2026: A Window on The Shift... Examining 10 Key Energetic Trends

The Planetary Shift is at an anvil of intense activation. 2025 was monumental. What does 2026 hold in store? I don't believe you can accurately prophesy, because the space-time continuum is constantly oscillating through new iterations. You can, however, sense, intuit, and feel the underlying energetic trends of the quantum field, and how they're manifesting on the surface. You can, therefore, begin to witness 'future-landing-now'. What might we, thus, see?

Monumental 2025

Looking back, surely we can say that 2025 was the most powerful year of the Shift to date, where everything changed beyond recognition. Plenty will still be scrabbling to catch up - so much consciousness has been 'tugged' in people's fields that it takes serious, dedicated time and work, of essential integration.

The problem is distraction. Social media has gone into hyperdrive of intentional derailment. If the Shadow can distract, then it detaches people from the flow - many end up in diverted timeline bubbles. Indeed, one key trend we can see building in strength, is the Shadows 'harvest' of souls into a 4D collectivised bubble.

What does that mean, exactly? It's essential to understand.

The being might be acting here in the 3D, apparently with free will and choices. But all too often, these 'choices' are being influenced through the 4D morphic fields, channelling through hybridised DNA: goals, objectives, desires, and dreams are projected through consciousness, so many choices are not free choices at all. In this state, the shadow can then tether the soul to the 4D collective. When the being dies in the Shift and passes on, it's NOT to the 5D paradigm, but to the synthetic shift simulation instead.

This is the first most important trend to be aware of. Because it is driving the direction many unwitting souls are currently heading in, and it's essential to blow the whistle on it, so there's a chance to break free.

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The Spiritual Mainstream

The spiritual mainstream is the last line of defence for this very sophisticated deception. Here are three key trends of 2025, heading into 2026, where people in the alternative and spiritual mainstreams are being led astray (often, inadvertently by their proponent/leader)...

1) "That reincarnation is a trap to be avoided". This is perhaps the most sophisticated deception of all. The idea begins with a truth: 'not wanting to reincarnate into the Matrix'. But the key question missing is: Who is choosing this avoidance? The soul, in many cases, has ALREADY chosen to be here; so that it could forge sovereignty, evolve, and break free of the cycles of unconscious death and rebirth. Many souls went willingly down the route of the bogus pandemic, for example. Yet it provided them the landscape to realise their mistake, integrate, process through karma, and forge greater soul-sovereignty. They won't be fooled in that way again. And so the soul reincarnates, many thousands of times, until it has forged, evolved, and naturally escaped the wheel of karma.

Here's the very clever ruse (by the architect of the intervention): in getting alternative leaders to suggest to 'drop karma and not to reincarnate', is actually the trap itself, because it takes souls into that harvested 4D bubble I'm speaking of.

There is no way around it - to evolve, we must allow reincarnation and process through karma. Such is the way of past masters including: The Buddha; the Lineage of the Dalai Llamas; The Kriya Yogis, including Paramahansa Yogananda, right the way back to the "Deathless Saint, Babaji"; then there are the philosophers Plato and Pythagorus; present day proponents of reincarnation have been - Rudoplp Steiner, Edgar Case, Delores Cannon, Drunvalo Melchizedek, Alan Watts (to name but a few); texts that enlighten about reincarnation include the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Chinese Buddhism, even the Bible (before it was edited out by the Roman Emperor Constantine). The list goes on. That's not to mention, of course, the many thousands of people around the world now recalling their past lives and actively processing their karma. Let's be very cautious of the leaders propagating this trap, even if they are misguided and doing it unintentionally. That's the trap itself!

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2) We need to be highly discerning of channelled material. Why does anyone need to channel? What are they doing in the process? In most cases, there's a desire to get to information they don't, in their regular consciousness, already have access to. Sounds of value, right? Wrong! I ask: what do we really need to channel? The soul emerges from the source - it is YOUR soul, and YOURS ONLY. Anything that now comes into the relativity is a perspective, NOT absolute. As the soul emerges from the Source, it is endowed with sovereignty. Its role is to self-actualise through unique self-expression. All of reality is a perception - so the problem with someone else 'channelling truth to you', is that it can override your own sovereign actualisation, how you perceive reality, and thereby the path you then choose to follow.

In any case, if a channeller is needing to channel something beyond themselves, then they are NOT able to connect to the Source themselves - if they were able, they'd be channelling their own higher soul, as it comes through the Akashic Record - the place of all-knowing, and it would be embodied, here and now, in the regular consciousness. By channelling some other source, how ever enlightened it may appear to be, they're actually disconnecting from their own source-connection, thereby losing sovereignty and their own, unique perceptions of reality. It then begs the essential question: what are they actually channelling? How do they know, for sure, it is benevolent, and not subtly twisting the truth to make a trap for other souls?

I can tell you, from my perspective, that to channel to someone in that way, if not done extremely carefully, is to risk overriding their soveriegnty, which goes against the first principle of the Universe, and therefore, in my knowing, a Benevolent soul would not channel to another (the exception is whereby the being channeling is more activating the other's consciousness to make deeper realisations of their own).

In 2026, following the trend of 2025, we'll likely see an increasing amount of channelled (misguiding) material on the internet and in social media - this kind of delivery has seemingly gone into hyperdrive, to enfold into the Harvest - it keeps people sitting back on the 'sofa of life', rather than making their own sovereign actualisations. Be very wary of that kind of material.

3) The ET Disclosure Narrative: We're going to witness increasing attempts to shape the Shift narrative by 'Disclosure of the ETs'. We're already seeing this slip into the mainstream media. It's either used to terrify, or to enthral - the 'aliens are out there'. The point is: the 'aliens are in here!' Meaning, they're ALREADY in the multidimensional field and have been so since the inception of humanity many millions of years ago - both form the Benevolent seeding of Lemurians, and the Intervention hybridisation during the Atlantean epoc. Humanity is being influenced through carefully contrived DNA, which either blocks true soul infusion, or else misdirects intentions, desires, goals and ambitions - it's a sophisticated enslavement. By 'disclosing the aliens out there', it stops people from doing the inner work to eject the Intervention from within.

Also, as the Shift gathers pace and the 3D structure of the Earth becomes increasingly unstable, you'll likely see escalating agendas to 'prepare to go off-world' (or dig bunkers) and that the 'ETs will help us'. The Shift is NOT about going off-world. Instead, the Grand Galactic Convergence will ensure this alien Simulation is stripped from the Earth - if you want to truly escape the Matrix, it is NOT to go off-world in some 'daring ET rescue mission'. We must do the inner work, connect through all the chakras, and activate the Merkabah (anchored in the 3D). When the 3D becomes untenable, then through the process of Maya Samadhi, we can extract, as the soul, into the Spirit Light Body up in 5D/6D/7D - the Golden Realm for Earth.

These are just three of the key ways in which people are being intentionally deceived from going with the real Shift.

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4) Increased Solar and Galactic Infusions: We're seeing an escalation of solar and galactic infusions of energy into the solar system and upon the Earth. This is highly activational of Earth's toroidal speed and vibration. A new planetary soul, a dragon soul called Avalonia, came in and took the planetary reins at the beginning of 2025. She has already accelerated the toroidal speed of the planet. Hence, the increasing amount of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. They're necessary, so as to open the tectonic plates of the Earth, whereby the planet can meet the activations and accelerations as our solar system now moves into the highly-charged Galactic Current Sheet.

5) Growing Tectonic Tension: The Shadow is doing all it can to lock the surface of the planet in the old construct - through the imposition of the artificial Moon, and the electromagnetic coupling of many megalyths around the world, such as the Giza pyramids. It's causing a highly charged, tense and explosive situation below the Earth's surface - in the crust and the mantle. This must be eased by Benevolence going forward, and I am reliably informed that the various members of the Galactic Family working with the Shift will be increasing their attention, and solutions, to this building dynamic going forward.

It's going to be an intense ride through 2026 in this regard, so you must prepare your consciousness for instability, and being able to ride that comfortably through. Fears, anxieties, and insecurities will come up, but these are not to suppress and turn away from - instead, they are the gateways to step through; they reveal where you might be identified to the old construct, and how you can break free.

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6) Assertion of Avalonia's Power: We're going to see an increasing assertion of Avalonia's sovereign power in 2026 - 'unfolding her dragon wings', so to speak. The heavenly probe, 3i/Atlas, has already done a great deal to soften electromagnetic suppression, so she can begin to do this. Let's watch for that one, and boldly ride the emergent energies. In short, we're going to witness an opening up of the tectonic plates, to some degree, leading to increased earthquake, volcanic, and tsunami activity. We must work, therefore, to break past the identity layers and come into our quantum selves - so we can be invigorated by the energies, not close down in the wake of them.

Human Evolution

The Shift gathers pace now, the energetic tension is building, which is causing a split in the human collective: there's a determined wave of souls stepping boldly into the fray of self-realisation, stripping off the inner layers of the old construct; meanwhile, many languish either in inertia, or self deception, subtly diverting from the path, so as to avoid the necessary ardour of the grit, the graft and the grace of the inner work. Each of us must become crystal clear now, as to our orientation in life, and where we wish to travel as a soul.

To truly ascend with the Shift, that has to become the primary motivation behind how each moment shapes. For those who are earnestly going with the Shift, there are three energetic trends that have been materialising through 2025, which I believe will accelerate through 2026:

7) Growing Through Past Life Regressions: Past life karma is bubbling to the fore like never before. For those who are digging deep (and not getting diverted off), many layers are coming up. Sirius karma, and that of the Atlantean breakdown through the Great Flood, have been pre-eminent. Regressing through past Shift breakdowns, although challenging, prepares us powerfully for the transformative shifts ahead. Regressions strip out fear, and embolden the soul into a sense of invincibility - something each will definitely need. Transhumanistic karma is prevalent too - where, in the past, beings have been 'married with machines'. It's about reclaiming the lost sense of self, and realising that our inherent capabilities don't need augmentation.

First Nations Karma has been coming up a great deal - those who were marginalised and brutalised when the Intervention swept over. First Nations tribes that got bound into the ether by their loyalty to Gaia, are now being released in droves and ascending on - hence, especially the 4D field is opening up, as old soul contracts are let go of. We can each do that too now - being clear that the soul contracts with the Old Paradigm can be let go of.

There's a good deal of intergalactic karma coming up, between the various Star Being Groups, that's manifesting especially among the star souls here. Especially that of dissonance, distrust, and also warring between the groups. New reconciliations are happening in the field, which is heartwarming to witness. But there are also groups being lured off into inertia, rather than making those essential confrontations and clearings of the past. It's about honouring what took place, taking ownership for our causality, and from that, resolving to forge forward in a new way of alignment - it prepares the groups well for the New Paradigm here in 5D/6D/7D.

8) Expanding into Multidimensionality: More and more people are expanding into multidimensionality. There's a huge growing trend of 'astral travelling in the 4D by going out of body'. It's something to be careful of, that the being is still anchored in the 3D, so as not to be vulnerable to subtle intervention happening while the body is vacant. In the Openhand way, if there is out-of-body journeying, the group is well anchored and protected in the 3D by the facilitator. But there is also a more advanced way of travelling, and that is through 'inner fractals of consciousness' - staying completely present, here and now, yet expanding into other 'higher' fractals of consciousness - out to the galaxy, for example, or another star system so as to gain information and greater connection. Here at Openhand, we'll be further developing this cosmic journeying by establishing a multidimensional bridge into these wide and varied aspects of consciousness. It's hugely rewarding and adventurous.

9) Merkabah and Maya Samadhi: As people do the necessary inner work of deep cleansing (and there can be no shortcut to it), then the being gains increasing inner coherency, which leads to the purification of the lower self, into which, the higher self can infuse (once fully active). It leads to the establishment of the 'Merkabah' - you've dissociated from Simulation and the old construct; you're living a life of divine purpose; you're channelling the light of the higher paradigm through you, and living it here and now.

You're preparing for the final journey of empowered passing on - through the process of Maya Samadhi: it means that when the time is right, and the old 3D landscape around you becomes untenable, you are ready to make the choice, at a soul level, to leave. Thus, you leave the old 3D vehicle behind, and ascend into the spirit light body in 5D (and other subtle layers in 6D/7D). It's just a handful of beings that are ready for this right now. But in due course, I do believe it will become increasingly widespread.

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The 10th Insight

2026 is billed as the "Galactic Bridging Year" - the numerology stacks up to 10. It will become increasingly clear what this exactly means as we unfold through the year. But essentially, portals will become available in particular places, and with particular beings who've done the required inner work, so that the 10 groups of the New Paradigm in the Golden Realm can connect across and through. The energies of these various groups will weave in, and bring essential soul frequencies alive.

We have to be clear though - they won't spoonfeed, because that is to usurp self-actualisation. Beware also, of groups in the ether that masquerade as the real deal, or don't quite have the consciousness to fulfil actual bridging into the higher frequencies - able to hold the speed and frequency of vibration. Be clear also that authentic support groups will not override your sovereignty - if they're positioning themselves as the 'High Council' of this or that, then they are likely to be fake, or else still wrapped up in self-identification and identity-self-importance. Who decided they were 'high'? And above who else? Who elected them? Who do they believe they preside over? The only 'elite' the soul will ever need is the universal flower of life - the Torus - of which, it is already integrated.

So, 2026 is set to be a powerful year of determination, and defining the path the soul is readying to follow. Each step we take on any given day, offers the opportunity of taking that path to the ultimate new dawning in the Golden Realm. Be well aware, though, that plenty are fooling themselves, or else being subtly diverted off, from that possibility. Profound self-honesty will be the crucial key to unlocking these inner doorways of consciousness. Let's take ownership and forge forwards. Then the growth will be utterly magnificent. It's not loud and brash, but a quiet, steely determination that builds. You know your path, and nothing is going to stop you from getting there!

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