Exclusive | Meet the Cheese Witch who can read your destiny in a chunk of cheddar: It acts as the connection

The wheel of fortune is made of… cheese?Self-professed “Cheese Witch” Jen Billock has an unusual and edible approach to divination; rather than tarot cards, tea leaves, or open palms — she reads cheese.“One of my first food memories is looking into a cheese cave with my parents and being like, ‘Oh my God,'” Billock told The Post.Billock, who is based in Chicago, began reading the rind during the pandemic when her work as a travel writer stalled.Insert the psychic power of Stilton.“During Covid, I Googled ‘weird ways to tell fortunes with food,’ and I found cheese, and it was the start of this little love affair,” she said.Before her cheese affair, Billock had long studied and practiced tarot.“I figured out how to adapt what I was already doing divination-wise into cheese,” she said, explaining that her readings borrow from the framework of a traditional tarot spread.Billock explains that the process of cheese reading, also known as tyromancy, which dates back to the second century and ripened in popularity in England during the Middle Ages to determine whether a criminal was guilty or innocent and to predict the viability of a given harvest season, is similar to reading tea leaves or coffee grounds, wherein a story unfolds through the shapes and textures that reveal themselves.“I will focus solely on the cheese, and then things start coming in as ‘you need to say this, you need to say this, you need to say this,'” she shared.“Whatever I’m hearing in my head is the message.

It’s always loud, and it always knows what it’s doing.”Billock, who offers in-person and online readings, prefers that her clients select their own cheeses, as it fosters a kind of enzyme energy between the selector and the selected.“Each person gets four pieces of cheese per reading, and the first three represent the past, the present, and the future.I read those like a three-card tarot spread,” she explained to The Post.The fourth cheese is used t...