The Year of the Yearn
I was going to call this blog post "Happy New Yearn," but maybe I'm a little too late for that. Still, I feel guided to share this spirit message with the collective about a dominant theme for the year ahead.
We can call this the Year of the Yearn.
It's interesting—right now there's a focus in mainstream culture on the term "yearning." It feels like it's trending. We're seeing it in TV shows, films, and upcoming releases, all exploring yearning and romantic love.
But what I'm receiving from Spirit goes deeper than a cultural trend. Yearning is a core theme for us to explore collectively in 2026. And the yearning this year is not the yearning of not having. It's not angst or the pang of unrealized desires.
The Whale Call
This yearning is something I refer to in my work as the whale call. Think about that haunting, sonorous sound whales and dolphins make.
When I do a session with somebody, I look for the whale call. This is not always what's in the conscious mind of the client or what feels like the pressing issue. Often—and this is appropriate to the underwater theme—it's about something in the unconscious as a motivation or longing which is becoming conscious and evident.
It can be likened to the process of falling in love because it's evoked from a very deep part of you. People often feel their love experiences are connected to past lives because they feel so primal and deep.
Your whale call is about the intention and momentum that your soul had when you came into this current incarnation. If this is the Year of the Yearn, it's about deep core needs becoming fully realized, brought into your conscious mind, and integrated into your daily reality.
Evoked and Manifested
This could be about what is manifested and attracted to you, appearing seemingly by synchronicity or unexpectedly. But it's also about what is evoked within you, coming to the light, needing your conscious attention and integration into habits, behaviors, and goals.
This feeling of yearning—maybe it is yearning for a lover or a specific person—but it's not only the year of yearning, it's the year of embodying and receiving. And that's the breakthrough.
The yearning isn't just an emphatic want or desire. It comes from a deeper, older, more authentic place.
There might be vocations, ideas, desires, callings that you had as a child that you now want to bring into being again. If you always wanted to be an author and your career has taken various twists and turns, the desire to be an author will be evoked again, demanding attention.
Authentic Fulfillment
The yearning is about your truest self, your most authentic desires, and opportunities for the deepest, intrinsic fulfillment.
It won't be about codependent clinging or the belief that you can only feel whole when a particular person reciprocates their love. It's not conditional—"I can only feel happy if I become a famous influencer" or "if I get that promotion." It's not about validation of identity or compensating for lack in your self-esteem.
This yearning is about what makes you feel complete. There is autonomy and agency in being able to manifest these outcomes yourself and follow your calling. Because these callings feel so deep, somatic, and authentic, they have a greater chance of successful manifestation.
My heart is full.
This is the core affirmation for this year. Not "my heart will be full when..." but my heart is full. The yearning itself is fulfilling. The recognition of what calls to you is already nourishing.
What You Seek Is Seeking You
People are yearning for you and what you have to offer. We're mindful of the Rumi quote: what you seek is seeking you.
If you have this old desire to be an author that's been reawakened—or whatever your chosen goal is—the manifesting process is also about your future readers, your future audience, and what they are yearning for and how you are a conduit for that.
Your attraction and success is facilitated when you succumb to your deepest yearning and wishes, because your future audience has collectively been manifesting this through you. That's where you have that perfect match.
You'll find it easier if you're not yearning for a very specific conditional outcome, such as "I absolutely need to be a bestselling author" or "I absolutely need this specific person to be in love with me."
Sacred Archetypes
What's so useful and evocative about art—TV shows or movies that evoke yearning—is that it's about sacred archetypes.
Maybe in your favorite book or movie, one of the characters embodies an archetype. If you're looking to bring that into your life, this is where art can facilitate the manifesting process. You can use what's evoked in you through the art to manifest with, because it's archetypal and therefore in the collective unconscious.
It's not dependent upon surface things—someone having to look a specific way or have a certain job. It's not dependent upon logical criteria. It's the essence of something and the knowing that someone embodying the energy is on their way.
The Gift of Nostalgia
One current trend is revisiting who we were ten years ago on social media. People this year might find their yearnings come from previous versions of themselves—reconnecting with passions and callings from before they became overly conditioned by life's expectations.
There's a reason why so much art about yearning has historical settings. We might long for simpler, more mindful times when communication and connection were more reflexive and present. In the modern age of social media, imagery is fed to us, populating our minds and putting us in a passive state. Yearning and evocation require an active state and imagination.
Whatever you're manifesting could be easier if it's evoked through reading, listening to music, or engaging with art that stirs images within you—rather than having them passively delivered. Social media tells us what we should want. Your whale call is tailor-made for you because it comes from you. Now is the time to detach from external stimuli so you can evoke and visualize your own intent.
The state of being present is intrinsic to yearning. This year you'll be drawn to your own personal history—former callings and reawakened ideas demanding attention once more.
When meeting people aligned with your yearning, you'll feel like you've met them before. Sometimes you might attribute that to a past life, and sometimes that could be true. But it's because it relates to your whale call—a call of your soul that was present before you were born. Something deep, innate, and essential to your soul's signature which predates all your lived experience, conditioning, and accumulated hang-ups.
When you find connections with soulmates this year—whether romantic, vocational, or platonic—it's because it speaks to this older part of you, the soul part of you.
There can be an inconvenience to these yearnings because they're not about the status quo you've created. With our yearnings, we must be prepared to be positively disrupted.
Yearning and Having as One
It's important to not place yearning and having as two separate states.
What's helpful about works of art that celebrate yearning is that when we evoke that feeling, we feel like we're having that experience. Neurologically, our brains can't tell the difference. We're not placing yearning and having as two separate things.
It's all about evocation and embodiment. The more you evoke and embody the energy from that manifesting perspective, the easier it will be to manifest.
This isn't the year of yearning as in pining but not having. This is the year of remembering, acknowledging, and recognizing deeper desires and wants that were always there. Like the whale call, it's calling for your attention once more.
When we key into this energy, we're less likely to be swamped with anxiety or angst about the possibility of not having. The feeling is so resonant, representing such an authentic deep part of ourselves, that it's such a perfect fit. The attraction or having of it starts to feel inevitable. Piece of cake. Easy.
Being Delulu
Another trending phrase right now is being "delulu"—delusional.
If you're led by your yearning and you open up to it and trust it, being delulu doesn't mean you're not realistic or rational or healthy in your thinking. But you have to disregard naysaying, including your own thoughts which will give you a million reasons why something is not possible, difficult, scarce, lacking, or rare.
The benefit of the yearn and being delulu is it helps to soothe doubts, naysaying, and the critical mind that is always scanning for threats.
Permission to Yearn
It's crucially about giving yourself permission to yearn and to want what you want.
This shouldn't be about very specific conditions—"I only want this one specific person" or "I only am going to be happy if I am mega rich." It's more about honoring and respecting your callings, however delulu they seem.
In the second half of the year, you'll have more thoughts around strategy and systems, bringing your callings into the world as more consistent, tangible manifested reality, or committing to them as daily practices and habits.
But especially because we're going through such challenging times collectively, it isn't delusional to allow yourself that bubble of hope or to hold to what might feel like quite a grand ambition, something that looks very different from your current reality.
There isn't denial or sticking our fingers in our ears. Thinking about that longer-term expression of something that feels so true for you will have a healing function right now. It will also change your key relationships through this year.
Choices That Reflect Your Yearning
Once you start to respect and honor your deepest yearnings and spend time coming to conscious awareness of them, your choices will begin to change. Changes in key relationships, changes in your work life, changes in how you spend your time—because you'll want your daily experience, choices, and routines to be infused with this magic you're starting to feel.
This intensive yearning brings vitality, magic, and reenchantment. It's about making your life exactly what you want it to be, because your daily choices and habits shape your reality.
What Is Your Whale Call?
What yearnings are being stirred within you right now? What deep callings are demanding your attention?
If you want to explore your whale call in depth, an Intuitive Energy Review can help you identify and honor these authentic desires. Together, we can look at what's being evoked from within you and what's ready to be manifested in your experience.
Through divination, we can see what will be attracted to you as a response to honoring these yearnings. What can you expect to manifest and attract in 2025 when you answer your whale call?
Discover the answers in an Intuitive Energy Review with me.