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.

In Episode Three, we step into the liminal — into the queer, shimmering threshold where identity stops behaving and starts becoming. This is our Gemini deep dive, the place in the wheel where duality becomes a doorway instead of a demand. Together, we walk with Castor and Pollux — the immortal and the mortal, the bright and the earthbound — twins whose bond was so profound it forced the gods to rewrite the rules. Their myth is a love story, a grief story, a transformation story, and a mirror held up to anyone who has ever felt “too much,” “too many,” or “more than one thing.” This episode is for the queer, trans, nonbinary, genderfluid, Two-Spirit, and beautifully liminal souls who contain more than one truth at a time.

From celestial lore to the Geminid meteor shower to the mischievous teachings of Mercury, we explore what it means to live between worlds — to be both shadow and spark, both grounded and cosmic, both the fire and the soft thing it warms. And when the sky begins to fall in streaks of glittering defiance, we remember that duality isn’t contradiction; it’s completeness.

In Kitchen Witchery, we anchor the magic into the body with our Twin Flame Cocoa — dark, lush, spicy, unapologetically sensual — and Blood Orange Vanilla Cloud Cakes, soft enough to melt on the tongue and bright enough to taste like rebirth. These aren’t just recipes. They are rituals for the ones who refuse to choose between their truths.

If you’ve ever felt like you were living in the in-between… if you’ve ever held two identities, two desires, two futures in your chest… if you’ve ever wondered whether your contradictions are actually your power… this episode is a constellated yes.

Step into the threshold, weird one. The Twins are waiting.

In Episode Two, we step through the first of four seasonal Raven gateways — a year-long journey that will take us across continents, mythologies, and the secret places inside our own ribcages. This is Threshold One: Winter’s Gate, where the Super Moon rises like a silver drum and Raven becomes the one who teaches us how to cross instead of circle.

Together we explore the Pacific Northwest origins of Raven as light-bringer, world-shifter, and sacred disruptor — a being who reminds us that transformation rarely arrives politely. We dive into the history, the teaching, the symbolism of winter thresholds, and the deeper truth carried by every Raven story on this coastline:

✨ Creation begins with wanting. ✨ Change begins with mischief. ✨ Thresholds open from the inside first.

This episode is part mythic deep dive, part cosmic initiation, part fireside whisper to your becoming. If you’ve been feeling the pull toward something bigger — something older — something you can’t quite name yet… Raven is waiting at the gate.

Step through, weird one. The story is already inside you.