When you enter the festive season, a transformational breathwork session may well be one of the best self-care investments you can make.

During our younger years while our brains are developing we find it difficult to process trauma, grief, fear and other states that are experienced during our upbringing. The effect is that they often get buried in our bodies or our subconscious.

Transpersonal is defined as areas of consciousness beyond the limits of personal identity.

For millennia, indigenous cultures were connected to the larger rhythms of life and passed on their collective wisdom through storytelling.

Indigenous tribes thought about what impact their decisions would have ten generations down the line. It is that kind of connectedness with the earth and the soul realm that we need to return to.

Yes, we’re at a crossroads moment as a species but now is the time for courage & individual responsibility rather than inertia or despondency.

In an age of great material access, we suffer dislocations from the energies of our deepest being and, in return, suffer emptiness, anomie, aimlessness—all sicknesses of the soul. While most therapists address behaviors, thought processes, and biology, would it not make more sense to ask where the energy has relocated?

Unfortunately, many people are drawn to the Tarot in the same way we get drawn to comfort food, empty television programs or other escapes. They dearly want to be told that their life is going to be wonderful and everything will work out in their favour without any effort on their part.

In an age of great material access, we suffer dislocations from the energies of our deepest being and, in return, suffer emptiness, anomie, aimlessness—all sicknesses of the soul. While most therapists address behaviors, thought processes, and biology, would it not make more sense to ask where the energy has relocated?

To understand the lovers tarot card it’s important to recognise that it is one of 22 major arcana cards which represent archetypal development or what we could call the soul’s journey.

The fool tarot is numbered as zero. Some say this is because we start our journey as the ignorant fool and grow into the wise fool. Others hold that it recognises our unlimited potential, thus it should be unnumbered. Then some argue the Fool is outside of the number systems as he is the character experiencing the journey.

If we apply numerology in tarot the lovers card is numbered 6.

Presently, the collective is experiencing a tumultuous transition as we are moving away from the dominance of yang (masculine energies) and the resurgence of yin (feminine energies). Excess yang, overvaluing logic and overdosing on technology has been morphing us into moving microchips – flat, cold and mechanical, devoid of heart and soul, with no particular reason to live apart from consumption and achievement. The counterbalancing outpouring of feminine energies has seen young people experiencing an epidemic of anxiety and overwhelm, stockpiling collective trauma within their bodies.

The Magician card is the first in the major arcana, with the Fool card given the numbering zero being both the start of the soul’s journey and the end.

It begins the first pairing, or polarity, between the masculine and feminine or yin and yang.

Whereas the High Priestess represents going inward and nurturing our intuitive capacities, the Magician represents taking action and being fully incarnate in the physical world. 

Having transpersonal counselling and doing a great deal of self-development during early adulthood helped me enormously when it came to working through a series of hardships and losses.

Alain de Botton and the organisation he founded, The School of Life, has some great insights into the benefits of counselling. Rather than distinguishing between counselling vs psychologist, he puts the fields under the umbrella of psychotherapy.

Breathwork originated from the understanding that we store a great deal of trauma and pain within our bodies.

Transpersonal psychology would argue that we inherit a great deal of baggage from our family lineage.

I stand before you today to let you know that no matter who you are and where you are on your spiritual journey, life may take you by surprise and give you lemons when you expected honey and wine. No one is exempt from life’s sorrow and grief. No matter how many meditations, breathwork sessions and spiritual awakenings we encounter no one is exempt from suffering. 

A psychic reading is quite different from an intuitive tarot reading.

While I get psychic insights at times, my readings are not fortune telling/predicting the future readings. There are many great psychics around that focus on that style of reading.

My approach is to hone in on the present moment and help you explore what is currently alive for you right now.