Charlene Hacker

Charlene is the owner of Psychic's Thyme Book Store and Learning Center and is the lead administrator of all classes, events, and community activities that occur at the shop. Char earned her BS in history and secondary education from Brockport College and is a member of College and is a member of Phi Alpha Theta, honor society for scholars of history.

Char has been psychic since childhood and in 1985 attended a Shirley MacLaine seminar in Boston where she learned about her gifts and how to use them. In 1986 Charlene joined Plymouth Spiritualist Church where she was trained as a spiritual medium by Rev. Ron Skowronski and in 1988 she became the assistant to the pastor and served there until 1990.

Her training continued in 1993 while she studied under High Priestess Deb Guite in her coven, The Sisters of the Willow Moon. Two years later Char received her High Priestess title and hived off to start the Lodge of Isis. Char's own group has hived off more than three spiritual groups.  

Char is well known in her field. She has taught Tarot, Psychic Development and Meditation at Greece Community Education and from 1997-2000 she appeared more than half a dozen times on Channels with Stan Monroe when she was asked to assist in investigative reports about hauntings in the Rochester area. She also was featured as a psychic reader on the WBee, Warm 101 and since that time has been a guest speaker and lecturer at local area psychic fairs, Monroe Community College, Rochester Institute of Technology, and featured several times on Rnews. Char is a founder of NEC of WICCA and currently serves as co-chairperson of Paths of the Old Ways: Pagan Outreach Center in the Village Gate. Char continues to guide people spiritually and performs Weddings, Handfastings, Wiccanings, and Funerary services to the Greater Rochester Spiritual Community.

Psychic's Thyme opened in 1996 and since that time has grown exponentially. Char continues to teach at the shop and has added more classes and events over the last ten years. Her shop has hosted more than 20 psychic fairs and Char herself has participated in and/or coordinated more than 50 psychic fairs in the last 11 years. Her shop has appeared in New Age Retailer magazine and also was featured in a 30minute segment on Rochester on Demand, Channel 111.

As the shop... and Char, enter a second decade of business, public education, and service to the community, Charlene continues to look for ways to improve customer service, expand already existing programs and to search for new ideas for classes, exciting events, and new products to offer her clientele.