Harnessing Fire Horse Energy not succumbing to it

I've been excitedly waiting for the Year of the Fire Horse.  It's SUCH a powerful energy, but it can also be a little chaotic ... too fast, unless we can intentionally harness it.  

In this episode I talk about the ways in which we can USE the energy for our best year ever.

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Transcript

Quick Welcome And Intent

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I'm so glad that you're here. You're listening to what the fuck did she just say? With your host. That's me, Stephanie. I'm all about living our best life and finding our zone of brilliance and then removing the resistance so that we can go all in. I say random crazy gift, which is why I called this podcast the way that I did. And I really hate long, drawn-out intros. So let's fucking go. Welcome back to the podcast and happy lunar new year. I am recording this on February 17th for a reason. I really felt this morning I woke up and I thought, what is it that I want to create today? Because today is a new moon and the year of the fire horse. And so it is really about like deciding what it is that you want to do. So I have big business goals. And one of the things that my intuition kept coming up with is podcast, podcast, podcast. And so here I am. I am starting as I mean to go on by recording this podcast. And I hope that you do the same. If you have a big, huge goal and there's something that you can do today to take that goal on, start as you mean to go on, do it today. Or whatever day you're listening to this, you might not be listening to this on February 17th, and that is absolutely okay. Just harness the energy of it. And so that being said, I really want to talk about harnessing the energy of the fire horse today. I have been probably since January 1st, or maybe even a little bit before that, um, on my social media and mostly probably in my membership. Um, but I've been talking about how exciting this year is because even like in numerology, 2026 is a one year. And one years are for fresh starts and new beginnings. And doesn't that seem so exciting? Like just fresh start in itself feels exciting to me. But also then in astrology, Neptune entered Aries in January of this year, and so Neptune is the planet of imagination, it's a planet of intuition, and then Aries is about this raw energy, bold energy, taking action. So the idea of this year is to listen to your intuition and then move your fucking ass. And that is kind of where we're I mean, that is exactly where we're going with the year of the fire horse. There's six tips that I have on really harnessing the energy of the fire horse in the best way possible. So the first one is to pick a direction or a goal. Just decide where you want to go. One of the things that I notice all the time with women in the work, which is my um goal attainment group, I tell them to just decide what they want to do and then do something every single day in three categories: mindset, energy, and action. As long as we show up every single day, we create momentum. And momentum creates the clarity. Action creates the clarity. A lot of times we sit and we think we have to have it all figured out. And that, quite frankly, is just procrastination with a pretty fucking bow, right? We think we have to take more courses and plan the, you know, 20-page plan on how we're going to achieve the damn thing. That doesn't actually ever work. What does work is just taking action and allowing the universe to show up for us and tell us how we need to tweak and where we need to move. Last year, um, I started on this weight loss journey. I started out with just the diet, which then led me to going for a walk uh at a local walking track. The walking track then was closed one day and the gym was open. And so then it led me to the gym. Like, and it just sort of started to happen and I started to lose weight, but I like I never ever started the year thinking I was gonna join that gym. I just started the year with a goal and a plan for right now. Just follow the plan for right now, and then when something presents itself, you listen to your intuition and go, is this avoidance or is this where I'm meant to go? And that's it. That's it. Action and momentum is rewarded by the universe. Don't procrastinate. All right, so number two is watch impulsive crap. The fire horse energy, fire is like exciting and horse is fast. So one of the things that we can do is we can get caught up in that energy, but we want to really, like I've said before, I can I keep it keeps coming to me as I'm speaking, but harness, harness the energy, have discipline focus forward, discipline action forward, not chaotic. We want to decide what we're going to do. We want to listen to our intuition and make bold moves, but we don't want to listen to our emotion and end up like a crack addict in a back alley looking for a fix, you know? What we want to do is pay attention and sit and think is this my intuition or is this my emotion? Don't listen to the emotion. Emotion is gonna lie to you, intuition will not, intuition will feel calm, it will be an inner knowing that you will know that emotion, not so much. Number three is protect your energy. Just like I've been saying about the fire horse energy can be chaotic. And so what you want to do is make sure that you are really focused in on emotional regulation, emotional control. That's one of the things that we do in the powerhouse as well, is really focusing in on harnessing or like emotional stability, emotional intelligence, and listening to our intuition. So when you are going to protect your energy and be very mindful and like in the moment, in order to do that, we're gonna need to focus on our sleep, focus on our boundaries, know when we're stretching ourselves, it's okay to say no. Also focus on the people that we're around. Um, I saw a post the other day and it said, you are the fifth. And the examples were like if you are hanging out with four people who are addicts, you will be the fifth. You are hanging out with four people who are eating junk food, you will be the fifth. If you are hanging out with four people who are health conscious, you will be the fifth. If you are hanging out with four people who have big dreams and big goals and take bold action, you will be the fifth. So protecting your energy, who are the people that you're hanging out with? Take a look at the four people that are you are closest with. Are they helping you or hindering you? And you also want to pay attention to your space. If you've been here on this podcast or following me on social media or been a client of mine in one of my containers, one of my coaching containers, or one of my courses, you will know that there is nothing that I do that doesn't have a feng shui component. And it's not so much the traditional feng shui, but it is really this understanding that I'm trying to get to everyone that their space affects them. If your space feels chaotic and messy and cluttered, it is not going to serve you very well in the year of the fire horse because you're going to feel like you are like in panicky energy. Panicky energy is not good energy, right? And especially in the year of the fire horse, because you can make really impulsive decisions, really fast decisions that aren't necessarily serving you. Um, okay, so number four is I want you to dream bigger. Raise your standards, raise yourself up to the person that you want to be. Think in terms of the person that you want to be and step there. Be her now. A lot of times when I start working with my clients, I notice that they play small. I can see their potential, I can see so clearly, just intuitively, I can see where they're meant to go, where they can go, what is possible for them. I can see their potential, but I don't have their negative bullshit from the past, right? I have my own. I got my own negative bullshit from my own past, but I don't have yours. So I can see where my clients are meant to go. And I can see that they're often dreaming too small, but they don't have to. If you have a dream, it is meant for you to achieve it, it is meant for you to attain it. So dream a little bigger. Let yourself dream. This is the year where you can take that bold action, which is number five. Be bold. Your intuition should feel calm. And then once you have the idea, once you think in terms of this is this is what my intuition is saying, I know it. It doesn't feel like it's emotion. It feels like intuition. The idea of taking action toward it, it should feel exciting and slightly scary. It should feel like, yes, this is right. And also, holy hot fuck, I don't know if I can do this. Because comfort zones don't feel scary. If you're sitting in your comfort zone and you're playing small, it feels easy. But comfort zones are not where you're meant to go. Comfort zones don't lead you to potential. Comfort zones would lead you to take no fucking action towards anything, right? And so we want to be bold, we want to listen to our intuition, we want to invest in ourselves this year. We want to feel that slightly exciting and also slightly scary. And the final one is you want to ground yourself because fire energy is can be explosive at times, right? It can be chaotic at times and it can affect relationships. Um, we just don't want too much of that fiery energy. So we can use our space to add a little bit of more of the water element to kind of calm that down, but also you want to do things just for yourself to make sure that you are centered and grounded. So whether that happens to be walking in the grass with your bare feet or walking on the beach or journaling. I used to be the chick who openly said journaling was not for everyone, that not everyone needed to journal. I mean, I told people that journaling wasn't for me, but meditation was. And it wasn't until I took on this journaling challenge a few years ago I decided, okay, you know what? I'm gonna journal every single day for 365 days and see if this changes my life. Like I keep being told that it will. And it did. Dang, I was wrong. I was wrong. So um, but you know, journaling for me just helps to release all of the crap that is in my head, like all of the stuff, all of the emotions that I don't want. And the way that I do it is to release it and then replace it with something amazing. And it is wild how much better I feel. It is wild how cathartic it is, and it is wild how addicted I am now to journaling because of how I started doing it, which was different than listening to everyone's Pinterest boards on, you know, if I were a if I were an animal, what would I be and why? Like why like that just seems ridiculous. Why am I gonna journal on that? That doesn't fucking help me at all. I if I'm gonna journal, I want to journal on something that makes me feel better and really focuses on the practice of release and replace. So uh I will put that link to my journaling series or my email series in the show notes below, just so that you can sign up because it's amazing. But also, I think it's really important for the year of the fire horse to get your shit together with respect to the emotions that you have and the thoughts that you have. Again, the year of the fire horse can be so powerful, so amazingly powerful when we harness it and not succumb to it. I'm so excited that this is the way that I started out the year of the fire horse. And uh I look so forward to seeing everything that you create in this year. Thank you so much for listening. I hope you've had some laughs, maybe some ideas, and that you've been inspired to take some type of action toward the life you've always dreamed up. If you feel so called, I would love it if you would share with your besties. Leave a review down below. I look forward to bringing you on me, and I will see you in the next episode.