Daphne and Diane have been in the news numerous times over the years; here's some reprints of their more recent articles.

October 10, 2003
		CNN Interview, 11:45am
		HBO Special, "Reverse the Curse"
October 9, 2003
		Good Morning America, with Diane Sawyer
September 25, 2003
		, "Reverse the Curse"
September 24, 2003
		, "Presenting The DIY Feng-Shui Kit"
September 22, 2002
		, "The Enchanted Self"
August 9, 2001
		, "Psychic Hotline 1: Sweet Spell of Success"
August 1, 2001
		, "Baseball Odyssey"

By Roberto Scalese / Staff Writer

Thursday, September 25, 2003

Residents take part in film on Sultan of Swat's bewitching

Curse? What curse?

The Curse of the Bambino, once merely the brainchild of columnist Dan Shaughnessy, has quickly become part of Red Sox folklore. The idea comes from Boston's tragic post-1918 baseball history, which almost exactly coincides with the Jan. 5, 1920 sale of George Herman "Babe" Ruth to the New York Yankees.

The curse has so reached the subconscious of the Bostonian mindset that cable mega-channel HBO released a documentary on the topic last week.

Enter Arlingtonians Diane Dalpe and Daphne Weld Nichols. In the film, the two perform energy rituals at Fenway Park's left field wall to help lift the curse.

Countless fans over the years have implored, cajoled and attempted to trick the Babe into lifting the curse. Comedian Father Guido Sarducci staged a fake exorcism outside of the park in the 1980s. More recently, a Sox fan burned a New York Yankees cap on top of Mount Everest, while another searched in vain for Babe Ruth's lost piano in a Sudbury pond.

Dalpe and Nichols, however, have the chops to deal with mystical baseball badness. The two are masters in Reiki and Feng Shui and were more than willing to lend a hand to the local nine.

Dalpe and Nichols were contacted by producers of "Curse of the Bambino" after the makers of the film read about the two in MLB.com's "2001: Baseball Odyssey." Dalpe and Nichols performed rituals to lift the curse from Fenway back then. They returned with the HBO crew this summer to try again.

"The first time we went, we felt a very heavy energy," said Dalpe. "This time, it seemed a lot lighter."

Using broken glass, sage, sweet grass, red candles, a picture of the Babe, a pot, rattle and bells, Dalpe and Nichols performed rituals for about 20 minutes, covering different sections of the wall as they went along. The two also chanted "Nam-mycho-renge-kyo," a Buddhist expression of natural law to help regain positive energy to the area.

"When you tap into that law at the right time, fine things can happen," said Dalpe.

The women also used principles of Feng Shui and Reiki to channel positive energy into Fenway. By placing particular cures in different areas, Dalpe and Nichols allowed the stadium's natural "Chi" to flow a little more freely, which is always a good thing.

The Reiki, where a medium uses hand movement to push and move energy, was used to accentuate positive energy.

"Reiki means universal life force," said Nichols, who is also versed in Shamballa Reiki.

This was not a hex to counter a hex or some sort of new curse to offset the Babe's. In fact, Dalpe said she doubts Ruth ever actually cursed the team in the first place. The negative energy most likely comes from fan frustration and poor management over the years, she said.

"You want the energy to meander," said Nichols.

"We weren't going to do anything dark. We aren't gypsies," said Dalpe.

Dalpe and Nichols run Fantasy Photos on Massachusetts Avenue. The couple has lived and worked in Arlington for more than 20 years.

In addition to the photo practice, the two have created a number of new age kits. Tell-A-Fortune is a deck of cards that combines Tarot readings and astrology in an easy-to-use deck of cards for the lay person.

The Do-It-Yourself Feng Shui kit takes thousands of years of Japanese energy philosophy and boils it down into eight cards, which list causes and cures you can add to any home.

Dalpe said it allows people to live in a more energy-positive environment without having to trudge through scores of books.

"It helps you do these things simply. It's really a wonderful tool," said Dalpe.

Do-It-Yourself Feng Shui Kit Everything You Need to Practice Feng Shui at Home

Fantasy Enterprise, Inc. has just produced a complete basic Feng Shui (pronounced, fung shway) kit to make it easy for anyone to understand and utilize the main principals of Feng Shui.

Fantasy Enterprise, Inc. has just produced a complete basic Feng Shui (pronounced, fung shway) kit to make it easy for anyone to understand and utilize the main principals of Feng Shui. Feng Shui is the art of placing objects so that balance and harmony are improved. The Do-It-Yourself Feng Shui Kit provides simple instructions on the most beneficial ways to arrange furniture to direct the energy around us in a positive manner.

Recently introduced on the Discovery Channel’s “The Christopher Lowell Show,” the Do-It-Yourself Feng Shui Kit appeals to a wide audience. Daphne and Diane were requested to use the Feng Shui Kit to help reverse “The Curse of the Bambino” on the HBO sports documentary by the same name.

The Bagua Map

Included in the kit is a folded satin board displaying the eight aspects of life: relationships, success, wealth, health, wisdom, career, travel, and creativity. This traditional eight-sided map is a Chinese symbol where each side represents a part of human life.

Eight Cue Cards

Each card lists specific cures to improve each area in addition to the Chinese elements and colors associated with that area. For example, the main door of the home or office is connected to one’s career and journey. Feng Shui suggests that this area of life will be improved when the front door is painted red, black or green, and when plants are placed at the entrance.

A Handbook

Part of the kit is an easy-to-read, comprehensive guide to understanding Feng Shui principals such as furniture placement, the five elements, de-cluttering and how Feng Shui affects the home, office and garden. The guide includes maps and charts that enable the user to easily diagram a room or an entire home or office to apply the principals of Feng Shui.

About Fantasy Enterprise, Inc.

Daphne Weld Nichols is a professional photographer who has used Feng Shui principals to create an atmosphere of peace and harmony for her clients in her studio for more than 17 years. At an early age she was naturally drawn to furniture, mirrors and clocks in the octagon shape, the most beneficial shape in Chinese Feng Shui. After attending a Feng Shui seminar in the mid 1980’s, Daphne began to seriously study and the ancient Chinese art form. Daphne has studied crystal and color healing and is a Reiki Master. Reiki means, Universal Life Energy, which connects to Daphne’s interest in chi and the flow of energy, which is the foundation of Feng Shui. Daphne is an inventor with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. She is listed in Who's Who of American Inventors. She and her partner Diane Dalpe successfully created an astrological card reading kit, "Tell A Fortune" designed to simplify the art of card reading. Daphne and Diane have also hosted a cable TV show called "Living Unlimited" since 1987. For more information, visit www.daphnediane.com.

The Enchanted Self - Fantasy Photography helps find the Enchantress in each of us.

Check out Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein's show, The Enchanted Life on Ladybuglive.com for the latest program. She interviews two dynamic, dramatic women,Diane Dalpe and Daphne Weld Nichols, originators of Fantasy Photography.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Fantasy Photography helps find the Enchantress in each of us.

Ocean, NJ – September, 2002: Check out Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein's show, The Enchanted Life on Ladybuglive.com for the latest program. She interviews two dynamic, dramatic women,

Diane Dalpe and Daphne Weld Nichols, originators of Fantasy Photography. Diane and Daphne work together with women of all ages to "create a photograph of romantic elegance". Each of the 3,000 women who have come to their studio, have had the unique opportunity to put into a visual art form a part of their very essence.

Listen to this lively interview any time of the day or night. Just click on The Enchanted Life link at Ladybuglive.com.

Dr. Holstein's concept of the ENCHANTRESS within each of us meshes perfectly with their work. Dr. Holstein teaches that each of us have a special essence, an ENCHANTRESS within ourselves that needs to be encouraged to come alive. Ms. Dalpe's and Ms. Weld Nichols' photography helps that Enchantress emerge. What maybe initially fantasy can get 'real' via the experience they provide. Who knows how many Enchantresses have come to life after visiting the studio in Arlington, Massachusetts? They can be reached at 781-641-2100.

Dr. Holstein has been a psychologist in private practice and licensed in the states of New Jersey and Massachusetts since 1981. She has been spreading her message of enchantment through books, print and electronic newsletters, workshops, tele-classes, radio, and her web site at www.enchantedself.com.

To learn more about all of The Enchanted Self concepts by Dr. Holstein, point your web browser to http://www.ladybuglive.com/enchanted.htm. You will need to have a copy of RealAudio’s RealPlayer™, which is available for free at www.real.com. This site will be updated continually with new shows from Dr. Holstein and can be listened to at any time. Many shows are already available and more will be posted in the coming weeks.

PSYCHIC HOTLINE 1
Sweet spell of success

BY CHRIS WRIGHT

THE BAMBINO has lifted the curse.

Last Wednesday afternoon, Diane Dalpe and Daphne Weld Nichols stood at the foot of the Green Monster and waved their smudge sticks. After this they burned long braids of sweet grass. For a grand finale, they placed a photograph of Babe Ruth in a bowl of broken glass, cut the end off a red candle, and dripped wax over the Babe's image. "The reversal of the curse," says Dalpe, "took effect at that moment."

And Dalpe should know - toward the end of the ritual, she and Weld Nicols heard as much from the Bambino himself. "My partner Daphne was channeling the whole time, "she says," and we had goose bumps. Once we flipped the candle, we got a message that Babe Ruth wanted to release the Sox."

Long-suffering Sox fans might be inclined to take such claims with a bucket of salt, but these local psychics ("Well-known local psychics") have had some rather eerie successes in the past. Last year, before a Yankees-Sox series, the two went on the Inside Track radio show and cast a spell on Roger Clemens. "We took his picture, put it in a bowl of broken glass, and heated the bowl, " Dalpe says. " Then we made a magic powder, sprinkled that, and chanted. We asked for whatever it took to get him off the mound - diarrhea, something not too threatening. "And?" Sure enough, they took him out in the second inning "his arm was bothering him or something. The Red Sox won that night."

Though Dalpe admits to knowing very little about baseball, she is confident that her efforts will have a profound effect on the Sox's fortunes." I really think the Red Sox are going to pull it out this year. I do think they will win the World Series, and I like to think that we will have played a part in that. "And if they don't?" "I won't feel personally responsible if they fail," Dalpe says. "We're just trying to create an atmosphere where positive things can happen."

Well, so far it seems to be working. Despite a couple of "bumps" since Dalpe and Weld Nichols cast their spell (the Sox got walloped twice in a row by Anaheim), the team's fortunes have indeed picked up somewhat - at press time they had won four straight. "I think it's starting," says Dalpe. "They will continue to win over the next two months and the Yankees will go down."

For more information go to www.Tellafortune.com.

Issue Date: August 9 - 16, 2001

2001 Baseball Odyssey

Attn. Boston fans: The Curse has been lifted

By Chris Corbellini and Chris Franchino

Special to MLB.com

Aug. 1, 2001

BOSTON - On August 1, 2001, we reversed the so-called Curse of the Bambino at Fenway Park. It occurred right behind the Green Monster at 5 p.m. You read it here online first.

Background: The Curse of the Bambino regards Boston and New York Yankees great Babe Ruth. Ruth, arguably one of the best players to ever play the game, was traded to New York from Boston in 1920 for $125,000 and an additional loan in excess of $300,000. The Yankees have since gone on to win 26 World Championships … while the Red Sox have not won one since 1918. Coincidence? Bostonians would argue yes, it's just miserable luck, so don't mention the Babe ever again you insensitive, uneducated clods.

But if there were a curse, we're not saying there is for sure, but just if there were, we decided to end it in a kind of supernatural psychic ceremony, a la the "rope scene" in Poltergeist. It would only be fair.

Actually, nothing that dramatic happened. In an low-key, 20-minute ceremony behind Fenway's trademark left-field wall, psychic astrologists Daphne Weld Nichols and Diane Dalpe assured us the Curse of the Babe has been lifted. After all those years, it was gone in only 20 minutes. We were a little surprised, too. It seems all you need is broken glass, a glass jar, red candles, a picture of the Babe off the Internet, selected herbal items, and a pack of matches.

"The Babe is with us," Daphne said on the way to Fenway from their photo studio in Arlington, Mass. She was reading a license plate ahead of us that said 33303. "When combined that adds up to 12, which if you add 1 and 2 together make three. Which was Babe's number."

We got goosebumps.

Let it be said these ladies were great sports, possessing both experience AND past results on their side. The founders of tellafortune.com, which sells tarot cards you can read on your own on a kind of place-mat setting (patented twice), have worked together in the astrology game since 1985. Prior to that, Diane worked in mergers and acquisitions for Gillette. Now a completely left-minded thinker, Diane and Daphne combined forces to successfully curse Yankees ace Roger Clemens' return to Fenway Park in 1999, during the American League Division Series.

"He's a traitor, but we didn't want to kill him or anything like that," Diane said. "We just wanted him to not pitch well against us by giving him something temporary, like diarrhea."

It worked. Clemens was rocked and the Yanks fell hard, 13-1, in their only postseason loss that season. So just in case Boston wins it all this season after our own little ceremony, and some of you want to try this procedure in the safety of your own home on other curses, directions follow. Remember kids, do everything in order.

1. Burn a smudge stick. A smudge stick is sage wrapped together by string. You spark that puppy up to release all the negative energy. Let it be noted here that due to the "wind" on Landsdowne Street, Daphne and Danielle found it extremely difficult to light up. The Babe may have been watching.

2. Burn sweet grass. This brings positive energy back. Very important. If we only burned a smudge stick, it would left a huge gaping whole in the stadium's karma, allowing the possibility of negative karma to seep back in. Fenway doesn't need a more contemporary curse, like say a Curse of the Clemens.

3. Chant "Nam Myoho Rengekyl" repeatedly as you burn. This is Buddhist for: "To devote yourself to the mystical law of cause and effect through sound and vibration." A Landsdowne Street first, we're sure.

4. Place broken glass and picture of Babe Ruth into open jar.

5. Light a red candle and drip the wax all over the picture of Ruth in the jar. "My opinion is that Babe unintentionally created this curse," Daphne said. "He was obviously a very powerful man. Babe had the karma for greatness."

6. Burn the picture and place back in jar.

7. Close jar.

The smoke lingered in the jar, prompting Diane to say that was a good omen. After a few chants of "Reverse the Curse, Reverse the Curse," Diane had a young child pull out a tarot card out of her hands to receive some kind of final message from the Babe. The card was one of love, peace and harmony. The Babe always loved the kids.

"The curse of the Babe has been lifted," Daphne declared.

"Good, we needed it," a Red Sox fan, dressed in a Manny Ramirez T-shirt, shouted as he walked toward the bleachers.

All we ask is that you remember this isn't a negative energy spell. If you want to stick cocktail umbrellas into a doll resembling an ex who made out with your best friend, we'll get to Voodoo later in the trip. Maybe in New Orleans. Yeah, that's why we are going there. Voodoo.

Oh by the way, the Red Sox lost to the Anaheim "Angels" later that night, 4-2. They are now 4 1/2 games back of New York in the AL East. Curse schmurse. We'll have to wait to see how this plays out.