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 October 20, 2025
We read the week with Page of Wands for love, Death for money, and Nine of Swords for guidance. We talk play, endings, anxiety, and the small actions that shift your week toward ease and momentum.
• playful outreach and low-pressure connection with Page of Wands
• solo dates and creative self-nurture
• Death card as compost for finances and work
• pruning subscriptions and spending habits
• shifting money beliefs and planning for slowdowns
• making space for rest when overwhelmed
• interrupting anxious loops with time-boxed feeling
• practical actions: call reps, journal, ask for help
• spooky story bonus episodes and where to book readings
And if you would like to get one-on-one readings with us, you can book with Jez at jezminavonthiele.com. And you can also book with Paulina at romaniholistic.com.
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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 Romana Stand. We're your friendly neighborhood gypsies.
SPEAKER_01:I'm Paulina.
SPEAKER_00:And I'm Jez, and we are here for your tarot advice for the week of October 20th, 2025. Deep into spooky season. So for love this week, we have the page of wands. Which is cute. You know, I'll take it. What what do you feel about the page of wands this week?
SPEAKER_01:I think the page of wands is a little bit about kind of exploring your curiosity and getting creative. Pages are kind of free-spirited and creative when it comes to love and when it comes to just love in general, romance, flirting, friendships, even family. I feel like there's a level of this like new energy, curiosity, excitement, growth, and basically taking on new little responsibilities when it comes to love, because that's what you do when you love people, whether it's other people or yourself. It's about taking care and nurturing those little responsibilities because you feel like it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's like the fun part of caring about someone can be showing up for your friend's workshop or just sending in a sweet little check-in text with someone you haven't talked to in a while, or that sort of nurturing kind of flirting with a crush where it's like you're showing that you care, but it's fun and playful and sweet. And yeah, I think that this is a fun time to be reaching out to people and like doing things. It's it's definitely like let's go play kind of energy with the people you love. And also, I'm all about the self too, because sometimes you might be single and you're like, Thank God I'm single right now. Um, or you just, you know, whatever, want to spend a little more time with yourself. This can very much be like what would be a fun self date, solo date to go on. It's kind of weak. So for money, we do have the death card. How would you uh advise our our clients to go forward? You're fucked. No, I'm just kidding, guys.
SPEAKER_01:I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
SPEAKER_00:You're not, you're not, you're not.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so the death card in money doesn't mean all of your sources of income are dying, but it does mean that something is coming to an end. Some source of income is coming to an end, some kind of hustle, some kind of job, um, some kind of path, even if it's in the same field, but you know, some different resource, basically, it has to end in order to make space for something new and something better. It's kind of about shedding an old skin, I guess, of yourself and re-emerging. So you have to go through this period. And also like the end of the year is kind of coming up. And so if you have new business goals or if you've already been working on something, just expect a little bit of a delay while you go through this kind of transformation, and then normally it the rebirth kind of starts, and then it your finances should stabilize a little bit later. But what do you think?
SPEAKER_00:I agree. It can absolutely be that this is a good time to leave a job, you know, step away from a client, you know, you know, come to an end with something. If it's not that deep for you know, some of our listeners, it might even just be that your habits around money are ending, where you sort of you stop doing this little extra spending. Maybe this is a good month or a good week for you to go through all your subscriptions and see if you can cancel any that you're not using, like really see like what commitments you've made to spending, even that you can cut out if you're like, you know, work feels stable, though, can't think of anything that I want to end there. It might be the smaller kinds of endings that could be very helpful. And even beliefs about money might need to change right now. Like if you have um some changes coming up, let's say, like, you know, what Paulina is pointing out is that sometimes this card can be like, okay, one thing is coming to an end. If you have a belief that you're screwed, that might also that belief might need to come to an end. Um so there's resurrection.
SPEAKER_01:No, it's temporary.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, think of this as like a composting phase. You might also be um, you know, shifting your your outlook on your career and what's possible for you. And that seems important considering that our guidance card is the nine of swords, which is a very anxious card. Uh, what how do you feel like the nine of swords could be guiding us this week?
SPEAKER_01:I'm making my eyes big for those of you who can't see. I think so. The first thing that comes to my mind when I get cards like this, like the nine of swords, is I think there's this kind of westernized habit of trying to see the positive in every every aspect of like every card if there's a difficulty or this or that. And I just wanna come here and say you don't have to do that. So sometimes when we're getting things like the nine of swords, we're experiencing a lot of horrible things, maybe, or or thinking those things. Like it it's sometimes, I mean, you know, it it's emotional for sure. So exhaustion, overthinking, anxiety, uh, PTSD if you're me, like just the same. So uh yeah, like I feel like it's okay to accept that the guidance is like let yourself feel, give yourself time to experience even these negative emotions, whether it be any of these things, and at the same time, um, yeah, like give yourself a certain time and let that energy flow through. That way you can heal and come up with a better plan later and you know get down to business when you can. But if you're trying to stay on top of everything and not giving yourself a break, I really feel like as humans, we weren't cut out to live in the society that requires us to constantly be working and fighting and experiencing all these mental things. Like we have to sometimes find ways to work around it. And some area in our life might suffer, suffer temporarily, but we'll pick ourselves back up when we have that energy.
SPEAKER_00:It's true. If you are feeling really overwhelmed this week, it's this is a good time to respond to that overwhelm. And the death card around money might be like, I gotta take a day off, even if it's unpaid. Like, I just have to. And I am a huge, or both of us are huge proponents of uh get some help if you need it, you know, talk to a therapist, talk to a psychiatrist, like, you know, talk to um your grandma, like what do we need to do? Um and this card really reminds me to take anxiety seriously and to notice what thoughts are playing on loop and see what I can do to break the loops. And so, you know, sometimes you might not have time to slow down and pay attention to what's really on your mind. You might just be in the thick of it. And I feel like this card is like, slow down, honey. If you're not feeling well, like let's take that seriously for a minute, see what you need, see what you need to do about it. Uh, because fear needn't be our guide, but an awareness of fear and like what it requires of you is really important right now.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And sometimes there are actions we can take. You know, like if you're like many of us feeling overwhelmed by political fear, sometimes doing something, even if it's small, like calling your representative or you know, reaching out to an organization and seeing if you can help in any way, like that can be alleviating because it's some sort of action you're taking. It doesn't make you feel so helpless if what you're dealing with is kind of a you know a more personal thing, like you're working through traumas and things like that. You know, reach out to your support, do a little journaling. You know, you don't have to do it alone.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, and hang in there, guys.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and if you want a little distraction, this month we have spooky stories coming out left and right. So uh we have two really fun spooky story episodes, one with Dead Scared Entertainment and another with Ariane and Emani Jerome, and uh which are kind of like spooky tales from the Caribbean, which is really, really fun. So, you know, get lost in the spookiness.
SPEAKER_01:Just kind of happened that way. That was so interesting.
SPEAKER_00:It was great. Okay, bye. Have a great week. Bye. And if you would like to get one-on-one readings with us, you can book with me at jasmina von Tila.com.
SPEAKER_01:And you can also book with me, so either for one-on-one readings or holistic sessions or services at romaniholistic.com. And you can also just book directly through my calendar, so R O M A N I holistic.com.