Thank you 2025 – Welcome 2026

 

To fully acknowledge the width, depth and breadth of 2025, I have to go back to 2024, which was, for me, the most painful year I can recall, though at this very moment even this seems like a faraway passage that has entirely dissolved its rugged edges and is now simply part of everything that is and ever was.

The dissolution I went through during the entire span of 2024, left nothing untouched. Emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually I was stripped bare, breath by blessed breath, until I was quite literally vacant. No prior construction withstood the earthquake of transfiguration. If my landscape were to be envisioned as a city, it would look like an apocalyptic scene from one of those films about the future world in 2224.

And yet… Yet this was not something terrible that I was a victim of. Not something to be saved from. Not something that I inflicted upon myself either. It just was what needed to be at this point of my existence.

So, when 2025 dawned, I was still under the rubbles of this massive implosion. Finding my way out into daylight so I could catch my breath and stand upright again.

I will not go into details about what went on, as this is shared in my new book: Soul Songs 2 – A Sigh of Wholeness which will be out in the first half of 2026.

What I do want to share right now though, is how entirely, surprisingly magnificent 2025 has been. How special it has been to day by day discover this new lifestream that I am now embodying, completely at peace with what was, is and is to be. Not as an opposite of what 2024 felt like, but as its own emergence that needs no contrast to be compared to.

I cannot, in fact, compare what I discover myself to be on a daily basis, with anything prior.

My tastes, motivations, inclinations, perceptions, choices… everything is different for me now. Not better. Not worse. Simply not comparable. The baseline is extinct. The new template has no prior blueprint.

In practical terms, this has changed the way I interact with my environment and the people in it. And so, too, where I feel at home geographically has needed to change, in order to meet my current frequency. This is why I have relocated to the Azores, choosing Faial island as the pivotal base of my hearth for it is the most purely symbiotic match for my entirety now – though the 9 islands of this exquisite archipelago are all one for me, and equally my home.

This love affair with the islands and most specifically with Faial has been a sweet discovery of what Home really feels like when we find the perfect merge with land, wind, ocean and fire and all of its living creatures. Something I had not experienced before to this extent. But then again, I am discovering everything anew so this too is an integral part of this ongoing discovery.

I have let go of so much during 2025, as I had also during 2024. People. Things. Creations. Projects. Places. Endings upon endings upon endings. Which intrinsically means beginnings upon beginnings upon beginnings. 

The grief of loss that was to be felt, ended with 2024 and into the first rays of 2025. This year’s letting go has been of a joyfully liberating nature. A celebration of honouring, releasing, stepping forward unburdened. Cloaked in the abundance of what has died and composted into new fertile ground, for new seeds to sprout under a new sun, watered with new expressions of unfolding possibilities.

This is how I step into 2026. Infinitely grateful. To all. To everything. Everywhere. My heart openly shining with a love so big it cannot be contained and singing a song of peaceful harmony where dark and light are not separate.

I have no idea what I will create throughout the year, other than the certainty of humanness expressed in contented trust that all is well in all of creation when the grace of Presence is allowed to radiate through every physical and non-physical pore.

In this new year, in this new life, there are no aims to achieve. Nothing to strive for. No purpose to fulfil. No mission to pursue. No specific passion other than that of life itself, with each day’s gifts to explore.

Whether you and I physically cross paths or not, we will certainly dance – in any one of the many dimensions we multiply through. So cheers to us, to existence, to infinite possibilities and to life here on Earth, particularly, as this is our chosen playground… for now. And thank you /\ So very much.