Happy New Year Everyone! Goodbye 2025 and hello 2026. I have high hopes for 2026. We can all agree 2025 has been quite an insane roller coaster of a ride, to put it mildly.

A Universal 1 Year (2026) is a threshold. It begins a new nine-year story not only for the world, but for each of us. If you imagine the past nine years as a chapter – from 2017 to 2025 – the 1 Year is the moment the next chapter title appears.

The page is blank. The pen is in your hand.

The themes of a 1 Year revolve around emergence: new beginnings, self-leadership, instinct and courage.

And in Chinese Lunar tradition, 2026 is The Year of the Crimson Fire Horse. This year is celebrated for its dynamic energy, symbolizing passion, change, and transformation. Horses represent strength, freedom, and spirited perseverance, and the element of fire magnifies these qualities.

The theme for 2026 is CLEAR. It’s about acceleration. breakthrough and integration.

It is time to step forward with COURAGE!

I share a reading of ‘We Were Made for These Times’ by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

“My Esteemed Ones –

Do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people. You are right in your assessments.

The luster and hubris some have aspired to while endorsing acts so heinous against children, elders, everyday people, the poor, the unguarded, the helpless, is breathtaking.

Yet, I urge you, ask you, gentle you, to please not spend your spirit dry by bewailing these difficult times. Especially do not lose hope. Most particularly because, the fact is that we were made for these times.”

Wishing our listeners, guests, and everyone who contributes to and uplifts #TheEdgeofEverydayPodcast a very Happy New Year!

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