Do You Believe in Magic?
The fair–which included tarot reading, channeling, and general predicting–was a first for Fallen Angel’s owners, Mandi and Eric Lynn. The 250 flyers they mailed out in advance didn’t exactly draw a standing-room-only crowd, but plenty of people did show up. Some wanted an update on their future. Others browsed among the clothes, which bore brand names such as Fetish, Eternal Love, and Lip Service.
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Herold and Spohr, who are both 32, met in 1992, when they were sales clerks at Victoria’s Secret. “That was a channeled moment,” said Herold. “Amy and I have been psychic since birth–we just didn’t know it. I think it’s an ability available to anyone able to access it.” Herold, who grew up in Mount Prospect, and Spohr, a farmer’s daughter from Ottawa, 70 miles southwest of Chicago, became close friends after they learned to read tarot cards together. They say they knew each other in past lives–in one life they were mother and daughter, and in another they were sisters. In this lifetime they both majored in theater, though they’re quick to add that they aren’t acting during work hours, aren’t pretending to see the future. “We give options or choices,” said Herold, who does mostly psychic and tarot-card readings and channeling with guardian angels. “We don’t tell people what to do.”
