A personal 7 year for me, 2025 had plenty of highlights and a few lowlights, all of which I have so much gratitude for. It started on an interesting note, a tricky one to navigate from the very beginning, it has been a powerful year of truth – my truth and living that truth.
From the very start I felt it, the pull to go within and to pay very close attention to my inner knowing, my intuition. The sense that I needed to draw on all my resources, known and not yet known was very strong.
As a learning year I would say it’s done its job very well.
Uncertainty has been my constant companion throughout, and although I am very familiar and comfortable with change, 2025 definitely tested my comfort levels and I learned to sit with discomfort pretty much on a daily basis for most of the year.
On the one hand I yearned for new and different, for the changes the year was bringing, on the other it was consistency and stability I craved.
Each number vibration has two sides, the two sides of the same coin. This can sometimes create the feeling of seesawing or swinging between the two sides, sometimes making you question your own sanity. That’s definitely how it’s been for me this year.
Each cycle is 9 years and the 7 year is on the upswing of that 9 year cycle. Divided into 3 lots of 3 – years 1-3, years 4-6 and years 7-9, each ‘lot’ is a mini beginning before reaching the pinnacle of the 9 and preparing for the next cycle.
Sooo…me being on the upswing meant having one eye on where I’ve been and one eye on where I’m going. Taking the lessons, progress and achievements of the previous 6 years and stepping up to the point of understanding what to take with me from that and what to leave behind was the challenge.
Given that this is a post mortem on the highlights and lowlights – all with gratitude, even the ones that didn’t give me happy feels, of 2025, here goes with my list:
Highlights
- gaining freedom from my 9-5
- finally getting a spare room and physical space to create in (I can breathe)
- being beautifully supported in every way by family, friends and colleagues
- gaining clarity from shifting my perspective
- releasing myself from past fears and restrictions (yep self-imposed, weird what we hold onto)
- connecting – bloody lovely relationships with myself and those I love, you know the ones – those beautiful souls you choose to have in your orbit, your trusted inner circle
- having time out is what bed rest while recuperating gave me
Lowlights (still with gratitude)
- fracturing my wrist (first break ever!)
- moving a little further away from the water (still just a few kms away but miss it terribly)
- complete bed rest while dealing with the impact of intense stress
After the global turmoil-filled year we’ve all experienced and borne witness to, this quote really spoke to me of the energy we bring to the world, to the room, to each other.
Imaginal cells
Imaginal cells are the ones that create the incredible process of metamorphosis that occurs when a caterpillar changes into a butterfly.
Initially, each of the imaginal cells operates as a single-cell organism – entirely independent on one another. The immune system of the caterpillar even identifies them as threats and attacks them. Regardless, the imaginal cells continue; they multiply, and they connect with one another, forming clusters.
They start to resonate with the same frequency and communicate in the same language, passing information backwards and forwards until there is a tipping point – when they stop acting as individual, separate cells and instead, become a multiple-celled organism; a butterfly.
For much of 2025 I’ve felt like that chrysalis stage of the caterpillar in the cocoon and I’m now ready to welcome in the next phase of emerging from that cocoon as a fully fledged butterfly, opening up my gorgeous gossamer wings and finally flying.
So to 2025 I say – see ya later and thanks…
With love, respect and gratitude
Fiona x