On Time, Temperament, and What Endures: What 2026 Will Bring
2026: Fire Horse
In the lunar calendar, 2026 arrives as the Year of the Fire Horse. It is not a quiet year. Fire Horse energy is associated with momentum, intensity, and decisive movement. It brings heat to whatever already exists, quickening pace, sharpening edges, and demanding clarity.
Fire Horse years are known for asking difficult questions:
What is ready to move forward.
What must be left behind.
What can no longer be postponed.
For those who work slowly, deliberately, and with their hands, this energy can feel both challenging and clarifying.
Wood Rabbit Meets Fire Horse
Shane was born under the sign of the Wood Rabbit, an energy rooted in discernment, beauty, and authority. The Wood Rabbit values harmony and intention, preferring careful cultivation over force. It is sensitive to atmosphere, to pacing, to the emotional life of objects and spaces.
Fire Horse energy presses the Wood Rabbit to step forward. To name what matters. To protect what has been patiently built. In 2026, this can feel like a call to advocate more openly for values that have always guided the work: craftsmanship over speed, meaning over volume, integrity over noise.
Fire Horse does not erase the Rabbit’s nature. Instead, it asks it to stand its ground.
Metal Rooster Meets Fire Horse
Mikkel was born under the sign of the Metal Rooster, a maker’s sign. Metal Rooster energy is disciplined, exacting, and deeply committed to craft. It believes in repetition, refinement, and the quiet confidence that comes from mastery.
Fire Horse energy brings intensity to this precision. It accelerates decision-making and tests endurance. For the Metal Rooster, 2026 can feel like a year where standards must be defended even as external pressures increase. There is less tolerance for compromise, and a stronger pull toward work that feels essential rather than merely productive.
Fire Horse asks the Metal Rooster not to rush, but to choose carefully where effort is placed.
Together: Holding the Line
Wood Rabbit and Metal Rooster are complementary by nature. One shapes the world and the narrative. The other shapes the object. One protects atmosphere. The other protects execution.
In a Fire Horse year, this partnership becomes especially important.
When everything moves faster, the work must move more deliberately.
When noise increases, the objects must speak quietly but clearly.
When the world demands immediacy, the studio insists on time.
2026 is not a year to make more for the sake of making more.
It is a year to make what matters.