Welcome to Roon Soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we are speaking with master herbalist ritual artist and educator Katamara Rosareum.

Katamara is the proprietor of Rosarium blends and the co-founder of the Viridist Genai Conference.

She joins us today to talk all things plant magic.

Katomara, welcome aboard.

Hi Gordon, thank you. Well, no, thank you.

Thank you very much for your time and we will jump as we always do for the first time guests.

Straight on into question number one.

Cat, were you a weird kid?

Yeah, I guess I was.

I mean my family thought I was.

I was adopted as a child so I never really felt like I fit in with my family too much and all of my interests were

Pretty far out there in regards to what a normal, you know, average middle class family

might be like.

And so it took, it took a while for them to realize that my interests were not a phase that I was going to grow out of and that it was I was who I was and I think kind of into my late teenage early 20s they started embracing my

oddness rather than rejecting it so that was really nice and definitely in my

adulthood they they accept me completely which is nice.

But it was challenging at times and never really fit in. I grew up in Arizona and I always knew that I didn't really belong there but I didn't really know where I belonged.

And so when I was 15 I woke up one day and I don't know if I had a dream or a premonition or what I just said I'm moving to

Seattle and I had no idea why I'd never been there and so I just kind of held on to that and when I graduated from

college I moved here or to Washington. I don't live in Seattle anymore but I did for quite a while.

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