October 23rd is the Festival of Light!
If you follow as a practitioner of Pop Culture Paganism, a user of Homestuck inspired Chaos Magic, or just want to use your favorite series to inspire you throughout the year, Skaia Temple is your resource center!
Whether you want to just celebrate it on the day, use it as a date for empowered energy, integrate it into your more mundane celebrations, or just appreciate your favorite characters and concepts this month, we have suggestions for whatever path you want to take with us!
Read below the cut for a condensed idea & resource list for this month of Light!
Aspect Centered Celebrate the Aspect in all its glory if you’re all about on celebrating the Festivals for exactly what they represent: The Aspect and all the traits associated with it.
“The Light-bound will go after knowledge with a fierce intensity that others may find distasteful. They aren’t overly concerned with laws or norms, either. They often take rules as simple suggestions.”
Light in about Learning, and the good fortune of doing so. Light-bound might even enjoy the journey of learning something new than the actual information being obtained.
Light is about researching and understanding anything and everything that tickles your fancy. Maybe you could channel it into some academic study- or if you’ve had more than enough of that during the season of Mind, use Light to represent something more interest-led. Maybe you want to learn how to maintain a Cthuluian tabletop campaign! I bet you’d be gr8.
A Light-bound would probably also enjoy making and maintaining a blog about their favorite interest, like say, a Tumblr blog about Homestuck Paganism and Witchcraft. Maybe they’d even be good at it! At the very least they’d be stubbornly persistent about it. Maybe your only goal could be to compile all the information you can on a subject just to put it all in one place to answer any and everyone's questions. You could be so eager to do so you would be willing to pay people to listen. Light Aspect.
This month is for shining a Light on any area you may find too dark.
Magical Inspiration If you want to use Homestuck concepts more abstractly and need some ideas for what brands of magic would work best for the season, if you have an Aspect or character-themed spell, feel free to send it in so it can be added to this section!
There’s always things you could learn and improve. Be it about yourself, or others- or just something you care about. But before you can improve it you must understand every facet about it.
Divination is a shortcut for understanding future likelihoods and getting a different perspective on subjects. Or perhaps you already know exactly what you want to be or should be doing, and your difficulty is in focusing on it. Sometimes you have far too many subjects to just sit down and choose one, and then you could use divination and Oracle readings to point you in a direction. The most important part is to start the journey.
Here is a Vriska-themed spell for self forgiveness. Here is a Light themed spell for good fortune. Here is a short essay on other ways you can celebrate the Light Festival. And Here is a customizable Light Affirmation poem.
Integration Route For people in the broom closet who are too timid or anxious to celebrate the Festivals openly- you can always integrate the Aspects traits to fit in with the more common trends and holidays of the month. Not even Hussie is is Homestuck God, no one will mind!
You don’t need me to tell you that Halloween is coming up! Which also means Samhain. This is a time where the veil is thin, and spooky interests, activities or questions isn’t out of the ordinary. Go as a witch (or your favorite troll) this year and really get into the character. At this time we have a clearer view of the other side, ripe both for communication, questions, and an exchange of power- if you know how to be safe and responsible about it.
Fandom Driven For if you’re not all about spirituality or routine and just want to enjoy going all-out with a beloved story & characters, you can honor the ones of this month by driving full-throttle on the fandom bandwagon.
Light Aspect is for the ever pro8lematic Serkets, which include polar opposites in their use of the Light Aspect. Perhaps you just neeeeeeeed to know Everything! So you can have irons in EVERY FIRE! Or perhaps your use of Light is more predictable and quiet, a simple trivia junkie craving to share it with everyone. Whichever side of the spectrum you’re on, it’s probably in everyone’s best interest to use your knowledge for Good. Stan Vriska though
It’s also the Aspect for the studious Rose Lalonde, simultaneously a bookish nerd while also being mercilessly reckless in her pursuit of What Is The Coolest Way To Break Reality. Light is an interesting aspect. Its the Read or Die anime full of scary girls who murder people with books. Stan Vriska
Draw art, write fic, and post analysis’ for all of these awful, messy, galaxy brained geek girls!
We hope you got some ideas for activities you can do with your friends or otherwise use to inspire and better yourself this month. Everyone plays the game of life differently, and everyone's beliefs are their own. Celebrate yourself as you see fit, and Thanks for Playing with Us. Stan Vriska
~Mod Bee
