Year of The Fire Horse

“The fire in your belly is sacred. Tend it.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The Energy of The Fire Horse

Fire is transformational energy. Everything Fire touches is changed. A single candle can warm a room - or burn a house to the ground. A forest fire can devastate vast landscapes, yet from the ashes comes regeneration, fertile soil, and new life. Fire does not negotiate; it transforms.

The Horse is fast-moving, freedom-loving, and unapologetically alive. This is not reckless energy, nor is it about running wildly without direction. The Horse listens first - to instinct, to spirit, to the inner call - then commits fully and charges forward.

Together, Fire and Horse create a powerful force of embodiment, advancement, and acceleration. The Year of the Fire Horse asks us to leap, choose, and commit to the insights we developed and the inner strength we cultivated during the Year of the Snake. Any dreams we have been suppressing will demand to be brought into the light. The truths that surfaced in the Snake year now become our compass.

This is the year to stop circling your purpose and finally move toward it.

The Fire Horse year invites deep inquiry:

• What would you do if you stopped waiting to be ready?

• Where is your energy naturally wanting to go?

• What truth within you is ready to be seen?

The Fire Horse doesn’t need permission - it needs clarity of heart. It asks each of us to show up authentically, to move beyond conditioning and hesitation, and to step fully into our true calling and personal power.

From the Snake to the Horse

The Year of the Wood Snake was not subtle. It refined us, demanded honesty, and cleared the path forward. Anything rooted in illusion, denial, or false identity was stripped away. There was no bypassing this process - the Snake insisted on truth.

Where the Snake dismantled, the Horse mobilizes.

The Horse pulls us forward, asking for courage, expression, and movement. It wants us to run with spirit, with intention, and with a clear sense of who we truly are. This is about claiming ourselves - fully and unapologetically.

This is not a year to shrink. It is a year to live from the heart.

A Rare and Potent Moment in Time

We are living in an unprecedented period of spiritual growth and collective awakening. While the Fire Horse appears once every 60 years, this is the first Fire Horse in 180 years to arrive during Period 9 - the 20-year cycle that began in 2024. Each period carries its own energetic signature and Period 9 is also ruled by the Fire element, and is the era of the heart, vision, truth, and feminine-anchored leadership. The “way of the heart” is typically the job of the mother, so the way through this time is through love and nurturing, mothering energy. We need to love and nurture ourselves and others back into a higher state of consciousness.

This convergence makes the energy of this year especially potent, not just for individuals, but for humanity and the planet as a whole. Both 2026 and 2027 are considered, in many traditions, to be energetic portals - threshold years that support heightened consciousness, dimensional shifts, and accelerated evolution.

The Fire Horse does not arrive quietly. It arrives to awaken.

Fire Without Water: Why Inner Practice Matters

The Year of the Fire Horse begins on February 4, 2026, at 4:16am, and the energetic blueprint of this year is striking. The chart contains an abundance of Fire, a small amount of Earth, some Wood and Metal, and no Water at all.

In classical Chinese metaphysics, Water is the element that cools, calms, reflects, and regulates Fire. Water governs wisdom, depth, fear, stillness, and the capacity to pause before acting. When Fire rises without Water to temper it, the classics warn of excess—impulsivity, reactivity, volatility, and chaos. Fire without Water burns too fast, too hot, and without reflection.

This does not mean we are destined for destruction, but it does mean we are living in a year where external conditions may feel accelerated, emotionally charged, and unstable. Decisions may be rushed. Reactions may replace reflection. The collective nervous system may feel overstimulated.

This is precisely where spiritual practice becomes essential rather than optional.

Water lives within us as presence, wisdom, and intuition. It is cultivated through practices that slow us down and reconnect us to something deeper than urgency - meditation, time in nature, ritual, journaling, prayer, conscious breath, and meaningful rest. These practices restore balance by anchoring Fire in awareness rather than letting it run unchecked.

In a Fire-dominant year, those who cultivate inner Water gain clarity while others feel overwhelmed. They respond rather than react. They move with intention rather than urgency. They use Fire to illuminate, inspire, and transform - rather than burn out or burn bridges.

Working with the Fire Horse Energy

You may already feel it: a spark of possibility, a sense of momentum, or even a rising impatience. This is not restlessness - it is life force. It is something within you asking to be seen, expressed, and lived.

The Fire Horse carries fierce medicine. It burns away what we pretend to be. The opportunities it brings are bold and exciting, but they are only sustainable when they are aligned with the heart.

This year rewards those who are willing to do the inner work required to hold outer fire - to move forward with clarity, integrity, and devotion to what truly matters.

We are once again standing at a threshold - a time of deep change and emerging possibility. While new beginnings hold promise, they also ask much of us. Slowing down, cultivating daily spiritual practice, and honouring self-care as sacred allows us to repair and deepen our relationship with ourselves, with Gaia, and with all life. Healing ourselves is not separate from healing the world; it is how collective healing begins.

Sending you so much love,

Birth Chart Readings

The energy of each year interacts uniquely with your personal Chinese astrology chart. While the Year of the Fire Horse carries collective themes of courage, movement, and transformation, how this energy shows up for you depends on your birth chart and current life cycle. Reach out for a Birth Chart Reading if you would like a full analysis of how to work with the dynamic and transformational energy of the Year of the Fire Horse.

Annual Energy Update Readings

The Fire Horse rewards clarity and aligned action. For those who have already had a birth chart reading with me, an Annual Energy Update Reading looks at how this year’s energy interacts with your unique Chinese astrology chart - highlighting opportunities, challenges, timing, and where your energy is best invested in the year ahead.

If you’re feeling the call to move forward with intention (rather than force), this reading offers grounding, insight, and direction.