Numerology Prediction 2026

 Numerologists note that a change in numbers does not automatically switch from one energy to the next. Generally the transition can be around three months either side of the change. The yer 2026, for example is a 1 year following the 9 year of 2025. So if 9 is a sum consolidation at the end of a cycle, the beginning of the next one will inherit the winding up of the previous cycle.

In 2014 my wife and I bought a new house because the right opportunity arose; the number 7 year was indeed a result of other factors that suddenly created the right circumstances. I won’t elaborate on this as the focus for this post is the year 2026. The new cycle began in 2017 and having lived in a new area for a short time, the focus up to now had been to acclimatise from city to rural life. I started a new job role only the year before, which became permanent in the 1 year. I also become involved in a campaign to reduce the speed of traffic going through the village, which became the springboard to becoming known and my launch in 2019 into local politics. So the idea (1) the collaboration (2) and the expression made manifest (3) fell into place with the system of organisation yet to be learned (4) occurred around the time of the Covid pandemic.

By 2023 (7 year) I was approached with a proposition to stand for election as a District Councillor, just at the point I had decided to retire from work. Once again the opportunity had arisen that suggested I should go with the flow and accept what was offered. I won the election and the term will come to an end in 2028.

But before I get ahead of myself, something else was ‘going with the flow’ in 2023 that there was no way I could know was even there. It had most likely started with a small pin prick that steadily got larger until by the February of 2025, a 9 year, the accumulation of footfall up and down our hallway generated a gushing water feed pipe the flooded almost the entire house.

The water had bubbled up through some very expensive LVT flooring. No way could we afford to replace it all ourselves, so we had to make a claim on our house insurance. The direction of flow (8) and the cost to repair (also 8) was going to be considerable.

The energy of the number 9 gradually established itself by the March of 2025 with the introduction of dehumidifiers that hummed 24 hours a day for the next 4 months. It turned out that this procedure was a complete waste of time because the contractors were not authorised to remove the flooring, so they only dried the surface. Underneath the suspended floor was an entire swath of soggy concrete, which the restoration contractors dried in less than two weeks.

The incompetence of the whole thing, trying to save money I have no doubt, ended up costing more time and money. Subsequently the restoration dragged on over the Christmas and New Year period with a projected completion date of March 2026. At the time of writing this we are a week shy of Christmas Day.

  No doubt the water escape and repairs belong to the 9 year but the planning to replace the damaged rooms with new flooring and decor is the domain of the 1 year. These plans started in the September of 2025 but will not become manifest until 2026.

No numerological year suddenly discards the old number in favour of the new. It is much more of a transition that runs almost seamlessly over time. So for my wife and I, the New Year will see us displaced from our home with a promise of more to come over the next two months at least.

The energy of the year 2026 may not become clear until the energies of 2025 terminate. This is perhaps more significant when an old cycle ends and a new one begins.

Number 2 symbolises partnerships, diplomacy, deception and interaction in developing ideas that manifested in the number 1 energy. There are two number 2s in 2026, which to me depicts division and divisiveness. Politically we can see this playing out between the ideological left and right and the continuing war between Russia and Ukraine. The zero (0) in 2026 is the potential energy of everything and nothing. It is worth bearing in mind that this zero occurs in every year until 2110. Much attention should be given to what is possible if there is the will to achieve it.

Lastly we have the number 6 that will remain just for the year; all other lasting a decade or longer. Number 6 symbolises balance and the attempt to work towards harmony. Balance is by far the key and not easy to achieve. In personal numerology the individual may overbalance by interfering too much of underbalance by becoming a doormat. Both energies involve ‘doing’ for others and the lesson is in learning how to share the responsibility of that doing. Much of this is being played out on the world stage with Europe increasing its defence budget (as it should have done decades ago), Russia demanding land from Ukraine (2026 suggesting that Ukraine is not going to simply roll over and give in) and the growing clamour for there to be a tax on wealth instead of wages - otherwise the wages ‘pie’ will get smaller and smaller, leading to poverty among the masses. Some people may argue that profit is not a dirty word but to my mind, profit without responsibility to community and environment is an abomination. Let’s be clear, if half the country’s wealth is squirrelled into private accounts, the half that is left is not enough to pay sufficient tax to run that country. Governments can tinker all they like but until they make the taxable pie bigger than it is now, there will never be enough money to run the country and keep people above the poverty line.

So what does this all mean for 2026? We live in a world where we must decide for ourselves if something is indeed fake news or a hoax. We must look carefully at social and newspaper media for signs of bias, disingenuousness and propaganda. To take a ‘balanced’ view we must ditch our partisan confirmation bias and consider both sides of an argument. We have one group pitted against another group with nothing to join them (202 of 2026) There are those who may be able to see both side but many other entrenched in their one-sided solution. The two main culprits fomenting this division is undoubtedly Donald Trump and Nigel Farage. The seeds of fascism exist  and we need to wake up to it. Time and events will tell if the world can succeed in bringing us back from the abyss.

Of all the numbers in play, it is the zero (0) that holds the greatest potential. To date we have many problems without solutions that both sides agree on: Russia Ukraine, Israel Palestine, Republican Democrat, Conservative (?) Labour. Of the latter there are opinion polls that indicate the next general election will be fought between two new parties - Reform and The Green Party. People in the UK are rejecting the old parties, having lost trust in their stewardship and the dearth of meaningful ideas. It is also true to say that the advance of social media is favouring the charismatic leadership of party and not just the policies they espouse.

2026 is the start of a turbulent cycle that will ramp up in 2030; most likely a hostile year that blows away the old entrenched ideas of the 2020s. Will history repeat itself from 100 years ago?

2026 is the year leading up to the revelations of 2027 - an 11/2 year that sweeps away the disillusionment from the eyes of the glamoured and hopefully halts populist parties in their tracks. To this point I predict that the next election in both the US and the UK will not be won by a populist agenda.

Within this year, Ukraine may have to cede Crimea but not the Donbas or Donetsk regions. Neither party will be happy but it is a balanced outcome. Israel is a tougher nut to crack while Netenyahu keeps the ultra right of the party in coalition. The only two outcomes for Palestine would be a two state solution or complete annihilation. If Netenyahu cannot deliver this he should dissolve parliament and face the corruption charges he has tried so long to avoid.

The UK continues to grasp the thorny issue of illegal migrants crossing in small boats from France. More importantly, the UK Government continues to avoid the link between electoral unrest and the years of under development in infrastructure. If people could get a doctor’s appointment, find a dentist, send their children to a local school that is not already overstretched, buy a house that is affordable or rent a house that is affordable ( the solution to this is to build more houses and bring down the cost of purchase and rent), raise wages to enable people to afford all of the above etc…. In fact all the things that Reform are blaming on the tiny minority of illegal migrants (who would not be illegal if there were reasonable routes in the first place), the growing gravitation towards a party that promises to stop the boats ( but keeps quiet about all the more unpopular things it would take from everyone) is set to increase. The only silver lining in this darkest of clouds is that 2027 is bound to shed light on the lies, deceit, disinformation and blatant omissions of policy consequences if there was ever a single focus (a glamour if you like) on a quest to stop illegal immigration.

By March 2026 I hope we will be able to return to our house and start to rebuild our routines, as is in keeping with the number 1 energy. Obviously there will be much that is new in structural terms but will our lives have been altered significantly due to the upheaval? Well, there has been an opportunity for reflection and we have even reviewed relationships with others during this difficult time for us. I am, of course, grateful for the learning experience - placing it on the other side of ‘you don’t know what it is like’ column.

For everyone who wishes to also learn by experience, I suggest looking at how your lives are balanced. The essence of the number 6 is equilibrium based on equity. You can be doing too much or too little and reap the consequence of it. If you don’t owe anyone a free lunch, you can expect not to get a free lunch when you need it. If you expect to give to people and for them not to help themselves, you can expect to run out of funds before you run out of people. Somewhere in the middle is a reasonable balance that has eluded ideological trains of thought for decades. The pendulum swings too far one way and then too far the other. A dynamic balance is needed and a will to give ground on both sides to make it happen. It won’t happen in 2026; hope springs eternal for 2036.

Despite the temptation, this is not a time to ‘pick a side’. No side owns the truth - or any truth for that matter. One side of an argument cannot feel safe while the other remains insecure. BOTH sides have to feel secure for there to be harmony, accord and prosperity. To do that means meeting in the middle ground to accept responsibilities and to ensure others do the same in equal measure.

Number 6 of 2026 is a ‘doing’ number. Look out for those that ‘do’ because it will tell you if what they do are in it for the people or just themself.

A final thought is that the 1 year is the beginning of a 9-year cycle, so what is made manifest in 2026 will have an impact on the world until 2035. So it is a good idea to look this year at who you side with  and who you do not side with in equal measure and be as objective as you can be when doing so. If used properly, the number 6 has the chance to heal the rift between the 2-0-2 if enough people are willing to let go of combative allegiances.

Shane Ward is the author of Numerology: Making it Work For You

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Less for More. Before UK 2025 Budget.

 It is November 2025 and one day to go before the much vaunted and speculated about budget. According to many it is not going to be a good one. I’d be very surprised if they were wrong.

Now I am old enough to have lived through many budgets and for the most part the difference to the pockets of the average person changes very little. One year the budget afforded me the increase of half a pint of beer a week. The super yacht was still a pipe dream. However, where we live in a cost of living crisis, the same old solutions to solve the problem of balancing the books are becoming noticeably ineffective.

I remember back in the 1980s when chocolate bars started to increase in size and then decrease in the 2010s when the UK spiralled down into austerity. Roll on a couple of decades and some inflation we ended up with chocolate bars smaller but costing as much as when they were bigger; a symptom known as ‘shrinkflation’. The reason was obviously things like manufacturing costs and the rising cost of ingredients along with trying to increase profits. Within this context the analogy starts to resonate with the 2025 budget issue.

You see, it doesn’t matter what the outcome of the budget is for the average working person. The simple fact, espoused currently by the charismatic figures of Gary Stevenson and Zak Polansky, is that we are trying to make a giant size chocolate bar out of half the ingredients.

Half the hypothetical chocolate bar ingredients are owned by the super rich who make more money while they sleep than most people can earn in a year. It wasn’t always this bad but when you notice you’re getting less but paying more and more over time, you start to wonder where all the money is going?

And no, it is not going to illegal immigrants. This is a typical ploy invented by some ideologues to distract you from their stash. I recall an animal programme where the predator defecates on their kill to hide it from others. The Reform party is doing this rather well, stirring up hatred and fear among the misinformed. In fact the cost of potential asylum seekers is minuscule compared to the tax avoidance among corporations and super rich individuals with clever accountants. The reason why so-called illegal immigration got out of control? Bad policy after Brexit and not enough money to do anything about it. 

The real crisis that we feel today goes back to decisions made by successive governments over decades from the end of WWII and upward; with perhaps the exception of the National Health Service (that the Reform Party would dismantle and set up an American style health insurance system). The real crisis comes down to short term politics and no appetite to commit to long term investments.

Let us look at today’s needs:
We need more housing. Labour let council houses run down in the 70s and Conservative subsequently sold them off to housing associations. From then on, no plan for more council houses were considered and no realistic plan for growing the country’s housing needs. So we have a shortage of housing, which pushes the value of houses up to buy or rent. The 2020 generation are very unlikely to own a house in their lifetime unless the system changes and more houses are built. There also has to be a greater number of ‘affordable houses’ that corresponds to wages.

We need higher wages. The minimum wage, much vaunted by the conservatives as the ‘living wage’ is not enough to even rent a flat. The gap between rich and poor has never been greater because wages have remained stagnant over the austerity years of 2010 and 2020. Junior doctors got a record wage rise in 2024 after a series of strikes and the Labour Party willing to address the real cut in wages. However, doctors are planning to strike again because they would still need another 20% rise to get them back to wage parity of 2010.

The minimum wage has hardly risen at all over this time and certainly not of the order demanded by doctors. As the cost of living goes up, the value of the minimum wage shrinks. Working people are going to food banks and the Government continues to pay tax credits to low income households.

We need more hospital and schools. The old buildings are crumbling and Governments appear to be happy to instead spend billions on a high speed rail link. Labour’s private finance initiative was developed as a way of saving money but without investment in upgrading those buildings, it will end up costing more. One wonders why, even then, the government did not address the elephant in the room and devise a longer term strategy for building our infrastructure.

We need more dentists and GPs. The British people are flocking to The Reform party over these simple needs. You can’t get a GP appointment. You can’t get an NHS dentist and most people certainly can’t afford a private dentist. And yet the immigration crisis, a product exacerbated by leaving the EU (and I voted to leave) has thrown the whole immigration system into turmoil. There was a shortage of GPs and Dentists due to government policy - not immigrants.

All of the above needs require investment but after the COVID pandemic drove the UK borrowing to 100% of GDP there was no more money to draw on… at least there was no more of the small chocolate bar left to spend on anything. And who are the first to pay the price for lack of ingredients  (even if they don’t possess them)? The disabled, the sick, mental health, welfare recipients, legal aid, pensioners (remember WASPI women?), in fact anyone who is deemed to be not a ‘contributing unit’ to the tax system; that is apart from the people who actually do have the other half of the ingredients.

The only solution is not to tax to death those who earn a wage by working for an employer, or the small and medium business that drives the economy but to tax those who have squirrelled away the money that has caused the shrinkflation.

Don’t tax the workers - tax the wealth.

The workers become the economy’s consumers, without whom there would be no economy. Those who rent or have mortgages need disposable income that does not include the necessity fo frequenting food banks. For the minimum wage to become a living wage, prices have to come down or wages have to go up, otherwise the minimum wage is just an arbitrary figure plucked out to the air.

You can almost guarantee that none of this will be addressed in the 2025 budget. The UK must look to different solutions and the old established parties have had decades to come up with the goods, which is why the Reform Party is storming ahead in the polls and The Green Party is starting to catch them up, overtaking the old parties. The choice politically is remarkably simple t the 2029 general election (or earlier); Vote to make the rich richer and impoverish the poor, privatise everything including the NHS and investing in the needs of profit or vote to narrow the inequality and bring essential utilities back into public ownership (doesn’t have to be nationalised), investing in the needs of the people.

Until then we still only have half the ingredients to share among the populace and it is not enough.