A Collective Energy Reading for December and early 2026
Introduction
This is the fourth piece in our Seasonal Survival Guide for Empathic Rebels series, and it comes directly from a spirit transmission I received.
If you're feeling the weight of the season, the pressure to do more, the pull of old patterns, or the ache of grief that hasn't quite been processed—this one's for you. Spirit has some things to say about slowing down, listening inward, and the quiet revolution of saying "no thanks."
The Simple Act of Slowing Down
We want to thank you first for taking the time to sit and be still, to slow your energies down enough so that we may catch up with you. And we want you to know that it's as simple as that.
We also want to acknowledge that sometimes it's not easy to slow down the pace of busy thoughts and frantic energies. If you're listening to this with a racing mind or having difficulty becoming still, know that this energy transmission will still be effective. We will find ways to reach you no matter what your mind is doing in this moment or in the recent past.
The truth is: you don't have to be calm, clear, or centered for spirit to work with you. The willingness itself is enough.
You Are Known, and You Are Guided
We are all always working behind the scenes, proactively orchestrating experiences that empower you on a soul level.
What we would want for you, especially during periods of time that feel compressed, strained, or amplified, is to remember who you are. Remember the courage, purpose, and focus that you carried when you chose to be born into this physical experience. We want you to know that you know best.
As you reconnect with this soul self, you can effectively parent yourself and guide yourself toward easier, more elevated experiences. This wise self—the one that predates your birth—still resides in you, even when you are overwhelmed, burned out, confused, or feeling conflicted.
You must have cognizance of this soul self in order for your life to move forward in the way you would like it to. When we surrender to the soul self, it can govern positive momentum in your life. You will find that many things simply take care of themselves. You will find that you have more renewed energy to simply show up and be the conduit—and that's not the same as applied force, labour, or pushing things into being.
Developing Self-Trust in Your World
Our greatest wish as spirit is for you to develop self-trust in the world. Feel and know that this world is your home, and it is the foundation of everything you could possibly need.
The Invitation of 2026: Bold Simplicity Over Acceleration
Many of us in 2025 have moved through a time of accelerated learning, which was robust and required a lot of processing. What's still in motion as we move into 2026 might tempt us to enter the year with gusto and purpose. Yet the most audacious move we can make is to interrupt patterns that require us to be constantly active.
Progress and momentum happen on an energetic level—and they happen even as we sleep. Sometimes, especially as we sleep, take rest, or initiate changes to step outside of patterns that no longer serve us.
For many of us in the first quarter of 2026, there is an invitation to be bold in our simplicity and our resistance to complexity. In our endeavours, there may be invitations to speed up, or things that on the surface look like acceleration and progress.
Please know this: you can't miss the boat. Opportunities will be in safekeeping for you if you can have the courage sometimes to buck the trend and resist patterns that keep you in old ways of thinking about labour, effort, work, and worth.
Saying No with Grace
Be aware of significant figures in your life who, even if well-meaning, will believe they are offering you opportunities that look progressive on the surface. Question whether this solidifies old patterns for you.
Therefore, we must get more comfortable with saying "thanks, but no thanks." And spirit have mentioned before: this can be a soft and elevating statement, which is not defensive and does not create tension within you.
Processing What's Been Carried
Some of you are still processing grief, loss, or disconnection. Because of the pace of your life in the past 18 months, you may not have had the opportunity to catch up with yourself.
What you may find in the next month or two—and not only because it's the season of gifting—is that you are offered opportunities to have experiences that promote rest, retreat, harmony, and self-nurturing.
Please, if you can have the courage to accept those invitations. Resist the voice in your head that tells you that you have to be constantly vigilant and active. The hypervigilance that some of you are experiencing is a trauma response, the origins of which may be a few years ago.
Accept the gifts of pause that are being offered to you.
Amplified Audience: Learning to Hear Your Inner Directives
For many of you, the experience of audience is going to be amplified from this point onwards—for the next few months and beyond.
This does not mean the physical experience of hearing disembodied voices. It means having the sense of being spoken to and having a knowing of what those words are. These words will be gently directive, and they can be experienced on a day-to-day basis.
Even if you have a desire for greater strategy or clarity about what you're supposed to focus on or initiate over 12 months in 2026, be open to gentle daily drip feeds of directives. These may not be about matters of great magnitude, but more about where you turn your attention throughout the day—an invitation to shut off certain stimuli and switch your focus to something else for the preservation of your mental and emotional health and healthy energetic boundaries with others.
The Warmth in Your Chest: Your Inner Compass
This inner guidance will be matched with a feeling of warmth in your chest. This warmth helps you feel validated in choosing your daily experience in this way, and in shaping and respecting your energies.
The warmth you feel in your chest helps you feel stronger in your sense of self. We may equate this with the solar plexus chakra, the colour of which is yellow, and this amplifies the feeling of personal sovereignty. It helps you feel more calm and effortless in your choosing of where to focus, to preserve and respect your energies.
As this feeling becomes more dominant, it will feel more dominant than any external input or directions from other people. More powerful than requests from others. More resilient against energetic imprints from other people.
You will also find in the next few months that there are circumstances which give you greater flexibility in how you spend your day—so that it's easier to touch base with yourself, to regroup, to have quiet time or solo time where you can attune to these inner directives and the warm feeling in your chest.
The Securing of Finances: Ease Over Effort
Another gift that you can look forward to in the next few months is the consolidation and securing of finances.
This is not attached to a feeling of applied effort and labour. This is about opportunities, suggestions, and partnerships that arise—partnerships that provide bedrocks of financial security, but don't require greater exertion or levels of commitment that would feel uncomfortable for you.
This allows you to look across the year 2026 and have a greater sense of what your finances will be doing. You can plan with more ease.
Relationships: Choosing Based on How They Feel
You will have the opportunity to reflect on relationships in the first portion of 2026. The focus here is on interactions that simply feel good in your nervous system—interactions that help you feel rooted, at home, and in tune with the other person.
We invite you to look at how some of your personal relationships might feel a bit transactional, and where you place too much emphasis on your worth as it relates to acts of service. You do things for people in a way to demonstrate that you yourself are worthy and worthy of love.
It's the sentiment of "earning your keep"—which is almost better suited to work or service environments than personal relationships.
The Simplicity of Good Company
There is a simplicity to this message: you are going to be guided to spend time with those who make you feel good. You may feel a reduced sense of attraction to those who make you feel challenged, tired, and who make you overthink.
There is no blame in any of this. It's just about observing the energies.
Some of your relationships feel uncomfortable because you no longer have that natural resonance. You may feel compelled to keep certain connections going by applying more effort or acts of service. But you're being called to have a more receptive experience now.
You don't have to fill the space with effort. You don't have to increase communication or acts of service from you. Have the courage to leave some space for others to give back to you in return.
Equal Exchange: A New Relational Standard
Some of your relationships are not set up for equal give and take, and that will become quite evident in the first few months of 2026.
Instead, it's about having the courage to receive. It's about not filling the space with acts of service, but simply observing where people are proactively trying to help you have an easy existence.
Some of these good souls will be quite insistent upon focusing attention to your well-being, even though you might have a habit of deflecting—of asking people how they are, or asking how you might improve their experience. Pay attention to those who bounce this back to you.
Because it's spirit's way of helping to train you into being more receptive and a recipient of the things that you've been asking for for many, many years.
More Messages Will Follow Shortly…
A Final Word For Now
The festive season isn't just about giving. It's about practicing the art of receiving. It's about noticing who shows up for you, and letting them. It's about the quiet revolution of choosing rest over rush, and simplicity over strain.
You're not behind. You're not missing anything. And you're far braver than you know.
This piece is part of our Seasonal Survival Guide for Empathic Rebels. If you're navigating the festive season and need some bespoke support, my Intuitive Energy Reviews are available as one-off sessions, or we can explore a deeper dive through my Re-Align & Re-Fuel coaching programme.
Both are perfect gifts for yourself or someone you love who could use some spiritual grounding right now.