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.