Closing Out a Collective 9-Year & Preparing for a New Cycle
Let's break down the numerology of 2025 and 2026.
As we move into the final stretch of 2025, it feels like we’re collectively standing at the end of a long cycle—one that kicked off around 2016—and are being asked to reflect…
What have we learned? What outlived its purpose? What are we ready to bring with us into what’s next, and what needs to stay behind?
In numerology, 2025 is the final chapter of a nine-year cycle.
Nine is about completion, reckoning, healing, and harvesting—the summation of what you started nearly a decade ago. And whether you felt that thread consciously or unconsciously, this last cycle has had a powerful throughline.
When I look back at the pathway we’ve walked since 2016, the theme that echoes most clearly for me is self-love.
In 2016, we were faced with a fork in the road: will we choose ourselves or continue down a path unconsciously chosen through expectation and an identity that we may have outgrown?
Somewhere between 2017–2019, many of us embarked on a path that required us to face our hidden wounds, our innermost fears, and the humbling reminder that perhaps we still have work to do before embodying the version of ourselves that can sustain the life we claim we want.
The years after that called us into the Underworld—an initiation into the deepest shadows of our psyche in order to uncover our unconscious habits, patterns and behaviors that keep us stuck in an unconscious loop of familiar yet disappointing dynamics.
And now, we’re harvesting the fruits of that work: clarity, self-trust, inner sovereignty, and deeper alignment.
This cycle wasn’t about chasing illusionary ideals—it was about coming home to ourselves. And if you’ve survived, learned, expanded, healed—you’ve done sacred work.
So as this “9-year” closes, let’s honor how far we’ve come, and gently thank the parts of us that felt broken, the parts that got bruised, the parts that finally learned what safety feels like—and let them rest.
I love weaving in the Chinese zodiac as another lens for this transition.
Right now (through February 16, 2026) we are in the Wood Snake year. The Wood Snake brings quiet wisdom, introspection, transformation, and the ability to shed old skins. It doesn’t demand loud action—it invites subtle inner work, resourcefulness, and deep alignment.
A time to survey your inner landscape, clear what no longer belongs, and trust the quiet unfolding inside.
And then… just around the corner lies the Fire Horse.
As 2026 begins, this energy promises momentum, outward movement, passion, bold action, and blazing new trails.
We were positioned to let go of whatever is no longer aligned, so that we can run freely without being held back by weight that was never ours to carry.
It feels like the Universe is handing us a clean slate, and once we do the clearing work, we’ll be able to charge forward into the path of the unknown with adventure and deep surrender.
Here are some ways you can honor this shift:
Reflect & Release
Take time (journals, quiet walks, meditation) to look back at the last 9 years.
Which patterns, beliefs, identities or relationships served growth? Which ones kept you small?
Honor Your Evolution
You’ve changed. You’re not the same person you were in 2016. Celebrate your growth. Even small wisdoms, subtle shifts, deep healing—they matter.
Prepare for Forward Motion
Use these last months of Wood Snake energy to rest, align, and center. When Fire Horse kicks in, you’ll be ready to move with intention, grounded in self-love and clarity.
Hold Space for Mystery + Intuition
Cycles don’t always follow linear time. Sometimes healing shows up when a wound finally dissolves, or when a decision becomes clear only after everything slows down. Trust that time and reflection—not force—will reveal what’s next.
Xo