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, and the astonishing resilience that kept the rhythm alive. Under a Waning Gibbous Moon in Pisces and with Earth at aphelion, we reflect on distance, warmth, and the kind of faith that continues even when permission is withdrawn.

Plus: a Kitchen Witchery ritual for preserving summer light — Sunshine Body Oil — and a meditation on maintenance as sacred practice.

Devotion is not spectacle. It is repetition.

The dance cont ...