CHINESE ZODIAC SIGN · FIXED ELEMENT FIRE
Horse
The free impulse that needs a horizon.
You are energy in motion and a love of freedom. You live with enthusiasm and you spread the urge to explore. Your frankness and your warmth make people want to join your journey. Where there is a new road, you want to travel it.
STRENGTHS
- ✦ Enthusiasm and vitality
- ✦ Warm frankness
- ✦ An independent spirit
CHALLENGES
- ✧ A restlessness that flees routine
- ✧ Starting more than you can sustain
- ✧ Impatience with whatever ties you down
ITS ELEMENT AND THE CYCLE
Horse carries Fire as its fixed element, its baseline temperament. On top of that, every time the Horse comes around again (once every twelve years), the year adds an element that rotates between Metal, Water, Wood, Fire and Earth, completing a sixty-year cycle. That is why no two Horse are alike: a Fire Horse does not vibrate the same as a Water one.
WHO IT MATCHES WITH
Affinity between animals is a guide, not a verdict. Two signs that clash can work beautifully once the full charts are understood.
YEARS OF THE HORSE
Remember that the Chinese year begins on Chinese New Year (late January or February). If you were born in those first days of the year, your animal may be the previous one. The calculator sorts it out for you.
The Horse is one layer of you. Your birth chart holds the rest.
The Chinese zodiac speaks of the year you were born. Your Western birth chart adds your Sun, your Moon, your Rising and all your planets for a far finer portrait.