After what felt like a dark & solemn end to 2023 witnessing one of the world’s greatest catastrophe alongside coming to terms with my own marital dissolution, I started 2024 taking off to recharge, unapologetically giving myself the permission to reclaim back the nourishment and empowerment that my soul so needed to feel internally full and free again.
Embarking on this path–just like The Fool on his Hero’s Journey (by Joseph Campbell)–was an incredible adventure which granted me the bewildering experience to not just be a teacher or a conduit for this mystical powerful psychic tool, but to be a LIVED EMBODIMENT of this mastery by deepening my own unique process of reemerging from yet another Dark Night of the Soul through living out the phenomenal archetypes of the Tarot’s greatest teaching of life’s philosophy itself…
If I could summarise 2024 through the Major Arcanas in Tarot, it will be…
Here are 10 honourable Major Arcanas that highlights my 2024 in this personal and intimate post written from the sacred corners of my heart through the language of one of my all time favourite spiritual tools, in hopes that this sharing illuminates not just the essence of my year, but the profound depth of how the tarot can be a potent and magical pathway for one soul’s healing and liberation in these extraordinary revolutionary times in history.
1) The World
Last year, I spent a total of 8 months outside of Singaland. The year started with 1 month in Bali and another 2 weeks in the Philippines giving me the opportunity to officially kickstart my semi digital remote working lifestyle! I remember this was a time I felt the most productive and powerful, witnessing the possibilities of my aspirations of juggling travel + work take form and shape after careful and strategic planning of 5 years, since returning back to Singapore from East Timor at the end of 2019, reorganising my life and really taking serious aligned steps in shaping my life’s desired trajectory, interwoven with how I can share my soul’s gifts. I am so elated to share that after years of working on building @soulearthrising.academy, this dream is now a reality!
2) The Lovers
Since filling my own cup to the brim, the Universe orchestrated our
divine reunion. We reunited again back in April, and this time, we both decided upon a sacred commitment to the deep love we share for one another, giving ourselves another chance at love again. It has been a wild and alchemical ride since meeting Y. This particular story deserves a post on its own, which I will expand more in time to come... :)
3) Wheel of Fortune
My unexpected reunion with Y shifted the course of my entire year’s plans. While I was already toying with the possibility of being partially based somewhere outside of Singapore, it was clear that the island of Phangan captured my heart and my soul. I started allowing myself to fully immerse in creating a life for myself here—anchoring, rooting, planting seeds in whatever small ways and officially making it my second home away from home...
4) The Hanged Man
Being outside of my comfort zone on many levels (foreign land, moving from one house to another, new relationship, new friendships, new community, new way of living, new revelations) has allowed me to shift my life’s entire perspective once more a second time (first time was being in East Timor). This process opened up much of my limited perspectives and challenged my existing belief systems. While it felt like being a baby again, questioning everything I ever knew, it was also an awakening I needed to really show me the infinite possibilities out there in the world, a brand new chance to show up with fresh healthier approaches, reminding me of going back to the basics, of what is truly important amidst major life transitions, practicing wisdom gained from lessons from the past, instilling new habits into the blessings shown my in these uncertain times of change.
5) The Chariot
While it was a clear sign to charge forward with the vision in mind to build a base in Phangan, the process of navigating this was not exactly a smooth one. Getting into a bike accident and being grounded for a month, long and arduous house hunting process, basic housing amenities breaking down, being constantly on the move, exhausting visa border runs and extensions, witnessing peers getting into tricky legal situations, falling sick contacting a local virus amidst juggling work and everything else did take a toll on my nervous system and felt disruptive at times. Much energy was used on troubleshooting and resolving practical logistical matters, and the lesson was to create a more sustainable and effective way of balancing out everything.
6) Strength
2024 (2 + 0 + 2 + 4 = 8) was a year that stretched me beyond my limits like a rubber band pulled wide apart on both ends, exposing me to the full spectrum of what it means to LIVE fully—widening my trust and surrender into the unknown while remembering to come back to center with familiar rituals to keep me grounded and present, propelling me so far forward while forcing me to also leave what’s meant to stay behind. Descending even deeper into the depths of grieving multiple layers one by one while ascending higher into the infinite possibilities of blessings and opportunities. I constantly found my body-mind-spirit struggling to feel safe enough to fully open up to receive, to embrace, to register and make sense of it all… Through this process of expansion, my spirit cracked wide open, with each presented moment of dissolving my egoistical limits, my soul found profound strength in growing into a larger capacity for Life and Love over and over again.
7) Temperance
Through the process of expansion, I learned the art of balancing while also embracing our polarities, our dualities. That it is perfectly natural for multiple experiences, states, and emotions to co-exist. That this human existence is multi-faceted, and that every single state of being is sacred, necessary and important. Where it is safe to journey through a whole spectrum of things, and at the end of the day accept yourself wherever you are—in the here and now, in the chaos and in the stillness, in the puddles of pain and in fleeting moments of pleasure, in the bittersweet symphonies of our past and the uncertain hopes of our future, to bask in immense gratitude while acknowledging that we are still a work in progress. That the path of peace is through getting comfortable with the discomfort, and the pursuit of liberation is through discipline, resilience and devotion in clearing out every block that stands in your way of the freedom we so desire.
8) The Star
Naked and left out in the abyss, the stars remind us that without the dark we cannot see the light. That though the process of releasing also brings a renewal of faith, hope, love and new beginnings. The bittersweet decision made to let go of my old life with Jim (my ex-husband) was the catalyst to shedding every layer of my old identities, which allowed me to make space for the vast infinite possibilities out there in life, love, business. 2024 is the year I have never felt so naked and vulnerable—bearing my soul fully to strangers in passing, wearing my authentic heart and voice on my sleeve to those who are getting to know this new version of me, and practicing humility in just being a fellow human in her process of healing over being someone of authority—whether it was wearing the teacher, healer, coach or mentor hat.
9) The High Priestess
2024 inevitably became a semi-sabbatical year for me as my major life transition took a front row seat while prioritising my personal wellbeing and soul’s evolution. Despite slowing down on launching new initiatives, cutting back on offering big programs and being a lot less present on social media, working behind the scenes and humbly being there for regular long term clients over coaching calls and committing to our regular in-person trainings have still allowed me to generate 2/3 of our revenue from last year. It felt like I didn’t have to “work” so hard just practising “being” & “living” more while naturally magnetising soul aligned clients and sign ups organically. 2024 have shown me the beautiful art of thriving effortlessly when you embody your feminine flow in harmony with trusting in Divine’s ever flowing provision and abundance. That when I actually listen to my intuition to stop pushing myself to perform, to prove, or to be productive, I in turn make space for the seeds that are currently sprouting in new fertile grounds to eventually blossom one day.
10) The Magician
2024 is indeed a year of manifesting miracles. Manifested my dream of remote working. Manifested the highest form of love and intimacy with Y. Manifested a whole new life on Phangan that aligns with my soul’s desires. Manifested new sisterhood and beautiful new connections. Manifested a cozy cottage home in the best location on the island for @sarafiuza and I to reunite again which so deepened our sisterhood bond after one year. Manifested a whole new villa by the sea which I will be moving into for the next 2 years which I will happy to host some of you in future. Manifested balancing being of service + gettng a healthy dose of soul nourishment + giving myself space for play and transcending burnout culture. Manifested a whole new paradigm of living which I could only dream of 5 years ago. My current Self thank all the versions of Janel in the past to get her to where she is today.
There is just so so much to honour, celebrate and have gratitude for...
What a wild expansive year indeed! One that will go into the books of history.
And while 2025 will be another year of shedding, I am definitely hopeful it will be all worth while at the end.
Learning to embrace and integrate each archetypcal essence of these Major Arcanas from the tarot in 2024 has been powerful and a rewarding process for me personally...
The tarot itself has helped me so much to understand life’s journey on a whole on a philosophical perspective, invoking the polarizing lessons of each archetype on a wide multidimensional spectrum into my Being, which makes this human existence such a mystical and magical one, if only we look deeper and learn the revelations from the esoteric symbolisms of each tarot arcana.
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