16 February 2026 

Hello, gorgeous soul, and welcome to the unraveling of another Alchemy Scroll.

I invite you to pause for a breath, sigh out all your tensions, and take this particular scroll as a soothing hand offered out to bring comfort to you.

I know you need it, because I do, too. While I sigh, I'm rolling my eyes, huffing through fiery nostrils as I blow off some steam, because what the heck?!

Right?

These past few weeks have been… intense. Ruthless. Completely unhinged and merciless as we crawl towards an energetic new year.

The Lunar New Year - the Year of the Fire Horse.

We are being propelled into this new year.

No.

Catapulted.

Flung like ragdolls to reshape our spines and strengthen our resolve.

You feel it, too, with every broken relationship, financial upheaval, the rapid crumbling of life as you knew it, and every second that ticks by that just feels like you're crawling forward, hanging on by the finest thread that will snap the moment the next trigger rears its unwelcome head.

Here's the catch - all your resurfacing triggers and all the chaos you’re experiencing has a purpose, and that's for the things which no longer serve you to be released.

For good, this time.

Any part of this that has left you feeling drained is only because of the resistance you've been holding, the resistance to the inevitable change.

We're on the precipice of a very powerful shift in consciousness, and we've been seeing this change in subtle ways for the past few years, and in some ways, not so subtly. Humanity is going through the most, and we're “feeling it, to heal it”.

That was the purpose of the Year of the Snake - to shed the layers of trauma and injustices we've been faced with over countless lifetimes. Separation, caused by organized religion, cultural and ethnic differences based on the amount of melanin in our flesh, status built on generational injustices, and materialism, are finally coming to an end.

We are remembering… remembering the Source of all creation, the Divine essence which resides within all of us, and remembering our Oneness.

This massive collective healing comes at a price, costing us the world as we know it, severing our ties with a system held in place by the negative forces of the world.

Lightworkers, I know you've been feeling these shifts, every truth coming to light rising like acrid bile in our throats, forcing us to heal our throat chakras and speak our truths.

That’s why I’m here - to speak mine.

We've all seen the news, even if we've outgrown the news over the years when we realised it was all just propaganda meant to keep us vibrating at the lowest frequency. But that's what they wanted - and if you're here, you know exactly who I'm talking about…

We all want justice. But justice won't be served through anger. Anger directed at the negative forces only feeds its frequency, powering its battery, and giving it what it wants.

What we need to do now, is strengthen our connection to God. The light will always triumph over darkness, if we vibrate higher, and return to this sacred remembrance of who we are at the core.

You may be wondering what this has to do with shedding…

Our internal world is always reflected by the external world around us, a global mirror held in a sphere of humanity to show us the parts of us we've been running from.

We know that the people we encounter, the relationships we have, act as a mirror for our individual growth and evolution. Collectively, that mirror exists in our outer world,  the structures and systems we encounter on a daily basis neatly slotted into place as if it was God who intended it to be that way.

Except, these systems are not rooted in divinity.

At some point in our lives, we’ve probably questioned why these systems exist at all. The truth is, they were never intended for humanity’s best interests, but rather, for self-gain, to quench the thirst of greed, and to keep us enslaved to industrialism as if that was the purpose of our existence.

Now, as we approach the Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse with rapid forward movement, one must understand that the Fire Horse cannot gallop ahead with any form of baggage or attachments. It requires us to be light, free of the shackles of trauma, pain, suffering, and scarcity mindsets that have kept us bound to the systems of oppression.

How do we go up against the system without anger?

By recalibrating to God-consciousness, to the essence of our beings.

This is what “Christ Consciousness” is, the return of Christ - not a second coming of a man, but a consciousness reignited through sacred remembrance of divinity, the truth. The Ascended Masters of spirituality throughout history, spread light, love, and truth. Not as religion, but as a state of being, a lifestyle, guidelines to live by in the frequency of God-consciousness, awareness of the Creator, the Almighty, the Source of all creation.

Remembrance is the ultimate weapon that defeats the enemy. It’s what they’ve been preventing for generations, through the food, media, medication, history books, etc. that we’ve been consuming since the day we were born. Even before that, our mothers were indoctrinated, pills shoved down their throats, needles stuck in their veins, under the guise of “baby’s well-being”.

We are awakening to the truth now, and that was the purpose of the Snake Year - to shed the limiting beliefs we’ve been indoctrinated with, along with the layers of trauma that have kept us disconnected from God.

Before I reconnected with God, I’d been so lost, the rose-tinted glasses of society fixed on my eyes, making it nearly impossible to see how addicted I was to pain and suffering, because it was all I knew. But everyone I encountered who ever made my life a misery, were themselves disconnected from Source, passing on pain and suffering and keeping themselves stuck in loops of torture and “hell”.

While this does NOT invalidate the traumas I faced, awakening allowed me to see beyond the malice and sinister glints in my perpetrators' blackened eyes, and it pushed me toward remembering my connection with God.

We’ve often heard the phrase “God gives the toughest battles to the strongest soldiers”, but strength isn’t something we’re born with. It is forged in the fires that can keep burning us, unless we choose God and decide to walk towards divinity, seeing it as the light at the end of the tunnel, which allows us to release, or shed the pain and suffering, and meet God again.

Just like the Fire Horse, God requires complete detachment from everything we’ve known in our lifetimes. You cannot meet God with baggage, and everything earth-based is considered “baggage”, because the spirit, or soul, is free and utterly detached from anything that isn’t Source.

So, this is how we reconnect with God - by shedding the layers of pain, trauma, and suffering that have kept us disconnected all this time. It’s how the change in the world is made, and it begins with ourselves, our individual beings, to cause a ripple effect on humanity.

Hence, the purpose of The Year of The Snake.

Things are moving rapidly, without pause to take a breath, as if God snapped fingers and declared “emergency awakening” for Earth. We’ve been asking for this for years, quietly praying for salvation, and this is the answer to our prayers.

It is scary, I know. I’ve spent the last few weeks sobbing my heart out, wondering why everything around me was falling apart. Deep down, I knew it was for my own good, but feeling it is not pretty.

I mean… where do I even begin?

In August last year, I moved away from the “city of gold”, choosing peace over performance and sanity over the hustle, by moving to a quieter town that combined elements of my roots and birthplace with the city I spent half my life struggling in.

Was it an easy decision?

Of course not.

I spent months mulling over the decision to move, even after God told me through signs and dreams to take the leap. That’s the thing about comfort - we become so accustomed to things as they are, that change feels scary enough to turn our faces to it, even if it’s needed for our growth.

I wrote a poem to honour the final release of the things holding me back from moving…

Baggage

For a long time, I built my identity around the traumas I faced

Even after I began healing and becoming my own safe space,

I'd been clinging to my baggage

Believing that it gave me a sense of purpose

For so long, I felt worthless without my possessions

Even though the clothes I'd worn were tattered and torn

They'd cloaked me through the storms I weathered.

I was afraid of being stripped bare again

Like a newborn child

How would I survive?

How could I leave my baggage behind?

What would become of me if I didn't have the clothes on my back?

Or the things packed in the sack I lugged behind me, guarded with my life?

Every heartache, betrayal, every strife

Tucked in like a baby who only needed to be held

My eyes swelled with tears, but I persevered

While these arms were burdened with the bags I carried

I was married to my traumas

Breaking my back to show up as a victim

It was the only dictum I knew

Until a violent torrent, a rigorous slew

Forced me to sign divorce papers that left me feeling empty

Like the only thing I had left was my despair in droves of plenty

So, I filled my bags with hatred

Carried them through a chapter in which I was never sated

A cumbersome journey trying to find love

But never finding it because I was scared of…

Scared of letting go

Afraid that if I did, I'd have nothing to call my own

My back hurt, my body ached

If I let go, what was at stake?

Will I wither and die?

Will my baggage be pried from my fingers?

Left in the cold, who will hold me?

The harrowing task of what comes first, what comes last

I'd unpacked and repacked so many times

But still, I couldn't seem to find what I was searching for

Until my bones snapped, my fingers cracked and I met the floor

When I couldn't hold on anymore

I thought I was stronger

Strong enough to hold my pain with pride and dignity

The baggage slipped, but my arms were finally free

To hug the child within me

She wept like a freed slave, shackled to my self-inflicted pain

How could I hate so much when it was love I craved?

How could I pave a future by clinging to the past?

At last, I wasn't weighed down by my baggage

I allowed the sun to kiss my bare flesh

Renewed and refreshed, I found the love I craved within my own arms

I could dance, and prance around without breaking a sweat

So I guess letting go of my baggage was just another test

It was the only way my arms could be free

So that I could give all my love to me

~ Yumna Vally

When I finally grew the courage to make the move, the Universe orchestrated a series of events and sent support my way to take the leap without worries, which I am grateful for. The initial transition was easy. What I didn’t know was that moving wasn’t just physical, but it would be emotional and energetic, too.

A friendship that felt like it belonged to countless lifetimes ended. A business partnership ended, too. It took even more courage to start - yet again - from scratch, but I proved to myself that strength and resilience are the foundation of my being.

Since then, I made another friend, who proved that she could not be trusted, and who also turned out to be an energy vampire. While the loss of that friendship wasn’t heartbreaking and came as a breath of fresh air, I proved to myself how detached I had become.

Then, a heartbreak-of-sorts came in the form of considering a potential romantic partner who turned out to be ruled by cultural and ethnic differences. But as quickly as it swooped in, it was also erased, proving again that I am chronically detached from anything that could possibly break my heart.

While challenges still present themselves, my faith is steadfast, and I’m always reminded that rejection is protection from God, or redirection from the Universe. But I couldn't be where I am mentally and emotionally without detaching from the things which no longer served me.

The only attachment I have now is to Source. This allows me to be a magnet for the good souls who exist in the world, while allowing me to either transmute or sever ties with the darkness. This change in perspective allows me to see the world differently - not through rose-tinted glasses, but through the eyes of God, who sees a better world. A changed world, in which the systems collapse, and we can be reunited with the divinity that makes life worth living.

The truth is, life is worth living. Not for anyone else, but for myself, and for the goodness which resides in my heart. I choose not to pass on pain - not to my son, and not to the people who enter my life. Instead, I choose love, I choose strength, I choose truth, and the system doesn’t like that very much.

And the best part of it all?

I wouldn’t have to lift a finger to make the change this world needs. All I have to do is keep living in my truth, taking aligned action when God asks that of me, and continue doing the things that make my soul sing. That’s how we change the world.

By shedding the layers that have been keeping us separated.

By coming back to God.

The Year of The Fire Horse will bring about this change, and while the Year of The Snake was intense, I would like to remind you that you are not alone. Don’t resist the inevitable change, and allow for the expansion of consciousness and attraction of abundance in your life, in your relationships, and in your finances.

Wealth is being redistributed to those who will do good for others, and we are on the brink of this justice. Allow space for your communities to find you, and let God lead the way forward. Allow that which no longer serves you to leave, to be released, to make space for all the wonders the Universe has in store for you.

You are worth it.

As we approach the Year of The Fire Horse, Muslims all around the world are preparing for Ramadhaan - the month of fasting - which will begin on the 18th of February. Fasting is an excellent way to detox and cleanse from that which no longer serves us, and the alignment of this month with the Lunar New Year appears to be another sign that God is working in our favour, to cleanse the earth and reestablish equilibrium in humanity.

Happy Ramadhaan to those observing the fasting month.

Happy Lunar New Year to the believers.

Sending out positive vibrations, energetic love, and healing for all,

Yumna Vally (Raaia)