I often say I’ve had many incarnations within this single lifetime. We don’t only get reborn when we leave this world — we reinvent ourselves over and over again. Life is circles within circles, just like the Fool’s journey through the Tarot and the ever-shifting stories of the Minor Arcana.
As we are leaving a nine year, 2025, and readying ourselves for a one year, 2026, I want to share the story of how I became a traveller, and how staying devoted to a dream, no matter how far away it seems, can eventually reshape your reality.
It was 2002, and I was working at a music festival with a friend. We were doing psychic readings in a tiny stall tucked between food vans and festival merch. It was the first time I had ever offered readings publicly. Until then, my healing and meditation work had lived mostly inside my home, shared between family and close friends. But that weekend, I stepped into the next stage of committing to the work of Spirit.
I still had a full-time job. I was raising a family. My spiritual work was my oxygen, the thing that kept me connected to my Spirit Nature. After a few nerves, I found my rhythm. What I discovered that weekend was profound:
I could bring healing, clarity and comfort to people far beyond my immediate circle. It opened something inside me, and I decided, right then and there, that when I retired, I would buy a camper van and travel Australia, following festivals and taking my readings and healings on the road. It was one of those unforgettable bliss moments: when Spirit connects with your heart at a cellular level and whispers, this is your purpose.
But I wasn’t anywhere near retirement. And I had a family depending on me.
I didn’t abandon the dream. I simply tucked it into my heart and carried on. I didn’t realise it then, but from that weekend forward, every choice I made, big and small, was quietly shaping the future I had glimpsed.
Years passed. Life delivered its highs and lows. And somewhere along the way, the dream faded into the background… until recently, during one of the hardest chapters of my life, it returned. Spirit nudged me. It was time.
The thing with dreams is that they don’t manifest through wishing alone, they need action, courage and divine timing.
I wanted to get everything right, and in my desire to control the outcome, I hit wall after wall. When you try to force a dream, you get stuck. So I stopped pushing. I breathed. I waited for alignment rather than demanding results. Spirit doesn’t open doors while we’re wrestling with the handle.
When I surrendered; everything shifted.
I found the perfect camper van. I found the lifestyle I once imagined. And as a beautiful bonus, I found someone to travel with. Suddenly I was living the life I once thought would only arrive after retirement. And it was bigger, richer and more magical than I ever could have scripted.
This power isn’t reserved for me. It is available to everyone. Following your heart requires surrender, faith and self-awareness. It asks you to know your truth, not the version shaped by fear or expectation. My own path began the day I meditated for the first time, the day I read The Celestine Prophecies, picked up my first deck of Tarot cards, tuned into my first crystal, and sat with the teachers who shaped my journey. There have been hundreds of these moments, and every one has been a breadcrumb home.
If this way of living calls you, lean into it. You won’t be disappointed.
Recommendations for the spiritual seeker:
• Read other people’s spiritual experiences, they expand your sense of possibility.
• Find your tribe; community builds confidence and belonging.
• Practise your gifts simply for joy; no measuring, no perfection.
• Keep learning; courses open new pathways and perspectives.
• Commit to self-awareness, your inner work is the most important work of your life.
• Meditate. Learning to sit peacefully with your thoughts is a priceless initiation.
Vicki Haspels is a Tarot Card Reader, Psychic and Energy Healer, Reiki Master/Teacher, Past Life Regression Therapist, Intuitive Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Teacher with Toni Reilly Institute, Angel Intuitive, Crystal Therapist.
