A New Nine Year Cycle Begins: Why 2026 Is a Year to Live Intentionally

We have just entered a One Year, making 2026 a significant energetic threshold.

In spiritual and numerological traditions, life is understood to move in repeating Nine Year Cycles. The first year of each cycle is therefore especially important — it is called a One Year, while the final year of the cycle is known as a Nine Year.

Why is 2026 such an Important Year?

Numerologically speaking, 2026 reduces to 10, and then to a 1 (2 + 0 + 2 + 6 = 10 → 1). Therefore, 2026 is classified as a One Year.

A One Year invariably carries the energetic tone of:

• New beginnings

• Reinvention of self

• Rebirth

• Initiation

• Leadership

• Independence

• Taking charge of your life

• Life authorship

• Personal ownership

• A decision point year

It is, therefore, the year to come off the proverbial fence and fully commit to what you want your life to represent. It is the year to genuinely do life differently, to be bolder than you have been in the past. To take the reins of your life, make decisions that honour who you really are, and make it the decade you look back upon with deep satisfaction — the decade you truly came into your own.

The Previous 9 Year Cycle

The previous Nine Year Cycle began in 2017 (a One Year) and completed on 31 December 2025 (a Nine Year). This is why many people noticed long-held patterns, unresolved issues, or familiar challenges surfacing more intensely — to be resolved before entering this new cycle.

For many, 2025 brought inner debris and tricky outer circumstances to the surface — such as a deeper awareness of outdated identities, relationship or family dynamics coming to a head, career challenges and dramatic changes, or other long-running internal struggles coming to the fore in a more intense way — often accompanied by a sense of provocation alongside a subtle inner knowing that growth was taking place and resolution would ultimately be the prize — that felt sense, “this isn’t just happening to me, but for me.”

At such times, it can feel as though our energy is hurrying to resolve these things rather than carry them into a new cycle. They come up for healing and release in the 11th hour so-to-speak, to liberate us from what no longer serves, and as preparation for stepping into a whole new cycle without carrying those old patterns forward.

This is the natural work of a Nine Year: drawing to the surface what is ready to be completed and released before the next cycle begins.

And we are now in that next cycle.

What You Intend Now Matters

What you initiate at the beginning of a cycle quietly shapes the direction, tone, and quality of the entire arc ahead — not just the year itself.

A One Year plants the seeds. A Nine Year is where those seeds come into full bloom.

What you set in motion now will mature across the decade.

An Invitation at The Beginning of This Cycle

This is why at the beginning of this One Year I am offering Intention Setting Sessions to help you clarify and begin to embody the most spiritually aligned, Soul-anchored intention you can hold for the chapter of life now opening.

If you feel called to begin this cycle consciously and intentionally, you can read more or reserve your session here>

The Nine Year Arc Ahead (At a Glance)

2026—One Year: Initiation · New Beginnings · Identity
2027—Two Year: Relationship · Alignment · Cooperation
2028—Three Year: Expression · Creativity · Communication
2029—Four Year: Structure · Foundation · Discipline
2030—Five Year: Change · Recalibration · Freedom
2031—Six Year: Responsibility · Integration · Maturity
2032—Seven Year: Reflection · Insight · Introspection
2033—Eight Year: Authority · Manifestation · Accomplishment
2034—Nine Year: Completion · Full Embodiment · Release

A One Year: A Time to Plant Powerful Seeds of Intention

Because what is initiated now unfolds over time, this new year is an especially potent moment to set intentions that are spiritually anchored, soul-aligned, and deeply considered.

If you feel called to engage at this important energetic threshold, you can reserve your session below.