Romanistan
The authors of Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling present: Romanistan! Do you love rebels? Do you want to live in a place where outcasts shine their brightest? Welcome to Romanistan! We're your friendly neighborhood Gypsies, celebrating Romani identity and outcast culture, and practicing good diplomatic relations with other marginalized communities.
We love the rebels who are living their truth, even if it clashes with tradition. We also love tradition and honoring our roots. This podcast is for everyone who loves and supports Roma & related groups, and anyone who feels like a misfit and wants to uplift others to create a beautiful community.
We feature pioneers in culture, fashion, art, literature, music, activism, cuisine, and everything good. We adore the intersections of gender, sexuality, spirituality, ability, and identity. We cover all topics, from the difficult to the glorious. Let's sit crooked and talk straight.
Hosted by Paulina Stevens and Jezmina Von Thiele. We reclaim the slur Gypsy, but if you aren’t Romani, we prefer you don't use it. xoxo.
P.S. The Romani people are a diasporic ethnic group originally from northwest India, circa the 10th century. Now, Roma live all over the globe, and due to centuries of oppression, slavery, genocide, and other atrocities, Roma are still fighting for basic human rights. We seek to raise awareness of who Roma are, and highlight Romani resilience, creativity, & culture.
Romanistan
Tarot for the week of August 4th 2025
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Romanistan is hosted by Jezmina Von Thiele and Paulina Stevens
Conceived of by Paulina Stevens
Edited by Viktor Pachas, Bianca, Dia Luna
With Music by Viktor Pachas
And Artwork by Elijah Vardo
Welcome to Romanistan the week ahead. So this is for the week of August 4th 2025. And we're going to record them, usually ahead of time, so we'll see how it resonates with everyone. So this week we are going to draw three cards the first one for love, the second one for money and the third for guidance. So the Page of Cups is here for love, the emperor, for money and for overall guidance, the king of swords. All right. And so love is so multifaceted, right? It can be platonic, it can be your family, it can be your love life. What are you feeling about the Page of Cups for this week? Paulina for love love life.
Paulina:What are you feeling about the page of cups for this week, paulina? For love. So I feel like the page of cups is about creativity as well as kind of opening up to new opportunities. The little fish in the cup is usually for me like that's kind of what we interpret as like manifestation, growth, good luck as well as prosperity. Basically, I view the page of cups as new beginnings and creativity pages in general, kind of grasp at creativity, fun, manifestation, growing, like something growing.
Paulina:So sometimes it can represent new love growing. It can represent being creative, specifically within your love life. I feel like let's just say you guys the audience are our clients. I would say, if you get this card for love, it seems like you're going through something where the energy feels like it needs to grow. So you, you might feel like I need to be creative, like within love or within this or within that, and you might have felt stuck previously where it's like talking to the same person or doing the same thing or having the same conversations or or not, and sometimes in general, it has to do also with being creative and loving yourself as well, and so finding that, basically finding that creativity within how you interpret love in your life.
Jezmina:I love that. Yeah, I think of the little fish sometimes as a subconscious, or maybe even the inner child, and the page being the page. Who's holding the cup with the little fish in it being the adult self or the conscious mind? And so, with respect to your relationships, whatever kind of love relationship it is, I think it can be helpful for you to be in tune with your deeper needs and emotions and be aware of what you're feeling and what that means for you. Sometimes the things we feel are not always reflective of the truth, but they do reflect our internal landscape and what we're going through, and we're just a lot better at being in tune in relationships and loving people back when we know what's going on with ourselves. So I agree that Page of Cups is such a playful, joyful card. I think it's such an encouragement this week to do things that are joyful with the people you care about. Then we have the Emperor for money, so this can be career or any aspect of your abundance. What do you think about the Emperor for this week?
Paulina:The emperor is not like a king or a queen. The emperor is a ruler that rules with their people. So I view the emperor as someone that can help elevate the money, career, work and purpose all together along with their people. So for me, I would say I view the emperor as you, the listener, being in a place where your focus is not completely making money and surviving and work opportunities and stuff like that. I feel like the focus is about purpose, taking your time ruling with the people and still surviving, because we live in a crazy country.
Paulina:If you are in this country, we live in a crazy world in general and, yeah, there's a level of that leadership capabilities to take ownership over your own opportunities and also find your purpose, whether it has to do, whether it's bringing in money and it's lucrative or not, and maybe even taking on a new role.
Jezmina:So there could be new opportunities coming up for you. Yeah, I'm thinking with the emperor. This is such a good time to step into your power and your expertise and really shine. We're coming into well, we're still in Leo season when we are recording this and releasing it and it's about your ability to command attention where you need to. You don't have to be a super outgoing person in general to step into your emperor archetype. Don't have to be a super outgoing person in general to step into your emperor archetype, and this might even be about navigating systems and structures to get things done, or perhaps even working with mentors or colleagues who you feel like have more information or more experience than you do. But especially when we're in such a challenging time politically not just in the US but worldwide learning how to work within these power structures and maybe make changes or improvements from within feels really important, like understanding what the emperor's palace looks like and how do you move around within it. Then the king of swords, for our overall guidance for the week. What are you feeling there?
Paulina:I just feel like it really resonates with me personally. This is just, I think, as we kind of said before, like this is a difficult time. This is not the easiest time. There are still opportunities and love in the world, but the king of swords shows overcoming, having to conquer whatever these challenges are. I view swords as like literally, either sword fighting or protecting, defending, and so I am feeling this king Swords as like the guidances hang in there. Yeah, keep fighting.
Jezmina:I so agree with that. I also really appreciate how the King of Swords is such a direct communicator, like really strong boundaries this week, which makes sense, with you know figuring out how to enjoy love and be receptive to love, but also how to step into your power and work and money. But we're still in the midst of Mercury retrograde. We will be until the 11th and then the shadow period lasts a while longer, and so this is such a good time to be really clear, double check your work, make sure people understand you, make sure that you understand others, and the clarity of the king of swords, I think, is a good guide right now, and I think this is a wonderful time to use written language also to process whatever you are going through. So you make sure you know what you need right now, because that's the first. What am I trying to say? That's the. The first struggle or the first hurdle in any kind of movement forward or growth is like what do I even need and what am I doing? So definitely agree with that.
Jezmina:All right, well, thanks everyone for tuning in. You can always get readings with me or Paulina online or sometimes in real life. I'm at jasminevantilacom and Paulina. Your website is under construction still, or is it up and going, or should people just email you?
Paulina:it is up and going, but it is also another version of it is under construction, so visit it. But you can also just text or call the number on the website if you'd like to book yeah and you're romaniholisticcom yes, awesome.
Jezmina:Well, thank you so much for being here, everyone, and let us know how this resonated for you. If you're into it, let us know comment. It really helps for you to share our content and makes a huge difference. We're trying to be more active in the algorithm so we can make this more sustainable and the more support that we get, the more that we can make cool stuff for you. And also, you're always welcome to write into Romanistan podcast. If there's a guest you would really love us to talk to or something you really want us to cover, we will do our best.
Paulina:Yes, thank you. Have a great week. Bye. Thank you for listening to Romanistan podcast.
Jezmina:You can find us on Instagram TikTokok blue sky and facebook at romanistan podcast and on twitter at romanistan pod to support us, join our patreon for extra content or donate to our coffee fundraiser, ko-ficom backslash romanistan, and please review and subscribe. It helps us so much.
Paulina:Follow Jez on Instagram at jasminavantila and Paulina at Romani Holistic. You can get our book Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling online or wherever books are sold. Visit romanistempodcastcom for events, educational resources, merch and more. Email us at romanistanpodcast at gmailcom for inquiries.
Jezmina:Romanistan is hosted by Jasmina Vantila and Paulina Stevens, conceived of by Paulina Stevens, edited by Victor, bianca and Dia Luna, with music by Victor and artwork by Elijah Vardo.