Energies of 2026: Becoming One
- Kelly Palmer
- Oct 1
- 5 min read
2026 is a Universal 1 Year — the dawn of a brand-new 9-year cycle in numerology. It carries the pulse of beginnings, initiation, and self-leadership. Where 2025 has been a 9-year of release, endings, and karmic closure, 2026 feels like the first breath after a long exhale. Keep reading for specific tips and outlines for the year ahead, as well as a message for the forerunners who have been waiting for the new for a long time.
The Long Exhale of 2025
Before we step into 2026’s fresh breath of beginnings, we’ve been living through the Universal 9 Year of 2025 — the great exhale. This is the final stretch of a 9-year cycle, and for many it has felt like a clearing, a sorting, or a shedding.
For some, this has looked like:
Moving house — sometimes by choice, sometimes by necessity — as the universe clears old energy and redirects you to new land, new people, new resonance.
Career changes or endings — a recognition that the old way of working doesn’t fit anymore, sparking either the search for new opportunities or the courage to finally leap.
Relationship recalibration — noticing which bonds feel nourishing and which ones feel heavy or misaligned, and making changes that free your heart.
Re-envisioning lifestyle — clarity about what no longer works: toxic environments, unbalanced routines, old survival patterns.
Problem-solving in new ways — issues that seemed unsolvable through old logic suddenly requiring creativity, surrender, or spiritual perspective.
Energetically, it’s like the soul saying: “Let it out. Breathe it all out. The patterns that don’t belong to you anymore cannot come forward.”
This can feel both relieving and unsettling. Relief in the release; unsettledness in the unknown. But this is the genius of the 9 Year — it makes space. It teaches us that closure, even when uncomfortable, is the soil for new life.
This “move” can be tender, exhausting, and liberating all at once. Endings have a way of surfacing hidden grief, but they also carry sparks of relief: Finally, I’m free to step into something new.
As 2026 dawns, it feels like turning the key in the door of a new home. You might be wrecked. But this is the Universal 1 Year: stepping over the threshold into a space where you get to decide, for the first time in a long time, how you want to live.
There’s freedom here — to decorate the walls in your own colours, to arrange the rooms in ways that fit your soul, to invite the people who belong in your next chapter. And yes, there’s responsibility too: the house won’t shape itself. But that’s the magic of a 1 Year. It’s not about inheriting someone else’s design. It’s about claiming sovereignty as the architect of your own life.
In 2026, we don’t just move in. We begin becoming one with this new space — letting it hold us, inspire us, and reflect the truest version of who we are becoming.
What this means collectively:
A shift from dissolving old structures into building new ones.
Sovereignty rising — individuals stepping more boldly into their own truth and authority.
New ideas, new leaders, new ways of organising community and care.
More courage (and sometimes more chaos) as people break free from what no longer aligns.
What this means personally:
Each of us is asked to plant seeds in 2026 that will grow across the next nine years.
Opportunities to start fresh — new ventures, new relationships, or new expressions of the self.
Nervous systems will need tending: the energy of “1” can be bold and fiery, but also destabilising if we don’t ground it.
Synchronicities light the way, offering hints of where to put our focus.
The Invitation:
2026 is not about rushing to build everything at once. It’s about becoming one with your soul, your truth, your values — so that everything you create is anchored in alignment. It’s the year to practice sovereignty with softness: strong boundaries, clear choices, but always rooted in love.
Energetic practices for 2026:
Daily grounding rituals to steady your nervous system.
Listening to synchronicities and tracking where the universe is nudging you.
Honouring “firsts” — the beginnings that arrive, however small, as sacred.
Practicing courage in little steps: each step builds the muscle for the bigger leaps to come.
A Message for the Forerunners
If you’ve felt “ahead of the curve” — sensing New Earth realities before they’ve visibly unfolded — 2025 may have felt like a long pause. A waiting room. You’ve been carrying visions of what’s possible: new economies based on reciprocity, sustainable ways of living, even the long-anticipated widening of contact with other intelligences.
And sometimes it’s been exhausting, because the world hasn’t caught up to what you know in your bones.
But here’s the shift: 2026 doesn’t call you to keep waiting. It calls you to step forward as your own champion.
The 1 energy is about self-leadership, sovereignty, and initiative. You don’t need to wait for permission, for the perfect conditions, or for the collective to be “ready.” The way forward is seeded when you act in alignment with your truth.
This cycle isn’t about burning yourself out in urgency. It’s about sustainable creation: aligning with what lights you up, living in a way that’s true, and letting that authenticity ripple outward. In this way, the “forerunners” become not the ones endlessly waiting, but the ones quietly, steadily embodying the future in the present. You may have seen those leaders around. Now it's You.
Think of it like being called from the waiting room into the field. The vision is still vast, but now it’s time to play your part in it — not by carrying the whole, but by carrying your piece with love and courage.
Mantra for the Forerunners
I am becoming.
I carry my truth sustainably, courageously, and with love.
I am the seed of the New Earth, planted now.
🌑 You’re Invited: Seeding the New Cycle
If these words stir something in you, I’d love to invite you to my upcoming Open New Moon Call:
Seeding the New Cycle — Open New Moon Call
📅 Oct 21, 2025 — 5:30 PM Brisbane time
📍 Online via Zoom
Together we’ll:
Feel into the energies of the Universal 1 Month as a preview of 2026’s cycle.
Reflect on our awakening stories and reconnect with our deepest vision.
Map out practical manifesting steps for daily, weekly, and monthly alignment throughout 2026.
Anchor it all through meditation and community connection.
💫 Bonus: All live attendees (and Circle of Light members) will receive a free 2026 Manifesting Planner PDF to keep planting your seeds into the year ahead.
🔗 Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 862 3827 3664 Passcode: 414372
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