The Energy Of 2025

IX. The Hermit tarot card.

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Life is a game of energy, so what better way to prepare for 2025 than by taking a look at the subtle, and not so subtle energies that will weave their way throughout the year.

As a Reiki energy healer there are a few different tools and resources I look to for helping provide a general overview of the energy of 2025.

Here I’m sharing a general overview and my perceptions of the energy from looking to numerology, tarot, and the astrology for insight on the overall essence on a collective level.

Keep in mind that your own intuition will always give you the most accurate way to personally work with the energy in any given moment, nothing will ever surpass your own inner guidance system!

So, let’s start with the numerology.

2025 is a 9 year (2 + 0 + 2 + 5 = 9) which symbolizes the cycle of endings/completion and new beginnings.

9 is also associated with selfless service, patience, compassion, love. It also relates to stepping into self-mastery, putting what you have learned into practical use which becomes your inner wisdom to share in service to the world.

The 9th major arcana card in the tarot deck is “IX. The Hermit”.

This is Virgo energy, introspective, going within oneself to seek knowledge and be alone with ones thoughts. Virgo is also a healer, a sage, the energy of being a spiritual leader, whether that is in your own life or for leading others. This will be a year of focus on seeking the answers from within, deepening the practice of listening to your inner voice, fully trusting it, and allowing this to help with discernment in the outer environment.

The Hermit is also Mercury energy, related to communication, messages, thinking, adaptability.

To add more perspective to 2025, when we zoom out and look at 2024 that was an 8 year, of doing the work to find our inner strength, courage, overcoming difficult times, testing our strength of character, and solar plexus energy (“I AM” energy and the energy of the sun), a rebirth from within. 2024 was opening us up to our emotions and compassion.

2025 is now the progression of 2024, and is preparing us for 2026 which in numerology is 10. In tarot the tenth major arcana is “X. Wheel of Fortune” which symbolizes destiny, fate, cycles of time and eternal change. The year to fully step into the new way of being.

My guides describe the energy of 9 as also being reminiscent of awakenings. Awakenings are the simultaneous energy of endings and new beginnings. The ending of who we thought we were, at the same time as stepping into the new beginning as more of who we are, our true soul selves.

Ouroboros ancient symbol.

Year Of The Snake

2025 also happens to be the year of the snake.

The ancient ouroboros symbol of a snake (sometimes a dragon) eating it’s own tail is an apt representation of the never-ending cycle of endings and new beginnings, death and rebirth, infinity. A reminder that death is not the end, it is part of the completion of one cycle preparing for the next cycle in the evolution of the soul.

Snakes are associated with Scorpio energy, the energy of transformation, rebirth, regeneration, and wisdom. The shedding of the skin representing leaving the old behind, releasing old patterns, and the self-healing powers within for renewal.

Snakes are also known to have sharp senses, heightened intuition, and are adaptable to change.

The Astrology, Planetary Shifts in 2025

2025 is a massive year of transition. The astrology forecast shows this as a big year for endings of cycles and the new beginning of cycles.

From November 2024 throughout 2025 all the outer planets are shifting into new cycles, new signs of the zodiac which, you guessed it, brings in new energy to work with. The energy of each zodiac has it’s own flavour as well as each planet bringing it’s own energy. Energy that is all communicating with our own energy fields!

The planetary cycles that are changing:

  • Pluto shifts from Capricorn into Aquarius for a new 20 year cycle

  • Neptune shifts from Pisces into Aries for a new 15 year cycle

  • Saturn shifts from Pisces into Aries for a new 2.5 year cycle

  • Uranus shifts from Taurus into Gemini for a new 8 year cycle

  • Jupiter shifts from Gemini to Cancer for a new 1 year cycle

  • The Lunar North Node shifts from Aries to Pisces, and the South Node shifts from Libra to Virgo (on 11th January - 111 energy, personal growth and a new beginning) affecting the collective consciousness and evolution.

This kind of activity all within 12 months has never happened in our lifetime before, it absolutely feels like a fated and destined point in time for our evolution (and elevation if we are talking about our personal energy field).

This is a vast amount of energy around endings and new beginnings all layering up and overlapping each other at the same time which, as you know, we will experience this activity within our own energy fields and may feel overwhelming, unstable, and a whole range of different emotions on either side of the spectrum.

We are moving into AIR (of the mind, fast energy) and FIRE (action oriented) masculine energy in 2025, and away from EARTH (slow, grounded) and WATER (emotions) feminine energy of 2024.

Time will feel faster in 2025 so it is going to be important to keep looking within yourself to find stillness and work with practices that raise your frequency and help you develop and maintain inner stability and balanced emotions. Being flexible and adaptable will also help you, as being in a state of resistance to change will only feel more uncomfortable.

In Usui Reiki energy healing we work with the 4 elements:

  • Air (breathwork, mental body),

  • Earth (grounding, physical body)

  • Water (hydration supports energy flow, emotional body)

  • Fire (light/Source energy, spiritual body)

You are the alchemist of your own life and energy, if you feel out of balance in 2025 try bringing in more elements of earth and water energy to see if that restores balance to your energy field.

You may need to ground your energy more, or look to your emotional body (the sacral chakra, creative energy centre) to ask what your soul needs from you to promote harmony. It could be as simple as drinking pure water, building a spiritual relationship through communicating with water, tapping into your creativity through a new pursuit or work on bringing closure to unhealed emotional wounds with energy healing.

Pay attention and really LISTEN to what your energy is communicating to you, it is always leading you towards self fulfillment, harmony, and to truly know yourself.

In the midst of endings and new beginnings it can feel like being in between worlds, in a place of transition. One foot in the past, wrapping up and bringing things to completion, with the other foot in the new, getting a taste of the new. Change is often a catalyst for feelings of grief on both conscious and subconscious levels. Whether it is forced change, or change we are choosing for ourselves grief can still be present in the process of letting go and transitioning to the new.

It’s going to be a BIG year of energy! So, be extra gentle with yourself. Learn to adapt by being more of an observer, and a good listener of both your inner and outer world and fully trust your inner compass. And above all else remain hopeful and optimistic for all that awaits us on the other side of breakthroughs and transformation.

One thing I know for sure, from my own self practice as a Reiki Master energy healer, is that the more you know your own energy, and how to heal, strengthen, and support it, the more comfortable the journey is.

Being guided by the energy allows for much more fluidity, serenity, and shows us the way to manage our time, energy, and resources more effectively for each of us. The more deeply you know your own energy the easier it will feel to trust your intuition.

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Thank you for reading! I appreciate your time and energy.

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With love and gratitude,

Claire Seller ~ Energy Healer