Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.

All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

Who shall it be if not us? Yes.

Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from

43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we welcome to the show A Good Friend,

an event co-conspirator Caitlin Kopik.

Caitlin is the proprietor of the rightfully popular

sphere and sundry, an online store dedicated to expertly elected talismanic material.

She joins us today to talk about talismanic magic, of course, astrology's cultural moment

in the proverbial sun and why you should always put your best foot forward.

Enjoy.

Caitlin, welcome aboard.

Thank you so much, Harden.

Well, this has been a long time coming actually.

I mean, we spoke about this when you were on the farm at the end of last year and the goal was to kind of

have our chat somewhere outside the half-yearlies with but you know things happen and and here we are

coming up on the end of H1 again. I'm glad it worked out. No, absolutely, absolutely it did.

And by now I'm sure, and funnily enough, I've been privy to some of this exciting information

already, but Kate, were you a weird kid? It's been a really long time coming that I've been

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