February 17, 2026 through February 5, 2027 is the lunar year of the Fire Horse. The heavenly stem “丙” corresponds with the sun, and thus emanates with a bold radiance. Paired with the earthly branch “午” for Horse, corresponding with yang Fire and the zenith of solar energy, there’s a great deal of scorching, volatility, restlessness, but also, wild and free liberation.

The is the sign of the stampeding horse, fast and unrestrained, independent, fierce, but magnificent to behold. Fire Horse years are years of radical change, upheaval, transformative events that were a “long time coming,” which is to say earlier events in the years leading up to this moment set the stage for this blaze.

The last time we had a Fire Horse year was 1966, the launch of China’s Cultural Revolution. That was the last time in most of our collective lifetimes that we had a Fire Horse year. Before that, 1906 was a Fire Horse year, the year of a Persian revolution, the Russian Peasants’ Uprising, and a year of radical political reform in terms of gender and democracy.

Fire forces are at their peak this lunar year, which amplifies all the corresponding aspects we associate with Fire: expansion, asserting, the Mars force, heat, seeing red, passion, ambition, youthful energies and their ideologies dominating, innovation, technology, theater, politics, strength of the military (compared to, say, if it were a Wood year, it’d be agriculture, or in a Metal year, education, in a Water year, law and policy, etc.)

Also, crazy that I’ve been blogging here for now well over 12 years that I have a blog post on natal years from the last Year of the Horse in 2014, here.

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