12/31/2025
2026 is the year we grab the wheel & start to steer 🛞 ✨
As 2025 comes to a close, the wheel turns and we begin to make way for the year of the fire horse that is set to arrive in mid-February. The 9-Hermit year of the wood snake asked us to solitarily shed all that is not fundamental to us to reveal our true forms that ached to be seen beneath the masks of our past selves, limiting beliefs, outdated patterns, societal expectations, and projections from others. Just as the year of the fire horse makes its debut, Saturn will have completed its 30-year revolution through the zodiac and will have ingressed into the action-oriented cardinal fire sign Aries to begin its next 30-year cycle. Saturn is known as the greater malefic in astrology and is deeply tied to themes of structure and karma, so we are being asked for the next month and a half to reflect on and finish integrating all the formative lessons that we've learned over the last 30 years, especially those of hardship and heartbreak, and complete the final shed of everything that we don't desire to carry with us into the future.
As 2026 is a 10 year, it corresponds to The Wheel of Fortune in tarot. I find this card especially fitting for a fire horse year because horses draw carriages and if we are clear about our direction then we can lead our lives with the transformative momentum that both the fire horse and the wheel have the potential to bestow. I believe we each reign over two horses - one made of shadow and the other made of light - and they both need to be moving in the same direction, and hitched only to what they can reasonably haul, in order to see any true progress in life. The preceding reflective release has been necessary because it's hard to build speed while lugging superfluous junk.
Are your horses hauling only what you want with you at your next destination? Are they both heading in the same direction? 🐎🔥
