This year will invite many of us to gallop forward with blazing speed and boldness as the year of the horse arrives under the heavenly branch of fire.
It will be a time when reserved action and meekness will be replaced with aggressivity and passion, which invites some to show caution, and others to take a leap.
Every year, GNN generates a horoscope based on averages of several major Chinese horoscope providers and Feng Shui masters to help those who don’t follow this ancient practice make sense of it.
On February 17th, the Lunar New Year will welcome the 12-month Chinese zodiac of the horse under the heavenly branch of fire.
How do you know if you are a horse? The last 100 years of horses were born in 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002 and 2014. The last fire horses were born in 1966, and include boxer Mike Tyson, martial artist Jackie Chan, director J. J. Abrahams, Brazilian football legend Romario, Kiko the Crown Princess of Japan, chef Gordon Ramsay, singer Sinead O’Connor, and Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.
Being that the year begins on the 17th, if your birthday falls earlier, you’re a snake, not a horse.
Chinese astrology has it that every 12th year is unlucky, as the star any individual person was born under arrives closest to the god Tai Sui. That closeness offends him, and so those born under the sign of the year to come are generally recommended to stay put, risk little, and tread lightly.
In this, horses will be particularly vulnerable to misfortune, and particularly as it relates to their character flaws. Horses, it might surprise no one to hear, don’t like being reigned in. They are confidant but also agreeable, yet can be impatient.
Astrologers are generally predicting a year full of ups and downs for horses, as fire, considered the foundation of matter in Chinese astrology, represents one of the least stable and most energetic of forces.
There will be times when the energy of the horse and that of fire call the individual to bold action, and others when prudence must be deployed to counterbalance the erratic nature of fire and the horse. Additionally, the horse star sits in the heavenly branch of fire by nature, meaning its natural tendencies will be even more amplified, the good and the bad.
Those born under the sign of the rat are also in for something resembling chaos, as their star sits directly opposite the god Tai Sui, another unlucky place.
Furthermore, the rat and the horse make for poor romantic matches, so each should keep a low profile in the presence of others this year.
Snakes the other natural fire branch sign, and one whose year has just passed, will have a very good year, as they benefit from the warmth and light of their fiery sign and stampeding neighbor the horse.
Tigers will be set for a good year if they can align themselves with the horse, one of their best romantic matches.
Several others, including the goat, dragon, and monkey, will also be in for years full of good fortune.
Unfortunately, GNN always encounters dramatic contradictions when making these zodiacs, so perhaps the best advice is simply to be kind to others, learn a new skill, and lay off the vice a little.
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