Your Tarot Friend Jen

As a kid, I dressed up like a gypsy fortune teller on Halloween for five years in a row. My mother had to sew a couple of extensions to the bottom of my skirt because I kept outgrowing it. I can’t tell you why I was so inspired by the gypsy archetype, but it was an early influence. Nowadays, the term “gypsy” is received as a slur by some, so I don’t want to be insensitive. Some of my ancestors immigrated from an area known as Bohemia. And for hundreds of years, some folks from this region (including my forebearers) have been stereotyped as unconventional, wandering, artistic types – or “gypsies”. It’s lucky for me that “Boho”, the contemporary incarnation that lifestyle, doesn’t carry the same stigma.

In college, 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 found that 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 fundraisers followed, as well as birthday parties and even baby showers.

Now I live in Los Angeles. While pursuing my own artistic endeavors, it just so happens that most of my Tarot clients are actors or writers or musicians too. Bohemian Path Tarot is a reflection of years co-creating with gypsies moved by Myth, Metaphor, and the Muse.

May you be inspired by your visit here!