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.
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Romanistan
Tarot for the week of November 24, 2025
A steady, generous love meets values-first money choices and patient progress. We have the King of Pentacles for love, the Lovers for money, and Seven of Pentacles for guidance, tying them into calming plans, aligned commitments, and small steps that add up.
• King of Pentacles as grounded, reciprocal love
• balancing masculine and feminine energies in relationships
• shifting from giver-taker dynamics to equal exchange
• the Lovers for money as contracts, collabs, and aligned choices
• choosing career paths that feel meaningful or spending with purpose
• Seven of Pentacles as patience, consistency, and tiny steps
• building systems that support long-term goals
• seasonal spending framed as ethical power and community care
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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 Romanist. We're your friendly neighborhood gypsies.
SPEAKER_01:I'm Paulina.
SPEAKER_00:And I'm Jez, and we are here with your tarot reading for the week of November 24th, 2025. For love, money, and guidance.
SPEAKER_01:Yay!
SPEAKER_00:So we have the King of Pentacles for love. How does that make you feel?
SPEAKER_01:I really like this. I feel like, yeah, right. This feels right. This feels good. And my personal thought is I think it represents some kind of partner that is embodying this masculine energy, and you're building this relationship just because I feel like it is love. Because I love the King of Pentacles, but it's basically like if you continue to have trust and you know good communication and consistency, and if you guys both have the same vision like for the future, I feel like this is really about growth in general. So I leadership, growth, and I also feel like it's about yourself too, like you embodying this King of Pentacles, and like I I'm here for it, here for growth, manifestation, like and being the boss. So yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I love that. Whether you are embodying the masculine or the other person is, or you're both embodying the masculine, because we all have like masculine and feminine. Um, the binary is um not a straw, not a strict binary, you know, we can move up and down the spectrum as needed. Um, but whatever you associate with that empowered, grounded energy, whether that's an element of your personality more than your partner's, or vice versa, this is a really good time to lean into feeling grounded in love, thinking about making really practical plans, and also coming to love from a place of I am enough and I have plenty to share or plenty to give, and expecting the same in return. Absolutely important that if you are a giver, that you are matched with someone who is a complimentary giver. It's if you find that you're a giver, usually matched with takers, whether it's you know, friends, family, lovers, whoever, this is time for that to change. You're ready to shift that story, change the script, um, or flip the script. We're flipping scripts. Um, this is a good time to change that because you are ready, you're stable.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I like that. Yay, yay. So we have the sorry, go ahead. I totally forgot we was we were recording. I was literally just gonna say we got the lovers for money.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you said that was crazy. What how does that feel crazy to you?
SPEAKER_01:Just because it's not like satisfying. Like, I want to get the lovers in the love section.
SPEAKER_00:I know that would have I was like, are you sure, tarot cards? All right, fine. But you know, it's making us think, and it's probably making us think for a reason.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I I I really feel like having the lovers in the money section always makes me think like, oh, like a love interest at work, but I also feel like it can represent a collaboration, working with someone that you trust, and basically some kind of partnership in general. It could be signing contracts, like I I don't know exactly, but that's the that's the vibe, like that's the feeling I get. What about you?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I think all of those really important, deeply classic interpretations totally matter here, so important. Like this is if you're committing to something like with contracts or collaborations, the lovers make so much sense here. And I love maybe there's a cute little love interest at work, and maybe you're working with like a love interest, which is always fun. And I think if you're also in a place where you're thinking about like, what is my path with my career? What is my life path with my vocal? The lovers might be encouraging you to really lock into something that you feel like brings you a lot of happiness, especially if you are on a mission to discover some sort of passion with the work that you do. We don't always have to work our passions. Um, we don't always have to make our careers like our whole lives. But if you do find yourself in that position or with that desire, this might be a nudge to kind of lock in to that. And if that is not the case for you, if you're like, honey, my job is a job, maybe this is about finding something exciting to do either with the money that you have, like using it in a meaningful way to make your life better, or finding elements of the um work that you do for money joyful in its own way. Yeah. And then we have the Seven of Pentacles for our guidance. How is that guiding you?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I feel like it's delay, delay, delay. Right. Yeah, it's definitely what what did you say? It's never gonna happen.
SPEAKER_00:Um yeah, I mean, I think the card is very coquettish where it's like, listen, if you plant the seeds, don't expect the garden overnight. But you are planting the seeds and the garden will come up eventually. Definitely feels like be patient, the fruits of your labor are slowly paying off. Like it's maybe, maybe some things will be delayed, but maybe other things will feel like they're just in time.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it it will pay off eventually, but I am just like I I am a patient person, and I feel like when it comes to long-term goals and things like that, or even like short-term things, like I don't even mind traffic anymore. But when there's just some things that like I really want at that moment, I'm like, why isn't this just happening already? Like when you're microwaving a bag of popcorn, like certain little things, certain little things don't always make it. But I it it's really bigger than that, and I feel like the main message is stay patient, stay on route, and things will work themselves out.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's definitely a card reminding you that your patience is rewarded as well as your hard work. It's the planting the seeds part of it that's really important. So if you are working towards something uh long term, think about the important things that you can do now that will set you up for success and help sustain your energy and your growth. Because it all matters and it all adds up to something. Sometimes uh when I have a big project ahead of me, I get really overwhelmed and I'm like, how do I start? And it's like, well, with the first tiny thing and then the next tiny thing, and then you keep doing all the tiny things until you have the big thing. So that's our advice to you.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I think this is going to be a very stabilizing week that allows you to focus your energy where it needs to be focused. And I think that's a helpful thing.
SPEAKER_01:For sure.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, thank you so much for listening, everyone. Remember, Secrets of Romani fortune telling makes an adorable gift for whoever you are shopping for, and to use your money wisely, um, you know, in a justice-oriented way. Um, think about where your money goes in general this holiday season. You definitely have power with your bucks. And always remember to give to mutual aid and food banks and uh people who might need a little help if you're in the position to give a little help. And we're also happy to share, you know, mutual aid posts and things like that on Romana Sun. So we like we'll share in our stories if there's something that you want to alert us to that's a really good cause. We're happy to do that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
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