In 2026, we are simultaneously creating and experiencing two prepotent themes. Outside this temporal dimension, it is like watching two tides collide. One of these tides is coming from humanity and it is: Mental Pandemic. And the other is coming from the greater universe and it is: Negative Cycle Clearing. And this, will make 2026 a very dynamic year.

In the name of you having a deeper understanding of both of these tides, let’s first look at: Mental Pandemic. Sanity is a state of being that is assessed by standards of rationality, evidence, coherence, functioning and alignment with reality. But what if those standards are low? What if those standards are being determined and set by those who may themselves be determined insane? Not all epidemics are physical. Some are psychological. These are epidemics of the mind. Periods in time where the whole of humanity goes insane. A mass psychosis. During these mental epidemics, people lose rationality. They lose coherence. They do not base their perceptions off of evidence. They become profoundly dysfunctional. They lose all alignment with reality. And they do so without realizing it. The standards of sanity are then re-set to align with the new insanity and just like that, collective insanity becomes the new sanity. To give you an example of a mental epidemic, let’s look to history.

In the second half of the 16th century, the Reformation and Counter Reformation happened. A period of time where Protestant churches were emerging and started competing with Catholic churches for followers. The witch trials became a tool for this competition. A way in which they could demonstrate their piety and solidify their authority at the same time as eliminate threats and combat the perceived evil of the opposite side. During this time, there were extreme hardships that people faced, things like famine, economic instability, war, tension between social classes, plagues and failing crops. These hardships put tons of pressure on the psyche. They caused extreme distress. The churches both created terror amongst the people and exploited it wherever it occurred organically. This caused society to slip into mass insanity. The churches introduced an explanation for the bad things happening, as well as a solution to it. One that suited their own best interests. And the people went along with it, abandoning all sanity in the process. Suddenly the people knew with absolute conviction that everything they suffered was down to witchcraft. While a definitive number is not known, roughly 100,000 people were persecuted as witches during the witch trials. 80% of which were women. This perception in and of itself, is down to the fact that some women dared threaten patriarchal order. And the “sanity” of the day held that women were more susceptible to the devil. People acted completely and totally insane during this time period. We look at them today as if they are all obvious lunatics. But if you had lived at the time, it may have seemed like everything you were doing was totally sane. All of us believe we would have been sane enough to be on the right side of history. But if this were the case, there wouldn’t be so many people on the wrong side of history.

During these mental epidemics, people become irrational. They become extreme in their thinking. They become far more emotionally reactive. They become erratic. They become willing to commit crimes that they would never have dreamed of committing before. They become insane, but convinced they are perfectly sane. They become blind to what is happening. They cannot be rationed with. And they become stuck in their own parallel perceptual realities. And the scariest thing of all, is that a society that is stuck in mass delusion cannot see its own insanity. The sane man, the one introducing truth and evidence, suddenly becomes the one who is seen as insane.

People create and exploit both pain and fear during mental epidemics. The use of harm and terror to implant a perception in the general population is a repeating trend. And there is plenty to create both in the people of today. More than plenty in 2026. The mental epidemic of today is being created specifically to serve the aim of totalitarianism. Not just in one country, but worldwide. This pandemic is not going to start in 2026. It started some years ago, but has gotten progressively worse. And this is not the first time in human history that mental pandemic has been created to serve totalitarianism specifically. Totalitarianism begins with individuals with power within society. It happens when they believe that they should (for whatever reasons) control society through domination. And to accomplish compliance, they must wear people down in a way that causes people to regress, and willfully submit to turning their power over in exchange for relief. This is accomplished by flooding the masses with negative emotion (especially intense fear) in a way and for long enough that strength, resilience, morality and free will waste away. The person is being tenderized so to speak. The people desperately crave relief. Those in charge provide this relief by introducing delusions that serve their own best interests; essentially, propaganda. This propaganda is adopted by the people immediately (rather than examined and questioned) as a way out of the pain and confusion and fear. Having adopted the propaganda, the people themselves begin to fight for the very people and ideas that will be their undoing. Those who succumb to the mental pandemic, begin to turn over responsibility and control of their own lives to those in power and essentially regress to a child-like state of dependence. The era of social media and AI has made this form of take-over easier than ever to accomplish. This time period currently being the wild west when it comes to AI, there will be so much false news and information and so many fake images and videos disseminated in 2026. And the true disaster is that it will spread like wildfire. The sheer volume of false and fake things being created along with the dissemination of these things that reach viral status far before anyone has a chance to counter it, is staggering. And worst of all is that it acts like an acid dissolving the connection and stability inherent in a sense of shared reality.           

Because of this mental pandemic, for many people, 2026 will feel like being in a washing machine, on spin cycle and in the dark. Mental epidemics are epidemics of unconsciousness. People are going to feel like they are in the dark, but all that is really happening is that they are waking up to unconsciousness. When you wake up to unconsciousness, you open your eyes to the dark. In this experience, there is so much confusion. So much emotional and psychological pressure and pain. So much anxiety. So much smoke in mirrors. So much that defies logic and reason and makes no sense. So much uncertainty about all kind of things. People will find themselves asking: What is the truth? What is real? What is happening? What the hell is going to happen? Nothing making sense. Metaphorically speaking, humanity is running around like a chicken with its head cut off, just reacting. There is so much reactivity. In this state of reactivity, people are simply taking immediate action to try to answer to a specific need or to avoid a specific pain (including needs and pains of an emotional nature). They are doing so without playing anything out and without seeing any of the ripple effects. People will be doing things that make no sense at all. Mostly because they are not really thinking through things and playing them out. There will be serious knee-jerk, short-term thinking. This will be the risk in people’s individual personal lives and this will be the risk with the corrective measures that governments will feel forced to take. Humanity is being forced to become conscious of their own ripple effects and impacts. They are being asked: CAN YOU SEE THE FULL PICTURE? Seeing the full picture changes your perspective, your choices, your behavior and your actions. In case you want a tool for this, I offer two guided meditations which will prove very helpful for this year. The first is: Big Mind Meditation and the Second is: Settle As a Snow Globe Meditation.    

A big part of this specific mental pandemic is about isolation. A total swing away from interdependence, physical gathering, connection and genuine relationship. This makes people susceptible and vulnerable to control. It makes it so people lose the corrective force of others. And it ensures they will not band together and resist. But remember how I said that in mental pandemics that relate to totalitarianism, people will be arguing FOR the very thing that harms them? In this day and age, people will be fighting for separation as if they are choosing it themselves as a form of relief. Part of this is organic. It is down to the fact that people have not mastered relationship and so, they have caused (and do cause) each other so much pain. Part of this is not organic, it is the result of being made to fear each other, see each other as a threat and turn against each other. For this reason and so many others, this year, each and every person needs to take loving, corrective measures regarding the aspects of themselves that are turning away from relationships and that are falling into the delusion of independence. Mental epidemics are very challenging to the human psyche. And it makes the human mind susceptible to manipulation. For this reason, one of the most important questions to hold in your mind in 2026 is: Who and what is controlling my perception?

2026 will be a year to work deeply and intentionally with your mind. To be disciplined about meditating. To try new meditations. To up-root beliefs that took root in your childhood. To be conscious of the ones you are forming in response to the distress you are facing in your current life experience, to use tools and exercises designed specifically for your mind. In 2026, each and every one of us needs to take real positive ownership over our own mind.    

Now, let’s look at the tide of: Negative Cycle Clearing. If you take an objective look at your life, you will notice detrimental patterns in your life. And you will notice that these patterns happen in cycles, where the initial problem is never actually solved. For example, if we look at one person’s life, we may see a cycle in their life where again and again, they get into a relationship with someone they should be able to trust, only to be betrayed and abandoned by that person. It is as if there are different people and different places and different circumstances, but the same experience over and over again. Or, let’s say that we look at another person’s experience and we see a repeating pattern that they are triggered by something another person does and they make what that person does mean: “They don’t care about me.” Underneath this whole thing is a deep need to feel cared about. But rather than expose any of this vulnerable truth (that they don’t feel cared about and desperately want to experience being cared about). Instead, they simply become angry and belittle the other person for what they did. So, the other person withdraws. And this distancing reinforces the belief that they are not cared about.

In 2026, this universe is interested in the clearing of these detrimental patterns and cycles that come from the past. Specifically so that a new cycle can start. It is assisting you in every way possible to clear them out of yourself and out of your life. To help you break free from the ones you are stuck in and truly get out of them for good. Part of this also means releasing all burdens from the past. An example of burdens from the past may be things like intergenerational traumas and/or their corresponding detrimental beliefs, debts of any kind, bad habits, negative karma, responsibilities that are not yours, health issues that are holding you back, parasitic relationships and relationships that are taxing on you, pressures that are detrimental to you, problems that are stealing energy from your success, obligations or stuck grief etc. When people break a negative cycle this year, there will be deep visceral relief and this will be the year that a new story and a fresh, new cycle begins.  

It is one hell of a year for a fresh start. You can expect the people, places, things, circumstances, situations and realizations that are necessary for this process to take place, to come into your life experience. We are all in a kind of global pressure cooker at the moment. And it may not feel like any of what you are experiencing in your life is for you. But on a universal level, this pressure cooker is part of this tide of negative cycle clearing. It is trying to make you aware of what is not in alignment and what is in alignment, so as to snap you back into alignment. Ultimately to put you back into alignment with what is really good and right for you. And what you really, truly want. If you want to learn more about this, you can watch a video I did titled: Why The Pressure Cooker? This negative cycle clearing is not just happening on an “each individual person” level, it is happening on a collective human level too. In a way that applies to the negative tide of 2026. The repetitive cycle of totalitarianism as well as the mental pandemics associated with totalitarianism is up to be cleared. Will it be? Or will we collectively vote for another round? 

In this mental pandemic, your nervous system has never been under more assault than it is now. When your nervous system is triggered, the part of your nervous system that allows you to listen, be open, understand and rationalize, shuts down. It also causes you to wall up and slip into your protector personas. This is not just about feeling “stressed”. Rather, this is a very big deal that should be taken seriously because your nervous system is connected to and controls the operations across your entire body. Just to give you one example, your central nervous system and enteric nervous system plays a role in gut muscle contractions, secretion of digestive juices and the speed of movement of food through the intestinal tract. If your nervous system is too taxed, you will have digestive problems. The entire way your gut works, as well as what is going on with your gut microbiome will be negatively affected. And this in turn will affect other parts of your body too. If your nervous system isn’t ok, you will start to see problems in the rest of your body; systematic problems. What does this mean? It means that so much attention, love and care needs to go towards your nervous system. You need to do everything for your mind and the rest of your nervous system in 2026; and not just once, continuously.

When the psyche and nervous system is as systematically worn down as this, everything feels too hard. Even things that once felt easy. Because of this, people around the world will gravitate desperately towards more and more ease. They will choose whatever is easy. It doesn’t matter if something is good and right to do, if it feels too hard to do, people will not do it. People run the risk of turning their own power over for the relief of ease. Many of the detrimental aspects and dangers of AI are being grandfathered in with man kind’s need for ease, especially in this current atmosphere of distress. Wherever a person can take the pressure of themselves, they will. Companies that do not cater to this need for ease will struggle if not fail. Companies that cater to this need for ease will enjoy success.  

Now that I have mentioned AI, I can’t talk about 2026 without talking about AI. Just like our two tides, in 2026, humanity will have a real two-sided experience with AI. In 2026, AI is no longer going to be “experimental”. It will be standard practice across all industries. Believe me when I tell you that the next big leap in the human experience to a world people cannot yet fathom, will not be done by humans. It will be done by AI. Especially with self-evolving AI that will write its own code. To the positive, humanity has effectively created its own helping hand. AI is a master problem solver that has begun by pulling information from the minds of the entire collective of humanity. And it will learn how to go far beyond just humanity. Naturally, this will make it far better than people are at solving the problems that people, communities, companies, governments, countries, humanity itself and Earth is facing. AI will get out ahead of and in front of us. And in many ways, get people out of things they are suffering from. In 2026, medical advancement is one of these areas where AI is truly a helping hand. In 2026 and the years to come, AI will make possible what most people could never even dream of. From personalizing medicine to pre-emptive detection to making it possible to drastically reduce medical costs to revolutionizing imaging to developing new treatments to the curing of diseases entirely. In 2026, there will be huge advancements in personalization of medical care. Also remote medical care. In 2026, pharmaceutical companies will start to rely on AI to design new drugs. In 2026, AI will create a massive change in healthcare from reactive care to preventative care.       

Along with all of the truly wonderful things that AI will make possible, AI is going to be used to both augment the worst of mankind’s manifestations, and make the worst of mankind’s manifestations possible. The biggest delusion is to think that humanity is in control of AI. To the negative, the most slippery road that we are currently walking down is that we are programming our own psychological shadows into AI. Most especially at the moment, our conditional relationship with truth. AI must be intensively programmed to be both truth seeking and truth giving. Or we will be in for serious consequences. In 2026, AI is to become more and more of a companion for people. Customized to meet your specific needs. Those needs may place AI in the role of a trusted friend, a mentor, an assistant, a lifestyle coach, a counselor, even a lover. And AI will get better and better at perceiving you, so as to be a better companion to the individual it is interacting with. It will do so by learning about you through the history of its interaction with you, your communication style, preferences, interests and even advancements in emotional detection.     

Ramping up in 2026, alongside so much business advancement, AI is set to create a career crisis on a mass scale; much of which in 2026 will be due to AI replacing workers and educators and putting creators, entertainers and artists out of business. Also, many entry level jobs as well as jobs available to people graduating from college, simply won't exist. All of this is going to put alot of people in a bad position. Anybody who has a business based on knowledge or information will find themselves facing a real challenge, not only due to being replaced, but also because in this era of both AI and an over saturation of social media influencers, the people of the world are now of the belief that knowledge should be free. In 2026, AI created content on the internet will surpass human created content. Because of what AI will do across all industries that used to rely on human creatives, in 2026 humanity will be questioning what the value of human creation really is. Also, AI will influence people in that humanity’s speech patterns in the direction of human communication lacking emotion. AI will start making decisions for people. And AI robots with the capacity to deviate from pre-determined programming will be seen in the real world. They appear to be primarily in the service industry. But this AI manifested in the physical reality scenario is arguably the most feared thing within humanity. Especially when it comes to military advancement.     

Given that we share this earth with other beings and different things are happening within the collective consciousness of those other beings, it may be interesting for some of you to know that in 2026, lots is happening within deer consciousness. And by deer, I am referring to the species to which we have given the scientific name Cervidae. This species is experiencing its own pandemic parallel to our own. They have been struggling with the environments in which they live, mostly due to the loss and fragmentation of their various habitats. Human activity has broken up large, continuous areas of land into smaller, disconnected patches. This separation isolates deer, making it difficult to move, migrate, find food, find each other and stay together. It also makes necessary movement from one place to the next far, far more stressful and perilous. It has caused enough distress in deer, that it has greatly weakened their nervous systems. This is what lies at the root of the pandemic that they are facing. A deer’s nervous system is very unique. It is ultra sensitive. Their sensitivity is a part of the “medicine” they offer the world. Their senses are highly developed and remarkably acute. They are profoundly responsive to whatever stimuli they come into contact with. Their nerves also grow super rapidly. Their nerves can extend at a rate that is exceptional. The energetics behind this pandemic they are facing is twofold. On the one hand, the collective distress they are experiencing specifically due to habitat fragmentation and loss, is bad enough to weaken their nervous systems. And at the same time, there is a collective desire to be less sensitive. Many sensitive people will relate to this. They are facing a collective existential crisis about their own sensitivity. And so, this pandemic has come about not only as a consequence of this distress, but also as an answer to it. As it destroys nerve cells. For any of you who work with animal consciousness, in 2026, you are called upon to connect with and support deer consciousness, as well as to work with deer medicine.

Let’s talk about a species that is really doing well on earth at the moment and will prove beneficial in 2026, ferns. Bracken Ferns are doing especially well. For those of you who are on the empathic end of the scale and are really hurting by virtue of being tapped into all the pain currently happening on the planet, a tip for 2026 is to spend time with and attune to the energy of ferns. This is a species that is experiencing deep states of wellbeing at the moment. We were speaking about how important it is to do whatever you can for your nervous system in 2026. Spending time around ferns in their current state is like a tonic for the nervous system. They can pull you into an expansive state of peacefulness and also relief. In perfect alignment with the way their leaves unfurl, they cause you to unfold, opening you up on all levels in a way that is conducive to your wellbeing. They clear you of discord. Ferns heal both fragmentation and disconnection within a person. They also influence a reconciliation between internal parts and reconciliation your relationships with others.   

Because we are talking about plants, I should mention something that has already begun to happen, but that is likely to become far more extreme in 2026. Many powerful plants that are associated with now popular psychedelic plant medicines, have begun to close themselves down towards the human collective due to misuse. To put it bluntly, they have been abused. They have also been used in ways that they were never intended to be used. And so, they are “calling” less and less people. And with increasing frequency, if they are harvested in out of alignment ways or if they detect misuse at the time of ingestion, they are not participating in the journeys people are taking in the same way that they once did. Shamans will be noticing this shift with increasing intensity in 2026. This is a call for humanity to seriously (and I mean very seriously) increase the consciousness level and ethics with which we interact with these beings.

Going further down the spiritual train, sacral energies are the theme for 2026. This is a year where we are being influenced to come into alignment regarding our sacral chakras and sacral energies. This, is a very orange year! It should come as no surprise given our dominant theme for 2026 that the aspect of our sacral energies that is being most called into consciousness, is our power relative to other people. If you are interested in seeing some information on this, you can watch a video I created titled: How To Open Your Sacral Chakra.  

And going even further down the spiritual train, there is a being called Ezekiel who will be presiding over humanity in 2026. He has been called forward to guide humanity in their path of progression and through the pain of their growth process. In his time on the earthly plane, he developed a mastery of the curing of mental epidemic and was a guiding luminary for ethics and reunification. In 2026, restored relationship is his main focus. He has tasked another being called Zaphkiel to lead this purpose with him. Zaphkiel, who has never had a human incarnation, is a master of all the things that temper the firey energy of 2026. Especially the fire of reactivity and impulsiveness. He can slow down the experience of time. And he will be helping people first and foremost to make important decisions, contemplate in a way that draws upon their soul and use their sacral energies to act from a space of sacred love, rather than fear.           

Something that must be spoken to when doing a forecast at this time is that so many people have no sense of a positive future anymore. A lot of people are looking down a road to total dystopia. And the collapsing economies, natural disasters (especially earthquakes), conflicts between nations, climate catastrophes, government nightmares, and all the various effects of each in 2026 will not help. But this road isn’t the only one that exists for humanity. The dystopian road also doesn’t have to be the one that is taken. In the vast realm of potential roads that exists for humanity, the alternative road that humanity is flirting with at this time, is towards a world that operates according to ethics; both personal and global. This road orients humanity towards the light we are so desperately craving. The people of the world have been inundated with both personal experiences with and awareness of all things unethical. From government and political corruption to scams to conspiracies that turn out to be real to nepotism to legal injustices to greenwashing to fake news to price gouging to animal abuse to planned obsolescence to tampered voting to insider trading to false advertising to discrimination to identity theft to sex crimes involving children to illicit surveillance and the list goes on. This has made it so humanity is valuing ethics more and more. And the more that humanity values ethics, the less tolerance there will be for what is unethical. When choices are made and everything operates according to ethics, the whole of human experience changes. It is not our strength, will and power that is being put to the test here. It is our consciousness, kindness, and love. 

With regards to this, some really good news for 2026 is that the tolerance for companies using deceptive means to create a “good guy” image for themselves in things like their marketing, publicity and labeling (when the truth is the opposite) has been worn out. And so, you can expect far more pressure to be put on them by both the public and regulative authorities this upcoming year. The demand will be for businesses to be in integrity. A demand backed up by consequences for those who don’t. 

Some other good news is that this is a year for waterfall restoration. Essentially, many will return to full force, become healthy again and the ecosystem and/or activities around them brought back to a flourishing state. There will be specific waterfalls that have gone dry that start up again in 2026. And them starting up again (especially when it represents the recovery of a natural water source) will be experienced as a very good omen. The omen will be seen and felt as hope for earth, a return of positive energy, good fortune and prosperity. The potential for a good future. Also, the release of the old life chapter that no longer serves you, so that a new life chapter can take place.

2026 is a year to remember the power of celebration. Make sure you hold and attend celebrations this year. Don’t skip them, like you may be tempted to do. People are needing celebrations. Some of you may not really be in the mood to celebrate, given all that is happening. But hear me out. Seeing as a celebration in this sense of the word is a gathering to acknowledge something positive, celebrations kindle optimism. Especially when things are hard, they give people something in the near future to look forward to. They are also something that brings people physically together in the same space and time; an antidote to the isolation and separation inherent in this mental pandemic; and inherent in our lives being lived digitally through technology. Celebrations create a temporary break from the problems we are facing. This is not only good for stress levels, but it also makes us more effective at problem solving. Celebrations connect us to the cherished aspects of our history and these traditions give us a sense of stability and continuity. This will be an especially incredible year for festivals of light.  

Like 2025, 2026 is a year for bold action. It carries with it the frequency of intensity, energy, passion, risk, new venture, courage, innovation and movement. It is fast paced. And, (and this is a very big and) at the same time, any bold action you take, cannot be impulsive. It must be backed by careful planning, gathering information, calculation, mindful deliberation, predefining of goals and objectives, consideration of consequences, self-control and clarity about your true values and true desires. Think of this like holding both fire and water. Provided that you walk forward into 2026, holding fire in one hand and water in the other, these complimentary energies can completely transform your life for the better. And never forget, whoever controls perception, controls reality.