This episode marks the beginning of a new quarterly deep-dive series within Raven’s Lore Cast — a ritual pause at the end of each season where we step away from the calendar and listen closely to the animal archetypes that have been walking beside us all along.

Throughout Sabbats Across the Globe, certain beings appear again and again at thresholds — watching from the edges of ritual, crossing the Manor when the land shifts, arriving precisely when transformation is underway. They are not decoration. They are not coincidence. They are teachers.

In this first installment, we meet three of them fully and without hurry:

🜁 The Raven — keeper of the black sun, guardian of death-before-rebirth, the one who knows how to dissolve what no longer serves. 🜂 The Fox — liminal walker, adaptive fire, sacred cunning, the intelligence that survives collapse and teaches transformation through movement. 🜃 The Dove — bearer of breath and return, the alchemy of peace after rupture, the soul’s memory of gentleness after the fire has done its work.

Together, they form an alchemical triad — not of metals, but of consciousness. This episode explores how these archetypes map directly onto the ancient stages of inner alchemy: dissolution, transformation, and integration. Not as metaphor, but as lived spiritual process.

We trace these beings through myth, folklore, land-based tradition, and ancestral memory, examining how they function across cultures — and how they still function in us. Because alchemy was never just about turning lead into gold. It was always about turning survival into wisdom.

This is not a bestiary. This is not a symbolic overview. This is an initiation into relationship.

If you’ve felt watched during ritual… guided through grief… steadied during change… or accompanied at a moment when something in you was quietly becoming something else — this episode will help you name why.

This is the first of a living series. These archetypes will return as the wheel turns, each time revealing more of what they came to teach.

Sit with them. Listen carefully. Alchemy begins in the soul.

In Episode Ten, the Manor shifts again — quietly, decisively — carrying us from the hush of Arctic winter into the warm-stone glow of the Mediterranean. This is the second portal in our Sabbats Across the Globe series, a year-long pilgrimage through the seasonal wisdom of the world. Tonight we enter the Imbolc Gate: the place where winter loosens, light lengthens, and something ancient begins to stir beneath the cold.

Imbolc is not simply “early spring.” It is the quickening, the pulse beneath the frost, the breath before the blossom. In this episode, we explore how Mediterranean cultures — Greek, Roman, Cypriot, Maltese, Levantine — understood this moment of the year: as a turning of fate, a return of purity, a rekindling of flame, and a celebration of seeds that dare to dream under the soil.

We trace the lineage of Brigid-like fire keepers in southern Europe, the almond blossom mythos of the Levant, the hearth goddess traditions that predate empire, and the quiet truth shared across continents: light always returns, but never without listening to the dark first. This is an episode about beginnings that don’t announce themselves — the soft transformations that happen while everything still looks asleep on the surface.

As always, Madya Pathikã — the traveling Manor that walks between worlds — brings us precisely where the stories need to be told. In this episode, her walls warm, her windows brighten, and her kitchen fills with the scent of olive groves, sun-warmed stone, and something feather-soft rustling near the sill. The magic shifts with the land, and so does she.

In the Celestial Happenings, we explore the astrology of early February: the spark of Aquarius, the grounded promise of Capricorn, and the ancient sky lore that guided Mediterranean communities through the uncertain hinge of winter’s end.

Then, in the Kitchen Witchery, we prepare a true Sabbat feast — not one dish, but two. We craft Honey Oat Cakes with golden raisins and carob chips for sweetness, blessing, and return. And we build a fire-roasted Mediterranean succotash with zucchini, red pepper, sweet onion, garlic, kidney beans, chickpeas, grape tomatoes, olives, basil, oregano, crushed red pepper, and lemon — a vegan hearth meal that warms, nourishes, and celebrates the stirring of life under the earth.

This is an episode of gentle courage, quiet flame, and becoming. It is a reminder that endurance is its own magic — and that Imbolc doesn’t ask you to bloom. It asks you to believe you still can.

If winter felt long… if your ember burned low… if you’ve been waiting for a sign that something inside you is ready to rise again — step inside. The Mediterranean sun is warming the stones. The Manor has already opened the door.

Welcome to Imbolc, weird one. The quickening begins.

In Episode Nine, we open the door to a new, multi-year teaching arc — On Being a Witch, an eight-part series woven across the wheel of the year, exploring the identities, wounds, powers, and mythic roles witches have carried across centuries. We begin with the oldest truth, the sharpest truth, the one whispered in bone before it was ever written in books: the Witch is the One who stands at the edge — the Other.

Together we travel through history, folklore, psychology, and lived experience to ask the question most people are too afraid to touch: Why does the world fear the ones who see clearly? From ancient dream-speakers to village healers, from midwives and herb-wives to queer mystics and children who refused to bow, this episode traces the lineage of those who were marked as dangerous long before they ever cast a spell.

We explore the witch not as a caricature, but as an archetype of resistance — the intuitive child who couldn’t be broken, the adult who learned to stand in their knowing, the soul who was punished not for rebellion but for clarity. Through Aries fire and Waxing Crescent momentum, this episode invites listeners to name the places where they were cast as “too much,” “too loud,” “too strange,” or “too awake”… and to recognize those marks as mirrors rather than wounds.

In Celestial Happenings, we track the lunar and planetary energies that sharpen intuition and illuminate shadow, while Kitchen Witchery offers a grounding ritual — a simmering, fragrant protection brew that clears stagnant corners and welcomes the returning light of Imbolc. Finally, the Convocation gathers everything we’ve touched and carries it inward, helping listeners reclaim the ember that survived the winter of being misunderstood.

If you have ever felt like you lived outside the lines… If you were ever the child who knew too much… If you are ready to understand why the world called you “Other,” and why that was always your power —

step into the circle. This is where the Witch remembers herself.

In Episode Eight, we step into the hush — that charged, trembling stillness where messages rise not in words, but in symbols, sensations, and the gravity of things unsaid. This is our first journey in the multi-year Divination series, the place in the work where Raven stops teaching about magic and begins teaching how to listen to it.

Together, we travel into the oldest form of knowing: the wisdom of dreams, omens, instincts, and the thin shimmering veils between your conscious mind and the vast starfield inside you. Divination isn’t about predicting the future — it’s about learning to read the pattern your life is already weaving. It’s about recognizing the moments the universe clears its throat and whispers, “Pay attention.”

We explore cultures across continents who trusted dreams as divine messages, examine the language of symbols that has crossed millennia unchanged, and learn why the space between thoughts — the pause, the breath, the quiet — is often where the real magic happens.

In Celestial Happenings, we move beneath a liminal sky that supports dreamwork and inner travel, exploring how the Moon and planetary alignments create the conditions for safe wandering, recall, and symbolic insight rather than forced revelation.

In Kitchen Witchery, we return to the hearth with Dream-Threaded Patties and an Avocado–Lime Drizzle — a grounding, elemental meal designed to nourish the nervous system, anchor the body, and prepare the vessel for intentional dreamwork. This is not comfort food. It is preparation. A ritual meal for witches who intend to travel inward and return with clarity.

This episode is for anyone who’s ever woken from a dream that felt like a memory, noticed a pattern that wouldn’t let go, or sensed meaning shimmering just beneath the surface of ordinary days.

If you’ve been wondering how to hear your own soul more clearly… If you’ve been waiting for a sign… If you’ve been longing to understand the silence between the stars…

You’re already listening.

Step into the quiet, weird one. Something is trying to speak to you.

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THE WITCH’S FAMILIAR: WHAT THE CAT REMEMBERED

In Episode Seven, we step into one of the oldest, strangest, most beloved mysteries in the witch’s world — the bond between a witch and her familiar. This is not a story about pets. This is a story about witnesses. Guardians. Mirrors. The beings who walk beside us not because we trained them, but because they remembered us.

Together, we explore the mythic origins of familiars across continents — from the shapeshifting guardians of the Celtic isles, to the protective house spirits of the Mediterranean, to the feline guides revered in ancient Egypt, and the animal allies honored across Indigenous traditions worldwide. We unravel where the lore converges, where it contradicts, and where it reveals the deeper truth: familiars are not “helpers.” They are agreements.

In this episode, we talk about: ✨ what a familiar is (and what it absolutely is not) ✨ the metaphysics of companionship and psychic resonance ✨ why cats stand at the threshold between worlds ✨ how familiars function as mirrors, messengers, and memory-keepers ✨ and what it means when an animal chooses you

From there, we turn our gaze skyward for this week’s Full Moon influences — a lunar moment drenched in intuition, boundary-setting, and deep listening — before returning to the hearth for Kitchen Witchery. This week’s recipe, Lavender & Vanilla Warm Rice-Milk Nightcup, is a spell disguised as comfort: a nighttime ritual for calming the nervous system, softening the psychic field, and inviting your familiar spirit (physical or otherwise) to draw near.

This episode is for anyone who has ever felt watched over… chosen… or accompanied by something that understood them long before words were possible. It is for every witch who has wondered why some animals lock eyes with them like they’re remembering an oath.

If you’ve ever felt the brush of a tail against your ankle at the exact moment a message arrives… If you’ve ever sensed a presence curling beside you in grief or ritual… If you’ve ever believed an animal knew you deeper than language…

This episode is a key.

Step into the quiet with me, weird one. The cat remembers. And tonight, so will you.

FULL MOON RITUAL: THE WATER KNOWS YOUR NAME

In Episode Six, we enter the oldest mirror on Earth — water — and ask it to tell us who we are now. This is our first Full Moon ritual of the year, a night when memory rises like a tide and the body becomes a shoreline for every story we’ve ever carried.

Together we walk through the science, the folklore, and the lived truth that water is never passive. It listens. It remembers. It responds. From the Moon’s gravitational pull to the human heartbeat, from ancient purification rites to modern trauma research, this episode traces the thread between the water around us and the water within us — and how both can become portals into healing.

We speak of the wells of Brigid, the tides of the Aegean, the rivers that shaped civilizations, and the ways our ancestors understood full moons not as “manifestation nights,” but as revelation nights — when what has settled at the bottom of the soul begins to stir.

This is a ritual episode: grounding, lunar, intimate. In Kitchen Witchery, we reconnect the body to the magic with our Moon-Steeped Sweet Potato Stew — a soft, warm, nourishing bowl designed to settle the nervous system after emotional release. It’s food as balm, food as spellwork, food as integration.

If you’ve been feeling full, heavy, overwhelmed, or quietly ready to change… If you’ve been carrying a truth in your chest that hasn’t yet found its voice… If you want a ritual that meets you where you actually are — not where the world thinks you “should” be — this episode is water, moonlight, and permission.

Come closer, weird one. Let the tide rise. The water remembers you.

(The First in the Raven’s Trick Series)

In Episode Five, we open a brand-new doorway in Raven’s Lore Cast — the first in a multi-year, multi-dimensional series called Raven’s Trick, where each installment reveals a truth hidden in plain sight, wrapped in mischief, paradox, and shadowlight. These stories don’t behave. They bend. They slip. They reorient everything you thought you knew about magic, identity, fate, and the strange architecture of your own becoming.

This opening chapter, The Trick of Time, brings us into conversation with one of humanity’s oldest illusions: that time is linear, obedient, and sensible. Raven knows better — and so do the ancestors. Across cultures, mythologies, and cosmologies, time has always been depicted as a loop, a serpent, a wheel, a spiral, a trickster’s knot we spend our whole lives trying to untangle. But what if time isn’t something that happens to you… but something you happen through?

We walk the edges of that question through the myth of Ganymede — the mortal boy taken to Olympus, suspended between immortality and memory, forever young, forever outside the clock. His story is a mirror for anyone who has ever felt out of sync with the world’s expectations: the queer, the liminal, the neurodivergent, the too-fast, the too-slow, the out-of-order, the beautifully nonlinear souls who grow the way constellations grow — suddenly, sideways, all at once.

In the celestial segment, we untangle the Aquarian sky — the Water Bearer whose myth is a trick of its own. Aquarius pours, yes… but what? Water? Time? Memory? Revolution? We explore the ancient belief that Aquarius controlled not the rains, but the release of forgotten worlds, and how midwinter has always been a season when the veil thins not just between realms, but between timelines.

In Kitchen Witchery, we bring the Trick of Time into the body with Star-Kissed Citrus & Saffron Risotto — a dish that tastes like memory returning, tradition bending, and sunlight reaching you from both the past and the future. Slow-cooked, deeply fragrant, and calibrated to remind you that good magic takes the time it takes.

If you’ve ever felt haunted by versions of yourself you haven’t lived yet — If you’ve ever sensed that your past is not behind you but beside you — If you’ve ever woken up knowing something you haven’t learned — this episode is your invitation.

Step into the trick, weird one. Time is ready to tell the truth.

In this first installment of Sabbats Across the Globe, the Manor shifts — and suddenly we’re no longer in familiar forests or candlelit rooms. We’re in the Arctic Circle, where winter is honest, the night is endless, and the aurora drapes itself across the sky like a living memory. Here, Raven steps into the oldest version of Yule: the Solstice vigil shaped by Sámi, Inuit, Yupik, Iñupiat, Kalaallit, and Old Norse cosmologies, held in standing-stone circles carved by wind and time.

This is the longest night — a night that was never about triumph or glitter, but about endurance, reciprocity, and the sacred responsibility of keeping a single flame alive. Together we explore ancestral midwinter traditions, the cosmology of the North, the truth of the Long Night, and the quiet power of tending an ember when the world has gone cold.

Inside the traveling Manor, Madya Pathikã reveals her deeper nature for the first time — old as story itself, shifting the world outside her windows to bring Raven where the ancestors are ready to speak. Beneath the aurora’s green fire, you’ll hear the drum-pulse of ancient winter teachings: how communities survived the dark, how the land shaped spirit, and why Yule was never just a holiday — it was a vow.

Part lore immersion, part shamanic remembering, part whispered encouragement to your own inner flame, this episode invites you to honor the truth at the heart of every Arctic Solstice tradition:

✨ You do not have to blaze to survive the dark. ✨ Your small flame is enough. ✨ The sun always finds its way home — and so will you.

Step into the circle, Witch.The Longest Night is calling.