What a lot of Thunder! Fire Horse 2026: Hexagrams
What a lot of Thunder!
The lower three lines of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Hexagrams of this Fire Horse year all form the Trigram Thunder. Thunder means action; Zhen the Thunder, represents the moment a thunderstorm breaks, when pressure that has been building for some time becomes unbearable and is relieved by a cloudburst.
One way of assessing the nature of a year is to look at the corresponding Hexagrams as above. There are several ways to calculate this but this is the Chue Method I learned from Master (now Grand Master) Chan Kun Wah some twenty five years ago. My interpretations are my own (and fallible) but the method is traditional.
The implication is that the coming year is one of massive change, much of it disruptive. Traditionally the Hexagram extreme right, Yi often referred to as “Preponderance of the Great” speaks of great pressure coming. The image of the ridgepole is literally of the central support of a house collapsing. Such a house may be metaphorical – a tradition, an ideology, a belief system or more literally a dynasty, a mansion or even a government. A place of government seems even more likely.
That first Hexagram does a lot of heavy lifting – so to speak – it covers both the first quarter (December to March) and the whole of the year. It appears to tell us of trials and tribulation; the other three (right to left) relate to a quarter each.
The latter three Hexagrams present the pressure foreseen in Zhen. Tun suggests good intentions but poor preparation. It is often interpreted as neglecting the maintenance of resources.
Shi He is about getting to grips with chronic problems, the image is of a mouth biting through something tough. You may even see that in the lines themselves. Much of the meaning of a Hexagram is in where, which yin (broken) and yang (unbroken) lines have settled. You don’t need any Chinese Metaphysical or other arcane knowledge to see such meanings.
Finally Yi, as you may be able to see (turn it 90º either way) is an open mouth. It counsels care as to both what words come out of our mouth and what nourishment we put into it.
To be really useful a forecast needs to be accurate, specific and relatively detailed. This of course has been none of those things. At my Fire Year Workshops (still places on the Zoom December 6th) I may be able to be a little more forthcoming.
