I Freaking Love a New Year

We're counting down the hours to the new year at this point, so I'll go ahead and say it.

Happy New Year!

I'm so excited. I freaking love a new year.

It doesn't even bother me that people can't agree on when the "new year" actually is. Is it January 1st? Is it the Chinese New Year in February? Is it Spring?

Imma celebrate them all.

I just love new beginnings (even though every second could be a new beginning if you wanted it to be, since time is just an illusion anyway). I love a blank calendar to fill in. I love an erased whiteboard to begin brain-dumping onto.

I think it's just that it's a time to see nothing but possibilities. We're collectively forward-facing. We're future-hunting.

We're envisioning, scripting, and manifesting all that we want to bring into our reality.

How hot is that?

Every year on (or close to) New Year's Eve, I like to take inventory of the year. We usually write down big things that happened in a book we look back on as we close out another year. It's so amazing to see where we were five years ago and where we are now. Easy to track progress (or lack of it) when you're looking at years like that.

I just sit with the year. I celebrate that I'm still here and that I've got so much to be thrilled about. And then I start positioning myself for what I want to create in the new year.

I know that I don't want the new year to be a continuation of the last. I'm not interested in life on repeat, especially if a year has been tougher.

2025 was a 9 year and a Wood Snake year, which basically means we were all ending things and shedding what we've outgrown. There wasn't a lot of growth meant to happen this year. It was time to complete things and clear them out of the way for what we want more of.

2026 is a 1 year and a Fire Horse year, which means we about to start some new shit. So get excited. We're already planting seeds of intention, whether we're doing it intentionally or we're letting our past continue to create our future.

This is probably the most potent transition between years numerologically. Ending to beginning.

I already know how I'm heading into 2026. I know what my work is, what I'm tending to in my brand new energetic garden, and that it will be different than this year of endings.

What about you?

Are you a life-on-repeater? Are you someone who sets an intention or picks a word for the year and starts out strong but falls off the wagon in a few weeks?

Are you going to look back at 2026 and feel the same way you do about 2025?

You are building an everyday legacy with every decision you make, all the dynamics that are at play in your relationships, how you go through your 24 hours.

You're patterned to do life a particular way. If you want to change how you experience life, you have to change the patterns. Why not make this the year you learn how to, and change the course of your life forever as a result?

You're going to hear a lot about your legacy from me this year. I want you to leave a legacy you'd want to live out again.

Let's do it together.