The end to a new beginning
The review of 2025 is important, because this year did not move slowly. It rushed at us with speed and intensity, shaking foundations and exposing fault lines.
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The review of 2025 is important, because this year did not move slowly. It rushed at us with speed and intensity, shaking foundations and exposing fault lines.
THERE is nostalgia in every ending.
Photograph courtesy of Unsplash/Jason Mavrommatis
ARTIFICIAL intelligence rose from tool to presence.
Photograph courtesy of Unsplash/Igor Omilaev
Have you watched the sunset? Day’s end always arrives softly at first. They come like a hush at dusk, when the light thins and memory rises. There is nostalgia in every ending — a gentle ache, a lingering warmth — as if time itself pauses to ask us to look back before we step forward.
This ending, the close of 2025 as we bridge both years, feels especially poignant. It is a crossing between worlds. Perhaps that is why I named this column ‘Bridging Worlds’ — because here we are again, standing at a threshold, one foot still rooted in what has been, the other sensing something entirely new. We are on the precipice of 2026, but before we leap, we must turn around and truly see what 2025 has carried us through.
The review of 2025 is important, because this year did not move slowly. It rushed at us with speed and intensity, shaking foundations and exposing fault lines.
Corruption scandals unfolded across governments and corporations; wars continued and escalated, from Ukraine to Gaza, from unresolved conflicts to newly inflamed geopolitical tensions. Power structures trembled. Institutions once thought immovable revealed their fragility, breaking apart with a finality that spoke of deep unsustainability. Nature screamed in volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, disaster floods. The cosmos was lit by an unknown interstellar object. Veils were torn, illusions shattered, truths pushed into the open whether we were ready or not.
Alongside this unraveling came astonishing expansion.
Artificial intelligence (AI) rose from tool to presence — provoking anxious debates and exhilarating visions of what comes next, even as it may soon enter our bodies. Augmented realities widened our mental, spatial, and imaginative landscapes, blurring the edges between what is physical and what is virtual. Conversations about ETs, UAPs and unexplained phenomena — whatever acronym we choose — moved from the fringe toward the center, forcing open profound questions about consciousness itself. Consciousness not only as human, but as multidimensional, planetary, perhaps even cosmic.
All of this presses upon our belief systems, asking: what do we truly believe now, and what are we willing to let go of now that we have AR/AI/ET?
In this way, 2025 has been both a reckoning and a revelation. It has been a year of endings — of corruptions exposed, systems exhausted and identities that no longer fit. Yet every ending carries the seed of a beginning, and this year demanded not just awareness, but inner work. It asked us to align our central nervous systems with shifting, chaotic energies. To find steadiness while the world convulsed. To develop daily modalities of living that bring balance healing, and release. Breathwork. Meditation. Time in nature. Honest conversations with open hearts. Stillness amid noise. Conscious choices for food, travel and relationships.
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I hope you have emptied yourself of past shadows that once bogged you down. I hope you have released yourselves from old karmas — those repeating patterns that quietly limit our rise. I hope you have moved closer to your authenticity, shedding the masks that once felt necessary but now feel heavy. And I hope, most of all, that you have listened deeply enough to recognize your soul’s destiny path — your evolutionary journey toward being the very best version of who you are, exactly where you stand now.
As you breathe away 2025, remember that this year unfolded under the Chinese sign of the Snake. The snake teaches us shedding—not destruction, but renewal. The old skin must fall away so life can continue. Take stock at this moment. Breathe deeply. What have you outgrown? What no longer serves? What are you finally ready to leave behind?
As you read this, we are under the influence of the first quarter moon and the final new moon of the year, both in the constellation of Sagittarius. Sagittarius is the seeker — the archer who aims beyond the horizon. It is associated with exploration, optimism, big-picture goals, and spiritual inquiry. This lunar moment is potent for setting intentions around growth, adventure, and learning as we cross the time-bridge into a new year. It invites us to lift our gaze, to trust that meaning lies ahead even if the path is not yet clear.
Astrologically, 2026 will arrive under fire and air — elements of movement, ignition and speed. Uranus shifts into Gemini, quickening thought and communication. Jupiter moves into Leo, amplifying creative fire and visibility. Saturn and Neptune enter Aries, demanding courageous beginnings infused with spiritual clarity. Fire and air propel forward motion, and yes, if there is chaos, there may be more chaos — and faster. Volatility may sharpen. But so will possibility. And intention into actualization.
In Chinese astrology, we enter the Year of the Fire Horse — one that does not walk, but gallops. AR, AI and questions of extraterrestrial life (ET) will accelerate at astonishing speed. We may feel breathless at times. Yet the deeper objective remains clear: we are expanding in evolutionary consciousness. The universe itself seems to be urging us onward.
2026 will not wait for us. It asks that we move with the current, trusting the rhythm even when it feels wild. The mystic poet Rumi once wrote, “We are the Universe in ecstatic motion.” Perhaps that is the invitation now — to recognize ourselves not as bystanders to change, but as participants in its dance.
And so we arrive again at the bridge. Behind us, a year of endings, revelations, and shedding. Ahead, a year that calls us to gallop, to risk, to embody who we have become. As the old dissolves and the new gathers momentum, may we step forward with courage, with breath, and with trust — knowing that every true ending is already the beginning we have been waiting for.
(I scheduled my annual 2026 Astrological Trends zoom on10 January 2026. Check the IG and FB of Banahaw Circle Nature Retreat or text to reserve a slot 0962-325-5819)
