The Wheel

From the innermost core of one's being to the most vast realization of the cosmos, all of reality moves in cycles.  The microcosm and macrocosm are mirror images of one another.  To observe, understand, and celebrate the cycle of life as represented in the wheel of the year is to attune your own subtle energy to that same cycle that drives creation.  In doing so, your whole self is refined and you strive ever further toward perfection.

The Wheel

Primordium (Origin)

Celebrated on or about the Winter Solstice, December 19-22

The day of Primordium is when House Konatus remembers and celebrates their physical, and spiritual origins.  Where and to whom were you born?  How and why do we exist?  Answers to questions that evolve as do we.

Adustum (Ignite)

Celebrated on or about the first day of February

House Konatus sets aside the Day of Adustum to remind ourselves that each of us are a light in the dark.  A light that guides not only our own steps, but the steps of one another and of all those we encounter in life.

Oriens (Morning)

Celebrated on or about the Spring Equinox, March 19-22

The rising sun is a symbol of our personal awakening into the life we have chosen... into the understanding of reality we accept as truth.  On this day House Konatus celebrates the moments of epiphany which caused our awakening.

Torva (Passion)

Celebrated on or about the first day of May

The physical and metaphysical bonds which draw the molecules and galaxies alike together can be understood as passion... the innermost drive toward union and community.  Torva marks the bonds we share in this life and beyond.

Victus (Life)

Celebrated on or about the Summer Solstice, June 19-22

Subtle Energy, Prana, Chi, The Odic Force, Manna... whichever word you use to describe the energetic essence of life... is at its most powerful on this day.   House Konatus celebrates the manifestation of this energy in the world.

Epulum (Feast)

Celebrated on or about the first day of August.

Something must die so that something else may live.  The ritual feast in which the members of House Konatus remember this one immutable truth is held on the Day of Epulum.  Sacrifice is in all manner, inescapable.

Vesper (Evening)

Celebrated on or about the Fall Equinox, September 19-22

The setting of the sun is a symbol of our passing from light to dark... from this world to the next.  Thus we celebrate our disembodied, our ancestors, our loved ones who have gone on before us and that which has passed from our lives.

Umbra (Shadow)

Celebrated on or about the first day of November

No matter how well we have planned nor how clear our site, there is always that which is unknown.  On the Day of Umbra we enter the shadow prepared as we so choose... ready to accept what will come.  We embrace transformation.