Robes of Light

Robes of Light

By Cassidy Dawn & Susan ReardonReligion & Spirituality
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Robes of Light episodes

  • Season 4 | Episode 10: The Grail Maiden and the Goblin
    We've reached the Return with the Elixir stage of our annual heroic journey. We kick off this retro by asking, "what is the elixir, anyway?" Not a potion in a vial, but the spiritual qualities — the facets of the diamond soul — which this year's journey led us to embody.
    Our Dixit card conversation gets archetypal as we dig into the Holy Grail and some fantasy favorites: *The Lord of the Rings* and whether you can ever really go home, and a deep cut, *The Princess and the Goblin*, where the goblins used to be people until they stayed down in the dark too long. We close by attempting to name our 2026 elixirs in a few words.
    Show notes and Dixit card images are on the Tune In page at robesoflight.com.
    **In this episode:**
    - What an elixir looks like: the movie potion vs. something interior
    - This chapter's chalice card and the Grail as a symbol
    - *The Princess and the Goblin* and following the thread
    - Goblins in the dark: shadow work and coming back to the light
    - Red eyes in the cave: seeker or the monster inside?
    - The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek (and decluttering your home)
    - Descansos as a grief rite and why a container matters
    - Can you really go back? The Shire, and redefining "home"
    - The questions each card in the chapter spread asked
    - From the Chapter 5 overflowing bucket to the Chapter 10 chalice
    - Divine love precedes me: receiving instead of manufacturing
    - The chalice as container: integrity and emotional boundaries
    - Self-reflection as a path of wisdom
    - Virtues from the year: courage, patience, prayer
    - Public life, the cave, and inviting people in
    - Saturn return, entering elderhood, and the Sacred Heart
    - Compassion and trust in the divine as this year's elixir
    At Robes of Light, we live every year as a Solar Story, an annual heroic journey where each lunation is a chapter. At the close of every chapter, we sit down with Dixit storytelling cards and use them as an integration tool, letting the images surface the themes, lessons, and practical wisdom of the weeks behind us.
    🎵 Music: Markotopa / "A Call to the Soul" / courtesy of Lesfm
    1 hr 31 min
  • Season 4 | Episode 9: Final Tests (Tantrums and Do-overs)
    A horse's tantrum, a toddler's growl, and a mother's morning meltdown. Chapter 9 makes the case that anger is a sign of healing, not a problem to be managed. Susan and Cassidy talk final tests, a family culture of do-overs, and why they traded a monthly practice for an annual one.
    In this episode:
    - What the climax stage asks of us — and why it isn't a new test
    - Susan's final tests: a trip she almost didn't take, and staying present for Odin's rage
    - Cassidy's final tests: the school transition and the morning she lost her temper
    - Building a family culture of do-overs
    - Anger as a sign of healing, not a problem to be managed
    - Growling, kicking, and what a safe container actually requires
    - Why we moved from a monthly to an annual heroic journey
    At Robes of Light, we live every year as a Solar Story — an annual heroic journey where each lunation is a chapter. At the close of every chapter, we sit down with Dixit storytelling cards and use them as an integration tool, letting the images surface the themes, lessons, and practical wisdom of the weeks behind us.
    Show notes and Dixit card images are on the Tune In page at RobesofLight.com.
    The Summer Solstice replay is still available there at 35% discount.
    Doors open September 8 for our Fall Equinox virtual live show ceremony.
    🃏 Cards: Dixit, a storytelling game by Libellud (no affiliation)
    🎵 Music: Markotopa / "A Call to the Soul" / courtesy of Lesfm
    1 hr 56 min
  • Season 4 | Episode 8: The Callback
    We've reached the turning point of the Solar Story, the moment the clock hand begins curving back around toward home. This is the climax of the heroic journey, just before the falling action. We're calling it The Callback stage.
    In this Chapter 8 retrospective, Cassidy and Susan read their Dixit storytelling cards, posit whether Tarot is actually a tool of Christian mysticism, and ask what separates a mature spiritual path from a mere aesthetic. Plus: a snail shows up three times across two card decks and a nature center visit, and leads into a conversation about the pace of love — and what it means to always carry your home with you.
    Dixit cards and show notes on the Tune In page at RobesofLight.com.
    🎵 Music: Markotopa / “A Call to the Soul / courtesy of Lesfm
    1 hr 24 min
  • Season 4 | Episode 7: In Filth It Will Be Found (The Reward is Being Human)
    We've crossed the midpoint of the 2026 Solar Story and landed in the reward stage of our annual heroic journey. In this chapter's retrospective, Cassidy and Susan reflect on a lunation that moved from intense pressure into unexpected grace — exploring what it means when the reward isn't an external prize, but simply the freedom to be fully, messily human.
    In this episode:
    - A rare planetary alignment (Barbeau's Basket) unfolding in the skies right now, and what it may mean for collective transformation
    - Whether the World Cup's heartwarming viral moments could be an early sign of a new golden age for humanity
    - Cassidy's Dixit card: a death-defying juggler balancing four flames atop a mountain of bombs, and what it reveals about the freedom found beyond over-responsibility
    - Susan's Dixit card: a mysterious robed figure crossing a threshold, and its ties to purification, embodiment, and coming home to oneself
    - The Longma (dragon-horse)
    - A muddy, joyful afternoon that became an unexpected teacher in finding the reward in the filth
    - Two and a half years of quiet presence finally rewarded — a tender update on Susan's work with the horse Odin
    🔗 See the full cards and show notes on the Tune In page at robesoflight.com
    🎥 Catch the replay of our Summer Solstice live show, also on the site
    🎵 Music: Markotopa / “A Call to the Soul / courtesy of Lesfm
    1 hr 21 min
  • Season 4 | Episode 6: The Belly of the Iguana
    We're looking back at Chapter 6 of our annual Solar Story — The Crucible — and talking on: the art of the audible, why staying can be a radical new movement, the (cat) life-saving art of trusting feminine intuition, and what it really means to be pulled out of the belly of the beast (or iguana) — even if all you can do is picture yourself as a tiny golden boat floating in the cosmos.
    Show notes and Dixit card images on the Podcast page at RobesofLight.com.
    Register on the website to join the Summer Solstice Live Show on June 21st. (Replay available after the show.)
    🎵 Music: Markotopa / “A Call to the Soul / courtesy of Lesfm
    1 hr 27 min
  • Season 4 | Episode 5: The Broom, The Bucket, & the Anchoress
    We've entered the Crucible, the mid-spring threshold of the annual Solar Story where the heat and pressure burn away what no longer serves.
    In this lunation retrospective, Cassidy and Susan dive into their Dixit storytelling cards: a weary bucket and a bossy broom, a child sailing alone through a storm, an astronaut monkey glimpsing multidimensional reality.
    Listen in to their conversation about the inner work of this season.
    In this episode:
    - The value of slowing down to navigate consciously
    - The inner masculine/feminine dialogue with six months of tracking the animus through dreams
    - The paradox of creativity: why we must take play seriously
    - Real-time synchronicities caught live on recording
    - The 13th century anchoress tradition, and what it reframes about "public life"
    📷 See the Dixit card images in the show notes at RobesofLight.com
    ✉️ Send us your speech bubbles for the broom and the bucket
    🎟️ Spring Show replay now available — 35% off with code MIDSPRING26
    Robes of Light is a podcast for the serious spiritual practitioner — tracking the symbolic language of the soul through an annual heroic journey.
    🎵 Music: Markotopa / “A Call to the Soul / courtesy of Lesfm
    Ⓐ Episode description courtesy of Claude
    1 hr 18 min
  • Season 4 | Episode 4: Questing! Slowly.
    Today's conversation finds us in the approach to the inmost cave—the charged midpoint between spring equinox and May 1st where the quest gets real.
    In this episode we look back on chapter four of our annual heroic journey, unpacking our Dixit storytelling cards and the themes that surfaced along the way. We explore ancestral karma clearing, the integration of suppressed rage, and what it means to be both the seeker and the sought after—the hero climbing the cliffside and the red-eyed monster waiting in the cave.
    We talk about how surprisingly simple practices—an Altoids tin prayer box, three minutes of breathwork—can become unexpected keys to unlocking inherited patterns that go back generations, or lifetimes.
    We also zoom out to bigger threads: the archetype of Emergence, the return of the priestess, and how our Lunar Cartomancy praxis helps us attune to the soul's evolutionary intentions, one chapter at a time.
    Show notes & Dixit card images available on the Tune In page at www.RobesofLight.com
    Our spring equinox seasonal show is available for purchase and replay on our homepage.
    🎵 Music: Markotopa / “A Call to the Soul / courtesy of Lesfm
    📝 Show Notes on the "Tune In" page at www.RobesofLight.com
    Ⓐ Episode description courtesy of Claude Sonnet
    1 hr 30 min
  • Season 4 | Episode 3: On Exigency, or The Things that Crinkle Your Heart
    In this conversation, Susan and Cassidy explore **exigency**—that which you cannot remain silent about—and discover why following your inner compass matters more than any external tool.
    In this episode:
    - How Western astrology often reads like you'll be "clobbered" by your chart (and what changes when you've done your psycho-spiritual work)
    - The difference between fate (cards you're dealt) and destiny (how you play your game)
    - Cassidy's unexpected open mic poetry performance at Gypsy Coffee House
    - Susan's Substack writing about "things that crinkle my heart"
    - Why women speaking from the heart is as revolutionary as political activism
    - Quest questions emerging: wild medicine, divine romance, and the postmodern priestess
    - Red balloons, Bodhisattva prayers, and the truth that we're not healed until everyone is healed
    Core teaching: Don't mistake the tool for the goal. Stay in liminal space long enough for emergence. Recognize when experiences arise to serve—even when they're not what you expected.
    We're nearing the end of Question season in our Heroic Journey framework.
    📣 Announcements:
    - Spring Equinox approaches with our 3-hour Collective Cartomancy Field Reading (March 20; recording available).
    - Robes of Light Membership doors are open only for 2 weeks before equinox/solstice.
    - Free MVP Challenge (120-day spiritual practice) starts April 1
    - Find out more at www.RobesofLight.com
    🎵 Music: Markotopa / “A Call to the Soul / courtesy of Lesfm
    📝 Show Notes on the "Tune In" page at www.RobesofLight.com
    Ⓐ Episode description courtesy of Claude Sonnet
    1 hr 29 min
  • Season 4 | Episode 2: From the Deep Freeze to Creative Emergence
    Join us as we transition from winter's stillness into early spring's creative stirrings.
    We geek out on our Visionary New Year collage breakthroughs, the surprising journey of making a sacred talking stick, and how creative collaboration feels like—or maybe even better than—winning the lottery.
    We explore how tools like collages and cards train attention toward the sacred, and what happens when the inner voice that will not be silenced finally picks up the pen.
    🎵 Music: Markotopa / “A Call to the Soul / courtesy of Lesfm
    📝  Show Notes at www.RobesofLight.com --> "Tune In"
    🚪 Spring Equinox registration opens March 6th
    1 hr 23 min
  • Season 4 | Episode 1: “Hi, Shadow!” or, the Art of Incarnation
    Happy New Year—or as we say, Happy New Solar Story! We're back kicking off our 4th season!
    In this episode:
    - Why we measure success by showing up authentically and consistently
    - How our Solar Story framework has evolved through years of experimentation
    - The profound difference between surviving challenges and dancing with them consciously
    - A toddler's wisdom that might be the best teaching on shadow work we've ever heard
    - Why rest is actually productive
    - The sacred art of transitions, endings, and holding space for what's liminal
    - How your life is literally a work of art—shadows and all
    We also get into Dixit cards as tools for spiritual initiation, the belly of the whale, and why normalizing conversations about death might be one of the most loving things we can do.
    Whether you've been with us since Season 1 or you're just finding us now, welcome. Pour yourself something warm, settle in, and join the conversation. This is what spiritual wisdom sounds like between friends.
    📝  Show notes with Dixit card visuals: www.RobesofLight.com -> “Tune In”
    🎵 Music: Markotopa / “A Call to the Soul / courtesy of Lesfm
    1 hr 39 min

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Robes of Light is a living experiment in what becomes possible when the spiritual life is no longer a side quest but the main story from which everything else is lived.