Author Pop-Ups with Dawn Aurora Hunt and Jezmina Von Thiele!

Dawn Hunt

Dawn Aurora Hunt, owner and CEO of Cucina Aurora Kitchen Witchery, has been teaching and writing on the topics of Kitchen Witchery and Spiritual Nutrition since 2010, when she started her own company making gourmet foods with a dash of magic and a heaping helping of positive vibes as the main ingredients. With simple ingredients and the power of intention, Hunt teaches people how to cook simple meals in a mindful way to help achieve spiritual goals. Incorporating magic and energy work into food, she has grown her brand to reach people from all faiths and spiritual backgrounds. The author of A Kitchen Witchcraft for Beginners, A Kitchen Witch’s Guide to Love and Romance and her new Kitchen Witch’s Culinary Oracle Deck. Not only is she the host of popular podcast Conversational Witchcraft, she speaks at events all along the East Coast, appears regularly on local TV, and teaches people that good, healthy, and even gluten-free food can be easy to make and wonderful to eat. 

Join us for a simple book signing / meet and greet with her new A Kitchen Witch's Culinary Oracle Deck.  She will come for a few hours and spend some time signing and chatting. She will also be bringing her gourmet foods (Olive oils, risottos and dips) for tasting/sale! It's a Kitchen Witchery Pop-Up Shop!

Jezmina Von Thiele

Jezmina Von Thiele (they/she) is the co-author of Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling with Paulina Stevens, and a fortune-teller in their mixed Sinti Romani tradition, based in Portsmouth, NH as a resident reader at Deadwick's Ethereal Emporium. Jezmina deals in tarot, palms, and tea leaves, and teaches workshops on divination, spiritual wellness, and the creative arts in-person and online (visit jezminavonthiele.com). They often tell fortunes and perform poetry with The Poetry Brothel, Boston’s premiere immersive literary event. Jezmina and Paulina are co-hosts of Romanistan, a podcast celebrating Romani culture, available on all podcast platforms and romanistanpodcast.com. Roma are an Indian diasporic ethnic group, also known by the slur/ misnomer, Gypsies, and fortune telling is one of the Romani people’s many survival trades.

Join Jezmina Von Thiele for this special event at Bookery, on March 22nd at 2:30 pm for an hour of discussion about the book, Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling, Romani culture, and fortune telling, with opportunity for Q&A, followed by an hour of an interactive tarot workshop, where you can learn to read using intuitive methods that Paulina and Jezmina grew up with. Bring a tarot deck and a notebook and pen. There will be limited extra decks to share for anyone without a deck, so please bring one if you have one. 

The Roma, an Indian diasporic ethnic group frequently mislabeled with the slur "Gypsies," have long been associated with fortune telling—a trade they were historically confined to due to relentless persecution in the West. Despite the modern popularity of tarot, palmistry, and tasseomancy, few practitioners recognize these arts' deep Romani origins or the ongoing challenges Roma face, including disproportionate persecution and targeted anti-fortune telling laws in the US.

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