Episode 64: When the Fire Horse Arrives - February’s Destiny Gate

In this solo episode, I explore February as a threshold, a moment where long-held inner processes give way to decisive outer movement.

We close the Year of the Wood Snake, a Yin year of shedding, strategy, and quiet preparation, and step into the Year of the Fire Horse, a rare and volatile Yang-fire cycle that accelerates destiny, visibility, courage, and change.

This episode weaves together astrology, elemental wisdom, nervous system awareness, and collective symbolism to help you understand not just what is happening — but how to move through it without burning out.

In this episode, we explore:

• What the Year of the Wood Snake has been asking of us (and why it may have felt slow, heavy, or confusing)
• Why the Fire Horse year brings acceleration, risk, leadership, and bold movement
• Saturn entering Aries — and why Saturn is in detriment here
• Neptune moving into Aries and the end of a long, foggy spiritual era
• The rare Saturn–Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries and what it signals collectively
• Why the last Saturn–Neptune conjunction coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall
• War symbolism, remembrance, and the poppy as a collective archetype
• The Solar Eclipse and New Moon in Aquarius on 17 February
• Aquarius themes of systems, community, responsibility, and the future
• Burnout as the shadow of Fire Horse energy
• Drishti: focus as destiny in a year where fire must be directed
• How to move from performance into mission

This is an episode about clarity, courage, and conscious initiation.

February asks us to stop waiting for certainty, and to begin acting from what we already know.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 1:02

Welcome back to the podcast today, and this is a solo episode. It's just me, Becky, and I have come on to really speak into the energy, the astrology of February and beyond because it is a big, big month. I'm also following on from the year of the firehorse workshop that I did at the studio this weekend, where I shared a transmission that was all about the ending of the year of the snake and the beginning of the year of the fire horse. So this is really going into a little bit more detail than the podcast that I recorded with Laura a couple weeks ago where we just touched on things. People seem to want more. So here we go. I hope you enjoy this episode. There's nothing you need to do. Just receive really and see what comes up for you. So February definitely feels like a massive threshold month. I'd say it holds some of the biggest astrology for the entire year, for the whole of 2026. Yeah, like a sense of stepping through a gate, perhaps knowing things might not quite be the same on the other side. So this is one of those times where multiple cycles are completing and beginning. And so to use the cliche, there could be a timeline shift. What does that really mean? Well, I guess something that you've been wanting could drop in, or you could be diverted away from something. Um, whether that is a personal theme, something in the collective as well. So yeah, there's a sense that our souls have been preparing for this time for a long, long time. And if you've listened to me talk about astrology, yeah, I have this belief that we are all incarnated at a perfectly timed moment where the stars are mirroring exactly what we need to learn to resolve and to evolve in our lifetime. Like we are birthed with precision and it's a soul choice. So we are all here right at this threshold moment at the same time, because we have big things that we are completing, maybe karmically, for our ancestral line, our personal um oversoul, or even for the collective. Where, yeah, I mean, if you're watching the news right now, there's a lot of crazy stuff going down. I feel like there has been for a few years, but it seems pretty intense at the beginning of 2026. And I wanted to start by really talking about the year of the wood snake because that is the Chinese sign that we are in until the 17th of February. And in Chinese astrology, there are 12 animals. So you will have been born, you know, with an animal. I think I'm a horse actually, and then there is an element, and there are five elements in Chinese medicine and Chinese astrology: wood, fire, earth, water, and air. So we have this combination of an animal plus an element that come together to set the tone and the energy of the year. And so these run in 60-year cycles. So if we think about how long we're likely to live as a human, we're definitely, hopefully, if we live beyond 60, going to have experienced every animal with every sign. And then we will start to repeat the ones from the beginning of our life if we live beyond 60. So I just find it fascinating to think that we are all at the end of the year of the wood snake at the same time, and yet we are all different people having different experiences, different lessons to learn, different missions, um, different ages. And it's really trusting, coming from a place of trust, that this astrology is perfectly timed for us at this exact point in our life to harness to come here to do what we're meant to do, basically. So the year of the wood snake that we've been in for almost 12 months now is a yin energy, it's a double yin energy, in fact. The element of wood is yin, and the animal of the snake is yin as well. So when we think about yin, it is that quieter, more inward, subterranean psychological energy. If we think about what happens in a yin yoga class where we're holding the poses for a long time, sometimes, you know, like five, seven minutes. The idea being that we're going deep, deep within, feeling what's going on in our body, noticing our thoughts and our emotions, so we can really apply that energy to the year that we've been in. So this might have not been a year of like visible outward progress for a lot of people, but in more a year of letting go. I think we all know the snake is associated with shedding its skin when it outgrows its skin. So, yes, that, but also I think the snake is very strategic in the way that it operates, it will rest for long periods of time, and then it will go out strategically capture its prey, eat it, and then it spends a long time digesting and metabolizing that food. And that's kind of the process that we're in. Like, what has this year shown us? What are we digesting? What are we integrating and metabolizing to really answer the question? Who are you becoming? What's no longer fitting in your life? And what skin have you outgrown, even if you're not quite sure who you are without it yet? So this year might have felt slow. There might have been a sense of more things becoming undone than done, maybe even stalled or stuck. Uh, like kind of like like life asking you to wait and pause, and you're like, what am I waiting for? I don't, I don't know what's next for me. And this isn't because there's nothing happening, it's because there was probably a lot going on under the surface, and just energetically, it's very difficult to make massive progress in a in a double yin year. So, yeah, this year has definitely asked for patience, for subtlety, for pacing. Think about the snake with its timing and discernment as well, knowing when to strike, knowing when to rest. And the two the the snake is also like very attuned to the vibrations of the earth. You know, if it got disturbed by somebody walking by its nest or where it was resting, it's gonna notice that and take a strategic action. And this year has also been a lot about that becoming more sensitive, more attuned to what we're feeling, to what is true within us. So a year of really getting in touch with that, and that can be a really hard, difficult thing, difficult emotions arising, arising to kind of connect with, to try and understand what on earth they're telling us and what direction to go in with all of that. So, yeah, we might have felt like a sense of burnout almost when we outwardly it looks like we haven't done anything, or in fact, we might have undone things, we might have left jobs or relationships without anywhere to go. It can also look a lot like decision paralysis, creative blocks, and a sense of like this year taking its toll on your nervous system and fatigue. This sense of living within a bit of a void space that we can't always understand. So, yeah, a lot of the work this year is invisible, and that's kind of the point, really, to prepare us for this year of the fire horse, which is coming up on the 17th of February. So, I'm recording this episode at the end of January, so I'm hoping to publish it before the 17th of February. So, if you're listening to this ahead of the 17th of February, we're still in the year of the snake, so go shared what needs to be shared, you know. Look around you at what no longer fits, um, and be honest about that. I have spent a lot of time in the last couple of weeks, like really decluttering my space, letting go of stuff that I don't need. I'm also in the process of thinking about moving house. Um already beginning that process, I guess, of letting go. But I know talking to a lot of people as I do, like after class and and just people I read for, so much sort of letting go of as I said before, like relationships and careers and things that felt solid and aligned until they no longer were. So, trust if that is the process that you've been through or are in, like is all perfectly timed for this year of the snake. And you might be listening to this and thinking, ah no, like 2026 felt like pretty steady, pretty easy going for me. Um, and that's all good. Everyone's personal astrology is different, and whenever we're looking at collective themes and collective astrology, we're sort of applying that to the masses. So, yeah, of course, everything I say is not going to apply to every single person. But on the 17th of February, the snake hands the baton over to the fire horse, and this is where it this inner preparation and shedding and inner work becomes outer movement, where our potential can become something in the outer world around us. So if the snake was asking us, like, who are you underneath this skin that doesn't fit anymore? The fire horse is like saying, Okay, so you know that now, or you're in the process of getting to know. What are you going to do about that? What are you going to do next? And this is a big shift because it the year of the snake, as I said, was a year in the in year, and the fire horse is a yang yang year. So this is a big shift in energy, it's not subtle. And the way that I always think about this fire horse is like it's running across a beach, like really fast, it's on fire, uh, and it's unstoppable. So it's fast, it's courageous, it's taking risks, you know, it's it's not afraid of anything that's in its path, it's visible, you can't miss it. It's also the energy of rebellion and acceleration. So, like fire horses don't tiptoe around, or uh, you know how ponies move in dressage, like perfectly choreographed, they don't do that. Fire horses gallop and they do crazy things with their mane and their tails, and they're not afraid of being seen, of doing things wrong, of making mistakes, of being rebellious. It really is that kind of energy. So this year can bring like new decisions at a personal level and a sense of, as I kind of alluded to in my intro to this episode, a sense of like changing timelines. So maybe we've been on a trajectory with a career or a relationship, and we just jump onto a different timeline. And it's like we don't have to start at the beginning of that timeline, if that makes sense. So it's this sense of like a real destiny leap. Uh, we might be feeling really innovative and have the most amazing ideas in the next 12 months from the 17th of February. Uh, it can also look very chaotic. So think about fire when it has no direction and it's uncontrolled. It can be very chaotic. It can burn what it doesn't mean to burn. And this can look like some of what we're seeing right now across the planet, this sense of collective uprising and rebellion. And we're seeing this in many countries. I believe as I'm recording this, Iran is still in a blackout, and we have these crazy riots happening in the US, in Minnesota, and all this stuff around Greenland. There is a lot, a lot, a lot going on in the collective that we might think we understand, but really what we know is the tip of the iceberg. So it's really about containing your fire and directing it and not letting it burn out of control because of whatever else is going on in the world or even in your local environment. Because the fire horse also does not tolerate this sense of being lied to or half-truth, it wants to know the truth, and I feel a real sense of us being directed more towards truth, our inner truth, and also the truth of the world we live in this year. A lot of things um coming to the surface, and I feel like every single person on the planet, regardless of their level of consciousness, is going to find something out this year, it'll be different for everyone, but something that they would never have believed was true five years ago. So, yeah, it will be really interesting to observe that. Uh, there's also a sense of this fire horse like not supporting performance or performance masquerading as purpose. So, if we're showing up at work and it feels like a big performance and it feels like a real effort, with a yang yang year, the risk of this energy is burnout. So, if our life force is being misdirected in a direction that is not aligned with our sort of highest truth, our highest evolution, and also the highest evolution of the collective, then yeah, we can expect to be shown that through our own energy systems. And with all of that said, like this year is not asking perfection perfection, no year ever asks for perfection, it's impossible. But what it does ask is for us to be brave. The universe always rewards the brave. So, really, when you face challenge, and we will all face challenge, whether it's on a micro level or a macro level, because that is the human experience this year, is really coming back to your heart and what do you want? Because often what's in the heart is the brave thing, it is the brave thing that says, Yeah, this no longer fits, and I'm going in a completely different direction, or I'm gonna uphold this boundary, whatever it might be. This year is gonna call on your reserves of courage. So, the other thing to say about the Chinese New Year is that it does it happens on the 17th of February, as I've said, and this is the second new moon of the calendar year. So that's when the Chinese New Year always starts. So it's not always the 17th of February, it's the second new moon, and I kind of really love this as a as a kind of way of easing into the year. So I always work with the energy of like, yes, December, what am I letting go of? And what do I want for my maybe my word of the year for 2026? Then we had this year, we had the Capricorn new moon, um, which happened a couple of weeks into January, which was another beautiful occasion that's aligned with the cosmic energy where we could set intentions and Capricorn being the sign of longevity, um, success, achieving our goals. And then we've got this other opportunity with the year of the fire horse beginning on the 17th of February, another new moon. And we will get another opportunity as well at the beginning of Aries season, which in astrology is the beginning of the year, and of course, in the northern hemisphere, that aligns so well with spring. So I love that we get all of these moments when we can realign ourselves, and it and it's kind of allowing for the fact that there is no such thing as perfection. We might set a goal and it might need to shift. We might not set a goal for some people. The work is in not setting goals and being more open. So I do love that. And the thing is, with this new moon that is happening in Aquarius on the 17th of February, it is a solar eclipse. So we go straight into the Chinese new year with a solar eclipse. So an eclipse, just to remind everyone, is when the sun and the moon are conjunct, that means they're together, and that happens every new moon. But on it on an eclipse, they get very close to the nodes of fate, which this podcast is called the North Node, and the Sun and the Moon are going to be pretty close to the North Node, which is actually still in Pisces, but it's moving because the nodes move backwards, moving towards Aquarius. So a node of fate is exactly what it says, it is a destiny point, a timeline change, and it can help us realign. And this can be through shock, it can be through events that appear to be out of our control, making us let go, making us realign. Could be about a big choice that we make, or we're forced to make at that time. And this is the first eclipse we are seeing in Aquarius in 18 years. And Aquarius is the sign of revolution. Aquarius is very future-focused and it speaks to the collective and to systems and to the future that we are feeding with our attention and our energy. It speaks to the individual within the collective. And so it beautifully combines this energy of individualism and the collective. So people sometimes think Aquarius can be like quirky, rebellious, and like different, creating rebellion for the sake of it. But Aquarius is so much deeper than that and more demanding. It asks us to really zoom out and to lift our eyes from our personal stories and see the wider pattern that we're part of. Aquarius governs communities, systems, networks, technology, social movements, and this future that we are quietly constructing together. But it's kind of not a personal energy, like something like cancer is a more personal energy. All of the water signs tend to be, and it's not expressive and loud like Leo energy can be. Aquarius is impersonal and it can feel quite cold until you truly understand it. Because what Aquarius is really asking is what serves the whole. Do and they stand slightly apart from the group, even when they're in it. So Aquarius often carries this wounding to the soul of exile. So if you have Aquarius in your south node or a key point in your chart, this might be an energy that you're familiar with feeling yourself. So it feels like it's been exiled and it doesn't want to feel special, it wants to feel included. And so it really is this inclusive energy of unless everyone on this planet is fed and cared for, then none of us are really at peace because we're all connected. And because of this, Aquarius doesn't just question people, it questions structures. It asks, like, why are we doing this this way? Who does this system, you know, like this political system, this school system, this healthcare system, who does it really serve? And when we start to ask those questions, it's very often not the people that it's set up to serve. Who does it leave out? You know, in America, I think about this in terms of healthcare, that unless you can afford to pay for your healthcare, you know, you're not included in that system. Obviously, we have a different system in the UK, but we can see how stretched that is at the moment. So Aquarius really asks us to imagine something else, something better. It doesn't want to tweak these broken systems, it wants to completely reimagine it, imagine them, and that can feel quite destabilizing. And that is the process that we're going through on Earth right now. And we this is why we're seeing so much disruption and all of these broken systems on the planet. It's because we we have to take responsibility and see them and change them, reimagine them. So this means political systems, what are our social norms? Education systems, medicine, technology, how are we going to use AI, which let's face it, isn't it going anywhere to serve the greater good? Aquarius is not interested in tradition for tradition's sake, it is interested in evolution. So in this moment, when we have the new moon on the 17th of February, the invitation here is clear. We're starting this new year of the fire horse, and we're being asked to examine where we belong, what we're participating in consciously and unconsciously, which systems we're feeding with our energy, whether that's things like the news and which futures we're quietly consenting to. You know, there's been a lot in the UK around digital ID, for instance, and what that could mean. And I think several million people have signed a petition to say absolutely not. So we really have to use our voices, and this can get messy because everyone is going to have different points of view. So Ocarious reminds us that neutrality is a bit of a myth, and to exist is to participate, and the future isn't something that arrives, we have to imagine it in this moment and build it, but choice by choice, step by step. So at its highest, actually, Aquarius is not rebellion, it's responsibility, the responsibility to think beyond yourself and this moment, to care about the collective without losing your own sense of self and humanity, and to imagine new ways of living, and then to live them. This might be on a really small scale, you know. I'm talking in quite big terms here. I'm not saying like you need to start a new political party and try and, you know, run Britain or something like that, because in fact, Aquarian energy is about us becoming ungovernable because we don't need someone else to tell us what to do. It wants to remove hierarchy. So it's really looking at your own life and thinking, okay, how can I embody this energy that we're moving into very much so in this year of the fire horse and beyond, as the nodes of fate move into Aquarius? You know, maybe that looks like I'm really trying really hard, for instance, to not buy lots of stuff off Amazon. And I know it's easy, they have everything, is sometimes cheaper, but to support local businesses, to buy your food locally, to buy organic food if you can afford it, and I get it, you know, it that's not always an easy thing. It is to bring your children up to not believe everything they're told at school, and to be capable of critical thought because truly they're going to be the ones that inherit this world and have to try and make something better of it. I found out last week that Zoe, she's 10, in her class, they watch news round of the BBC every single day before break, and I was like, oh my goodness, they're like literally programming my child to watch the news and to also watch the BBC, which is not a neutral broadcaster anymore. I'm not sure if it ever was. People say it was. I don't know, I haven't researched it enough to know. Um, and it's even things like smartphone bans for children on the face of it, like sound like a really good thing. But truly, if they were that worried about our children's health, they would have tested them and not allowed them to be brought in in the first place. To me, it feels much more like censorship and control of information because our children will be the ones that are the rebels that won't comply, they already are not complying in so many ways. Um, and I also feel like there is this wave of diagnosis as well of autism and ADHD. And you know, this is really showing where the systems are not serving everyone because more and more people are being diagnosed because we're trying to treat everyone the same, and this is the key. We can't do that anymore. So the rise in these diagnoses, I believe, is happening to force a shift um in some of the systems. So lots of souls being born, uh probably with the um like the agreement that they would come in with autism or ADHD to like kind of spiritualise it so that the systems change. So yeah, a lot of brave, brave souls alive on this planet right now. Um, and you know, when I'm spiritualizing that, I'm not also not meaning to spiritually bypass anything because I know people very close to me that have children that are really suffering and have suffered in the school system. Um, and I never mean to take away from their personal struggles, you know. So, yeah, that's a bit about Aquarius and the new moon that we have on the horizon, and that is the energy that we're working with. It could be really interesting for you also at a personal level. This new moon is going to set the tone for the next 12 months with this start of the fire horse energy, where there is this yang energy, and looking at the part of your birth chart that Aquarius falls in. So you've got the 12 houses, which house aligns with Aquarius? So for me, that's my sixth house of health, day-to-day work, uh, routine, and that kind of thing. So I know that I need to be like overhauling that with this new moon that's coming up. So what and Aquarius ruling technology for me, one of the things that I'm gonna do is invest in an aura ring. I've tried smart watches and I just hate wearing watches. Um, I always have uh, I don't know if it's my Sagittarian son that is just wants freedom and it doesn't want to look at the clock all the time. I'm really not sure, but I I just can't get on with watches. Uh, so I'm going to invest in an aura ring and really track my statistics, which is like very Aquarian, also fits nicely with my Virgo rising and really put a big focus on my own health and well-being. And how is that related to all this stuff, the themes that I've talked about with the collective? Well, if I don't look after my health and have my day-to-day routine in check, how am I going to fulfill my mission and my purpose, my tiny, tiny part of the revolution that Earth is in right now? So looking at the part of your chart that this moon falls in, this Aquarian moon. Um, and if you follow me, I'm on Instagram as the Rose Almanac, and it's linked in the show notes. I've no doubt I will put a post up around this new moon, and I'll try and remember to list all of the houses so that you can see what theme you are working with. Uh, you could also pop it into Chat GPT and ask Chat GPT if it's like your 10th house, what does this mean? And it will tell you that. I don't recommend using ChatGPT to like upload your chart and read it because it never, I've never ever, ever, ever seen it get it right. But if you're just asking it what does the 10th house mean, or the second house, it will tell you with some accuracy, usually. And then you're applying these aquarian themes that I've talked about of technology, of what you are doing with your own personal chart, also needing to serve the collective. So, yeah, I hope that helps with the new moon that's coming up. And I just want to come back to this theme of burnout, that it is the real shadow of the fire horse, because there is this uh possibility that we will overextend our energy, very self-reliant, and it moves before it thinks. So if a year of the snake didn't complete its metabolizing for whatever reason, the fire horse may impact you more because it needs the fuel that we've got from, you know, think about the snake digesting the food. The fuel was built last year, or you know, the the last two weeks that we're in that year. So if you're already exhausted, please don't use this year of the fire horse to like push even harder. The thing that the fire horse wants more than anything is honesty. What do you stand for? What do you need? Because the moment that you move into burnout, you are unable to participate, you are unable to complete your mission. Whatever your mission is, and I say like mission in a big lofty way, our truest, truest mission is to be who we are, unfiltered, um without the masks, like a pure expression of our energy. And because we all do come from love, as far back if we go to source, then if we're acting from the truest part of ourselves, then of course what we're doing is going to be serving the collective. So that's some of the astrology, but there's more. There's more to talk about here because we also have Neptune has just moved into Aries on the 26th of January. Um it did initially transit into this sign last year, but then it has retrograded and then and moved back into Pisces, and it's now finally in Aries for good. It will never, we we, whoever is listening to this podcast, will never see Neptune in Pisces ever again in their in their lifetime because it takes 165 years to do a cycle around the sun. And this is big energy because Pisces is the final sign of the zodiac, it connects us back to spirit, and it's said to represent karmic closure, and Neptune rules Pisces. So it's another reason why the year of the snake felt intense because whatever we have moved through in 2025 while Neptune was in Pisces, and the 14 years before that were building up to this, is karmic closure of this lifetime, but also rippling out across many lifetimes. So we've been in this frequency of Neptune in Pisces for 14 years, and it's like this saying of when you're in water, you don't realize how wet you are, and it's the same thing with Neptune in Pisces, it's like this fog, it's quite dreamy, ethereal, emotional, um, disassociative energy, and it can bring like this veil of illusion. So this kind of felt like confusion, uh, also deep empathy. Pisces is the most empathetic, compassionate sign of the zodiac. Spiritual longing without knowing that it's spiritual longing. Uh, I feel so many people feel this, you know. I really believe anyone with depression, you know, they're feeling depressed often because their exterior world is not mirroring their mission, and they're lacking that connection to spirituality, to something greater than them that gives them hope, the ability to see the bigger picture. Grief, as well, that really didn't belong to you know a particular story, and a sense of absorbing whatever has been going on in the world around us, rather than being able to stand strong in it and do something about it. You know, we saw this with COVID and things like that, you know, the impact of that that sort of created this mass hyster hysteria across the nation, well, across the world, that we often went along with things that perhaps we didn't truly believe in. Maybe we did believe in them based on the information that we were given, you know. So, yeah, it's been an age of sensitivity, but quite ungrounded and a time that we've been easily disorientated and also prone to escapism and numbing. So hence the rise of Netflix, um, and you know, of course, things like drugs and alcohol games as well. You know, I think about Roblox as an epidemic that is kind of washing its way through our children. You know, we're sort of training them to escape and numb out. And I'm not saying like, don't let your children play Roblox, mine play Roblox, but it's like just keeping an eye on that, right? And thinking, yeah, this isn't good for them all of the time. Uh, also a sense of being drawn to spirituality, but not knowing what is real and what is, yeah, there's a lot of fakeness in the spiritual world as well. So we've had these really blurred edges for the last 14 years that dissolved our certainty, and it has taught us a lot, but it has also brought shadows of avoidance and denial and martyrdom as well, thinking we're the victim and confusion that is disguised as faith. So this chapter has closed because Neptune has now moved into Aries, and Aries is the really the sign of the warrior, is the first sign of the zodiacs. We've got like this new beginning, and I think it's like Neptune going on this new 14-year firewalk through Aries, where I feel like we're going to be asked to confront that we've actually been in a spiritual war for our consciousness for a very, very long time. A war over what's true over our bodies, um, yeah, over truth. And I made a post this week about the poppy being related to this transit of Neptune into Aries. It feels like the perfect symbol for Neptune into Aries, a way of explaining it because we all associate the poppy with remembrance, you know, Remembrance Sunday, and it is like the symbol that appears after the war because it kind of represents grief and sacrifice, and poppies grow where in war-torn lands, it's where they grow best. These this sense of these like fragile, beautiful petals that burst through the the earth that is kind of like blood soaked and war-torn. So this idea that peace and beauty can come out of the other side of war. And yeah, we we've been in a war for our consciousness, like I say, through things like the media and through politics as well. Um, where we are so programmed to believe like it's the left or it's the right, and then these people are pitted against each other, and then you know, really, truly, I don't think either right or left represent the truth of who we are because we're whole, we're not left or right. Left is yin, right is yang when we're talking about it in terms of um Chinese medicine, and we're being asked to choose, and neither neither party represents us, and there's this sense of just so much corruption that runs so deeply through all of the systems that we have kind of grown up to believe in, and I think we'll see more of that uncovered and realise like we don't want these people ruling over us, we don't want to vote people in that we wouldn't ever choose in the first place. So I do feel like we're at this time of great, great change on Earth, um, and Neptune into areas like really showing us where we can't pretend we don't notice anymore. We can't pretend we don't notice what's wrong in the world. Um, we can't pretend that corruption doesn't exist, we can't pretend that making our children watch news round at school is like a good thing to do. Um spirituality is now demanding to be embodied. So this like looks like more action around the world, and that doesn't have to look like war, it might do. Um the last time Neptune was in Aries 165 years ago, there was the American Revolution, but I think revolution is going to happen in a different way, it's gonna be about people finding their people and about community, and it's about looking local for these changes around you, like what groups are being formed about the people that are in your world that really, really do care, and creating our own micro movements and ways of living where we basically just start over again. So we also have Saturn entering Aries um quite soon as well. I think this happens just before the year of the fire horse, I can't remember the exact. Exact date, I should have probably looked it up. But this is uncomfortable energy. Saturn is in detriment in Aries. It doesn't belong there really, because Saturn is the planet of structure, of time, of responsibility, of maturity. And Aries is the opposite of that. It is the sign of impulse, pulse, initiation, fire, war, and like this raw life force energy. So Saturn struggles in Aries to do what it does best, which is teach us lessons and help us mature. Because Aries doesn't want to wait, it doesn't like planning, it doesn't want permission, it just does the thing. So when Saturn moves into Aries, we feel this tension between urgency and patience. Like we want things to change on Earth right now, but we have to let them play out. Impulse and consequence, that sometimes something happens and it can take months or years for the consequence of that, whether that is, you know, when someone does something wrong in the world, or whether it is we're trying to work really hard on something and it takes time for that to actually uh pay off in the physical world. Uh, and this can feel really frustrating. So it's like pressing the accelerator and the brake at the same time when you're driving your car. So this might show up as pressure to act before systems are ready, authority being challenged, lots of leadership crises around the world, and all of these old structures cracking under the demand for change, a sense of almost like we can't go on like we are, but we don't really know what's going to replace it. And that's part of the process, and we've really got to trust everything is playing out exactly as it needs to be for like the bigger picture. So this means that Saturn and Neptune will come together, they will meet and be conjunct in Aries at zero degrees, which the beginning and the end of any sign are always the most potent energy. So it's like this marking of the end of a collective story in the beginning of another that we don't really know how it's going to play out. And these cycles happen every 36 years. So Saturn and Neptune meet like this every 36 years, and every time this happens, it seems to coincide with like the collapse of old ideological structure, dissolving of illusion that we've lived within, and major geopolitical and spiritual shifts. So, for instance, the last Saturn-Neptune conjunction was in 1989, and that's when the Berlin Wall fell, which was this actual literal falling of the wall and symbolic dismantling of a structure that wants to find an era but no longer fitted the time that we were in. It's this sense of people seeing what they think is immovable, but it actually isn't immovable when enough people are behind, you know, the movement. So, yes, this time Saturn and Neptune are meeting at zero degrees of Aries, this birthing point, this kind of untested energy in a way is very instinctive energy, and it's a lot about survival, courage, and conflict as well. So this conjunction is dissolving an old way of being where perhaps we were a little bit ignorant and igniting a new one where we must wake up, but we're waking up probably without the full map of knowing where we're going. So we're being asked to confront what we've believed without questioning and taking responsibility for what we truly stand for. So this really is the birth of a new way of being that is embodied belief. This conjunction is asking us what do you believe enough to live by? And what are you ready to let go of, whether that is collectively or personally? So bringing it back to self at a smaller level, this might feel like a very restless energy and impatience, frustration, questioning, old goals and old structures and ways of being in your own life. Uh, my husband was telling me the other day about how his friend had basically sold his house and moved on to a narrow boat because he wanted a simpler life with less stuff, less bills to pay. Now, I'm not saying we all go and live on a narrow boat, but it's that sense of really questioning the reality of what you're in and what's possible for you is very much about becoming even more conscious, letting something end so that something truer for you can begin. So I want to come back to this sense of Drishti that we spoke about. Um, I can't remember if it was on last week's episode or the week before, but a fire horse year like this with all of this energy demands Drishti. Doesn't look like a five-year plan, because probably the world might not look the same in five years. It's about orientation, is about where you are placing your life force energy. What are you focusing on? Because without this focus, the fire can just burn everything and hurt us. So, with focus, our fire can be harnessed and used effectively. So, what are you going to focus on? What are you willing to build? What do you want to show up for? Remembering this sense of it not being about performance. This is not a dressage composition competition, it is about the fire horse going in the direction that it wants to travel in. What are you not going to focus on? What are you going to let fall away? So imagine you're sitting on your horse, and the field or the beach is wide and it's open. The horizon is visible. What's on your horizon? Where does your horse want to move? And what is tangible on your horizon? Maybe it's a word, a feeling, a place, a future version of you that you can see, and let that be your drishti in amongst what could be a crazy yeah.