The Ordo Yule Orphic (O.Y.O) is an Anonymous Gift-Giving Society.

We hide Treasures in the spaces between.

There is no membership of O.Y.O —
only Participation.

O.Y.O represents a natural expansion of Geocaching to encompass a broader range of experiences beyond simple discovery.

TL;DR

The O.Y.O is a system for creating, propagating and documenting novel ritual forms in the wider world.

O.Y.O participants share blueprints for these rituals in the form of stories in which strangers are the characters.

The O.Y.O systemizes a universal human behavior (leaving something behind/arranging a place in the world to invite meaningful action) in an attempt to unlock its full potential.

Little Free Library

"A container is left on a public road where it may be easily found. Take a book from this library and then leave your own, or otherwise take/deposit books without an exchange."

-Pre-O.Y.O, unwritten/emergent

Pet Tree

"Somewhere quiet and concealed, there is a small, dead tree. Nearby this tree, there is a journal stashed within a glass container.

Approach this tree as the sun sets and affix a name tag from an animal companion you have lost. Inside the hidden journal, write a fond memory of this companion.

The sound of the wind is recorded."

-O.Y.O (T.C)

These are purposefully simple examples; there is no upper limit to the complexity of these rituals or the number of people who may participate in them.

When multiple participants are involved, they often act independently on unique sets of directions. The only limits exist in your imagination.

The O.Y.O website functions as an archival structure for documenting these rituals and hosting the artistic works that emerge from them.

Anyone may submit their own ritual conceptions at any time, and one ritual may have any number of variants and iterations.

We invite you to look out into the world and give yourself freely to dreaming.

Even if you have no interest in this, you probably know somebody who might, especially if they are a Musician.

Within the O.Y.O, these blueprints for novel Ritual forms embedded within the Wider World are known as Collective Rituals.

List of Collective Rituals

The Environments where Collective Rituals take form are known as Dispersals.

Collective Ritual (noun)

1. An archetypal narrative structure which describes a prepared Enviornment and sequence of Ritual encounters to be enacted by O.Y.O Participants. Physical spaces in this narrative are described in general terms, allowing the Ritual to manifest across many disparate locations. A song of events.

2. A text detailing the Ritual encounters which may be enacted at a Dispersal of O.Y.O and the Environment in which this Dispersal manifests itself. The soul of a Dispersal.

Dispersal (noun)

1. A single physical Environment, or array of Environments, prepared by O.Y.O Participants to facilitate the enactmant of a Collective Ritual.

2. A physical location, or a series of interrelated physical locations, designated for the discovery, documentation, or continuation of an O.Y.O Collective Ritual, often involving hidden Gifts and Ceremonial Games which propagate over time.

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The pregenator to the O.Y.O Dispersal is the Public Ritual.

You have most likely interacted with many Public Ritual forms which are similar to O.Y.O Collective Rituals over the course of your life.

If you know what to look for, you will begin to see them everywhere. Familiar examples include...

wishing wells, little free libraries, roadside memorials, commemorative benches, hotel ledgers/guestbooks, Geocaches, love locks, note walls, sticker clusters, grafitti, community boards, neighborhood gardens, tip jars, religious shrines, free boxes, sites of pilgrimage, ARGs, public instruments, chalk left on the sidewalk, community art swaps, painted rocks, the blarney stone, seed exchanges, smoothed statues ...

…and countless others.

Public Rituals such as these typically arise spontaneously. They often operate off of unwritten rules, and these rules are almost
always very simple.

This simplicity is borne of necessity. If the purpose of a Public Ritual is too obscure, it vanishes and dies. If nobody knew what a wishing well was, we would only see fountains.

This makes it difficult for novel Public Ritual forms to establish themselves.

Our solution to this problem is the Collective Ritual. Each one is a reproducable Ritual schematic which may be interprited, manifested and re-imagined in an infinite variety of ways.

The O.Y.O harnesses the power of the Public Ritual by giving it structure. We are an engine for the conception and propegation of
unique Ritual forms.

Collective Rituals such as the Pet Tree example are interpreted by Participants and manifested in the Wider World as Dispersals.

Afterward, their locations are marked on our Map. Seeking out these Dispersals can create an experience similar to a kind of Ritual Geocaching.

"Bury coins here."

(Collective Ritual: Coin Burial
Dispersal: Solar Treasures)

Each Dispersal has its own set of Directions interwoven with the Collective Ritual that it is based upon. These Directions are specific to the Environment(s) the Dispersal manifests itself within and the intentions of the Participant manifesting it.

These Directions are displayed with quotations of the Collective Ritual text on each Dispersal's ledger page.

Pet Tree #1

"Somewhere quiet and concealed, there is a small, dead tree.

Nearby this tree, there is a journal stashed within a glass container."

▶ Directions 1

1. This tree is located at 40°32'00.3"N 122°21'24.7"W
2. This journal may be found to the left of the tree, hidden within this bush.

"Approach the tree as the sun sets and affix a name tag from an animal companion you have lost.

Inside the journal, a fond memory of your companion is recorded."

▶ Directions 2

1. When you arrive, before anything, place a small coin at the base of this tree.
2. Record both a fond memory and an unpleasant memory
3. Draw a small picture of your companion as you saw them.

A Dispersal's Directions may contain absolutely anything (within reason) so long as the narrative pulses of the Collective Ritual may still be felt. They are often widly divergent.

The Collective Ritual may be thought of as a dream and the Dispersal is this dream spilling over into reality. The Dispersal is the earth, the Collective Ritual is the heavens.

Within our framework, there are 4 Levels of Collective Ritual/Dispersal.

The examples above are analogous to Level 1 Collective Rituals.

Now, these Dispersals wouldn't be much fun if nobody could find them, would they?

There are 2 main methods of
propagating Dispersals...

• • Secondary Dispersals • •

A Secondary Dispersal is a transcription of a (Primary) Dispersal's Directions and its Collective Ritual hidden in the Wider World.

It may also contain links to our website or photographs/illustrations of the Dispersal. This is a Dispersal's main vector of propagation.

The pairing of the Secondary/Primary Dispersal represents a complete system of creation and propagation. This system functions entirely independently of our website.

There may be multiple Primary Dispersals portrayed on a single Secondary Dispersal.

• • Visitations • •

Visitations are ephemeral marks pointing toward anything related to O.Y.O. They can be:

A symbol on a wall…
A short message written in chalk…
Coordinates on parchment…
Our URL tucked into a book…
A painted stone left under a bridge…

Or anything else that you could possibly think of.

You need only provide a single photograph and a title to Submit a Visitation, but you are encouraged to Submit an audio file as well.

You could easily create a Visitation right now!

O.Y.O comprises a complete framework and archival architecture for creating art that develops a life of its own as a narrative microcosm.

Essentially, O.Y.O may be viewed as a vast body of collaborative artistic Works, all inexorably linked by shared physical spaces. As O.Y.O processes mature, a natural history develops which shrouds these places in ambiance and intention.

This power concentrates itself and manifests in our Works as layers of hidden complexity and richness.

Every Participant of O.Y.O is an intimate collaborator. We refer to this communal creative method as Folding Time.

Participation in O.Y.O means contributing to an emergent scripture and watching your contributions expand themselves.

When you are in O.Y.O Time, you are focused on a concrete and readily attainable goal. Nothing has the ability to reach you. No matter what happens, your actions have a greater purpose within the trajectory of O.Y.O.

We are both a mission and a destination, a reason to explore and a framework of construction.

The O.Y.O was born 3/3/2026, 3:33 on the edge of Castle Lake, CA. Its Initiation was signalled at the peak of the Blood Moon Eclipse.

Currently, we are still in our infancy.

Create ♥ O.Y.O

The O.Y.O is hosted and curated by me, a 23 year old Witch named T.C.

I live nomadically and spend my days travelling, spreading the O.Y.O everywhere I rest my head. I have dedicated the whole of my life to the creation of the Ordo Yule Orphic.

The most direct way to help Create ❣️ O.Y.O is to Submit your own Collective Rituals, Dispersals and Visitations.

These three systems form a closed loop of creation, propagation, and documentation
of novel Ritual forms that anyone may utilize at any time.

If you would like to help me dedicate as much of myself to the O.Y.O as I am physically able, you may join my Patreon.

There is a single tier priced at $1.00 per month.

This grants access to a growing personal archive of audio, video, writing, scans, coordinates, scores, unlisted Collective Rituals, secret Dispersals and more.

You will also gain access to the
T.C. Submission category.

Through this, you may submit for me to personally interpret as
.

Almost as if you’re controlling
as a puppet. Weird!

By supporting this work, you are creating a real life Santa Clause whose life is frozen in a perpetual cycle of nomadic gift giving and sacrificial creation.

If you hear movement through the trees, it might only be the wind. Or it may really be me there, floating through the night, leaving gold for you to discover in the morning.

If your creations are condemned to live forever in obscure un-death, we will provide you with the means of giving them a spectacular death.

O.Y.O is a tool to free your creative process from the neverending cycle of commodification and disposability. If your art is condemned to be garbage, then we will create a space for it to exist as treasure.

In the same way, O.Y.O frees you physically, giving you a place to go where you have something important to do.

You were never meant to walk alone.

-T.C.