 This first year in business with La Jibarita Tarot Readings, LLC has been such a roller coaster of learning & acceptance. It’s been amazing the support I’ve received from my family & friends. Thanks to mom & dad, Silvia, & Ian, for being my biggest supporters in this and accepting this shocking revelation from me. I’m forever thankful for every follow, kind word, every ‘thank you’, thumbs up, ‘like’, share and click onto my site. I started this business to help others, give back to charities, bring awareness to depression & bring folks some JOY. I believe in my soul that this year I’ve made an impact on others and hope I continue doing so for a long time.
To sum up this year- it’s been fun, scary, overwhelming and soooo crazy! This ability just started out with ‘hunch’ at 17 that saved someone’s life in such an unexplainable way it could only be a gift. Something clicked in 2017 and it just became stronger to the point where I could no longer deny this... I started getting visions & dreams that would come true. Ghosts would ask for help. Normal people don’t predict suicides, unnecessary surgeries, accidents, births, fires, depression, deaths, military battles, cancer, miscarriages, deployment, promotions, heart problems, true loves, they don’t ‘feel’ DNA results- yea this has been my year. So when I go off the radar know it’s just me healing from all this as an empath, but I’m always here if you need me because I’m ever so thankful you trusted in me to guide you through your journey. ☺️🙏🏽❤️ -La Jibarita www.lajibaritatarotreadings.com
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 Time is a funny thing when lessons from above come through. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone through major events in my life -from dating someone I wouldn’t normally date to a tragic situation I can’t explain, and it throws me for a loop without a reason why until much time later. What’s difficult is the waiting. It’s particularly tricky for me as I know while I’m going through the event that something will reveal itself later. I’m a creature of habit and when things happen that are so out of character for me it always surprises me when I learn the Why. This week my Whys from my past are colliding and resulting in serious life changing revelations. I say it all the time on my Facebook page: Everything happens for a reason. You may not know it now, but knowing will catch up with you. Everything in your life that you go through is to prepare you for what’s coming. Your intuition IS your survival tool- stop calling yourself crazy for your ‘silly’ thoughts, dreams, and hopes. Buddah said-
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” When you’re ready for the lesson you’ll see how the universe got you right to this very moment. Most importantly, it’s mercifully prepared you for what’s to come. Keep faith, stay strong and be ready for the lesson that’s coming. The hard lesson I learned this week: “Your past misery is someone else’s saving grace.” The purpose of our life is to help others through our past experiences. We don’t go through the flames of hell to not help others we find in the same situation when we’ve already learned how to see our way through it. ☺️🙏🏽❤️ -La Jibarita www.lajibaritatarotreadings.com  I had only two requests from God when I accepted this gift-
1) Lord, please don’t have ghosts poppin’ up... They can come to me in a dream, I don’t mind feeling their emotions or presence, I don’t mind seeing them in my premonitions- but don’t have them poppin’ up in my dining room table like in that movie w/ Whoopie Goldberg and that ghost following her around every where! 2) God, don’t have me out here lookin’ crazy. That’s it! TWO requests and I gave up my very normal boring life a year ago. Now, today was the first time that I actually had a premonition where I held back from telling someone about it fully, where I omitted a fact about the vision. (Usually I get diarrhea of the mouth and just blirt it all out.) Today I felt the need to hold back. To me there was just this one small part that wouldn’t have made a huge difference any how. It was more directed to my ability. So I left it out. Besides - I mentioned #2, didn’t I? I tell ya even if I trust God’s mission for me 1000%... Ugh! Just here’s my rant to God this morning: ”Really God? You gonna have me out here lookin’ crazy?” (Notice my ol’ Southern country twang comes out when I’m frazzled?) “Nope, no Sir, nu uh, naw... Naw! I’m not saying that! Listen, I still need to walk around and function in this world without folks thinkin’ I’ve lost my ever lovin’ mind! C’mon Goood! You need to give me this one- I’m practically Mother Theresa running around here helping folks cuz you’re whisperin’ in my ear. I’m putting my foot down on this one... Sir. ...Please ...May I & Thank you.” Yup, if you’re telling God what you’re NOT gonna do for him, ya best be using your manners! Lol. (Don’t act like yah’ll don’t talk to God like that.) It’s ok, he has a crazy sense of humor! And so I used my freewill. I figured if the big guy really wanted them to know what I omitted he’d do the great reveal himself... right? At the end of the day my premonitions are always about what’s definitely going to happen and I know I can warn others so I can prepare them for it. It’s not like with Tarot, the cards guide me on your current path and I give a hint of a possibility to your future based on my intuition, yet the one I’m reading always has the opportunity to pave their path differently. A premonition is a HUGE responsibility. I’m just trying to get by like everyone else, stay loyal in my faith & help others. Crazy will have to wait for another day! 😉🙏🏽❤️ -La Jibarita www.lajibaritatarotreadings.com  My close friends warned me that you can’t pick and choose what part of this gift you accept. I started this business wanting to help others, to spread hope and JOY as a thank you to God for the gift he gave me. My loved ones warned me that spirits would pop up and messages would catch me off guard. It’s simply a part of the same world. Turns out I can’t turn away spirits either- my heart’s too soft. No matter my intentions, bad things happen and I can’t stop them as everyone has free-will, but I can warn folks where I can. I’ve been crazy busy lately doing just this. A lot of health issues have popped up with my close loved ones and it’s been a lot to manage as I am still new to this. This has always been my greatest fear with this- KNOWING with out a doubt something is wrong with my family and not being able to control it. Then multiply that a few times more- that’s been me the past few weeks. My most trusted support team that know all the secrets I carry of my gift is small but mighty and I can’t thank them enough. They’ve kept me sane through all this. It can be a lot and often folks are psychics, but I got the double whammy- I’m a psychic AND an empath so I feel the impact of everything- what I say, what I don’t, of what happens and what remains after. All I can do is ride this out as I am committed to this and accept that there’s good and bad in everything- even a gift. There are still blessings to be found with it. When I’m balling my eyes out because I know someone is really sick I have to remember that God is still giving me the gift of knowing so I can appreciate the time we have left with them. It’s all about your response to the challenges you face day-to-day. Realizing we all have a purpose and a season.
☺️🙏🏽❤️ -La Jibarita www.lajibaritatarotreadings.com  As much as I want to deny certain aspects of this gift I was given- I realize my purpose is bigger than my fear of losing my current life’s ‘normal’ picture. If you follow my site or me on social media, you know my hard limit are spirits. I put my foot down on any spirit readings and was adamant about JUST helping the living. What happens when the spirit world wants to help the living and use you to do it?
Yep, this was my morning. Last night I fell asleep thanking God for my gift that allowed me to save my family & home yesterday. I woke up early and checked my Instagram messages and checking the feed I see a fellow psychic praising a Spirit Medium class they recently took saying it changed them forever. I google the place not even knowing where the poster was from and find the class is held in an institute ONE HOUR away from my home. The odds! It freaked me out. It was another not so subtle message to me to get help with this. Shutting down Instagram I closed my eyes and tried to go back to sleep. I don’t fear ghosts- I just don’t want the two worlds to cross for me. When I couldn’t sleep, I tried to capture my ‘awake visions’ to see if I could strengthen it. So I close my eyes. Immediately I’m looking at a laptop image, where prior to I would get my visions through something similar to a Facebook feed... Curious I watch the old photos. They weren’t of my family. They were happy & celebrating a baby’s birth. There was a large spot empty where everyone gathered around smiling and a mother figure looked over longingly towards that spot. In the picture a tall white male appeared in the empty spot. I just watched curiously as he smiled watching her happily, with love & pride. Just watching over her. I didn’t know who these people really were, the picture was vague. I just watched fascinated as it faded in and out of clarity. My eyes open and clear as the day that greeted me out the window I knew. I knew who he was. I knew what he was trying to tell me and I knew without a doubt what his message was to his wife that moved on with a family of her own after he had been killed on the line of duty. I sat crying like a baby while I wrote down all the details before I blocked it out. I feared the absolute worst when I was finally connected with (beyond a spirit throwing cards at me). I didn’t know what to expect, but he was ever so gentle and kind with his approach. It just made me smile. I knew exactly how. He used a nearby laptop’s energy to connect with mine. We are all just energy and we use it to communicate with one another. Just because we pass from this world it doesn’t mean that energy just ceases to exist. It doesn’t mean we stop loving our loved ones. He used me to send a message to his wife. After the sweet realization I began to worry. There’s no coincidences. I have my gift specifically because God wants me to help folks through their worse times. I sent someone to check on her and hopefully give her the comfort of his sweet message of love. Everything happens for a reason. Everything. 😔🙏🏽❤️ -La Jibarita www.lajibaritatarotreadings.com  There’s no doubt my gift is cool, but it comes with responsibility I wasn’t prepared for. From my empath ability to my premonitions- nothing is easy. I can feel others’ emotions, but that doesn’t mean that I have a right to that knowledge. People still have a right to their privacy and emotions without having someone act on them without their permission. I can’t choose to not ‘feel’, so I deal with it however I can. I spend a lot of it pretending to be none the wiser to make others more comfortable.
Funny, I spent most of my life ignoring this part of me and now that I’m accepting of it- I still have to hide the gift. I’m not oblivious to the fact that there are non-believers, people who doubt me, people that dislike me personally apart from my gift, and folks that simply do not understand this. I feel it all. Folks are honest and say they just don’t want to know anything. It’s not my responsibility to change them, make them believe or make them like me- but I must respect their decision to not want to engage in any of this, so I never press. I’m often asked, “What happens when you get a premonition of someone who isn’t interested in the knowledge?” That’s the moral dilemma for me. I’ve learned that with family & friends I have a responsibility to look after them but also to respect their wishes. I operate under the- “whatever-allows-me-to-sleep” rule. If I know there’s something major that’s going to happen and they are able to change it in order to avoid the occurance I will tell them. It will be their decision on what to do about it or to ignore me altogether- but I know, for me, I have this gift so I can help others. As mentioned before, everyone has freewill. It is fun though. ☺️ When you’re chatting with someone and your BS meter goes off. It’s a huge responsibility to hold that kind of truth in. Or knowing someone is nervous around you in the work place when they are a higher rank than you. I giggle when folks at work say, “You must be psychic!” when I answer something before being asked. What’s not fun is knowing someone is cheating on their spouse and having to call them out on it because they asked you for help but they are with-holding the truth as a test. It’s heartbreaking when someone asks about a pregnancy and you know it’ll happen for them but first they’ll go through more heartache first. It sucks when your friend is upset at you and you feel their disdain for you at a gathering. I think of it as a blessing- some folks can’t tell at all. I just have to be careful not to share too much that I overstep boundaries. Reality is that there’s a huge responsibility, but I’m learning to adapt to it. I deal with it by focussing people on the good, on hope and their blessings. I can’t protect anyone from life’s challenges that are truly meant for them in order to grow. It’s not for me to touch. I can just help make folks journey easier where I can. ☺️🙏🏽❤️ -La Jibarita www.lajibaritatarotreadings.com  While the storms roll in and out of our town for weeks I’ve been helping my friends through their own storms. It’s been a very trying time for a good amount of my loved ones and helping them through has been difficult. You never want to see the people you care for struggle, but depression & anxiety are very real. I’m fortunate that they are able to come to me and seek comfort, answers, advice and guidance... Prayer. Yáhll we’re praying hard over here!
Anxiety & Depression are best friends. My starting this business has never been about me being psychic, my premonitions, or even tarot. It has always been about bringing light to the darkness of mental health issues. I’ve taken a month away from writing this blog to focus on them and, although I have tried to keep up with the business’ social media - I have to admit, it’s taken a back seat. (As it should.) Anxiety & Depression have been working overtime and we must work harder to bring attention to the resources to combat it. We must stay close to those that we know are struggling, helping them through. Again- I’m not a Doctor/Psychiatrist or trained professional. I’m just a survivor. Anxiety and depression are both very serious and there’s no quick fix for anyone because it’s caused by experiences, sometimes unexpectedly, that life brings to our door. Every day you have to choose to be positive and rise above the negative thoughts and actions that allow you to simmer in that state of being. Recognizing it in the moment is important. *For me* I feel the shift and recognize the destructive behavior fairly quickly and go into evaluation mode- do I need time at the piano to heal myself through my music because my heart is hurt? Do I need to bake and lose myself in a new recipe for comfort? Do I need to steam out my tightly stressed muscles in a long warm shower? Can my bestie offer comfort? Need to escape into a book/my writing? Am I meditating within Jax’s puppy cuddles? Or do we need to break out the big guns and pray? Yes! I have a list. No one is immune to the ups and downs of life, rich or poor. Everyone needs to assemble an arsenal of their own to get through. That’s the goal- get through & keep your faith strong. Find those things that soothe your emotions until you’re able to accept JOY in your heart again. If you need professional help as nothing is pulling you out of your misery it’s a sign of strength to ask for help. JOY will come. 😉🙏🏽❤️ -La Jibarita www.lajibaritatarotreadings.com  It isn’t the disappointments, nor the missed opportunity, the mistakes, failures, or the path not taken. Life happens in the journey, your bravery- you getting up every morning and trying again. Putting a smile on your face when everything hurts inside because you believe in you. It’s the JOY of accomplishment when you met your goal and celebrate it. Sadness happens, but it’s not your life, it’s your motivation. It’s easy to get discouraged when you’re told you can’t have your dream. Accept the challenge. Tarot doesn’t tell your future, it tells you where your path can potentially lead you if you will it so. Nothing is handed to you in this life- we must all work at it. Live your life, see your current blessings before you and find a way to make your dream your plan. Start living it!
☺️🙏🏽❤️ -La Jibarita www.lajibaritatarotreadings.com  We do it all the time. Invest time & energy into people, jobs, activities, & stuff that really don’t add value to our life. With everyone we interact with we give away a piece of ourselves & collect pieces from others. Our energy gets left on the books we read, the things we make, places we go, the people we upset or touch kindly, etc.
With family it’s a more delicate topic. We certainly can not choose our blood, but we can decide as we get older who we wish to make memories with & with whom we need to spend less time with. I didn’t realize how reactive I was to others’ emotions & energies before. Everything just clicked. Everything made sense. There were some people I was naturally gravated to, they were always positive people & bubbly. With big smiles & good hearts. As I got older I realized how unbearable it was to be around the opposite. I feel it. Negativity & hate takes up sooo much energy, it changes you, it exhausts you. But at the same time the drama is like a bad drug. You hate to do it, you know it’s bad for you- but you can’t stop involving yourself in it because it’s all around us. Empaths attract it all. We want to help those that are negative and drown in those that are positive. They both drain us. As humans, in general, we are attracted to negativity. It’s a mechanism we have to protect ourselves. Why do you think bad news travels fast? Why you feel good when you’re holding juicy gossip harmful to others? Why does it excite you? Why do you think the news focus on all bad stuff? Do your research, its not because the world is more dangerous than it was back when... It’s because we, as humans, are attuned to self preservation and we want to know the bad, the evil, the danger. The news stations gets paid for those who watch. All of this changes us forevermore- but for them it’s no matter- it’s just business & there’s science behind the pull to keep watching the train wreck. My point: Pick up the pieces you’ve left behind that were wasted, where you can. You can do it by forgiving those that have wronged you. Asking forgiveness of those you’ve hurt. Begin to stop wasting your precious time on negativity and make every piece you give away & receive count. 😉🙏🏽❤️ -La Jibarita www.lajibaritatarotreadings.com  Everyone wonders about my company name. Funny thing is, it just felt right. I’m 100% Puerto-Rican born. My name is Lisette, altho I love folks have already embraced my company and call me La Jibarita, it’s not the name my parents gave me. My god-daughter/niece inspired the name when she sent me a picture of her dressed in a ‘traditional’ Puerto Rican dress (ADD side-note: altho before Christopher Columbus arrived with the Spanish Taínos were all naked, lol. But of course ya can’t do show-&-tell at school like that! Lol!)
‘La Jibarita’ just seemed to ‘fit’ at the time. Jibaritos (Jibaros) were natives known as the mountain dwellers of P.R., they worked the land and found everything they needed to survive from it- from food to medicine. Puerto Rico has some of the most beautiful mountains. Altho I live in NY now, I looked at a hundred houses before my farmhouse called to me- found no where but, you guessed it, right up against a Catskill mountain ridge. Coincidence? Maybe, but I don’t believe in coincidences. This gift I have hit me upside the head at 17 and I wasn’t ready for it then. It didn’t come back entirely until I moved here. After I was doing tarot & premonitions a while, I slowly started telling family & friends about my ability. One of those folks was my father. I didn’t know what he’d say because we have not ever been close and he always seemed like the stern military man, dealing with facts. I had confided all this to him and my feelings with a situation I was having premonitions on and he didn’t even hesitate with his support. It took me aback actually. I guess I expected a ‘ya right!’ or ‘get outta here’ response. There was only understanding and an immediate response of “I believe you.” He shared something I had never known before- he told my grandmother has this gift. She has lived her whole life in P.R. living off the Earth, just like los Jibaros. Sure, I knew of her and was raised by her- but I guess this isn’t something you openly share for fear of people thinking you’re crazy... Giggles* ...And here goes her Grand-Daughter starting a business with the majority of my regular customers from social media. I’m probably conquering generations of fear by making whatever this gift is very public. Way back when folks burned folks to the stakes for even speaking of premonitions, they’d call you a bruja (witch). I know my intentions, and that’s only to help others. I can’t speak for my Abuela, but I have always felt this ‘voice’/feeling inside that guides me is from God and meant to be shared. I have to live my truth and follow through with God’s purpose for my life. Hell, I’ve never been ‘normal’- I guess that’s why it’s been so natural for me to accept this path for me. Don’t hold back your shine because you fear what others will think. Do you! 😉🙏🏽❤️ -La Jibarita www.lajibaritatarotreadings.com |