunday 5 November; Certaine Wytches: Fear, Myth and Magic – exhibition by Anne Jackson. Venue: Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stratford Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 4AF. Entry: Free. There is also a series of talks and other events running alongside the exhibition, tickets £5/£7/£3. Details: http://www.museuminthepark.org.uk/certaine-wytches/

Now – 29 October; London Month of the Dead – series of talks, performances and workshops hosted by A Curious Invitation. Venues include Brompton Cemetery, Nunhead Cemetery, Kensal Green Cemetery, St Brides Church and the Petrie Museum. Tickets from £10/£12. Details and Bookings: http://www.londonmonthofthedead.com/

Now – Friday 27 October; Exhibition – ‘Perception has Nothing to do with your Eyes’. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35, Park Road, London, NW1 6XT. http://www.rsh.anth.org.uk/ and https://www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiners-spiritual-science/

Now – Sunday 22 October; The Mind Body Soul Experience London. Venue:
Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London, N22 7AY. Time: 11am Friday – 5pm Sunday. Day tickets £12/£13, 3-day tickets £26. https://london.mbsevents.co.uk/

Wednesday 25 October; Gallery talk: Ancient Egyptian Gods, Goddesses and Sacred Animals. Venue: Room 4, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time: 1.15pm. Free, just turn up. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/

Wednesday 25 October; Wicca Moon Halloween Week – Day 3. Make a charm to protect your home. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Rd, London, SE9 6SH. Cost is £15. Time: 2pm-5pm. For details or to book a place email [email protected] or call 020 8850 7803. You can also visit the facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Wicca-Moon-101700123226695/

Wednesday 25 October; Time to Meditate – group meditation. Venue: Buddha on a Bicycle, Covent Garden, London. Arrive 6pm for 6.10pm start. Donations of £3 recommended. Details: http://www.meetup.com/meditation-trust-london/

Wednesday 25 October; A Haunting we will go! Explore Halloween the Myths and Magick. Venue: Pimp Hall Park and Nature Reserve, Chingford E4. Time: 7pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/125377698100831

Wednesday 25 October; Hertford Pagan Moot. Venue: White Horse Pub, 33 Castle Street, Hertford, Herts SG14 1HH (45 mins from central London). The pub does not have disabled access. This moot meets on the last Wednesday of each month at 8pm. https://www.facebook.com/groups/104788436218047/

Wednesday 25 October; The Cage St Osyth: Media Frenzy or Haunting to be Taken Seriously? Talk at The London Fortean Society. Venue: The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. Time: 7.45pm. Tickets: £4/£2. http://forteanlondon.blogspot.co.uk/

Thursday 26 October; Wicca Moon Halloween Week – Day 4. Make a poppet. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Rd, London, SE9 6SH. Cost is £15. Time: 2pm-5pm. For details or to book a place email [email protected] or call 020 8850 7803. You can also visit the facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Wicca-Moon-101700123226695/

Thursday 26 October; How to Read the Cards for Yourself and Others. Talk and book signing by Tori Hartman. Venue: 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/

Friday 27 October; Wicca Moon Halloween Week – Day 5. Drumming for the ancestors. Magical workshop. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Rd, London, SE9 6SH. Cost is £15. Time: 2pm-5pm. For details or to book a place email [email protected] or call 020 8850 7803. You can also visit the facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Wicca-Moon-101700123226695/

Friday 27 October; Working with the Elemental Landscape. Lecture by John Gordon at Rilko (Research Into Lost Knowledge). Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35, Park Road, London, NW1 6XT. Doors open: 6.45pm. Entrance: £8/£10. http://www.rilko.net/EZ/rilko/rilko/home.php https://www.facebook.com/rilkotrust/

Friday 27 October; Meeting the Healing Plants. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35, Park Road, London, NW1 6XT. Time: 7pm. http://www.rsh.anth.org.uk/ and https://www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiners-spiritual-science/

Friday 27 October; Angelic Energies in a Time of Change. Talk by Chrissie Astell. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm. Cost: £12/£14. Advance booking recommended. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Friday 27 October; The Goddess and the Divine Feminine. Venue: The Upminster Complementary Healing and Teaching Sanctuary, Pea Lane, Upminster, RM14 2XHTime: 7pm. Entry: £15 per session. http://www.healingandteaching.co.uk/

Friday 27 – Sunday 29 October. Samhain: A festival of Life and Death with Intothewild. Weekend camping festival with music, workshops, ritual and feasting. Venue: Emerson College, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5JX. Tickets £80. www.intothewildgathering.com

Saturday 28 – Sunday 29 October; Sacred Sisters – Divine Feminine Initiation and Healing two-day workshop. Venue: Healer’s Grove, Denham, London. Time: 10am-5pm each day. Cost:  £135, Call [email protected] to book. https://www.meetup.com/Drum-Spirit-and-Tree-Medicine/

Saturday 28 October; The Astrology and Magic of Samhain. Day workshop with Demian Allan. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 10am-5pm. Cost: £95. Advance booking recommended. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 28 October; Introduction to Shamanism and Shamanic Journey. Venue: The Music Room, The Tabernacle Notting Hill, 35 Powis Square, London W11 2AY. Time: 10.45am to 5.30pm. Price: £125. https://www.meetup.com/Behind-The-Veil-Shamanism/

Saturday 28 October; Wicca Moon Halloween Week – Day 6. Hecate workshop and ritual. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Rd, London, SE9 6SH. Cost is £20. Time: Noon-5pm. For details or to book a place email [email protected] or call 020 8850 7803. You can also visit the facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Wicca-Moon-101700123226695/

Saturday 28 October; Free and Open Gorsedd of Caer Abiri Samhain Rite at Avebury stone circle, in Wiltshire. Time: 1.30pm. Bring food and drink to share. https://www.facebook.com/events/716507118549068/

Saturday 28 October; Samhain 2017 – Woodland Wicca Seasonal Ritual and Halloween Gathering. Venue: Queen’s Woods, Near Highgate Station, North London. Meet at The Woodman’s Pub, Archway Road, from 3.00pm. You will be led to the woods at sunset, 4.40pm exactly, where you will pay the `ferryman’ your fee, and enter ritual space!. Time: 3pm to 7pm. Fee: £3. You must reserve a place in advance. https://www.meetup.com/London-Woodland-Witches-Outdoor-Pagans/

Saturday 28 October; “Once Upon a Midnight Dreary” Halloween Ball hosted by A Curious Invitation inspired by the works of Edgar Allen Poe. Venue: The Century Club 61 – 63 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 6LQ. Time: 9pm. Price: Tickets start at £15./ https://curious-invitation-balls.designmynight.com/

Saturday 28 October;  Oracle TV’s Halloween Special. Tune in wherever you are.  Time: 9m-Midnight. http://www.oracletelevision.com/

Sunday 29 October; Meditation at Russell Brands Trew Era Cafe, 30 Whitmore Road, London N1 5QA. Starts 10.15am. Free event. Details: https://www.meetup.com/meditation-trust-london/

Sunday 29 October; Seeds, Berries and Roots – Autumnal Foraging, with The Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. Venue: Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, The Soanes Centre, Southern Grove, London E3 4PX. Time: 10am-1pm. Tickets: £15. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seeds-berries-and-roots-autumnal-foraging-tickets-37818564344

Sunday 29 October; Anderida Gorsedd Samhain open ritual at the Long Man of Wilmington, Sussex. Meet near the car park between 1.30pm and 2pm for a walk up to the chalk hill figure at 2pm. Afterwards back to the Giants Rest pub in Wilmington for a social drink together.

Sunday 29 October; Samhain outdoor Sabbat with the London Wicca Meetup Group. Meet at The Woodman, 414 Archway Road, Highgate, London at 2pm to walk to nearby woods for a ritual at 3pm. Wear outdoor clothes and bring food and drink to share. https://www.meetup.com/The-London-Wicca-Meetup-Group/

Sunday 29 October; Astronomy with Maggie Aderin-Pocock. Hogwarts Curriculum Lecture – part of a series running alongside the Harry Potter Exhibition. Venue: British Library Knowledge Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB. Time: 2pm-3.15pm. Tickets: £15/£10. Visit https://www.bl.uk/events/hogwarts-curriculum-lectures? or call 01937 546546

Sunday, 29 October; The Ageless Wisdom for Everyone study class. Venue: The Theosophical Society, 50 Gloucester Place, London, W1U 8EA. Time: 2pm. Free entry but donations welcome. https://www.meetup.com/Theosophical-Society-in-London/  and http://www.theosophicalsociety.org.uk/

Sunday 29 October; Hypnosis and Reincarnation. Talk by Charles Caruana. Part of the London Month of the Dead series of talk. Venue: Dissenters’ Chapel, 364 Ladbroke Grove, London W10 5AB. Time: 5pm. Tickets £12. Details and Bookings: http://www.londonmonthofthedead.com/

Sunday, 29 October; Psychic and Spiritual Development Class. Venue: Violet Hill Studios , 6 Violet Hill, St Johns Wood, London, NW8 9EB. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15. https://www.meetup.com/London-NW8-Psychic-and-Spiritual-Development-Group/

Monday 30 October, The Eight Sabbats: A Seminar Series. I: The Folk Roots of Halloween Seminar Evening with Will Hunter and Ellie Hughes. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7pm. Tickets £20. Tel: 0207 419 8507 or email: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Monday 30 October, The Dark Tarot – Halloween season meetup with the Tarot and Healing Group. Venue: The Knights Templer pub, Carey Street London, London WC2A 1DT. Time: 7pm. Entry: £5, but you must be a member of the meetup group. https://www.meetup.com/Tarot-and-Healing-Group/

Monday 30 October; Science and Spiritual Practices. Talk by Rupert Sheldrake. Organised by Alternatives. Venue: St James’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, W1J 9LL, Starts: 7pm. Tickets £10/£15 online. http://www.alternatives.org.uk/

Tuesday 31 October; Wheel of the Year Festival – Resting at Chalice Well World Peace Garden, in Glastonbury. Gather at the well head for midday meditation until 12.30pm, followed by conversation on the lower lawn. Free admission to the gardens from 10am to noon. For more details, visit the website http://www.chalicewell.org.uk/

Tuesday 31 October; Heaven Is Calling You. Talk and seance with Theresa Cheung and Claire Broad. Venue: Watkins Books, 19-21 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ. Entrance: 6pm, talk starts 6.30pm. Free event. For more details Tel 020 7836 2182 or visit the website http://www.watkinsbooks.com/

Tuesday 31 October, Death, DMT and Discarnate Entities. Venue: October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester St, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AL. Time: 6pm for 6.30pm start. Entry £8 /£6. https://www.facebook.com/events/933916663443127/

Tuesday 31 October, Embracing the Darkness: A Cultural History of Witchcraft Halloween Book Launch: Talk and Soiree Dr John Callow (IB Tauris Press). Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7pm. Free, but you must reserve a place in advance. Tel: 0207 419 8507 or email: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Tuesday 31 October, The Highgate Vampire at Burgh House, including storytelling by Vanessa Wood of London Dreamtime. Venue: Burgh House New End Square, Hampstead, London NW3 1LT. Time: 7pm start. Price: £18. Details: http://www.burghhouse.org.uk/whats-on/events/the-highgate-vampire/event-type/recitals/page/20 or https://londondreamtime.com/calendar
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Tuesday 31 October, Brooms, Wands and Cauldrons: Instruments of Magic. Talk by Simon Costin. Venue: Knowledge Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB. Time: 7pm Full Tickets: £12/£8. https://www.bl.uk/events/brooms-wands-and-cauldrons-the-instruments-of-magic-with-simon-costin

Tuesday 31 October; Halloween lantern-lit walk and Tamesa river of Souls Ritual by the Thames  with Woodland Witches and Outdoor Pagans. Gather by the Bankside Pier, next to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Bankside, London SE1 9DT at 7.30pm for a procession along the riverbank and a ritual. Wear fancy dress and bring food and drink to share. Cost £2. You must reserve a place in advance.  https://www.meetup.com/The-London-Wicca-Meetup-Group/

Tuesday 31 October; So Moot It Bee Samhain Open Ritual. Venue: 3 John Street, Rochester, Kent ME1 1YL. Time: 7.30pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/231816117352248/

Wednesday 1 November; Time to Meditate – group meditation. Venue: Buddha on a Bicycle, Covent Garden, London. Arrive 6pm for 6.10pm start. Donations of £3 recommended. Details: http://www.meetup.com/meditation-trust-london/
Wednesday 1 November; Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub: Many happy returns? Investigating reincarnation claims in Lebanon. Talk by Prof Chris French. Venue: The Star and Garter, 60 Old Woolwich Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9NY. Time: 7.30pm. Details: http://greenwich.skepticsinthepub.org/

Wednesday 1 November; Wicca for Absolute Beginners. First session in five-week evening class course taught by Suzanne Corbie . Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7pm. Deposit £90 for entire course. Tel: 0207 419 8507 or email: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Wednesday 1 November; Honouring and Remembering the Dead with Behind the Veil Shamanism. Venue: English National Ballet School, Hortensia Rd, London SW10 0QS. Time: 7.15pm Tickets: £25. https://www.meetup.com/Behind-The-Veil-Shamanism/

Thursday 2 November, Chakra Meditation. Talk by Swami Saradananda. Venue: Watkins Books, 19-21 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ. Time: 6pm. Free event. For more details Tel 020 7836 2182 or visit the website http://www.watkinsbooks.com/

Thursday 2 November, Private view of  The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic: An exhibition dedicated to Cornwall’s most magical Museum, featuring photographs from Of Shadows: One Hundred Objects from The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic by Sara Hannant and Simon Costin. Last Tuesday Society. Venue: Viktor Wynd’s Museum of Curiosities, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP. http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/

Thursday 2 November; PFL Samhain Open Ritual hosted by The Pagan Federation London and guests. Venue: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL, Time: 7.30pm for 8pm start. Entry £5/£6. https://pflondon.info/

Thursday 2 November; Earthstars Group Meeting: Samhain – a celebration of the Dead and our Ancestors. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London NW1 4SH. Time: Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start. Entry by donations. https://www.facebook.com/Earthstars-Sacred-Space-104790729559515/

Thursday 2 November – 8 April 2018; Exhibition: Living with Gods: peoples, places and worlds beyond. Venue: British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Tickets: £15 standard, members free but booking essential. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/

Starting 3 November, The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic: An exhibition dedicated to Cornwall’s most magical Museum, featuring photographs from Of Shadows: One Hundred Objects from The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic by Sara Hannant and Simon Costin. Last Tuesday Society. Venue: Viktor Wynd’s Museum of Curiosities, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP. http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/

3-5 November, Mind Body Spirit Wellbeing Festival Birmingham. Venue: NEC Birmingham, Halls, Marston Green, Birmingham B40 1NT. Times: 10am – 6pm Friday, Saturday, 10am – 5pm Sunday. Prices: Friday £11/£9, other day tickets £13/£11. http://www.mindbodyspirit.co.uk/birmingham

Friday 3 November; The Shamanic Path – Healing the Stories that Define Us. Talk by Jez Hughes , author of The Heart of Life – viewable on Amazon. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm. Cost: £12/£14. Advance booking recommended. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Friday 3 November; Valentine Penrose, Surreal Occultress. Lecture by  Dr Sabina Sten. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Tickets £8. Tel: 0207 419 8507 or email: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Friday 3 November;  Wicca Full Moon Ceremony (Taurus) by the Thames with London Woodland Witches Magicians and Outdoor Pagans. Meet at Tate Modern green, outside the Tate Modern, London SE1 at 7pm to walk to the ritual site. Donations of £3/£2 welcome. You must reserve a place in advance. Wear outdoor clothes. Details and bookings: https://www.meetup.com/London-Woodland-Witches-Outdoor-Pagans/

Friday 3 November; Valentine Penrose, Surreal Occultress. Lecture by Dr Sabina Stent. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets £8. Tel: 0207 419 8507 or email: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Friday 3 November; Om Healing for body mind and soul. Venue: The Dhyana Centre, 50 Gloucester Place, London W1U 8EA. Time: 8pm. https://www.meetup.com/Light-in-London/

Saturday 4 November; The Shamanic Path – Healing the Stories that Define Us. Day workshop with Jez Hughes, author of The Heart of Life – viewable on Amazon. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 10am-5pm. Cost: £95. Advance booking recommended. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Saturday 4 November; SPR study day – Psi in Nature. Venue: Society for Psychical Research HQ, 1 Vernon Mews, London W14 0RL. Time: 10.20am-5.30pm. Entry: £42/£38. https://www.spr.ac.uk/

Saturday 4 November; Full Moon Magic Ceremony. Venue: London, NW1 7SU (Exact address will be provided after booking). Time: 2pm start. Tickets: £8 http://uk.funzing.com/funz/full-moon-magic-ceremony-11769?

Saturday 4 November; Dragons! From China to Alchemy to Medieval England, Afternoon Lecture by Ruth Clydesdale coinciding with the British Library Harry Potter Exhibition. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 3pm. Tickets £8. Tel: 0207 419 8507 or email: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Saturday 4 November; Launch party for Every Day Magic – A Pagan Book of Days. This is a Moon Books community book, which I edited. There will be a cream tea and Geraldine and Bali will make the place look lovely and twinkly and snuggly as it will be dark outside. There will be early copies of the book available and I will do some readings from it. Venue: The Atlantis Bookshop, 49A Museum St, London WC1A 1LY. Time: 4pm to 7pm. The party will be free to attend, but you will need to reserve a place in advance. Tel: 020 7405 2120. Website: http://www.theatlantisbookshop.com/

Sunday 5 November; Meditation at Russell Brands Trew Era Cafe, 30 Whitmore Road, London N1 5QA. Starts 10.15am. Free event. Details: https://www.meetup.com/meditation-trust-london/

Sunday 5 November; Druidic Samhain/Hallowmas Celebration on Primrose Hill with the Loose Association of Druids. Gather in the Hawthorne Grove at Primrose Hill, London, NW1 8YH, between 12.30pm and 12.45pm to prepare the site ready for a prompt 1pm start. Nearest tube: Chalk Farm. Bring a small contribution of food and drink to share. All are welcome. https://www.facebook.com/notes/loose-association-of-druids-of-primrose-hill/kalendar-of-rituals-for-2017/1402901283113536/

Sunday 5 November; Candle Magic Workshop – I am running another session of my candle magic workshops based on my book Pagan Portals – Candle Magic. Venue: Treadwell’s Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London, WC1E 7BS. Time: 1pm. Cost: £20 per person. You can book online at https://www.treadwells-london.com/events/ or reserve a place by calling 020 7419 8507, emailing [email protected] or visiting the shop. (View my book at Treadwell’s)

Sunday 5 November; The Crick Crack Club presents Beowulf. Venue: BP Lecture Theatre. British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Tickets: £8. Time: 2.30pm. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/

Sunday 5 November; November Full Moon Peace Fires. Light a candle or fire for peace wherever you are in the world, for as short or long a time as you like between 8am and 4pm PDT (US) time, which is between 3pm and 11pm GMT (UK time). You can light a candle just for an hour or so and state the intention: “Let there be peace on earth and love for one another.” Details: http://peacefires.org/

Note: I do not organise any of these events except my candle magic workshop and the book launch party for Every Day Magic. I try to ensure the details I list are accurate, but please contact the organisers before turning up to any event in case of changes. If you spot something that needs correcting, please email me at [email protected]

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