2025 is the Year of Presence. It’s about owning up, and being present in the world. I’ve been debating doing an online forum about this very thing, giving a year-ahead forecast for 2025. Perhaps I will at some point. There’s still A LOT to unpack there. However, today, I’m tossing out the wide-brush-strokes.

Show up for yourself and others this year.

Say YES to an adventure you normally would say no to, because it may challenge your comfort zone.

Volunteer.

The first world was in a sociopathic hamster wheel prior to 2020. In the USA, this phenomenon was driven by late stage capitalism and malaise. Mostly numbness to what many’s lives had become, since 1965.

In 2020, we pulled the emergency brake and the world slowed down. We remembered what was important. We had food delivered to the house, and big films were released to TV on Netflix, instead of the theater. And because the human race struggles with balance, at least in America— we sort of went way too far in the other direction, going from zombie-hamster-wheel to immovable-sedentary-granite-boulder.

Since that was five years ago, and 5 is the umber of change, it’s no wonder the universe is kicking us in the pants to stop impersonating the Rocky Mountain Front.

For 2025:

Boundaries are important. Yet too many “no’s” will stop all forward progression.

Self-reflection is important. Yet too much time stuck in one’s own story inhibits further chapters being written.

New things are recommended. Let old modalities rest for awhile. “Been there, done that” applies to 2025.

Do your best to suspend your fear (or “walk in faith”, some say) when an answer isn’t easily present. Wait for it. Do what the Universe places in front of you, if you’ve asked the Universe for help. If nothing new is coming, and you have a change your soul has been begging you to make, yet have been afraid/don’t want to be bothered/ your eyelashes aren’t in the perfect place for it —whatever—push yourself to make the change.

Pluto in Aquarius says, “Evolve, beotches!”

Be PRESENT. Look at where your life is today. Look at who you’ve become and what you’ve accomplished. If you spend 2025 in your head, fighting the same old battles you have over the course of your life, you’re not getting the 2025 memo. Engaging automatically with the same ol’ insecurities and old fears will net the year going by like a frustrating Groundhog Day, and you’ll be freaking out twice as hard about it. Ain’t NUTHIN’ gonna happen for any one of us if we keep falling down the life-long “my process, me, my purpose, MY INNER CHILD NEEDS ATTENTION” hole this year.

So love yourself within reason, yet pro-tip: it’s a GREAT year for being PROUD of adulting.

Help others, impromptu. Extend yourself in a way you normally wouldn’t. Don’t post online about it unless you learned something magnificent from it, and would like to share. This stretches our out-of-shape post-Covid “but but but, my couch” muscle.

Know when “no” is the best help you can give someone. Sometimes, helping others is giving them space to help themselves. Fostering co-dependence has very rough, self-destructive outcomes in 2025, the year that also brings in an eradication of illusions. For instance—

Got a pal who is chronically asking for money because they don’t want to be bothered with the minutia or responsibility of “a day job” they’re not thrilled with? Help them by not loaning to them and allowing them to find the strength within them to overcome the insecurity that’s telling them that ANY job has ANY control over their perceived identity, and who they are in the world.

Illusion and escapism are especially toxic to the progression of one’s life path in 2025. So is self-pity, self-absorption, blame, and trying to control others to make oneself feel more wanted, or more comfortable. (It’s gonna be a ROUGH year for those who struggle with narcissistic tendencies.)

Be happy to be HERE. Because guess what? You’re going to die someday. Yep. We all are. You aren’t here forever. This is not an endless prison. Someday, your heart will beat its last thump, and your body will struggle to hang onto your last breath, and you will raspily exhale into your next incarnation. It’s a short ride here.

Have GRATITUDE for how far you’ve come and who you are.

Have GRATITUDE for those who have given you love and life and support along the way.

Give GRACE to yourself and others.

Be aware, yet float ABOVE the hamster-wheel-rasp that people busy themselves with and convince themselves that “the drama” is righteous, purposeful, or even necessary to achieve an end. (Breaking News: Drama is an accessory, not a staple, in learning.)

BE KIND. You can be strong and kind. You can be disagreeing, and kind. You can be angry, yet kind in your delivery. This year, cavalier unkindness as a way of life or identity will bring intense isolation.

DO WHAT’S RIGHT by the law of the Universe, not what’s easy.

HAVE HUMILITY. Your perspective is not always 100% accurate. Neither is mine. No one’s is 100% accurate to ALL angles of any situation. (Insert the “grace” part.)

Watch FINGER WAGGING at others, lest you have several scrolls of your own transgressions displayed before you, for all to see.

And mostly—ENJOY. Enjoy this place where pie is so yummy, and love is so giddy, and the air and water is so beautiful, and the mind and beaches and sunsets are so stunning. Sure, pain is real. Victimization is real. Struggle is real. Suffering is real. However, living daily in all of those states as a modality, as opposed to learning or healing through those states—is a choice.

Choose Presence in 2025. It’ll calm you down. It’ll bring strength when you need it most. You’ll watch static things change in your life.

Because you’ll see your WHOLE life.

And that’s the point of wearing the flesh suit down here. Honestly—it’s a SHORT stay.

This year finances will change dramatically. Whatever your mind says about finances will determine your year. So watch the inner mental prattle. Always “been broke” and expect to be broke? 2025 will oblige, so watch the Negative Nelly narrative in 2025, especially around finances. WORDS HAVE WEIGHT—instead, leave room for unexpected, weird financial miracles in 2025 that will bring you what you ask for, to show you you’re being heard.

The Universe will bring you presents in 2025, if you allow it.

Be Present for all of it.