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Why 2025 Broke You—and How 2026 Will Rebuild You

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Why 2025 Had to Break You Before 2026 Could Rebuild You

If 2025 felt heavy, disorienting, or downright relentless, this episode will help you make sense of it.

This wasn’t a year of failure.
 It was a year of completion.

In this powerful conversation, Michelle Rios sits down with master numerologist and transformational mentor Aniston Riekstins to unpack the deeper energetic forces behind what so many people experienced in 2025—and why the breakdown was necessary before the rebuild.

You’ll learn why 2025 marked the end of a nine-year cycle focused on shedding, truth-telling, and dismantling what no longer fits… and why 2026 ushers in a bold new beginning centered on leadership, innovation, and identity evolution.

This episode explores:

  • Why so many things fell apart—or stopped working—in 2025
  • The universal nine-year cycle and what “completion” really means
  • What the 2026 “Year One” energy is activating for you personally
  • How to stop outsourcing answers and start trusting your inner knowing
  • Why the next chapter of your life requires a different version of you
  • How understanding your personal year number can bring clarity, timing, and self-trust

If you’ve been questioning who you are becoming, feeling the pull toward something new, or sensing that the old ways no longer apply—this conversation will feel like a deep exhale.

2025 wasn’t here to defeat you.
 It was here to prepare you.

Your rebuild begins now.

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SPEAKER_00:

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SPEAKER_02:

Intimacy is actually into me, I see. We think of it as physical intimacy and being with other people, but you can really only do that to the degree that you're able to do that, like just to sit in your own space in the quiet and listen. Probably sometimes the scariest thing for a lot of people to do.

SPEAKER_01:

There comes a moment when you realize that the next chapter won't write itself. So if you're ready to step off the sidelines and start creating a life you truly love, welcome. Your extraordinary life begins now. Welcome back to another episode of the Live Your Extraordinary Life Podcast. I'm your host, Michelle Rios, and today we're talking about a really interesting topic. It's numerology. We're going to get into what it is, where it comes from, how it influences the collective energy that we're all feeling right now, and most importantly, what we can expect as we move into 2026. And trust me, this energy that we're stepping into, I believe, is going to be a breath of fresh air after what has been a really trying 2025 for a lot of people. And to guide us through this conversation, I am thrilled to welcome back to the show Aniston Rickten's transformational mentor, master numerologist, best-selling author of the universe is hiring. And Aniston is helping men and women remember who they are, reconnect with their soul's blueprint, and lead with purpose. So welcome back to the show, Aniston. So great to have you here.

SPEAKER_02:

I am so excited to be back. I am just honored. We were just speaking about how it was a little less than a year when I was on the show last, yet, how much has changed? So I think this is a good time.

SPEAKER_01:

It's been a busy, busy year for a lot of us. All right, let's delve right in, Aniston, because I do think numerology is going to be new to a lot of our listeners. If you could help really just provide a foundation for someone who's hearing the word numerology and probably thinking math, is it magic? What is this? Can you tell us a little bit about what numerology is and how it originates? Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, numerology, I would say, is arguably one of the first self-help methods known to man, right? It was one of the OG self-help methods. It's based on not an idea, but fact that we live in an energetic universe. We live in a vibrational universe. And so the universe and everything in it is energy. And so everything can also simultaneously, this is math, be broken down into numbers. And it's actually believed at the most granular form that is actually the numbers that then create the structure of things we call matter that we can touch and feel. So numbers literally create the structure of our universe. Okay. Now, if we start looking at you as an individual and the numbers that are in your life, well, they're not just a number, they also have meaning. And this is something that Pythagoras, who was the originator and the creator of numerology, discovered that numbers weren't just units of metrics, they also were indicators of a much deeper psychology as it related to individuals based on their birth date. If we start looking at astrology, you know, you look at the time you were born, your birthday, but the day that you were born, that number, when you take the sum of all the numbers of your birth date, indicates a lot about what who you came here to be, what you came here to do. And so, yes, I think to answer your question, it is a little bit of that magical, mystical that's blended with science. Because if we're looking at everything is energy, well, then numbers are energy too, and they have a certain vibration, which means there's a certain energetic personality and quality about them. And so when you can start to understand the meaning and the energy of a specific number, when you start seeing it show up in your life in different ways, well, there's meaning, right? And it's information. And what I believe, and what many numerologists believe, is that it's the universal language. It's the way that we have a conversation with the universe. The universe doesn't speak in language. We don't, they don't, it's not in words, but in numbers.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, it's fascinating because my husband is a bit of a tech titan. And last night, of course, he wanted to explain to me that all code is numbers. Yeah. And, you know, I was sitting there going, that's right. You know, we're talking about ones and zeros for all computer coding that allows us to even have the Zoom call and to be able to broadcast the show is based on numbers in fact. And so so much of our modern technology is based on this ancient wisdom.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. And even if you really want to go deep, there are those that have had, for instance, um, near-death experiences who have said that they what they experienced was actually seeing what, you know, after they left their bodies, what they saw were energy fields around people. And in those energy fields were numbers and like numbers and geometry, like shapes. And so I think there's so much more that we don't know. Like literally, I think that we're just the tip of the iceberg of what really we can delve into with numbers. But I often say to people, you know, what repeating number do you see? Because most people, you're just, I'm sure you have what's your repeating number? What number do you see a lot?

SPEAKER_01:

One. You see what it's I see 1111 and 111 all day long. In fact, in preparation of having this conversation, I was just thinking noting what came up for me. And I was every day, I would look up and I'm like, it's 1111. Yes, it's 111. And I'd take a picture because I'm like, it's just happening and over and over again for me and has been for months.

SPEAKER_02:

And it's such a powerful thing because I think that that is our opportunity. Whether you believe in any of this or not, in that moment you're present, aren't you? All of a sudden, you're snapped out of the matrix, out of your what you're doing, and you're in what you're doing. And all of a sudden, you're aware of like, huh, you're not anywhere else in that moment. You're right here, right? And even if that's the only purpose for this, it's a beautiful one because it is a way to merge what I believe is the invisible into our worlds. It's that spirit, it's merging like, hey, there's something else going on here that we can't always see. I like to think of it as a little wink and a nod. So I love that you see that number.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, I see it everywhere to the extent that I was warming up my tea this morning. Can you get that? Uh 1111. Every day, every day it's talking to me. Okay, we weren't gonna start here, but I think it's actually a good segue because for those of you who are thinking, okay, numerology, how to fit in with what I understand maybe in my religious framework of seeing the world. Um, we thought it was really an interesting way to talk about it as well, because numbers have always been present even in religious texts and and foundations. So I'd love for you, if could Aniston, to talk a little bit about this maybe myth, mythical quality of like numerology doesn't fit in with what we have from a faith tradition. Yeah. Because I think it's just that. It's a myth.

SPEAKER_02:

I would agree with you, but I also want to say I grew up in a very religious household, a very conservative religious household. And so I get it. Like I completely get it. I grew up being, you know, quietly intrigued by astrology and by all of those things, but I I never really felt like I had permission to actually delve into them and to study them. And it wasn't really until my 20s that I actually gave myself the permission to really follow that passion. And I was curious. I was really, really curious because I asked a lot of questions like, what is my purpose? What am I here to do? And I think I do believe we have these tools, but the tools are here to empower the individual to remind you that you are connected to something greater than yourself. And a long time ago, that was not okay. And there were a lot of shifts and changes that were made to religious texts for political reasons. And that happened in Roman times and it happened in many different phases of that bit by bit, there were these, I call them sacred tools of remembering, like astrology, like numerology, that were systematically removed from religious text because it gave too much power to the individual and it took the power away from government, which was simultaneously power away from the church. And so, in order to ensure that they have power, you can't have people thinking, oh, well, I can just trust my own intuition or I can see what you know, planetary placement says about what's going on. Instead of relying on the church to tell me when I need to plant my harvest, I can instead look to the stars. Well, that's individual power, right? And so that was not allowed. And a lot of that was culled out. But to your point, even now to this day, when you look at like numbers hold great significance in many religious texts. And so it's still there. It's just we were never given permission to say, this is okay, you know, like this is okay. Yet if you look at our seasons, our cycle, I mean, Mother Earth is governed by those planetary movements, right? She has her own cycles, she has her own seasons, but somewhere along the way, we lost connection with this planet. We lost connection with her, we lost connection with this with the sky, with the stars, and thinking that we are just completely separate from all of it. We see the impact that full moons have on the tide. We see the impact of these planetary placements on our seasons, on our harvest, on everything, literally everything. Yet when someone is like, oh, well, I don't care if it's a full, I mean full moons don't impact me. I'm like, really? Are we so above or so disconnected from the gravitational pull of planets? No, of course not. We're all connected to it. I actually think it unearths a greater issue of separation from nature and separation from this world that we live in when we've always been connected. We just haven't been conscious of it.

SPEAKER_01:

If that just gives me the vibes of the Da Vinci Code, which of course everybody knows is based on a mathematical equation. Yeah and the Illuminati. So if anybody else is getting that vibe right now, you are not alone. Yeah, seriously.

SPEAKER_02:

I mean, well, think about it too. Even I'll I'll say this because I've I've thought about this a lot. I I practice cycle tracking. I I teach this a lot with women, and and that's really about honoring your own inner rhythm and aligning your work and your life along with that. Well, winter, let's think about that as a season. Winter always pretty much ran from the December, like winter solstice, which is the longest day, all the way to like this, the spring equinox. And so the calendar really didn't start until like April was the beginning of the year, right? It's the beginning. Well, for political reasons, that was changed. And so January one, because that was when they would be electing new individuals into office, and this was a long time ago, it was changed, to January one for the beginning of the year. We all like were like, Yay, New Year's resolutions, but everything around us is saying slow down. Everything, like Mother Nature is like, hey, it's time for a nap. Like, this is the time that you go in. Our ancestors would spend a lot of time, they would sleep a lot, they would rest a lot, they would plan, but there wasn't this frenzy of activity. We weren't designed to do that. We judge ourselves after three weeks in January when we're kind of petering out our energy and being like, oh, well, I guess the year's shot. You know, no, like hasn't even really started. It hasn't even started yet. I mean, in other parts of the world, they know. I mean, they don't celebrate their new year until the actual what was originally the new year. And so this is just really, I think, about just being open-minded and just re-educating ourselves on really how we can align, align with our external seasons and our internal seasons, which I know we'll be talking a lot about as it relates to like personal year cycles and the universal cycle.

SPEAKER_01:

So well, this makes so much sense. And I think now that we have some grounding in the basics, let's talk about what on earth happening universally in 2025. Because I know having spoken to a lot of people this year, this year just has been like a seismic shift, like an earthquake moment after moment for a lot of people. Yeah. So, what is it that was energetically happening in the universe?

SPEAKER_02:

So, energetically, we were in a nine year. So, let me back up a little bit. The universe follows a nine-year cycle. Okay. I want you to imagine that each of these nine years has a different theme and has a very different energetic vibe. And so, because we are all part of the universe and we live on this beautiful planet Earth, we're all experiencing the energy of whatever that personal year is that the universe is going through. And so this year was a nine universal year. We were literally, this is the culmination of a nine-year cycle. And so the nine itself, the personality I spoke about, you know, each number has quality about this about this number. And the nine is the number of completion, of course. It's the end of a cycle, it's the very end of a chapter, really, in life. And so with that comes a need for letting go, a need for, okay, that was great. So what needs to be let go of? What needs to be shed? What is no longer working for us anymore? What do we need to purge? So we can create space for the new. And that is what is wanting to happen, right? And so when we look at 2025 through that lens, that means that some things need to be torn down so they can be rebuilt, right? If we're looking at overall structures of humanity, like I don't think you could, I mean, I think most people would agree, there's some work. Like we have some work to do. We can do better, right? There are some outdated systems in certain areas of our life, including politics, including education, including healthcare. And I mean, you name it, right? But that's the nature because we live in an expansive universe. So when we design something and create something, it's good until it's not good anymore. And that's the truth. Like we have to be willing to say, you know what? We created that system. And I don't think we were wrong in creating that system when it was created, but it no longer reflects who we are as people, no longer reflects our consciousness and our understanding of ourselves and the world. So yeah, needs to be upgraded. The problem is most people have a giant fear of change because the assumption the mind is always going to assume the worst. It's going to assume, well, if this goes away, then this is bad. And this means we're just waiting for the next shoe to drop, right? Instead of, well, what if this is going to be better? What if the new that comes in is going to be better? And so the nine year is really going to test that trust fall muscle we all have, right? Where it's like that, like, well, you just open your arms and just say, okay, I'm going to fall back and I'm going to trust that you're going to catch me. And so that's what this energy was about. The nine is also the humanitarian. So it's generally more service-oriented or thinking about like the people, thinking about, wait a minute, you know, this isn't fair, or this thing is not serving everyone. It's just serving a few. And so a lot of those things, right, are coming. But the nine year isn't usually when it's fixed. It's when you become aware of it and you're like, okay, now either I'm going to start letting this go or I'm going to start making plans to. It's the one year, it's the next year when you really start seeing, okay, what's going to come in its place? How are we going to really change this? And so the nine year is usually when you feel that initial emotion of the this isn't working anymore.

SPEAKER_01:

Now I'm curious because from uh, and I if I get this wrong, do correct, but from like a Chinese calendar perspective, it was the year of the snake. Yeah. So that corresponds with the ending of a cycle, the nine or the shedding. Yep. Now, on a universal level, is there something happening? I'm I I assume that it must be, and that's how we've got the year of the snake and what have you. I don't know if it comes up with every nine cycle or if it's just coincidental. It's actually a good question.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't know that I I haven't studied the the Chinese side of this as much, but I don't want to misspeak. But I do know that their system is also built on numbers. You know what I mean? For instance, they might have there's other symbols of a nine, for instance, than just a snake. So but I'm gonna look into that. That's a good no one's ever asked me that question.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, there you have it. The other thing I would say or ask is in the completion of like the nine-year cycle, planetarily speaking, and from a numerology standpoint, I'm assuming the universe is going through some reordering. Yeah, like one feels like a build year. I could be making this up, so if I'm wrong, like creating structures. And then if the end is the nine-year and ation of a cycle and shedding of old and getting ready to start again anew in a one year, I'm just fascinated by are we aware when those things are happening? We feel energetically things are happening in our lives. But from a planetary perspective, one of the things I'm gonna be curious about, and I'm gonna go start to do a little bit more reading on what did everybody studying uh the planets and alignment and stars and other things see in the course of this nine-year cycle?

SPEAKER_02:

It's interesting because I also study astrology. I will not call myself an astrology expert because man o man astrology, you could study it a lifetime and never really call yourself an expert. It is so nuanced. But what I love about numerology is I feel like I always track the months, for instance, and what is happening planetary-wise is always saying the same thing as the number, right? So the number is giving like the overall theme. It's a little bit more accessible to say, okay, this is the overall theme. But if you want to know why it is the theme, I would point to the planets. So for instance, we have just been through in September, there were two very, very powerful lunar eclipses, which is all about eclipsing things out of your life. And so September was a nine, it was a nine universal month and a nine universal year. This was the peak energy. This was like climax of the climax of the movie, okay? Think back to September if you're listening to this and pay attention to what you were going through, what was going on in your life. Because in astrology, you can see you could even see exactly what was happening just by looking at your chart. You could see where those eclipses were and be like, that was the house that was being activated. And so they all go hand in hand. So all of the planetary movements this year, they were all setting us up perfectly to purge, to cleanse, to remove. Even today, as we're filming this right now, Neptune is at like the final degree of the final sign, which is all about showing you. Like it's gone direct, and now it's showing you something that you haven't been able to see. So this year, the planets have all been in cahoots about making sure we were purging. Let's just say that. The planets were in the perfect positions to ensure no one gets a get out of jail free card here. Like there's no escaping it. And it's by design, I want you to think about like humanity needs to evolve, but humanity as a species, like we don't change unless we are uncomfortable, right? When things are great, we don't change. Well, the world needs to evolve. There's a lot of balances that need to be brought to the our way of living. And so it's gonna require some change. So this year is really teeing it up, like, and so that's why we've felt it so heavily.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, as somebody who is born in a nine-month on a nine-day, actually the 27th, but I know that 27 is a nine, nine, yeah. It's been very impactful. That's all I'm gonna say. It's not disappointed, right? I could pop popcorn and we could talk for hours. Um, anywho, let's talk about the year ahead because we are a few weeks away from a new month and a new year. And I know that 2026 has a whole new numerological symbolism behind it. Let's talk about the energy that we should be anticipating in 2026.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, so 2026, now we are starting a new chapter. We are like we're wiping that slate clean and we're moving into one energy, a one-year energy, which is also the Chinese is all about the fire horse. Okay. So the fire horse and the snake literally could not be more different from each other. The snake being very feminine, very, it's all about transformation and shedding and whereas the fire horse is like, all right, let's fire things up and let's show up like what a horse shows up in full embodiment, unapologetic. Man, horses, I don't know about you, but they know how to keep their boundaries. They can be all friendly and all is good, but you walk up to them the wrong way and they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, I didn't give you permission to come into my space, right? It's this very like, I know who I am and I'm unapologetic about it, and I am moving forward. Like you either get on board or you move, you get out, right? And that one energy, it's the innovator, it's the leader. This year collectively, I think we're gonna see just tremendous, like new innovations, new solutions to old problems, lots of new technology, probably a lot of new AI. I mean, all the planets point to that. And I think that there's also going to be this tremendous resurgence of the unique individual. And so asking yourself, like, I mean, in our generation, right, it was not really cool to be the different one. I mean, you wanted to be kind of unique, but not too unique. Like you still wanted to fit into the trailer.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, we definitely wanted to belong and fit in.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, 100%. That was like my biggest wound was like, I just want to belong. And I was never meant to belong. I've always been very the way I think is unique. I was meant to be a trailblazer, and I fought it for most of my life, and I've finally gotten on board with it, which is great. But the one energy is the trailblazer, is the person that is like, you know what? I'm gonna fly my freak flag and I'm gonna be weird, and and that's okay because that's who I am, right? It's about being your authentic self. It's about being unique. What is your unique personal brand? And how can you stand fully in that, knowing that your path needs to look different than everybody else's? And that's the other thing. I think we're gonna be getting likely a lot of new ideas. This isn't a year that is gonna be built on just recreating the same, like rinsing and repeating and making minor tweaks to an existing system. This is the year where you're probably gonna get a new idea. But then the tendency is then gonna wanna be like, okay, let me find someone who's done just this so I can just replicate exactly how they've done it. Or, like, you know, like the coaches that are like, follow my five-step system and you are guaranteed to hit this result. Well, no, no. Like, this is the year you're gonna need to check in with yourself just the same way you received that idea through your intuition. You need to receive the plan. Like, what's the plan and the path forward? Because your path needs to look different and it gets to look different than anybody else and how you're actually going to move forward with something.

SPEAKER_01:

So for everybody listening, I just want to go back for a moment and kind of ground us. We've been talking about 2025 being a nine year, because if you add up the number 2025, the two plus zero plus two plus five, they equal nine. Yeah. So if anybody was wondering why we're saying nine and where did that come from, it's because the numbers in 2025 add up to that. And for 2026, of course, it adds up to 10, but you always go to the single digit. So it's one plus zero. That's why it's a one year. Yeah. I keep calling it the year of rebirth. Yeah. It's pretty accurate. I am anticipating that for all kinds of people, myself included. And this idea of there were a lot of things that needed to go away, systems that needed to be deconstructed to be, I don't even know if reconstructed, but I think new creations uh coming into play in 2026 and letting go of the need to follow the old way. I think that that's a lot of people get stuck in this place. That's the way I saw somebody else succeed. And to Anna's point, this idea of really understanding your own alignment and your own personal blueprint for this. There is so many different ways to get to where you want to go. And if it is in your heart, trust and believe that it's meant for you. Yes. And that it's already done on some timeline. We just need to step into that. And so instead of searching outside for the answers, spend more time really exploring and feeling your way toward the answer.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes, that's really where I think all signs point to we're going to be moving from the information age into the intuitive age. I think that's what's really where even in certain spiritual traditions, they talk about, you know, a movement of our awareness down into our heart, right? From here down into here. And that that will be the way forward, will be this feeling. And we're already seeing it now. If you pay attention, if you really pay attention to what is happening, which I definitely do, you know, right now with the growth of AI, it's it is creating a lot of efficiency. It is bringing a lot of like, I don't know about you, but I have more time to spend on some things that I didn't have time on before. And so for that I'm very grateful. But what it is simultaneously creating is this question of like what is true and what is not, what is actually truth and what is not truth, right? And as AI continues to grow, I think that's really where we're gonna have to start trusting our own truth so much more. And that it's really moving into feeling your way forward. And so this is gonna be a transition for a lot of people. There's gonna have to be a lot of like, in my opinion, in this one year, it is gonna call for initiation, it's gonna call for action, it's gonna call for doing, right? The fire horse is not like just laying around taking a nap all day, right? The fire horse is ready to run. And so you are gonna see a lot more of that this year collectively, but simultaneously, we have to acknowledge that our conditioning, which is what is driving most of what our how our nervous system responses might need a little time to catch up, right? I work with women on really how to release old conditioning and ways of approaching their work because, and I know you do a lot of the same. And that is where I'm seeing a huge focus right now, because we cannot just take old habits and then be like, okay, I'm ready for the new. Like it's gonna require a new way of being too.

SPEAKER_01:

We've all been talking identity shifts. I think this is sort of like holistically and universally, everybody's starting to move that way anyway. Um, but I do think this collective understanding that the person that you were that got you where you are today is not gonna be the same person you are walking into the new chapter of your life, and that that tensional needs to evolve. And we need to be by design. Yeah, right. It's by design. And we need to be ready to let go of some of those old habits, ways of thinking, stories we tell ourselves in order to make way for this new identity that's been emerging, that's been evolving, that's there, sort of that emerging energy. And it's like, am I ready? You're never ready, right? It's just time to be. And I think that that's probably the way someone asked me the other day, what is it about self-image and talk about taming the ego, but self-image that's needed propel you forward in this next iteration of your life? And I said, you know, it's such a great question because for me, it's always been speaking and thinking from that future self as if she's already here and dressing that way. And it's not a fake it till you make it, it really is stepping into that. It's a kind of an uncomfortable step initially to embody that space. And I think collectively as women, we often have had historic prove ourselves before we were lifted to the next level. Yeah. And what we have all done a really good job of, I think, is we had to do the job of the promotion we wanted before we got the promotion, right? And so it's, I always equate it to you already knew how to do this in your work setting. Now you're doing it in your life setting for your own benefit and for the benefit of those came to serve. Step into that identity that feels aspirational and start to embody it. Don't tiptoe around it, embody it, walk into it, and then get comfortable as you're already being. It's not something anyone ever says, oh yeah, you know, rock star energy. Like, no, you just need to do it. You need to get there, right? Like I think of so many people who maybe on face value may have considered themselves somewhat introverted, doing such audacious, bold things in the universe, walking on stages, writing books, helping people in a very public and private ways, but in ways that step them out of themselves to do that. And if they weren't already embodying that next level, they would never do it. It would never happen. Books wouldn't get written, keynotes would not be had, yeah. You wouldn't have that opportunity to lead somebody to their next level, to their transformation, to how they're supposed to serve. So always say, don't tiptoe around that next identity.

SPEAKER_02:

No. It's also, I think, to your point, like the way I see it is it's the path of devotion because like what are you devoted to? You know what I mean? Like, I think there's the person that is like, I just want to be big, right? I want to be known and I want to be whatever. Okay, that's fine. Like, but if you don't have the like the why, like your mission of like what on earth, why? Like you attach yourself and you anchor so much into this is my mission. Like, I have my mission statement up on my wall. Like, this is my mission. And thus, as things come in front of you that are outside of your comfort zone that you never and your wildest dreams imagine you'd be doing, but you know it's the next step for your mission. You do it, you show up.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02:

And I think there is such power in that. And so, what I want to say to like anyone listening, because I've done a lot of things that I never imagined I would do because I knew I had to. It was like this knowing, right? And it will lead you way outside of your comfort zone. But man, every time you get to look back, you're so dang proud of yourself that you're like, you know what? I'm so glad that it led me on this path, even though I was scared to death for a long time.

SPEAKER_01:

But yeah, and I again it goes back to your mission and the opportunity to impact somebody and the opportunity to really make a difference in one life. And the reality is it's many, many, many lives. You really have no idea how that one person you may be impacting is having a ripple effect onto others.

SPEAKER_02:

And to do what you love, like what you were born to do. This is you sharing your medicine with the world. And so this is not, again, like a should. Your purpose is not a should. If it's truly what you are designed for, you'll want to do it. Oftentimes it's probably doing the very thing that you've written off as like, oh, that's not important. Do you know how long I just treated numerology like a little, like my little passion on the side? And I rarely rarely ever spoke about it. And because to me, I was like, well, I love it. And but people started coming to me for it. They started asking. I mean, I would be in my office as a high-level executive, and someone would knock on the door and be like, When you have five minutes, can you just remind me again what personal year I'm in or what my life path is doing or this? And they would like line up at my door. And eventually I started paying attention to that. And I was like, huh, there's something here. You know what I mean? Like they keep coming to me. So I bring it into my work and everything that I do now. But it took me a while to realize like what I thought was, oh, I think everyone can just look into it, but I process it and I perceive it in such a different way that I think it is a part, I don't think I know. It's a part of what I do.

SPEAKER_01:

It's a part of what I'm here to do.

SPEAKER_02:

So I think again, going back to this one year, like these are good questions to be asking yourself because the one is about bringing something forward. Well, what are you bringing forward that only you can bring? And that's really like where you should spend that one energy, that juicy fire horse energy, it needs to be aligned with who you are and what you specifically are born to do.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, on that note, Aniston, we are gonna jump into some personal numerology, life number, because everybody has their own personal number, their life number. Yes. And I want you to explain a little bit about how one even knows what their personal life number is. And then if you could, because I know that there are a lot of numbers that get through, if you could give a little bit of a synops of what those individual personal numbers mean, one through nine, right?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, yeah, that would be great. Okay, so I'm gonna make this as easy as possible. So just like the universe has its cycle, every individual is also following their own personal year cycle. This started the day that you were born, and you've been following this cycle your entire life. And so the way that you determine what personal year you are in in your nine-year cycle is you take first the month you were born. What is the numeric value of that month? If you were born in January, that's a one. If you were born in December, that would be a 12. Okay. So you take that, write that down. And then you're gonna, if you have a double-digit number, you're gonna break, you're gonna add those two together and so that it breaks down to one number. So you add until you get one number. So then you have that final one number for your birth month. Then you're gonna add your birth date. So again, if it's one number. So for me, I was born in January, January 8th. So I add January, which is one, plus eight, so that equals nine. And then you're gonna take the numeric um sum of the year number, which we've already told you, which is a one. So for me, being born January 8th, and then I take 2026, I take one plus eight plus one, that equals a 10, which I break down into one. So I that so it always comes down into one number. The only time you don't do that is if you add your birth date, birth month, and the current year together, and it adds up to an 11 or a 22. Those are master numbers. And so you will not reduce those because they have a special meaning.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, so we're gonna do this in real time for me. So my birth date is September 27th. So for September, that's zero nine plus the day 2027.

SPEAKER_02:

So then you would add two plus seven, which would be nine.

SPEAKER_01:

So that gives me eighteen. Yes. And then eight plus one for 2026. So one plus eight is nine plus one is ten. So it is a one. Oh, you're a one. My personal number for 2026 is one.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, you're just like me then. Okay, so I'm just making sure. So nine plus, yep, nine plus nine plus one. So you are like me, which means you follow the universal year cycle, which means you get a double doozy of that number, just like I do every year.

SPEAKER_01:

So, but that's only using 2026.

SPEAKER_02:

If I were to do it for 2025, it would have been a nine plus nine plus nine, because 2025 was a nine.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, which and then it would have been a nine year for me. Explain so much of the uh earthquake of a year that it was.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, I was gonna say, well, then I see you, sister, because I was there right there with you. And I like to look at it as a bit if for any of you that are are also in a one personal year or you follow the same cycles, the universal cycle, what's really cool about it is you're always really connected to what is going on collectively. Like, so no matter what, like I don't know about you, my content is almost always like what I'm experiencing in the moment, what I'm going through in the moment, which is what you should be doing because you know that so many people are gonna be able to relate to it, regardless of what personal year they're in, because they're all everyone is experiencing the same energy as you. So it's great for teachers.

SPEAKER_01:

So that means regardless of year, we are going to be always in the cahoots with whatever number year it is.

SPEAKER_02:

We are we are like we are so connected to the universe, you and me.

SPEAKER_01:

That makes so much sense. And the sin is why you are back here.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm so glad I could answer that for you. All right. So I'll run through these really quick and just to give it an overview. So the good thing is we look at personal year one. Well, actually, before I do this, let me preface. Your personal year, you're gonna feel this energy the most. Okay, so if we're looking at personal year energy versus universal year energy, your personal year energy, you're gonna feel that energy influence in your life the most. And then next will be the universal. So it's kind of like, you know, if you had a you have a main, you know, and then the side is your universe, your universal energy. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01:

So let me ask you this, Aniston. We all have a personal life number that's actually a life path. The the life path number that's the month, day, year you were born you were born. Yes.

SPEAKER_02:

That's a life path number. Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

That's an eight for me. So I'm just okay. Well, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_02:

I probably would have guessed that. Very successful woman over here. Power. I call them the power. The eights are the powerhouses. All right, let's let's dissect that a little bit and then we'll go back to the rest.

SPEAKER_01:

Eight is the powerhouse. I did not know that.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, eight is the powerhouse. The eight is here to really create, to be a leader. Oftentimes they are business owners, they are here to create wealth. Wealth and money play a part in their life. They are here to be the builder to create a lot. Some life paths are more internally focused and some are more externally focused. And the eight, similar to like the infinity sign, like as above, so below, right? Which means that you really get to own your creatorship. your ability to co-create your life. And so a lot of the themes around the eight is around power. Like, and so you might have had some, you know, maybe you've seen how power can be misused. You probably experienced power in the negative. And now you get to experience what is it to be a woman in her power, but to be heart led, to be, you know what I mean? Like absolutely. To lean on her intuition, like to do it the right way. The eight is also going to focus on money. And so some people they wind up having a lot of money. And then some they wind up like they have to learn how to uplevel their money consciousness and their money worthiness. I imagine you teach a lot about money.

SPEAKER_01:

It's fascinating because without knowing okay so for everyone completely transparent, we did not talk about this before the show. And so Aniston did not know off the cuff that my personal life path number is an A. And I didn't know the symbolism behind it, to be honest. I've been thinking about it for other reasons. But my course and what I feel pulled to do a lot of is extraordinary wealth. Because an interesting backstory I didn't have any money growing up. I grew up in very humble beginnings, made a lot of money and then said there's got to be a better way than doing it this way. And so it's been an interesting experiment for me to be able to say how can we do it differently and in a way that is aligned with who I am innately, not who I have fit in a different setting. So for me in a corporate setting. And it's been fascinating because some people are like I don't get it. Just started. How is it working out for you? And and I sat back and said I'm not entirely sure because I would love to say I have a five tier system for doing it, but it is very intuitive. And so I teach from a very intuitive place and drawing money in is not hard if you're energetically aligned to it. So a lot of my work is magnetism and energy based because I don't think that there has to be a one way to make it or a one way to do it. Money finds me all the time because I'm very receptive to it and I don't hold on to it. I'm really good at using it.

SPEAKER_02:

Well you're the perfect person to teach this honestly Michelle like this is why I love this work so much why it just lights me up because I believe and this is after doing and I most I primarily work with women and after doing like thousands of just readings with women and I believe this that based on your life path it's simultaneously what you're here to learn and master but that like you Michelle carry these codes like that activate around wealth around leadership and that you by women just being in your space okay like coming into your programs but even just being around you you're activating that within them that is our gift that that is our true gift for people and I think yes it's all the things that you say and do and produce those are great because they carry your energy but never mistake like your energy and these what you carry of these like kind I call them like codes of remembrance like you help us remember. You're helping all of us like remember oh that's this is how we're supposed to create wealth this is how and even so anyone listening to this like just get into Michelle's programs get into her space come on over I'm telling you no room for skill this is science like inner it's called energetic entrainment and your energy will entrain to hers and you will be absorbing all of this knowledge from her not just from the mind but a whole body experience.

SPEAKER_01:

You heard it here first all right cut that make it a commercial it's going to be great. That's right. All right let's get back to 2026 and personal numbers for this upcoming year.

SPEAKER_02:

So we just went through number one number two so the one is all about you it's singular it's very independence driven and then you move into the two year and it is it can be feel a little bit like whiplash because now you're going to be drawn in. I mean think about it you're going to expand a lot in your one year. Well now you've got to come in and you've got to do some work on the inside like number one you need to slow down because we call it in numerology it's like this three year push the eight the nine and the one it's a lot. Okay. So when you hit that point in your cycle when you're going through your eight year which is really externally busy then your nine year and then your one year which is all about new, you need a break. But yet your nervous system probably is going to be like rebelling against you and saying no we don't run at this pace. We run at this pace right the two year is going to slow you right down and it's going to say now we focus on you, how you're feeling let's think about our emotions let's really drudge up anything that you have repressed. Let's get rid of that let's focus on relationships. Let's focus on boundaries and let's teach you about divine time because if you try to rush in a two year if you try to run when you are literally meant to walk it will be a frustrating year. And I'm not saying that to scare you the two is the symbol of water it's the symbol of emotion and it is 100% meant to slow you down so you can rest replenish and get clarity about a lot of things because as you move into your three year you're going to need some energy. So the two year is connection relationships it's divine timing and it doesn't mean that you have to stop working or that great things can't happen in a two year if things aren't moving the speed that you want trust delays truly are gifts and it will help you take your time and slow down because what you're creating is not just for a season. Like you're probably creating something that's going to be something big. Like you need to have the space your three year so we move into personal year number three is about expression, visibility. This is now it's like spring energy. The three I always think of as like spring energy. You know in spring when all of a sudden you just got a pep in your step you're like oh I think the winter is over I'm feeling like I want to be out again I want to be social again. I want to travel again. And so the three is going to feel like a breath of fresh air. That said any issues or wounds you have around expressing will come up this year. Let's say maybe you get this idea you want to start a podcast. Great thing to do in a three year okay well it's one thing to have an idea and it's a whole other thing to actually start like doing it and then be like oh my gosh people are going to hear what I have to say. What if they don't like it? What if they judge me like that kind of stuff. Like that wounding can come up. So just know like you might hit some resistance on your path of expressing your unique self. And so if you are in a three year find somebody in a one year who will help move you along yes exactly like let's get moving let's go and in and this year because it's a universal year one this is really going to ask you again like what who is your how can you express the truth like your truth not this filtered down watered down saturated version of what you think is going to be acceptable.

SPEAKER_01:

What you think everyone wants to hear from you because that's not the truth.

SPEAKER_02:

You do you boo you say it like it is and your people will find you and the people that aren't mint for you that's okay too. All right so that's your three your four year is the building year. Okay. This is where it's like your three year was like yay jazz hands I'm having so much fun. And then the four year is going to slow you down again right because cycles right and it balance it's always the balance. And the four year is the bricklayer year. It's where you get to start putting some systems and processes in place to actually like and some structure around these ideas right creativity is all flowy and fun and very feminine and then the four year comes in which is very Saturnian energy. It's very like okay that's cute but how are you going to build this right? How are you going to build this? What are you going to do? And so this is where you know you'll see cracks in your foundation like of maybe steps you skipped maybe your accounting system isn't set up right. Maybe the way that you're you're treating your health isn't up to par. You start noticing like I have been totally avoiding my exercise and now I'm paying the price for it. So what am I going to do to fix it? That's the kind of stuff that happens in a four year but it is so necessary. It is so important. And again timing slower so just trust that as things are coming up it is it's opportunities as if you have a challenge it's an opportunity for you to see what do you need to fix. Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

So do you have any questions on those or can I move on to five it makes perfect sense though you're having like literally one moving you forward two is much more introspective.

SPEAKER_02:

So it feels like a cycle it is a cycle it's like the ocean in and out in and out right and so your five year is about freedom and change. What is required for freedom? Structure right so if you've created a bunch of structure if you've kind of systemized some things in your life you should create more freedom. You should have that and so your five year is the middle mark of your cycle and of their your nine year cycle and this is the the year of all the years I say expect the unexpected the five loves to throw a curveball.

SPEAKER_01:

Like I mean it just and if you like change if you're like yeah let's bring it on I love like change I've not met anybody to this day that embraces it willingly that it's mostly like I I'm cautiously optimistic I've got to be good for me.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Well it's I mean if you go back and for those of you listening I recommend that you do the math and you go back and see like when was your last five years and what happened for you. What came about for you and oftentimes it could be a move you weren't anticipating to make. You might move home it could be a new job, a new relationship. It could be a total shift and direction. It could be something that's a little more on internal it could be really about you deciding like what feels like freedom to me and starting to do that. Because the five is like the wild woman archetype. That's what I say it's like the wild woman archetype who wants freedom where she wants to kind of live life the way that she wants to live it. She wants to design her own life. And so just go with the flow in a five year and trust like that there is a plan. Even if you it does not make any sense to your head of like why is this in front of me? It's there for a reason. So just trust it. The next year is your six year and this year again is going to kind of pull you back in, slow you down. And this one is really of all of them it's probably more so focused on the home and relationships and family like more people get married in a six year they get pregnant in a six year they got married in a six year yeah 2004. Rudy was in a six year when he married me and I got pregnant with our first child in a six year and six can so six can very much be a focus all of a sudden on maybe increased responsibilities. Like sometimes people will have a family member move in with them in a six year and all of a sudden so it is a year of giving right it's a year where your responsibilities are going to include you know it it is more of an like I'm going to give my time and energy to people that I love but it cannot be about you abandoning yourself. And that's what the sixth year is going to ask you is like how can you still be of service and love your people while still making you number one right you cannot give from an empty cup. So what are your boundaries? And that's what you're going to be able to really determine in your sixth year. Also healing is a big one in a six oftentimes like you know I did a lot of healing in my last six year of like kind of repressed trauma I didn't even know existed. That all happened in the six. And so it's it's not uncommon because it the six is a hyper focus on like the body on the home on love. It's also going to be a year and I'm just going to say this that you're going to get to see the health of your marriage. Okay. So is it healthy? Is it not healthy? There are a lot of divorces that happen in a six year but there's simultaneously probably just as many marriages that actually they improve because all of a sudden it's taking your focus whereas other years you're more focused on other categories of your life.

SPEAKER_01:

That makes sense. Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

So your seven year now this is where we get the most spiritual year of the nine okay so this is the inner mystic this year is saying you need to make space to go within this is the year the seven is about inner expansion it's about spiritual growth. But when you think about it in the order because the seven comes right before the eight which is all about external growth but if our outer reality is just a reflection of our inner reality then actually it requires inner expansion before the outer expansion happens.

SPEAKER_01:

A hundred percent I love introspective I love those feel juicy like I love them permission not that we need it but every now and then you leave a little bit of a universal nudge to say hey this year we're focusing on your internal growth your spiritual growth what are you really hungry for on a spiritual level that to me for somebody who's always building and creating and externally focused so yummy to have one of those.

SPEAKER_02:

And it will slow you down but you're going to feel like you're just not going to probably feel as social. You might instead of taking the big family reunion vacation maybe you go on a meditation retreat. Maybe you go with your family to a remote cabin in the woods where you can just sit and read and be in nature and be quiet. Like that's how I when people say well how do you use this information to plan well I just try not to ask myself to do things that I know energetically I'm probably not going to want to do. It's actually self-love is what it is it's it's loving yourself enough to not force you to try to be a square peg in a round hole right in a year that's asking something different of you. But what can come out of this year can be revolutionary. This is you meeting yourself at a deeper level than you've ever met. And so if you fight it if you refuse to to create time because most people who say I don't have time have major intimacy issues and not necessarily not just with their partner with themselves. They're so afraid to sit with themselves because intimacy is into me I see.

SPEAKER_01:

If you can't see into yourself say that again wait wait wait wait slow that down that was beautiful.

SPEAKER_02:

Intimacy is actually into me I see we think of it as physical intimacy and being with other people but you can really only do that to the degree that you're able to do that like just to sit in your own space in the quiet and listen. Probably sometimes the scariest thing for a lot of people to do so I love that.

SPEAKER_01:

I on the other hand like bring back on I love the intimacy of all of me I see ooh that's juicy. Okay. Okay. Just some big years because I just did my husband's and my son's I have a freshman in college all know I have a my son Alex is a freshman this year and he was born on March 13 and we are and so he is I believe four.

SPEAKER_02:

So he's actually going into his eight year in 2026. Exactly. He's just coming out of his seven year so this isn't probably this makes so much sense.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah yeah yeah it's been a huge personal growth year for him. Yeah and a lot of figuring out who is deciding where he wanted to study how that was going to impact relationships in his life and finding his tribe and where he felt like he belonged all of these things. And he's very seven very seven a soul searching year for him. So I'm excited about this eight year for him.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Well he and the eight is like again I'm remembering since I just came out of my nine it's still very fresh in my mind my eight year it literally felt like going from zero to 60 miles an hour. Your eight year comes in with a like a bang. And it depends on where your birthday is and this is my philosophy on this is that the closer you get to your birthday, the stronger the energy. So for me, I'm a January baby. I feel this energy right out of the gate.

SPEAKER_01:

But for some people like for you September it might be more of a graduating scale right where you start see I find that around mid-July I start to have this burst of thinking about the year ahead and this birthday coming and then as I get closer to it I really feel it like in my bones. Like what are we doing? What's this year about how are we moving forward?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah yeah a couple months out so the eight year is what we spoke about your life path the eight year is really going to be a lot more externally focused. It's about expansion it's about power right are you in your power are you giving away your power what's your relationship there? It's going to be about finances oftentimes it can be really good. Again this is where I want to preface in your seven year like if you've got some issues around worth around money around wealth don't wait till your eight year to start to think about it. Like just go for it in your seven because your eight year you will expand to the degree that you've expanded internally. It will be a reflection for you. Some people's eight years like I've doubled my income in my eight year I've gotten almost every eight year I get a promotion or something but it's always to the degree that I have really expanded my overall self-image, my identity my worthiness and if I will do that, man, then those eight years can be huge quantum leaps forward. So this is where I feel like all the energy has been culminating right for these nine this whole nine year cycle so far it's all been culminating and your eight year is really where you can see things come to fruition more than any other year. So but but be prepared it will burn it will that eight year will burn you up if you do not like hit pause, create space to take breaks you're going to find yourself in an eight year be like oh my gosh like this year is just crazy. It's so busy there's so much going on especially compared to your seven right it'll you'll feel the difference. All right that brings us back to nine to the nine year and then here we are again at completion. So again your eight year everything kind of blooms blossoms and now this is turning back into like okay great job now what to release and what gets to come with you. And this is where like I'm just going to urge you if you've never gotten into feng shui like this is a great year for you. You need a feng shui not just your home where you go through and you're like throwing out throwing out throwing out but like your thoughts your beliefs your habit your relationship some people don't get to go with you in your next chapter and that's okay. Not everyone is meant to be a lifetime person for you. Is your job still right for you? I mean I left and like I mean two weeks into January I left my corporate position. I mean it was like so fast. But again my birthday's in January so I feel this energy like really close to the new year. It wasn't expected it wasn't part of the plan but I knew it. And so the trick is in a nine year is oftentimes some things will go whether that you let them go or you're like holding on for dear life if if they're meant to go, let them go. But then don't rebound and try to like fill it immediately. Like if something has left like give it some space to breathe because like you wouldn't tell your best friend to get out of a relationship and then the next week go find a new one. She probably needs to do a little healing a little releasing so she starts to decide what do I want this new elevation of my relationship to look like same thing in a nine year if something doesn't come right away don't force it. Like just trust it will because the universe abores a vacuum. If you create space it will be filled but it's going to be filled with things that are reflective of your energy now not who you were five years ago. So the things that you're holding onto so tightly it's very likely they no longer are a match for you. And there's something better. You're ready for something better but you have to be willing to let go because in your one year if you're trying to take it all with you if you're hoarding all the things there is no space for new to come. And that's when you will suffer. It will feel hard. It will feel like you're not moving your feet are in quicksand because you're trying to lug these things with you that were never meant to come with you into this next chapter. So there you go.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh my gosh fascinating fascinating Anison thank you so much. I hope everybody listening in if you have a chance jump over to the YouTube channel and just hop in. I think just even probably seeing our expressions as we do this it's benefits it because it really is something you feel your way through. And I think that's so important. Maring the knowledge with the way you walk through any given year is really important. With that feeling space. That's why we're here. We spend far too much time in our heads overthinking things. So take the knowledge and feel your way into this upcoming year. I'm so excited. I'm really excited to talk to my husband because his birthday is this coming weekend. That makes him he is 1214. So what does that make him? An eight, right? Am I not mistaken? Yeah. So it's so 145. So nine year. He's going into a nine year, and you're going, you guys are like the great polarity. That defines our entire marriage. So that's how we work. Now you know. That is how we work. Our power couple dynamics are based on opposites. Endings and beginnings. Endings and beginnings. Here we go. That's right.

SPEAKER_02:

All right.

SPEAKER_01:

Aniston, what do you want people to know about numerology? What is something tangible they can take with them? Obviously, there's a lot of information, just understanding the different energies coming out of 2025, going into 2026, and then understanding what their personal year number is and what it could represent. What's something tangible that you'd love to leave our listeners with as wrap up today's conversation?

SPEAKER_02:

You know what? I would love to just encourage you to be curious because there's so much information that you can learn about yourself, about your own energetic timing. And I see numerology as an alignment tool. I think it is not meant to box you in. It's not meant to take your free will away, but it is meant to give you a different perspective on yourself that maybe you haven't been able to see, or your mind has been telling a story that isn't accurate, and that you get to really hone in on something. And so I would encourage you to do is to be curious. To be curious, like what is my life path? What is my personal year number and the people that you love? I mean, there's so much there for you. It's just a matter of you saying, you know what, of opening your mind to this information. And I have so many tools. I have tools on my website. I've created little mini courses on Life Path. And I mean, you could literally download and within an hour you'd have all the information that you need. And so it's there. It's just a matter of, I think, just be curious. I think that's one of the greatest things that we can do. So I know that's not a whole very tangible, but just encouraging you because you might surprise yourself of what you find. And it might just be the very validation that you're looking for. It's usually what I find.

SPEAKER_01:

I love it. Where can people find you, Aniston?

SPEAKER_02:

I would head to AnistonRicksteins.com. My website is you might not be able to spell my last name. Most people can't, but that or Aniston Blair Ricksteins on on Instagram. I like to hang out there most of the time. I also have the Magnetic Woman community, which is a free community on Facebook where I drop in with numerology information and all things magnetism and alignment and all the stuff.

SPEAKER_01:

She speaks our language, and I'm gonna have all the links in the show notes. So please check it out and go follow Aniston online. She does some beautiful content. It's something I look forward to in my feed on a regular basis. So I encourage you to go check around and see what she's up to. Thank you again, Aniston. It's been a pleasure as always. I love having you on the show. I love our conversations and I love the synchronicity of all the things we're both going through right now. We couldn't have planned it better. Right? Soul Sisters, right here. All right, everyone. Until next time, go and live your extraordinary life. Thank you for listening to today's episode. If you enjoyed this podcast episode, please take a moment to rate and review. If you have recommendations for future topics, please reach out to me at MichelleRiosOfficial.com. Lastly, please consider supporting this podcast by sharing it. Together we can reach, inspire, and positively impact more people. Thank you.

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