This page to be updated ongoing.
All Plan Dates are considered tentative until the start of the season’s business meeting wherein they are ratified and updated on the official calendar.
Season Sessions 2023:
- Winter 2023 Session: Friday February 17th through Friday March 24th. (6 weeks)
- Spring 2023 Dark: Friday March 31st through Friday May 5th. (6 weeks)
- Spring 2023 Session: Friday May 12th through Friday June 9th. (5 weeks)
- Summer 2023 Dark: Friday June 16th through Friday July 23rd. (6 weeks)
- Summer 2023 Session: Friday July 28th through Friday Aug 25th. (5 weeks)
- Fall 2023 Dark: Friday September 1st through Friday Oct 6th. (6 weeks)
- Fall 2023 Session: Friday Oct 13th through Friday November 17th. (6 weeks)
- Winter 2023 Dark: Saturday Nov 18th through the end of the year. (4 weeks in 2023)
- In Total 22 weeks ON and 30 OFF.
4 Full Seasons ON. JFM/AMJ/JAS/OND – The first letter of each month
DSS/DSD/DSD/SSD – S: In Session, D: Dark - Intentional Dark Days:
- Sunday April 9th and April 10th Easter Holiday.
- Tuesday April 18th Taxes
- Sunday May 14th Mothers Day
- Monday May 29th Memorial Day
- Tuesday July 4th Holiday
- Monday September 4th Labor Day
- Monday October 9th Indigenous Day
- Tuesday November 11th Elections Day
- Fridays around Christmas and Thanksgiving
- Fridays before scheduled in-person weekend meetings
Business Meeting Dates: Online
- Winter 2023 Session: Friday February 17th.
- Spring 2023 Session: Friday May 12th.
- Summer 2023 Session: Friday July 28th.
- Fall 2023 Session: Friday October 13th.
Equinox and Solstice Dates: Ceremonies are TBD
- Vernal Equinox: Monday March 20th
- Summer Solstice: Wednesday June 21st
- Autumn Equinox: Friday September 22nd
- Winter Solstice: Thursday December 21st
In-Person Meetings and Important Dates:
- Application Deadline for Minerval Initiation: Sunday January 15th, 2023
- Liber Samekh: Saturday March 4th – Noon to 6pm (date/time updated 2/8/2023)
- Minerval Initiations – Saturday April 1st
- Three Magi Ceremony – Saturday May 20th
- Annual Campout and Wish Upon a Star Ceremony – Saturday June 17th
- Venus Ritual – Sunday September 24th – Noon to 6pm
- Greater Pentagram Ceremony – Sunday August 27th – Noon to 6pm
- Tarot Workshop – Sunday October 22nd – Noon to 6pm
- All Saints Day Ceremony – Saturday November 24th
- Holiday Party: Ecstatic Embers Drum and Dance – TBD
Days Of Note:
- Sunday March 12th – Daylights Savings Time
- Sunday June 18th – Fathers Day
- Monday June 19th – Juneteenth
- Friday November 10th – Veterans Day Observed
- Saturday November 11th – Veterans Day
Additional Dates: TBD
- Thelemic Holidays and Saints Days to be Added. Some might be meetings and some non-meets.
- A bi-monthly (every 2 weeks) Online Social on a weekend date.
- “Thelema Day” In-Person meetings (i.e. “Thelema Day at the Zoo”, “Thelema Day at the Botanical Gardens”, “Thelema Day at the Poe Museum”)
- Field Trips to other local bodies.
- Craft Days.
- Non-Public meetings, internal to the group, generally during Dark periods.
Possible Activities:
- Venue Search
- Exploring New Rituals / Moving From Beginner to Intermediate
- Moving From Lesser of Ritual of Pentagram to Greater Ritual of Pentagram
- Moving From Lesser of Ritual of Hexagram to Greater Ritual of Hexagram
- Changing List of Study Options for Business Meeting.
- Mysticism- Liber E/Sacred Books of the East
- Continue performing the Group Tarot Divination during key events and at significant intervals (like the Equinox/Solstice and Ceremonial Events)
- Continue the progress through the Astrology Class
- Astrological Ascendant/Rising sign exploration
- Gnostic Saint Study (One deep dive per Season, Lao Tzu)
- Return to Liber CL “The Sandal” and explore further the associations between correspondences and the Holy Books of Thelema (see Aeon Issue 2)
- Law of the Strong Class (v1 / v2)
- Create Tattwa cards, assign correspondences, and discover their relation to The Greater Pentagram
- Aura class
- Glyph of the Tree of Life – the section on the paths
- Resh Wheel project or other craft
- Study of the Nuctemeron of Apollonius of Tyana
- Liber CI Honeycomb Exercise
- Babalon’s 49 petaled Rose and the Rosy cross (including examination of the Invisibility Ritual)
- Kaballah of the 138 Openings and the Tikkun Olam
- Viewing of Jack Parson’s Strange Angel
Group Goals
- Venue Expansion
- Compliance with OTO Admin site
- Minerval Initiations
- Continue with Doc Control and Webmaster
- Flesh out Treasury Role
- Continue News Letter editions