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.