THE PARTY
IS STARTING
★ ELEVEN HOLY DAYS A YEAR ★
The cosmic disco is on. Eris is on the guest list. So are you.
"Every man, woman and child on this Earth is a genuine and authorized Pope — and Popes throw the best parties."
WHAT’S A DISCORDIAN PARTY?
A gathering observed on a Discordian holy day. Optional in every other respect.
The Discordian calendar has eleven holy days — five Apostle days, five Flux days, and St. Tib’s Day, which exists once every 1,461 days. Any of them is a valid excuse for a party. The Society does not grade the party. The Society only notices that it happened, retroactively, and approves.
A Discordian party can be a forty-person rave, a two-person dinner, a single hot dog eaten alone in a parking lot at dusk, or any combination of the above. The form is up to you. The form is the form.
THE ELEVEN
The Discordian holy days, in calendar order. Click any to download an invitation.
NEVER MISS A HOLY DAY
Your calendar app is hereby ordained.
One subscription. Eleven holy days. Every year, forever. All-day events, no alarms at 3 a.m., and St. Tib’s Day appears only in leap years — because that is the only time it exists.
Add the Holy Days to Your Calendar →That button speaks webcal, so you stay subscribed and the chaos updates itself. Prefer a plain file? Download holydays.ics and feed it to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, or whatever you’ve got.
THROW YOUR OWN
A playbook in five steps, because of course it’s five.
- Pick a holy day. Any of the eleven. The Society does not require advance notice. Mungday and Mojoday tend to attract first-time hosts; Discoflux is for the practiced.
- Send invitations. Use the holy-day greeting card generator on the artifacts page. Print at 5×7″ on cardstock. Hand-write the recipient’s name. Mail to people who do not expect mail.
- Provide hot dogs. If the party falls on a Friday, hot dog buns are mandatory (this is the inverse of the standard prohibition). On any other day, buns are optional, ironic, or forbidden — the host’s choice.
- Have at least one ritual. Recommended: every guest declares one thing they excommunicate from their life this season. The thing must be small. The declaration is binding for the duration of the party and not a moment longer.
- End by saying “Hail Eris.” Out loud. In unison if you can manage it. If you cannot, in sequence works. The Holding Committee notes the saying.
INVITATION KIT
A printable greeting card for any of the eleven holy days.
The Holy-day Greeting Card Generator at discordianism.org/artifacts/ produces a 5×7″ printable PNG with the holy day’s art, your custom message, and a sign-as line. Print on cardstock, fold, mail. Free.
Open the Generator →BEFORE THE NEXT ONE
Every host of a Discordian party is, by ancient and immediate decree, a Pope. Make it official, or don’t. Either way:
- Get ordained. Receive your name and a personalized Papal Bull from discordianpope.com. Print it. Wave it at the door. Popes throw the best parties.
- Affirm your standing. The Discordian Society will issue you a Letter of Continuous Standing — proof, retroactively, that you were always a member in good chaos.
- Read the rest. The whole calendar, the history, and the book Discordianism Decompiled live at the hub. Bring something to read for when the party inevitably never ends.
RSVP
You don’t need to. You’re already on the guest list. So is everyone you’ve ever met. Hail Eris.