Soular Return: A Year Ahead Tarot Reading/Journaling Prompts/Invocation and Closing

✨ SOULAR RETURN TAROT CLOCK

OPENING INVOCATION — Entering the Year

(Begin seated. Cards facedown. One slow breath in through the nose, long exhale through the mouth.)

I call my energy home.
I arrive fully in this moment, at the threshold of another turning of the Sun.

Today, I do not rush time.
I meet it with reverence.

I honor the year I am completing—the lessons learned, the grief softened, the joy remembered, the versions of me that carried me here. I thank every chapter that closed and every doorway that refused to open until I was ready.

As I step into my Soular Return, I acknowledge that time is not linear here.
This year is a living body.
This year is a spiral.
This year is a conversation between my soul, my ancestors, and the unseen hands guiding me forward.

I ask that this Tarot Clock reveal not prediction, but alignment.
Not fear, but clarity.
Not obligation, but devotion to what is true.

I invite guidance that speaks with compassion.
I invite insight that honors my free will.
I invite messages that support my highest embodiment, my stability, my pleasure, and my becoming.

May each hour of this clock open gently.
May each card speak honestly.
May I listen without defense and receive without resistance.

I am safe to see.
I am ready to remember.
I am open to the year that is opening me.

(Turn the first card.)

How to set up:

Place one card at each “hour” of the clock, beginning at 1 o’clock and moving clockwise.
You may pull 1 card per position (clarity) or 2 cards (lesson + embodiment).

1 O’CLOCK — THEME OF THE YEAR

Question:
What is the overarching soul lesson and energetic theme guiding my next 12 months?

2 O’CLOCK — SELF & IDENTITY

Question:
Who am I becoming through this year, and how is my self-concept evolving?

3 O’CLOCK — COMMUNICATION & EXPRESSION

Question:
How will my voice, truth, and expression be asked to mature or expand this year?

4 O’CLOCK — FOUNDATION & HOME

Question:
What needs stabilizing, healing, or redefining in my inner and outer foundations?

5 O’CLOCK — CREATIVITY & PLEASURE

Question:
Where is joy, play, sensuality, or creative flow meant to be reclaimed?

6 O’CLOCK — WORK, SERVICE & DAILY RHYTHMS

Question:
How should I align my habits, work, and daily devotion to support my highest good?

7 O’CLOCK — RELATIONSHIPS & MIRRORS

Question:
What will relationships teach me about reciprocity, boundaries, and sacred exchange?

8 O’CLOCK — POWER, MONEY & TRANSFORMATION

Question:
How will I be asked to transform my relationship with power, resources, or control?

9 O’CLOCK — EXPANSION & BELIEF

Question:
What new philosophies, spiritual truths, or perspectives are opening for me?

10 O’CLOCK — PURPOSE & VISIBILITY

Question:
How am I meant to be seen, recognized, or stepped forward this year?

11 O’CLOCK — COMMUNITY & FUTURE VISION

Question:
What alliances, communities, or long-term dreams are being activated?

12 O’CLOCK — CLOSURE, REST & SPIRIT

Question:
What must be surrendered, healed, or completed to fully receive this year’s gifts?

🌙 CLOSING INVOCATION — Sealing the Year

(After all 12 cards are revealed. Hands resting on the deck or heart.)

I receive what has been shown.
I trust what has been illuminated.

I release the need to control how this year unfolds, and I commit to walking with it consciously—meeting each lesson as an initiation, each blessing as a responsibility, each challenge as an invitation to rise in wisdom.

I honor the timing of my life.
I honor the pauses as much as the movement.
I honor the becoming as much as the arrival.

May the clarity from this reading integrate gently into my days.
May I remember these messages when choices are required of me.
May I return to this clock not to doubt myself, but to witness my growth.

I seal this Soular Return with gratitude—
for protection, for guidance, for the unseen support surrounding me now.

As above, so within.
As within, so embodied.
As embodied, so lived.

This year is claimed.
This path is mine.
This chapter is opened with intention.

And so it is.

🌙 SOULAR RETURN — YEAR INTEGRATION JOURNAL

Date:
Age / Soular Year:
Location / Setting:

✨ FIRST IMPRESSION — THE YEAR’S VOICE

Before analysis, let the body speak.

• What was my immediate emotional response to this reading?
• Which card felt the most alive, heavy, or illuminating?
• What surprised me?

Free write without editing.

🕰 THE CLOCK AS A LIVING BODY

Imagine this year as a body I am learning to inhabit.

• Where in my physical body did I feel expansion during this reading?
• Where did I feel contraction, resistance, or pause?
• What does my body want me to remember about pacing this year?

🔑 REPEATING THEMES & SYMBOLS

Patterns are portals.

• What symbols, numbers, or archetypes appeared more than once?
• Which suits or Major Arcana dominated the clock?
• What does this repetition reveal about my soul’s focus?

🌱 EMBODIMENT INTENTIONS (3 ANCHORS)

Rather than resolutions, I choose anchors.

This year, I commit to embodying:
I release the pattern of:
I devote myself to protecting:

(Let these be states of being, not tasks.)

🪞 RELATIONSHIP WITH TIME

This year asks for a new rhythm.

• Where am I being asked to slow down?
• Where am I being invited to trust momentum?
• What does “right timing” feel like in my body?

🕯 SOULAR AGREEMENT

Write this as a vow to yourself.

This year, I agree to:

When I forget, I will return to:

🌙 INTEGRATION PRACTICE

Choose one way you will revisit this reading.

☐ Re-read at Quarter Moons
☐ Pull one card monthly to sit beside the clock
☐ Journal with the year’s theme on my birthday month
☐ Speak my Soular Agreement aloud weekly
☐ Other ritual: ______________________________

✨ CLOSING AFFIRMATION

Write a sentence that seals the year.

“This year, I walk forward as…”

(Place your hand over your heart. Breathe. Close the journal slowly.)

Yes. Below is a copy-ready set of MONTHLY REFLECTION PROMPTS that correspond directly to each position on the Soular Return Tarot Clock.
These are written in TT by Tiana Taylor × Intuitive Ti tone—embodied, devotional, sovereign, and cyclical rather than performative.

Use one month per clock number, revisiting the card you pulled at that position as your anchor.

🕰 SOULAR RETURN — MONTHLY CLOCK REFLECTIONS

MONTH 1 — THEME OF THE YEAR (1 O’CLOCK)

Focus: Soul lesson & initiation

• How has the overarching theme of this year already begun to reveal itself?
• Where am I being asked to set the tone, not rush the outcome?
• What intention feels most alive to carry forward?

MONTH 2 — SELF & IDENTITY (2 O’CLOCK)

Focus: Becoming

• In what ways is my identity shifting or softening?
• Where am I honoring who I am now, not who I used to be?
• What parts of myself want to be seen and named this month?

MONTH 3 — COMMUNICATION & EXPRESSION (3 O’CLOCK)

Focus: Voice & truth

• How am I expressing my truth with more clarity or courage?
• Where am I still editing myself out of safety or habit?
• What conversation—internal or external—wants my attention?

MONTH 4 — FOUNDATION & HOME (4 O’CLOCK)

Focus: Stability & safety

• What has grounded me this month?
• Where does my nervous system feel supported—or depleted?
• How can I tend to my inner home with more care?

MONTH 5 — CREATIVITY & PLEASURE (5 O’CLOCK)

Focus: Joy & life force

• Where did pleasure show up naturally this month?
• What did I allow myself to enjoy without justification?
• How does joy inform my vitality moving forward?

MONTH 6 — WORK, SERVICE & DAILY RHYTHMS (6 O’CLOCK)

Focus: Devotion & discipline

• What habits supported me—and which drained me?
• How aligned did my daily rhythm feel with my energy?
• Where can I work with myself instead of against myself?

MONTH 7 — RELATIONSHIPS & MIRRORS (7 O’CLOCK)

Focus: Reciprocity

• What did relationships reveal to me about my boundaries?
• Where did I experience mutual exchange—and where did I overextend?
• What kind of connection am I now choosing to cultivate?

MONTH 8 — POWER, MONEY & TRANSFORMATION (8 O’CLOCK)

Focus: Sovereignty

• How did I relate to power, control, or resources this month?
• Where did I claim authority—and where did I give it away?
• What transformation feels underway beneath the surface?

MONTH 9 — EXPANSION & BELIEF (9 O’CLOCK)

Focus: Meaning & perspective

• What belief or worldview shifted for me this month?
• Where did I stretch beyond what felt familiar?
• What truth am I integrating into my lived experience?

MONTH 10 — PURPOSE & VISIBILITY (10 O’CLOCK)

Focus: Alignment & recognition

• Where was I asked to be seen, heard, or acknowledged?
• How did I respond to visibility or responsibility?
• What does purposeful expression look like for me now?

MONTH 11 — COMMUNITY & FUTURE VISION (11 O’CLOCK)

Focus: Legacy & connection

• What community or collaboration felt aligned?
• What future vision feels closer, clearer, or more embodied?
• Who or what is walking with me into what’s next?

MONTH 12 — CLOSURE, REST & SPIRIT (12 O’CLOCK)

Focus: Completion & integration

• What is ready to be honored and released?
• How has this year changed me at the soul level?
• What wisdom am I carrying into the next cycle?

🌙 OPTIONAL MONTHLY CLOSING PROMPT

Use at the end of each month:

“This month taught me…”
“This month asked me to…”
“This month prepared me for…”