Here we are at the start of a brand new year my dear readers! Welcome to 2026, a fresh clean slate with which to co-create with the universe and our open hearts. 2025 was a year filled with disruptive energies that forced the endings of anything that was not truly in our soul’s alignment. We are moving into a year marked with fire which transforms. 2026 is a Divine number 1 year of new beginnings after a 9 year of endings. The word I’m focusing all of my intentions on is dynamic. An adjective characterized by constant change, activity or progress. A positive attitude full of energy and new ideas.
We are essentially shedding an old skin (year of the snake) and igniting our ancient and authentic self (fire horse). Last year created so much space for the beautifully aligned beginnings to magnetize to our becoming. This fire woman is ready to ride into what is truly meant for me and has my name on it. I’m aiming my Sagittarius arrow at my future with a certainty that flows from inside.
The year of the fire horse doesn’t officially begin until the Chinese new year on February 17th. This powerful fire driven energy is the perfect astrological compliment for a year that will see Saturn and Neptune move into the pioneering sign of the I AM Aries (fire-independent, assertive and strong) as well as Jupiter moving into the fiery and passionate sign of Leo this summer. The fire horse is a brave and strong animal trained to pull fire engines. Ironically, when I began writing this post I was burning some Frankincense resin on charcoal that set off the fire alarm and triggered an immediate response from the local fire department! How’s that for a confirming synchronicity!
After so many endings that stretched and pulled at my heart strings, I’m beginning to feel the roots of my own elemental fire begin igniting creative passions that call in more freedom by taking bold action. Vulnerability is my superpower and my first dynamic creation is a playlist on my YouTube channel called “From the Heart”. My intention is to hold space for others in community who resonate with my story of healing. I will begin hosting weekly zoom chats with an invitation to discuss whatever is on the heart of those who feel they are ready for transformation through shamanic healing.
This community is how Emotional Musings embodies its intention of helping others feel supported, seen and held during their own awakening journey. We are not meant to feel alone during this process. That’s what my vows as a healer are committed to providing since I felt very alone during my darkest hours. From pain to power, I will hold your heart in mine as together, we walk into the Light of love and soul awareness. This is the 8th year I’ve been writing about my own healing and I feel this is a natural progression in which to connect more fully with those who are ready. I will be sharing much more as I build this platform for our heart centered community to grow. Follow this link to hear more, from my heart to yours.
Since 2018 when I first started bravely sharing my story of trauma, abuse and addiction I was writing to find my own voice. This was how I began digging myself out of all the pain I had endured. This blog features the poetry I channel as my sensitive soul processes all the sensations I pick up on through the experiences I encounter. I didn’t begin choosing a specific word for my yearly intentions to grow with until 2019, my word was patience. Learning to temper the fire inside that drives me is a direct lesson from my Dad who is now in Spirit 5 years as my top guide. 2020 was beauty and boy did I get an opportunity to see behind the veil how absolutely beautiful this life we are given is when I took an apprenticeship to become a shaman. 2021 was freedom and my Dad’s reminder of how I can be anything I can dream. 2022 was love, the initiation of my self-love journey. 2023 was faith and I took a leap by moving back to Florida to enter into a romantic relationship with my twin flame. 2024 was creation and I began creating a new life there. 2025 was abundance and ironically I received so much through the ending of that relationship. All of my writing here, the poetry and Light language transmissions are reflections of how much I’ve processed and grown.
January will be all about integrating and embodying the fresh Light powered energies we are to begin building New Earth with. The first full moon on January 3rd is a supermoon and in the sign of Cancer it’s very close to my Ascendent degree point and directly conjunct my Jupiter placement both in Cancer. Since the Moon rules Cancer, I’m deeply inside the emotional feelings of my heart. This is a time for healing our most intimate relationships with friends and especially family. This is what I’ve been doing here in New England. My son and his fiancé are the light of my life. My heart rejoices with love for the beautiful connection we share. They make me so proud as a mother. I’m so grateful to see how all the hard work and commitment to my own healing has paid off in countless ways!
Walking in nature stirs the soul. It helps us remember our connection to all we see. Breathing in the fresh air the trees provide, taking a seat on a rock grounds my spirit while the energy within me sings with the pure joy of being alive. Let this language of the Light wash over you with rememberance of your own internal rhythm. May you return to this centered place in your heart whenever you feel called.
January is about going deep within the magic of winter. An opportunity to slow down and take in everything we have been moving through. 2026 will be an even faster moving year than last because fire moves quickly, my dear readers. Allowing stillness, meditative states reveal the medicine that lies in shadows. My soul claims its sovereignty, from pain to liberation as my heart opens wider than ever before. Rekindling eternal spirit unlocks the mystery of being removing all blocks from the past. At long last, a starborn gate opens to my bright future. Celebrating this rebirth and awakening with the choir of angels who have guided my continous process of ascension. The transformation I’m embodying is told in poetic insights and musings on emotion.
This piece is a declaration of rebirth and self-sovereignty. It aligns with the intentional momentum of fire energy telling the story of rising from trauma, shame, and past failures into empowered self-love, inner strength, and spiritual clarity. I have emerged like a Phoenix wrapped in Light, ready to move forward with purpose, confidence, and destiny-aligned momentum.
The winter weather provides a seasonal invitation to build the muscle of my innermost truths as I journey inside. There is no more running. No need to hide. All I need is my own breath, the vehicle I travel in is my own human being. The most loving and spectacular miracle I have ever known. I listen to what my soul proclaims to be. Washing away the illusions of a world I never felt was real. I’m referring to the matrix we are conditioned to believe as truth. Graduating to the infinite wisdom of life on New Earth, built from within my own heart’s coherence. This is not a physical place we are going to my dear readers but the world we are creating from love’s higher consciousness born from the wisdom of our sacred hearts. Moving by feeling versus the mind’s egoic chatter.
This piece honors the heart as a sacred instrument of truth, love, and divine guidance. Through rhythm, color, and conscious devotion, it portrays the heart as a living compass—awakening humanity from conditioned illusions and guiding us home through authenticity, courage, and soulful connection to God. Attuning to my heart, the words flowed effortlessly from the focused intention of a continuous devotion to be a receiver of peace, love and joy. This is what my heart wants to give and share with the world!
The final stages of healing is outward acceptance and external growth. The journey I have been on here at this time is both challenging and extraordinarily beautiful. The gifts of intuition grow as the feeling of my own love rise to meet the Light inside. What a ride the human experience is as we are spiritual beings alive in the vehicle of the human being.
As you know from reading this blog, my dear readers, I always write from my heart and that is how I lead my life. Heart centered, caring for others and being a kind person by championing my message of “Triumphing over Trauma”. Our world is changing dramatically. There are so many of us awakening to the truth in our hearts, guided by ancient soul wisdom. I’m a pioneer in this love revolution as together we remember who we are and start becoming stronger together in love than ever before. May 2026 show us this inner strength as we let love rule the sacred fire of the heart.
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In light and in shadow, always with love. Namaste.
