Image for Fire Horse Year

[Haribol]

On 3.2.2026 at 7:29 PM, Cobie said:

If there is a poll, can I enter the Swan as an option please. 

 

 

Failing that, I vote for the horsie uncropped, this one:

 

 

 

 

 

How about swans plural, yet joined:

 

[Haribol]

 

[Cobie]

 

11 minutes ago, Haribol said:

How about swans plural, yet joined:

 

Love it, making the heart shape.  Especially with white swans.
 

Fat chance getting that through though, Daoism is the way of Yin but this forum is  mostly overheated Yang style. 

 

 

 

Edited February 11 by Cobie

[liminal_luke]

@Cobie I share your preference for a symbol that feels peaceful rather than fiery in an angry way.  To my thinking, balanced fire has many positive qualities and these are the ones our banner should emphasize -- vibrancy, warmth, playfulness, forward motion, willingness to take necessary action.  Political conflict and social media squabbles can also be fiery, but most of us will agree we´ve had enough of that.  This said, I think the logo really does need to be a horse.  The point of changing the banner every year around this time has always been to reflect the energy of the coming year according to Chinese astrology.  

[Cobie]

 

15 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

… does need to be a horse …

 

Ok

 

 

Just expressing how I feel about it. No worries (as I said before) I will be fine with whatever the admods decide.
 

 

 

Edited February 11 by Cobie

[Haribol]

Black burning pegasus

https://godofwar.fandom.com/wiki/Pegasus
 

white Pegasus 

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Pegasus

[liminal_luke]

Whatdaya think?

 

 

[Cobie]

@liminal_luke Yes, I like that. Well done!

[Cobie]

Righto, I am nullifying all my previous posts in this thread, and voting for 

 

15 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mark Foote]

21 hours ago, liminal_luke said:

Whatdaya think?

 

 

I like it--I'm wondering where you got the horse, hopefully open-source!

 

[liminal_luke]

2 hours ago, Mark Foote said:

I like it--I'm wondering where you got the horse, hopefully open-source!

 

 

My artist mom drew it up.  The basic outline of the horse she got from an open source pic on the internet, and she added the ombre effect to look like fire.  She´s thinking the outer parts of the legs need to be darker so she may make another version of the same thing for us to consider.

[Nungali]

On 2/12/2026 at 7:23 AM, Cobie said:

 

 

Love it, making the heart shape.  Especially with white swans.
 

Fat chance getting that through though, Daoism is the way of Yin but this forum is  mostly overheated Yang style. 

 

 

 

 

Well lets make it all yangy then  with headbutting swans .... or 

 

I suggest daobums show the year of the fire horse by pitting an aardvark up there  , better still, this little guy ; 

 

 

 

Edited February 12 by Nungali

[Nungali]

On 2/12/2026 at 8:51 AM, Cobie said:

Righto, I am nullifying all my previous posts in this thread, and voting for 

 

 

 

 

 

Dont you mean 'I am going to edit out all my posts ' ? 

[Nungali]

2 hours ago, Mark Foote said:

I like it--I'm wondering where you got the horse, hopefully open-source!

 

 

I am wondering where the horse got them cool sneakers for his front feet from . 

[Mark Foote]

21 hours ago, liminal_luke said:

 

My artist mom drew it up.  The basic outline of the horse she got from an open source pic on the internet, and she added the ombre effect to look like fire.  She´s thinking the outer parts of the legs need to be darker so she may make another version of the same thing for us to consider.

That sounds great.

I tried playing with the color myself, feeling slightly unsatisfied with it, but I couldn't improve on it. Your mother is very talented, even if she open-sourced the outline, and I look forward to her further application of that talent! 

Lucky us, thanks liminal_luke, thanks liminal_luke mom!

 

 

[Taomeow]

 

 

This is a depiction of the Hetu (河圖, “River Map”) and the mythic Longma (龍馬, Dragon-Horse).

 

According to tradition, a dragon-horse emerged from the Yellow River carrying the Hetu diagram on its back — a cosmological pattern  representing early foundational principles of taoism.

[ChiDragon]

On 2/1/2026 at 6:11 AM, kakapo said:

 

See what you think!

Are we going to have this one on the lunar year tomorrow?

[kakapo]

26 minutes ago, ChiDragon said:

Are we going to have this one on the lunar year tomorrow?

 

That would be cool if so.

 

[Cobie]

17 hours ago, ChiDragon said:

Are we going to have this one on the lunar year tomorrow?

 

No, there was a poll and (as far as I understood) it’s going to be this one.

 

On 15/02/2026 at 1:29 AM, liminal_luke said:

 

 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 05:15 PM by Cobie

[Cobie]

 

On 11/02/2026 at 10:34 PM, Haribol said:

…white Pegasus …

It’s moot now (banner chosen).  But I still wanted to thank you for thinking along creatively with the peace images. And I like the white Pegasus.  Good find, as he is a horse (albeit an air one, not fire). 
 

 

 

[Haribol]

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ADA2hj5PW/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[ChiDragon]

Why are we still having the snake shown on the front page instead of the horse?

[liminal_luke]

35 minutes ago, ChiDragon said:

Why are we still having the snake shown on the front page instead of the horse?

 

Say what you like about astrological omens, but I guess I´m just not that fired up. 

[Cobie]

@liminal_luke  Well that proves it then, Chinese astrology is hogwash.  

@ChiDragon   no worries, no hurry. The horse will get extra time next year this time. 

Seriously, work done by volunteers must not be hurried along but appreciated. Thanks Luke. 

 

Edited 13 hours ago by Cobie

[Apech]

I was just thinking ... clothes horse and fire ... can we use this???