Raven's Lore Cast

High summer hums with continuity. In this episode, we turn toward the sacred endurance of the Sun Dance traditions of the Great Plains Nations — ceremonies of gratitude, sacrifice, and renewal that survived outlawing, suppression, and colonization. This is not reenactment. It is reverence. We explore the deeper meaning of devotion, the historical attempt to silence Indigenous spiritual practices,...

What if naming isn’t just language… but power? In Episode 31 of Raven’s Lore Cast , we explore one of the oldest human technologies: naming. From mythic stories like Isis and Ra to modern neuroscience, we examine how labels shape identity, calm the nervous system, and quietly construct the architecture of who we believe ourselves to be. Before something is controlled, it is named. Before something...

At the height of the year, the Sun pauses. In this Sabbat episode of Raven’s Lore Cast , we mark Litha / the Summer Solstice not as a celebration of excess, but as a moment of responsibility—when light reaches its fullest expression and must decide how it will be carried forward. Traveling to the banks of the Ganges at Solstice , this episode explores how fire and water meet in reverence rather th...

What does real power look like when it doesn’t need to dominate? In this mythology deep dive, Raven Lorekeeper steps into the quiet authority of the great keepers — Juno and Hecate — and follows their lineage through Isis, Ishtar, and Mami Wata , tracing an ancient pattern of sovereignty rooted not in force, but in fairness, restraint, and jurisdiction. This episode asks a question we’re rarely ta...

As the Moon wanes and the Summer Solstice approaches, Raven explores the ancient wisdom of restraint, stewardship, and ethical power. Through stories of the Wounded King, Sekhmet, Amaterasu, and Raven himself, we examine what happens when strength reaches its peak and must be guided rather than expanded. Plus: June celestial happenings, a simple gluten-free beer bread, roasted apples, and a reflec...

What happens when the Moon comes around twice? In this episode of Raven’s Lore Cast, Raven explores the rare Blue Micromoon of May 31, 2026, and the ancient human instinct to pay attention when the sky breaks its usual rhythm. Together we journey through the folklore of Blue Moons, the spiritual symbolism of a Full Moon shining from its farthest distance, and the alchemical concept of quintessence...

Dreams are not noise. They are not random. And they are not a playground for spiritual shortcuts. In this episode of Raven’s Lore Cast , we step carefully — and ethically — into the dream world as a threshold : a place humans have visited for guidance, warning, healing, and meaning since the beginning of time. This is the second episode in the year-long Dreamwalker arc, and it’s not about forcing...

The censer is one of the oldest ritual tools in human history, but this episode isn't about making your space smell mystical. It's about learning why smoke has been used as sacred technology across cultures for thousands of years, and what it can teach modern witches about presence, sovereignty, and intentional living. In this installment of our Witch's Tools series, Raven explores the censer as a...

In this deeply reflective and emotionally charged episode of Raven’s Lore Cast , Raven explores three sacred archetypes of knowing: the Raven, the Crane, and the Panther. Together, they reveal the difference between intellectual truth, sacred timing, and embodied instinct. Through mythology, psychology, celestial insight, and grounded witchcraft, this episode invites listeners to reconnect with th...

This week on Raven’s Lore Cast, Raven opens the Manor doors onto the lush, sacred landscapes of Mesoamerica to explore Beltane through a different lens: not as aesthetic, but as life-force made holy. Together, we walk through jungle air, sacred fire, maize creation stories, and the archetypes of fierce feminine sovereignty that have survived empire, shame, and forgetting. In this Sabbat Special, R...

What if being a witch isn’t about learning something new… but about remembering what was taken? In this foundational episode of On Being a Witch , Raven Lorekeeper pulls back the veil on one of the most powerful—and most dangerous—truths of the craft: memory is resistance . This isn’t nostalgia. This isn’t aesthetic ancestry. This is about cultural amnesia as a weapon… and remembering as an act of...

Divination isn’t about prediction. It’s about recognition. In this foundational episode of Raven’s Lore Cast’s Divination series, Raven dismantles the myths surrounding Tarot and rebuilds it as what it has always been: a language of symbols, a mirror of the human psyche, and a tool for conscious living. We explore Tarot’s real historical origins—not as an ancient mystical relic, but as a human-mad...

Not all love speaks in words. Some of it waits at the threshold. In this episode of Raven’s Lore Cast , we step into the ancient truth of the witch’s familiar—specifically the dogs who guard the gate between worlds, between selves, between who we were and who we are becoming. This isn’t about pets or aesthetics. This is about devotion, protection, instinct, and the sacred bond that has existed bet...

There are seasons in life when you feel untethered—when the map you’ve been using no longer works, and the next step feels just out of reach. In this episode, we return to one of humanity’s oldest forms of wayfinding: the sky. Long before GPS, before paper maps, before certainty was something we expected to be handed to us, we looked up. The stars offered pattern, memory, and proof that what feels...

Memory is not a recording. It’s a living thing. In this threshold episode of Raven’s Trick , Raven Lorekeeper takes you into one of the most complex and quietly dangerous forces in human experience: memory itself. What if memory isn’t just something you recall—but something that reshapes you every time you touch it? What if it protects you, edits you, betrays you… and can even be weaponized agains...

Spring doesn’t arrive the same way everywhere — and that’s the magic. In Episode 17 of Raven’s Lore Cast , we travel eastward through the turning of the season, exploring how renewal, balance, and beauty are honored across parts of Asia during the spring threshold. From the hush of cherry blossoms to the spiritual weight of equinox energy, we talk about what it means to return to life gently — not...

Mortality is the one truth every human spends their life trying not to think about. But what if death isn’t the tragedy we imagine it to be? Across cultures and mythologies, trickster figures—from Coyote to Anansi, from the Hare to Loki—have long used humor, disruption, and chaos to reveal a deeper spiritual truth: the universe isn’t cruel… it’s temporary. And that temporary nature is exactly what...

What if descent isn’t destruction — but initiation? In this episode, Raven walks through the underworld with Persephone (per-SEF-uh-nee) of ancient Greece and Inanna (ee-NAH-nah) of Sumer (SOO-mer), exploring what it means to descend, be stripped of identity, and return crowned. From Scorpio’s waning gibbous Moon to the Venus–Saturn conjunction in Aries, this is an episode about sovereignty, bound...

A Blood Moon is coming — and it isn’t here to curse you. It’s here to reveal you. In this episode of Raven’s Lore Cast , Raven guides you through the ancient power of eclipses as threshold moments: not endings, but invitations. We explore global eclipse traditions that teach us how humans respond when the light disappears — through reconciliation, community, fierce protection, and sacred stillness...

In Episode Thirteen, we open the first doorway in a year-long exploration of dreams as sacred language, ancestral technology, and living classroom. This is DREAMS: Roots Beneath the Veil — where we return to the oldest dream traditions humanity ever trusted, long before dreams were dismissed as nonsense or neurological noise. Together, we journey through the ancient foundations of oneiromancy (div...

Before wands, blades, or fire, there was a surface. In this episode of Raven’s Lore Cast , Raven begins the Witch’s Tools series at the true foundation of all lasting craft: the altar cloth. Not as decoration. Not as aesthetic. But as boundary, containment, and relationship. Historically, witches did not have dedicated ritual rooms or curated altars. They had tables that fed families, delivered ba...

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 th...

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 s...

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 ed...

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...