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Thanks for sharing your experience. Some of my rambling thoughts on the matter, fwiw. Our minds come up with all sorts of things, some of little consequence and some very consequential, some weird and wonderful. Personally, I don't spend too much time trying to find explanations for these things, rational or otherwise. Do we sometimes meet with our minds from the past or future? Why not? Time is not as fixed or linear as once believed. Is it just content being created by the monkey mind based on all of the input over a lifetime and more? Why not? That does not mean that it is not very significant and meaningful. Fortune telling and astrology are not set in stone and are not death or illness sentences, they are simply constellations of external conditions and how they relate to our own constellations of internal conditions. I was in a similar state as you coming into my 60th year - warnings from Tibetan and Chinese friends and so forth. Fortunately, nothing particularly bad occurred for me. I don't brush off my weird little mind and I don't take it too seriously either. I don't brush of horoscopes and warnings and strange experiences, like meeting with a past or future self, or having visions, and I don't take them too seriously either. I do recommend attending to healthy choices as best you can determine them. Your body is aging and needs attention and care. It's the only one you get. Much of life in our technological age is unhealthy for the body and mind. If it means listening to an inner voice or a voice from the future or past, that is fine. No need to analyze or judge its veracity, it's still just another voice. The important thing, IMO, is trying to recognize the source of that voice. Does it feel authentic or is it based in emotional reactivity or psychological baggage? Does it come from the source or from pain and ignorance. Is it the Dao speaking and flowing through you or rumblings from an unhealthy or overly indulgent meal? Is it a future self or an ancestral trauma? Does it matter? I think it is most healthy to find something to trust, something that is not dependent on the monkey mind and labile emotions. Something not rooted in conditioned patterns coming from ancestral, social, and cultural trauma and dysfunction. For me that is one major benefit of my meditation practice. I think it could be helpful to sit quietly and be very open and still for a time. Once the mind and heart are somewhat settled and open, drop a question in like dropping a pebble in a calm pond. A question like, can I trust this inner voice, is it authentic? Or, shall I engage in this new qigong? Or, do I realy need these supplements? Just one at a time. See how it feels, not thinking about it, just allowing the ripples to arise and spread for a time. Leave them be after asking the question, don't engage, just remain open and present. Then continue to sit in that stillness and openness that returns once the mind has once again settled. I find that whatever comes from that quiet and still place is authentic, it is something I can trust. Maybe more precise to say it is something I have chosen to trust. I find that what comes from that place tends to be more accurate and dependable than decisions made from thinking or emotionally charged responses. The key is that one must be able to truly rest and be open to the stillness, silence, and spaciousness of body, speech, and mind. Whatever happens, whatever comes for you in this year of the Fire Horse, you will be OK. Situations and circumstances change. Our capacity for being open and present and responsive to the situation is always there. If we can trust in that, we can be OK even when we're not OK. I may sound overly confident and certain and I am not. I also worry and get distracted by thoughts and feelings all the time. Health, family, work, politics, finances - all sorts of worries and challenges. What I am saying to you is an externalization of what I tell myself and try to practice. I'm reminded in this moment of the Theravadan monks currently walking from Texas to Washington, DC - 2,300 miles. Simple human beings without any particular physical training walking everyday through the harshest of conditions, -15℃ with windchill much lower, through ice and snowstorms... all to raise awareness of the potential for peace in our country and in our lives. WOW, what power! What courage! What resilience! It boggles my weird, little mind. They are OK, I am OK, you are OK, even the poor monk who lost his leg to an impatient driver is OK, and yet... it's OK to not always be OK. Sending you warmth and good wishes

They fear this Animal. Well for starters: "Quod es fui quod sum eris" That is "what you are, I was; what I am, you will be." So nothing to fear because WE ALL BECOME A FIRE HORSE starting on 17 February this year and ending on 5 February 2027. Likewise on 2020 and the fear the Metal Rat brought along (pandemic). Humanity lived in fear that year. Rat = Water = Kidney and associated emotion Fear. The Horse is Fire = Heart = Wisdom = Joy Time to look within your Heart and resolve blockages in the organ and associated meridian of energy (unresolved chronic anger, resentment, hatred, restlessness, palpitations, insomnia...) The Horse is the only Animal that entails complete change and transformation, which is a wonderful thing. There will be a new YOU emerging after the Year is over. Enjoy the Fire Horse.

Bit of a weird one. Wondered if anyone has encountered anything similar. Throughout my life, I've had moments that feel like an intersection, where I come into contact with the mindstream of a future or past self. These are very strange, half-waking dream moments where I feel like I'm able to ask questions of a future self, or else send reassurance and answers to a past self. They don't last long. I like to think I'm a fairly down-to-earth person. I'm a middle aged Brit and a dad, I work an ordinary job. I meditate, but not for altered states of consciousness, but rather to bring myself closer to tangible reality. But I did do a lot of acid in my teenage years. Which has either opened me up to paranormal stuff like this, or else has given me latent schizophrenia. I normally dont think too much about this, it's just a weird little quirk of my personality that I've never felt the need to tell anyone about. But recently what I feel like is a future self said that 2026 will be a particularly challenging year for my health. It has suggested I practice a specific type of qigong, and stop taking some supplements and peptides I've been dabbling with. It's a bit of a worry because I'm 42 in April, which I've since learned is my yakudoshi year (basically ill fortune year in shinto belief). I also saw recently that it's also not looking great for my health in Chinese astrology (wood rat). So while I'd normally brush it off as my weird little mind, I'm not sure if I should perhaps take the suggestions of this internal voice seriously. Or whether that way lies madness. Has anyone else heard of this sort of communication across time with future/past selves? I've not been able to find anything mentioned anywhere similar.

Having won the prize for the "ultimate unpopular opinion," indefatigable Cobie set his sights on the opposite end of the spectrum -- the ultimate popular opinion.

99% of what’s written is fancy BS. All you need is humility and common sense.

Negative feelings attract negative entities including human.

“This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can … reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that’s what I mean by ‘Hallelujah.’” — Leonard Cohen

and now, gentle tunes are packed away, a new year gallops in with fire

I would trust the message. As I’ve gotten older I’ve learned to trust messages I receive more and more. So far they have helped avoid issues and conflict (like a faster and less painful way to learn a lesson). Just my experience though.