Image for Fire Horse Year

[Apech]

Hi

 

It is time to change the image on the header for the new year ... to Fire Horse.

 

If you have a suitable image please submit it or a link to it in the next few days.  @liminal_luke will arrange for the artwork based on the best image-

 

NB.  My little pony is probably not what we are looking for

 

 

[Taomeow]

Edited 22 hours ago by Taomeow

[Haribol]

I have no clue what any of this is about, but might I suggest

Spoiler

naaaah we delete it all

 

 
 

Edit: although I’ll let the comment stay, because I think it’s fun, @Taomeows suggestion… well, I rest my case.

Edited 21 hours ago by Haribol

[zerostao]

1 hour ago, Apech said:

 

 

NB.  My little pony is probably not what we are looking for

 

 

 

There were a couple of years those little ponies roamed the range here on TDB.

so much for nostalgia, forge ahead Fire Horse.

 

Dao is a galloping horse

[Taomeow]

1 hour ago, zerostao said:

Dao is a galloping horse

 

I know two things about the horse
And one of them is rather coarse.

 

-- Naomi Royde-Smith, 1928

[Nungali]

[Apech]

[liminal_luke]

15 minutes ago, Apech said:

 

Oh, now I get it.

[liminal_luke]

Given my experiences at the free county clinic, I´m thinking "Fire Horse" isn´t gonna be an especially auspicious year.

[Apech]

5 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

 

Oh, now I get it.

 

Trolling my own thread!

[Taomeow]

There's a 1916 painting, by Petrov-Vodkin, known as Bathing of the Red Horse.  It was the first idea I had for the banner...

 

but then this painting has suffered from 100+ years of reinterpretations, and I thought, maybe this

 

  

 

or this

 

or even this

 

 

But none will work in 2026 -- it's a year with no Water.  Fire from above, Fire from below.  Meow me a river.  

 

[liminal_luke]

44 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

Given my experiences at the free county clinic, I´m thinking "Fire Horse" isn´t gonna be an especially auspicious year.

 

@Taomeow Just my attempt at a joke...probably not my best attempt.  

[liminal_luke]

9 minutes ago, Taomeow said:

 

But none will work in 2026 -- it's a year with no Water.  Fire from above, Fire from below.  Meow me a river. 

 

 

A good year to spend a lot of time at the ocean and other bodies of water to balance things out?

[Taomeow]

4 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

 

@Taomeow Just my attempt at a joke...probably not my best attempt.  

 

I didn't mean to post a sad face under a joke as judgment on the joke, I simply didn't get it, and thought you were talking about some actual adversities.  Which I have feng shui reasons to expect from the coming year.  (Not for everybody personally,  just "generally speaking."  When they say "may you live in interesting times" as a curse, it could also be expressed as "may you live in the year of the Fire Horse.")  

[Taomeow]

14 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

 

A good year to spend a lot of time at the ocean and other bodies of water to balance things out?

 

Generally yes, especially later in the day, not during the hottest hours (when Water in this situation evaporates with a lot of agitation and steam).  Not frying to a crisp on the beach, not with loud boisterous parties on the beach, and not when the ocean is stormy.  Calm cool water, preferably later in the day, is likely to control some of that Fire -- to an extent.  To what extent depends on one's personal bazi chart. 

Edited 16 hours ago by Taomeow

[liminal_luke]

1 minute ago, Taomeow said:

 

Generally yes, especially later in the day, not during the hottest hours (when Water in this situation evaporate with a lot of agitation and steam).  Not frying to a crisp on the beach, not with loud boisterous parties on the beach, and not when the ocean is stormy.  Calm cool water, preferably later in the day, is likely to control some of that Fire -- to an extent.  To what extent depends on one's personal bazi chart. 

 

Sounds good.  If I´m remembering right, you once posted about the beneficial effects of light later in the day (in regards, I think, to vitamin D).  Perhaps I´ll start a habit of at least weekly beach walks at sunset.

[Nungali]

1 hour ago, Taomeow said:

 

Generally yes, especially later in the day, not during the hottest hours (when Water in this situation evaporates with a lot of agitation and steam).  Not frying to a crisp on the beach, not with loud boisterous parties on the beach, and not when the ocean is stormy.  Calm cool water, preferably later in the day, is likely to control some of that Fire -- to an extent.  To what extent depends on one's personal bazi chart. 

 

Like a cool shaded rain forest river pool ? 

 

[Nungali]

I am supposing it needs to be  simple and able to be pasted like the snake is  and also facing to the left  ?

 

Something like 

 

                     

 

                     

[Nungali]

Damn ! Let's see if this works ;  

 

Edited 15 hours ago by Nungali

[Nungali]

I like the first one best . 

[Taomeow]

19 minutes ago, Nungali said:

 

Like a cool shaded rain forest river pool ? 

 

 

Yes, this is perfect.  Is it somewhere close to your neck of the woods?  

 

 

However...  This is the river (Vorskla, Ukraine) where I participated in my first month-long kayaking trip, and that's where I got the worst sunburn of a lifetime one sunny day, right on the river while rowing.  The part where the river took us that day didn't have a spot to disembark (muddy boggy banks going on and on for hours), so we had to row till we found such a spot.  I couldn't get to my long-sleeved shirt and long pants (packing-unpacking stuff when you travel by kayak can only be done on the shore, very intricate logistics...)  I kept splashing water on myself once I realized I might be burning, but that didn't work to protect the open parts of my body and face from frying.  So...  in wuxing feng shui, Water over Fire works to control it whereas Water under Fire, not so much.     

Edited 15 hours ago by Taomeow

[Nungali]

18 minutes ago, Taomeow said:

 

Yes, this is perfect.  Is it somewhere close to your neck of the woods?  

 

 

Yes . 

 

There is a closer one as well  -  our festival site /   northern field .

 

 

out of view but see the rapids on the left , where they go into shadow is a pool with a small waterfall that gives you a back massage and the whole pool is bubbling like a spa . further down on the left (in shade )  is a deep 'turtle hole'  with a natural rock shelf 'bench' where you can sit half in the water . 

 

They are all over the place here 

 

 

( its heading towards midday here and HOT  - I just came in from gardening and plan to motorcycle up the valley to a special one   )

[liminal_luke]

2 hours ago, Nungali said:

I am supposing it needs to be  simple and able to be pasted like the snake is  and also facing to the left  ?

 

Something like 

 

                     

 

                     

 

It´s OK if the image is embedded in a background.  What we end up using will likely be just the horse part, but it´s easy enough for my partner to take just the horse out of the image.  Other mods might feel differently, but personally I lean away from AI images because I think that human-created art carries more chi.

Edited 12 hours ago by liminal_luke

[steve]

10 hours ago, Taomeow said:

 

My favorite

 

[Apech]

8 hours ago, steve said:

 

My favorite

 

mine too