This year’s Gävlebocken will be inaugurated in an upcoming live event you can watch “Livesändning av Gävlebockens invigning 3 december 2023” (Live broadcast of Gävlebock’s inauguration on December 3, 2023).
In this house we (the Library Cats and I) traditionally follow along every year with the uncertain fate of the seasonal huge straw goat statue in Gävle. Perhaps you’ll join the in suspense-fun!
Milwaukee Krampusnacht 2023, December 3, 2023 in Milwaukee, WI.
“Milwaukee Krampusnacht 2023: Sunday Dec. 3!
The Original Milwaukee Krampus Celebration!”
“Milwaukee Krampusnacht returns to the Brewery District on Sunday, December 3, 3-10pm.”
Also, in addition to lots of other enterainments, on the OnMilwaukee Great Hall Stage, at 5:30pm, will be Al Ridenour, author of The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
“We are thrilled to work with Feral House to bring Al Ridenour to Krampusnacht! Al wrote the beautifully done book The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil, a definitive book on Krampus and other, similar traditions. You do not want to miss this opportunity. Tickets are $20 plus fees and very limited …”
Also, watch Milwaukee Krampusnacht Parade 2022
Celebrate Crowleymas at The Atlantis Bookshop, on Aleister Crowley’s Greater Feast (not Lesser Feast in October), December 1, 2023, London, UK; an in-person event, but you can also grab a Crowleymas gift and charity donation, for yourself or another, from elsewhere.
“The Atlantis Bookshop
Friday 1st December from 7pm
Cost £10
Continuing our tradition of commemorating the passing of our most notorious customer, Aleister Crowley, we are once again opening up the Shop for an evening of fun, entertainment and festivities.
This is now the seventy-sixth anniversary of his death, or Celebration of his Greater Feast as he would have called it. If you would like to attend, please click the button below to cover admission (which includes drinks, nibbles and your Crowleymass gift).”
“Like last year, we are once again offering our Crowleymass gift to you for sale if you are unable to join us on this occasion. We can pop it into the post for you to arrive in plenty of time before Yule. If you would still like to receive your annual Crowleymass gift, but cannot make it to our evening event, please click on the button below and we’ll do the rest. A portion of the money raised will go to charity. We will send your gift to the address provided by PayPal – if you would like it sent elsewhere, please email us.”
Book launch for Austin Osman Spare (Revised & Expanded) and Austin Osman Spare – The Valley of Fear – Private View, both on the same date, at the same time, and same place. Hosted by The Last Tuesday Society & Viktor Wynd Museum in London, UK on November 22, 2023.
The book launch is about a newly revised and expanded Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Phil Baker, foreword by Alan Moore; featuring 8 more colour pages and a new 2023 afterword.
“BOOK LAUNCH Austin Osman Spare (Revised & Expanded) – PHIL BAKER
Book launch and signing for Austin Osman Spare (Revised & Expanded) The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist By Phil Baker
“Join us in The Viktor Wynd Museum’s ‘Austin Osman Spare Room’ – home to a collection of original drawings and paintings by Spare – for the launch and signing of
Austin Osman Spare (Revised & Expanded)
The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist
By Phil Baker”
“Austin Osman Spare – The Valley of Fear – Private View
Exhibition of Drawings from the Legendary 1924 sketchbook – ‘The Valley of Fear’ & launch party / signing for Phil Baker’s Biography”
“You are Invited to a Private View of Drawings from Austin Osman Spare’s legendary 1924 sketchbook – ‘The Valley of Fear’
The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural Museum’s ‘Spare Room’ is the only permanent gallery dedicated to work by the great 20th century artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956) – one of the greatest stars of the Edwardian Artworld – hailed as a godfather to both Surrealism and Pop Art- and perhaps the most significant figure in the British Occult during the 20th century.
The event will also serve as the launch party for the new edition of Phil Baker’s Austin Osman Spare biography – copies available to pre-order – for collection on the night only
In 2023 the museum acquired 5 (or possibly 6 – watch this space) drawings that will now go on view amongst other works by the artist in the museum”
Esoteric Theories of Color and Modern Art with Amy Hale, presented by Viktor Wynd & The Last Tuesday Society, November 9, 2023, online.
“Esoteric Theories of Color and Modern Art – Dr Amy Hale
This lecture will explore the ways that esoteric understandings of color as an entity and force developed through Neoplatonic thought”
“‘Colors are Forces, the Signatures of the Forces’: Esoteric Theories of Color and Modern Art
This lecture will explore the ways that esoteric understandings of color as an entity and force developed through Neoplatonic thought, Renaissance magic, the earliest sciences of optics and into modern esoteric and occult theory and practice. I will look at the role of color in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Theosophy and the work of Rudolph Steiner, perhaps providing greater insight into artists such as Hilma af Klint, Ithell Colquhoun, Ethel Le Rossignol and others who clearly saw color in a way that went far beyond symbol.”
Satan’s Places: In search of Baphomet and the Black Mass with Andy Sharp, presented by Viktor Wynd & The Last Tuesday Society, November 5, 2023, online.
“Satan’s Places: In search of Baphomet and the Black Mass – Andy Sharp
This richly illustrated talk traces an itinerary from the ruins of Mendes in Egypt via the tophets of Tunisia to the hills of Dublin”
“We take a chronological trip from antiquity to the kaleidoscopic 1960s following the hoof steps of the Devil, his sacrifices and sacrileges, some apocryphal, others horrifically real. This richly illustrated talk traces an itinerary from the ruins of Mendes in Egypt via the tophets of Tunisia to the hills of Dublin, before heading to Belgium and Paris to luxuriate in the sumptuous robes of 19th-century European decadence, in search of the bona fide Black Mass. We explore the obsessions of Joris-Karl Huysmans’ brilliant depiction of Satanism in his infamous novel Là-bas, and the opulent churches and strange events in Bruges that fired his imagination, before reprising the fictional Mass at the denouement of his book.”
It’s the September Equinox, Autumnal in the Northern Hemisphere, as Sun entered Libra (☉ in 0° ♎︎), on September 23, 2023 at 06:50 UTC!
UK Tarot Conference, October 6–7, 2023, London, UK, which appears to be sold out of in-person-tickets but there is a waitlist and also a complete online offering.
“UK Tarot Conference
6th & 7th October 2023
Holiday Inn, Coram Street, Bloomsbury
(Nearest tube Russell Square)
Speakers:
Friday: Wicca Meier-Spring, Lara Van Zuydam, Steven Bright, Geraldine Beskin, Bel Senlle and Ethony Dawn
Friday evening with your host Kim Arnold
Saturday: Kristoffer Hughes, Caitlin Matthews, Richard Abbot, Neil Kelso,
Lunchtime speakers: Friday Andrea Aste & Kirsten Buchholzer Saturday Karen Currie & Ari Wisner
Celebrate 20 years with us!! We have some very special surprises for you all!
Our Pre Conference Thursday evening dinner at the Marquis Cornwallis has SOLD OUT. There is a waiting list, please contact us if you would like to join us.”
Also there is a “Full Digital Experience” for those who wish to attend remotely:
“Join us online for the 2023 Tarot Conference, with an amazing line up of speakers. Get the full digital experience with private live streaming, exclusive online content, great digital community, PDF presentations, and a download at the end so you can work back through exercises and spreads from the weekend!”
20 Years of the Da Vinci Code: The Inside Story From the People Who Inspired It with Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, hosted by Atlantis Bookshop, September 7, 2023, London, UK.
“A TALK by LYNN PICKNETT and CLIVE PRINCE,
authors of The Templar Revelation
The Gardner Room at The Atlantis Bookshop
Thursday 7th September, 2.15-5.00pm
Cost £15
Dan Brown said of his phenomenal bestseller, The Da Vinci Code: ‘I got everything I needed from The Templar Revelation.’
Now, 20 years since the publication of The Da Vinci Code and 25 years since The Templar Revelation was published (with its first chapter entitled ‘The Secret Code of Leonardo da Vinci’!), Lynn and Clive will speak about the secrets of their immensely influential book – plus what Brown got right, what he got wrong and what he thought just too controversial in their book to use… Not to mention the inside story of what he nearly wrote, which would have been based on yet another of their books!
As the people who first discovered the secrets in Leonardo’s artwork, they will also reveal their new findings – some shocking and some plain hilarious. You will never look at his so-called pious paintings the same way again, especially with one particularly jaw-dropping revelation!
So while da Vinci was not the Messiah, he was certainly a very naughty boy….”
About The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince.
“The most closely guarded secret of the western world is about to be revealed—and you will never see Christianity in the same light again.
In a remarkable achievement of historical detective work that is destined to become a classic, authors Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince delve into the mysterious world of the Freemasons, the Cathars, the Knights Templar, and the occult to discover the truth behind an underground religion with roots in the first century that survives even today.
Chronicling their fascinating quest for truth through time and space, the authors reveal an astonishing new view of the real motives and character of the founder of Christianity, as well as the actual historical—and revelatory—roles of John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene.
Painstakingly researched and thoroughly documented, The Templar Revelation presents a secret history, preserved through the centuries but encoded in works of art and even in the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe, whose final chapter could shatter the foundation of the Christian Church.”
