Dozens seek to get in touch with spiritual side at Frederick psychic fair | Culture

However Sipes wasn’t indignant.

“She most likely wanted it,” Sipes stated. “It was most likely her fault anyway.”

Virtually a decade later, Alexandra and Sidney laughed beneath a big tent arrange exterior Frederick’s Dublin Roasters Espresso as their mothers advised the story.

The 2 women, each 13, are finest pals now. So are Przybyl and Sipes. And as of some years in the past, they’re additionally enterprise companions.

On Sunday, Sipes’ on-line store, The Easy Life, was one among half a dozen distributors taking part in a pop-up psychic truthful within the car parking zone of the North Market Road espresso store.

The Easy Life sells gadgets that Sipes says are supposed to increase customers’ religious well being. Przybyl provides her with ornamental wall hangings, and different macramé and crocheted items. She additionally sells merchandise corresponding to candles, herbs, incense, sage and rosemary smudge sticks.

Sipes, whose grandmother was a medium in Michigan, has been serious about all issues religious since she was a younger lady. She began her on-line store in 2016, and hopes to open a brick-and-mortar retailer in downtown Frederick.

“We’ll most likely be co-workers for the remainder of our lives,” she stated, smiling at Przybyl.

Just a few toes away from the shade of Sipes and Przybyl’s tent, Mary Crowe squinted within the vivid daylight. A desk filled with minerals and gem stones sparkled in entrance of her.

Crowe, who additionally works in actual property, sells crystals and rocks by means of her on-line store Druzy Lady. She traveled from Bumpass, Virginia, north of Richmond, to take part in Sunday’s psychic truthful.

Although she’s comparatively new to the sport — she began her store lower than a yr in the past — she’s at all times liked rocks. She used to gather pyrite, also referred to as idiot’s gold, off a seashore in Connecticut.

Certainly one of her favourite issues about being in enterprise is chatting along with her prospects concerning the stones they’re buying and the place they plan on placing them after they get house.

“It’s identical to [how] horse individuals like different horse individuals,” Crowe stated. “Rock individuals like different rock individuals.”

Erin Nelson drove out from Charles City, West Virginia, to go to the psychic truthful. She’s a medium and palm reader who likes to assist her fellow distributors.

She picked up some blue turquoise, purple fluorite and jade from Crowe’s sales space on Sunday. She plans to position among the rocks within the room she makes use of for palm studying at house and present the graceful palm stones she bought to her husband and daughter.

“They like to carry them and carry them generally,” she stated, “as a substitute of a stress ball.”

Reiki grasp and tarot card reader Kristin Tamke organized Sunday’s psychic truthful. She didn’t have time to place her signal out earlier than prospects began arriving simply earlier than the occasion was scheduled to start out at 10 a.m.

Although Tamke has since moved to Manassas, Virginia, she lived in Frederick for a couple of decade. She began internet hosting occasions exterior of Dublin Roasters a few years in the past. Apart from psychic exhibitions, she’s additionally organized fairy and wizard festivals.

The paranormal has at all times fascinated Tamke. She began honing her expertise as a card reader after visiting just a few psychics and mediums, and watching their predictions come true, she stated. Now, she says she’s honored to assist individuals contact deceased family members and search steerage in main life choices.

Pleasure Kesselman is a devoted buyer of Tamke’s.

She met the cardboard reader whereas she was nonetheless residing in Frederick. Tamke is presented and has “nice vitality,” Kesselman stated. She popped by the psychic truthful, hoping to run into her.

“I haven’t seen her in years, so I’m due for slightly Kristin juice,” Kesselman stated, making Tamke giggle.