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Who else is feeling tired, pushed, stretched, bitten, and completely disrupted?

If 2026 has turned your plans upside down, you are not alone. The energy of the Fire Horse has been intense. Fast. Unpredictable. And relentless at times. But before you start counting the days until this Fire Horse year is over, I want to invite you to do something different:

Stop fighting the Fire Horse!

The year of Fire Horse begun on February 17, 2026 and end with a Lunar New Year on February 5, 2027.

You are not going to outrun a horse. And you certainly are not going to overpower one made of Fire, especially when this is one of the most positive energies we encounter only every sixty years. Instead, allow the energy to settle to rescue the special part of you who is rebelling against the inner agreement your spirit made before you came to earth.

The Fire Horse is not having its way with us. It is showing us what we have refused to see for a while and a direction that would be more aligned with our future, but we keep fighting against the better life.

There is more great news than dissatisfaction during Fire Horse Years. This year has brought many promotions, healing, prosperity, new beginnings, promising relationships, and more for those who were aligned with their spirit. And for those who are still struggling, listen carefully:

“You have time.”

When Life Gets Chaotic, Pay Attention

If the last few months have felt particularly chaotic, this may not be the time to push harder. It’s a time to pause.

To breathe.

And most importantly, to drop some of the baggage you have been carrying, probably for a few years. I call baggage everything out of the flow of life.

Maybe for you, it’s the relationship that ended, but you are still having conversations with that person in your head or stalking them on social media.

Maybe it is the job search that refuses to come together, no matter how many résumés you send when that is the safe bet. And you disliked that line of work for a while.

Maybe it’s the pressure you have placed on yourself to reach a career or financial goal by a certain date. That took all the fun that attracted you into it in the first place. And as the deadline aproaches, depression is setting in as you don’t see a way to reach it.

Perhaps it’s the disappointment of a health issue that isn’t improving as quickly as you hoped. The meaning of the pauses diseases require is one of the ways our spirit invites us to reconsider our choices. Yes, poor food, lack of water, and exercise can cause disease, and so can our thoughts and emotions. Could you have been asked to open your heart and spirit by being ill?

Or maybe it is the family drama that is knocking your emotional balance off.

Don’t Waste this Time

What would happen if, for the next four months, you permitted yourself to put down what is too heavy?

What would happen if, for a little while, you sat with your heart open to the energy of the Horse and put all these problems in your hand to offer them to the energy of the Fire?

Think of this time as an adjustment on our path. If you walked on a dead end, turn around or go sideways. Follow the light. The faster you go with the flow, the better you will feel.

What If Your Assignment Is Joy?

We often believe that difficult seasons require more work. More decisions. More discipline. More figuring things out. But what if that is not what these final months are asking of you?

What if they are asking you to make room for joy?

Yes, JOY.

It’s not an escape from your problems, or pretending everything is wonderful when it isn’t.

This is an invitation to come back to yourself. When you do things you genuinely love, something inside you softens. Your mind becomes quieter. Your body relaxes, and in that space, you may finally see what you couldn’t see, hear what you had refused to consider while pushing against the flow.

Could You Allow the Flow of the Best Year of Your Life Yet to Adjust the Path?

Take three deep breaths and extend your hands to the light.

Take another three deep breaths and invite the fire to burn your problems, your short comings, your expectations, your dispointments, your complains, your anger.

Take three more breaths and receive the energy of freedom into your decisions.

Allow what has left your life to complete its cycle. It’s finished.

Be open to the next phase. You are the lights illuminating your path. Shine bright so clarity can humbly arrive in your life.

I can tell you from experience that clarity doesn’t arrive while we are sitting at a desk making another list, moping about someone, or complaining about our misfortunes.

Sometimes it arrives while we are walking on a beach. It arrives when taking the long drive home through tree-lined roads; through belly laughs, deeper meditation, or quiet moments when the soul has time to hear.

Be curious about the path your soul wants you to take.

Sit in a café, watch the sunset, feed the birds, listen to beautiful music, or read that book that has been calling to you for months.

Remedy for the Rest of 2026

One of my prescriptions for anyone complaining about one or more aspects of life is to book that vacation you keep postponing out of prudence or fear. Trust the Universe. You are not reading or listening to this by accident. Here is a wake-up call..

Sign up for that course you keep thinking about.

Tell your family that this year you are not going home for the holidays if doing so would leave you depleted.

Call that friend you lost touch with and say, “I miss you. Can we reconnect?”

Take yourself somewhere beautiful and return to something you used to love. And that love you felt is YOU! Yes, that love you felt outside of you is inside of you; it’s YOU.

You can’t feel something that doesn’t exist inside of you. So own it! Embrace it that you are love.

Perhaps you need to rest, that rest that doesn’t require you to have earned it.

Give yourself some space. The Fire Horse has already created enough movement this year.

Maybe your job now isn’t to keep up with the Fire. Maybe it is to stand still long enough to understand what the Fire has been trying to illuminate.

And perhaps, somewhere inside that pause, joy will show you the way forward.

2027 is the Year of the Fire Goat. A fire year, but with experience gained 60 years ago.

My next book, 2027 The Year of the Fire Goat, is coming out on November 26. I can’t wait to share it with you. Expect more kindness, more creativity and more wisdom.

Please share this with someone who could use a bit of inspiration and spirituality in their lives.