How have you been experiencing the start of 2026 so far?

Any subtle energetic shifts you notice or do you sense a different undercurrent in the air?

We are still in the influence of the Full Wolf Supermoon in Cancer, so it wouldn’t be strange to feel a jolt of emotional intensity or resurgence of old wounds.

There is always the power of choice in our hands to move us through the other side of the feelings that arise. Energy innately moves. To get stuck is an invitation to open and soften even more.

Self nurturing and emotional caretaking may be calling to your heart extra right now. And perhaps you might even be pondering your own personal needs more than usual, and how that plays out in terms of external pressures or pleasing others you’ve been more used to doing in your relationships.

I think many people feel like they need to rush out and get going on accomplishing things when the start of a new year begins, but perhaps Winter’s wisdom is more telling than an accepted idea we think we need to follow through on.

Deep resting, softness, slowing down, and tending to the callings within are highlighted now, even though our egos might think we should be doing a lot more.

The start of the year offers stillness for us to move more into the spaciousness of breath and feeling. It’s easy to get caught up in heady things, alone, and forget the body’s natural wisdom, the feelings’ natural rhythm, and the spirit’s deeper knowing. While we’re all different and have unique strengths, we do still all share a human experience and living in ideas alone can be limiting to the breadth of possibility that spirit in flesh gifts us.

That’s not to say you might begin something that’s been calling to your heart or feel more inspired with forward momentum on a halted project at this time. It’s just a whisper that the energy of the season is steady and deliberate, with progress percolating in the background and attraction taking place as frequencies clarify in the surrender.

Being gentle with ourselves will actually support longevity of intentions, as well as align us with opportunity and flow.

Over the years, this approach has proven supportive for me and effective with intentions. And right now long sleep and lingering-in-bed mornings, taking things slowly, and exploring new depths of my heart feel good to my body and soul.

In the meantime, Christmas brought a wonderful storm that made it enticing enough for us to venture onto the slopes for the first time this season, despite it being a holiday weekend.

So, after our time away at my parent’s house, we got on the mountain and got in three consecutive days of really great skiing. The snow was my kind perfection to make it enjoyable with sunshiny days.

I realized that I finally have that muscle memory with skiing, which is a huge shift for me given my late bloomer learning with this activity. That feels like a milestone and breakthrough. I also noted that I instinctively was applying a new step of training to my skiing. Each year I seem to organically add on elements that I’ve seen or learned from Dave, when I’ve been ready for them. The good snow added to my confidence to intuitively put it in action.

After that last storm system the weather shifted to a mix of sunny and some cloudy and rainy days, but we’re now getting hit with another storm.

And as you can see, the landscape is back to that Winter Wonderland I love so much.

It brought over a foot at our altitude…much more up top. Days of good skiing call, with ongoing white blankets continuing to spread across the mountains, as the snow faeries enjoy their season.

Our Christmas gift to ourselves was an upgrade of redecorating our living space with colorful chairs, replacing an inner theme that used to match the winter landscape. Eight years of use and animals was a motivating factor that fueled an underlying shift in energy to reflect the changes and expansion our lives have moved into. So the new living and dining room chairs are full of color and unique style, complementing our orange couches and vibrant creative spark we each individually and together are experiencing.

A refresh can support the changes in your life that you are making. Decorating, moving around furniture, doing a wardrobe update, trying different color combos or new styles, getting a haircut, organizing, and cleaning out are all powerful ways to move energy.

Since our recent trips, Dave and I had an igniting of truest heart callings emerge in our own ways.

We are both experiencing the outflow of inner passions and creativity that want to be expressed (for me also an added layer of soul calling), which has our days filled with a new combo of our individual joys mixed with an uptick of self care and exercise (including some shared dance classes), while we look toward the year ahead and where we feel called to journey.

There’s an extra deepening and softening taking place that feels to be guided by the needs of seeds that have been awaiting the right fertilizer and alignment to emerge. This is similar to the cicada who can take 13 to 17 years to start a life cycle anew.

Is anyone else experiencing the readiness for new layers of yourself to emerge and a surge of joy and love on a new level you didn’t know was waiting beneath it all?

It reminds me of Astrid and how she waited at the rescue for those years to be seen and adopted. She had been there one of the longest, passed up because only certain parts of herself were revealed and others she protected until the right alignment took place. The alchemy of our hearts merging and my supporting who she really was to go bigger then ignited her own cicada birthing.

And now I’m feeling nostalgic, but grateful for this moment reflecting on that connection with her.

Meanwhile, in the stillness, I’ve been exploring what the next couple of years of my life might look like and establishing what is both most important to me and integral to my soul in human body at this time on Earth. Voicing these to ourselves and our loved ones is important too. I can see clearly which patterns are now at a tipping point and recognize which pieces are key to finally step into in order to fully activate the rest. Some things are a segue for others to light up, and when done in sequence are like keycodes to unlock them.

What I keep seeing is the main blueprints of my/our spirit/s in flesh finally making sense at this time. And when I/we remain open, nonjudgmental, and trusting, I’ll/we’ll recognize the path on the map with greater understanding and readiness for what it takes to get to the treasure.

I am personally finding this much easier now than before because obstructions have been either removed or recognized and courage of the heart is an old friend rather than a stranger. So even if something seems scary and results are unseen or not fully understood right now, there is a far greater knowing pulsing in every fiber of my being that says, “yes.”

Are any of you feeling similarly with something that is showing up in your life now?

Or are there awakening parts that you might have just accepted as who you thought you were without them, but now know is who you really are with them?

I’m finding that the true reflection of our essence can find an easier way to us now and it will happen organically without having to go after it or logic out how to make it happen.

It’s magnetic.

I’ll share more about how things have been evolving in this vein for me, soon.

We don’t need to have confirmations, yet they are there for support if you are open to receiving them.

I’ve had my share of them as we moved from one year to the next while I’ve been contemplating things.

I haven’t done a tarot reading for a long time, but felt called to do one on Christmas night for myself and it was extremely potent – a five card spread that was so on point and clear to all I have been flowing with and feeling that it literally blew me away and underscored my trust in the messages I’ve been following.

Then on the night of the 30th, while sitting in the jacuzzi by moonlight, an owl started hooting incessantly from a nearby tree. This took place literally right after a major conversation that I could feel hinging within between a very key soul path choice. Trust and courage were highlighted and owl was not going to stop messaging me to listen to my inner voice about the transition at hand – protection is all around. It’s very rare we hear owls, so this one’s timing was uncanny and deliberate, not to mention a voice of cosmic alignment.

Then on New Year’s eve night, after closing out the year with some cleaning out and endings, I did a big energy ritual combined with a reiki healing attunement for everything I feel called to for the year ahead. It felt really empowering and clear.

The next day, on 1/1/1 (2026: 2+2+6 = 10 or 1), an energy breakthrough directly linked to my intentions took place in a surprising way. I also solidly anchored in a decision with full trust, first step action.

Things can change fast. They can also still seem scary and uncomfortable, but with vulnerability an innovative door opens where it might otherwise have seemed impossibly closed. There’s no need to rush into things, however. This is still a time to let things ruminate and explore all possibilities before deciding which feels most aligned.

There’s never a need to jump at the first opportunity. More will come and each time you may discover how much more fulfilling some are than others when you wait with empowered trust.

Also, the way things look now, or look when you first make a decision, won’t necessarily stay that way. Things evolve once energy starts moving.

I am leaning into where the energy feels most fluid and offers most expansive growth potential. Then, trusting in my ability to make new decisions every step of the way, even if that leads elsewhere. This has been my proven process before, but I’m now putting into motion with a new level of choices that have potential to be more impactful. We are always spiraling into new invitations of expansion.

There’s no wrong in changing your mind or your course. Your sail needs to adjust to and follow the wind in order to catch it just right…and when it does, it propels with grace, ease, and swiftness.

While it might be a new year by the accepted Gregorian/Solar calendar, new beginnings and cycles may be anchored in different ways for each of us like the Lunar calendar, Solar Cycle, Spring Equinox, Galactic, and Cosmic rhythms, to name a few.

Or perhaps, even, simply your own inner heart compass.

It’s no surprise that the above sunrise sky photos emanate with love between the flocked trees and quiet of the Winter landscape, shifting between pink and peach shades of tenderness.

The shift of year is a threshold, but the underlying energy is still one of soft reflection to prepare the way and get yourself unified – as within, so without. Perhaps that’s why resolutions have a harder time anchoring because they aren’t based on internal alignment.

So for me, I’m balancing things between making decisions only on a step-by-step, timely basis, feeling into the energies, not rushing, and keeping on top of the inner truths that keep emerging for me to transmute along the way.

I’m grateful for the inner relationship I’m continuing to cultivate and the support and tools I have available.

How do you navigate choices?

2026 is universally a number one year that starts a brand new nine year cycle for the collective and supports a personal destiny creation focus. But this is also about planting seeds for the years to come and not just about having a go get ’em approach.

What steps can you take now that will create effective momentum?

What personal visions are you interested in manifesting?

There are many roads we can take and many ways to experience them.

For me, one of the important things I ask myself is if something is authentic to who I really am, or if it resembles the idea of what others have painted for who they would rather I be that feeds their insecurities?

I continue deepening trust in myself with being able to control my own energy at its highest amplification I’m capable of in each moment, training in how to be responsible with that and in alignment with universal laws and principles, and not willing to stay small because others aren’t ready for what that means.

We all have a unique journey and way to express our multidimensional selves. May you come to know how all possibilities are open to you.

And speaking of multidimensional possibilities, I did share that a group of crystal cocreators would be offered once we stepped into the new year. I’m sharing them here first with my blog friends, before I share them on my social media platform.

At the link below, you’ll find five (my favorite and magickal number) amazing beings that are ready to assist with much of what I’ve been sharing about, today and recently.

This is a group of incredible ones that I’ve been honored to have along on my journey to assist with the energetic shifts that have been hugely integral in all that has been awakened and is manifesting in my life currently. They have been invaluable to opening up new paths and so their leaving is bitter sweet, yet I know with all of my heart they have a continued mission to be of help to others in similar ways because some have specific callings just like us. So, when I received the nudge at the end of the year that they were preparing to connect with someone else, I listened.

There are two giant Elder Masters, two smaller Celestial Starbeings, and one Multidimensional. Although they all share some crossover qualities, these are their main signature energies. They’ve been with me during recent shifts to anchor in the particular frequencies needed and I can’t thank them enough. May they be powerful activators for the hearts who connect with them.

CRYSTALS & CRYSTAL SKULLS