From a 9 Wood Snake Year to a 1 Fire Horse Year

Often the closing of one year and beginning of another elicits reflection. If you’re noticing that 2025 is bringing closure in a variety of facets of your life, there’s a reason for that.

Numerologically speaking, 2025 is a 9 year (2+0+2+5 = 9), which is a karmic completion year. It’s all about endings and completions. In the Chinese Zodiac calendar, 2025 is also the year of the snake, which marks the shedding of old skin. It’s all about releasing what no longer serves you, what has expired, or you’ve outgrown. Both symbolize the closing of cycles and old identities in career, relationships, karmic patterns, and life lessons.

This year has been a stripping down to your most authentic self. The shedding and closure is medicine.

Contemplate all that has happened this year:

·      What unhealthy habits have you released?

·      What relationships have naturally (or purposefully) fallen away or feel impossible to continue to carry?

·      What patterns are shifting for you?

·      What in your life feels like it’s rebooting?

·      What old stories have you held about yourself that no longer feel true?

If you’re resisting releasing an old life that has already been shed, you may be feeling fatigue. How might you surrender more into this completion?

Looking forward into 2026, numerologically, it’s a Universal 1 Year (2+0+2+6 = 10 = 1+0 = 1). The beginning of a new nine-year cycle. A first breath after a long exhale. The opening of a doorway to something new. Life begins to gather movement and momentum. You will feel more direction as you cross this threshold into a new story.

Let your actions reflect the new version of you, who is emerging, and allow space for your inner voice to guide the new ideas that are arriving with aliveness. It’s okay to begin before you feel completely prepared because beginnings carry their own sacred momentum once you step forward. As long as you choose from desire and fascination, not from fear.

On February 17, we enter the year of the Fire Horse. The key characteristics of a Fire Horse are dynamic energy, passion, bold action, progress, freedom, enthusiasm and courageous breakthroughs. The pairing of the Horse with the Fire Element only happens every 60 years. This is a powerful combination.

To balance the Fire element, I encourage us all to practice grounding and calming exercises that will help us take action from a space of inner wisdom rather than impulsiveness, which is the extreme end of the spectrum of this year’s energy.

With a 1 Year combined with Fire Horse energy, you are at the precipice of creating a new identity in career, relationships, and life experiences from a place of excitement and bold authenticity. Hoorah!

If you dream BIG with bold, unbridled (ie: uncensored) passion, what would you create for yourself? What and who would you call in? How would your average, daily life feel? Where would you go? What would you do? What would you say, and to whom?

If ever there was a blank canvas with unlimited potential in size, scope, and materials…this is it!!!

You’ve made space all year long for what comes next. Lean in! You’ve got this!