You were designed to translate
the textures, the pressures,
Speaker:the winds of existence, into soul flight,
Speaker:into the kind of flight that brings
you to new places of nourishment and
Speaker:fulfillment as a soul on a long journey.
Speaker:Hello and welcome back to
Remember Why You Are Here,
Speaker:a podcast for seekers and sensitives
where you can relax, receive,
Speaker:reconnect to yourself and remember
the most important thing of all:
Speaker:why you're here. I'm Asia
Suler, author, earth intuitive,
Speaker:teacher,
Speaker:and in this episode we're going to dive
into my intuitive reading for the year
Speaker:of 2026. What a solid
feel that has, doesn't it?
Speaker:2026.
Speaker:So this is my seventh
year of doing collective
Speaker:intuitive readings for the year ahead.
Speaker:I used to see clients in a one-on-one
capacity in what now feels like another
Speaker:lifetime ago, and I would do
one-on-one intuitive readings.
Speaker:And the way that I worked in those
intuitive readings is through primarily
Speaker:images and metaphor.
Speaker:So how these yearly readings
work is that I sit down
Speaker:and meditate on the year ahead and
specifically this collective that I serve,
Speaker:and I ask to be shown an image
or a metaphor that will help
Speaker:guide us through this year,
Speaker:that will give us a little bit of a
preview of the year ahead and give us the
Speaker:information that we need
to be able to navigate with
Speaker:grace this upcoming year.
Speaker:So if you tuned in for
last year's reading,
Speaker:and you know that the image
for last year was a black hole,
Speaker:maybe your 2025 felt like that.
Speaker:The image for 2026 carries a lot more
Speaker:perspective, brightness and hope.
Speaker:So I'm really excited about
what's coming up this year.
Speaker:So here's some of the themes,
before we dive into the image,
Speaker:the metaphor-and we're going to go deep
into it-here are some of the themes for
:steadiness, embodiment, perspective,
:freedom, recognition of the long journey,
:gratitude before arrival,
self celebration,
:clarity and embracing the wind to fly.
:So the image that I was shown for 2026,
:I'm calling "The Wing in
Flight." So this image,
:and it came through very quickly
and with a lot of vivid detail,
:was a very closeup image
of a wing in flight.
:So I could see the feathers rippling in
:the wind, the joint of the wing itself.
:I could see the wind and feel the
pressure of the wind moving past
:this wing.
:And it was a very tactile
image this year. Very tactile,
:very embodied, very specific.
:And one of the first messages that came
through is that this is going to be a
:year about learning the
mechanics of flight.
:This is going to be a year in which
you are learning what you need in
:order to fly.
:So in order to learn about what we
need individually and collectively in
:order to fly, let's talk
about what flight really is.
:And this felt like such an
important piece when this image came
:in. So as humans who
don't fly with our bodies,
:typically, we see flight as ease.
:We see flight as just the
:ultimate sense of ease and
:effortlessness.
:And yet one of the things that came
through very strongly was my guides
:reminding everyone that what
we see as effortlessness
:is actually the
accumulation of great skill.
:There's great skill involved
in learning how to fly.
:There's effort that goes into skill.
:Nothing on earth is just
entirely effortless.
:That's not really the purpose
of being here on earth, right?
:Everything has some
effort that goes into it.
:And in the animal world,
:flight is actually one of
the most demanding forms of
:locomotion flight is it is this
:experience of weightlessness and ecstasy,
:but it is also this experience of
learning, of gathering the skill,
:the knowledge, the expertise, of having
the mechanics to know how to fly.
:Very literally when a bird is flying,
what creates that flight is pressure.
:It's pressure difference between the top
of their wing and the bottom of their
:wing. This is why wings are
shaped the way that they are.
:They're shaped in a way where it actually
creates more pressure on the bottom
:part of their wing and that lifts them up.
:So it's actually this reality
where flight is a dance with
:pressure. It's learning
how to dance with pressure.
:And so there is this sense of this year,
:of this possibility of flight through
learning the mechanics of what
:actually helps you fly. There's this
sense of being able to have perspective,
:this shaman's eye view of your life.
:Breaking free from patterns,
like long held patterns.
:All this felt so good to receive.
Greater senses of freedom, possibility,
:movement.
:But it felt important to say all this
with the reality that this is not without
:any tension. This is not without
any effort. That this thrill,
:perspective,
:and freedom comes with literal
wind beneath your wings,
:which means that there's
going to be...there is a
little bit of tension there.
:And not because this year
is in particular full of
:tension,
:but because I think this is a year of
learning that the textures of reality are
:inherent to reality. Reality
will never not have textures.
:It's part of the deal
of physical existence.
:But this is a year of learning how to
work with the pressures and the textures
:of reality to fly,
:to use it in the kind of
mechanics that work for you
:to soar, to get this bigger perspective,
:to find the freedom that
you've been waiting for.
:So you are realizing in
this year the adaptations,
:the evolutions that you
need in order to fly.
:And this is something that
you've been working on.
:As I mentioned before, there's skill
involved in learning how to fly.
:You've been accumulating
these skills. There's finesse,
:there's acceptance of texture,
:there's the subtleties of being able
to feel the wind beneath your wings and
:knowing that what is here,
:what is showing up as maybe
pressure or texture in your life,
:is here to help you learn
these mechanics of flight.
:And there's this sense of
:buoyancy happening because of
the great effort and skill that
:we have put in over the
years leading up to: :That you have put in so much effort
and skill in learning that you're...
:it's like this coalescing of learning the
mechanics of flight for your own self.
:And there will be this
sharpened perspective,
:thinking about a hawk's
eye view of the ground.
:You're going to be able
to see some patterns,
:you're going to be able to
see some stuff in your life.
:Some things are going to
absolutely get clearer.
:You're going to be able
to pinpoint like, oh,
:so that's how it was. That's
why it went down like that.
:Whatever it is, whatever
journey you've been on,
:especially if it's a journey
you've been on for a long time,
:you're going to be able to look from
this higher perspective and go, okay,
:I'm seeing the greater landscape.
That's why it had to go down like that.
:I see it now. And that's such a relief.
:What a gift to be able to get that
kind of perspective this year.
:There was a big theme that came in
as well of when the ideal becomes
:embodied. So as I mentioned before,
:this year has a very
tactile, embodied feel to me.
:It's a year of also...
:one of the things that came in
was finding freedom in your body.
:Oh my goodness, don't we all want that?
:To find freedom in our bodies.
:Because here's the reality actually,
:is that most of the time
most us are trying to
:live into some idealized state.
:We are idealizing some state that
is outside of what we're currently
:experiencing. So something like
this: when things are like this,
:then I'll feel better.
When this is solved,
:then I'll feel more aligned, then
everything will come into play.
:And there's an element this year where
it's not necessarily about shattering
:that illusion. It's not
so dramatic as that,
:but it's showing you that this
idealized state is actually not as far
:away as you thought,
:and that it's actually
not about reaching some
:idealized state.
:It's about becoming more
embodied now in the winds
:of existence, in the beautiful, helpful,
:uplifting pressures that are here.
:And that when we become more embodied,
:we're able to anchor more
of the ideal into our lives.
:It's funny how that works, right?
:Especially because often
when we envision this ideal,
:we're not envisioning
it in an embodied way.
:It's like we have this ideal of when
things are going to be better in the
:future, and it's almost
like sensation-less.
:That's the ideal, is lack of sensation,
lack of pain, lack of discomfort.
:So there's this sense of this opportunity
this year to actually become more
:embodied, make friends...
:befriend the textures of existence.
:And it's not even as if there's going
to be new textures or pressures,
:it's more like the ongoing winds
that have been in your life.
:You're able to befriend them and work
with them in a way you haven't before so
:that you can get into your
body and you're able to
:anchor that way of being, anchor
that ideal into your life now.
:You're literally getting this training
in learning how to feel those invisible
:currents and how to work with them.
:And I like the word "current" because
it's neither negative or positive,
:it's just the way the energy is flowing.
:To feel the way the energy is
flowing and to work with that.
:Birds read the wind. Very literally,
:birds feel the wind as a kind of
:touchable terrain. Wind pressure,
:it's not abstract to them.
:It's touchable, it's eddies, it's paths,
:it's ledges, it's rivers.
:So the way in which a bird reads the
wind is how you are learning how to read
:these undercurrents of energy in
your life. What gives you energy,
:what lifts you up? What can
you use in order to fly?
:How are things arriving in a way where
you're being asked to use your skill to
:actually navigate it in a way where it is
:helping you to take off. It's helping
you to lift off, it's helping you to fly.
:Birds literally translate pressure
into movement. It's so brilliant.
:It's such a brilliant
mechanics. And those feathers,
:like that up close image I got
of the feathers... You know,
:feathers are a kind of
sensory organ where they plug
:into the skin,
:the follicles there are rich with
receptors and nerve endings and
:sensors.
:They're literally responding
to their environment.
:And so there's this sense of really
trusting what you're receiving,
:trusting your sensors,
:being able to follow those invisible
currents and to let those invisible
:currents in life lift you up
to this higher perspective
that's calling you right
:now. It's calling you.
:It's not like something you
have to effort really hard into.
:It's literally what's on offer this
year is the lifting up the higher
:perspective, the figuring
out of certain things.
:Let us figure some things
out. It is what's on offer.
:And so it's like I don't even
have to send that prayer out.
:It's what's happening. And I loved this,
:when I was researching
more about birds in flight,
:bird bones are...we call them hollow.
:They're air-filled .They're pneumatic:
:they're connected to their
lungs through air sacks.
:So you could almost
say that when they fly,
:it's like air and wind
is moving through them,
:it's flowing through their body.
:Flight is full bodied breathing.
:The wind isn't noise.
:It's like information flowing
through their body as they breathe.
:And this kind of flow state? It's like
:this is on offer this year.
:This is possible for us here in a
way that I don't think it has been
:in the past few years. Bless our hearts.
:It's been a little hard
and this is on offer
:this year. You know, having wind.
:And it's a good perspective shift for you.
:Having wind means this possibility
:to fly. It means the possibility
of sharpening our skills.
:So this year is going to be a
year on earth. Breaking news,
:I know. But that means that it's
not going to be without winds.
:It's not going to be without
pressure. But the thing is like,
:what my guides wanted me to say to
you is that you're not a fledgling.
:You've accumulated skill.
You know how to fly.
:You've been through things that have
honed you to make you the kind of...
:a more aerodynamic being
to fly on these winds,
:the kind of being who
can navigate these winds.
:So there's a sense of being able
to go far this year with what it is
:that have learned, with what
it is that you've gathered.
:And there's this sense that
if you can embrace that and
:use those skills and take that flight
that you're going to get to this place by
:the end of the year where you're like,
wow, I'm in a different landscape now.
:Very literally the image of
these long migratory birds,
:going on this long journey.
:And this brings me to one
of the most important points
:I think in the rating of this year,
:which is this theme of
gratitude before arrival.
:So I had this very strong image come
up when I went deeper into the core
:metaphor for this year of migratory birds
:flying high and far for a long
:time.
:There's this sense that
you have been on a long
:journey.
:There's some journey that
you have been on for a long
:time.
:And what's happening
right now is that there
:is this sense of
gratitude coming in before
:the arrival.
:And I do want to be clear that
what I see is an arrival that is
:imminent,
:an arrival to a place you've
been trying to get to. Like,
:it's coming.
:Like all journeys come
to an end at some point.
:This is one of the truths of existence.
:And I think I migratory birds are...
:they're made for these
migrations, these journeys.
:But humans are made for
big journeys too. Yes,
:that might mean on foot, by canoe. We've
journeyed across the world, for sure.
:But I mean it more in a sense of we're
designed for big internal journeys.
:We're designed to go on big
journeys in life within ourselves.
:This year is going to give you perspective
on this big journey you've been on.
:You're going to be able to see it from
this up high place, where you've been,
:what you've been working on and really
understanding how far you've come and
:what a feat it has been.
:The feat of traveling thousands of
:miles to go on this journey that
your soul has asked you to go on.
:It is no small thing that
you said yes to this.
:And I love with migratory
birds that they navigate
:with having cells that are sensitive
to the earth's magnetic fields.
:So it's almost like this internal pull
of, it's time to fly, it's time to move.
:And this is where you go. This quiet
directional pull inside of themselves.
:And it's this reminder that true
north is always known inside the body.
:That your body has been
leading you on this journey
:towards true north, through this
sense of rightness and orientation.
:And when we're off that true north,
when we're off that inner navigation,
:we're going to feel it as a
faint like unease or dissonance.
:And this is also part of
the journey you've been on,
:is recognizing those two different states,
:of recognizing what rightness feels like,
:what it feels like to be
connected to the magnetism of your
:path, to your true north, and what
it feels like when you're off,
:when you're dissonant.
:That's part of how human journeys
are designed to teach us how
:to follow and feel that
directional map inside of
:ourself,
:the cells that are within us that are
attuned to the magnetic pull of our
:own destinies.
:And so this theme of gratitude
before arrival just feels
:so profound.
:It's like a moment on this
long journey you've been on,
:this long ass journey. Where you're going,
:I did that. Where you're looking back
at how far you've come and you're going,
:I did that. And I think
this is so important.
:And what I see to be as one of the
essential truths of true healing
:is that when true healing
takes place in our life,
:it doesn't take place, and then we give
gratitude, and then we have perspective.
:Have you ever noticed this?
:That it's like we get perspective
and we're able to access gratitude
:in those moments right before we arrive.
:It's like you access the gratitude,
:you access the perspective,
:and that's the thing that
actually allows you to arrive.
:You access that acceptance
that is within gratitude,
:that is within perspective,
:and then those are the energies that
actually deliver you then to this
:homeland, this place
you've been moving towards,
:this place on your soul map
that's been calling you forward.
:And so when we experience
gratitude before the arrival,
:what we know is that arrival is
imminent. And doesn't that feel so good?
:Arrival is imminent. This feels so good.
:And I think about when these long
migratory birds finally get to this place
:that they've been traveling
to this whole time,
:there's a literal hormonal
resettling that happens within
:their bodies. There's relief and release.
:Sometimes there's reunion
with other flock members,
:with territories that are
known to them personally or
:ancestrally, and it's often accompanied
by long period periods of rest.
:You can finally rest now.
This is a homecoming.
:So there is this sense that as we access
:gratitude before arrival, and as we
have moments of actually arriving,
:actually arriving on the
other side of such a long
:journey... So really,
:taking a moment to honor you in the
long journey you've been on here...
:that it's going to give you perspective
not just on what you experienced with
:this journey, but on the
long journey of your life.
:These journeys that we take
throughout our life, these big cycles,
:these big movements, these
big migrations we undertake,
:they give us clarity
about our life as a whole.
:They give us perspective on
the long journey of our life.
:So there's glimpses of that this year,
:there's glimpses of being able
to understand more of the long
:journey of our lifetime, the themes
that we came here to embody, to explore,
:to gain proficiency in. You'll be able to,
:as you have moments of
rest on that other side,
:get that glimpse into that
long journey of your life.
:And this is what this journey
has been about for you.
:This is what this migration that you've
been on these past handful of years
:has been about for you.
:It is about getting to a new
place that will sustain you.
:This is why birds undertake these
kind of long migrations, right?
:This is why we're drawn to
take migrations as mammals,
:as beings on this earth, as humans,
:because there's a new
place that's calling us,
:a new place that we are about to
arrive to that will sustain us.
:That's what you've been moving
towards and that's where you will
:be arriving. You're reaching the
endpoint of this particular journey.
:When that came through, I
was like, okay, praise be..
:you're reaching the endpoint
of this particular journey.
:And where you're arriving at is a place
that will sustain you in new and very
:profound ways.
:So as I was preparing for
this reading for: :I always like to look back at
the previous year, in this case,
:2025 and what I said
about the previous year,
:and it really resonated for me, you know,
:where we've been versus where we're going.
:And in 2025 there was
themes of remembering the
original commitment of your
:soul. Soul leaps, birthing new timelines.
:There's a lot of what was birthed this
last year that's actually going to help
:deliver us now in this year.
:And there was surrendering into what
I called the generative unknown.
:There was a lot of mystery last
year. There was a lot of like, okay,
:I'm having the courage to step
into it. This is so mysterious.
:We're going to forge a new future.
:And it's almost like all that work you
did last year of trusting the mystery,
:of stepping into these
new generative spaces,
:is really helping you now in
this arrival, this like...
:what feels like, oh my
gosh, and may it be so,
:what feels like this completion piece
on this longer journey that you've been
:on.
:And what I found with last year is that
it felt like there was some interesting
:reversal energies, where it's like...
:Like last year felt like it
turned us inside out a little bit.
:Like it flipped... Something would flip
and then it would flip again, though.
:Almost like you thought something
was one way and then you're
:like, oh wait, no, it's that way.
:And then it flipped one more
time and you're like, oh, okay,
:I guess it's this way?
:And so there was some element in
: :and reversals, like
multiple ones of those.
:And what I like about 2026 is
that I don't sense the same shock
:and reversals for people
personally this year.
:It's got a little bit more
of a steadiness to it,
:a little bit more of
this endurance feeling of
:perspective. And so while there's also
:continuing the journey and getting to
this new place and having this endurance,
:there's also this time of new heights
because you are reaching new states of
:inner freedom, of
self-acceptance, of gratitude,
:of really seeing and understanding
the purpose behind these journeys.
:Like I said,
:having this bird's eye view of the
journey you've been on and being
:like, it makes sense now.
:Some things are going to make sense now
in a way they didn't make sense before.
:You're going to be able to look
back and say like, okay, I get it.
:That makes sense now.
:And I do want to remind you that while
:physically it can feel like we
weren't designed for these times,
:like we're not meant to live in the
way we're living in the modern world,
:all those things, on a soul level,
:we were designed for these
times. On a soul level,
:we're coming in with the
skills we need to fly,
:to navigate these migrations
and these long journeys,
:and that this is your
offering to this planet.
:Your offering is being willing to
go on that migration. It's huge.
:It's no small feat.
:It is an incredible offering that
you're bringing to this planet.
:And I want to remind you of that
strength that you came in with,
:of that skill that you came in
with, to take these migrations,
:and now in 2026 to reach new places of
:arrival.
:How can you meet this year ahead?
:What are some entry points to work with
the energies that are here this year?
:Well, I definitely want you
to keep this perspective:
:when you have moments of feeling
pressure or wind or resistance,
:to literally reframe this as,
:this is the mechanics of what lifts
me up, of what's giving me energy,
:of what I'm here to work with so that
I can use the skills that I've gleaned
:to fly.
:Literally imagine that
full-bodied breath that
:birds have. Imagine yourself flying,
:literally breathe as if your
bones were open to breath and see
:what happens in those moments where it
feels like a lot of texture or a lot of
:pressure.
:And I think there's this thing where
we often assume that when we've
:made it,
:we are not ever going to have
pressure or tension or texture
:anymore, and it's just not how life works.
:And so actually what we're
being delivered into is
:learning how to work on a soul
level with these textures and these
:winds that just come through
because this is life on this planet,
:and full body breathe with
them and use them for the
:evolution that we are here to undertake.
:Use them to fly in the way that
we're meant to fly through this life.
:Because that's the thing, right?
:We so often think that if we really healed
:enough, if we really did enough
work, if we were really good enough,
:that we wouldn't anymore experience
pain or disappointment or
:grief or tension.
:And it's just not a
reality on this planet.
:You did nothing wrong to be
experiencing these things again.
:So know that when that comes up,
:this is an invitation actually for you
to trust the skill you've developed,
:to trust that those winds
ultimately are here to help you
:on the migratory journey
of your life. That said,
:when you have moments
of balance and harmony,
:oh, bless those moments,
:when you have those moments of
joy and balance and harmony,
:soak in them.
:Literally imagine bathing
your nervous system in
:the energy of those moments of
balance and harmony and joy.
:And it will attune your
nervous system to that.
:It will help your nervous system
to trust that that is possible.
:And so that when you have moments where
then you're out of balance once more,
:you will know how to move
towards that which will
:bring you into balance again.
:Your system will know and recognize what
it feels like to be in balance and to
:have harmony. And so when you're
in those moments of balance,
:just try to soak it in and try
to keep your brain spinning
:out in those moments from going
into the "don't have" space.
:Like this is so nice,
:but I don't have this and I'm still
working on this and blah, blah, blah.
:Just let go of that place
in any way that you can,
:and just soak in what
is there in the present.
:This is where being embodied really helps,
:because literally just feel that joy
or peace or balance in your body.
:Where is it in your body? What is
its texture? What is its weight?
:Does it have a color? Does
it have a temperature? This
will help you soak it in,
:literally absorb that feeling state
inside of your body so it's easier and
:easier to access.
:This will also give you so much
energy for what comes next.
:When we give ourself time to soak in
those states of balance and harmony,
:it gives us a reserve,
:a bank of energy to be able to meet
then the winds when they come again.
:And lastly, this was so sweet,
but when I asked my guides,
:is there anything else, they said,
be on the lookout for a feather.
:As you move into this new year,
:to literally keep your eye
out for a physical feather.
:And one way you can work with
this is to see if you have a
:question you want to ask,
or an affirmation you want
to ask about something,
:and ask to be shown this
feather in a moment in which is
:confirming something for you,
:or giving you some sort of
affirmation or direction.
:You have the ability to ask for
that and make that intention.
:But be on the lookout for a feather.
:And I love that they said this.
:So see if there's a physical feather
that ends up coming into your life and
:when that feather does
come into your life,
:like I want you to look at it
and just have it be a reminder,
:a reminder of the mechanics of
flight that that pressure...
:feel that pressure like moving over
that feather and how that feather was
:literally designed to
translate pressure into flight.
:And so are you. You were designed
to translate the textures,
:the pressures, the winds of
existence into soul flight,
:into the kind of flight that brings
you to new places of nourishment and
:fulfillment as a soul on along journey.
:And so this is who you are, and this
is what this feather, if you find one,
:will remind you of.
:The closing quote that came in for me
when I was channeling this reading for the
:new year was just so lovely, I
decided to read it aloud for you.
:So this can be a little bit
of wind beneath your wings.
:So this is what the guide said about 2026:
:You will have the
perspective you need to keep
:going. You will have the
strength you need to fly.
:You will have the courage
you need to face the winds,
:you'll have the hope
you need to be carried.
:So I am sending you so many
blessings for the start of this new
:year. I have a really good feeling about
this year. I'm an eternal optimist,
:but I do have a really good
feeling about this year.
:This image just brought so much lightness
and perspective to me in my own life
:and the long journeys that I have been on.
:May the long journeys you've
been on come with perspective,
:come with grace,
:help you see all the ways in
which you have been carried,
:all the ways in which you have done
so much beautiful work and made that
:gratitude before the
arrival come in with so much
:relief.
:So if you resonated with this reading or
if you had a sign or synchronicity come
:in around this reading, I
would love to hear about it.
:You can leave me a comment or you can
leave me a voice message over on my
:website, AsiaSuler.com/remember.
:And if you haven't done so already,
:leaving a rating or review for
this podcast is literal wind
:beneath the wings for this venture.
:It has been so powerful and
cool and magical for me to
:create this this past year,
:to put my energy and my effort into this,
:to connect with all of you here,
:and leaving a rating review is just
literally the biggest gift that
:you could give, and as
such, wind beneath my wings.
:So if you have a moment to do that today,
that would just mean the world. Oh,
:and if you found a feather,
definitely let me know.
:I would love to hear about
the feather that you found.
:I'm kind of imagining this
:just shower of feathers out there in the
world with this like trail of feathers,
:this map of feathers,
:all of us finding these feathers as
we step into this new year. Also,
:reminder that you might
find a physical feather,
:but sometimes you'll get a feather
on a card that sent to you,
:or a beautiful image you see somewhere.
:Let that also be a message
and a confirmation if that
comes through for you.
:Okay. With that, I want to thank
you so much for being here,
:for closing out 2025 with me,
:for ringing in 2026.
:This new year has a lot to offer us,
:and I'm just so truly excited
for us and the places of
:nourishment and fulfillment that
we will be reaching as we move
:deeper into this year of 2026.
So as you start this new year,
:as you step into the
possibilities of flight that are
:inherent to this year ahead, may there
be hope, may there be perspective,
:and may this flight,
:may this wide view that
you get on your life,
:help you remember that
thing that is so helpful,
:that thing that is one of the
most important things of all:
:remembering why you're here.