Two Thursdays per month, dates below (begins Thursday, October 23)
7:00 – 8:30 p.m. via zoom (contact the Fellowship office or Rev. Kevin at kevin@buxmontuu.org for zoom info)

Our format: each session we will cover one chapter, you can come every session or only on occasion.
No need to read the content for the sessions you miss unless you’d like to!

The book for this series will be The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan. You can get it in print from a bookstore, your local library or the eBook version. The text for our first session will be available via PDF (below) if you don’t yet have the book.

The rest of the dates can be found at the bottom of this page.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
– Philip Pullman

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in Warrington. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

Religious stories are human stories, and human stories are religious stories. Stories make us who we are and change us. This is the power of stories, they connect people, they change people from individuals into a community. Stories create connections not only among people together in the present but across generations, across cultural boundaries, and across imagination. We are invited to think differently and to think through the words of another what it might be like to live in their world for a moment.

Join us as we explore the world of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time as sacred story. What does it mean to approach fiction, in the form of the written word and on the screen, as lessons that help us become more fully human?

Whether you have read the series multiple times or are just beginning your first read, or whether the television show was your first taste of Jordan’s world, you are welcome in this Circle.

If you were not part of our earlier gatherings, you can see how we tackled:

• the first book in the main series The Eye of the World and paired it with season one of the Amazon series, click here to see that information,
• how we explored the prequel New Spring, by clicking here,
• how we worked with the second book in the main series The Great Hunt, by clicking here.
• how we worked with the third book in the main series The Dragon Reborn, by clicking here.
• And now we are returning to the first book to approach it in a different way!

There may be spoilers.

We will try to keep the spoilers light but as we discuss larger themes or the myths of the Westlands and beyond, things may come up from beyond our reading.

A bit about your guide: I am Rev. Kevin W. Jagoe, a Unitarian Universalist Minister and Humanist Celebrant. I have been reading The Wheel of Time since high school and I’ve read the entire series many many times (honestly I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read the early books but more than ten feels like a conservative estimate). As a minister, I am a professional storyteller and meaning-maker. I know that stories have power, and that they can be true whether they reflect facts or not. This series is my primary fandom so bringing it together with how we make meaning in community feels like a natural bridge to me.

Background Readings

• The Strike at Shayol Ghul – click here to get PDF (a version of this was included in An Illustrated Guide to The Wheel of Time, published by Tor Books in 1997.)
• Prologue: Dragonmount – click here to get PDF (from The Eye of the World)

The above pieces offer a bit of the context for this world, if you’d like to read them before attending you may. However, they may lead to more questions than answers as so often happens when reading ancient texts.

The Wheel of Time is composed of fourteen main books, a prequel, a text just about the lore, four short stories, an encyclopedia, and an origins book. Currently there are three seasons of the television series. So there is a lot of content to this world and I will be happy to talk through some pieces of it; though it is also fun to drop in to the story wherever we are and find out what resonates with you.

Sessions are 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. via zoom (contact Rev. Kevin or the Fellowship Office for the zoom details)

Our format: each session we will cover one chapter, you can come every session or only on occasion.
No need to read the content for the sessions you miss unless you’d like to!

The book for this series will be The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan. You can get it in print from a bookstore, your local library or the eBook version. The text for our first session will be available via PDF if you don’t yet have the book.

Thursday, October 23

Theme of the Night: Prophecy.

The Eye of the World: Prologue: Dragonmount – click here to get PDF (from The Eye of the World)

Thursday, November 13

Theme of the Night: Beginnings.

The Eye of the World: Chapter One

Thursday, November 20

Theme of the Night: Strangers.

The Eye of the World: Chapter Two

Thursday, December 4

Theme of the Night: Rumors.

The Eye of the World: Chapter Three

Thursday, January 8

Theme of the Night: Stories.

The Eye of the World: Chapter Four

Thursday, January 22

Theme of the Night: Shadows.

The Eye of the World: Chapter Five

Thursday, February 12

Theme of the Night: You Can’t Go Home.

The Eye of the World: Chapter Six

Thursday, February 26

Theme of the Night: Repercussions.

The Eye of the World: Chapter Seven

Thursday, March 26

Theme of the Night: Revelations.

The Eye of the World: Chapters Eight & Nine

Thursday, April 9

Theme of the Night: The Journey Begins.

The Eye of the World: Chapters Ten & Eleven

Thursday, April 30

Theme of the Night: Crossing Boundaries.

The Eye of the World: Chapters Twelve & Thirteen