(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.
