I would invite you to look back upon 2025 and ask yourself, Where have I grown the most.
2025 has been dominated by instability, and you may feel that this has thwarted your growth, yet all instability is the transition between states and you have developed new muscles to keep your balance through the year.
These chinks of light are the clues to your growth and where life will take you next.
The dominant theme of 2025 has been the rise of the self. As we complete the final year of a 9-year cycle, there is always a scrappy feel that comes before the calm. I liken it to those last few boxes when you are moving house that seem to fill with the most random bits and pieces that don’t naturally fit anywhere else. The temptation is to feel they are junk and the risk is they will never get unpacked, but within the rag tag assortment are clues to your future direction. 2026 will ask you to look at these more closely and decide where they fit in your life.
From 2025 into 2026
If 2025 was the rise of the self, 2026 is the restoration of individual power. This is the biggest theme of the year.
As we navigate choppy collective waters encountering situations, actions and opinions we do not want to experience we can feel powerless in the rising swell. Collective hope and the waves it bears us upon are not made by the top of the wave but by the swell beneath. As water moves across the land, the land asks it to rise. The biggest waves come from the deepest asks.
Individual realisation of passion, purpose, self-acceptance are the land which brings hope to the surface. The light of hope is within the individuals of the world and the communities of the future will form around the arising truth of being within individuals.
None of this is accidental or happenstance. The rise of individual power is conscious awareness and choice. There is work underpinning this and 2025 laid the foundations.
In 2026, clarity will define your experience of the energetic pulls.
Who you are
What you believe in
Where you want to go and what you want to create
What brings you happiness at any level
Clarity will guide you through the energetics of 2026.
The year will ask more than this though.
It will ask you to believe in yourself and your path and act accordingly. Boldness is an undercurrent that will emerge repeatedly.
2026 is not a blip, it is a change of course. The changes we make this year are for the long term; clarity will ensure you are able to move forward without hesitation.
Clarity is a soul move. It emerges from the freedom you give yourself to be yourself and is shaped through your self-acceptance and self-belief.
Background & Context
2025 marked a nine-year in the numerology cycle. It is the wrapping up of energies, actions and consequences.
2026 is a one-year. A one year is a new beginning, asking you to embrace the vision you can feel but which may be unseen by others. This may feel particularly challenging to hold on to; life may knock the wind out of you, but it is the strength of vision and conviction to follow that defines the shape of the nine-year cycle. Internal mastery will be called for at a whole new level. (2026 Numerology Overview)
Astrologically, there are some really big changes afoot in 2026. We are still grappling with Pluto in Aquarius. Many of our outer planets will be moving into fire and air signs which will change how we see and respond to our place in the world. Fire and air can be impetuous, hence the need for internal mastery and deep roots in your values and sense of self.
The last time Saturn and Neptune were in a fire sign (Sagittarius), the Berlin Wall fell. This time they will be 0° Aries. This will not be a time for destruction but creation with leaders emerging into action.
Collective consciousness will experience some dramatic shifts through 2026 and beyond. This will not emerge from our established leadership but from the leaders of self, vision and hope.
The last few years have seen increasing polarisation and division in our collective airwaves. The ability to acknowledge and accept differences has been eroded.
The resulting lack of self-compassion and rigidity has challenged the ability to grow and we will all have to find our softer sides and self-compassion to navigate a world of balance.
The shifting consciousness will destabilise political structures and we can expect to see some impetuous reactions. We can also expect to see the collective holding leaders to account and demanding change from the ground up.
This will be a process and probably not a smooth one but the reins of power are changing hands inch by inch. It is more important than ever to come back to your core and be certain who you are and what you want to create in the world.
As we enter the energies of 2026, we can choose to take the opportunities open to us or not. It is always a choice.
2026 Themes
Restoration of Power
The biggest theme is centred in aether. Aether is the cohesion of parts to form a whole. Elementally the combination of earth, air, fire and water in unique blends creates individual energies of expression – this is aether. It is the whole and this is the overriding theme – coming back to wholeness in self.
This will depend on the willingness and ability to take the truths, values and beliefs that matter – from all directions – and blend them.
To be whole, we cannot be partisan or polarised because wholeness balances. The fear of the dark, shadow or simple lack of light is ingrained in our collective psyche yet it is where the more expansive part of self emerges from. The deeply mystical, intuitive aspects of soul do not come from out there but from within. The light originates and emanates from the darkness – inner and under worlds.
The restoration of individual power, which has been wrested from so many for so long – is not founded on rebellion but on the acknowledgement that no one can take it from you. Collective consciousness shifts by degrees. Each person who comes back to themselves dissolves polarity and division little by little and the tide turns.
In 2026, purpose and passion will take centre stage. Boldness and conviction will surge as the determination to make long-term changes of course rises. This is the beginning of a new experience of life that will flow far beyond 2026.
The rhythm of the year is surprisingly gentle given the profundity of transformation that is in the air.
Balance
The main energetic points flow through air and fire energies before holding in water for a while. Although the key experiences of the year are in the outer expression of air and fire, this is balanced by a pull towards the energies of earth and water.
The energetic points flow in a slow-paced clockwise direction, yet there is a repeated pull of fast-paced anti-clockwise energy. There will be a number of cycles of the energy moving anti-clockwise into the centre, before pivoting into clockwise energy.
This reflects the cycles of growing self-confidence and conviction that will build through the year. As the energy flows anti-clockwise into the centre it will unlock more light to be expressed through the clockwise flow. By going into the depths, the amount of light will be amplified.
This cycle may repeat 3 or 4 times throughout the year. In a 24-hour day of non-stop productivity, this cycle may feel uncomfortable and challenging.
Energetically, this process is a resourcing. As the energy flows inwards, it connects to more light, this then flows back out into expression; each cycle building on the last.
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The Dark Phoenix
The light that shines is not absorbed, but emerges from within. Radiance, by definition, moves out from a centre point. That centre point is your soul energy and it is brighter when it is connected to passion and purpose because this allows it to flow into expression.
The phoenix is reborn from the fire within, not without.
The cycles of 2026 will feel like rebirth, if the energy that guides comes from within. Otherwise, it will feel like destruction.
Regardless of what it feels like, transformation will follow.
Discerning The Notes
I started this overview of themes by referencing the importance of aether. Aether is the quiet centre point that dominates. We all need stillness and quiet for discernment.
In the coming year, the need for discernment will rise to help you navigate a polarised external world. Within the cacophony are the notes that are in harmony with your centre, the ones that will help you move forward with clarity and focus.
Listen for something different within the noises that is unfamiliar to the norms but distinct. Imagine for a moment sitting outside listening to the wind in the trees, the birds, the river and more. Something within this mosaic will stand out to you and draw your attention. This is the practice of discernment – that which stands out to you is the clue to what you need to express.
Nature Connection
Where will we find this stillness? Within the natural world.
From quietly witnessing the elements flow between states, to time sitting with nature to hear the notes that do not exist, yet, within the world but are meant to come into expression through you. Nature connection will help to restore the sense of belonging to life that is so essential to navigating the energies of the year.
The earth is the starting point of the energies of expression, to understand yourself you will benefit from understanding yourself within nature.
It may feel like finding a needle in a haystack but this is no blind quest – it is there for you to find.
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Business Themes
The energetic influences will play out in business in a number of ways that will affect you, how you operate and what your clients are looking for.
Business is always impacted by collective consciousness. It is important for you to be proactive to the changes to avoid constantly being on the backfoot – a very uncomfortable place to be in business. More importantly moving with the energy offers you an edge in terms of growth.
Shifting Energy Expectations
For many years now, spiritual coaches have traded on creating spaces where you, as a client, get to be in their energy and benefit from this by absorbing their success. This has created dependency and a hamster wheel of investment to sustain momentum.
The shift to internal awareness and the restoration of individual power will upend this dynamic. Clients will be looking to tap into their own energy and create their solutions from there. They won’t want the playbooks and scripts; they want their magic to be unlocked. Your energy is a catalyst for their change.
Positioning your work as a way to access their unique solution gives them freedom to grow on their own terms. In this respect, it becomes more about the how transformation is activated rather than what that transformation is. Your process is the framework they are looking for, not the result you think they want. The pathway to transformation is your golden thread others will seek out.
This represents a shift from experts to partnerships of discovery. Connection is critical because it allows expertise to be tailored to circumstance and energy.
This shift will continue to reshape the landscape of content and you can be at the forefront of this by moving with the energy and being a shaper of the landscape.
The other way the guru model will shift is in how much the collective values external “expertise” over their own lived experience. For a very long time, personal experience and wisdom has been diminished as unproven and not valuable but that is slipping now. What we have experienced and our interpretations of it have prepared us for living through the lens of our own experience, learning the lessons and adjusting course as needed. Self-responsibility for growth and internal mastery are on the rise.
You can’t out-guru this. Your expertise does not trump experience, but it can help to shape the next steps. Partnership in transformation is a different kind of model that will leave many experts scrambling, while those who naturally seek out collaborative relationships will thrive.
Self-Leadership as a Model
In times of chaos and uncertainty, you can choose to look for others who have the calm you aspire to or you can find it in yourself.
As an entrepreneur, self-leadership is a pivotal choice. Calm centredness, without egotism, is attractive and magnetic in a confused world.
Choosing to lead yourself creates a reality that others aspire to and offers hope that their vision is also real.
Self-leadership begins with listening – not out there but to your inner voice. This year you will need to hone your listening skills to discern what you want from what you feel you have to do.
Many entrepreneurs have silenced their inner voice because it whispered that the path was not the right one while the noise roared what must be done to achieve success. Listening is an act of courage that leads to the reshaping of your business to reflect who you really are and are choosing to become.
Then take what you know and apply it to what you do.
Uphold your values. The minute you erode your values you erode your foundation. Build on 2025 by weaving your values into your actions on every level, make them a framework of operation not just an ideal.
Choose what you want to create and how you want to create it. Don’t deviate from your course but do adapt to circumstances. This is a primary leadership quality.
Patterns & Notes
All frequencies behave in unique ways and flow into unique expressions through form. Business is grounded in this patterning.
Your inner listening creates the space to listen to the frequencies in your business and discern the tone of action.
This year, make use of your time in nature to relearn the patterning of your soul and find your focus. Nature restores creative expression whenever you spend intentional time exploring these patterns. Each tree, plant, rock, bird, insect … they follow their patterns and create within their communities. Observation leads to recognition of our own patterns so that we can follow our soul.
There are simple lessons and examples we can take and apply to our lives and work for more vitality.
This clarity of action will help your clients to understand how you can help them beyond the specifics of the work you do together. It will show them the state of being they will find and this is ultimately what they are seeking. Quiet presence and modelling through your own intentional focus is a long-term strategy for success.
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Bold Action
There have been times in years past when we all needed to step back and experience the energy but 2026 is not one of those years. The experience of the energy needs to lead to action.
Not impulsive action but considered action.
The cycles of inward and outward energy are like a breath. The inhalation is the moment before action and the exhalation is the flow into response.
Focus your intention and flow it into action.
One of the most powerful acts for you and your business is to speak your vision and speak it into reality.
Take some time to clarify your vision by listening to your inner voice and be bold about what you believe you can achieve. Remember that what you start in 2026 you will see through – this is the beginning. It can be tempting to hold back when you don’t have all the pieces or answers, but you will discover these through the action you take.
Be bold and decisive ensuring the impetus is coming from your true patterning. Take all that 2025 has brought to your attention and run with it.
Act on your cues, be bold in your assumptions – this is what your clients will see and feel to guide them out of the chaos.
Cohesion & Clarity
The collective will be seeking clarity through the year. The external turmoil will show up in their lives in different ways that leave them feeling imbalanced. The core transition will be finding balance between inner and outer cohesion and this will be coming into sharper focus through the year. Concepts of wellbeing are likely to broaden as the internal voice gets stronger within individuals.
This will lead to refusing to engage IN the chaos – this is naturally unsettling and unsettled as transitions go but clarifying the flow from inner reality to outer experience will dominate the year.
If you have your ducks in a row and understand how this energy will impact their inner and outer experiences, you will be positioned perfectly to guide them forward.
For you, bring cohesion to your focus. Imagine a pile of threads and pulling just one of them will turn the pile into a coherent shape. There is a golden thread that will help you draw all that you want to do into a whole that you can run with. Inner listening will come to the fore again to help you find the thread that pulls everything together.
Transformation Through Evolution
A long-standing phrase is that you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Yet this is where business has come from with many a snake oil sales person promising to wave a magic wand to remove a problem fairy godmother style.
Transformation is a process, not an act. 2026 will be a year of transformation because it has been brewing for quite some time.
Either there has been building discontent with what is “out there” or a restlessness to take self-responsibility. Either way more and more will stop engaging and start looking within.
This will shift the power base dramatically. Someone with no allegiances to groups or divisions that form hollow communities is dangerous to those in power because they are not controlled. And if those people are able to choose what to listen and respond to from across the spectrum then the power base shifts to the individual.
This will change business dynamics because the underlying “trigger” points of response will change. Instead of relying on psychology, businesses will have to start having real conversations and be prepared to be challenged. The clearer you are on the notes you hold within the noise, the easier you will find it to navigate this dynamic. How we conduct ourselves through our businesses will be in the spotlight and what happens behind the scenes will be just as important as the shiny marketing stories.
Rhythm & Balance
As we move through the year, with the cycles of inward and outward energy our ability to hold a rhythm in balance will be challenged. The pause is a phenomenally challenging period for any entrepreneur conditioned to be externally productive.
Internal time is productive too. It is a resourcing of energy, creativity, connection and conviction that flows into external expression. Relish the pause as a time to recentre and resource yourself. The energy will pivot soon enough, so catch your breath and fill your cup.
Get out into nature to connect to your own rhythm letting the seasons, the weather, spaces guide you into your rhythm. Each time you step outside intentionally you can learn more about how your energy waxes and wanes, what you process and when and how you flip into external energy flows of expression.
Balance is not a constant, it is dynamic. As your energy flows up and down, in and out, you are adjusting your centre of balance and prioritising what you need in the moment. A bow only plays one note in each direction. Harmony evolves from the constant changing directions of travel.
Take the time to open up your awareness of natural rhythm to find your flow.
Capacity
Receiving energy and taking action is a nourishing process. Building a business also requires you, as its leader, to have the capacity to hold a gathering of energy from your clients and audience around your core energy.
This year will test your capacity as you flow into growth. Be aware of your edges and learn how you can stretch them to keep flowing into growth.
Expect to see this theme coming up for your clients and prepare to support them through their own expansion.
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Client Needs
Your clients and community will be experiencing all this energy and it will change how they feel about their needs. Take time to understand their experience and the priorities that are emerging for them. This may shift the emphasis of your message for them.
As they emerge from the chaos, rediscovering their agency, they will learn to tune out of the noise and tune in to what they really want or need.
The outer world will be chaotic, and the need for inner calm will grow.
Clients will need spaciousness in their choices and experiences. Remember that this is new territory for them and it takes some adjusting. Learning to trust yourself when everyone and everything is telling you no is a big ask. Hold the frequency you extend to them unwaveringly so they can find their equilibrium with it. Pushing for a response will not serve them or you – create space and let the energy do the work.
2026 will hold lots of contrasts. Gentleness will balance resolve. Trust will counter flexibility. Your clients will need you to hold the balance while they find their own.
Elemental Framework for Business Development in 2026
2026 begins in air energy. We will move through the influences of air into fire before transitioning into water. Throughout there will be balancing of air with water and fire with earth as the phases of energy shift between the inward and outward cycles.
The general flow of growth in 2026 begins with a deep breath in, like you had been holding your breath and as you breathe in again you realise that your power is returning.
This flows into a plan rooted in purpose and contribution – a vision for the year and beyond.
As the energies shift into fire, action is non-negotiable even if you do not feel ready. You will move forward.
As the energies begin to be influenced by water, the realisation will come that the path you have chosen is possible and YOU can make it work.
As water takes a full hold, a commitment to a long-term change will root – it might be direction, attitude, behaviour… whatever roots for you is set to grow for some time to come.
To make the most of this energetic rhythm, I have broken down your business development focus into the elemental energies. My one-to-one mentoring tackles the full spectrum of elemental business development.
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Air Influences
Air energies are associated with the energetic structures of your business – the thoughts, beliefs and actions that emanate from the energy. These are often quite confronting because they ask you to expand your safety zone and consider what might be possible for you beyond them. This is the element where leadership is honed.
Leadership is centred in the purpose you choose to act upon. Hone your inner listening and tap into the beliefs or patterns that might hold you back. Make a commitment to working on your limits and finding more expansiveness in your approach. This will involve building your mental, emotional and energetic capacity with gentle practices that expand your edges.
Dedicate development time to defining your audience – where are they and what do they need in this changing landscape and adapt your message accordingly.
Fire Influences
Fire energies are associated with the energy body of your business – the outward expression of purpose through action, words and presence. This is a time when you feel both confident and nervous while finding your feet.
This year, the fire energies will zone in on your conviction and how you support yourself to follow through. Bold moves need to be initiated from an upwelling of energy that carries you beyond your safety limits.
Make a plan for getting yourself out there that works for you – remember your energy will be flowing in and out throughout the year. Test out some new ideas and communities to share your message and invite clients into your world. Be creative and experimental to discover what works for you.
Water Influences
Water energies are associated with the entity of your business – the gathering of internal and external energies that build its impact in the world. This is where connection is built both to your inner drive and ability to evolve your business as well as your external connections through your business circles.
This year, water will help you find balance between the internal and external drivers that you can meet with gentle resolve. This energy will help you gather your self, resolve, energy, power and breath to move forward.
With a strong emphasis on intuitive awareness you will find your ability and capacity to move in a new way to achieve the impact you seek.
Water energy is a time of receiving and processing, so make time to step away from your business or into your connections to find what you need to focus your next steps.
Earth Influences
Earth energies are associated with the soul or essence of your business. This is where the purpose, values and culture of your business are established. In 2026, earth energy will create the balance to the outer expression by bringing clarity.
Earth energy flows from within to expression, it resources the outer manifestation of energy. It offers clarity and intention.
Resource yourself and your business by exploring your inner values and how they translate into outer actions. Review your business to understand how and where those values are upheld through your systems and public facing presence. This will help you build your brand on solid foundations and define the culture that sustains your growth.
Summary
Growing your business physically or energetically is always challenging on many levels. Whilst this year will challenge you, it will do so by asking you to find grace and flow in the process.
Your clients and community will be on their own rollercoaster and the more stable you can be, the easier they will find it to move to you.
It won’t be an easy year. There will be a lot of adjustment. But it will be rewarding.
A change in direction will happen through the year which will feel chaotic. Remember to use those periods of inward energy flow to your advantage. Each cycle will look and feel different as it stacks upon the last.
There is scope for much growth this year that comes from within and follows different patterns. Make the space to find your patterns and follow them.
There will come a point or two in the year when you need support and guidance to take your next bold, decisive steps. I invite you to connect at this point to explore how we can work together to get you on your way to success.
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