SMUDGE! with The Energy Sage

2026 Rx for healthy, mind, body, and planet

Hi, Shelley here. The Farsighted Observer has a new name for a new year and a new focus! Welcome to SMUDGE! with The Energy Sage. Why? Because…

This is the Year to Clear the Air

What will it take to clear energy in 2026?

You may have seen this meme at the beginning of the year (especially popular around Inauguration Day).

Wasn’t even close to being enough.

For those unfamiliar with space-clearing techniques, dried sage bundles and palo santo (“holy wood” from South America) are often burned in energy-clearing rituals. The practice of using these items to banish negativity and restore harmony is called smudging.

Turned out, that giant stick wasn’t even close to being large enough to clear the air in 2025.

Why? Because…

You need more than herbs and fragrant wood to clear energy.

You need a Sage, a Mystic—a Person—to infuse the ceremony with intention. Tools are just tools, whether spiritual or the ones bought at Home Depot. It’s the person using the tool that supplies the power.

That person is me, The Energy Sage. It could be you as well. In fact, the more people setting the intention to clear energy, the more powerful the effect.

And I have a formula for us to collectively clear the air in 2026!

What Can Energy Clearing Do for You?

Everything needs clearing at times. You, the air, your home, your workplace, your vehicle. And certainly the environment of this planet, both physically and spiritually.

In very broad terms, bad energy is anything that evokes feelings of sadness, pain, despair, discomfort, illness, or anxiety in you.

Similarly, good energy is uplifting and contributes to you feeling cheer, optimism, love, health, safety, or happiness.

Yet energy is responsible for more than triggering your feelings.

On a personal level, negative energy can manifest as blocks in creativity, discord in relationships, lack consciousness, poor health, chronic illness, inability to heal, overwhelm, and more.

Clearing energetic blocks is the foundational step to improving ease and flow in all areas of life.

And isn’t ease and flow what you want?

Reading and clearing energy is my thing.

I excel in this area. It’s not boasting. It’s recognizing and utilizing my gifts. I see, hear, feel, and know things most people overlook. I read between the lines of literature, people, and situations and intuit the underlying, unseen story.

Even having that acute, intuitive sensitivity isn’t enough. For over 20 years I have studied and trained how to put my gifts into formats that serve myself, others, and the highest good of the planet. I am certified as an intuitive energy healer, card reader, and aura therapist. I’ve been writing and publishing for more than 30 years.

The Rx for 2026

I believe that as each person clears their own energy and the energy surrounding them, the air purifies and lightens to lift the next person.

To that end, SMUDGE! with The Energy Sage will focus on

• Helping you identify sources of negative energy causing blocks and disruptions.

• Giving you the tools (it takes more than sage and crystals) to clear the air around you, your home, your relationships, and work space.

• Providing a plan to maintain clear air and good vibes for yourself, others, and the planet.

The Plan is where the BIG shift is happening. I’m in the process of instituting paradigm-changing structures and customs for myself, which I’m going to do publicly here and on my personal site (also in the process of revision). You’re invited to observe, join, and support—however you wish. More details to be released in the coming weeks. It will be a IRL, almost live-action documentation of the process.

SMUDGE the World. Make It A Better Place.

(Borrowing the tune and lyrics of Michael Jackson’s Heal the World.)

Smudge the world

Make it a better place

For you and for me

And the entire human race.

There are people dying. If you care enough for the living,

Make it a clearer place, for you and for me.

What Subscribers Can Do to Support the Mission

• Share this publication with someone you know would also love it. Even free subscriptions hold a positive energy exchange and can be the first step to clearing away what no longer serves.

• Support this publication with a paid subscription. Many hours are devoted to writing and producing the messages you read here. If you enjoy and benefit from reading and have it within your means, your paid subscription enables me to continue.

• As a supporter, you will receive handwritten art cards in the mail from me monthly. You’ll have first access and backstory shares of works in progress. 2026 will bring other supporter-only benefits and freebies. (Right now in the works, but shhh, it’s still secret.)

Here’s what paid subscriber Kathy wrote about receiving the monthly message:

“I want to share that I do not always open your card sent to me in the mail the day I receive it. I open it when I feel I need a bit of uplifting. This process has been working perfectly! When I realize I need a positive thought boost, I open it. I trust it is no surprise that EACH time, your words fit the situation perfectly. Good thing you decided to do what you are doing - thanks for being YOU!”

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Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Thank you for sharing this mission with me. Together, we will clear the air this year!

Until next time… My best, Shelley

P.S. PLEASE NOTE: The Energy Sage avatar is NOT AI or computer-generated. I commissioned and paid artist Debbie Boudreau Gabel to create it for me. The image is hand-drawn and colored. Graphic artist Janet Aiossa scanned the image and added the background color and accents for digital use.