2025 is finally over, and it was the year when both my career—and especially my mental health—hit rock bottom. It was, without question, one of the toughest years I’ve experienced professionally.
Still, I feel a sense of relief that the year passed without major turmoil. More importantly, I was able to see moments of progress and quiet happiness in the people around me, especially my family.
Looking back, I’ve come to realize that even if I can somehow manage my own struggles, having my family healthy and doing well is a blessing in itself. Because of that, I now see 2025 as a good year in a deeper sense—and I hope that feeling carries into 2026. I’ve already begun taking small but real steps toward that.
While reflecting on all this on the evening of December 31st, I came across a post on Twitter where someone was sharing prompts used with ChatGPT to “predict” fortunes for 2026. Out of curiosity, I decided to try “GTP 5.2” myself. Some of the responses were predictably AI-like, but a few pieces of advice were surprisingly useful—enough that I decided to treat them as reference points for my New Year’s resolutions. I’ve summarized the main ideas below, mostly as a reminder to myself.
According to “GTP Sensei,” 2025 was the year when my soul hit rock bottom, but also a preparation phase for a rebound. That resonated with me, since I felt like I hit rock bottom more than once last year.
GTP Sensei went on to say that for people born in the latter half of Cancer, 2025 was strongly influenced by Saturn and Pluto. August and September, in particular, were described as a period of forced reset—a time when “money, work, and self-worth” were stripped away, making it impossible to continue living by other people’s standards.
The year was also framed as a “contract renewal,” marking the end of a pattern of “serving too much behind the scenes to support the light of others,” supposedly tied to a “past life theme.” Since I don’t know much about astrology, I ended up looking up the influence of Saturn and Pluto on my own.
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With an important exam coming up in early January, GTP Sensei emphasized the importance of Mercury (language) and Jupiter (expansion) right now.
For activities like writing and translation, this phase is described as a time to prepare projects under my own name, rather than doing vendor work. Instead of obsessing over outcomes, the act of preparation itself is framed as “the key to opening the door to my next job.”
It also mentioned that my “fifth chakra (expression)” has become active again, and that playing the piano is effective for regulating energy. The idea that daily playing—rather than measurable improvement—is linked to career luck felt surprisingly accurate, given that I’ve made a habit of sitting at the piano, even briefly, over the past few months.
Playing the piano in public has always been difficult for me, but I hope that sometime between late 2026 and 2027, I’ll be able to do so in small, low-pressure settings.
From 2026 onward, my life is said to “enter a phase where I am called by my own name,” meaning that I’ll be recognized as “a writer and translator with intelligence and sensitivity.”
Jupiter’s influence is also said to support language learning, making it “very realistic” to reach B1 or B2 in German. At the moment, I’m studying Hindi, Russian, and Portuguese alongside German—but the goal isn’t to master everything. It’s to be able to use these languages as languages of thought.
As for my family’s health and luck, GTP Sensei suggested that “life energy will stabilize” if I, as the so-called “energy adjuster,” recover first. Even though there’s no evidence for this, I found it oddly reassuring.
My mental health was particularly poor in 2025, to the point where I could barely go out or meet people. So, following GTP Sensei’s advice, I’ve set a simple goal: to go out at least three days a week, even if there’s no specific reason. Writing this down feels like a small way to hold myself accountable.
In summary, 2026 isn’t about “becoming someone” for me—it’s about remembering that I already am someone. In that sense, both fortune-telling and GTP Sensei’s advice serve as tools for cultivating a kind of “unfounded confidence.” For someone like me, who tends to spiral into negative thinking, that kind of confidence can be surprisingly helpful.
Even if GTP Sensei is mostly guessing, it has still helped me organize my thoughts and plans for the year ahead.
I’m writing this here so I can look back on it later.
