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.