Note, This is an amalgamation of several pieces and thoughts and posts strung together—I’ve cited work where appropriate.

Welcome to 2026. I want to hit the ground running this year, with feeling and meaning and no more nonsense.  The nonsense of baggage weighing down the steps we need to take because we feel so much of it.  Feeling was great, now it’s time to feel through it.  The feeling is done, it’s time to advance in what the feeling showed us and the lessons that came with it.  Shop Catalog said it perfectly: 2025 taught us what to release, 2026 asks us to move and clarity becomes courage.  The shedding is done, what’s aligned stays and what’s next runs forward.  One year revealed the truth, the next lives it.  And maybe that type of energy is what I’m picking up on because I’m certainly feeling like I’m ready to move on.

This is the year of the horse.  This s a year of application and movement.  There is nothing left to prepare for.  Complete the shedding of all that no longer serves, of all that doesn’t work, of all that doesn’t feel right, and get to work.  It’s an exciting time.  It’s a busy time and it’s an incredibly important time in the way of transformation.  It’s the next step in our personal evolution and it will change everything.    

To expand a bit more, 2025 was the year of the snake which taught us how to shed what no longer fits.  It was a season of quiet clarity—one that asked us to slow down, listen honestly, and recognize where we were living out of habit instead of truth.  The lesson wasn’t about rushing change, but about understanding why it was necessary.  The snake reminded us that growth often happens invisibly, and that letting go is not an ending, but a preparation for what comes next.  The year of the horse brings movement, courage, and forward momentum. Where the snake revealed the truth, the horse asks us to act on it.  To trust our instincts, choose freedom over familiarity and move boldly toward what feels aligned.  This is a year of embodiment and expansion, where clarity turns into action and confidence grows through passion.  The shedding is done, now we run (all via Shop Catalog). 

Golden Alchemist explains further: 2026 is not continuation energy, this is restart energy. 2026 is a numerology 1 year and it’s a horse year and this is exactly what happens when destiny wants motion again.  Horse energy is momentum, one energy is rebirth.  This is why 2025 felt like a hallway.  You weren’t stuck, you were being positioned.  Horse years do not move slowly.  They break stagnation, they return passion to the body.  The one year does not ask who you were it asks who you’re willing to become and who you’re becoming.  This is the timeline where your confidence returns, your voice returns.  You become more charismatic, everything starts to line up perfectly for you. The horse doesn’t sprint to escape, it sprints to find freedom. So the 2026 energy is not subtle, it’s like taking your first breath after you’ve been holding your breath for so long.  The fact is you’re not preparing anymore, you’re becoming.  And the horse year aligning with numerology number one year is a perfect synchronicity to start something year.  Because this is the year you’re cultivating a brand new identity you get to decide who you want to be starting this brand new nine year cycle.

That being said: Let’s get it.