2026 — A Year of One.
The Point, the Mandala, the New Cycle.
As the calendar turns to 2026, we enter a Year of One. In numerology and sacred geometry, one represents origin, initiation, and pure potential. It is the point before the line, the silent centre from which all form emerges.
This feels especially meaningful following 2025, a Year of Nine — the number of completion. Nine carries the frequency of fulfilment, integration, and release. It is the closing of a cycle, the moment when experience ripens into wisdom. In sacred geometry, nine reflects culmination: the pattern completed, the form made whole.
And then we return to one.
Not as repetition, but as renewal.
The Geometry of One and the Art of Mandala
In sacred geometry, one is the point — dimensionless, still, and infinitely generative. Every geometric form begins here. From the point, a line extends. From the line, a circle is drawn. From the circle, the mandala unfolds.
The mandala is not decoration; it is geometry in meditation. Each mandala begins with a single point placed at the centre. From that centre, symmetry, rhythm, and meaning emerge. The point holds intention. It determines the coherence of everything that follows.
In this way, 2026 invites us to work like mandala artists:
Begin at the centre
Choose the point consciously
Allow form to arise slowly, in harmony
A Year of One is not about complexity. It is about precision of intention. When the centre is clear, the pattern naturally aligns.
From Completion to Conscious Beginning.
Where nine is the harvest, one is the seed.
This year is not asking us to rush forward with grand plans or fixed outcomes. Instead, it invites a quieter question:
What is the correct starting point now?
Before expansion, there is alignment. Before growth, there is choice. One teaches us that the quality of the beginning determines the integrity of the whole.
A Southern Hemisphere Threshold.
I am greeting this new calendar year in the southern hemisphere, where nature itself mirrors this energetic reset. Summer offers space — long days, softened schedules, and moments of genuine presence. Time with friends and family becomes a living reflection practice rather than a structured review.
Reflection here feels embodied:
What completed itself naturally over the last cycle?
What required effort to release?
What simplicity feels essential moving forward?
A Year of One does not demand urgency. It values clarity over speed.
This threshold into 2026 is also being met with intentional evaluation, both personally and within Love Life Retreats and Love Life School of Yoga. Just as in mandala practice, this is a return to the centre — revisiting why these offerings were created, what they are truly here to serve, and how they wish to evolve.
Not everything from the previous cycle is meant to be carried forward unchanged. Some structures are refined. Some are simplified. Some are gently released. This is not dismantling — it is distillation. Ensuring that what remains is coherent, aligned, and sustainable.
My own personal journey is undergoing the same recalibration. A Year of One asks for discernment. It invites creation from essence rather than accumulation, leadership from integrity rather than momentum.
As we step into 2026, may we honour the power of the point.
The beginning that shapes the whole.
The centre from which a new mandala is drawn.
