Arcanus - A seekers guide to making magick

Welcome to Arcanus, the website that will gently guide you along the pathways of health and magick.

For those seeking ways to improve their health and well-being, we offer an extensive range of healing teas and herbal tisanes. We also teach UK Reiki Federation accredited Reiki courses from First Degree through to Reiki Master/Teacher.

For those on a spiritual quest, we invite you to delve into the ‘Mrs Darley’, series of Pagan books, attend our spiritual or Pagan workshops, or arrange a talk for your group or organization.

Please enjoy exploring our site, and feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.

Blessed Be.

The 'Mrs Darley Series' of Pagan Books

The latest edition of book 5 in the Mrs Darley Series – ‘Mrs Darley’s Pagan Paths to Magick – A History of Persecution and the Secrets of Divine Magick.’ is now available in paperback and on Kindle. Please visit the ‘Mrs Darley Books’ Pages for information on all books in the series.

Pagan Workshops

If you are Pagan Curious, but are unsure where to go for guidance, our Pagan workshops could provide some of the answers you seek. From ‘Introduction to Paganism and the Wheel of the Year’ to ‘Creating Sacred Space’, from the complexities of ‘Mind Magick’ to the ‘Practicalities of making Magick’, from Understanding the Hermetic Principles’, to the Mysteries of Moon Magick’ and from ‘Sigil Making’ to ‘Understanding the role of the subtle energy bodies in disease and health’.
All courses are held in the heart of the Wyre Forest in Bewdley Worcestershire.

Reiki Courses

Discover the wonders of this Japanese healing art and begin your Reiki journey with Carole Carlton, a UK Reiki Federation registered Master Teacher.
From First Degree through to Reiki Master/Teacher, there will only be a maximum of four people on each course to ensure personal attention. All courses are held in Bewdley in the heart of the Wyre Forest.

Talks for Groups & Conferences

Arrange a talk for your group or conference. Choose from a wide variety of subjects – from Pagan festivals to herbal healers and poisoners, from sacred rites of passage to healing through the senses, from the the psychology of smell to how the Moon affects our planet and from discovering who Mrs Darley really was, to the fascinating history of tea.

Pagan Arts and Crafts

We stock a range of handmade sticks, staffs, wall plaques, clocks, athames, runes and wands in our shop in Bewdley Museum in Worcestershire. If you would like a handmade athame and are unable to visit, please see our ‘How it’s made’ page above, and let us know your requirements via our contact page.

Mrs Darley's Herbal, Bewdley Museum, Worcestershire

We have a fine selection of loose leaf teas and herbal tisanes to restore a sense of balance and well-being, in addition to beautiful tea ware. We stock Starchild & stick Incense, pure Essential Oils, Bach Flower and Chakra Remedies, Tarot, Oracle Cards and Runes, Pagan art, ritual ware and gifts. Our teas and herbal tisanes are also available via our on-line shop (see menu above)

Open Saturdays, Sundays, Tuesdays & Bank Holidays Mar – Dec 10.30am – 4pm.

Meet Carole & William

Carole Carlton

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by mystery and magick, by the
existence of a Divine essence & a belief in worlds unseen but, being brought up within the confines of an orthodox religion, I never considered the fact that all of these things could possibly sit comfortably
together.

In the early 1990’s, a career move to Cornwall led me to buy a tiny tin miners cottage on the south eastern edge of Bodmin Moor where, I had, as my neighbour, the mysterious & enigmatic Mrs Darley. From that very first meeting, there was a knowing, a stirring of a memory long since buried beneath a world of business meetings, sales targets and consensus truth and, from that very moment, I knew that my life would never be quite the same again.

Due to her influence, not only did Pagan spirituality become an important part of my life, but I also began to train in many aspects of complementary therapy, which eventually led me to run a clinical practice and also gave me the opportunity to teach in many parts of the UK, and the Middle and Far East.

That fateful meeting with Mrs Darley was nearly 30 years ago now and, since then, I have continued to explore the magickal journey of life with celebrated teachers both within the Pagan community and complementary health world.

Today, I am a freelance writer and author of the ‘Mrs Darley’ series of Pagan books. I own ‘Mrs Darley’s Herbal’, in Bewdley Museum, Worcestershire, teach Reiki for the UK Reiki Federation and offer workshops and talks in many aspects of Paganism, complementary medicine, tea and herbal tisanes.

William Wilson

A native of Belfast, I met Carole twenty plus years ago and was hooked – and who could blame me!

We have travelled the world teaching but have ‘pulled our horns in’ and now live in the midst of the Wyre
Forest. Nature abhors a vacumn, and as the teaching ebbed, the pagan and craft world developed.

I did not have the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Darley, but have been, and will for the foreseeable future, be subject to her influence through Carole.

We have a fine balance now, Carole with Mrs Darley, and me with my athames, decorative plaques, and sticks. I started my working life in the aircraft industry in Belfast, and it’s fulfilling to be working with my hands again.

Our dream is eventually to return to, and continue our work in Carole’s beloved wild and rugged Cornwall, and there, for us, the circle will be complete.