Some Thoughts From My New Year to Yours -

This weekend marks my Solar Return (alongside a New Moon), and I can feel the Capricorn energy moving through me.

Each year around this time, I deliberately create space to reflect on what I have lived, made, and learned in the year that’s closing, and to listen for what wants to emerge in the one ahead.

This year has been especially rich. There have been surprises (in the best possible ways), deep shifts in my inner and outer world, and a quiet sense that some old threads are thinning while new ones are beginning to weave themselves in.

This morning I had a beautiful conversation with a friend about the idea of a personal mandala. I’ve explored myself through many lenses - archetypal, energetic, identity-based - but this felt different. Deeper and more holistic.

I’ve often spoken about how we weave our lives, that we are tapestries in motion. But today, in meditation, I asked to see the full mandala. At first, all I could perceive were the threads holding everything together: the structure, the foundations. Then, slowly, the colours began to appear.

Seeing it brought a profound sense of reassurance.

I could feel the grounding presence of all the effort, intention, and devotion I’ve poured into my life. The things I’ve been dreaming, planning, and quietly tending don’t just live in imagination - they already have form in the subtle realms, and they are making their way into the physical.

I could also see where certain areas of my life are asking for more attention, more clarity, so the weaving can continue with greater ease and grace.

And I was able to recognise past seasons that felt messy, confusing, or inelegant at the time, and yet the weaving never stopped. I was never behind. Nothing was broken. Even when my mind believed otherwise, the pattern was still unfolding.

There is a rhythm and an intelligence to this weaving that I don’t always perceive, but it is always at work. Something is always being created behind the scenes. And I am learning, more and more, to trust that.

Even if this isn’t your Solar Return, we are also approaching the Chinese New Year - the Year of the Fire Horse - a powerful threshold for movement, courage, and renewal. It’s a beautiful moment to sit with your own mandala and ask: What am I weaving now? And what wants to be woven through me in the months ahead?

My hope is that this reflection helps you zoom out, to glimpse the larger pattern of your life and walk your path with more trust.

A few gentle questions to sit with:

• When I feel lost or stuck, what brings me back to the knowing that I am weaving my life, one small act at a time?

• Which practices return me to my centre, to presence, to truth?

• What does my personal mandala feel like right now? What might help me see it more clearly?

• What focus would allow more grace to move through everything I create?

I feel deeply grateful for this community, for everyone who connects with me, whether often or quietly from afar. You are all part of what I am weaving, and I thank you for walking alongside me in this way.

Sending blessings for clarity, courage, and graceful weaving in the days ahead.