Welcome to an extraordinary world.
Robes of Light guides fellow travelers along an annual heroic journey, season by season.
Every year is a heroic journey.
We walk it together, one season at a time. Each season opens on the solstice or equinox with a live show: a card forecast for the season ahead, read together. In between, there’s a guide for each stage, a monthly Play ’n Pray, and good company on the road.
& The Quest-ion
& The Crucible
& The Callback
& The Status Quo
We are Here
Solar Story Compass Live TrackerOur 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.
The Solar Story turns through eight stages a year, from the Winter Solstice round to Eagle’s Gate.
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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 Fellow Travelers, our seasonal program, along with monthly workshops you can join live or watch on your own time. Come for one season, or stay for the whole journey →
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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 term as a Fellow Traveler
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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.