Fire Horse, February 17, 2026 -- February 5, 2027

[Taomeow]

Fire from the Heavenly Stem hits the stable where the Horse has been chomping at the bit for 60 years.  The Horse jumps out of the burning gate and takes off galloping, mane fiery, tail ablaze.  It never fails to leave its hoof prints on the world's politics, economy, and landscape.  Here are some of them: 

 

1846 Mexican–American War begins, reshaping the future borders of the U.S.  Peasant uprising in Galicia, future Ukraine, engineered by the occupying Austrian empire against the local Polish nobility.

 

1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, one of the worst urban disasters in U.S. history.  Mount Vesuvius eruption in Italy, a major disaster affecting Naples and surrounding regions.

 

1966 Cultural Revolution begins in China, profoundly reshaping society and politics.  Flooding in Italy destroys a lot of cultural heritage in Florence and Venice.  A major escalation in the Vietnam war.  

 

2026 -- ?  

 

Of course there were good things happening too.  The type of qi known as the Fire Horse can be quite transformative and, under the right circumstances and given the right treatment, energizing, illuminating, and magnificent.  But it's the most volatile kind of them all, unpredictable and not easily governable.  Let's hope no pale riders manage to mount it.       

[Nungali]

Many Moons ago ... I was in a  Wiccan coven , we had three fire horses in it ; one was an Aries and the other two a Leo and a Sagg 

    It was a fun group .    I made good friends with the  Aries fire horse ... wow ,  just walking down the street with her ! 

 

- I'll tell just one story about her ;  we had a pervy guy here that really annoyed everyone , any new woman that turned up he immediately 'went after ' ... he was also naturally 'urksome' so was not having much success .  So my fire horse friend is visiting, he immediately starts hanging around . We go down to the river and a few people are there , we had a small sweat lodge by the river then and someone had been using it, the fire was still going . My friend was  ''Oh cool ! A sweat lodge .'' strips naked and goes in .

 

Pervy guy jumps up '' I will have a sweat too !  and drops his  swimming shorts and goes in .    After a few minutes he comes rushing out looking totally freaked out and doing this little hurried jog like a little boy rushing to the toilet holding his hands over and shielding his 'Pee-pee'  , he grabbed his shorts and took off . 

 

Then my  friend came out smiling . I asked her what she did to him ... but she would never tell me  .