The Breakdown That Became My Breakthrough

Mid-2017, I hit a wall. Again. Depleted, boundary-less, running on fumes. I quit my job and took a sabbatical that became two years of deep transformation work: healing, reprogramming, releasing old patterns, integrating and rebuilding myself from the inside out.

Here's what most spiritual teachers won't tell you: sometimes it has to get really intense, hard, even destructive before life evolves. I learned to stop kicking and screaming my way upstream. When I finally chilled out and used that energy to learn how to trust myself and my process again, everything shifted. Life wasn't happening to me. It was happening for me. And I had way more agency than I'd ever claimed.

After years of changes and pivots, I finally feel it: peace with my clean slate. Gratitude for the chance to start over, but this time with wisdom, practical knowledge and the capacity to create something grand, authentic and divinely aligned.

Then I really started understanding my life path cards, and everything clicked. My 9 of Spades in Jupiter was literally telling me: you're going to have an abundance of clean slates and pivots, and that's your blessing, not your curse. Suddenly I understood not just how my energy works, but how to actually leverage it. That knowledge gave me deep confidence in who I am and how to work with my many new beginnings from an empowered standpoint. And here's the thing. That card in my Jupiter position showed me my sweet spot isn't just understanding this myself. It's sharing this spiritual knowledge with others.