Meet Cristina Medina | Intuitive Tarot Reader

We had the good fortune of connecting with Cristina Medina and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Cristina, can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business?
I was laid off from my full-time job earlier in the year. It was a pretty dark period. I turned to energy healers and local clairvoyants, as I have done over the decades, whenever I needed direction or my heart was raw.

What surprised me was the access to the online tarot community, so I saw an opportunity and a way to reach people going through similar struggles. I wanted to create a forum that blended therapy, astrology, and spirituality, a place where people could relate and not feel suffocated by doubt and uncertainty. I help ground my clients and find their truth.

If I hadn’t started my tarot business, I would have isolated myself. I found that people are especially vulnerable after the pandemic—the way we communicate and connect has changed so much. It easy to get lost. Through tarot, I meet strangers from across the country who allow me to share a vulnerable space with them.

The term “Sad Girl” gets a bad rap. Starting Sad Girl Horoscope was really about honoring my voice (and intuition.) It was about the journey through depression, the good and the ugly dating in LA, and embodying my feminine. Everyone has a little Sad Girl in them. It’s bad ass!

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
I grew up in a superstitious and spiritual household, so I’ve always identified with astrology and the supernatural. My mom would often warn the family of her premonitions. It took me a while to listen to my own intuition and turn off the noise from the societal stigma that intuitives, empaths, and highly sensitive people are “extra.” I no longer carry shame from these labels because they help me read tarot.

Will I tell you your future? I am a metaphysical poet, so the way I perceive and interpret the archetypes in tarot comes from this poetic background. Tarot is like telling a story or reciting a poem. It’s about understanding how the querent’s narrative is connected to the card spread, and seeing the patterns or symbols to a potential outcome.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
For spiritual work:

Visit the flagship House of Intuition in Echo Park for candles and crystals.
Check out where Ana Netanel in Malibu for a sound bath healing ceremony overlooking the hills and ocean.
Open your heart with Queenie, Founder of Path of the Oracle in South Bay.
Meditate at Kadampa Meditation Center Los Angeles in Los Feliz and then walk up to Griffith Park.

Quick shout outs to bomb.com Filipino food:

Elevated Filipino dishes at Sampa in DTLA Arts District.
Get the best Bibingka at Gemmae Bake Shop in Long Beach.
Your sweet tooth will thank me later at Ben Scoops in Carson.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I want to shoutout my personal clairvoyants in South Bay who wish to remain anonymous, and the online tarot and astrology community. And shoutout to my Filipino heritage. I owe a lot of my belief in mysticism and superstition to the motherland.

Website: https://www.sadgirlhoroscope.com/

Instagram: @sadgirlhoroscope

Youtube: @SadGirlHoroscope