The only lasting truth is change.

As December came around, I felt the need to retreat from social platforms. The feeling wasn't detachment or aloofness. It wasn't apathy or avoidance of socializing.

It was a call for introspection, a summons for inner quiet and psychic inquiry that can only be experienced when off-line.

Currently, I’m experiencing my third nodal return. The nodal transit was exact to that of my natal placement on New Year’s eve and I had a most memorable, soul nourishing, heart-filling experience in beautiful company.

We all have a nodal return about every 18.5 years and a nodal reversal about every 9 years. These are points along a time track representing an origination point and a destinations point.

It’s pivotal to be conscious during these cycles.

We all have our own personal time track in the birth chart.

My North Node is at the IC (Imum Coeli), which is found at the bottom of the chart. It is the most private point and the soul’s hidden base. If everything were to fall away from you, the essence of the sign at the IC is where you’d find home.

What is at the IC is rooted deep within you.

What is strikingly beautiful, to me, is that my North Node is conjunct my 2nd child’s Ascendant and my South Node is conjunct my 1st child’s Ascendant.

I know I must go deep into my own psyche and trust what is there. And I have been.

We can't bypass winter’s solitude if we are to truly recognize the outgrowth that lays at our feet.

In the Chinese zodiac 2025 was the year of the snake. It was also a number nine year in numerology.

What did you shed?

Have you allowed for change?

What worked in 2025 and what didn’t?

While the season has a time for celebration can we also listen to the rhythm of nature's timing?

The rhythm of the natural world that we are part of is often muted by the noise of distraction and commonly pacified by more and more stuff.

Viewed through the medicine wheel winter is a paradox, new life cloaked in death. The cold purifies and renews.

I also felt creatively uninspired in December. The winter lull. The void accompanied by a slight agitation, knowing that I couldn't force inspiration.

And that's when I heard the wisdom of my inner voice.

Rest. Make space. This will pass.

On December 22nd, the sun entered the sign of Capricorn, marking the darkest point astronomically, at Winter Solstice the longest night of the year. At this threshold the light is reborn.

We may be familiar with the discipline and ambition, determination, and integrity of the Sea Goat yet Capricorn is the archetype of the Hermit.

Through all the accomplishments and accolades, the sun in Capricorn must become a master of solitude to remain true with the mission’s integrity.

When alone we must find approval from within.

Strive for excellence and while you may receive applause this is not why you are here. Do what must be done and do your best without being captured by external reward, validation or even recognition.

This is self mastery. The essence of Capricorn in the highest expression.

The winter season is Saturn's domain. Saturn binds us to grow and build backbone through boundaries and limitations.

The cold is our teacher.

And there on a cold dark evening, I felt a spark while listening to Dr. Martin Picard, PhD, a professor of behavioural medicine, describing energy as the potential for change.

Our behaviour and our psychology, shape cellular production - our cells energy system, called mitochondria, change how cells behave and what cells prioritize.

While the mind-body connection is nothing new, what struck me is that scientists can’t really agree on what energy is, but the primary element of life is the movement of energy and the experience of it.

You can never create or destroy energy, but energy always transforms.  A bud takes the energy of the sun and a flower blooms. What we are perceiving is not energy per se, but the change in energy, and this flow of energy is not just the basis of life, but of human experience. And connected to what really matters.

And still, as per Dr. Picard, to transform, energy must meet resistance.  This is how transformation can occur.

That agitation you feel, the friction, the frustration and discomfort is the energetic edge of growth.

There is no growth without the right amount of resistance to create change. Not too much, not too little.

Where are you directing your energy? How is it being utilized?

In the Chinese zodiac 2026 is the year of the Fire Horse.

In numerology 2+0+2+6 = 10 = 1

In the tarot one is the Ace, the root of the power of the element.

The root of the power of fire.

The initial spark that ignites a beginning.

There is a tendency to ..mistake stasis for equilibrium and to mistake the complacency of equilibrium for contentment..

You are here. Living in a universe that is one constant transmutation of energy and matter.

You are here.

What stirs inside of you that wants to be lived?

The only lasting truth is change.

What stirs inside of you that wants to be lived?

What must change in order for that to happen?

You are here to embody the entirety of your being. To live more authentically, with purpose, courage, and self-knowledge.

You can trust the timing of your life when you understand the cycle you are in.

If you would like some guidance to work with the current quality of time and the timing of your transits in 2026, please find me here

Happy New Year. I wish you the best - and may you feel inspired by just the right amount of resistance.

I drew inspiration and shared quotes for this blog from The Marginalian