All you need to know about 2026, The Year of the Fire Horse.
My eldest son who is a bit of a wag, once sent me a series of feng shui jokes one of which was: “Feng shui to lose weight – place a heavy chair in front of the fridge.” Indeed I have in my collection such classics as “Feng Shite” and “Winnie the Pooh’s Little Book of Feng Shui.” Feng shui is an easy target because it has been so debased.
Truth is that authentic feng shui is made up of rules (you might call them laws) not generally respected this side of the world, and something else. That something else some might call the Tao, but… as Lao Tze wrote around twenty-four centuries ago, “the Tao that can be named is not the Tao”.
Perhaps sit with that a moment.
Suspecting this, I spent much of the 1990’s investigating what was authentic, what had been misunderstood, what was otherwise useful and what was nonsense. I made many trips to Asia, including a short time at Huazhong University in Wuhan (that was 2005 so I’m probably not contagious) on the same quest. I discovered two things that you need to know:
1. Some apparently ancient Chinese traditions were made up in Covent Garden (or on Fleet Street) in the 1990’s.
2. Feng Shui is a personalised thing. What’s true for one person or one house is not necessarily true for another. Hence a great deal of implausible generic advice.
So when I offer the following guide, I am proposing actions that for some people and some houses will be inappropriate. The only way to be quite sure is to consult an expert. You have my contact details.
Guide for 2026, The Year of the Fire Horse
1. Avoid locating in the North or South of your space.
2. Avoid facing South.
3. Focus activity in the East, South East and Western areas of your house.
4. Place a tall glass vase with plenty of open surface area, full of Water in the area of the Pig (NNW by the compass) and Rooster (due West by the compass) measured from the geometric centre of the house. These locations hold the Tin Yute Gwai Yan (that is “Nobleman Helpers”) this year. The theory is that this will attract positive attention from further up the food chain. The next good day to do it would be the 3rd March.
Pretty much everything else needs to be tailored to you by an expert.
As William Shakespeare didn’t write; “The rest is silage.”
Richard Ashworth©
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