On Crossing the Threshold

The tectonic shift from 2025 into 2026 and becoming who we really are...

As we approach the end of 2025, I’m looking back through the photos of my year and realizing something startling — the “me” who I was six months ago no longer exists.

She was composted into the soil of my becoming.

I love her.

I honor her.

She became the ground into which I root today.

The water.

The nutrients.

The guiding light for this shift has been simple, though not always easy to implement: my full presence. Ram Dass’s words ‘Be Here Now’ are some of the simplest instructions that lead to the biggest shifts, because to Be Here Now means you are taking every moment of your life as an opportunity to learn, to give and to feel.

In the past I never understood how transformation could happen so quickly.

Now I do.

It is because every single moment of my life has become an acceptance of the lesson that is in front of me, a living prayer and a willingness to see, feel and alchemize EVERYTHING that enters my field. This is why I called my community Earth School, because we’re here on this planet to learn… and to experience allll of this wild, messy human life while we do it. The moment when we stop judging, controlling and manipulating is the moment when we can finally SEE the truth.

One “me” is constantly dying for a new me to be born. And I love every version of her across every timeline. But I love this moment, and this “me” the most.

Because she is the ME who is here NOW.

Here is what shifted in 2025:

1. My voice.

The terror I felt for YEARS around releasing my voice has somehow vanished through the steady practice of speaking and writing the simple truth. For those of you still held captive in these trenches of silence, I see you. Be gentle on yourself; you’re unraveling centuries of conditioning for women. It’s stuck in our bodies, in our DNA, in our collective memory. Be kind to that woman you were as you’re in the process of transforming the old layers into who you have become and who you already are. I see you — and I can’t wait to hear you, too.

2. The part of me that wanted to stay hidden.

I don’t. I want to be seen. In my beauty. In my mess. In my humanity. “Me.” This year in April I held my first in-person women’s retreat in Sedona with two of my friends and facilitators in transformation, Kristi & Noel. We called it SEEN. Now I understand why. We are always creating the exact medicine we ourselves need. In that way, I invite you to lean closer to the parts of yourself that scare you. Be brave in looking into your shadows and the disowned aspects of yourself, to bring the parts of you that are scared to be seen a little closer to the light. All parts of you are welcome here.

3. The part of me still trying to explain and get it right.

She has been released. It feels like she died. That anxiety was born out of childhood wounds and healed by sisterhood and ceremony and people who are clean mirrors. I don’t care to get it right. It’s impossible because right and wrong are constructs of the lower mind. I care to get it TRUE. And in finding my truth, l found my freedom.

What a relief.

And it makes sense. 2025 was the lunar year of the snake, a year about shedding everything we no longer needed, everything that is no longer a match for our current frequency, and everything that’s been weighing us down.

Did you feel it, too?

But 2026 is the lunar year of the fire horse. An energetic combination not to be seen again for another 60 years.

This is an invitation for the collective. A full-steam ahead moment for all of us. The energy of the chariot, of the archer on horseback, and of our own inner spark.

Are you ready to say yes?

I am:)

— Autumn