Year of the fire horse - February 17, 2026

This is going to be a fast paced year, or a year of slow but steady forward motion.

From an AI Overview January 2026:
(Year of the Fire Horse Feng Shui Overview with my original text.)

The Year of the Fire Horse

• The Year of the Fire Horse is fast, illuminating, and exacting.

• It accelerates what is already in motion and exposes what lacks support.

• This is not a year for force. It is a year for alignment.

• When your environment provides safety, nourishment, and room to move, the Fire Horse becomes a powerful ally, offering confidence, clarity, and forward momentum. When it does not, urgency replaces direction and effort replaces ease.

• Feng Shui in this year is less about change for its own sake and more about intelligent placement, rhythm, and restraint.

Stability First. Momentum Second.

In a Fire Horse year, pressure is not a sign to push harder. It is information.

If life feels fast but unfocused, exciting yet unsustainable, your space (and pace) may be amplifying fire without providing enough safety or nourishment. A Feng Shui consultation offers a calm, strategic pause, allowing momentum to return with purpose rather than urgency.

Your environment should signal safety to your nervous system, provide fuel for what matters, and allow movement without friction.

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RUBBER BOOT FENG SHUI: Practical Feng Shui for Real Life

People hire me to investigate their homes, offices, and land to uncover hidden energetic blocks, warning signs, and unseen challenges that quietly shape their lives for the better or for some, unfavourable* events.

Often, subconscious patterns embedded in our environments influence our ability to create financial stability, meaningful work, and fulfilling relationships. Many people feel overworked, overwhelmed, and stretched thin, yet unsure why forward movement feels difficult despite their efforts.

Through Feng Shui and complementary healing modalities, I help clients clear clutter, correct imbalances, and restore flow within their spaces (both mentally and physically.)

When the environment shifts, momentum returns. Clients frequently experience greater clarity, improved prosperity, renewed purpose, and deeper connection in their relationships.

This work is practical, intuitive, and grounded. It meets you where you are—with muddy boots* if necessary.

*No worries, there are blessings in the lessons.

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FIRE HORSE CONSULTATION

Rubber Boot Feng Shui | Year of the Fire Horse

This consultation is designed for individuals who value precision, discretion, and results. (Depending on size of property, or business, consults start at $500 and $1000, plus additional costs if you want a personal shopper/selector.)

Each session includes:

• A comprehensive Feng Shui assessment using the bagua map

• Identification of where Fire Horse energy is excessive, unsupported, or misdirected

• Strategic recommendations to enhance safety, nourishment, and flow

• Elemental balancing tailored to your personal Chinese Element (some mundane)

• Clear, grounded actions (instalment of cures) that support sustainable momentum

FIND YOUR ELEMENT

A micro-orientation for the Year of the Fire Horse:

The Fire Horse meets each person differently. Your Chinese Element describes how you receive, metabolize, and respond to this year’s energy. This is not prediction. It is navigation. In the Year of the Fire Horse, the first question is not, What should I do? It is What does my system need to feel safe, nourished, and free to move forward?

Safety comes first. GROUNDING

Food follows. NOURISHMENT

Play restores direction. MISSION

A Quiet Glimpse of the Elements

• Metal
  Precision, boundaries, discernment.
  This year asks Metal types to move with intention, not speed. Fire refines metal, but unchecked fire depletes it. Safety comes from pacing and clear edges.

• Wood
  Growth, vision, expansion.
  Fire fuels Wood, but can exhaust it. Nourishment and rest are essential so growth does not become strain.

• Water
  Depth, intuition, adaptability.
  Fire evaporates water when boundaries are weak. Containment, rhythm, and recovery preserve clarity.

• Earth
  Stability, holding, integration.
  Fire can either warm Earth or dry it out. Grounding and nourishment prevent depletion while supporting others.

• Fire
  Visibility, leadership, inspiration.
  Amplified this year. Play and grounding keep brilliance from becoming burnout.

Example: A Metal Dog in a Fire Horse year benefits from restraint, strategic timing, and choosing precision over urgency. The work is not to suppress fire, but to shape it.

Each of the 60 elemental combinations carries its own conversation with the Fire Horse. This is only the doorway.

WOOD 1936 · 1956 · 1976 · 1996

FIRE 1937 · 1957 · 1977 · 1997

EARTH 1938 · 1958 · 1978 · 1998

METAL 1939 · 1959 · 1979 · 1999

WATER 1940 · 1960 · 1980 · 2000

WOOD 1941 · 1961 · 1981 · 2001

FIRE 1942 · 1962 · 1982 · 2002

EARTH 1943 · 1963 · 1983 · 2003

METAL 1944 · 1964 · 1984 · 2004

WATER 1945 · 1965 · 1985 · 2005

WOOD 1946 · 1966 · 1986 · 2006

FIRE 1947 · 1967 · 1987

EARTH 1948 · 1968 · 1988

METAL 1949 · 1969 · 1989

WATER 1950 · 1970 · 1990

 RUBBER BOOT FENG SHUI

People hire me to investigate their homes, offices and land so that they may uncover hidden blocks, warning signs, and challenges.

Subconscious patterns may be holding you back from keeping or making money, living a purposeful life and attracting relationships. People are overworked, overweight and over-committed. I assist them by clearing the clutter and curing their spaces using Feng Shui* and other healing modalities. This catapults them into prosperity, meaningful careers and the romance they desire.

*The Black Hat Sect Tantric Buddhist method by Master Thomas Lin-Yun of Berkeley, California, is the branch of Feng Shui that I studied. This version combines ancient feng shui principles with metaphysics and spirituality. Black Hat consultants rely partly on intuition, teachings and other spiritual and scientific interests.

Please have respect and reverence for any type of Spiritual Practice. The NAME may be triggering and misleading, so read on…

From the Yun Lin Temple Website:

His Holiness the late Grandmaster Professor Thomas Lin Yun was the lineage holder and spiritual leader of the Fourth Stage of Black Sect Esoteric Buddhism. He introduced the teachings of BSEB to the West in the late 1970s. He integrated Buddhism, Chinese philosophy, and Chinese folk culture and made them adaptable to modern lives to deal with modern issues and challenges. His comprehensive teachings included Buddhist philosophy, Theory of ch’i, transcendental knowledge and solutions, Chinese folk culture, Feng Shui, and spiritual cultivation methods and meditations. His teachings have helped and transformed numerous people all over the world.

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Feng shui your life

Enhance, explore and transform your life with RUBBER BOOT Feng SHUI — Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
It’s time to investigate your home and office for hidden blocks, subconscious sabotages, and relationship dis-harmonies so you may correct the imbalances using the principles of Black Hat Sect Feng Shui. Shift energies by decluttering, beautifying and enhancing the elements of your home.

“Where People linger in their lives, their environments reflect this.” —Lisa B.

It takes the bagua map, a trained eye, and an intuitive individual to tap into a person’s home and energy field. This is for people who dare to face their blind spots and take action to live an extraordinary life filled with inspiration, not desperation. It is for people who want to connect deeply to all things important.

Try it for YOURSELF: Look at Feng Shui for Dummies, by David Kennedy (former teacher), and learn some powerful “cures” to improve your life in all nine areas.

Testimonial

I never thought there would be so much benefit in applying Feng Shui principles in my home in tandem with shifting the energy and habits in myself and my family.

Lisa spent time to understand our personal and collective challenges, values, and spaces then prepared a Trello to-do board for the three of us to work through over the following 6 weeks which helped us stay accountable and feel accomplished. This included exercises in personal development too. More than just tips on decluttering and colours, Lisa shared how to apply the bagua map to the layout of our house and which of the five elements needed to be toned down or enhanced to invite positive chi and give proper flow throughout.

I appreciated her honesty and suggestions and have learned how important it is to set the stage beginning with your car, front yard, and pathway to the front door (e.g. walkway, gate, front step, and the front door itself are all functioning effortlessly and are free of any junk laying around.

I like Feng Shui because it goes beyond minimalism and addresses overall health and wealth through symbolic features and cures. The process also kickstarted a major love affair with crystals for my daughter and me which we enjoy often throughout the day as the reflective light hits the walls. And speaking of walls, I never would have guessed that plain white offered so much metal power!

Most grateful to you Lisa

—Debra

Yes, you read that right. I am just under $10,000 per consultation as I have discovered that my work is deep and transformational. And for those looking for a quick “I want love and money” reading/practitioner, I ain’t that, honey! I will SHAMROCK YOUR ASS! I write that I will love and respect, as this is a serious art for me. I will uncover stories, lineages and perhaps some things you may not want to deal with. So be serious and align your intentions with the cost of “fair exchange.” You will go down a path of discovery, healing and transformation, I promise you, it will be an epic journey. Mirror Mirror!

Testimonial

“Enjoyed very positive results with your Feng Shui Lisa. When you did my home it coincided with a shift in the way I processed thought and conducted my life. I encountered a spiritual awakening that still resonates with me today. Then you did my office at Nabors Drilling and very shortly after that, I left for a better-paying, more gratifying job. That new experience ultimately led me into my own business which ultimately led me into early retirement. That whole process occurred over less than five years... Pretty amazing. My life experience after you incorporated Feng Shui into my surroundings was all good ... even the bad!” —Kevin Suffern.

Why not address your bedroom to cultivate more sexuality in your life? The bedroom is the second pillar of Feng Shui. It is so essential for regenerating your body and your creativity. Entering into a room that is for you or your lover and that evokes connection, passion, and play is what the human body was meant for. Renovation … starts with imagination and a desire for more.

Feng Shui is a process. One only needs to be open to sharing one’s life with a practitioner so that one can look for clues inside and outside one’s home that may explain some of the negative misfortunes. Most cures are really common sense. Some cures require little money and positive intentions; others require a more significant investment.

“I encountered a spiritual awakening that still resonates with me today.” —kS

The best advice anyone could give you is to CLEAN your HOME and CLEAN the CLUTTER inside and outside of your home and heart.

Things usually shift on their own when you embark on this process. The Lunar New Year (usually in January or February) is an excellent time to clean and purge your home each year. After the Gregorian New Year, clean to move through your house in 3-6 weeks. I also recommend you throw out or give away the four old staples; sugar, rice, flour, and salt — and bring the New Year in with positive staple chi.

There are also so many beautiful books to look at. LIVING COLOR by the late Grandmaster Lin Yun was the first book I bought after attending an interior design conference in Vancouver in 1997, a lecture by Linda Lenore.

David Kennedy’s book: Feng Shui for Dummies is also a very good book, and I highly recommend that one for beginners.