Set Your Own Rhythm: The Energy Forecast For 2026

Welcome to 2026!

If 2025 felt like the year you circled around your goals like a goldfish without ever hitting your mark, 2026 will be the year the bullseye feels like it’s moving directly towards you. Energetically, the pace of 2026 is quick – February 17 brings in the Chinese (and lunar) new year, moving us from a yin year of the Wood Snake to a Yang Year of the Fire Horse – while simultaneously greeting us with a partial solar eclipse in Aquarius. This translates to swift changes, rapid collective shifts, and a whole lot of out-of-the-box thinking from our uniquely-minded Aquarian friends.

If you can approach this year with a sense of center and balance (through sticking with that am movement practice instead of hitting snooze five times), the pace of 2026 will lift you up on a delightful current of fresh energy and new angles of perspective. Strap yourself into your goals with a samurai-like sense of focus – this year on every level is all-systems-go!

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Because we’re off to such a quick (and unrelenting) start in 2026, prioritizing rest will no longer be a self-care band-aid that gets slapped on or salve we apply in times of burnout – it is the whole damn strategy. Protecting your boundaries and peace like it’s your full-time job will make your unique, personal flow an unstoppable river this year that will have folks crowding around your desk just to be near your frequency.

The trick? Get to know your personal rhythms and individual pacing without looking to the outside or conventional world for advice. Forget the 5 am club, the morning walks, and the Fridays off. If you work best crushing three 12-hour days in the middle of the week and sleep in every other day till 11 am, go for it. Just make sure you know which rhythm works best for you and gives you the most energy. In order to do this, time spent inward is non-negotiable.

Prioritizing unwanted social obligations or energy-draining situations (especially with relationships you’ve outgrown) is the quickest way to misplace your peace without an airtag to find it again. Sleep well, hydrate plenty, and say no more in order to say yes to what’s calling you. Focus on your personal growth this year and watch relationships, situations, and your general reality shift into something you’re truly excited to embody.

The energetics of 2025 linger through January until the big shift on February 17. While things are moving quickly, it may feel like things are off to a slow start in terms of growth, collaboration, or other business-expansion dreams you have your sights set on. Patience was one of the key themes we were taught in 2025; early 2026 asks you to put the lesson into action.

With Neptune’s shift from dreamy Pisces into action-oriented Aries in late January, it may place a sense of urgency on wanting your options to pan out asap. Avoid saying yes too quickly and filling your plate with too many commitments early on in the year – June’s shift with Jupiter into Leo (with a harmonious sextile between Gemini and Virgo) means that more collaboration is coming. Practice the art of visualizing abundance with your dream opportunities instead of being someone else’s low-hanging fruit. When we leave space in the soil for the universe to act, the wildflowers have somewhere to bloom. 

In 2026, the thing most likely plaguing you at work or in your general field is a direct mirror. In other words, your biggest issue = the thing you’re being asked to invent a solution for. Do your quarterly meetings always seem to line up with your menstrual bleed, leaving you exhausted and miserable for the entire week? Learn to sync your cycle with your business and block those days from anyone but you, your journal, and your bed. Have you realized your ideal coaching or creative time is between 7 pm and 11 pm, but feel like changing your schedule will make you look lazy or unconventional? We are in the age of Aquarius, my friend! Ignore the socially-approved structure and let unconventionality rule.

Remember in 2020 when everyone thought working online was too far-out? 2026 is dismantling a lot of systems we previously considered ‘set in stone,’ both in the workplace and in our social realities. Have the courage to set up your own system so you become the authority, and people come to ask you how it’s done.