OAKLEAF CIRCLE

IMBOLC

First Stirrings Festival at Chalice Well World Peace Garden, in Glastonbury. Gather at noon at the well head for a meditation on the lawn at 12.30. This is a free event, although normal admission prices to the garden apply from noon. Information: www.chalicewell.org.uk

An Evening With The Old Dowser Talk on dowsing at Devereux public house, 20 Devereux Court, off Essex Street, London WC2R 3JJ. Meet from 7.30pm, event starts at 8pm. Admission £5. www.theatlantisbookshopevents.com

Subject TBA A Wednesday evening meeting of The Company of Astrologers at Marty's Yard, High St, Hampstead, London. 7.15 for a 7.30 start; admission £5 (payable on the door)

Saturn – Living with the old Devil Wherever Saturn is placed in our charts we all have to confront the issues it presents us with. Saturn symbolises restriction, delay and limitations in life in contrast to the flowing expansion of Jupiter. While Saturn can sometimes give us a painful ‘reality check’ it can also help us foster qualities such as patience, self discipline and setting personal boundaries. Our themed evenings provide a perfect opportunity to informally discuss astrological issues. Following an introduction to the topic the evening will be facilitated by a committee member. Bring your own or other people’s charts along to explore what Saturn is up to in their horoscopes! A meeting of the Scottish Astrological Association. Venue: Room 2, Theosophical Society, 28 Great King Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6QH. Time: 7.30pm. Entry cost: By donation.

Neptune enters Pisces 19.03 GMT

Pagan Federation London Imbolc Open Ritual to honour the Goddess Bride. Venue: Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, Holborn, London. Doors open 7.30pm. Ritual starts at 8pm, feasting and social 9pm-10pm. Entrance: PF members/conc £5. All others £6. Please bring seasonal/home-made food and drinks to share at the feast after the ritual. For more information, visit the PFL website at www.pflondon.org

An Evening of Serendipity and Calamity Folk singer Nigel Of Bermondsey and storyteller Vanessa Woolf will be exploring the collection of folklorist Edward Lovett through words and music at The Cuming Museum, 151 Walworth Road, London SE17 1RY. Time: 6pm to 8pm. This free event is part of National Storytelling Week.

Glastonbury: A Magical Site through the Twentieth Century Talk by Dr Liz Williams at Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Tickets £7. Reserve a place by emailing info@treadwells-london.com

Rissun (Shinto)

Birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (Islam)

Marsden Imbolc Fire Festival Famous annual event in Marsden, West Yorskshire. It usually features a procession, a fire 'circus', drama and music. The free event starts at noon and goes on until midnight. Meet at Marsden Information Point, 20-26 Peel Street, Marsden, Kirklees, HD7 6BW. For more details, call 01484 845595 or visit the Facebook page

Outdoor Imbolc Ritual with Hern’s Tribe in woods in Croydon. For more details call 077689 41373 or visit /www.hern-tribe.org

FULL MOON 21.54 GMT (18°32 Leo)

Saturn goes retrograde (at 29°30 Libra) until 24th June

Maja Puja (Buddhist)

Tribe of Avalon Imbolc Ceremony Venue: Atlantis Bookshop, 49a Museum Street, London. Time: 7pm - 9pm. Cost - £5 to help cover room hire cost, bring a snack or drink to share. For more details visit www.tribeofavalon.co.uk

Venus enters Aries 05.47 GMT

Nirvana Day (Buddhist)

Tu B'Shevat (Jewish)

2012: Axis Mutatis and Eternal Return An evening with paul Weston at Devereux public house, 20 Devereux Court, off Essex Street, London WC2R 3JJ. Meet from 7.30pm, event starts at 8pm. Admission £5. Visit www.theatlantisbookshopevents.com

Growing your Soul through Relationships with Judy Hall. The chart maps out the relationship challenges and gifts that come from many lifetimes, together with the soul plan for the present life. In tonight's talk Judy will examine some of the pointers to enable us to understand our soul's strategy more fully. Submit your chart details in advance to Muriel at muriel@murielfrances.com.Wessex Astrology Circle, Broadstone Community Centre, Poole, Dorset. 7.30pm. Entrance £5 includes refreshments. All welcome. Further details: wac-uk.blogspot.com

Milad un Nabi (Muslim)

Unearthing South East London's Ritual Landscape Talk by Simon Webb, author of Unearthing London: The Ancient World Beneath The Metropolis at South East London Folklore Society (SELFS). Venue: The Old King's Head, Kings Head Yard, 45-49 Borough High St, London SE1 1NA. Entry: £2.50 / £1.50 concessions. No need to book in advance. Meetings are the second Thursday of each month. www.selfs.org.uk

Some Secret Place Monthly ritual evening for solitary pagans looking to explore group ritual. Time 7pm for 7.15pm start to 9.30pm. Location: Conway Hall, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL. Some experience of pagan ritual necessary. Small group sizes - advance book via the website www.somesecretplace.co.uk. A £7 contribution towards equipment and room hire is required.

The Coming Uranus / Pluto Square with Julian Verles. A meeting of the Bedford Astrology Club. Start 7.45 for 8pm. Venue: St Marks Community Centre, Calder Rise, Bedford MK41 7UY FFI: David Rolls

Our Lady of Lourdes (Christian)

The Astrology of Jung’s Liber Novus ('The Red Book') with Liz Greene. That C. G. Jung was an accomplished astrologer is an open secret in Jungian circles, although even in this context there is some discomfort on the part of some analysts about his involvement with astrology. The many references to a sophisticated working astrology throughout the Collected Works, as well as the important essay entitled synchronicity, make clear Jung’s ongoing investigations into the links between astrology and psychology. However, the publication of Liber Novus (known as ‘The Red Book’) in the latter part of 2009, although profoundly revealing in terms of the development of Jung’s astrological understanding, has not been properly explored from this perspective, despite the proliferating articles, conferences, seminars, and websites dedicated to Liber Novus since its appearance over two years ago. This seminar will explore the astrology of Liber Novus, not only in the context of Jung’s own horoscope, but also as his imaginative description of a journey through the planetary spheres, reflecting his identification of interior ‘work’ on one’s horoscope with individuation and with the stages of the alchemical opus. From Liber Novus it becomes clear that Jung was the first genuinely psychological astrologer of the modern era, developing a dynamic perception of planetary patterns that continues to exert a major influence on the astrologies of the twenty-first century. Price: £55. Venue: Regent’s College, Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 starting at 10am – 4.30pm. Centre for Psychological Astrology, BCM Box 1815, London, WC1N 3XX 020 8749 2330 www.cpalondon.com

Know Thyself - Delphic guide to your own spiritual path Talk by James Head at pagan forum Secret Chiefs. Venue: Devereux public house, 20 Devereux Court, off Essex Street, London WC2R 3JJ. Meet from 7.30pm, event starts at 8.30pm. Admission £2. secretchiefslondon.wordpress.com

Mercury enters Aquarius 01.38 GMT

Valentines Day

What is Beauty? with Dr Martin Tovee. Around Valentines Day, we investigate the psychology of beauty. What determines whether we find someone else beautiful? Evolutionary psychology suggests that what we find attractive in potential partners are cues to health and fertility. But what are these cues? And how do they change depending on environment, culture and circumstance? Are there differences between what men and women are looking for in a partner? Dr Martin Tovee is Reader in Visual Cognition in the School of Psychology at Newcastle University A Skeptics In The Pub meeting. 7.30pm at the The Banshee Labyrinth, 29-35 Niddry Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LG

Shamanic Consciousness a one-day introductory course in Sussex, exploring the nature and practice of shamanism. Short talks, discussions, open forum and a shamanic drum journey with Dr Brian Bates, author of The Way of Wyrd, and Dr Susan Greenwood, author of The Anthropology of Magic. A focus on Anglo-Saxon shamanism brings the tradition 'home', and we consider ways of using this magic in your life today. Time: 10am – 4pm. Venue: University of Sussex. Cost: £35. To enrol directly call the University on weekdays: 01273 678300.

Sun enters Pisces 06.18 GMT

NEW MOON 22.35 GMT (02°42 Pisces)

Shrove Tuesday (Christian)

Ash Wednesday (Christian)

Cross Bones Vigil to honour The Goose and the outcast dead of Cross Bones Graveyard. Gather from 6.45pm in Redcross Way outside the Memorial Gates, SE1, opposite the Boot and Flogger, just north of the junction with Union Street. Nearest tubes Borough or London Bridge, 5 minutes walk away. The event is free. www.crossbones.org.uk

The USA Presidential Candidates A talk by Simon Bentley, principal of The White Eagle School of Astrology. Simon will be looking at the charts of the upcoming presidential candidates and comparing them with the Sibley Chart of America. West Sussex Astrologers, meeting at Bosham House, Bosham, Hampshire PO18 8PJ. 7.30 – 9.30 Cost £5 astrojennie@aol.com

Venus and the Moon: Finding Rest in all the Stress with Darby Costello. With the world threatening to fall apart around us, we need to know where we can find rest and recuperation. In this seminar we shall explore how the Moon reflects our feeling of home and comfort, and how Venus reflects our ability to attract love and beauty into that home. We are all influenced by our collective notions of 'home' and 'beauty' but we must look at our own Moon and Venus to uncover where and how these fundamental necessities might be found. We shall look at the Moon and Venus by sign and aspect and then examine their relationships to the highly charged outer planets which are reflecting the collective disturbances of this time. Price: £55 Venue: Quantum House, 66 Churchway, Euston, London, NW1 1LT - 10am – 4.30pm starting at 10am – 4.30pm. Centre for Psychological Astrology, BCM Box 1815, London, WC1N 3XX 020 8749 2330 www.cpalondon.com

Thelema, Tantra, Gender, Blood and Death Talk by Charlotte Rodgers, author of The Bloody Sacrifice: A Personal Experience of Contemporary Blood Rites,at pagan forum Secret Chiefs. Venue: Devereux public house, 20 Devereux Court, off Essex Street, London WC2R 3JJ. Meet from 7.30pm, event starts at 8.30pm. Admission £2. secretchiefslondon.wordpress.com

Astrology in Scotland between the Reformation and the enlightenment with Jane Ridder-Patrick. Jane is the leading expert in this field. We will benefit from her years of research during her recent PhD and her life-time's experience with healing and astrology. 7.30pm at The Theosophical Society, 28 Great King Street, Edinburgh. Information:www.scottishastrology.co.uk

St David's Day (Welsh)

The Finger of Fate (Yod) by Trudie Charles. Trudie will explore the meanings of this 'fated' configuration and outline some of the ways we can attempt to handle its energies in our charts. Do you have a Yod? - bring your own chart. Venue: Phoenix Lodge, 36 Thornhill Road, Plymouth. 7.30pm for 8pm start - finishing 10pm-ish. Admission £3 including tea/coffee. A meeting of the Plymouth Astrology Group

Mercury enters Aries 11.41 GMT

Start of Nineteen Day Fast (Bahai)

Adventures of an Australian Paranormal Investigator Australia's foremost skeptical investigator (as seen on the national TV show "The One") will give an overview of some of his many adventures into the strange but not so mysterious world of the so-called paranormal. From stage psychics to water diviners to ghosts, Richard has been there, done that and is ready to share it with you. A Skeptics In The Pub meeting. 7.30pm at the Counting House, 38 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DD

Venus enters Taurus 10.25 GMT

St Piran's Day (Cornish)

Horary Forum with COA tutors. A Wednesday evening meeting of The Company of Astrologers at Marty's Yard, High St, Hampstead, London. 7.15 for a 7.30 start; admission £5 (payable on the door)

FULL MOON 09.39 GMT (18°13 Virgo)

Purim (Jewish)

Holi (Hindu)

Hola Mollah (Sikh)

Bedford Astrology Club meeting subject TBA. With Phoebe Wyss. Start 7.45 for 8pm. Venue: St Marks Community Centre, Calder Rise, Bedford MK41 7UY FFI: David Rolls

10th - 11th: Mysterious Earth Conference 2012 Venue: Grimsargh Village Hall, Preston Road, Grimsargh, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 5JS. Information and booking: www.megalithictours.com

Something's Missing: Neptune's Guide ot the Lost and Found with Lynn Bell. The feeling that something is missing brings us straight to Neptune in the natal chart. Often our lives seem to be built around an empty space, one that calls out to be filled, over and over. And often, just at the moment we've accomplished a goal or fulfilled a dream, the still, small voice chants its doubts.How will Neptune's passage into Pisces affect our longings, our dreams, our escapes and addictions? Our reveries reveal both what might be and what is missing. How do we know we are looking in the right place? What are we meant to find? Bring your charts for an exploration of Neptune in the natal chart. Price: £55 Venue: Quantum House, 66 Churchway, Euston, London, NW1 1LT - 10am – 4.30pm starting at 10am – 4.30pm. Centre for Psychological Astrology, BCM Box 1815, London, WC1N 3XX 020 8749 2330 www.cpalondon.com

Mercury goes retrograde (at 6°49 Aries) until April 4th

Jupiter trine Pluto (at 9°21 Taurus / Capricorn)

2012 - Opportunity and Challenge with Derek Hawkins. Leading astrologer Derek Hawkins gives us his unique and intuitve take on 2012. Predicted by many to be a time of huge changes which include: a shift in the magnetic poles, solar storms, passing comets, sudden shifts in our awareness and even the end of the world! In his talk Derek will discuss how the major planets of our solar system are influencing our world at this time, particularly the rare alignment known as the 'finger of fate' which will occur on 21st/22nd December 2012 and how it will affect each of the 12 zodiac signs. Derek's talks are informative and he brings astrology alive in his own unique way.. Wessex Astrology Circle, Broadstone Community Centre, Poole, Dorset. 7.30pm. Entrance £5 includes refreshments. All welcome. Further details: wac-uk.blogspot.com

Burzynski - A Perfect Storm for Skeptics Cancer quackery is a pernicious and dreadful thing selling false hope to the vulnerable and the desperate at an extortionate price. Last year grassroots skeptics in the UK and internationally fought back against one such dubious treatment and exposed much more than they were expecting. One of those grassroots bloggers at the centre of the Burzynski storm offers their blow by blow summary of how skeptics took on this cancer cure, exposed dubious legal and medical practices and battled to get the UK media to acknowledge its unwitting support for treatments lacking solid evidence. A Skeptics In The Pub meeting. 7.30pm at the The Banshee Labyrinth, 29-35 Niddry Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LG

Weird Science: An Introduction to Anomalistic Psychology with Prof. Chris French. Ever since records began, in every known society, a substantial proportion of the population has reported unusual experiences many of which we would today label as "paranormal". Opinion polls show that the majority of the general public accepts that paranormal phenomena do occur. Such widespread experience of and belief in the paranormal can only mean one of two things. Either the paranormal is real, in which case this should be accepted by the wider scientific community which currently rejects such claims; or else belief in and experience of ostensibly paranormal phenomena can be fully explained in terms of psychological factors. A Skeptics In The Pub meeting. 7.30pm at Copa, 76-78A Kings Road, Reading, RG1 3BJ

St Patricks Day (Irish)

Ghosts of the Past: Memories, Nodal, and Karma Click Charts 2-5 pm in Battersea, London. A meeting of the API(UK) London Group. Info: Sue Lewis

The History of the World-Soul This seminar will explore the profound and ancient idea of the collective psyche, known in earlier centuries as the anima mundi or world-soul, central to the philosophies of Plato, Johannes Kepler and C.G.Jung. We will discuss the fascinating practice of relating world events to planetary cycles, sometimes referred to as ‘mundane astrology’, and the ways in which this dimension of astrological work – known since ancient times – is related to particular religious and social world-views and has paradoxically both changed and remained strangely consistent across cultures and through the centuries. The seminar will take the form of a dialogue between Liz Greene and Nick Campion, who will explore both the history of the belief in the world-soul and its spiritual implications, and the ways in which different astrologers and philosophers, past and present, have used astronomical cycles to map world events and the fate of nations and generation groups. The discussion will range from the concept of national horoscopes to the psychology of generation groups, from philosophies of unfolding order to the psychology of the collective unconscious, from the rise and fall of kings to the collective as a living organism and the role of the individual as a mouthpiece for both her/his generation and a vessel for the collective currents of the time. Price: £55. Venue: The Duncan Room at the Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HNstarting at 10am – 4.30pm. Centre for Psychological Astrology, BCM Box 1815, London, WC1N 3XX 020 8749 2330 www.cpalondon.com

Mothering Sunday (Christian)

Sun enters Aries 05.14 GMT

SPRING EQUINOX

Meeting of the Southend Astrological Society Speaker TBA. Email sannde@talktalk.net or phounsell@hotmail.com

Sceptical and Credulous Interpretations of Hypnosis with Prof. Andrew Colman. Hypnosis is associated with some truly remarkable phenomena. To mention just one, total anaesthesia can be induced in susceptible hypnotic subjects, so that major dental or internal surgery can be performed without any sensation of pain at all, and there’s plenty of experimental evidence, to be reviewed in the talk, that this is a genuine effect. But its interpretation is highly controversial, and the same applies to all phenomena of hypnosis and even the nature of hypnosis itself. This is the longest-running controversy in the entire history of psychology, with its origins in the 18th century when Franz Anton Mesmer was performing miraculous “cures” on members of the dissolute French nobility, and it is still deadlocked. The sceptical view, in its most extreme form, is that there is no such thing as a hypnotic trance or special hypnotic state of consciousness, and that the phenomena of hypnosis are effects of social influence. After more than two centuries of scientific research, some of the more bizarre claims that have been made for hypnosis, including its alleged usefulness in uncovering repressed memories, can be firmly rejected, but the extreme sceptical interpretation is also hard to swallow. Brain imaging is beginning to throw some new light on the nature of hypnosis, but don’t hold your breath for a resolution of the debate in this talk. A Skeptics In The Pub meeting. 7.30pm at Square Bar,5-9 Hotel Street, Leicester LE1 5AW

Naw-Ruz (Bahai New Year)

Jamshedi Noruz (Zoroastrian New Year)

NEW MOON 14.37 GMT (02°22 Aries)

Pluto and the Nodes of Destiny by Isabelle Moon. Drawing on the work of Jeff Green, Isabelle will guide us through the complex effects of the powerful interaction between Plutonic energies and the Lunar Nodes. Bring your chart. Venue: The Old Methodist Sunday School, 3 Chapel Court, Church Street, Landrake, Cornwall, PL12 5FD 7.30pm for 8pm start - finishing 10pm-ish. Admission £3 including tea/coffee. A meeting of the Plymouth Astrology Group

Mercury (retrograde) re-enters Pisces 13.22 GMT

The Astrology of 2012A talk given by Patricia Godden who will be looking at the major astrological aspects of 2012 and how they these will present opportunities as well as challenges. Find out more about what these could mean and how they could affect Britain. West Sussex Astrologers, meeting at Bosham House, Bosham, Hampshire PO18 8PJ. 7.30 – 9.30 Cost £5 astrojennie@aol.com

British Summer time starts (clocks go forward 1 hour)

Annunciation (Christian)

Khordad Sal (Zoroastrian)