Biography — The Tarot MashUp

Biographical Information

Naomi Rabinowitz, MD, LAc, is a 1976 graduate of SUNY-Downstate Medical School. She did post-graduate training at Beth Israel Hospital in New York. Training in Traditional Chinese Medicine was acquired by apprenticeship, including working six years at the world-renowned Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx acupuncture facility. At Lincoln, she was one of the founding members of the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA). Later, in private practice in New York City, she did pioneering work using Traditional Chinese Medicine to treat HIV/AIDS. In 2005 she moved her medical practice to Colorado.

Dr. Rabinowitz has been licensed to practice medicine and acupuncture in New York and Colorado and in 2024 was granted an Emeritus-Retired Designation by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). She is a certified Iyengar yoga instructor (CIYT).

Dr. Rabinowitz’s interest in the health of the body and mind is rooted in her decades of dancing. She attended the Juilliard School of Music in the dance department before graduating from Sarah Lawrence College. Later in life, she competed in ballroom dancing and was a national finalist. However, the years of performing took their toll, and degenerative arthritis led to bilateral hip replacements. In 2015, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. These personal health crises, combined with having been an active witness to the AIDS epidemic, have significantly informed and shaped Dr. Rabinowitz’s approach to healing.

Dr. Rabinowitz started her astrological studies in 1981 with Quint Bixby. That same year she attended a seminar with Liz Greene on archetypes in astrology. She continued her studies with Julie Bresciani and John Marchesella in New York City, and after a long hiatus, picked up where she left off with Adam Elenbaas, Austin Coppock, and Joseph Addeo. She has been tutored in the Tarot by Louise Rodd.

With the onset of the Covid pandemic in 2020, Dr. Rabinowitz fully retired from practicing medicine and teaching yoga. Now she accesses her decades of experience in the healing arts to compassionately enable people to find balance, strength, and harmony through astrology and tarot.