What the Last Few Years Were Preparing Us For
What Numerology, the Chinese Zodiac, and Tarot reveal about past, present, and future years
Hey friends,
I’m writing this at the end of 2025, a year that has felt like a long, loud, audible sigh. Like the collective nervous system has been holding its breath through one headline after another, and we’re all trying to keep a steady hand on the wheel.
What I keep noticing is this: the last few years have trained us to brace. Even in moments when things “calmed down,” the background hum has never really left, even for a minute. We have learned how to function inside constant input. Alerts, outrage, economic stress, climate chaos, culture wars, AI whiplash, and the ongoing question of who is telling the truth and who is just selling a story.
For a lot of people, 2025 brought a sobering clarity, that you can’t outsource your internal orientation to the powers-that-be anymore. You can’t live on borrowed certainty, a borrowed community, or on borrowed opinions. The Hermit, which was the Tarot Year Card for 2025, didn’t give us “go live in a cabin” vibes. Instead, it was more subtle: a quiet, clear realization that what you pay attention to is what your entire life is made of, and if you don’t choose how you use it, someone else will. As a 9 year in numerology, 2025 brought the completion of a 9-year cycle, wrapping up loose ends and releasing what no longer served us. And as the Year of the Wood Snake in the Chinese Zodiac, it was a year of laying low, staying humble and focused inward, keeping close to the ground in order to find personal growth.
And now, in it’s wake, here comes 2026. This upcoming year, the energy is shifting from subtle processing and orientation to motion and decisive action. As a 1 year in numerology and a Wheel of Fortune year in the Tarot, 2026 doesn’t necessarily mean “everything gets better,” (I wish…) but more like: the wheel of change spins on it’s axis, external conditions change, and we have to meet the moments as they come with clear and fast decisions.
In February, the Chinese Year of the Fire Horse takes the reins from the Wood Snake, adding some galloping fuel to the flames of the carnivalesque burning ferris wheel that we’ll all be riding. It’ll be fun and exciting at times, and also no doubt filled with intensity and a true need for knowing when to stay on…. and when to jump. People born in Fire Horse years tend to have a strong spirit, fierce independence, and a lot of drive. The Horse is naturally fast, freedom-loving, and high-energy. Add Fire, and you get someone bold, adventurous, and not easily contained. That’s this upcoming year, personified.
2026 has initiation written all over it. We’ll see many new beginnings, new people in leadership, and new narratives about how everything works all around us. It’s the kind of year where momentum rewards movement and punishes hesitation. The question turns from “what’s happening out there?” to “how am I responding in the moment to what’s happening?” Because the world is going to keep world-ing. Your job is to choose your lane and build practices and patterns that can hold you when things speed up. We’re still in Wood Snake-territory until Feburary 17th, so spend January and the first half of February shedding those final skins and preparing for a fresh and fiery new start.
Looking back to the last time…
The last time we had a Fire year paired with a Universal 1 Year AND the Wheel of Fortune Tarot Year was 2017. Looking back, you could feel those “new beginnings, fast changes” energy in the air that year.
2017 was a year of sudden pivots and cultural wake-up calls: #MeToo erupted and rewired public conversation about power and accountability overnight. The geopolitical atmosphere carried that Wheel-like volatility too, especially with the 2017 North Korea crisis escalating through missile tests and high-stakes rhetoric. Economically and culturally, it was also peak speculative frenzy, with Bitcoin rocketing toward its first ever mainstream surge that pulled the collective imagination into a storyline that money is changing shape. And on the literal weather front, 2017’s hurricane season delivered enormous disruption with the costliest tropical cyclone season on record worldwide ever- the kind of reminder that nature also has a Wheel, and it does not care about our plans.
Certain similarities are bound to arise next year, but 2026 will be a Fire Horse year, while 2017 was a Fire Rooster year. Roosters in the Chinese Zodiac are known for being sharp, blunt, outspoken, and focused on what’s working versus what isn’t. So that Fire Rooster year was more about calling things out and demanding corrections, and the Fire Horse year of 2026 will be more about speed, big moves, and picking a direction and running with it.
How It Started… How It’s Going… and How It May Continue
Looking backward and forward from the energy we’re living in now, here are three symbolic “weather reports” for the collective. Read on for guides to what the energetic signatures were of in the recent past (2019 to 2025) and what we have coming in the near future (2026-2031). I’ll be looking at:
the Chinese Zodiac (animal + element)
the Universal Year in numerology
the Tarot Year Card
Each one describes a different layer of the same year. Together, they give a surprisingly grounded way to reflect on what has happened and how you want to walk into what’s next.
A quick note on my method
Chinese Zodiac year begins at the Lunar New Year, not the Gregorian New Year on January 1. So the “2025 Wood Snake” started in late January 2025, and the “2026 Fire Horse” begins on February 17, 2026.
The Chinese zodiac runs on a 60-year cycle, made from 12 animals and 5 elements. Each element repeats for two years in a row.
Universal Year (numerology) is the single digit you get by adding the year’s digits and reducing. Example: 2026 → 2+0+2+6=10 → 1.
Tarot Year Card uses the same digit-sum, but you usually keep 10–22 as a Major Arcana number. So 2026 is Wheel of Fortune (10) even though numerology reduces it to 1.
Tarot nerd footnote: Strength and Justice swap numbers depending on the deck tradition. In Rider-Waite-Smith, Strength is 8 and Justice is 11, so I’m working with that here.
The cycle we just lived through: 2019–2025
Let’s begin with 2019, a year when most people I have spoken to agree that they already knew deep down that something different was coming….
🪨 🐷 🏗️ 2019: The Year of the Hanging Pig
Earth Pig | Universal 3 | Tarot 12, The Hanged Man
The Pig year is normally known as warm, materially focused, and communal. The element Earth in 2019 brought consequence, gravity, and reality checks to the otherwise easygoing nature of the Pig. A Numerological 3 year amplified our voices, storytelling, messaging, and mass participation in the cultural Zeitgeist. And the Hanged Man Tarot year added the signature feeling of mid-air suspension: waiting, watching, bargaining with reality, and discovering you could not brute-force your way through.
2019 was a threshold year. You could feel what was previously considered “normal” cracking. Mass protest movements showed up everywhere, polarization got louder, and a lot of people started realizing the old stories we had been told were not going to hold.
Reflecting on 2019: Where did life ask you to pause, reorient, and see differently, even if you hated the waiting?
🗡️ 🐀 👑 2020: The Year of the Emperor Rat
Metal Rat | Universal 4 | Tarot 4, The Emperor
The year of the Rat is typically sharp, cunning, adaptive, and survival-minded. The Metal element gave the rat cutting, clarity, and hardened edges. A numerological 4 year also made 2020 all about systems: rules, infrastructure, governance, and containers. As an Emperor year in the Tarot, that systemic theme intensified: we reckoned with authority, structure, and the question of who got to decide what “order” looked like.
2020 was a year of deep focus on the systems we rely on. With the global pandemic, public health, government policy, and collective risk became our daily life. With the Black Lives Matter movement, 2020 also kicked off a massive cultural reckoning around policing, racism, and the limits of institutional trust.
Reflecting on 2020: What structures supported your life, and which ones revealed themselves as brittle, extractive, or overdue for change?
🗡️ 🐂 ⚜️ 2021: The Year of the Pope Ox
Metal Ox | Universal 5 | Tarot 5, The Hierophant
Ox years are steady, stubborn, and endurance-forward. These years tend to emphasize work, responsibility, and the grind of rebuilding, and with the element Metal, that grind was exacting. The 5 year in numerology brought volatility and change, but it was change that tested institutions. The Hierophant, a major tarot card, embodies tradition, spiritual wisdom, established institutions (like religion, education), and mentorship, representing a wise guide or adherence to societal/belief systems for stability (like the Pope). As a Hierophant Tarot year, 2021 put systems of belief, authority, tradition, and collective norms under the microscope.
2021 carried “return to normal” energy with the steady movement of the ox, but also made us ask “what even is normal?”. After forcibly going inward for a year, back in the world we saw supply chains, labor, and trust issues became visible stress points in the systems we used to take for granted. People renegotiated risk, rules, and social contracts- sometimes politely, sometimes like a bar fight. Religious leaders like the Pope are associated with the Hierophant year, and in 2021, Pope Francis traveled the world and focused on global crises (like the pandemic, migration, and conflict), making a visit to Iraq with the first ever papal visit to the middle east.
Reflecting on 2021: Which rules did you choose consciously, and which ones were inherited by default?
💧🐯 👩🏻❤️👨🏻 2022: The Year of the Tiger-Lovers
Water Tiger | Universal 6 | Tarot 6, The Lovers
The year of the Tiger is typically intense, instinctual, majestic, brave and emotionally charged. The Water element added even deeper feelings, volatility, and moral urgency to the mix. A 6 year in numerology made 2022 centered on relationships, alliances, and responsibility to those we are in community with, and The Lovers year in Tarot emphasized this and encouraged us to check in with who our values were aligned with…. or not.
2022 was heavy with war (Russia invaded Ukraine in February), inflation pressure, many more protest movements, and climate extremes causing massive floods, droughts, and unprecidented glacier melt. A lot of people hit their own “line in the sand” moments, questioning where to live, how to work, who to trust, what to tune out, what to fight for, what to protect… ultimately, what and who to be in relationship with.
Reflecting on 2022: What relationships did you commit to, and what did you realize you could not keep supporting?
💧🐇 𓌝 2023: The year of the Chariot-Riding Rabbit
Water Rabbit | Universal 7 | Tarot 7, The Chariot
The year of the Rabbit in 2023 was sensitive, diplomatic, and protective, with Water amplifying emotionality and psychic noise. As a 7 year, we slowed down, turned inward and focused on analysis, faith, skepticism, and discernment. The Chariot added a paradox to the cozy bunny-burrow vibes, bringing in movement and acceleration, but only when we could hold the reins.
2023 felt like the year the future arrived while we were sleeping. AI tools like Chart GPT and Midjourney went mainstream fast, but at that point felt far-off from the sci-fi of our dreams, and more like silly entertainment that had a long way to go. But still, skepticism rose to the front lines surrounding what was real and what wasn’t. And the psychological demand of witnessing, filtering, and staying human inside the feeds became its own initiation.
Reflecting on 2023: What helped you stay oriented when information and emotion were both moving at high speed?
🪵 🐲 💪 2024: The Year of the Strong Dragon
Wood Dragon | Universal 8 | Tarot 8, Strength
The year of the Dragon tends to bring big-force energy, emphasizing vision, myth, power and spectacle. After 2 years of Water element, in 2024 the Wood element brought upward growth and reach. The 8 year numerological;y brought a focus on power, money, consequence, and endurance. The Tarot’s Strength card was a fitting pairing here, the card of the lion’s power that stays true with discipline and heartfelt courage, not domination.
2024 carried major “the world is a stage” energy. There were big presidential elections, big tech policy debates, big T Swift tours, and big hurricanes happening in places they really shouldn’t (Asheville). Dragons love a spotlight, and so did the cultural strongholds of 2024.
Reflecting on 2024: How did strength show up in your life? Did you learn that real strength is pacing, boundaries, and staying sober inside intensity?
🪵 🐍 🧙♂️ 2025: The Year of the Hermit Snake
Wood Snake | Universal 9 | Tarot 9, The Hermit
We’ve reached the end of the numerological cycle this year: the Year of the Wood Snake, a 9 year, and a Hermit year.
Snake years are all about shedding skins, taking part in hidden or low-to-the ground processes, and realizing the slow intelligence of transformation. As a Wood element, the snake was shedding skins in order to focus on growth, networks, and spread, like the mycelium underground where the snake slithers ready to sprout up into fungi. As a 9 year, it has been about completion, closure, and release of everything that has happened in the last 9 years since the 1 year of 2017. The Hermit has asked us for solitude with the purpose of reflection, refinement, and attuning to our own inner authority.
And yes, the world context has matched the tone, with conflict stress, political whiplash, climate volatility, economic uncertainty, and a constant background hum of “what even is true anymore.” A Hermit year does not necessarily mean the world gets quiet, but it does mean that a lot of people realize they cannot afford to stay distracted, performative, or numb. Our inner lights shine extra bright when we choose to pay attention to them, and hopefully that has been a part of 2025 for you.
If you’re closing 2025 consciously: What are you done feeding, done excusing, and done postponing? What skins have you shed as you prepare to leave the Snake Hermit year in February?
The next turn of the spiral: 2026–2031
I’m not going to pretend I can tell you what will happen in geopolitics year-by-year. What I can do is look at the symbolic weather in the way I’ve looked at the happenings of the past 6 years, and take some notes about what will be wise to watch for given what is already in motion at the end of 2025.
🔥 🐎 𖥞 2026: The Year of the Wheel-of-Fortune Horse
Fire Horse | Universal 1 | Tarot 10: Wheel of Fortune
Starting in February, 2026 is alight with sparks of heat and ignition. Fire Horse energy brings momentum, independence, velocity, the urge to move right away and figure it out while you’re moving. As a Universal 1 year, we are stepping into a new cycle of identity and initiation. The Wheel of Fortune adds the unmistakable truth that conditions will shift quickly, the ground will rearrange, and working with nature’s timing will become incredibly important. The Wheel of Fortune can mark a time of transition from one type of fortune to the next. When the Wheel turns, you don’t get to negotiate with reality or deliberate slowly. You’ll have to adjust in real time, or you get dragged under the tread.
In Chinese culture, the Fire Horse has a dramatic reputation. It’s seen as powerful, passionate, and fiercely independent—but also unpredictable. Traditionally, Fire Horse women were thought to bring bad luck to husbands or family because of their unstoppable nature, leading to significantly fewer births in 1966, the last Fire Horse year. Today that superstition has softened, and the Fire Horse is more admired for its courage and individuality, a symbol of people who refuse to live small or be told who they should be.
So, 2026 will likely feel like passionate personal and cultural acceleration. There may be more leadership churn, faster pivots in tech and media, and louder ideological campaigning. More people will be trying to manufacture certainty while the actual story behind the scenes stays in motion. In 2026, the Horse doesn’t politely ask permission. It uses those strong racehorse legs and it runs. The spiritual practice of 2026 is not to stop the Horse from it’s natural rhythm, but to choose to ride it intentionally without dissociating. For that reason, it’s important to pick a direction that is truly yours, not someone else’s.
In 2026, I advise you to own your power, chase your dreams, and speak your mind passionately. And at the same time, remember that you’re on a wheel-of-fortune roulette board, so be mindful of extreme impulsivity and explosiveness in youreslf and others.
Practice for 2026: Choose your lane and your direction early in the year. Make one clear commitment you can repeat weekly ( a schedule, a project, or a habit) and let it anchor you when everything speeds up around you. Don’t get caught up in deliberation, just keep moving forward, stay agile, and stay humble.
🔥 🐐 ⚖️ 2027: The Year of the Goat Judge
Fire Goat | Universal 2 | Tarot 11: Justice
Fire still burns hot as the element of 2027, but the Goat moves us away from the fart moving Horse and turns us toward our values, culture creation, and long-haul responsibility. Goat years tend to ask: what are you building, and are you willing to tend it when it stops being exciting? As a Universal 2 year, the collective lesson shifts into relationship, diplomacy, repair, and the reality that nothing sustainable happens alone. The Tarot card of Justice brings the accountability theme right to the front.
2027 may feel like a year of negotiations, contracts, policy battles, and answers to the question “what are the rules now”. This could show up in laws, courts, institutions, and also in your personal life: relationship agreements, business structures, boundary-setting, and the awkward-but-sacred work of making expectations explicit. Unlike the horse, the Goat doesn’t sprint toward the horizon. It climbs, slowly, deliberately, and on purpose. And it does not climb well with vague commitments and unspoken resentment.
Practice for 2027: Negotiate cleanly. Put expectations into words, define terms, and make boundaries boring and consistent. Repair what’s repairable, and stop investing in ambiguity.
🪨 🐒 🏗️ 2028: The Year of the Hanging Monkey
Earth Monkey | Universal 3 | Tarot 12: The Hanged Man
Years of the Earth Monkey are surrounded by cleverness and results of consequence. The Monkey is known to be fast, adaptive, inventive, a little chaotic, and sometimes way too confident in its own improv skills. Earth adds gravity and grounding: results, consequences, centered on the real-world. As a Universal 3 year, narrative becomes the battlefield again, but also the playground: communication, culture, storytelling, and visibility are highlighted. The Hanged Man returns for the first time since 2019 to remind us that perspective is power, and that sometimes the smartest move is to pause, invert the frame, and let your certainty dissolve.
2028 may feel like a year where information gets louder and truth gets weirder. Meme wars and propaganda fatigue (as if that’s anything new). Everyone trying to sell a storyline, including your own nervous system. The Monkey will want to react cleverly and fast, but the Hanged Man will ask you to stop, breathe, and consider the possibility that the opposite of your first interpretation could also be true. The initiation in 2028 is discernment with humility, and the willingness to be seen changing your mind without making it a personal branding crisis.
Practice for 2028: Pause before you broadcast, and always have a first draft before your final. Practice changing your mind without shame, and build a filtering ritual so your nervous system is not held hostage by the AI/Social feeds.
🪨 🐓 💀 2029: The Year of the Grim Rooster
Earth Rooster | Universal 4 | Tarot 13: Death
The Earth Rooster can be exacting, practical, improvement-oriented. Rooster energy always notices what’s off, what’s inefficient, what’s messy, and what’s leaking energy, With the Earth element, the focus is on stability, practicality, and nurturing. As a Universal 4 year, 2029 is about systems, foundations, and structures, as well as the need to get serious about what holds weight. The Death card, although it could seem scary, is not doom and gloom. It’s about clearing out what isn’t working and creating endings that make space for something new. In this Grim-Rooster year, Death is a clean cut instead of slow rot, for the benefit of grounding stability.
2029 may feel like a year of endings in the collective fabric. Personally, this is a powerful year to stop keeping things alive out of guilt, habit, or sunk-cost logic. The Rooster wants it clean and precise, and Death wants it complete. If you don’t choose an ending, life has a way of choosing it for you, and it is usually messier.
Practice for 2029: End something on purpose. Simplify aggressively, cut one draining obligation, and work on closure rituals: delete, cancel, sell, grieve, compost. Make space so the next chapter can breathe.
🗡️ 🐕 ⚜️ 2030: The Year of the Hierophant Dog
Metal Dog | Universal 5 | Tarot 5: The Hierophant
The year of the Metal Dog is about loyalty, protection, boundaries, and real, honest truths. Plus, the element Metal sharpens like a blade and cuts through fuzz like a wing. As a Universal 5 year, the collective atmosphere is changeable, mobile, restless, and sometimes volatile. Like it did in 2021, the Hierophant card pulls the focus to institutions, belief systems, teachers, authorities, and the question of what is worthy of your faith.
2030 may feel like a year where people redraw their allegiances. What do you trust? What do you follow? What communities are real, and which ones are just aesthetics with a mailing list? In a 5 year, chaos can be loud. The Dog’s medicine comes through here with discernment and devotion to the values we enact in our daily lives. With the world shifting so rapidly, your inner code has to be more than a slogan, it has to be an allegiance you pledge to with your actions.
Practice for 2030: Decide what you stand for, then operationalize it. Choose your institutions, teachers, and communities carefully, and build routines that prove your values are real (not just well-worded).
🗡️ 🐷 👩🏻❤️👨🏻 2031: The Year of the Lovers’ Pig
Metal Pig | Universal 6 | Tarot 6: The Lovers
The year of the Metal Pig is focused on pleasure and value, but with Metal bringing in discernment and a sharper edge as to what we really hold dear. Universal 6 brings responsibility to community, love, stewardship, and the practical realities of care. The Lovers returns for the first time since 2022 as a year to make choices that align with your values. It’s about commitment, communication, and choosing the path that serves your highest self, not just the easiest one.
2031 may feel like a year where relationships tell the truth. Partnerships and communities will clarify and come together. Your nervous system will make the call before your mind catches up. The question of “does your life actually match your values?” will continue to show up. The Pig wants nourishment, to roll in the mud and enjoy the slower pace of sensual pleasure. But the Metal element asks you to be selective about what deep nourishment really means for you.
Practice for 2031: Choose relationships that stabilize your nervous system and make you feel seen. Invest your time and money in what you genuinely value, practice devotion through stewardship and service, and let your “yes” be selective and embodied.
Conclusions
My visual imagination had fun putting this together, and I invite you to use your imagination as well when it comes to thinking about these archetypical combinations! I also hope that you take these yearly combinations with a grain of salt as a fun exercise - I know there is a lot of depth and history to each of the systems I covere here, and do not mean to insult or make light of the longstanding traditions by bringing them together. Underlying each of these symbolic systems lies the same question: what season are we in, and what is the most honest way to respond to that season with grace? My only goal here was to spark curiosity and imagination, thinking about the qualities of meaning we can find in numbers, animal behaviors, and human archetypes.
Looking back, you can see how each year invited a specific kind of growth, pressure, and choice, both collectively and personally. Looking ahead, you can treat 2026 and beyond as a chance to build a life that’s less reactive and more intentional, with simpler rhythms, greater curiosity, and truer alignment.
The world will keep changing, that much is certain. Your power lies in choosing what it is you feed, what you complete, and what you begin again with a fresh perspective.
Thanks for reading!
Alison
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Appendix 1 : Universal Year Numerology (1–9) at a glance
1 | Initiation (2017, 2026)
New beginnings, new identity, leadership, first steps. The year to start, declare, and move before you feel ready.
2 | Cooperation (2018, 2027)
Partnership, diplomacy, patience, repair. The year to build trust, negotiate, and strengthen relationships and support systems.
3 | Expression (2019, 2028)
Creativity, communication, culture, visibility. The year to speak up, share your work, tell the truth, and let your voice evolve.
4 | Foundations (2020, 2029)
Structure, discipline, systems, stability. The year to get practical, build routines, strengthen infrastructure, and handle real-world details.
5 | Change (2021, 2030)
Movement, freedom, disruption, reinvention. The year to adapt fast, experiment, travel, pivot, and release what feels stale or restrictive.
6 | Responsibility (2022, 2031)
Community, care, commitment, home. The year to tend relationships, take responsibility seriously, and invest in what you truly value.
7 | Discernment (2023)
Reflection, study, spirituality, skepticism. The year to slow down, research, refine, question narratives, and rebuild inner trust.
8 | Power (2024)
Money, influence, consequence, mastery. The year to work with resources, ambition, boundaries, and the ethics of power.
9 | Completion (2025)
Endings, release, forgiveness, integration. The year to close chapters, clean up loose ends, grieve what’s done, and make space for what’s next.
Appendix 2: Chinese Zodiac and 5 Elements
The Chinese zodiac runs on a 60-year cycle, made from 12 animals and 5 elements. Each year has an animal and an element.
🐀 Rat: clever, resourceful, opportunistic, quick-minded, strategic
🐂 Ox: steady, patient, hardworking, loyal, stubborn, grounded
🐅 Tiger: bold, brave, intense, competitive, impulsive, protective
🐇 Rabbit: gentle, sensitive, diplomatic, cautious, refined, peace-seeking
🐉 Dragon: powerful, ambitious, charismatic, visionary, dramatic, confident
🐍 Snake: intuitive, private, strategic, transformative, seductive, wise
🐎 Horse: free-spirited, energetic, independent, fast-moving, restless, adventurous
🐐 Goat (Sheep): artistic, kind, idealistic, sensitive, community-minded, needs stability
🐒 Monkey: witty, curious, clever, playful, adaptable, mischievous
🐓 Rooster: confident, outspoken, precise, high-standards, organized, critical
🐕 Dog: loyal, protective, principled, honest, cautious, justice-minded
🐖 Pig: generous, warm, pleasure-loving, sincere, steady, indulgent
Wood: growth, expansion, networks, creativity
Fire: passion, visibility, speed, volatility
Earth: stability, practicality, consequences, realism
Metal: boundaries, precision, truth, discipline
Water: emotion, intuition, adaptability, uncertainty
Appendix 3: Quick reference list (2015–2035)
Remember: Chinese Zodiac year ranges follow Lunar New Year, not January 1.
2015: The Year of the Strong Goat (Wood Goat | 8 | Strength (8)
2016: The Year of the Hermit Monkey (Fire Monkey | 9 | Hermit (9)
2017: The Year of the Rooster’s Wheel of Fortune (Fire Rooster | 1 | Wheel (10)
2018: The Year of the Judge Dog (Earth Dog | 2 | Justice (11)
2019: The Year of the Hanging Pig (Earth Pig | 3 | Hanged Man (12)
2020” The Year of the Emperor Rat. (Metal Rat | 4 | Emperor (4)
2021: The year of the Pope Ox (Metal Ox | 5 | Hierophant (5)
2022: The Year of the Tiger Lovers (Water Tiger | 6 | Lovers (6)
2023: The Year of the Chariot-Riding Rabbit (Water Rabbit | 7 | Chariot (7)
2024: The Year of the Strong Dragon (Wood Dragon | 8 | Strength (8)
2025: The Year of the Hermit Snake (Wood Snake | 9 | Hermit (9)
2026: The Year of the Horse’s Wheel of Fortune (Fire Horse | 1 | Wheel (10)
2027: The Year of the Goat Judge (Fire Goat | 2 | Justice (11)
2028: The Year of the Hanging Monkey (Earth Monkey | 3 | Hanged Man (12)
2029: The Year of the Grim Rooster (Earth Rooster | 4 | Death (13)
2030: The Year of the Hierophant Dog: (Metal Dog | 5 | Hierophant (5)
2031: The Year of the Lovers’ Pig (Metal Pig | 6 | Lovers (6)
2032: The Year of the Chariot-Riding Rat (Water Rat | 7 | Chariot (7)
2033: The Year of the Strong Ox (Water Ox | 8 | Strength (8)
2034: The Year of the Tiger Hermit (Wood Tiger | 9 | Hermit (9)
2035 Wood Rabbit | 1 | Wheel (10)
Thank you for this beautiful soul. I’m going to take my time to go through it properly, in my case, coming back a fair few times to absorb. But what I have read so far…has definitely been my life to a T! 2017 is a year I look back on as an awesome one, the ones in between…cracked me all the way open and then some. 2025…demanded more on a deeper level. The background hum has been there the whole way, the knowing that inside I’m shifting, but outside is the noise, which is in itself a 180 degree shift! But I feel the insane energy now and the person I was is not the one stepping into 2026. Thank you, and I hope this ramble makes some sense.💜🥰