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February 2019
SOLD OUT Tarot Intermediate Course
Tarot Intermediate Course Eight-week Course – Suzanne Corbie Sold out 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…
Find out more »SOLD OUT Love Magic for the Urban Witch
SOLD OUT. Love Magic for the Urban Witch: Historic Sources and Practical Applications Afternoon Class - Suzanne Corbie Sold out. Aimed at the modern urban witch, this intensive afternoon gives a feminist and creative approach to love magic, drawing on historical materials from the ancient and pre-modern periods. The introductory talk looks at specific practices of love magic in ancient Sumer, Egypt, and the Graeco-Roman world, examining a selection of rituals, charms, spells and symbols. From this base,…
Find out more »SOLD OUT Mithras: A Roman God in London
Mithras: A Roman God in London Lecture - Ruth Clydesdale SOLD OUT In a dark cave, a man straddling a bull plunges a dagger into its neck. A dog and a snake leap to lick its blood, while a scorpion grips its testicles. This image is the centrepiece of Mithraism, a mystery cult of the Roman Empire. Here in London the Walbrook Mithraeum has been superbly restored and opened to visitors in 2017. Speaker Ruth Clydesdale delves into…
Find out more »SOLD OUT Practical Sigil Magic
SOLD OUT - Practical Sigil Magic Evening Seminar – workshop – Mark Vincent Sold out. Making sigils is a technique of practical, results-oriented magic. With roots in old grimoires, sigil magic was updated by the famed occult artist Austin Osman Spare, who incorporated the use of the subconscious and personal creativity. Chaos magick took it up with the work of Peter Carroll, and from there it has sometimes come to also involve active self-hypnosis. This class takes you through…
Find out more »SOLD OUT Practical Sigil Magic
SOLD OUT. Practical Sigil Magic - Evening Seminar – Workshop – Mark Vincent Sold out Making sigils is a technique of practical, results-oriented magic. With roots in old grimoires, sigil magic was updated by the famed occult artist Austin Osman Spare, who incorporated the use of the subconscious and personal creativity. Chaos magick took it up with the work of Peter Carroll, and from there it has sometimes come to also involve active self-hypnosis. This class takes you through essential…
Find out more »March 2019
SOLD OUT Kenneth Grant Conference
Kenneth Grant Conference - Launching 'Servants of the Star & the Snake' - Starfire Publishing Sold out This full day of talks on British occultist Kenneth Grant (1924-2011) is held in conjunction with the release of Starfire's collection of essays, Servants of the Star & the Snake, bringing together aficionados of all things Typhonian. It run 11 am to 6pm. Henrik Bogdan: Creative Imagination, Arcanization, and Obliqueness: Deciphering Kenneth Grant’s Magical Universe Michael Staley: The Emergence of New Isis Lodge Caroline…
Find out more »SOLD OUT. British Museum and Awakening English Magic –
British Museum and Awakening English Magic Guided Tour – Caroline Wise Sold out. The British Museum is an icon in British occultism: from the 1880s on, magicians met in the reading room, studied and translated seminal texts, and saw pagan deities in the galleries. Inspired by manuscripts and finds from around the world and from Britain, they created systems of magic that flourished and grew. This tour highlights the pagan deitiesthat inspired the magical people at the heart of…
Find out more »Young Urban Witch: Trees and Druidry
Young Urban Witch: Trees and Druidry Evening Mini-Workshop – Rebecca Beattie This is a an evening for younger Londoners, art students and musicians from the DIY and warehouse scene. Treadwell’s is hosting these to introduce this community to the basics of a wild, free witchcraft. Please note it is for people under 30 who are curious about the witch’s path and magic grounded in a feminist outlook. This workshop starts with a lively illustrated talk which opens up a key topic of witchcraft,…
Find out more »SOLD OUT Psychedelic Shamanism
SOLD OUT. Psychedelic Shamanism - Lecture - Julian Vayne Sold out. In this lecture Julian Vayne will explore the sacred drugs of shamanism, a story rich with his first hand descriptions of both indigenous ceremony and the latest licensed research into psychedelics. Expect a heady blend of chemistry, politics, medicine and magic to be brewed up tonight. Julian Vayne is an explorer of alternate realities and entheogenic magics, with over 30 years' experience. He is the author of many titles…
Find out more »Queering Magic – Day Workshop
Queering Magic - Theory and Practice Day-long Intensive - Julian Vayne Beyond polarity and into multiplicity: a day dedicated to magic as a lived practice. Julian Vayne leads a day-long intensive which works actively with identity, sexuality and power in a space that is safe and inclusive. It will involve ritual, breath, voice work and other methods to explore liminal spirits from both ancient myth and contemporary culture. We will share our insights and weave together multiple magical intentions to enable…
Find out more »SOLD OUT Spring Equinox Witchcraft
Spring Equinox Witchcraft Evening Seminar with Practical - Rebecca Beattie In the witches' wheel of the year, Spring Equinox is a time of the secrets of the earth coming to life, of hares, of old customs at holy wells. Tonight explores the way witches see this season, and how they mark it. It opens up the connection with nature of a wild, free witchcraft. inclusive, and grounded in a feminist outlook. The evening starts with a lively illustrated talk, welcoming…
Find out more »Marseille Tarot II: Minor Cards
Marseille Tarot II: Minor Cards Full day Class - Adrien Mastrosimone For people who have attended one of the Marseille Tarot first classes, this full day goes into the full workings of the minor arcana, otherwise known as the number cards of the four suits, numbered from aces to kings. The day is both instructive and practical; attendees will be able to do basic readings with a whole deck by the end of the session. The famed Marseille tarot is characterised…
Find out more »Discovering the Lost Gods of England
Discovering the Lost Gods of England Evening Storytelling and Workshop – Andreas Kornevall How did we get the names of the week? What Anglo-Saxon elements lie at the root of many English local customs? Tonight is dedicated to revealing the folklore, mythology and old folk practices which contain traces of the pagan English gods. Andreas Kornevall, a mythotrapher and storyteller, will tell one or two of the main myth cycles of Northern Europe as an act of remembrance and as…
Find out more »Tarot Card Reading – Intermediate Course
Tarot Card Reading - Intermediate Course Eight-week course – Sue Merlyn Farebrother Okay, you know your greater trumps and your minor arcana, you’ve just about got the hang of the basic Celtic Cross spread. Now you want to go further. This course guides you in sharpening your abilities and skills, giving you deeper knowledge. There is reinforcement of knowledge learnt before, and lots of guidance on actually doing readings: hands-on practice and working with examples. By the end of the…
Find out more »Sex and Empire: The Cannibal Club’s Edward Sellon
Sex and Empire: The Cannibal Club's Edward Sellon Lecture - Phil Hine The Cannibal Club was a nineteenth-century coterie of influential gentlemen fascinated by sexuality, including 'deviancy' - often through anthropological enquiry and published erotica. Its members came together to form club of fascination at the crossroads of anthropology, empire, and pornography. The club's most infamous member, Edward Sellon (1818–1866) is the starting point for this lecture on the group's ideas and influence. Join us for a trip into a world…
Find out more »SOLD OUT Tarot Cards for Absolute Beginners
Tarot Cards for Absolute Beginners – Major Arcana Afternoon Workshop – Sue Terry Sold out. If you’re fascinated by the mysterious images and symbols of the tarot cards, but don’t know where to start, this afternoon workshop is for you. It starts with a look at the structure of the full tarot deck, and then concentrates on the iconic cards of the major arcana – the 21 archetypal characters. You will learn the principles of card reading, with exercises for everyone…
Find out more »‘Everything I Knew About Wicca Was Wrong’
'Everything I Knew About Wicca Was Wrong' Lecture - Paula Nancy and Frank Pierce Some years ago a young couple, both London professionals, got initiated into a coven as neo-Pagan witches. They thought they knew what Wicca was all about, being well-read people with long study in Western esotericism. But the tradition they found in practice, still bounded in secrecy, was a revelation: it was powerfully different from what the beginner Wicca books had described. Paula and Frank, now in their…
Find out more »Vision Quest
Vision Quest - Lecture - Gabriel Toso Rites of passage in the wilderness are common in different cultures throughout the human history. One such is the Vision Quest, specifically linked with the Native American tradition which has managed to survived the ‘American Genocide’ and is still much alive in our times. A vision quest, in whatever form, is a spiritual undertaking to find oneself and one’s direction, as well as to assist in connecting with Mother Earth and the divine. Based…
Find out more »Herb Magic: Spells, Lore and Workings
Herb Magic: Spells, Lore and Workings Afternoon Class – Rebecca Beattie The tradition of herb magic is a long one: most European plants wer long known to be ‘good for’ something, be it luck, fame, love, justice or seeing fairies. This packed half-day teaches the underpinnings of esoteric correspondences and also get an introduction to the old spells collected in the Victorian era from folk in the English countryside. The practical part of the class consists in working with the…
Find out more »The Marseille Tarot Introduced
The Marseille Tarot Introduced One-day Course – Adrien Mastrosimone The famed Marseille tarot is an iconic older tarot dating from the seventeenth century, and it is still the main tarot deck in France to this day. It is Jodorowsky’s preferred deck. Today introduces the Marseille tarot and how to read with it, in a workshop presented by a reader of over two decades’s standing. This once day intensive immerses participants in the deck, concentrating on the major arcana cards; it…
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