You click and crack. I swear to God I am going to snap. What is wrong with you, do you need a nap?
You hold my nourishment and contain my fuel. But all I feel like some days is that you just want to duel.
It is funny actually, how long I have left you ailing. The days I intensely dream of sending you sailing.
Why all of a sudden are you speaking this odd language? Did you take a class and get injured? Do you now need a bandage?
I cannot see or find the source of your injury, you cry out to me full of fury. Just chill out for a minute, I will keep excavating your core. I am literally now, sprawled out on the floor.
I think your sounds are a result of ageing. The wrinkles and creases and misalignments obvious; Yet still I stand in front of you questioning and gauging.
I cannot bear to part with you and your wonderful heart. We have never really ever been apart.
Who or what will cool my cucumbers, freeze my berries and crisp my Ambrosias? Do you have any idea what your absence will do? I think I need Oprah!
I wish you would silence but, in a small and slightly messed up way, I kind of want you to scream harder. Tell me more and louder, so I can even hear you in the shower.
Dear fridge of mine, will you ever stop tapping, clacking and ticking? If not, fret I will no more; There has got to be someone who understands the nature of your fixing.
It’s a miracle. Your fixer has just appeared. A solution you could not mention; heat. You weren’t warm enough, the air around you was cold. So your bolts and screws and panels had been achy and off kilter I have now been told.
What a strange phenomena. I adjusted my warmth and you began to heal. And oh my, had I known it was this simple; I would have jacked up the heat a hell of a lot sooner, given that a try.
I might actually miss your cracking noises, wishing in fact, they did not fade. There was something about this peculiar several month long annoying event; That has given me insight I cannot now trade.
The quirks of life, my fridge indeed not just an appliance but a tool for guidance. I am paying close attention now to the broken fixtures, the ailing clocks, the halting of heat and time and the sudden shifts in temperature. I am forced to examine the science and wisdom of noise…and silence. This might just be, an overture.
No coincidence broke my clocks, injured my fridge, stopped the flow of heat. And not by chance did I say your name and one hour later we are to meet.
I love your invitations, thank you for letting me see. Something so beautiful and important that now and forever; It will be impossible to not ever, not see.
Two is enough for me. If you gave me three, four, six, seven; I’d simply say, “Thank you, but one is just heaven.”
I don’t know why I look up to the sky. Maybe because the answers to questions of low; Seem to always be found up high or higher so.
Busy, rushing, too many, too much. Why does this game always feel the same? Same old numbers adding up to more pain.
It’s why I like less, one and two. Simpler, calmer, easier, intimate and quiet. My cat used to say, “Emma you and me, that’s it.”
You see my smile, hear my voice. But you do not see me or hear me and it is quite alright; I have gifted myself wisdom to remain not small, but full of height.
The light shines brightly, kindly and with soft intention. My heart is guided in the utmost strangest way now; I am sorry for the explanation that I have not to know how.
I will not take up space where someone else should be. My mind and soul have figured out the equation and it has come, with some hesitation. But question not my intuition strong, I am lightning and thunder, the rain my slippery sedation.
Not nine or twelve or five. Just one or two. The world is not what they say. I look at you looking at me and think, “this is an incredible day.”
The water on petals, the dirt on my boots. The ducks in twos, the sunshine plus one. Did you hear that? Silence and so many, but also none.
I can’t believe I am here now. Taken so far and so deep. You reminded me that there is special in nothing. Then I fell into a sleep and woke up with a perfect and reliable, trusting of something.
The softness fills me. The colour enchants my eyes. I cry with gratitude and thanks; I have won the prize.
The year of the “Fire Horse” happens about every 60 years. 2026 is the year of the Horse. If you were born in 1906, 1918, 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014 and 2026 this is your year. But it is also a Fire year. Next year is also a Fire year and the animal next year being the Goat. This is considered the “Red Horse and Red Goat Calamity” which will go on from February 17, 2026 to January 25, 2028. The last time this happened was 1966-1967. What happened in those two years for you if you were alive then, do you remember?
I love Astrology and being a fire sign myself, when I realized this was the year of the Horse but also the Fire Horse, it was a bit of an “aha” moment. Certain things really started to make more sense and as I began to research about this particular two year “calamity” that is upon us, I started to get really excited. Before I knew about the Fire Horse year, I could already sense something within my own fiery passion this year that was a little different. Can’t quite put my finger on this exactly. But it was something like, less hesitation towards things that were directly being controlled by my fire and also a comfort in trusting the way that that fire was burning now. The flames had changed. Choosing truth over safety felt a bit better. Something inside me is brighter right now. The existing flames that govern my life are blazing harder and with more intensity but also in a controlled, confident and easy to manage sort of way.
Fire is energy, passion, enthusiasm, movement and when combined with the energy of the horse, watch out because that energy is amplified to an almost chaotic place. I don’t know about you but I have felt even more on fire since the beginning of this year. This is not a quiet year. This is momentum and ignition. This year is decisive movement. The Fire Horse year is really quite beautiful. We are less tolerant of what drains us, more focused on movement than processing and something inside us feels sharper, more honest and clicked into place.
When you befriend the energies within you and understand how they function in every moment and when you let them speak and listen carefully and don’t apologize for the direction they are taking you, and when you trust in those energies however they may have shifted or grown, the Universe answers. The external energy combining with our internal producing an invisible alignment that is felt and unseen, hard to explain, but so full of force. Something is building.
Fire Horse energy does not wait for permission it rewards boldness and trusting in the self. “If you have been preparing, this year will feel like acceleration. The Fire Horse brings sudden opportunity, fast pivots, passion reignited, courage tested and visibility increased. It exposes where you are playing small. It amplifies where you are already aligned. This is not chaotic fire it is directional fire. The people who win in a Fire Horse year are the ones who move when the door opens instead of overthinking whether they deserve to walk through it. You are either pulled forward by momentum, or pushed forward by pressure. If you have felt the shift building, it’s not random. The frequency has changed.”
I found that description online somewhere and to everyone who needed to read that today, I hope it has given you some juice and some clarity. There’s so much about this fiery year that’s in store for all of us, I can feel it, it’s going to be intense and full of freedom. It’s going to be sensitive and powerful with lots of profound inner change. I already feel things changing and it just started. Damn that Fire Horse works fast, super sonic speed.
I found an amazing summary online by someone who really knows Chinese Astrological intricacies and instead of me paraphrasing, I’m going to share his words directly because they deserve to be read by more people, especially my people, you reading this, you are my people! So here they are. I know you’re smiling right now. As I type this I can feel your energy and the way that the Fire Horse is impacting you too. There are so many people that I care about who are on my mind and in my thoughts as I think about the next two years and what the Fire Horse will bring for you all. Aren’t you glad I started a Blog? Now you don’t need to go anywhere else for wisdom. I got you. Yes…YOU.
“Fire is that which creates the center – earth. Fire always has a choice. It can harmonize around the center that has already been created. Or, it can reforge that center. So that is what we are doing here if we make that choice.
We all have a center within ourselves. And there are the centers of those things we are a part of. Our families, our communities, our friends, our countries. All of these will feel the heat.
Within ourselves, if we are good at taking responsibility for alignment with our own center – that in which we find our true self – then we can do amazing work.
Many of us need to do this work by making external changes. What we create on the outside gives answer to what we feel on the inside. And becomes a mirror for us to see within ourselves from. A reflection.
And what we create on the outside is going to be a part of the fire that is reshaping the centers of our families and our communities and our countries. So it is very important that we choose to be in good alignment with the lessons this inner fire brings us, so that the center we choose to create is a center that is able to be true for all of us. For we are all connected and our truths fit like puzzle pieces into the inner truths of others.
When there is division between us, it is a sign that our truths are not in alignment with each other. Like a bunch of pieces of metal scraps before they go into the forge to be melted down. That is what these years bring us. The heat to melt away our divisions, allowing us to be reforged as one again.”
Isn’t that beautiful? Thank you to the individual who produced this wonderfully detailed analysis. It was an important read for me today. I think Fire years tend to be more dramatic, fast moving and action oriented collectively and I’m definitely feeling the pace now.
February 17th marked the beginning. Did you feel it yesterday? Today? I sure did, what a shift. Now that you know this about this year, I hope you find your own perfect ways to harness this energy and this fire. Will you walk beside it or keep adding kindling to maintain it? Do you want to watch the horse cross the finish line standing in the bleachers cheering loudly or are you riding the horse, racing towards the finish line, wind blowing, gripped reins, breathing heavily, speed underneath you, freedom in your heart, passion in your soul. You get to choose. The fire is here to stay for two years. Use it in positive ways. Let it rage. Let it burn.
Emma Wisdom 