New Years as a Collective Manifestation
Hope that you all had a restful and enjoyable time to end the 2025 calendar year. While the 31st of December and the 1st of January don’t truly have any astrological significance, that doesn’t detract from their power.
Humanity and the systems we work within are powerfully influenced by the calendar year. Whether we love it or loathe it, there is a global economy. This system needs structure in order to keep things organized and functional. When that year ends, something changes within that system and is rebooted. Unless we are living off the grid, we are working within that system, and it does affect us.
Besides that, all of the collective intention can be felt. Stores closing, people being off of work, family, friends and strangers getting together. Setting off fireworks and toasting with drinks. It’s a collective ceremony. You can nay say all you want about it being a stupid holiday (and maybe it is) but it is powerful and an example of action and intention manifest.
Consider how much focus it requires to avoid the holiday. You’d have to hide away somewhere alone. Even then, you may hear fireworks or car horns. People are powerful and this is one way of using the energy.
Let this realization be a reminder that any day, any moment can be a special one.
All we need to do is work individually and collectively to make it so.
Astrologically Significant New Year
For a more astrologically inclined New Year, look to the
Chinese New Year, February 17th 2026 at the New Moon in Aquarius.
Or, consider the Spring Equinox (first day of Aries) March 20th 2026.
Chiron Direct :: January 2nd – August 3rd 2026
***Chiron will travel from 22°35′ Aries – 0°52′ Taurus***
***Chiron will be in Taurus June 19 – September 17th 2026***
This year, regardless of which one you celebrate, brings in a new sense of reality. In January, there is a sobering effect that I believe prepares us for the rest of the year.
A stunning stellium in Capricorn involves Mercury, Venus, Mars and the Sun. Over the last year, there has been a tension between Jupiter in Cancer and both Chiron and Eris in Aries. The squares between Jupiter in Cancer and Chiron/Eris in Aries exact for the final time in June and July of 2026. This dynamic has seeded some painful and challenging expressions in our world and personal lives. Patterns that have existed for longer than we are conscious are now showing themselves.
One of the great benefits of this time is to STOP being a fool.
Hear me out. Patterns have existed within us since the day we were born. Woundings from our parents, lineage, our soul and our community were imprinted and downloaded directly to this life. Before we had the ability to defend our own psyche, we received the maps for this journey back to wholeness. Chiron takes 50 years to travel 360° around the zodiac. Meanwhile, Eris takes close to 500 years to do the same. The two of them coming together in 2024-2026 is a unique event that won’t be seen for another 60 years. ((The final conjunction occurs @ 25° Aries on March 19th 2026))
This transit brings up the worst of the worst around our individual and collective wounding. Its as if the compost heap is being microwaved. Its enough to have us losing sleep at night. Its enough to have people doing anything that they can to avoid what is coming up. The transit of Chiron with Eris would be enough on its own, however this time Jupiter happens to be squaring both planets from Cancer.
Jupiter not only magnifies and expands the expression and awareness of the Chiron Eris conjunction, but it brings the emotional component to the forefront. Jupiter in Cancer draws emotional memory from past experiences. On its own, we are more sentimental and nostalgic. As the square unfolds, the emotional memory of our souls wounding comes to the fore. This is neither pretty nor easy. In truth, we have worked tirelessly to repress, deny, or rationalize the abuses we have experienced. At the same time, we have excused ourselves of ‘less than desirable’ activities. Not because we thought they were okay to do, but because, for whatever reason, we couldn’t handle the burden of responsibility. We have all been there, getting ourselves in too deep to a lie or a sticky situation. At some point, we can’t carry it so we just tell ourselves it’s okay. We make up reasons why it happened.
It is challenging to recognize that, with truth and exposure, all wounds can heal. We fear the punishment that looms, everyday that pressure grows. All of us have some skeletons hiding in our closet. Chiron and Eris are emboldening the skeletons, giving them fiery flesh. Jupiter is enlivening them and melting the closet doors. They can’t be held in anymore.
This is where we stop being foolish. We have fooled ourselves. We either believe that the abuses we experienced are okay and lower our self value, or we deny our own wrongdoings and shackle ourselves to a delusional reality. Whatever side you are on, it’s time for all of that to end. Through confronting and accepting what has happened, we breathe life, light, and space into the wounds.
Healing Takes Time
These woundings aren’t quick to heal and will require subsequent cleansing. This may look like repeated expressions of one’s truth. Actions to make up for wrongdoings. Sessions with a counselor or medicine work. If the mind and emotions are holding toxic material, the body will as well.
As repressed memories and suppressed information rises to the surface we confront shocking realities. Carrying a lie is difficult on the system. When we have been doing it for decades, the body sacrifices its vitality and carves out a little space to hold it. These spaces lack energy flow and nutrition. No matter how much fasting, exercise, meditation and good deeds we do… if we are lying to ourselves, some portion of us will be diseased.
At this crucial junction of healing and self awareness, remember that your body will need extra loving care. We will find extra sensitivity within our immune systems. This can look like allergies, immune conditions, pain in the body, organ disruption, challenges with regularity, headaches, etc. Know that, what is good is good. Sunlight, fresh air, spring water, peace, meditation, fresh fruit and self expression will heal you. Medicinal interventions are designed to mask and hide symptoms. They may be good in a pinch, but long term will make these healing times more disruptive and challenging. Being diagnosed would be a mistake during this time. At heightened levels of sensitivity, a diagnosis can keep us stuck in what should be a temporary patterns.
Every message from your body is a divinely inspired one.
Above all else, remember to rest
Exhaustion comes in stages, so notice the signs. If you feel you can’t handle the pressures, reduce what is needed and required of you. Living with less is actually more. Reducing consumption and busy-ness isn’t about suffering. It is about freeing ourselves to experience more richness in every moment. Ask for help. Obligatory participation is killing us. If you don’t want to do it, consider saying NO as a first option.
We will never heal our inner wounds through appeasing others.
As Chiron gets moving, we are preparing to face the deeper energies from which, we may have been given a little break. Hopefully you’ve found peace with others and especially yourself over the last few months. There is more to confront about the ‘ugliness’ in the world. We are supported by cosmic guides, ancestors and the Earth. Stay strong and keep going. Let go of the substances that only lower your vibration, you’ll be better of for it.
We are all Healers
These cosmic energies can be quite polarizing. How much do we actually want to change? How willing are we to sacrifice comfort and ego attachment? What stage are we at in our lives?
We aren’t all on the same page and we certainly won’t all agree about how to move forward. Some of us want to fight vehemently against the organization and centralization of power. We seek to be rugged individualists and trust that, through it all, we can negotiate peace and progress. Others desire for there to be leaders that do this for us. They seek further regulation as a means for creating peace.
This can be applied to everything from government, to health, to religion…
The disagreements will never end. Ideally, however, we end up in a system where disagreements are treated as opportunities. Lord knows in my friendships, marriage and business that has been the truth. The greatest growth has come through tension that is acknowledged, discussed and resolved. My life has never improved because I destroyed something I disagree with. When I have taken this route, I have found that I feel sick, paranoid, cold and alone. Being stubborn and close minded is a self perpetuating cycle. Please be careful with how much you ‘agree’ with or ‘disagree’ with a movement. Be an individual, even if you support collective action.
As I observe the unfolding Cosmic energies, I can’t help but to consider the best route forward. Here is what I have come up with…
Choose your Experience
As tensions rise and people confront difficult realities, we must have a personal identity. Otherwise, we will get wrapped up in the collective unconscious. Identifying with the outer world is not always done from individual beliefs and personal volition. More often than not, it is a spilling of ones vital energy into someone else’s movement. It feels good because we don’t have to take full responsibility. Knowing that there is a ‘team’ or ‘community’ for us is very comforting. The problem with this approach, however, is that there must be an enemy or combatant for this to be effective long term.
The disempowered self loathing energy becomes part of the ethos of these left/right right/wrong dynamics. Before too long, each side projects their insecurities and darkness onto each other. Frustrated with the inefficacy of them versus us politics, people lash out. The time of affiliations is over, whether you know it or not. Identifying oneself at the cost of separation from others is a losers game. We only need to show that ‘we are a good person’ to the world when we don’t feel like a good person. Instead of signalling your virtue to the world, meditate upon why you don’t feel good without doing so. That’s how you can truly help the collective.
We will need people who are centered. Above all else, that is what it comes down to. While defending others can be important in times of need, ideally we foster an environment where people defend themselves. A space where personal empowerment comes via self acceptance. I’m not against being an ally for others, quite the contrary. However this part is easy and there are plenty of people willing to do so. Balance can be struck through becoming so centered in yourself that you do not fall prey to the predatory actions of the power structure.
If we need to fight for someone else to feel valid, we may be projecting our own self worth deficiencies onto them.
Find a way to state your YES with everything that you do. Far too often, human beings allow their lives to be chosen for them. What they think, see, eat and do is just a choice from a pre determined set of options. What would it be like to truly choose your life? I ask that of myself, of everyone?
Instead of looking at the pre manicured world as a series of options, we can look at as routes towards experience. Use what you see to blaze your own trail. The more options we unlock, the more options are available to the collective. Let’s do it all, so we can all share our unique gifts.
Leaves get trapped in the gutters after they die, while alive they reach for the Sun.
Bringing life strength and life to the tree.
Are you interested in how 2026 lines up for you astrologically?
There are many fascinating transits this year that will have each of us shaking our heads and seeing new possibilities for reality. Within the Natal Chart, there are keys to understanding and preparing for this journey.
We each have a key role to play and that starts with self awareness.
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