Enter The Fire Horse
BY CAROLE SAWO
This has been the year of the snake, and boy, don’t we know it. Almost everyone has experienced those brutal teeth strikes, bringing devastating difficulties this year that have left us breathless. Health issues appeared or dragged on. Finances wobbled. Relationships we valued and thought were solid disappeared in a second. Good friends were revealed as the ones holding the knife. And as the shift in consciousness ascended—just as I predicted it would—all those discarded family issues, deliberately buried in the depths of the individual and collective subconscious, returned from repression into full conscious awareness, with fangs of fury.
From the Garden of Eden to the Chinese Zodiac, the snake is the ultimate symbol of illusion, and every soul must find a way to cut the head off their own master of deception. In duality, snakes are also symbols of transformation, and as we uncover and release all the traumas, fears and worries that have weighed heavily on our minds for an eternity, we shed the skin of the past and step forward into a brighter future. In fact, a stunningly brighter future. For it is with enormous relief that I announce, for everyone wondering what on earth is coming next, that 2026 is the year of the fire horse—and I, for one, could not be happier to welcome in that great chariot of alchemical fire.
The fire horse is a symbol of courage, passion, new beginnings, freedom, and, of course, fire. People born in the year of the horse possess an independence that makes them difficult to rein in – or be reigned over. As a vehement free thinker with ferocious courage—courage that even stuns me sometimes—dare anyone attempt to lord over this mare, born in the year of the horse. What the snake took away, the fire horse now restores.
As always, in perfect synchronicity, as I stoked the actual fire in the hearth of my home this Christmas, contemplating the expiration of the snake, a sudden rumble in the chimney coincided with the realisation that much pain can be alchemised through forgiveness. Not the kind of pompous piety that we bestow on others, but the quiet acceptance that the snake finally loses its head when we ultimately let others go and forgive ourselves. Release from that dungeon of dark illusion is but one key turn away. It is a thought with enormous potential. We are the flame. We light the way. And should we stumble, the fire horse has the ability to walk stealthily, undeterred, trampling all untruths in our path, and mind. We have Divine power and protection. ‘So save us, God, in your unfailing love’ (Psalm 33).
Onward, then, dear people.
And upward. 🔥✨