Today we’d like to introduce you to Sita Young.
Sita, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
My mother was a tarot card reader, and on her side of the family we have quite a few members with intuitive gifts. Much is due to the nature of the family I come from as one from a banking family might be apt for that path. I was raised in Greenwich Village in the, and we also had a house in Woodstock, NY and within those environments, I had encompassing exposure to a variety of perspectives which has proven invaluable in dealing with clients.
When I moved to California to attend college, I was given ancient and pure teaching of meditation that has helped in dealing with the subtle and great similarity of human emotion and condition. Through practicing meditation, I was able to come out of many personal complexes that can arise when one is hypersensitive to others feelings, energies, and grief.
With this new tool of meditation, I could take my inherited gifts and serve people free of judgment and full of compassion. I am not much of a fortune teller in the ‘you will meet a tall dark man’ way; I believe the gifts from the past generations must evolve to suit the conditions of the present world, prediction is helpful but alleviating ones suffering is the pinnacle of personal success.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc. – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
I used to bartend, and it was a great way to make extra money, but as I started to read cards professionally, I began to notice a serious conflict between the volition to help people come out of whatever situation they were facing and assisting people in hiding from their pain. This is not to say that everyone who has a drink is dodging truth but if my intention is to service my fellow man then the times when someone comes to my bar with a serious addiction is being helped along the path of addiction, I am a fraud.
It was hard to say no to the money, but it became absolutely necessary and in turn replaced itself tenfold. This was just one example of the many times I’ve had to call myself on my own morality. I went through a traumatic breakup, even in my shock I knew I could not run to immediate fixes, the pain was terrible but I had to figure out my part in the drama, and I knew empathy could spring from walking into egoless understanding.
What am I to tell a client who’s younger sibling fell victim to drugs and died too young? I say walk through this, walk on and help others in their pains as you have seen the road and knew the route. Then they may help another, for people will always and have always died too soon, this is reality. We constantly witness the holy man falling to vice, it is the stuff of great fiction, perhaps we should leave it there in books and films, and strive to help ourselves that we might be capable of helping others.
Please tell us more about your work.
When I returned from a month-long pilgrimage in India and Nepal, I was quite clear that I wanted to expand my ability to give readings no matter my physical location. Today I take the majority of my clients over the phone, via Facetime or WhatsApp.
This is helpful as one is comfortable in their own space, they become easy to read. I deal with couples as well as individuals and as this world would have it mostly career and love are at the forefront of the conversation. I am quite practical as a reader, and this might be where I differ the most, I like to keep things grounded in reality and application.
I’m proud of the amount of growth in the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to serve many people from all over the world, a standout was reading the women of Improper Etiquette. I’ve had success in my other career, been on TV, had my face plastered onto advertisements, that type of outward notoriety feels shallow in comparison of being there for others. I learn from my clients and am forever amazed at the fortitude of their spirit.
What were you like growing up?
I was a wild kid, in my clothing, expression, and thoughts. I used to convince the girls in my 6th-grade class and at summer camp to dress in black on Fridays and hold midnight seances. I loved anything having to do with mysticism, astrology and the occult. I was in love with Elijah Wood, which is hilarious and bizarre but makes sense because he looks like a fairy elf man (I mean no offense, he is beautiful).
Mostly, I believed in the miraculous, that there was more to this world than what was being presented in school, that there was a deep undercurrent of our society rich in connectivity, rich in phenomenon.
I know now that what I was yearning for was a mix of what modern physics and Vipassana meditation provide, the magic which you search for outside lies within the matrix of our humanity, and that it is possible to realize this and therefore partake in a kind of supermundane loving existence that does not rely on what is outside for happiness.
Pricing:
- 30mins $65 Suggested Donation
- Hour $115 Suggested Donation
Contact Info:
- Phone: 3108243079
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: @TarotToThePeople
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