Soulful Ways, Cape Town (2025)

24/11/2025

Soulful Monday Card of the Week: Earth Rat

Change Your Mindset

This week’s energy brings a gentle but powerful reminder: your mind is far more influential than you realise. The Earth Rat arrives to show you that even when life presents what feel like looming obstacles, there are always new paths, fresh solutions, and possibilities waiting to be seen — but they require a shift in perspective.

The Rat is resourceful, creative, alert, and deeply intuitive. Even when the terrain looks impossible, it finds a way. That is the energy stepping forward for you now: the part of you that rises above fear, sees beyond limitation, and trusts the quiet whisper of wisdom inside your heart.

The message is simple and profound:
If one door seems locked… stop pushing. Look for the door you haven’t noticed yet. Or find the person who holds the key.

You are being asked to gently break old mental habits — the ones that spiral into fear, doubt, or “there’s no way out.” Instead, choose thoughts that open space. Thoughts that create possibility. Thoughts that align your heart and mind into one harmonious frequency.

When your heart-mind unites, consciousness expands, and suddenly what felt solid and immovable begins to soften, shift, and move.

Message from Heaven: Restrictions are not punishment — they are invitations. Use your creativity to turn limitations into new solutions.

Message from Earth: You are the master of your thoughts. The moment you imagine a new outcome, the energy around you begins to rearrange itself to match it.

This week, let the Earth Rat show you how powerful your inner lens truly is. Shift it, even slightly, and watch how your reality begins to respond.

Questions for the Week:
- Where have I been pushing against a locked door?
- What new possibility becomes visible when I change my story about this situation?
- What outcome feels most aligned with my heart — and how can I begin imagining it clearly?

Affirmation:
I choose thoughts that open pathways. My mind and heart work together to create new possibilities.

Wishing you a week of clarity, creativity, and beautiful breakthroughs.

xx Leo
www.leohibbert.co.za
www.soulfulways.co.za

17/11/2025

Soulful Monday Card of the Week: Ariadé – Deva of the Element of Earth

This week’s energy comes in grounded, steady, and deeply supportive. Ariadé - the Deva of Earth - steps forward to remind us to return to our bodies, our boundaries, and the simple sacredness of everyday life.

Earth energy doesn’t rush or force. It invites us to slow down, reconnect, and honour what is real.

Ariadé asks you to reflect on where the theme of solidity is showing up in your life right now:

- Where do you need grounding?
- Where do you need clearer boundaries?
- Where have you become too rigid or too hard on yourself?
- And where are you being invited to soften, root, and listen?

This is a week to come home to yourself - your senses, your physical space, and your quiet inner knowing. Your body is speaking… and it’s guiding you toward balance.

What this week is supporting:

• Grounding through simple rituals
• Strengthening healthy boundaries
• Letting go of old rules or self-judgment
• Listening to your body’s messages
• Choosing what genuinely nourishes your energy

Nothing needs to be rushed. Nothing needs to be forced. Root yourself first - clarity will follow.

Questions for the week:
- What needs reinforcing in my life?
- What needs softening?
- Where is my body asking for more presence?
- What feels truly nourishing right now?

AFFIRMATION: I ground into my body, honour my boundaries, and move with the natural rhythm of my life.

xx Leo
www.leohibbert.co.za
www.soulfulways.co.za

10/11/2025

Soulful Monday Card of the Week - You Got the Love
Hadarion energy • Codependency • Boundaries

This week’s message is a sacred call to remember that the love you’ve been searching for has been within you all along!

The Hadarians were said to be beings of pure, unconditional love — souls who could see beauty in everyone they met. But their gift was also their challenge. Their boundless love sometimes blurred boundaries, leading them to lose themselves in others — giving too much, too soon, too deeply.

Many of us carry this same pattern in our hearts. We love to merge, to connect, to give endlessly. We see potential in others and believe our love can heal or change them. But when we pour so much outward, we can forget to tend to the well within.

This card reminds you that it’s time to reclaim your energy and review the dynamics in your relationships. Are you giving more than you receive? Are you overextending, feeling anxious, or losing your sense of self to keep the peace?

Boundaries don’t mean closing your heart — they mean protecting your sacred essence so that your love remains pure, steady, and replenished. True love isn’t found in self-sacrifice, but in self-honoring.

This week, love yourself as deeply as you love others. Come back home to your own heart. Let your relationships reflect balance, not dependency.

Reflections for the week:
- Do I lose myself in relationships?
- How can I develop a deeper love for myself?
- What does healthy interdependence look like for me?

Affirmation:
“I am whole. I am loved. I nurture my relationships without losing myself. My love is powerful because it begins within me.”

03/11/2025

Soulful Monday – Card of the Week: Meditation + Escapism
“I live and accept my own reality.”

This week’s message is a gentle invitation to stop running - not from others, but from yourself.

So often, when life feels heavy or uncomfortable, we instinctively reach for distraction. We scroll, we binge-watch, we fill our calendars, or we reach for comfort in ways that help us forget rather than feel.
But healing asks the opposite of us. It invites us to stay.

Meditation isn’t about escaping your thoughts or silencing your mind — it’s about befriending it. It’s not an act of avoidance; it’s an act of courage. True meditation helps you see your reality with fresh eyes — not to erase it, but to transform the way you hold it.

Instead of running from what feels painful, this card asks you to turn inward and explore it from a place of compassion and curiosity.

When you can sit with what’s real — without judgment — the chaos begins to soften. The truth reveals itself not as something to fear, but as something to understand.

This week, try trading escapism for awareness.
When you feel the urge to avoid, pause and breathe.
Let your inner world become a place of discovery, not escape.

Reflection for the week:
- Where do I tend to run when life feels uncomfortable?
- What emotions am I being asked to sit with rather than avoid?
- Can I bring love to what I’ve been resisting?

Affirmation:
“I live and accept my own reality. I meet myself where I am, and I choose peace in the present moment.”

xx Leo
www.leohibbert.co.za
www.soulfulways.co.za

26/10/2025

Soulful Sunday Card of the Week: Boundaries

“When you say yes to others, make sure you’re not saying no to yourself.”

This week’s message is a sacred reminder that kindness without boundaries is self-betrayal in disguise.

You have a generous heart and a natural desire to help, heal, and make others happy. It’s one of your most beautiful qualities. But when your giving comes at the cost of your own needs, when you say yes out of guilt or fear of disappointing someone, your energy begins to fracture. Slowly, you start to lose touch with yourself.

Boundaries are not barriers - they are acts of love. They say, “This is how I honor my energy. This is how I protect my peace.” They help you give from overflow instead of depletion.

This week, Spirit asks you to notice where you may be overextending, people-pleasing, or feeling responsible for others’ happiness. You are under no obligation to carry everyone else’s burdens. You do not owe constant availability, endless patience, or unconditional yeses to anyone.

When you set clear boundaries, you teach others how to respect you—and you remind yourself that your needs are valid.

Reflections for the week:
- Where in my life am I giving more than I have to give?
- Do I say “yes” when my soul is crying out for rest?
- What would healthy self-respect look like in this situation?

This card calls you back to balance. It asks you to stand strong, not in anger or resistance, but in truth. Let go of the fear that saying “no” makes you selfish—it actually makes you sovereign.

Affirmation:
“I honor my energy and protect my peace. Boundaries are love in action, and they allow me to give from a full and grounded heart.”

xx Leo
www.leohibbert.co.za
www.soulfulways.co.za

19/10/2025

Soulful Sunday Card of the Week: The Pearl of Sharro
Arising through the alchemy of the soul

This week’s message reminds us that every trial, every challenge, every painful experience carries the potential to become something sacred — a pearl born from our inner alchemy.

The Pearl of Sharro speaks of transformation through grace. Just as an irritant in a shell becomes a gem of luminous beauty, our deepest wounds and hardest lessons can become sources of wisdom and radiance when met with courage, compassion, and higher awareness.

We are each responsible for how we respond to life. The Divine doesn’t wish us pain — but through free will, we are given the power to shape what we experience into something meaningful. When we take responsibility for our healing, we reclaim our creative power. What once brought darkness can be transmuted into light.

If you’ve been navigating confusion, loss, or a heavy heart, this card is a sign that resolution is coming. The situation that once felt impossible will begin to shift as you rise into your spiritual strength. You are not being punished — you are being refined. You are growing into something precious and rare.

This is the alchemy of awakening. It is the transformation of pain into purpose, of suffering into strength, of resistance into radiant light.

Reflection for this week:
- Where am I being asked to take responsibility for my healing?
- How can I turn this experience into wisdom rather than resentment?
- What new form of grace might be trying to emerge from what once felt painful?

Affirmation:
“I rise with grace. I take full responsibility for my life path, transforming every challenge into a pearl of sacred wisdom. I am light, and I shall rise with dignity.”

xx Leo
www.leohibbert.co.za
www.soulfulways.co.za

12/10/2025

Soulful Sunday Card of the Week: Love all Trust a Few
Refuse to Be Controlling or Controlled

This week’s message speaks to the sacred balance between love and power — and the need to live from both.

There is a difference between unconditional love and unquestioning trust. Love sees the soul and honors it. Trust, however, must be earned. Not everyone who enters your life has earned the right to your inner world — and that’s okay.

This card calls you to stay aware of how energy flows in your relationships. Are you giving your power away by trying to please, fix, or rescue others? Or are you attempting to control outcomes or people to feel safe? Both are signs that something deeper needs attention — usually the part of you that is still learning to trust your own worth.

Healthy love includes boundaries. It allows compassion without self-sacrifice, forgiveness without foolishness, and openness without naivety. You can wish someone well and still decide not to walk beside them. You can send love while also saying “no.”

And sometimes, the reflection cuts both ways. If you notice you’ve been dismissive, manipulative, or unwilling to admit mistakes — pause. Growth begins with self-honesty. Strength is not in always being right, but in being real.

As Shakespeare wrote, “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
This is the heart of this card’s message: love freely, but wisely. Protect your peace. Listen to your intuition when it whispers, “Something doesn’t feel right.” You owe no one an explanation for honoring your truth.

You are allowed to step back. You are allowed to walk away. You are allowed to choose who has access to your energy.

Reflections for this week:
- Where in my life am I giving too much power away?
- Who or what feels draining or controlling — and what boundaries need to shift?
- Am I showing love without self-abandonment?

Affirmation:
“I love deeply, but I also honor my boundaries. I refuse to control or be controlled. My energy is sacred, and I trust myself to protect it.”

xx Leo
www.leohibbert.co.za
www.soulfulways.co.za

05/10/2025

Soulful Sunday Card of the Week: Perspective

A calm and clear mind is free to see differently.

This week’s message is a powerful reminder of how much our perception shapes our reality. Our emotions and thoughts create the lens through which we view life. When that lens is clouded by fear, frustration, or limiting beliefs, our world can appear far more difficult, overwhelming, or fixed than it actually is.

We can’t always be fully objective. But we can learn to soften the emotional charge, quiet the mental noise, and open ourselves to new ways of seeing. When we do, possibilities reveal themselves that we simply couldn’t access before.

Often, a shift in perception is all it takes to change the experience entirely. What once felt threatening, impossible, or stagnant can suddenly be met with clarity, courage, or even curiosity.

Think of a situation in your life where strong emotions have taken hold. What might change if you stepped back, calmed your mind, and asked:

- Is it possible to see this in another way?
- What would this look like if I viewed it through trust instead of fear?
- How would I perceive this if my mind were still and clear?

The truth is, your outer world often rearranges itself in response to your inner perspective. By separating yourself from emotional turbulence, you tap into the wisdom of your higher self—a place where solutions, alternatives, and clarity live.

When your perspective shifts, everything shifts. The “problem” may remain the same, but your experience of it transforms. And that transformation is where your power lives.

Reflection for the week: Where might a change in perspective bring more ease, possibility, or peace into your life?

Affirmation: “I choose to see with clarity and calm. New perspectives are always available to me.”

xx Leo
www.leohibbert.co.za
www.soulfulways.co.za

28/09/2025

Soulful Sunday Card of the Week: Skunk Spirit

This week’s message is simple, but powerful: know your worth.

Skunk Spirit comes forward as a reminder that you do not need to prove yourself or seek approval to validate your value. True confidence is quiet—it comes from standing in integrity, living by your values, and being unafraid to let your authentic self be seen.

You may notice not everyone agrees with you, understands you, or even supports you. That’s okay. Your worth does not decrease because someone else cannot see it. In fact, your authenticity can inspire others to honor their own truth.

This card encourages you to ask:
- What do I truly value?
- Am I living in alignment with those values?
- Where am I dimming my light or compromising my truth in order to be accepted?

Skunk Spirit teaches that real power lies in unapologetically being yourself. There is strength in walking with your head high, grounded in self-respect, even if others misunderstand or project their own struggles onto you.

This week, remember: honesty with yourself is an act of love. Integrity is your greatest strength. And self-respect is the foundation of every healthy relationship.

Affirmation for the week:
“I know my worth. I live in integrity, walk in authenticity, and honor the truth of who I am.”

xx Leo
www.leohibbert.co.za

21/09/2025

Soulful Sunday Card of the Week: Let Your World Spin on Its Axis

There are moments when life feels as though it has tipped us upside down. Change comes suddenly. Routines shift. The familiar no longer feels stable. And yet, within this seeming chaos, there is divine purpose.

Just as the Earth spins on its tilted axis—creating the seasons that bring life, growth, and renewal—so too do we experience times of imbalance so that something new and beautiful can emerge. If the Earth stood still, there would be no flourishing. Movement is essential. Tilt is essential. And so it is with your soul’s journey.

This card arrives to remind you that what feels like disarray is not punishment, but preparation. The Divine is answering prayers you may have long forgotten, clearing the old so that the new can take root. A world turned on its axis may feel frightening at first, but it is creating the very conditions for your dream to manifest.

The invitation is to stop resisting the spin. Resistance only creates struggle. Instead, ground yourself in the small ways you can—through breath, through stillness, through trust—and allow life to move you. This is not the undoing of your path, but the reordering of it, aligned with love, beauty, and abundance.

What if the very thing you fear losing is the space that must open for something greater? What if the chaos is not chaos at all, but the Divine whispering: “I am making room for your joy”?

Reflections for this time:

- Can I see change as an answer to prayer, not a threat to safety?
- Where am I being asked to let go, so life can bring me into alignment?
- What if this disruption is actually the beginning of more aliveness?

You are being offered not only change, but rebirth. Trust the tilt. Trust the spin. Trust that what looks like a problem may, in time, reveal itself as the solution.

xx Leo
www.leohibbert.co.za
www.soulfulways.co.za

14/09/2025

Soulful Sunday Card of the Week: Sensitivity and Strength

Tapping the Forces Within

This card comes today as a reminder that true strength is not found in force alone. It lies in the balance between power and tenderness, clarity and compassion.

A situation in your life may be calling for sensitivity—perhaps with a friend, a loved one, or at work. Your natural instinct might be to push through, take control, or assert yourself. But the energy of this moment is asking you to pause. To soften. To approach with patience and openness.

Sensitivity does not mean weakness. In fact, when you combine sensitivity with strength, you create a presence that is both steady and healing—like the warmth of the sun’s rays. This is the energy that dissolves tension, opens hearts, and creates space for truth to emerge.

This card is a call to bring your receptive, gentle energy forward. To look at the situation with calm clarity. To allow peace, compassion, and understanding to lead the way. When you do, you’ll find that your strength naturally supports your sensitivity, and your sensitivity gives deeper meaning to your strength.

Reflections for today:
- Where in my life can I respond with compassion instead of control?
- How can I be both steady and tender in the face of conflict?
- What happens when I pause, breathe, and bring both sensitivity and strength into balance?

Affirmation:
“I express my sensitivity and strength in equal measure. I always have the courage to take the most honoring approach.”

Trust that in honoring both your gentleness and your power, you are walking the sacred middle path. This is where true wisdom lives.

xx Leo
www.leohibbert.co.za
www.soulfulways.co.za

07/09/2025

Soulful Sunday Card of the Week: Eclipse in Pisces

This eclipse brings with it a powerful turning point. Eclipses have always been moments of truth, when illusions fall away and clarity rises. This is not a time to hide from what you’ve been feeling—it is a time to look directly at it and choose differently.

The card “Free Will – Serve Your Higher Purpose” reminds us that even when life feels overwhelming or surreal, we are never powerless. Free will is our sacred gift. How we respond, what we release, and the choices we make are the keys that open us into a higher way of living.

This moon is asking:

Are you serving your higher purpose—or are you giving your energy away to patterns, addictions, or relationships that keep you small?

Where are you holding on to martyrdom, saying “I can’t change, life must stay the same”?

What would it look like to reclaim your power, even in small steps?

The eclipse can feel like a dark night of the soul, but the darkness is not the end—it’s the clearing before the dawn. This is the space where the old story dissolves, and the new one begins.

If something in your life feels stagnant, deceptive, or draining, the energy of this eclipse is asking you to release it. If you’ve been labouring under illusions, let the truth come. If you’ve been living to please others at the cost of your own soul, it is time to remember: your free will is yours to use.

You don’t have to change everything overnight. Start with one choice. One honest step. One moment of courage. Those who truly love you will support your happiness, even if it means change.

This eclipse reminds us:

Free will is not about control—it’s about alignment.
You are not powerless.
You are free to choose again.
You are free to live in service of your highest truth.

Take this time to look within. What is being eclipsed out of your life? And what powerful, authentic version of you is waiting to rise?

The Universe is offering you a reset. Choose with courage. Choose with love. Choose with faith in yourself.

xx Leo
www.leohibbert.co.za
www.soulfulways.co.za

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