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Pagan Eye: Medusa Mosaic at Dion in Greece

   November 1, 2022  0 Comments on Pagan Eye: Medusa Mosaic at Dion in Greece

This photo shows a mosaic of Medusa at the Archaeological Park of Dion, an important archaeological site at Mount Olympus in Greece. The picture was sent in by someone who reads this blog. 

Dion contains the archeological remains of sanctuaries from the Hellenistic and Roman periods and the park shows the importance of ancient Dion. The mosaic is in the Villa of Dionysus, one of the most important private buildings in the area. 

Medusa of Greek and Roman mythology, although often depicted as a monster, has also been seen as a victim, a metaphor for unrest, and an icon for feminist rage. Angry women often get unfairly accused of being monstrous, with the reasons for their anger dismissed. Even in ancient times Medusa was considered to be protective as well as fierce. Her image was sometimes worn as an amulet to help keep the warer safe or ward off the evil eye.

The reader who kindly emailed me this photo sent several other pictures from Dion. I’m sharing this before Halloween as a reminder that the legends behind monsters can sometimes have more than one interpretation.

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. 

The photo is copyright the photographer and used here with permission

Links and previous related posts
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/09/organising-goddesses-harder-than.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/10/pagan-eye-lilith-dorsey-introducing.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2022/01/book-excerpt-healing-plants-of-greek.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2018/06/london-necropolis-roman-dead-in.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological_Park_of_Dion

Magical Online & London Events for Samhain

   November 1, 2022  0 Comments on Magical Online & London Events for Samhain

Here is a list of online witchy events and in-person activities over Samhain, or Halloween, and the week ahead. I mostly list online events, and things taking place in London, as that’s where I live, and use UK times. If you know an online ritual, talk, meeting or workshop you want included, please email me at badwitch1234@gmail.com

Throughout October; London Month of the Dead, a month-long festival of talks, concerts, workshops and guided walks, many taking place at in Kensal Green Cemetery Dissenters’ Chapel or Brompton Cemetery. Tickets for individual events are £12-£25. You can find the full programme here: https://londonmonthofthedead.com/index.html 

Now -10 December; Creative Spirits Art Exhibition. Venue: College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm. Details: https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Now – 30 October; Gaia at Southwark Cathedral Southwark Cathedral. Exhibition of Luke Jerram’s installation. Venue: Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, London, SE1 9DA. Monday – Saturday daytime tickets are free but you must reserve a place. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/southwark-cathedral-35795829

Now to 19 February 2023; Hieroglyphs: Unlocking Ancient Egypt. Exhibition at the Sainsbury Gallery at the British Museum, London. Find out more here: britishmuseum.org/hieroglyphs

Now to 6 January 2023; Wicked Spirits? Witchcraft and Magic. Exhibition at Colchester Castle, Essex, CO1 1TJ.  The Museum is also running some after-hours events. https://colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/wickedspirits/
Every Wednesday and Friday; Open Days at the College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 11am – 4pm. Free, just pop in. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/
Wednesday 26 October; A Witch’s Plantasmagoria at the SLBI. Halloween half-term event aimed at 7+ children. Venue: The South London Botanical Institute, 323 Norwood Road, London, SE24 9AQ. Morning and afternoon sessions. Tickets: £5. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-south-london-botanical-institute-8460758615

Wednesday 26 October; (every Wednesdays); Evening Sound Bath Meditation. Venue: She’s Lost Control, 42 Valentine Road, London. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £15.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Wednesday 26 October; Deepening Your Work with the Spirit Doctors and the Spirit World. Start of 6-week online class with Susan Gash, via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 5pm. Tickets: £175. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/
Wednesday 26 October; Kundalini Meditations to Activate the Third Eye. Online  talk by Gemma Bliss, via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £25. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/
Wednesday 26 October; Book Launch – Cloven Country – the Devil and the English Landscape by Jeremy Harte. Venue: The Atlantis Bookshop, 49a Museum Street, London, WC1A 1LY. Tim: 7pm. Tickets free but you must reserve a place. http://theatlantisbookshop.com/

Wednesday 26 October; The Witch’s Feast: A History of Kitchen Witchcraft.  Zoom talk by Melissa Madara through The Last Tuesday Society and The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets · from £5.82. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Wednesday 26 October; New Moon Sound Bath and Meditation With Spiritual Tiik London. Free Online Event. Time: 8pm. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/spiritual-tiik-29294295627
Wednesday 26 October; Treadwell’s Horror Movie Night – Night of the Living Dead. Film is being screened in-person. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store St, London WC1E 7BS, UK. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £7. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Wednesday 26 October; Winternights, a Heathen ancestors celebration. Lecture and ceremony with Andre Henriques. Online via Treadwell’s Bookshop. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £10. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Wednesday 26 October; Free Online Introduction to the Shamanism and the Medicine Wheel Foundation Course, which starts online on Tuesday 1 November. Time: 7.30pm. www.aho.community
Wednesday 26 October; (last Wednesday every month); Samhain: Discussion at Hertford Moot. Venue: The White Horse, 33 Castle Street, Hertford), Time: 8pm. https://www.facebook.com/groups/104788436218047

Thursday 27 October (and other dates); Morning Meditation. Free online event via Mirthy. Time: 9am. https://www.mirthy.co.uk/event-calendar/30-minute-morning-meditation/

Thursday 27 October; 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 27 October; ‘Dancing with Trees’ Opening Night. Art exhibition opening. Venue: The Muse, 269 Portobello Road, London, W11 1LR. Time: from 6pm. Tickets: free. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dancing-with-trees-opening-night-tickets-424971981637

Thursday 27 October; Gower St Presents: Malcolm Gaskill on The Ruin Of All Witches. Venue: Waterstone’s 82 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6EQ. Time: 6.30pm. Tickets: £5 – £13. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/waterstones-15241684138

Thursday 27 October; Film Screening: Veneno Para Las Hadas. Latin American horror movie with witchcraft themes. Venue: Latin American House, 10 Kingsgate Place, London, NW6 4TA. Time: 6.30pm. Tickets: free but you must reserve a place. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/latin-american-house-603816333
Thursday 27 October; Leonora Carrington, Drawing Tarot. Onine talk followed by practical drawing workshop via London Drawing Group. Time: 6.30pm. Tickets by donation. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/london-drawing-group-11407647443

Thursday 27 October;  Antique Beat Salon – London City of Shadows – City at Night City of Light – Journeys into Lamplit London. Talks by Professor Matthew Beaumont and Christopher Sugg. Venue: The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London, WC1N 1JD. Time: 7pm. Tickets from £9.21. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/antique-beat-30320437690

Thursday 27 October; Ghosted: That’s So Scorpio Shadow Work with Alice Briselden Waters. Venue: She’s Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £25.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events
Thursday 27 October (every Thursday); Talk on a paranormal subject for ASSAP members. Time: 7pm. Free event, with Zoom link details emailed out to members. To join ASSAP, for £5 per year, visit http://www.assap.ac.uk/.

Thursday 27 October; Ancient Witches and The Goddess Hecate. Zoom talk by Prof Marguerite Johnson through The Last Tuesday Society and The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. Time: 8.30pm. Tickets · from £5.82. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Friday 28 October; (every Friday); Friday Live Chat hosted by Rachel Patterson, author of the Kitchen Witch series of books. Time: 9am. Free. https://www.facebook.com/RachelPattersonbooks/
Friday 28 – Sunday 30 October; Mind Body Spirit Festival Birmingham 2022. Venue: NEC, Pendigo Way, Marston Green, B40 1PP. Starts 11am. Tickets · £13-£30. https://www.facebook.com/events/1899217576936466/
Friday 28 October; Curator’s Exhibition Tour of the exhibition Creative Spirits with Vivienne Roberts. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies. 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £12. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/
Friday 28 October; Higher Healing: Outdoor Samhain on Hampstead Heath, with Freya via London Woodland Witches, Wiccans and Pagans. Meet at Hampstead Heath near Parliament Hill, London, N6 6JS). Time: 4pm. Tickets: £13. https://www.meetup.com/LondonWoodlandWitches/
Friday 28 October (and other dates); Mind, Body Restore Online Yoga. Time: Time: 6.15pm. Free online event. https://www.meetup.com/freestuffandfreeevents/

Friday 28 October; The Wheel of the Year – Free book launch event by author Dr. Rebecca Beattie’s, with witchcraft historian Dr. John Callow. Hybrid event. In-person venue: Treadwell’s, 33 Store St, London WC1E 7BS Time: 7pm. Tickets: Free but reserve a place. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events

Friday 28 October (and other dates); Laughter Playshop. Time: Time: 7pm. Free online event but £2 donations welcome. https://www.meetup.com/freestuffandfreeevents/
Friday 28 October; Samhain Celtic Celebration . Venue: Butser Ancient Farm, Chalton Lane, Chalton, Hants. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £16. https://www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/
Friday 28 October; Samhain Incense Magick. Incense creation workshop by
Earth Remedies. Venue: Earth Remedies 45 Dace Road London E3 2NG. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £38.32 https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/earth-remedies-32296357985

Friday 28 October; Online Guided Journey with Goddess Athena, run by Under the Dancing Tree and Rachel Sarah. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £12. https://www.underthedancingtree.co.uk/shop/JOURNEY-WITH-ATHENA-~-Autumn-Equinox-~-Online-Celebration-~-23rd-Sept-2022-p227773092?

Friday 28 October (every Friday); Meditation Session. Time: 7.30pm. Free online event but donations welcome. https://www.meetup.com/freestuffandfreeevents/
Friday 28 October; Wonky Witch Samhain Moot. Venue: Kallima Wellbeing Centre, 8A Adam Business Centre, Cranes Farm Rd, Basildon, SS14 3JF. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £17.84. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/kallima-wellbeing-centre-15972923230
Friday 28 October (and other dates); Hex and the City – immersive theatre walk about the history of London’s witches. Time: 8pm. Tickets: from £14. https://www.herstoricaltours.co.uk/hexandthecity

Saturday 29 October; Botanical Magic Series – Craft a Witch Bottle. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London, NW1 6XT. Time: 10am  4pm. Tickets: £70  includes: all materials, and your handmade witch bottle, with botanicals to make further witch bottles. https://www.theperfumemistress.com/workshops/2022/10/29/botanicalmagicseriescraftawitchbottle-2022

Saturday 29 October;  House of Hackney’s Festival of Witchmas: Herbalism Workshop with Harriet for Samhain. Venue: House of Hackney, Mark Street, London, EC2A 4ER. Time: 10am. Tickets: £37.06. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/house-of-hackney-10655822250
Saturday 29 October; The Essex Samhain Witches Market and Masked Ball. Venue: Kelvedon Institute, 78 High Street, Kelvedon, Essex. Witches Market from 10.30am til 4.30pm, Masked Ball 7pm til 10.30pm. Market entry £3, Masked Ball £15/£18. https://www.facebook.com/events/571107647380974

Saturday 29 October; Constructing the Witch: How Women became Maleficent. One-day course with Ann Jeffers via City Lit. Venue: Keeley Street, Covent Garden, London. Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm. Full fee: £59, Senior fee: £47, Concession:£36. https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/constructing-the-witch-how-women-became-maleficent

Saturday 29 October; Wisdom and Wellbeing Fair with readings, talks and a market. Venue: Kenley Memorial Hall, 92 Godstone Rd, Kenley. Starts 11am. https://www.facebook.com/events/585693283111094
Saturday 29 October; Ghosted: Samhain Women’s Circle For Manifesting A New World  with Molly Anne Chinners. Venue: She’s Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 11am. Tickets: £35.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events
Saturday 29 October; Clairsentience: The Psychic Feeling. Online workshop with Hernan Cotroneo via the College of Psychic Studies.  Time: 11am. Tickets: £105. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/
Saturday 29 October; Nature Spirits. Online workshop with Rachel Patterson, via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £75. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/
Saturday 29 October; Walking in the footsteps of your year, at this Samhain Solar Festival. Guided walk with Jeremy Rye. Meet at the Tower of London, Lion Gate, St Katharine’s and Wapping, London EC3N 4AE, Time: 2pm. Tickets: £25. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/jeremy-rye-31055883021

Saturday 29 October; Sacred Samhain Women’s Circle. Venue: The Bridge, 73-81 Southwark Bridge Road, London, SE1 0NQ. Time: 4.30pm. Tickets: £18. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/jojo-mclaren-33983985257?

Saturday 29 October; Samhain Ceremony by Indigo Earth. Inclusive event with priest of Indigo Earth Joseph Atiase. Venue: Hackney Marshes, 146 Lea Bridge Road, London E5 9RB. Time: 5pm. Tickets by donation. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/samhain-ceremony-by-indigo-earth-tickets-431231995507
Sunday 30 – Monday 31 October; Samhain Virtual Event via The Pagan Federation Community. Spanning two days, a variety of content courtesy of Pagan Federation Community members, and by the Interfaith and LGBTQIA+ teams. Free online event. Starts 10am. https://www.facebook.com/groups/paganfed/events
Sunday 30 October – 10 November; Samhainfest 2022 at Mystery School of the Goddess. Twelve days of online events with a Samhain ritual led by Priestess Kimberly Moore and including a reading of Brigit Death Poetry with Mael Brigde on 9 November. Register at graveyardgoddess.com.
Sunday 30 October; How to Use the Dragon Path Oracle. In-person workshop with Caroline Mitchell. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies. 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 11am-4pm. Tickets: £125 includes a set of the oracle cards. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/
Sunday 30 October; Mythic London Walk: Legendary heroes, gods and goddesses of the City of London, with Caroline Wise, organised through  Treadwell’s Bookshop. Meet outside St Clement Danes, Strand, St Clement Dane Church, Strand, Temple, London WC2R 1DH. Time: 11.20am start. Tickets £30. Book online at https://www.treadwells-london.com/ or reserve a place by visiting the shop.

Sunday 30 October; Woodland Witches Samhain Ritual 2022 with Mani via London Woodland Witches, Wiccans and Pagans. Venue: Queen’s Wood, Highgate, North London. Time: 3pm Tickets: £7. https://www.meetup.com/LondonWoodlandWitches/

Sunday 30 October; Samhain Fire Ritual and Storytelling (plus Hot Tub and Seasonal Fare). Venue: 65 Cliffview Rd, London SE13 7DB. Time: 3pm. Tickets:  £35. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/emma-pask-and-nick-tulett-54697661073
Sunday 30 October; Ghosted: Samhain Circle. Venue: She’s Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 5pm. Tickets: £30-£35.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events
Sunday 30 October (every Sunday); 30-Minute Mindfulness for people of all beliefs. Venue: Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, 3 Pilgrim’s Place, London NW3 1NG. Time: 6pm. Free, just turn up. https://www.rosslynhillchapel.org.uk/
Sunday 30 October; KW Online Samhain Ritual. Online event for members of Kitchen Witch Coven of Natural Witchery. Time: 7pm. Free for members. https://www.facebook.com/events/5516163861795393/
Sunday 30 October; The Wiches’ Sabbath – Film screening of the silent movie Haxan with piano accompanyment. Part of London Month of the Dead. Venue: Guys Hospital Chapel, London SE1. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15. https://acuriousinvitation.com/

Sunday 30 October; Samhain Pagan Ceremony. Venue: Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, 3 Pilgrim’s Place, London NW3 1NG. Time: 7pm. Free, just turn up. https://www.rosslynhillchapel.org.uk/

Sunday 30 October;  Halloween in New Orleans. Zoom talk by Dr Louise Fenton through The Last Tuesday Society and The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets · from £5.82. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619
Sunday 30 October; The Treasure Seeker and other Suffolk Ghost Tales by Kirsty Hartsiotis through The Last Tuesday Society and The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. Time: 9pm. Tickets · from £5.82. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619
Monday 31 October – 5 November;  Beyond the Veil Summit Free Online Event. Organised via Llewellyn Worldwide and Past Life Lady. Free online event. Starts 1pm. https://www.facebook.com/LlewellynBooks

Monday 31 October; Walking the Wheel with Hekate at Samhain. Workshop. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Road, London, SE9 6SH. Time: 2pm- 8pm. Tickets: £50. https://www.wiccamoonuk.com/product-category/events-and-workshops/

Monday 31 October; Halloween Open Evening by Candlelight at Crossbones Graveyard, Southwark. Location: Redcross Way, London, SE1 1TA. Time: 5pm to 7pm. Recommended donations £5. Details here: https://www.bost.org.uk/  or https://www.facebook.com/BanksideOpenSpacesTrust/

Monday 31 October;  Ecological Decline and the Rise of Modern Witchcraft, Drawing Tarot. Online talk by Anna Titov via London Drawing Group. Time: 6.30pm. Tickets by donation. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/london-drawing-group-11407647443
Monday 31 October;  Malcolm Gaskill on The Ruin Of All Witches book launch event. Venue: Hatchards, London W1J 9LE. Time: 6.30pm. Tickets: £10. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ruin-of-all-witches-with-malcolm-gaskill-hatchards-tickets-439552823327?
Monday 31 October;  Taking Nature’s Hand: November. What has nature in mind for you this month? Online with Jeremy Rye. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £20. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/jeremy-rye-3105588302
Monday 31 October; (every Monday); Candlelit Lunar Yoga. Venue: She’s Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15 per session.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Monday 31 October; Women’s Circle for Samhain – part of the Women’s Circles collection by The Reformed Bohemian. Online event. Time: 7pm. Tickets by donation. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-reformed-bohemian-39644491363

Monday 31 October;  Samhain – Online Celebration with Cunning Folk.  Time: 7pm, Free but you must register for a ticket. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cunning-folk-7829505560
Monday 31 October; Pluto the Profound. Online talk on astrology by Patricia Godden via the Astrological Lodge of London. 60 Gloucester Place. Time: 7pm. Tickets £10. https://astrolodge.co.uk/events/
Monday 31 October;  Pagan FutureFests Samhain Open Circle. Venue: The Hope, Carshalton, Surrey – in the marquee at the rear. Time: 7pm for 7.30pm. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063671617518

Monday 31 October; Samhain – Zoom Death Meditation Ceremony. Breathwork meditation journey. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £35. https://www.breathceremony.com/service-page/samhain-zoom-death-meditation-ceremony?

Monday 31 October; Waxing Moon Ritual-Workshop: earth intimacy and queer ancestors. Venue: Ugly Duck 49 Tanner Street London SE1 3PL. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £5.98. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/intimate-animals-amp-ugly-duck-48346099203
Monday 31 October (and other dates); Magic, Witchcraft and Paranormal Walk with Nigel. Starts at Saint Paul’s Churchyard, London. Starts at 7.30pm. Tickets: £15. https://uk.funzing.com/funz/magic-witchcraft-paranormal-walk-17554?
Monday 31 October; The Hermetic Journey Through the Zodiac (2). Online talk on astrology by Smiljana Gavrancic via The Astrological Lodge of London. Time:  8.30pm. Tickets: £10. https://astrolodge.co.uk/events/

Tuesday 1 November;  Ghosted: Death, Transformation and Karmic Cord Cutting. Venue: She’s Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £25.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Tuesday 1 November; Moina Mathers: Mistress of Magic.Online talk by Geraldine Beskin, via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £16. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/
Tuesday 1 November; Walking London’s Horror History and Offbeat British Cult Films. Talks by Lauren Jane Barnett, Darrell Buxton and Jennifer Wallis. Presented by: London Fortean Society. Venue: Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Rd, London SE14 6TY. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £6.60. https://www.wegottickets.com/LondonForteanSociety

Tuesday 1 November  (first Tuesday each Month); Essex Witch Trials. Talk at Romford Pagan Moot. Venue: The Golden Lion, 2 High Street, Romford. Time: 7pm. Entry £4. https://www.facebook.com/Romford-Pagan-Moote-634178063700381

Tuesday 1 November; Shamanism and the Medicine Wheel Foundation Course, first of 16 sessions. Online event through Aho Studio. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £30 for the course. www.aho.community
Tuesday 1 November (tbc but usually first Tuesday each Month); The Witches’ Inn Moot. Venue: Halt and Pull pub in Horley. Time: 8pm. Free event. https://www.facebook.com/The-Witches-Inn-1568424150049437
Wednesday 2 November; Covid-19 Memorial Ceremony for Day of the Dead. Venue: Latin American House, 10 Kingsgate Place, London, NW6 4TATime: 6.30pm. Tickets: free but you must reserve a place. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/latin-american-house-603816333
Wednesday 2 November; Lincolnshire Witches; Spellcrafting workshop. Online event via Heritage Lincolnshire. Time: 7pm. Tickets from £11.37. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/heritage-lincolnshire-20095110961

Wednesday 2 November (first Wednesday of the month); Drumming and Meditation online with Taz Thornton. Time: 7pm Price: free. https://www.facebook.com/TazThorntonOfficial#

Wednesday 2 November; Making Magical Altars. Workshop-Class with Hannah Sanders. Online via Treadwell’s Bookshop. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £10. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events
Wednesday 2 November (and other dates); Sensory Gong and Sound Bath. Venue: The Mandrake, 20-21 Newman Street, London W1T 1PG. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £40. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-mandrake-17825575648
Wednesday 2 November (and other dates); Awakening Wednesdays: Online Drop-in Group with Harry MacDonald via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 8pm. Tickets: £10 (free for members). https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/
Wednesday 2 November;  Samhain – stories of ghosts and the darker face of faerie by Hugh Lupton through The Last Tuesday Society and The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. Time: 9pm. Tickets · from £5.82. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619

Thursday 3 November; The First Ghosts. Talk by Irving Finkel. Venue: Watkins Bookshop, 19-21 Cecil Court, · London WC2N 4EZ. Time: 5.30pm. Free event.  https://www.meetup.com/WatkinsBooks

Thursday 3 November; Fem-Animist Alchemy. Online talk with esoteric artist Hazel Florez via Magickal Women and Company. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £10. https://www.magickalwomenconference.com/events
Thursday 3 November; Elemental Fire Circle and Gong Healing. Venue: She’s Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £30.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events
Thursday 3 November; PF London Samhain Open Ritual with AV Coven and Luna Iter via Pagan Federation London. Venue: Pirate Castle, Gilbey’s Wharf Oval Road NW1 7EA London, UK Time: 7pm. Entry £8 for PF members, £10 for non-members. https://www.facebook.com/PaganFederationLondon

Thursday 3 November; Mantra and the Power of Sound. Online talk by Ann Mathie via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £16. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Thursday 3 November; Discovering Your Psychic Self. Start of 6-week online class with Jeremy Turner-Welch, via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £175. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/
Thursday 3 November; Spiritual Abduction: ETs, NDEs and DMT. Online talk by Pascal Michael through The Last Tuesday Society and The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. Time: 8pm. Tickets · from £5.82. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-viktor-wynd-museum-amp-the-last-tuesday-society-12203346619
Friday 4 and 11 November;  Lincolnshire Witches; Shadow Work Part 1 and 2. Online event via Heritage Lincolnshire. Time: 7pm. Tickets £17.84 – £26.46. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/heritage-lincolnshire-20095110961
Thursday 3 November; Drum Healing. Venue: She’s Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £15.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events

Friday 4 November; The Witches Circle Monthly Class. Venue: Kallima Wellbeing Centre, 8A Adam Business Centre, Cranes Farm Rd, Basildon, SS14 3JF. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets: £16.76. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/kallima-wellbeing-centre-15972923230

Saturday 5 November; Black Lotus Kult Annual Celebration: One Beyond Ten – A Celebration of the works of Kenneth and Steffi Grant.  Caroline Wise will give an illustrated talk on  Kenneth Grant’s London Town. London venue, details of location and times sent to those who book. https://blacklotuskult.com/2022/10/15/blk-celebration-2022-speaker-caroline-wise/
Saturday 5 November;  A Visionary Afternoon of Art and Auras. In-person workshop with Katja Tschährä. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2EB. Time: 1pm. Tickets: £65. . https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/
Saturday 5 November; Show and Share: Visions of the Occult. Tate Archivist Victoria Jenkins guiding a tour of books, drawings, photographs, and other objects on witchcraft, folklore and pagan rituals, demonology, magic, astrology, and tarot. This is followed by projector show, a panel, performances and film screenings with guests Lally MacBeth, Emma Sharples and Jamie Sutcliffe. Venue: Tate Archive, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. Time: 1pm-5.45pm. Tickets £30, including a copy of Victoria’s new book, Visions of the Occult. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/show-and-share-visions-of-the-occult
Saturday 5 November; Gods of the Underworld: Persephone, Hades, Demeter. Online workshop with Joanna LaPrade via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 2pm. Tickets: £75. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/
Saturday 5 November;  Ghosted: Meet the Wild Woman Within. Venue: She’s Lost Control, Valentine Road, London. Time: 6pm. Tickets: £35.  https://sheslostcontrol.co.uk/collections/all-events
Sunday 6 November; Communication from Beyond the Veil. Online workshop with Gerrie March via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 1pm. Tickets: £80. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/
Sunday 6 November; Manifesting with the Ancestors and Goddesses. Online workshop with Abiola Abrams via the College of Psychic Studies. Time: 3pm. Tickets: £75. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Sunday 6 November; Full Moon Event with Peace Fires. Light a candle or fire for peace wherever you are in the world, for just for 10 minutes or an hour or longer and state the intention: “Let there be peace on earth and love for one another.” Free. Details: http://peacefires.org/

Sunday 6 November; Storytelling Open Mic- Fire and Water. Venue: Electric Elephant Cafe, 186A Crampton Street, London, SE17 3AE, Time: 3pm, but earlier if you want to order food. Suggested donation £5. https://www.facebook.com/events/682788859855911/
Sunday 6 November (first Sunday of the month); Samhain with Woodspirits. Meet at Cheshunt station before walking to Lee Valley Park. Time: 3pm. Free in-person event for members of Woodspirits group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/4032235040150960
Sunday 6 November; Woodland Bard Online – Pine. Event by Walkwithtrees. Time: 6pm. Tickets: £7. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/jonathon-huet-at-walk-with-trees-30650264428
Sunday 6 and 13 November;  Roleplaying the Occult Imagination. Two-session workshop with Peter Bebergal and Gareth Branwyn. Online via Treadwell’s Bookshop. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £30. https://www.treadwells-london.com/events
Notes: I am not responsible for the content of these events. Contact event organisers directly if you have any questions. I generally list things in the UK, especially in or near London, but some are outside that time zone. Where a practitioner is offering information about magical wellbeing and healing, this is *not* medical advice.

Playlist for the Wheel of the Year: Mid-Autumn

   October 31, 2022  0 Comments on Playlist for the Wheel of the Year: Mid-Autumn
Over the years, I have created rituals to celebrate the Wheel of the Year with my wife and children. Music has been an essential part of the experience.

EVOLUTIONARY RITUALS: Dancing Through the Darkness to the Ecozoic Era, with Carol Kilby – Class starts November 1

   October 28, 2022  0 Comments on EVOLUTIONARY RITUALS: Dancing Through the Darkness to the Ecozoic Era, with Carol Kilby – Class starts November 1
“We must ensure that the language we use, the rituals we celebrate and the symbols we employ keep pointing to the great living cathedral of Earth, sea, and sky.”
— John Philip Newell

Samhain (The Fall Equitherm) Approaches (+ Online Rituals)!

   October 16, 2022  0 Comments on Samhain (The Fall Equitherm) Approaches (+ Online Rituals)!
This is one of the most sacred times of the year for me – a time when I feel my Ancestors even more closely than usual, as well as a time to remember those who have died this past year. …

What Do We Mean by “Revering Nature”? A Reality Check

   October 14, 2022  0 Comments on What Do We Mean by “Revering Nature”? A Reality Check
Life is one of the Sacred four pillars of Atheopaganism. And it is often said of Pagans generally that we revere or even “worship” Nature. So…what do we mean by that? To explore that, we have to go back about 250 years to a major wellspring of modern Paganism, which is Romanticism. Starting in the …

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Community Update, Oct. 2022

   October 12, 2022  0 Comments on Community Update, Oct. 2022
Hi, everyone! We had our regular quarterly meeting of the Atheopagan Society Council last week, and we are going to be going through a strategic planning process to set priorities and objectives for our community for the next 2-3 years at our next meeting, in January. The results of the recent poll of community members …

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As If it Were the Last

   October 11, 2022  0 Comments on As If it Were the Last
Yom Kippur was this week, and I found it trickier to integrate into my Pagan practice. While Rosh Hashanah has several lovely rituals that felt easy to respectfully adapt, Yom Kippur is literally 25 hours of fasting and asking God to put away the smitey stick for another year, which jars with my beliefs about sin and the sacred. So I took a while to find my bearings with this holiest of Jewish holy days.

A Critique of the Destiny

   October 6, 2022  0 Comments on A Critique of the Destiny
The Destiny is actually just the latest version of a very old story, the most dangerous story ever told, the story of progress.

Why Paganism is so revolutionary, Dealing with Difficult Family, the Fall Equinox, cults, and more! Recent Episodes of THE WONDER podcast, by Mark Green

   October 6, 2022  0 Comments on Why Paganism is so revolutionary, Dealing with Difficult Family, the Fall Equinox, cults, and more! Recent Episodes of THE WONDER podcast, by Mark Green
The concept behind THE WONDER—named, of course, for the awe and reverence we feel as we contemplate the magnificent Universe—is that it will be an ongoing resource for non-theist Pagans to inform and inspire our practices and stimulate our thinking.