In June, the Salem town council eased its rules on fortune tellers — or, to be more specific, those locals who are engaged in “the telling of fortunes, forecasting of futures, or reading the past, by means of any occult, psychic power, faculty, force, clairvoyance, cartomancy, psychometry, phrenology, spirits, tea leaves, tarot cards, scrying, coins, [...]

In June, the Salem town council eased its rules on fortune tellers – or, to be more specific, those locals who are engaged in "the telling of fortunes, forecasting of futures, or reading the past, by means of any occult, psychic power, faculty, force, clairvoyance, cartomancy, psychometry, phrenology, spirits, tea leaves, tarot cards, scrying, coins, [...]

Besides psychic readings, Merino reads tarot cards and palms and provides chakra balancing. Merino can’t attribute this luck to her psychic abilities, or even predict whether the Psychic Gallery will ultimately succeed, she says. She’s been a business owner downtown since the 1980s and can ‘t think of any other storefront shop, until the Psychic [...]