How to use this blog

Every so often, as more new people come to my blog, I want to retell how and why it was created. My intention was to go through every single card in the tarot, all 78 of them, and give my spin on them. It took me two years and earlier this year I had finally completed it! I’m very happy with the images I’ve collected and the stories I’ve told. If you want to find a particular card, just type in its name in the top left hand box on this page, and it will turn up!

After you do a reading with me, I often send links to the cards that appeared in your reading, to help remind you and give you a chance to look at them again. What I say to you in your reading is often more personal and idiosyncratic than the general interpretations in the blog, but hopefully they help remind you of our discussion.


It’s also my chance to show people that I am serious and educated in the tarot. Our readings often have laughter in them, but the underlying intention is to use the tarot to see where you are putting your energy, and see if it is giving you the results that you want. That’s the entire hour reading in a nutshell.


I have very few bookings left in July and am starting to book in August right now. I love reading the tarot, because I meet people and talk to them about what is important to them, and we help each other see things in a new way.

Lots of 6’s

What does it mean if you draw many 6's in your reading?


After the struggles of the 5’s, harmony and equilibrium is restored with the 6’s. If your reading has many 6’s it means insight and solutions to problems. 6 of wands is victory itself, 6 of cups is nostalgia/ gifts from childhood, 6 of swords is moving on (with sorrow, but still, it’s better than being stuck!) and 6 of pentacles is an attempt to balance inequity. (which is actually a very nice reading of it, I usually see it as something harsher)



As the 6 connects to the Lovers card, it’s easy to see that a choice is made, a balance is found. So lots of 6’s are a welcome energy, showing that good things are coming ones way, and struggles are receding.

Tattoos

Whenever I read for someone with a tattoo, I always ask them what it means for them. I’m fascinated by tattoos, by the idea of putting something indelibly on your flesh and carrying it for the rest of your life.


One of the waiters at Kitchenette, a charming restaurant where I often do readings, had the 3 of swords tattooed on his arm, (I should have photographed it at the time!) and I said to him that’s a hard card to carry and he said it reminded him of a hard lesson and a mistake he won’t make again. Sometimes a way to let the pain go is to honor it… Personally I would rather have the Empress on my arm!

So I was thinking what would I get tattooed? I often think of getting ‘in the end, only kindness matters’ on the nape of my neck.

What would you get tattooed?

While looking for the best images, I came across
tattoosday, - lots of great images and stories there, and Check out my ink - less stories, but more images. (I like the ones with stories best)

Back in the big apple

Hello!

Just came back after a beautiful week walking in the woods, feeling clear and calm. Taking bookings for June now, and looking forward to meeting you,

warmly,

Liat

Tribeca Tarot Reader

646-241-8244

Away for the next two weeks

I am a away (going to walk in the woods, and get out of the city for a moment!) for the next two weeks.

During that time I will be uncontactable by phone but I will be checking my email once a day and if you wish to make a booking, you can do so by email - contact me via tribecatarotreader@gmail.com and we can set something up. I am currently booking for late May, early June.

In the meanwhile, I wish you all well,

warmly,

Liat

Tribeca Tarot Reader

Recording Readings

People often ask me if they can take notes or record a reading and I always say ‘of course!’

Then I was talking about it to a client the other day, I said that in therapy, the therapist can record the session but the client can’t; and I thought, isn’t that ridiculous?


If a client had asked me to record a session when I was a therapist I would have seen it as a challenge and tried to interpret it. But really, it’s just that sessions can give a lot of information, and that can feel overwhelming. Recording the session allows you to relax, you can experience it and know that the machine will help you with all the details afterwards. Of course, I don’t know how often people listen to these recordings afterwards, some I suspect never do! But one woman told me that her daughter had played her reading to her, and then the mother had chosen to come to me too, so clearly some recordings have a life of their own…


I guess what I’m saying here is, is that I prefer the liberation of working with Tarot in so many ways.

Beautiful hand image by Elena Ray (I find so many of her images to love!)
And the last image is Patricia Awapara's Sanctuary

Lots of 5’s?

Numerologically 5 represents change. In tarot, the fours were about stability and maintaining what you have built up but the fives are about instability and the loss of some of what you have. If you draw lots of 5’s you are in a power struggle of some kind.


Five of wands is struggle/conflict, five of cups is sorrow and regret, 5 of swords is defeat and malice, and 5 of pentacles always feels like the worst five to me, out in the cold, suffering.

Power Struggle image by Janet Bloch