The Solar Story
The year as a heroic journey, in eight stages
Joseph Campbell’s heroic journey, timed to the solar year. We aren’t reinventing the wheel. We’re remembering it, and applying it.
- 4 seasons
- Open at each equinox and solstice, with the live show. Membership runs season by season.
- 8 stages
- Of the heroic journey. One opens at each equinox and solstice, and one at each gate halfway between: Angel’s, Bull’s, Lion’s and Eagle’s.
The Solar Story Compass
The dates update for each year on their own.
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The equinoxes and solstices are computed astronomically and shown in your own time zone, so they may fall a day either side of a printed almanac. The four gates are fixed to the first of the month.
The Year Is the Syllabus
Most schools run on terms and semesters. Ours runs on the sun and moon, and every part of it keeps time with the Solar Story.
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Each year one heroic journey
The Solar Story opens at the Winter Solstice and comes round again. You return to the same thresholds each year, a little different each time.
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Each season a live show
At every equinox and solstice we hold a live, collaborative card reading on Zoom for the season ahead. The recording stays open until the next one.
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Each stage a letter, a guide and a workshop
As each of the eight stages opens, the Solar Story Post brings a letter and its practices. Members receive the full Waymaker guide for the stage, with reflection prompts and symbolic acts, and gather for a Play ’n Pray workshop. Each season closes with a third guide and workshop, for integration.
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Each moon a chapter
Each lunar cycle marks a new chapter in your Solar Story. In Lunar Praxis the Luminaries learn to read it, with cartomancy at the new and full moon and a journal retrospective. We pull our own cards on camera alongside them.
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Each day a minimum viable practice
Every year from April 1 to August 1, the free MVP Challenge holds 120 days of daily spiritual practice: as little as five minutes, in whatever tradition is yours.
Anyone can buy a ticket to the seasonal show. The show, the guides and the workshops all come with General Membership, $125 a quarter; The Luminaries adds the lunar chapters, dream study and council, by application, at $270.
Everything either tier gathers for is laid out below.
The Solar Story, in full
Every gathering of the coming cycle. Unlike the dates above, the programme is published a year at a time.
Walk the year with us
An abridged Waymaker Guide at each of the eight stages of the year, delivered as the Solar Story unfolds.
Join the Solar Story Post Explore membership