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 than opposition, how solar power is honored through stewardship, and how ancient cultures understood abundance as something to be tended, not consumed.

We move through:

• The celestial mechanics and symbolism of the June Solstice
• Litha as a global threshold, not a singular tradition
• The river as sacred witness and living temple
• The peacock as a solar archetype of so ...