nake of 2025 slithers off the podium, with a manifesto hanging in the balance. Yang Fire Horse 丙午 is crowned torchbearer, primed to trailblaze a path to the summit. With an unapologetic entrance on 17 February, a spirited tenure begins. Horse promises powerplays from a playbook written for Black Swans.
Chapter One’s elemental elephant in the room is excess fire. Several astrological fire manifestations line up under a ring of fire solar eclipse on Lunar New Year, bringing the fireworks to lunar celebrations. It illustrates fire’s proclivity to emphasise, multiply and amplify. Horse 午 sits cardinal south, fires direction, symbolising noon, the summer solstice and a pregnant pause before relinquishing power to yin. Bing 丙, the Heavenly Stem, brings the stereo effect. Two Suns compete — clinging and fighting for independence and supremacy.
It’s a year of vying for mantels of power in all its iterations, not least how to harness, control or wield excess power. Yang is male, Horse a metric for horsepower and triangle, fire’s glyph, nods to hierarchy pyramids. Globally, uprisings, the second wave of feminism and revolutions feature under this archetype, as double fire battles to outshine. Ancient Chinese cosmology saw Sun as representing emperors, eclipses their failings, and comets foreshadow ominous events. On Fire Horse’s watch, the 1006 supernova foretold a new dynasty, Halley’s comet coincided with the Battle of Hastings in 1066, the Great Fire of London 1666 and the Cultural Revolution in China 1966. In Chinese culture, Fire Horse forebodes apocalyptic omens. The 2025 discovery of the oldest comet (in Horse month) and August’s equally fiery total solar eclipse bring airs of déjà vu.
Fire fuses technology, intelligence, transport, aviation and telecommunication advances, born from fire’s associations to rising, winged animals and futuristic visions. Expect a greater political shift toward geopolitical space supremacy as superpowers wield soft power. SpaceX’s Internet satellites dominate Earth’s orbit, leaving the US government’s wares behind Russia’s, China third and UK fourth. As an all-Seeing Eye harvests data (sight and reaping fires domain), satellite light pollution alters solar systems. Noting star trek, Australia’s UFO sightings, the Soviets’ Luna 9 landing, Pine Gap Treaty and the Outer Space Treaty preventing weapons in space all occurred in ’66. Expect solar storms and armies of drones to disrupt. Space dominance gets real.
On a lighter social note, optimism, joy and love (twin flames) are fire’s wheelhouse. Against intense socio-political backdrops, excessive firepower needs targeted outlets. Horse favours liberty, freedom of expression via music, arts, even psychedelic highs, served as vents during Counterculture. Spiritual appetites are fed with higher powers, ascension, trinity and spirited symbolism. The longest Papacy began on th