Dance with the Luminaries
The deeper work, kept by the cycles of the Sun and Moon.
Join the ConstellationWhat this is
Venture Deeper
On the great family tree of humanity, most world wisdom traditions have a mystical branch, a path of direct, intimate, subjective experience of the Divine.
The Luminaries is our conservatory in the mystical arts for the weird ones (i.e., Wyrd—Old English for the power to shape destiny).
Here, you don’t have to preface your insights and inklings with “This might sound weird, but...”
We invite you to claim your intuitive and creative gifts, what you may have had to suppress in order to fit in academic or professional worlds.
What Are the Luminaries?
The word luminary means source of light. In traditional astrology the Sun and Moon are called the luminaries, because they are the brightest and most significant celestial objects. A luminary is also a person who serves as a source of inspiration for others—a “star.” And luminaries are the lanterns that light the Way along a path.
The Luminaries is our program oriented to the cycles of the Sun and Moon, aimed towards shining your inner light.
General Membership keeps the solar year, the heroic journey. The Luminaries adds the lunar cycles: a new chapter every moon. We’re recalibrating our inner calendar to natural cycles, the way time used to be kept.
We attune to the seasons, Sun, and Moon as reminders that growth has many rhythms. There are times to begin and act, times to ripen and gather, and times to release and rest. Learning to recognize what each season asks of us invites a different understanding of achievement: one grounded in the wisdom of timing.
Redefining Achievement
The aim of education is the acquisition of knowledge. The aim of professional development is skillful means—influence, power. We have seen the results of a world that values knowledge and influence without wisdom: the wasteland.
Wisdom is what “success” is missing: integrity, discernment, creativity, patience, devotion, presence, humility.
We measure success differently, where fulfillment comes through congruence: bringing your inner life together with your creative, professional, and relational lives.
Through the self-inquiry of each lunar chapter, our program invites you to integrate what has been hidden, overlooked, or disowned within yourself—cultivating wholeness, allowing you to feel more fully alive and deepening your capacity for connection and kinship.
Aliveness, we have found, comes through reconnection—to ancestry, to nature, to soul and spirit—and through kinship, true belonging: finding your place in the greater ecology. In our stories, the earth, the animals and the plants are animate characters alongside us, not relocated to the backdrop.
The apprenticeship
What You’ll Be Doing
The Luminaries is our apprenticeship in investigating your own life, and making something of what you find.
If Robes of Light is a wisdom school, General Membership is its core curriculum. The Luminaries is its conservatory: studios, a repertoire, and a discipline you keep. It is also like a detective agency, where the case is your own life and the Mystery leaves clues—in the cards, in dreams, in songs, in the coincidences that keep turning up. Call us undercover agents of grace.
Every lunar chapter, we invite you to:
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Read the clues
Two spreads a lunar cycle, at the new moon and the full. Lunar Praxis teaches the lunar spread—not fortune-telling, but interpretation: the attention you would bring to a difficult poem, turned on the chapter you happen to be living.
Lunar Praxis · every new and full moon
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Keep the case file
Each chapter closes with a written retrospective, kept in your Solar Story Journal—in Notion, in a binder, or in a notebook of your own. The reflection is where the reading becomes wisdom, and where a year becomes a story.
Solar Story Journal · at each chapter’s close
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Make something of it
What you read asks to be made into something. Now, Write is the studio for the page—fortnightly, writing and feedback, and work read aloud to the room when you want it heard. Saturday Crafternoons is the studio for the hands. This is where a creative voice that has been waiting a long time gets its hours in.
Now, Write · Saturday Crafternoons
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Bring it to the circle
Some things you can only see with other people in the room. Emergence Council holds what wants to emerge through you each season; Dream Study Group takes one dream into the witness seat; Afternoon Tea is the monthly office hour and social, where we also play tasseomancy: pattern recognition, practised on a teacup.
Emergence Council · Dream Study Group · Afternoon Tea
Wisdom is not taught through direct instruction. It develops over time, through practice and experience, repeated every chapter, with others alongside you.
These practices build creative skill: pattern recognition, symbolic thinking, intuitive synthesis, and visual and spatial imagination—capacities achievement culture leaves under-developed. We become more fluent in the symbolic language of our own lives. Over time we knit a symbolic ecology: a living web among dream images, recurring themes, cards, songs, and encounters in the waking world. Following these connections sharpens discernment.
Who This Is For
- You reached what you were working toward, yet still long for a life that feels more deeply your own.
- You sense meaning in dreams, symbols, and cards—and want thoughtful company for exploring what they reveal and how to respond.
- A creative part of you is waiting for attention, and you want to give it room to shape your life.
- You want your spiritual life to inform how you work, love, and meet the responsibilities others count on you to carry.
- You were the child who built worlds, kept secret notebooks, or spoke to something you couldn’t name—and that relationship still matters.
- You suspect your real contribution is not a job title but a way of being, and you want to live into your soul story.
- You take the Mystery seriously and want to meet it with play, imagination, and curiosity.
“Our destiny, after all, is a story to be lived into the world. As Soul Apprentices, we gather together our most extraordinary experiences until they assume the shape of a unified story whose central theme is our unique way of belonging to the world.”Bill Plotkin, Nature and the Human Soul
Luminaries Programming
Learn a praxis, join live experiences, and draw on a course library as you go.
The praxis
Learn to Read Your Own Year
The discipline at the heart of the program.
Lunar Praxis & the Solar Story Journal
A gyan (wisdom) discipline of rigorous self-inquiry and alignment to higher consciousness. The practice is productive shadow work that’s also fun. Each lunar cycle marks a new chapter in your Solar Story; Lunar Praxis is how you learn to read it. Learn the moon-thly card spread and keep your Solar Story Journal: a digital bullet journal of the inner life, kept by natural cycles rather than a calendar, with printable pages for your binder or layouts for your own notebook. The spread offers not prediction but perspective and direction, helping you see outworn patterns and make new choices. Whether you’re new to cartomancy or deepening an existing practice, there’s an entry point for you to dive in.
Kept over a few years, it becomes something uncommon: a readable record of your own becoming, chapter by chapter, in your own hand.
Chapter Updates
We keep the practice on camera. Cassidy & Susan pull their own Lunar Praxis cards every new and full moon, weaving in seasonal themes: we are reading the chapter we are all in, so what turns up has something in it for everyone living it. Think of it as a continuation of our equinox/solstice live show, or bonus episodes of our podcast.
New + full moon video + summary, delivered via Heartbeat and email
Canticumancy
Every season, Luminaries members are invited to a collaborative Spotify playlist with synchronistic songs of the season. Think of it as a practice in canticumancy, receiving wise guidance through music and lyrics.
Live experiences
Come Together
Ten or more live gatherings a season, counting what comes with general membership.
Emergence Council
Quarterly ceremony aligned with organic cycles of growth and release. Come to name—or simply sit with—what’s stirring, and feel witnessed through the ancient wisdom of circle process. Each circle corresponds to a natural phase of emergence. Emergence Council isn’t goal-oriented but process-oriented—a spacious reflective environment to slow down, sense into subtlety, and open to new possibility. Susan facilitates the circle, a long-held vision of hers come to fruition.
1x/season, Sunday 10:45am–12pm Eastern — at the seasonal midpoints
Dream Study Group
Bring the dream you call in at the equinox or solstice; each session holds one or two dreams in the witness seat for deep communal inquiry. Together we explore dreams as a meeting place with archetypal wisdom, where your higher, superconscious self speaks through symbol, image, and felt experience. We inquire into what these encounters reveal, and how their wisdom might inform everyday life.
1x/season, Sunday 10:45am–12pm Eastern — after the equinoxes and solstices; see Dream Incubation course below
Now, Write — Spirit-Led Writing Group
The premise is exigency: that which you cannot remain silent about. Fortnightly, alternating writing time and feedback—drop in for one or both. No specific genre, and no need to write for a living: bring a Substack draft or a personal journal. Cards are incorporated into the feedback. A garden for songbirds to warble and chirp, away from the grackles of the platforms. Cassidy is classically trained in writing and rhetoric, and has coached writers professionally since 2012.
Mid-spring through early-fall, Wednesdays 7:15–9:15pm Eastern
Afternoon Tea
A casual monthly drop-in office hour to connect, reflect, and receive mirror-reflecting wisdom from fellow Luminaries. Bring what’s in the cards for you lately, or simply come to be in good company.
Optional: tasseomancy, tea leaf or coffee reading. Explore the images left in your cup as invitations to intuition, imagination, and symbolic reflection. We put a photograph of your cup up on screen and draw over the leaves as people say what they see (Pictionary, but visionary).
3rd Friday of each month, 4–5pm Eastern
Saturday Crafternoons
Time to explore personal artistry together. Each season has its own craft, chosen for the stage we are in—collage vision boards, prayer boxes made in Altoid tins, luminaria (candle lanterns). It scratches a creative itch that school and work tend to take away: two hours to sit and make something with your hands. Both new and experienced creatives welcome—last year someone made their first collage here.
1x/season, Saturday 12–2pm Eastern
Course library
Curriculum
Self-paced courses woven into the rhythm of the Solar Story, deepened each year they come round again.
Lunar Praxis
Our core practice of inner inquiry. Card spreads, written retrospectives, and the Solar Story Journal help you recognize patterns, question assumptions, and uncover insights—then integrate what you discover through conscious choices, ritual, and everyday action.
Visionary New Year
Our approach to New Year’s Resolutions Revelations. Start the new year (new Solar Story!) in a new way by receiving inspiration for the year ahead, including a visionary cave meditation and guidance to collect synchronistic collage fodder and craft visionary boards to set the blueprint for an aligned journey.
Dream Incubation
Learn to dream intentionally with the ancient rite of oracular dreaming. Practice integrating the unconscious and superconscious into your Solar Story by weaving the action of your dream life into your Lunar Praxis retrospectives. Part of making your (day)dreams come true is tending to what your (night) dreams tell you.
Ancestral Healing
The holy work of healing your roots. Includes cartomancy spreads + guidance to 1) see your maternal and paternal lines through the eyes of love, 2) identify and change generational patterns, and 3) use cartomancy to conduct a family constellation.
Descansos
The sacred practice of marking your losses. Drawing directly from Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run with the Wolves, Descansos are markers that honor where something has died—a relationship, a dream, a version of yourself. Through guided facilitation, create a sacred map of your grief: witness what has been lost, honor what has been survived, and make space for new life to emerge.
MVP Advanced Field Guide
Companion resource for Robes of Light’s MVP (“minimum viable practice”) challenge. Goes deeper into the “why” and “how” behind the MVP Challenge with a starter set of practices to build your personal spiritual integrity pillar.
Avatar Gates
Direct experience of an ancient esoteric mystery, the Riddle of the Sphinx. Journey through the four portals of the fixed zodiac signs—Angel, Bull, Lion, Eagle—with guided meditations for empowerment.
Choose Your Own Adventure
All of our programming is self-directed, with no attendance or completion requirements. This is inner work, not homework: we would rather you show up out of joy than obligation, and never feel guilty for missing a session. Come to everything, or attend to what supports your current season of life.
Everything is hosted through our private Heartbeat platform (desktop & mobile app)—live experiences via Zoom, courses and recordings on demand, and community discussion threads year-round.
Where This Sits on the Path
- The Solar Story Post Coming soonThe compass arrives, eight letters a year. Free.
- MVP ChallengeA little, every day. Free.
- General MembershipWalk the year: the live seasonal show, Play ’n Pray workshops, Waymaker guides.
- The LuminariesThe conservatory: read the year, record it, make something of it. Everything in membership, and the apprenticeship on top.
Choose Your Entry
Admission is by application—not for exclusivity, but so that each person who enters the circle arrives with some foundation in the work.
Door #1: Journey a Year Around the Sun
If you’ve completed four consecutive seasons as a Robes of Light member.
You’ve walked a full Solar Story with us. That’s your admission. No submission necessary.
Enter
Door #2: Share a Waymaker Activity
If you’ve completed at least one season as a Robes of Light member.
Share a Waymaker Guide activity and why you found it impactful in 300-500 words or 3-5 minutes (audio/video) max.
Enter
Door #3: Share Your Story
If you’re new to Robes of Light.
Share what’s brought you here—your heroic journey, in any creative medium of your choice (writing, video, piece of art + description, voice memo, etc.). 1000 words or 7 minutes max.
Enter“If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves
Join the Constellation
The Luminaries
Live Experiences (Zoom)
Emergence Council · Dream Study Group · Now, Write · Saturday Crafternoons · Afternoon Tea
Course Library (Heartbeat)
Lunar Praxis · Dream Incubation · Visionary New Year · Ancestral Healing · Descansos · Avatar Gates · MVP Advanced Field Guide · and more
The Show Continues (Heartbeat + email)
Chapter Updates · Seasonal Playlists
Solar Story Journal
Templates for Notion (with or without AI) · Printable binder pages · Bullet-journal layouts
All General Member Benefits
Live Seasonal Show · Monthly Play ’n Pray Workshops · Waymaker Companion Guides · Crystal Grid Anchor · Meditation Catalogue · Heartbeat Community Access
$270 USD/Quarter
Billed after admission
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PARTNER RATE
Partnership is a powerful container for psycho-spiritual work. Join with a partner and you each will receive a discounted rate of $250/Quarter.
Examples of Partnerships:
- Friends
- Siblings/Cousins
- Romantic/Life
- Business
Apply for a Scholarship
If you feel called to join and cost is an impediment, we are offering partial scholarships to those in genuine financial need. Click here to learn more and apply.