
Closing The Cycle - What Has 2025 Taught You?
by Alison Potts
2025 has been a year of refinement, revelation, and powerful endings.Together we’ll uncover the lessons shaping who you’re becoming next. Come to gather your wisdom and step into the new year aligned, empowered, and guided from within.
Transcript
Hello,
Thank you for joining me for a distilled summary of the energies and how they guided us in 2025 with some potent journaling questions,
Reflection questions so that you can really feel what did I learn,
Who am I hearing from inside myself,
Who is truthful and wise and empowering and is going to bring me into alignment with what is really for me.
That is the person to walk forward with into next year.
You may be aware in numerology 2025 has been a nine year,
The conclusion of a cycle,
A timeline.
Whatever happened to you in those last nine years,
What happened to you in this year we've just had has been worthy of paying attention to all your pain points have been your growth points.
Those things you have been shown to be undeniably true,
Even if you didn't like what you were seeing,
Even if it was a shock,
They are for your highest good.
So you don't carry on in deception.
And that includes ways we have been deceiving ourselves.
The new understandings,
The things we have been given an opportunity to relearn are all for our interests.
As we move forward into the clear new beginning,
The golden new beginning of 2026,
Which will be a one year,
The beginning of a whole new cycle.
What we don't want to do guys is take forward into the new cycle.
Old habits that we've been shown clearly don't work for us,
Old ways of relating to ourselves to others,
Maybe of keeping ourselves small,
Maybe of being triggered in a way that takes us back to the past instead of brings us faith for this constantly evolving self,
This constantly evolving universe that we're really in.
We don't want to be stuck in that limited place,
Which is so irrelevant to where we are now.
If we were to distill 2025 into a single teaching,
It is you have completed an old timeline and everything that fell away has made space for who you are ready to become,
Who you really are,
Space for your true being.
We've been getting clarity on our intuition,
On what's coming from our inner voice,
Not from those external voices,
And therefore clarity on our own spiritual mission and our calling.
In 2025,
Pain became refinement.
Painful experiences you had,
Did they break you as challenging as they were?
Some of them may have felt like they were going to break you.
Or did you find a way through them and to another side that was clearer?
These painful points sharpened your awareness of what truly matters.
For instance,
Who's truly there for you,
Or how to be more there for yourself,
Allowed you to process maybe some unprocessed grief or material from the past that's been shapening your life in ways that don't give you clarity and aren't really authentic,
That keep you in pain.
You could consider that each ache,
Each powerful,
Pointy end of what you're experiencing has revealed to you a clearer shape of who you are,
What is for you and who you are becoming,
Which is anything that is on your heart and calling you,
That is actually there for you.
In what ways has that pain appeared in your life and what was the refinement?
Especially as you see yourself on the other side of it,
When we're in it we don't always see.
And what allowed you to keep moving through that pain?
What level of faith,
What level of trust,
What level of knowing?
That's your true inner voice,
Guiding you always through every moment.
In 2025,
Revelation became clarification.
So what surfaced this year was not random.
It was designed to come forward to be information,
To be guidance.
So every truth,
Think back on the truths that have been revealed to you this year,
Every one of those truths were there to help you see your own path,
To see your own needs,
To see who you are separately from any other codependences,
Entanglements,
External voices,
Even the well-meaning ones.
Your path,
Your needs,
Listen to your voice and therefore know your next steps with greater precision.
In 2025,
Stagnation became momentum.
Where you felt stuck was actually the loading zone for a breakthrough.
Any pauses which you saw as feeling stuck were there to teach you what was out of alignment and to redirect your energy toward movement that is real and true.
So often we run on impulse,
We run on past conditioning and it feels like we're not stuck,
We're fluid,
We're moving,
We're running,
But in fact underneath that is that we are stuck.
The part of us that needs to actually be moving fluidly from guidance,
Discernment,
Taking its time when needed,
Not just racing.
That part is the part that's being held under and stuck,
That has been released.
If you used that stagnation to become that loading zone for a breakthrough,
To teach you what has been out of alignment,
Maybe for many of us that's meant a new mode of working,
Whatever your offering is,
A new mode,
A new way of making that offering,
Of thinking about that offering.
And deception,
That's inner or outer deception,
Because of course we can be deceiving ourselves without knowing it,
Became truth.
Any illusions that fell away this year were to make space for integrity.
Seeing things as they are,
Rather than how you hoped or wished they were,
How you feared they were,
Became an act of power.
Loss became sovereignty.
So a lot of people have experienced grief and loss this year in many forms,
But those things that left your life give you an opportunity to return you to yourself.
Think of every release as strengthening your self-trust,
Of reminding you that your centre isn't dependent on external circumstances,
And an opportunity for you to go deeper into that centre and where it's not being grounded or anchored,
Finding better anchor points,
Grounding in different ways or remembering to ground,
Because we often forget.
In 2025,
Endings became a curriculum for your evolution.
Every closure was a teacher.
You're graduating from an old version of yourself,
Gathering the wisdom needed to enter the next cycle with clarity and authority.
You're stepping into 2026,
Not just renewed,
But recalibrated,
Engaging with yourself and in relationship to life in a new way in your spiritual mission and calling.
Allow yourself to align with faith.
When you want to step on this path,
Moving forward into this new brand,
New,
Clear beginning chapter,
It will take faith and faith is the most important ally you have.
It's very strong.
It's the biggest strength.
Now,
Faith flows best when backed with love.
And I invite you to celebrate your expansion,
However it came through,
With gratitude,
With love,
With joy.
You're free from so much that was a burden to you.
This is cause for celebration.
Now I'm going to offer you some reflection questions,
And you can choose any of these that interest you.
There are a range,
And some of them may be the ones you want to take to journal with.
You might want to take one a day to journal with,
So you can pause after each question to write it down.
What choices this year made you feel more like yourself?
So when you made a certain choice,
Where did your energy rise?
You'll feel that energy rise whenever we feel more like ourselves,
And we feel more embodied.
Were there choices this year that particularly made you feel that way?
And next,
What did,
And you can say this in the I,
Let's put this into I,
What did I stop tolerating?
Either inside myself or outside.
That gave me strength.
So that's where you pay attention to where you've said no,
Where you've had clarity and been clear,
Where you've put in boundaries.
What did you stop tolerating?
And those can be inner boundaries and inner no's and yes's.
And found that doing so gave you strength.
Question three,
Where did I surprise myself with courage?
That's a potent question.
We forget how courageous we are,
And often what stops us doing things we really know we should be doing is not recognizing how courageous we can be,
Not even recognizing courage as a factor.
Next question,
Which relationships or conversations this year strengthened my sense of self?
Think back on who you've been meeting up with,
Chatting with.
What were those nourishing conversations where you felt your sense of self was strengthened?
What relationships reflect your power?
Notice who reflects your power and who doesn't?
Next question,
What did I let go of that created immediate inner space?
Letting go of a distraction,
An obligation,
A certain identity,
A habit.
What freed you and what freed space inside you?
Next,
What truth,
Once seen,
Changed everything?
Insight is empowerment.
So what truly opened your eyes this year?
What pain point became a turning point?
Where did discomfort become direction?
Next question,
Where did I choose honesty over harmony,
Clarity over comfort,
Or truth over habit?
This is a really important guiding question.
If you want harmony and clarity and truth to be leaders as you go forward into 2026,
This new beginning,
This continuation that will take you higher,
Richer,
Fuller,
Deeper,
In all the best ways,
You will want that clarity and honesty and truth to lead.
Where this year did you choose that and make a statement that this is who I am?
Honesty over harmony.
It's hard.
Where people please us by nature,
I think in many ways,
Because of the ancient part of our brain,
The amygdala,
Operating for when being thrown out of the tribe meant certain death.
Honesty over harmony,
Clarity over comfort,
Truth over habit.
Where did you make that choice?
Empowerment is a pattern you can trace where you've been empowered,
Empowered yourself,
And where you've disempowered yourself.
We want to break through disempowering patterns and empower the empowering ones.
Next question,
What did I learn about how I support myself emotionally,
Physically,
Spiritually?
Which gestures,
Practices,
Reminders,
Choices actually worked?
Take an inventory.
What actually worked that was really good self-support for you?
The next question is a signature empowerment question.
What do I trust in myself now that I didn't trust last year?
What do I fully trust in myself now,
Having come through all these energetic lessons and opportunities that I didn't trust,
Maybe at the start of the year or during the year?
It's interesting to see that that lack of trust was alchemized into a trust by the energies and the way you work with them.
Here's another really important question.
Pay attention to this one.
What feels undeniably over for me and how does that empower me?
Endings are power sources and there have been many endings in a nine-year.
That's what it's all about,
Showing us where the endings need to be.
You can't carry everything forward and there are some things that we've got locked into in a past soul contract that we definitely want to close the loop on.
Next question,
What inner voice showed up that felt wiser than the one before?
Our inner voice has been given an upgrade.
Is there one particular way in which there's an inner voice in you that has showed up that feels wiser?
That voice is your one-year frequency,
So remember it.
And related to that,
Here's a question.
What is the part of me that is rising now,
Asking for space,
Voice or leadership?
Who in you wants the mic next year?
And we want to track the old hooks that no longer work.
So with that,
What am I becoming impossible to manipulate,
Guilt or shame into being?
Most of us have history where we have been manipulated,
Guilted or shamed into being limited or someone we're not and we felt it is a trap or a web we can't get out of.
Now we're liberated because we know who we are or who we are becoming.
So what in you,
What about you and who you are makes it impossible for you to be manipulated,
Guilted or shamed into being something else?
So we're tracking,
As I said,
Those old hooks that no longer work,
So we remember them for next year and going forward.
And finally,
Here's your final question.
If my life were to expand even 10 degrees more,
What inequality would lead the expansion?
Is there one inequality that you want to place in leadership for your expansion as you move forward?
So that could be courage,
Joy,
Truth,
Boundaries,
Desire,
Stability,
Radiance,
Your body,
Your life,
Your choice what leads in it,
Your choice what word it is.
So I hope that that short reading of the energy's quick review of a very,
Very big year for all of us has given you whatever you need in terms of support,
Validation and to take up and take the lead on for yourself.
And again,
Those questions you can always pause,
Write one down,
Work with one and see what comes forward,
More comes forward when we go deep,
Deep dive into these questions,
There's always more to uncover.
So that we'll be really ready for the next year.
And on that note,
Listen,
There are only a few weeks left,
A couple of weeks left of this year,
Right?
And this is not the time to rev up the engine,
To go flying off in any direction.
We are recalibrating,
We've been recalibrated,
That process is still happening.
The best thing you can do now is sink into something that feels pleasurable,
Nurturing,
Loving,
Restful,
Surrender into that,
Let your body recalibrate and reward yourself for everything,
All the growth,
All the learning and all the steps you've taken,
The bigger,
Higher steps you've taken in faith this year,
Because you've been rewarded by them and the best is yet to come.
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Recent Reviews
Patricia
January 19, 2026
Wonderful end of yr/beginning of new year track, journalling prompts were so useful and spot on to reveal all the truths we want to take into this year as we end year 9! So glad to see your new lives coming soon at an earlier time in the evening for us Europeans! Love, love, love your work and you! Thank you, much gratitude. I can’t send money on the lives as in a family group and the purse isn’t mine! xxx
::Bethany::
January 13, 2026
These questions were so helpful! They helped me gain a fresh perspective on something I was struggling with. I thought I was stuck or stagnant in an area that was actually making slow progress. I was able to let go of my frustration and judgment around it. I'm very appreciative! Thank you, Alison. ☺️💞🫂
Michelle
January 2, 2026
Thanks Alison. I will spend some time with these questions. This is such a helpful resource and guide. 🙏💕
Chuck
December 31, 2025
Alright Alison, another wonderful & insightful meditation. Second time through for me. This afternoon is Dec 31 here is Kelowna and I was outside thinking on the changes for me in 2025 and the old habits I’m not taking into 2026. I feel really good about leaving some old patterns behind! . About the same time as these thoughts I noticed a raven circulating his way up and over; that is, I live up on the side of a mountain and birds need to loop up in circles and then move diagonally over so they can get higher on the mountain to their nests (I trust this description makes sense). The raven puts in a lot of effort to move up the hill but they know exactly what they are doing ! In similar fashion, myself and others on your Lives have put in lots of effort this year working on old habits and for me the same themes have come up. At some points I felt that I was not making headway but, similar to the raven’s flight pattern, I was making headway but maybe I didn’t recognize it during the year. Now at year end and I look back and I’ve made some real changes. All to say many thanks for this meditation, your other meditations, and the Live events. Happy New Year ! 🙏
Pat
December 23, 2025
Thank you so much Alison. Your talk n advice was Brilliant. I will definitely listen to it again to make notes . Blessings to you in the New Year n for all your beautiful meditations . Much love n gratitude
Jason
December 20, 2025
Some items are hard to hear or r flext on...which is good
Chris
December 15, 2025
Powerful reflection and journaling suggestions by Alison. A brilliant way to review 2025 and move confidently into 2026.
Victoria
December 14, 2025
Excellent reflection and questions at year-end. Thank you! 💫✨💫
Vee
December 13, 2025
Excellent! I'll take the entire end of this year to make a thorough review using these soulful prompts. 🙏🏽✍️🏽💥 Many thanks!
