Nibbana Tarot
with Nina
Tarot is a clarifier of reality. It’s a tool to help tune intuition and see truths as they really are. I hope to share this with you and bring ease and relief for all beings.
Readings: Nina is available for individual and group tarot card readings. She is especially interested in offering her services to fundraise for meaningful causes at local and global levels.
Book a reading: ninameh@gmail.com
Follow along: @nibbana.tarot
Gaza Relief Fundraiser
Together we raised $325 for the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance, and Doctors Without Borders in October 2023 reading Tarot Cards at the Ft. Greene Farmer’s Market in Brooklyn, New York.
Tarot Practice
Cards
The Fountain Tarot is my first and most precious deck with photographic reproductions of original oil paintings with a re-imagination of the classic Rider-Waite cards.
Books
Tarot for Change by Jessica Dore: a card-by-card translation of the tarot that incorporates insights from the fields of psychology and behavior change.
The Tarot Companion by Liz Green is one of the best reference books for quick lookups that are includes large images and easy to understand descriptions.
Major Arcana: Portraits of Witches in America by Frances F. Denny profiles and photographs exactly what its title promises while interviewing a diverse group Americans in background and practice.
Education
Cataland Books was a wonderful witch shop in Bushwick. It has since closed but their instagram links to their wonderful staff who you can follow along.
Apokrypha hosts classes from, Dakota, my teacher from Catland books. His knowledge goes wide and deep.
Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast explores the cards and practice in a compassionate and thoughtful way for novices and deep learners alike.
Please buy from your local bookstore or witch shop.
Unbinding
Nibbana is often cited in the Buddhist Pali Canon as well as the sacred Middle Indo-Aryan language of Theravada Buddhism of India and my personal practice of Vipassana Meditation. From Thanissaro Bhikkhu and published in Noble Strategies and on dhammatalks.com:
“The image underlying nibbana is one of freedom. The Pali commentaries support this point by tracing the word nibbana to its verbal root, which means "unbinding." What kind of unbinding? The texts describe two levels.
One is the unbinding in this lifetime, symbolized by a fire that has gone out but whose embers are still warm. This stands for the enlightened arahant, who is conscious of sights and sounds, sensitive to pleasure and pain, but freed from passion, aversion, and delusion.
The second level of unbinding, symbolized by a fire so totally out that its embers have grown cold, is what the arahant experiences after this life. All input from the senses cools away and he/she is totally freed from even the subtlest stresses and limitations of existence in space and time.”