Fortune telling isn’t a parlor trick or trending fad for Romani people, it’s a survival trade rooted in their culture, shares Jezmina Von Thiele. Courtesy of Aurora Rose Decosta Gypsyfortuneteller is ...

Tarot has had a long reputation of “woo-woo” and fortune-telling, but over the last few years, it’s blossomed into a modern practice that doesn’t rely on its former stereotypes. Across Philadelphia ...

In January, the New Orleans Museum of Art opened a retrospective of globally acclaimed Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu. As part of this exhibition, I worked with the artist to select a number of works ...

This morning, we were transported to the ancestral plane at Wellness House at the 2024 ESSENCE Festival at Ernest Morial Convention Center. For those connected to our ancestors and spiritual guides, ...

Whether or not human cultures can persist without divination is debatable, since it seems no culture on record has gone without some form of it (Curry, 2010: 1). Yet divination’s role is highly ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you’ve spent any time on #WitchTok, you’ve probably learned a bit about communicating with spirit ...

Mediterranean Studies focuses on the Mediterranean world over a broad chronological span—from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment. The journal’s interdisciplinary approach includes work on the arts, ...

Gypsyfortuneteller is still a popular, but unfortunate, Halloween costume. Fortune telling, particularly cartomancy in this case, isn’t a parlor trick or trending fad for Romani people ― it’s a ...