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Welcome to an extraordinary world.

Robes of Light guides fellow travelers along an annual heroic journey, season by season.

We are Here

Solar Story Compass Live Tracker

The Solar Story turns through eight stages a year, from the Winter Solstice round to Eagle’s Gate.

See the whole year

Every year is a heroic journey.

Our Solar Story Compass is a synthesis of Joseph Campbell’s heroic journey with timeless indigenous wisdom that recognizes time as cyclical and seasonal. We aren’t inventing the wheel; we’re remembering and applying it.

Winter: low sun through snowy branches
Winter · We are here The Exciting Incident
& The Quest-ion
Spring: white tulips against the sky
Spring · We are here The New Approach
& The Crucible
Summer: sunlight on the sea
Summer · We are here The Reward
& The Callback
Autumn: sun through golden leaves
Autumn · We are here The Return
& The Status Quo
The Solar Story Post

Your life is a story.

You are the hero. Here is your compass.

The Solar Story tells each year as a hero’s journey in eight stages, set at the solstices, the equinoxes, and the cross-quarter days between them.

As each stage opens, an owl brings you a letter from Cassidy and Susan to show you where you are. Begin at any stage. You’ve been living the story all along, even if you didn’t know it.

In each letter

  • A letter for the stage: where we are on the Solar Story Compass, and what to look out for on the stage of life.
  • A question for contemplation, with space to write.
  • Two practices: symbolic acts to embody the wisdom of the stage.

Each letter comes with a printable PDF: an abridged Waymaker Companion Guide for the stage. Between letters, you’ll also hear from us about seasonal live shows, special events, and new podcast episodes. Unsubscribe anytime.

Want the whole guide? The full Waymaker Companion Guides live inside Robes of Light membership, along with monthly workshops you can join live or watch on your own time. Come for one season, or stay for the whole journey →

Seasonal live show

Have an experience

On every equinox and solstice we gather on Zoom to pull cards for the season to come, and we write notes on a virtual whiteboard as we go: what the season is asking of us, what to watch for, and how to work with it. If you join live, we invite your insight. If you can’t attend live, you have the replay until next season.

10:30am–2pm Eastern · $55 · your $55 counts toward a first season of membership

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The whiteboard at the Summer Solstice show: three cards with handwritten notes around them Another show's whiteboard: three cards, notes, and arrows drawn between them

Cards from Wisdom of the Hidden Realms Oracle Cards by Colette Baron-Reid and The Creativity Oracle by Monte Farber and Amy Zerner, shown with no affiliation.