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January 2019
Numerology for You: 2019
Numerology for You: 2019 Evening Class - Sue Terry Numerology has a long history in magic and divination, but it tells about your personal character and your life as a whole, and numerological cycles indicate the rising opportunities and obstacles. This evening class introduces numerology and sets each participant a plan for 2019, based on their Personal Year Number. As a bonus, you tutor Sue Terry shows numerology's links with the tarot, using the richness of tarot card imagery to deepen and empower…
Find out more »Thelema Without Tears – Six-week course
Thelema Without Tears Six-week course – Marco Visconti Studying Thelema is a lifetime endeavour, but this six-week course gives participants a theoretical and practical grounding; with this under their belt, people can either go further, or work alone with an appreciation of one of the major esoteric currents of Western magic. All will be able to follow a daily routine of study and ritual as devised by Aleister Crowley himself in “Liber Aleph.” The course is well-structured and each session…
Find out more »Making Blended Incense for Magic
Making Blended Incense for Magic – Afternoon Class – Rebecca Beattie Since ancient times, loose blended incenses have been used for purification, for summoning spirits, and in the natural magic — spells of love, prosperity and success. Rebecca Beattie introduces you to some of the ancient scents, and you experience them first-hand, to learn from experience. She then teaches you how to makeyour own blend according to old esoteric traditions and Wiccan principles, for a particular aim you have in mind. This is…
Find out more »Women, Sex and Spiritualism
Women, Sex and Spiritualism Lecture - Matt Wingett From its 19th-century beginnings in Hydesville New York, modern Spiritualism was primarily a woman-centred religion. Matt Wingett traces the views of the church and scientists towards Spiritualist women. Religious critics called them witches, and accused them of meddling with demonic forces. The scientific community, which was mostly male, focussed on the what was happening the the women's bodies when they were in seances: the investigators pried under the petticoats and tied them up with…
Find out more »Witch Bottles for Practical Magic
Witch Bottles for Practical Magic Afternoon workshop – Tanya Moulding Since the middle ages, people in England have made witch bottles for protection against bad luck, curses and misfortune. This workshop introduces the historic witch bottle with its construction using nails, urine and fingernail clippings — and the grim tales of psychic attack it would repel. The class then turns to look at modern versions of the bottle, which use flower petals, flower oils and items to concentrate and activate your positive…
Find out more »Imbolc Witchcraft
Imbolc Witchcraft Evening Class - Rebecca Beattie In the witches' wheel of the year, Imbolc is marked on the night of 31 Jan and the day of 1st Feb, and is a revival of the Celtic festival honouring the goddess Brigit. It correlates to Candlemas, and has strong associations with the returning of light and creativity. Tonight explores the way witches see this time of year, and how they mark it, and gives participants an chance to learn and experience…
Find out more »SOLD OUT Tarot Reading: Foundation Course
Tarot Reading: Foundation Course Eight week course – Sue Merlyn Sold out. Learn to read tarot with a gifted experienced teacher. In an active and well-structured course, you learn the mystical symbolism of the cards, the visual language of their codes and archetypes. There are not only short teaching lectures but also in-class practice readings, homework, interactive class activities and backup support. By the end of the eight-week course, students can use tarot in meditation and do simple…
Find out more »Aleister Crowley’s Final Years
Aleister Crowley's Final Years Lecture - Antony Clayton As he declined into old age, the infamous mage Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) moved from London into a Hastings retirement home for bohemian types, an eccentric and vibrant guest house called 'Netherwood.' From his room, he continued the Great Work of promulgating the magico-philosophy of Thelema, with a young Kenneth Grant as his secretary. Letters were dicatated, missives sent, guests received, and charters for lodges issued. Antony Clayton is a researcher and author of…
Find out more »Scrying: From Black Mirrors to Crystal Balls
Scrying: From Black Mirrors to Crystal Balls Practical Class – Lucya Starza Images appearing, flickering in the edges of the sight — a view into a future or a distant place. Scrying is the art of gazing into reflective surfaces to achieve that special vision, and it is an art that can be developed. In this four-and-a-half-hour afternoon class, Lucya Starza introduces scrying, and teaches the exercises that help a person cultivate the ‘second sight.’ By the end of the…
Find out more »The Female Body in the Study of Esotericism
The Female Body in the Study of Esotericism Lecture - Georgia van Raalte In this provocative lecture Georgia van Raalte sets a challenge to the emerging academic discipline of Esotericism, looking at how scholars of that field have treated the female body and female bodily experience. She argues that is is consistently erased and moreover, that the lacuna has been unchallenged. She covers a range of examples, starting with the treatment of women in the study of mediumship and mesmerism,…
Find out more »Carl Jung and the Red Book: An Occult Journey
Carl Jung and the Red Book: An Occult Journey Lecture - Dr Vivianne Crowley Gustav Jung was one of the foremost psychologists and thinkers of the twentieth century, whose theories about archetypes, the collective unconscious and synchronicity deeply influenced the Western magical revival. This lecture explores the Red Book, Jung's illustrated spiritual journal in a critical period of his life. It recorded his inner journey into the unconscious and his dialogue with his Holy Guardian Angel figure – Philemon. For…
Find out more »February 2019
Celtic Traditions of Creativity
Celtic Traditions of Creativity Bardic Workshop – Jonathan Woolley Early Welsh and Irish bardism permeates modern druidry: bards left not only inspiring writings but also techniques for attaining creative inspiration. This workshop introduces historical bards before focussing on their methods. Integral to creative work is inspiration, which contemporary druids loosely translate as ‘awen’ – in a spiritually engaged path, the bardic path, be it musical or poetic, is unpacked further for practical help. Jonathan Woolley leads this well-structured, clear and engaged half-day class, which…
Find out more »Lukumi and LGBT People
The Lukumi Religion and LGBT People An Afro-Caribbean Religious Tradition Lecture - Morgan Page Lukumi (also called Santeria or Regla de Ocha) is an Afro-Diasporic religion from Cuba which is based around the worship of deities known as Orisha, as well as ancestor reverence. It is a communal religion that strives to bring people into alignment with their destinies through song, dance, sacrifice, and divination. Since its beginnings, it has been long associated - both positively and negatively - with an…
Find out more »Opposites Within – Spiritual Psychology Weekend
Opposites Within – Spiritual Psychology Weekend This is Workshop II in the ‘Know Thyself’ Series with Vivianne and Chris Crowley Masculine and feminine, ego and shadow – the spiritual journey is a struggle to integrate the competing energies within , and to discover and connect with the true self. Aimed at those practising specific spiritual or magical traditions, and for those on their own personal path, it is geared to aiding understanding of the inner self in all its complexity,…
Find out more »Pamela Colman Smith: Fireplace Unveiling
Pamela Colman Smith: Fireplace Unveiling with Talk Talk and Fireplace Unveiling The artist of the famed Rider-Waite tarot deck was Pamela Colman Smith (1878-1951). A trained magician who had belonged to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, she has since her death become an icon for women occultists of today. Creative, Sapphic, commonly thought in her own to day to have been of mixed race, Colman Smith lived for her art, for women's equality and for religion. This talk…
Find out more »Witchcraft and Gay Liberation 1969/2019
Witchcraft and Gay Liberation 1969/2019 Lecture - Dr Brooke Palmieri American author Leo Louis Martello (1930-2000) is best known for Weird Ways of Witchcraft (1969) and Witchcraft: The Old Religion (1973). Martello combined the spiritual with the political as a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). Tonight's speaker introduces this remarkable figure, and argues that Martello's work, writings, and friendships advocate nothing less than a revolution in the history of witchcraft - he was the first to conceive (and champion) a witchcraft that is…
Find out more »Tarot Intermediate Course
Tarot Intermediate Course Eight-week Course – Suzanne Corbie New dates: now runs from 20th Feb 2019 So you’ve done the basic course in reading tarot, but you want to progress. For students who have done a foundation tarot class, this is the great way to go further. Join Suzanne Corbie for eight Wednesday evenings of interactive learning to develop your interpretation skills, practice new spreads, and deepen your understanding. You will learn about reversed cards, connecting and opposing pairs, patterns and…
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