Rune Soup

What continues to exist from the 'safe' and 'quirky' magic of the twentieth century that finally needs to die? And what has maybe been left behind that might even belong better in our current era of magic?
This is the beginning of a little project exploring what we should take with us through this fourth turning. You can, of course, watch this one on YouTube.
00:00 - Remember When Magic Was Safe?
01:50 - The Golden Age We Just Lived Through
05:19 - Eating the Wrapper, Throwing Away the Candy
06:34 - What Is Modernity?
09:54 - Why "Hospicing Modernity's Magic"
11:24 - The Hospicing Framework
13:00 - Nothing Is Going Wrong
14:54 - A Telling, Not a History
17:32 - The Series Roadmap
21:18 - What We Carry Forward
22:47 - Join the Conversation
Here are the videos I reference:
At Work In The Ruins | Dougald Hind 
Alan Moore's Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic

What is ours to do during the putrefactory collapse of Western civilisation? Let's find out!
At the very least, it is choosing the right story to live in so that we can nudge the trajectory of this ghastly moment more and more toward the good.
Here are some off-the-cuff thoughts on how we might do that.

There's a meme that's been evolving since 2021, and in its current chaotic incarnation, it's become accidentally magical—even if the people using it don't realise it.
In this episode, I'm unpacking "do it for the plot" as a practical framework for the year ahead. Not just as permission to take risks, but as a way of activating synchronicity and maintaining agency when things inevitably go sideways on the way to your goals.
I'll walk you through how to use this alongside your existing magical toolkit—your amulets, your enchantments, your divination practice—and share the diagnostic story I keep coming back to for checking where I'm actually at versus where I think I am.
I'm also introducing a new project I've been wrestling with: hospicing modernity's magic. Because the late twentieth century gave us some genuinely powerful techniques wrapped in a frame that insists magic isn't real. I want to find a way to respectfully retain the useful stuff and jettison the less-than-useful.
There's practical advice here for interrogating your intentions for 2026, plus some thoughts on why the slacker-era re-enchantment is officially over and what needs to replace it.
Happy new year, kids!

At this time of year, when many of us are rudely awoken from our hard-earned slumber by multiple ghosts wanting us to support their gofundme or something, I thought we might look at ghosts.
What are they? Are they even real? And if they're not, what are they for?
And the exploration is framed by a series of strange experiences I had recently at Australia's most haunted site and possibly the cruelest place in the entire British Empire, Port Arthur.
Enjoy!
PS - Let me also take the opportunity to sincerely thank you for listening, watching, supporting and sharing the various Rune Soup offerings in 2025. Have a wonderful Christmas.

Austinmas 2025! Can you even believe it? Legendary astrologer, Austin Coppock, returns to the show for a look at what 2026 has in store for you.
Here's what we cover:
🪐The end of "nothing ever happens" energy
🪐 What war looks like in the Age of Air
🪐 January's hidden assemblies and the parade before Pluto
🪐 Neptune's 13-year sign change
🪐The Saturn-Neptune conjunction and its strange history with Russia
🪐 Why March could see dangerous confusion and technical disasters
🪐 April's straightforward brutality
🪐 The sweet spot worth planning around
🪐 Late June's triple switcheroo
🪐 Mars-Uranus in Gemini and American history
🪐 August's grinding square with both malefics in their fall
🪐 The shadow over November's "jolly conqueror"
🪐 What 2026 sets up for early 2027
🪐 Solar eclipses and kings who bump their heads
🪬🪬How To Use The Astrology in Your Life🪬🪬
January's Gift 
Use the hidden assembly energy for genuine visioning. Where does your capacity for struggle go? What's actually worth anything? What are your sneaky little moves? Get trajectory set before the crazy train.
April's Pressure 
Mars-Saturn conjunctions every two years aren't new—but this one's in Aries with Neptune. Being pushed beyond reasonable limits. A week's work in a day and a half while already burned out. Endurable, but genuinely shitty.
The May-June Repair Window 
Not just absence of destruction but actively sweet and reparative. Build here what you couldn't build in the storm.