What the Last Day of the Year Knows About the Next
How to find out what's to come next year based on the last day of the year.
In the past several New Year’s, I’ve lived by one belief:
How you spend your last day of the year - or more precisely - what energies are in the air during the last day of the year, will be the dominant energies of the upcoming year.
It can be a subtle feeling that you sense in the air. Or it can be a strong bodily feeling. Or a hunch of what’s to come. Or it can be literally experiencing certain events that reflect your upcoming year. But the point is, the last day of the year has magic in the air that’s for you to grasp.
That’s the thing about intuition. It’s subtle, and a different kind of experience of each of us.
I’d like you to pay attention today to what you’re feeling. What you’re sensing. What 2026 looks like in your mind’s eye, or how you’d like it to look if you don’t have a strong sense of what it will be like.
Those subtle energies are clues of what to expect. If there isn’t a strong energy you sense, you can simply use this day to consciously align yourself with what you’d like to see happening in your life in 2026.
Ask yourself today, what is the hunch that you have about next year? What’s the first feeling you can feel when you think of next year?
What I sensed about my year 2025 and how it actually went
I’ll give you an example of how my year went. Not from the point of view of “what happened” but from a point of view of how I felt and experienced things. That’s ultimately what’s true for each of us, our unique and one-of-a-kind perception.
Last year, I was heartbroken, but healing and sharing with friends on New Year’s Eve. Yet, I still could hear this subtle voice saying that the year 2026 will be a year of peace. In that moment, it was hard to belief, but that turned out to be true as the year progressed.
But at first, the year was the opposite of peace: it was turbulent. I was fighting against my patterns, cleaning up clutter, questioning my life choices, letting out enormous pain and grief. I was even asking myself, how is this year peaceful when I’m crying this much, so anxious, so full of fear and only grasping glimpses of peace during meditation, and not even in every meditation? “This doesn’t really work” I said during my darkest moments. “I have to leave this situation. I have to quit this to feel better.” I was saying in my mind about certain situations. I was so tangled in pain. I was sure that the pain is a signal that I’m not on the right path.
Not realizing, I was almost going to follow my old pattern of escaping situations instead of trusting them. That was actually the one thing that was holding me back, that I was not committing to certain things and situations truly, wholeheartedly because I was afraid of pain and rejection and failure. And I’m not blaming myself for that. It’s quite normal to try to jump away from something that caused you pain formerly. But that was a pattern of mine that arose to the surface: when things are hard, escaping and moving forward is easier. But it’s counter intuitive to what I really want in life: I want commitment, stability, companionship, peace, a full heart. And I believe those things come with long and truly deep relationships.
But a pattern of escaping when things get hard, can also be harmful. A harmful self-defense mechanism that can actually take you further from what you truly want, because you’re afraid of trying again.
There was a silent voice with me saying to be patient. That something really good is coming. Wait until the end of Summer. Wait until this and that moment. There was a certain energy of trust, despite the turbulent feelings and my stormy inner world. I didn’t know what it was that was to come. But I kept that knowledge with me, even in moments of distrust.
Until the peace I sensed, actually arrived. I realized I did find peace in 2025.
I realized, what if peace isn’t the absence of turbulence, but the willingness to stay present inside it?
I couldn’t have found peace without committing to cleaning clutter first. Without learning to understand myself. Without cleaning the clutter, without committing, without cleaning trauma to make way for the voice of my heart.
But I didn’t understand that during the year. Only now I do, after a year has passed. I had nothing to escape, it was actually the opposite. I was headed towards a very abundant and fulfilling path that I can now sense.
My soul wants growth, and I realize that true peace doesn’t come from constant calmness, external stability or external circumstances in any way. It actually comes from being committed to one’s choices and building things patiently for the long term, and not getting baffled by the ups and downs of life. And commitment and peace come through accepting things, situations and people as they are with all of their sides. And seeing each side as a blessing and as a teacher, not as something to avoid.
I also realized that I indeed can see a lot of things about people. I can sense things. And I should trust those senses. I’m someone with an extremely strong intuition. And I should never let someone else tell me how things are going to go, when I can actually sense things better myself. And I can identify who else has a strong intuition, who I can ask for confirmation for mine. Therefore, choosing who to trust is extremely important. A lot of people have opinions, views, hunches. But if they don’t feel right for you, they’re not yours to listen to.
2026 and what I’m sensing about it for myself
For 2026, there’s a lot of things in the air. Yet, I do not think the year will be messy at all. I think it will be strongly focused and determined.
The obvious one is that I’m becoming a mother. And with that, I feel that will shift my focus a lot. Not because that child needs my full attention, but because my priorities will shift to something that means a lot to me. They’ve already started shifting. And it’s a ship that cannot be turned anymore.
A lot of things I’ve initiated in 2025, will take more precise form and direction in 2026. I feel that I’m going to go after a more free life.
I feel strongly that my choices in 2026 will be guided by joy and choosing from that emotion rather than the need of validation or safety. I feel that I’ll be ready to jump to new situations and trust that they will carry me.
A more brave life. And that I’ll be able to see more clearly what it is that I actually want in life. Not because of validation, but because of joy. In 2026, I choose joy in everything. I choose to trust. I choose to jump into the unknown and I choose to commit. I choose to trust that when you put your intention out there and show up every day, it will - it WILL lead you where you want to go.
That’s the energy that I leave 2025 and enter 2026 with it. And I cannot wait to see what that looks like in action.
A Practice For You: Sensing the Year Ahead
What is the very first feeling that arises in your body when you think of the coming year?
Task and how to align with this energy
First, take a notebook and a pen at hand. No electronic devices. Seek solitude in a quiet, peaceful place.
Sit quietly for five minutes. Breathe in through your nose, and out from your nose slowly.
Keep your eyes closed. With your closed eyes, redirect your eyes towards your third eye, above the eye brows. Keep your eyes focused here, eyes closed.
Keep focusing on your breathing as slowly as possible and as deeply as possible.
When a strong feeling or visual image arises in your mind, sit with it. Amplify it. Focus on it and let it strengthen. Memorise it. Write it down. It may not make sense. It may just be one feeling, or one word.
If you’d like me to help you interpret what you sensed, you can drop me a message on Instagram (@merestellar) and I’m happy to give input and help you trust in your own inner wisdom even more.
May your New Year 2026 arrive with joy, peace, safety and love!