09/12/2025
2025 Year-End Reflections | Where the Five Elements Flow, See the Light After Transformation
The wheel of time is about to pass the station of 2025. As the year-end wind brushes past your shoulders, have you ever, in a quiet moment, touched the weight and texture of this year?
The road we have walked together has been bumpy yet solid:
The vines of rising prices quietly entwine our daily lives, shifting market winds bring chills, and fluctuations on the world stage make "the unknown" a subject we must face. We have all learned to balance in such currents—sometimes pushed forward, sometimes actively seeking direction.
Tired? Yes. Like carrying an invisible burden.
Lost? At times. When plans meet changes, when efforts go unanswered.
Yet, it is precisely within this sense of heaviness that the Wood energy of 2025 fulfilled its most profound mission: not to crush us, but to help us take root. Those seemingly oppressive days have been shaping the posture of our standing.
The Five Elements have never left; they reside in our breath and growth:
Metal · Shaped Through Strikes
Every impact in life sculpts the true contours of who you are. Beneath the pain lies a restructuring of your inner being. You are not being worn down—you are becoming a more refined version of yourself.
Water · Supported Through Flow
Remember those who offered warm glances and helping hands. Their presence, like a clear spring, reminds us that softness is, in itself, a form of strength.
Wood · Rising Under Pressure
Every moment that made you feel suffocated is proof of life expanding its space. Looking back at the year’s end, you will see roots steadier and branches clearer than at the year’s beginning.
Fire · Lighting a Lamp in Darkness
True light never fears the long night. Guard the flame within your heart—no matter how faint, it will guide the way.
Earth · Reborn Through Sedimentation
Let what should stay become nourishment; let what should leave return to dust. The soil of the soul needs regular renewal to nurture new blossoms.
And now, we stand at the threshold of the Bingwu Year of the Golden Horse—
This is not merely a turn of the old to the new, but the beginning of an awakening journey.
To lay down burdens is not to forget the path taken, but to understand the depth of every stretch traveled.
To set aside attachments is not to abandon pursuits, but to restore the heart’s capacity for lightness.
Set forth with a soul tempered by the Five Elements:
Let Metal’s clarity help you discard illusions and clarify direction.
Let Water’s wisdom guide you to adapt to the flow and navigate obstacles.
Let Wood’s vitality aid you in breaking through the soil and stretching forth new branches.
Let Fire’s radiance lead you to seize opportunities and ignite possibilities.
Let Earth’s steadiness lay your foundation for peace and carry abundance.
In 2026, may we:
Walk with calm steps, keep the heart’s lamp ever bright.
Maintain balance amid change, hear ourselves above the noise.
Let health become everyday, warmth a constant companion.
Live a richness that knows when to advance and when to retreat, rooted yet radiant.
The Five Elements are the rhythm of heaven and earth’s breath,
And you are a note within it, carrying your own melody.
Step onto your awakening journey—
Ahead, the Golden Horse brings auspicious signs; the world is vast and open.
UF | Words of the Five Elements Heart
True awakening is not suddenly seeing a new world, but re-understanding the old self. The Five Elements are a mirror, reflecting the calm you inherently possess.
