This year did not start the way I expected...

There is a lot of noise right now about fresh starts.

New years.

New goals.

New energy.

New versions of ourselves.

And yet, as I write this, tears are still close.

Today is my first proper day back in my business since the 22nd of December, and everything still feels tender. I am not writing from the other side of something neatly resolved. I am writing from inside the process. From the in-between. From a place that is still integrating and letting things fall away.

Over the last few weeks, something very different has been moving through me.

A quiet retreat.

A slowing.

A clear message from my body to stop pushing forward.

I recently read something that described this time of year as a threshold. Not a beginning. Not an ending. The space between the two. And it helped me name what I’ve been feeling.

Because energetically, we are not finished yet.

This is not a season asking for big declarations or clear plans.It’s asking for a pause. A deep exhale.

Surrendering to that has been uncomfortable for me.

I usually love this time of year. I’m normally journalling, reflecting, visioning, already feeling the pull of what’s next. I like momentum. I like direction. I like movement.

But instead, these weeks have asked something else of me.

I’ve been moving through big emotions. Closing off a relationship.

Navigating the shock of a freak car accident.

Feeling a very strong internal signal of not yet.

Not yet to planning.Not yet to creating.Not yet to deciding what 2026 is meant to hold.

What’s helped me make sense of this is understanding the cycle we’re actually closing.

2025 is a Universal 9 Year.

2026 begins a Universal 1 Year.

A 9 Year isn’t about starting (yet I sure did a lot of that last year!)

It’s about completion, release, and integration.

It’s the part of the cycle that brings emotional clearing. Relationships changing shape. Identity shifts. Grief, forgiveness, and letting go. Fatigue with old ways of being. A pull toward simplification rather than expansion.

When I look honestly at my own experience, I can see all of that clearly.

A 1 Year, which is what 2026 brings, is about new identity, new direction, new creation, new momentum.

But we can’t step into a new cycle while we’re still closing the last one.

This season doesn’t respond to force.

It’s the space between what has been and what is forming. Between who you were and who you’re becoming.

When clarity or action is rushed right now, it often feels heavy. Like effort is required where ease hasn’t returned yet.

This time isn’t asking you to push.

It’s asking you to listen.

To notice what no longer feels aligned.

What identities you may still be holding out of habit or safety.

What ways of striving or proving are ready to be released.

This isn’t stagnation.

It's preparation

If there’s a sense of restlessness or

unfinishedness in you, that matters.

It’s not a sign to push harder. It’s information about

where you are in the cycle.

If you haven’t done your vision board.

If your plans feel incomplete.

If momentum hasn’t returned yet.

This time has a purpose.

It’s integration.

It’s consolidation.

It’s making space.

What I’m becoming clear on is that when I do step into intention and visioning for

2026, it will look very different.

Slower.

More embodied.

Less about forcing outcomes and more about listening for what’s ready to emerge.

Less about pushing energy forward and more about honouring what’s just been completed.

And I have a strong sense I’m not meant to do that alone.

In the coming weeks, I’ll be creating a very different kind of 2026 intention and goal/business planning session. One that honours this closing phase. One that allows integration before direction. One that treats this moment as a threshold, not a to-do list.

If, as you read this, something in you softens.

If you feel relief rather than urgency.

If you recognise yourself in this in-between space.

I’ll extend an invitation soon.

Not to rush you forward.

Not to push you into answers.

But to honour this shift in seasons together.

For now, I’m letting myself be here.

Letting myself feel what needs to be felt.

Trusting that stillness isn’t a failure of momentum, but a form of wisdom.

There will be time to create.

There will be time to move.

There will be time to build.

For now, we pause.

We clear.

We release.

With you,

Mira