17/02/2026
As we move from the Year of the Wood Snake 🐍🌿 into the Year of the Fire Horse 🐎🔥, I feel the shift not just in the calendar, but in my body.
The Snake has been medicine. In the Chinese zodiac, the Snake is wisdom, quiet transformation, the slow shedding of skin. Wood energy roots us in growth 🌱, flexibility, steady expansion. This past cycle has asked us to molt - to release old identities, old stories, old patterns that no longer fit. Not dramatically. Not loudly. But deliberately.
And now… Fire Horse. 🔥🐎
The Horse is movement, freedom, vitality, untamed spirit. Fire amplifies everything it touches - passion, courage, visibility, life force. Where the Snake whispered, the Horse declares. Where Wood stretched slowly toward the sun, Fire blazes. ✨
This transition feels like moving from coiling inward… to galloping forward. 🌾💨
Today’s workshop with &Earth (go check out Emily's page!) felt like the most beautiful threshold ritual into that energy. 🤎 Dropping into the body. Into breath. Into texture. Into earth beneath the feet. There is something profoundly grounding about creating with our hands - about letting our innate creativity lead instead of the mind. 🎨🌍
Before we can run like the Horse, we must feel our hooves on the ground. 🐎🌱
The Wood Snake taught us how to shed. 🍂
The Fire Horse invites us to embody. 🔥
To move.
To create.
To be seen.
To trust our instinct and momentum. 🌬️✨
I’m stepping into this new cycle not with urgency, but with embodied fire: the kind that warms from the inside out. The kind that is fueled by presence, not pressure. 🕯️
Grateful for community. 🤲
Grateful for earth. 🌍
Grateful for the reminder that transformation begins in the body. 🤍
Here’s to shedding what no longer fits. 🐍
Here’s to running toward what sets us alight.
Happy Chinese New Year,
With love,
Leora ✨ x