There comes a moment when the yearning for a home grows louder than the need for square footage or designer tiles. It stops being about real estate and starts becoming a soul-deep longing to belong. To exhale. To just be.
As I prepare to buy a house, I reflect on what “home” truly means. For those of us on a spiritual path, home is sacred. It’s not just a shelter — it’s a container for your joy, grief, healing, and dreams. It’s the one place where you can take off the masks, lay down your burdens, and breathe in your truth.
I’m reminded of my twenties, when I lived with my parents in Delhi. Every evening, I would light a candle in my room and place it beside my Tarot deck. It became a sacred ritual, a way to call myself back home. Even when life took me to faraway lands — the US, Canada, Finland — I carried that ritual with me. No matter how unfamiliar the city, that little flame always made the space feel like mine. It wasn’t the size of the room that mattered — it was the stillness it offered after long, chaotic days. That light became my anchor. The Tarot? My quiet confidante, my compass, my soul family.
Today, as a mother, my home has transformed yet again. It’s in the sound of my daughters’ giggles echoing through the house. It’s in the coffee that’s always brewing, and in Tarot cards resting beside bedtime storybooks. It’s not always quiet or picture-perfect, but it’s brimming with life and love.
As Machine Gun Kelly sings in Home: “A place where I can go / To take this off my shoulders / Someone take me home.” Those words echo a timeless truth — that we’re not looking for a location, but for liberation. A place that welcomes your chaos and asks only for your presence.
My dear readers, buying a house is a milestone. But making a home? That’s a soul mission. And when you find it — whether it’s a mountain hut, a studio flat, or a candlelit corner with your cards and crystals — you’ll know.
You’ve come home not just in the world, but to yourself.
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”— Maya Angelou
Written by Maanya Kohli, one of India’s most trusted Tarot readers and founder of Lady of Tarot.
