About Me

About Tara Latifa

I was born in Turkey over 50 years ago, and my grandfather Orhan used to call me Tara of Ankara because that is the city in which I was born. Ana Kara, or the Dark Mother. My father moved us to India shortly after that and so I was able to experience first hand the culture that gave me my name: Tara. It means Star in Hindi and is also the Tibetan name of the Goddess known in other cultures as Kwan Yin, the Goddess of Compassion, also the Female Buddha. Tara in Latin means earth, or soil. So my name has given me clues to what I am doing here on this beautiful and difficult planet, and while I haven't quite figured it all out yet, I know at least some of it by now. Bridging the earth and the heavens and discovering the gifts, abilities and knowledge I have begun reclaiming from this and other life-times while returning again and again to love through all kinds of adversity.

I am here to help us reclaim our playfulness, our natural state, so that we are free to create the More Beautiful World TOGETHER. When you feel good, I feel better and the earth feels better and your dog feels better and no one has to take on what is your's and you no longer have to take on what's not your's and so on and so on. This ancient pattern of taking things on for others out of love is a very real and huge obstacle to us living our own highest lives and and fulfilling our destinies. One modality that I practice that helps put everything back where it belongs is: Systemic Family Constellations. I have a technique that has evolved from this modality but that is slightly quicker: I step with you behind the veil, out of ordinary reality and into the unseen realms or extra-ordinary reality, and you and the person you are experiencing pain or conflict with stand across from each other and we make sure you give back what you are holding for each other or what you've taken from each other, in the energetic sense. I witness and guide you. And we do it for a place as well, a place you are still connected with that might be drawing you there when you are no longer meant to be there.

Before I started to get an awareness of what and who I am, I travelled down several very different paths. I worked in international development at the World Bank and became a Middle East Specialist from Johns Hopkins, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). I also became a mother to Eden (and that continues, by the way, to be the hardest job on the planet, probably because he is one of my greatest teachers and good teachers push barriers and buttons). Then I opened an international preschool in Turkey and discovered that I love teaching kids, and by that I mean playing with kids who have such a hard time understanding what age I am because they see me like themselves. And I am my essential self when I am with them. You can still visit my website for the school though it has new owners! www.edensgardenpreschool.com/edu.htm
Then I became the world's only Turkish Hand Gestures expert and wrote a book of gestures which you can download at www.turkishhands.com/. Turks have a para-linguistic language that shows their emotions, their creativity, their humor and their culture, and I've noticed and captured over 150 of those gestures. I also take people on trips to Turkey to visit some of my favorite mystical spots. You can read an article I wrote about my first Ramazan in Turkey in one of its most mystical cities, Mardin.
Now I am here, as I was always headed, facilitating people to become their original blueprint minus the heaviness, in becoming whole and bringing light and compassion with humor to this planet in this wonderful time of change and awakening.

When you are more of who you are, All of Us can be more of who we are

and Magic begins.

I carry transformation and death and renewal in my field. And while this sounds kind of heavy and maybe even creepy, (or maybe it sounds cool to you) I have been furnished with a most excellent sense of humor because my way through the pain is laughter and tears and it’s why I can help you see almost anything through a different lens and cause you to laugh no matter how deep the gloom seems.
I also carry an experience of Oneness Consciousness in my field. I lived in that reality for about 3 days and I was aware of what it was and I wrote it all down when it was over because I had been taking note of what it was like to have no judgment of myself or others, to be aware that we are all here as part of the same thing - just wearing different “outfits” - as in life choices, of time as not real and being infinite… as I slowly emerged from it feeling such grace and gratitude. You can download a recording of me telling you about it when you sign up for my email list. (coming soon)
I am an empath. From what I understand, empaths are the wayshowers, the new species. We literally have different DNA. I don’t really know how people who can’t read other people’s minds or feel other people’s emotions and physical sensations, or know when people are lying or know their profession or language or culture through some complex instantaneous formula, experience the world. That’s the only thing I can’t feel: how the majority of humanity can’t feel ME. Still, it has made me a magnet, a safe and immense space for people to unburden themselves, to share suddenly with me what they have never told anyone, or what they’ve been carrying around for years that hurts. But only the people who are ready for healing and unburdening and opening to a new possibility do this, and I’ve learned that unless it’s an exchange rather than a dump, I am no longer making myself available for that. The ones who aren’t ready tend to either not like me or insult me or dismiss me because the mirror I offer shows them what they don’t yet want to see. I am still learning how to let this go and not let it trigger the ancient wound of not belonging inside of myself. The mere act of sharing brings healing, and luckily more and more people are waking up to their true nature and want to face what is there to face inside them.
And that brings me to the next one. I am a healer. I recently listened to THIS most amazing interview between Clare of Tree Sisters and Woman Stands … which I can not recommend enough in which a healer was described as that person who holds the vibration of TRUTH and that truth is harmony and balance and total vital health, so whoever finds themselves in that field starts to transform whatever doesn’t match within themselves.
One of the jobs I’ve had before, in other life times, is that of the Jaguar or Temple Guardian. I am here to unlock some of those temples now, to help the Goddess come back into our awareness and hearts and into the CONSCIOUSNESS of humanity because she has been subverted, erased, abused, persecuted, ostracized and blamed for too freaking long, and my dears, IT’S TIME!! We get to feel, hear, see, taste all of GAIA as if she is inside us, as if we are the dolphins and the trees and the wind and a leaf unfurling into the sun’s full light… We used to have that connection, that sacred cord, before it was severed and we forgot who we are. Actually, this is so freaking exciting that I’m forgetting how much life on this earth plane has sucked for the most part. YOU WILL TOO. You will remember truth and forget this mirage. Because I HAVE AND AM, so I can take you there or at least point the way. And I am carrying out this work by taking women, and eventually men and women, to sacred sites to do ceremony and to stand in our feminine sovereignty and to honor Mother Earth and Divine Mother by bringing offerings, doing Reiki or whatever buried magic we each carry and calling in the Goddess. Right now that work is based in Ancient Mesopotamia, under the guidance of Ishtar Innana. Our next service trip is very very soon: Fall Equinox to Ancient Sumer. Sign up HERE. create the trip outline and price and sign up ability
And I have been and hopefully will be again, an intergalactic interpreter!! It explains why I pick up languages and cultural norms so easily. This is such a fun job. I learned that I am this through all my work with Access Consciousness. In fact, in this lifetime, it led me to create a book about the Turkish Hand language. You can find it here: www.turkishhands.com.
I am also here to help heal the ancient Scapegoat wound. This wound, I believe, is all wrapped up in the Empath and the Narcissist and their tangled dance. It is time for empaths who carry the new blueprint for humanity, to say: “no, I won’t play that game with you and I don’t have to heal you because that’s your job, and if you aren’t interested in evolving, then you and I don’t have any more to say to each other.” To stand in their power and sovereignty and to know their worth and value, irrespective of what they are doing to help others.