A Tale of Two Years
You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes…
“Try to learn to recognize what is simply the result of your own will from what is the will of something greater than you.”
— RAINER MARIA RILKE: Letters to a Young Poet (1903–1908), Letter 8
Sometimes You Get It Right … But Why Like This!
Last year, in I Perceive, Therefore I Am, my hypothesis was thatMercury and Jupiter were ultimately driving the bus of 2025 as the lords of the North Node in Pisces and South Node in Virgo. 2025 promised to be a “be careful what you wish for” year. Jupiter in Cancer relating to Mercury as it toured the zodiac was always going to be about the interplay between your deeply held (often unconscious) beliefs about how grace shows up in reality and the actual systems you use to navigate that reality.
In reviewing 2025, this hypothesis has been proven—perhaps more brutally than some of us liked. That’s benefics for you!
2025 was a year that PROMISED new beginnings. The outer planets teased us with ingresses into Aries and Gemini. We got a taste of that brief, intoxicating rush of masculine Air and Fire energy. But then, many of those beginnings stalled or collapsed—especially once the outers moved back into Earth and Water signs, bringing back to the fore the feminine receptive energy that demands knowing what is worth growing.
The new things were sexy, seductively extending agency and change, but were they worth growing? Were they even possible to nourish into fruition with the resources at hand? Could you accept the terms and conditions that came with them, or were they prefaced on compromises that would’ve buried you alive—six feet under and screaming, but without anyone to hear you?
What arrived in 2025 was meant for a “you” that you are only now becoming as you read this. If your manifestation felt like a false start, it wasn’t a failure of the stars; it was a diagnostic report. It showed you exactly where your repetitive patterns—your samskaras—are keeping you locked in an identity that is physically incapable of holding the fruits of the life you desire.
All that Lives Must Die
Despite the high-octane ingresses of 2025, we were still operating under a 9-year numerological cycle and the Chinese Year of the Snake. Both demand ENDINGS. We’ve been in a cosmic waiting room.
Saturn and Neptune couldn’t begin the “Aries Revolution” of selfhood because they hadn’t finished the “Pisces Purgation” of collective connection to source and “why.”
Uranus couldn’t revolutionize how we connect in Gemini until it finished blowing up the unsustainable, extractive systems still preventing the resources of Taurus from being regenerative and nourishing.
In short: 2025 taught us that we cannot have different lives if we keep showing up as the same people, functioning within the paradigms of the old, “safe,” and predictable reality. We cannot co-create new, responsive lives and neural infrastructure if we are perpetually reinforcing our inherited, autonomous predictive systems by seeking input that only confirms our unconscious biases.
2026: Ready or Not, Here I Come
If 2025 was the diagnostic, 2026 is the synthesis. This is the year that will break patterns—not because we’ve necessarily "done the work," but because the sky is finally co-signing action.
The Four Horsemen of the Great Reset:
January 9 | The Mars Cazimi: This resets a cycle that began in late 2023. We move away from the energy of putrefaction and “toxic clearing” and into an agenda of Regeneration. Mars in Capricorn is here to build the scaffolding for coherent social and personal systems from the carcasses Pluto’s passage through Capricorn left behind for fertilizer.
February 13 | Saturn into Aries: The 30-year thesis officially begins. Can you balance responsible “selfishness” with accurate self-awareness? For those undergoing a first or second Saturn Return, the “preview” of 2025 is over. This is the real game.
