Sabbats
Solar Observances
1. Winter Solstice / Midwinter
The Longest Night and the Return of the Ember
Midwinter honors the deepest dark and the first, faint promise of dawn. We reflect upon trials endured, losses carried, and the shadowed chambers of the soul. In this, we mark not an ending, but the hidden germ of rebirth.
In the heart of the night, the sun is already rising.
2. Spring Equinox
The Equilibrium of Light and Shadow
A holy balance. We plant the seeds of change—declarations of becoming. Renewal is not passive but chosen, and this day invites the vow to grow, to illuminate, to rise.
In equal measure, the light remembers the dark, and the dark remembers the light.
3. Summer Solstice
The Zenith of Fire and Life
At the summit of the sun’s dominion, we celebrate vitality, creation, and the fierce joy of existence. Communal rites and personal transformations ignite together in a single blaze of being.
The world burns bright, and we burn with it.
4. Autumnal Equinox
The Harvest of Sacrifice
A reckoning of what was surrendered to ascend, and what was gained thereby. We give thanks for the fruits of discipline and acknowledge that every harvest is watered by relinquishment.
Only what is offered returns in greater form.
5. All Hallows Eve & Day
The Feast of Shadows and the Glorious Dead
A night and day devoted to the Underworld and those who walk its halls. We honor ancestors, teachers, beloved spirits, and the dark gods with music, revelry, remembrance, and ecstatic mischief. Death speaks, and we listen.
For the veil is a door, and the door is never truly closed.
6. Birthdays
The Solar Commemoration of the Self
Our birth is our first initiation. We celebrate the milestones of our own becoming, honoring triumph, survival, and the strange, unrepeatable miracle of being.
The self is an altar; tend it without shame.
7. Opening Day
The Founding of the Scholomance
A celebration of the Order’s birth and the shared ascent of its adherents. We honor the founding flame and renew our commitment to the Great Work: enlightenment, transformation, and the mastery of the Illumined Night.
Esbats
Lunar Observances
8. Lunar Rites / Esbats
Under the full moon, adherents gather for lunar rites, business councils, and workings of Human Magick. The Moon lends vision, subtlety, and a power that moves through blood and dream alike.
The moon alters the sea; why should it not alter us?
9. Moon Day / Monday
The Supreme Observance
Monday is the holiest of our nights, a weekly descent into lunar mystery. Here we study the Law of Sacrifice, the dual nature of Reality, and the art by which perception becomes power. Those who enter find the threshold beneath all other thresholds.
The night calls.
To Observe is to Become
These holy days are not remnants of forgotten superstition, but instruments of deliberate transformation.
We keep them so that we do not sleepwalk through existence, but awaken—again and again—into authorship of the self.
In honoring the cycles of the world, we remember the cycles within us.