For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.
-1 John 2:16
Autumn: The Season of Rupture
Autumnal Equinox to Winter Solstice
The Lust of the Flesh
Rending. Frenzy. Ecstatic loss of form.
This is the breaking season. Masks split. Old skins tear. Desire overruns restraint. The body speaks first and loudest. What cannot survive intensity is shed.
Winter: The Season of Vigilance
Winter Solstice to Vernal Equinox
The Pride of Life
Law. Withholding. Endurance. Cold liturgy.
This is the inward season. Boundaries harden. Fire is banked low. The self stands watch over what remains. Discipline is not punishment but protection. Attention replaces excess.
Spring: The Season of Reckoning
Vernal Equinox to Summer Solstice
The Lust of the Eyes
Exposure. The Measure. Revelation through consequence.
This is the clarifying season. Light returns without mercy. What was desired in winter now stands in daylight and must justify its hunger. The gaze does not merely choose. It evaluates. It discerns.
Spring stirs. Heat rises. Desire wakes and stretches toward movement.
But we do not unleash it blindly.
Want becomes directional, then deliberate.
Attraction is examined before it is pursued. Hunger is named before it is fed. The eyes sharpen not only to claim, but to assess.
What survived the Long Cold is summoned forward and measured. Some impulses deepen into intention. Others fall away in the light.
Desire is not suppressed.
It is selected.
Reckoning first.
Then the hunt.
Summer: The Season of Communion
Summer Solstice to Autumnal Equinox
For All That Is in the World
Union. Integration. Carnal celebration. Holy excess.
This is the season of embodiment. Nothing is hidden. Nothing is fragmented. Flesh, spirit, hunger, and will meet without apology. Excess is not escape but fullness. The wheel turns in heat and laughter.
We break in Rupture.
We stand in Vigilance.
Reckoning narrows the hunt.
All celebrated through Communion.
The Cyrenaian Hedonic church 