When I was a kid, I dressed up as a gypsy fortune teller at Halloween for five years in a row.
True story. My mother had to add extensions to the bottom of my skirt, as I kept outgrowing
it. I can't tell you why I was so addicted to the persona - it was partly the bright skirts and
brash, bangle-y bracelets...and partly the magical mystery. So you can imagine that it was
pretty exciting to learn from my grandpa that his parents were gypsies! Well, maybe not
entirely. It was the family joke, being gypsies, the truth was that they immigrated from an
area of Czechoslovakia known as Bohemia. People from this region have been thought of as
unconventional artistic-types since the middle ages.
I never really lost my fondness for gypsies...nor for dressing up. It was when I was a theatre
major at the University of Minnesota that a friend gave me my first Tarot reading. It was
spooky in it's lack of spookiness - completely straight-forward, yet spot on. I was hooked. I
got my first Tarot deck, the Aquarian Tarot, about a month later. I read all kinds of books on
the subject and practiced like mad. I enlisted everyone around me to enable my obsession - I
gave readings to friends, family members, neighbors, lazy cats and house plants. Anything
that would sit still, really. Eventually I graduated to readings for friends of friends and what
do you know - the Tarot works even when reading for strangers! After a few more years of
practice, I dipped my toe in the psychic fair pool. Readings at theatrical fund-raisers
followed - given the circles I wander in, it's to be expected - and there have been birthday
parties and even baby showers.
Now I live in Los Angeles and aside from pursuing my own artistic endeavors, most of my
Tarot clients are actors or writers or musicians. While I hope everyone who stops by finds
something useful, Bohemian Path Tarot is a reflection of my years of reading for those
touched by the Muse. May you be inspired by your visit here.
Member of the American Tarot Association
Certified (CATR) by the Tarot Certification Board
True story. My mother had to add extensions to the bottom of my skirt, as I kept outgrowing
it. I can't tell you why I was so addicted to the persona - it was partly the bright skirts and
brash, bangle-y bracelets...and partly the magical mystery. So you can imagine that it was
pretty exciting to learn from my grandpa that his parents were gypsies! Well, maybe not
entirely. It was the family joke, being gypsies, the truth was that they immigrated from an
area of Czechoslovakia known as Bohemia. People from this region have been thought of as
unconventional artistic-types since the middle ages.
I never really lost my fondness for gypsies...nor for dressing up. It was when I was a theatre
major at the University of Minnesota that a friend gave me my first Tarot reading. It was
spooky in it's lack of spookiness - completely straight-forward, yet spot on. I was hooked. I
got my first Tarot deck, the Aquarian Tarot, about a month later. I read all kinds of books on
the subject and practiced like mad. I enlisted everyone around me to enable my obsession - I
gave readings to friends, family members, neighbors, lazy cats and house plants. Anything
that would sit still, really. Eventually I graduated to readings for friends of friends and what
do you know - the Tarot works even when reading for strangers! After a few more years of
practice, I dipped my toe in the psychic fair pool. Readings at theatrical fund-raisers
followed - given the circles I wander in, it's to be expected - and there have been birthday
parties and even baby showers.
Now I live in Los Angeles and aside from pursuing my own artistic endeavors, most of my
Tarot clients are actors or writers or musicians. While I hope everyone who stops by finds
something useful, Bohemian Path Tarot is a reflection of my years of reading for those
touched by the Muse. May you be inspired by your visit here.
Member of the American Tarot Association
Certified (CATR) by the Tarot Certification Board
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Queen of Rods (Wands)
from the Aquarian Tarot
from the Aquarian Tarot
Bohemian:
noun
1. a native or inhabitant of Bohemia
2. a person, as an artist or writer, who lives and acts free of
regard for conventional rules and practices.
3. the Czech language, esp. as spoken in Bohemia.
4. a gypsy
adjective
5. of or pertaining to Bohemia, its people, or their language.
6. pertaining to or characteristic of the unconventional life of
a bohemian
7. living a wandering or vagabond life, as a gypsy.
noun
1. a native or inhabitant of Bohemia
2. a person, as an artist or writer, who lives and acts free of
regard for conventional rules and practices.
3. the Czech language, esp. as spoken in Bohemia.
4. a gypsy
adjective
5. of or pertaining to Bohemia, its people, or their language.
6. pertaining to or characteristic of the unconventional life of
a bohemian
7. living a wandering or vagabond life, as a gypsy.
