For the Team
In a Fire Horse year, the Dog participates in the Triple Combination of Fire. In the system of Chinese Astrology called Bazi, this team that creates Fire is made up of the 寅 Tiger, 午 Horse and 戌 Dog. The Tiger in the northeast is where the Fire is born, Fire peaks in the south with the Horse and goes into the “tomb” in the northwest when the Dog arrives. If you’re a Dog, teaming up is probably inevitable this year so choose your teammates wisely. Start in the Tiger month of February for best results.
It’s going to be a pretty fiery year for all, at least until around the beginning of November. That could look like a very distinct cutoff point. I find this a bit worrisome regarding midterm elections in the United States, but for now let’s focus on what all this Fire means for the Dog in the Fire Horse year.
First things first, my metaphorical and literal message to Dogs is don’t let yourself get overheated or dehydrated. Stay cool; learn to regulate Fire.
The Dog is a creature of Earth which is already dry, unlike the moist Earth of the 辰 Dragon and 丑 Ox. When a Dog experiences too much Fire, this can make them brittle and crumbly. Too much Fire can affect your health; it can make a Dog more aggressive or prone to cutting corners. Caring can get lost in impatience. If you’ve stopped defending people or you’ve lost your loyalty, that’s a sign that you’ve “caught” as they say on the Great British Bake Off. That means burnt.
Working With Fire
I know these potential effects of too much Fire sound bad, so I want you to know that you can make choices to offset the heat and the Fire. If you can be near Water this year it could help. Go to a lake or the ocean. Take up swimming maybe.
Another way to temper Fire is by communicating better. Your communication is related to Metal, and Metal creates Water which also happens to be the success element of the Dog.
To be blunt, Water will clash the Fire. Choose your words carefully so you get the right proportion of Water. Take things slowly and see how it goes. I doubt you will have to make efforts to speed things up. When you find yourself overworking or holding your breath, do some breathing exercises. Talk to someone you trust. Listen and take feedback. Let it shape your behavior. Poor behavior could get you kicked off the team. The well behaved get the treats.
Special treats are available to Dogs due to your alliance with Fire. For one thing, if you were born in a Dog month, two Blessings of the Moon are here for you for an entire year. This means that even in the face of adversity you’ll feel more optimistic than you usually do in such circumstances because you just know things are going to be okay. You also have a guardian angel watching over you; a force to save you from disasters. These are gifts of timing. If you do preventive actions (communication) you can magnify your good luck. Remember if your preventions work, you’ll never know!
Ways of Cultivating Luck
In the Fire Horse year, Dogs can prevent legal problems, depression, and illness through good communication, slowing down, and taking a deep breath. When you are feeling anxious, if you stop and think you will realize there is really not that much to worry about and that uncertainty is just that. The energy of the year supports this realization and so does communication. Yes it could be that simple, and yes it works. This is the mundane magic of free will. You don’t have to believe in it.
Being a Dog, your will is strong and in the year of the Fire Horse you have earthly luck that will help you solve and dissolve problems. In that capacity you are well supported. You are going to have some great ideas that strike to the core of your being. Be sure to keep track of these and work with them. Let them transform into a new kind of success as an additional way of cooling down. You have special ideas and special talents to share. Your intellectual and analytical skills are enhanced in the Fire Horse year. Turn your focus to these kinds of activities.
Throughout the year, stay open to those moments where you know that everything is as it should be. This is one of the blessings of the year for the Dog. That feeling is real, yet fleeting so don’t miss out. Remember nothing stays the same. Knowing that, you might cool it with the repetitive actions.
Trigger Warning
Speaking of repetitive actions, I’m sharing the bazi of Donald J. Trump again. I hope you can stand it, and thank you for your attention in this matter.
Ba Zi of Donald J. Trump
b. June 14th 1946 10:54 am
Donald Trump is a yin Earth day master. Because of the way his natal chart is set up, most of the time all of the branches (in the bottom row) are creating Fire. They all have different roles in that but they look to me like a great team.
He has always had a great team of supporters, many of whom are women. There are prominent women who openly contributed to his career and then there are multitudes of women abused as girls silenced out of fear. These days there are women who are speaking out and living to tell.
In the year of the Fire Horse, Trump has what is called a self penalty involving Fire. Can there be too much Fire for someone like Donald Trump? If we want to find out, we can see what happens this summer.
I would say yes it’s possible for Trump to have too much Fire, and in his current fate, he has the clash of Water vs. Fire, a lot of Fire. There are times in our lives where big surges of an element, favorable or unfavorable, could be problematic. This is more likely in old age or when a person is very ill.
Of course we know he’s got some good luck too, just like every other Dog in the Fire Horse Year.
The 9th Fate
Trump had quite a bit of success with real estate in Period 8 which was an age of Earth. Now we’re in Period 9 which is an age of Fire. He’s looking crumbly.
Throughout his adult life, he has enjoyed the protection of his month pillar the Wood Horse, which allowed him to get away with anything. If you wonder why he has never gone to jail and probably never will, it’s because of that pillar and its relationship to him. He is protected by powerful enemies and friends. Opposition makes him stronger. He has enjoyed a long life with this good fortune, but now he is older and ill. He’s in a new timing where his powerful allies are penalized. This shakes the root of his bazi.
Trump’s Big Fate of Water Tiger began in 2024 and it seems that in general Water is not an element that he can work with. This is reflected in his decline with communication and cognitive abilities. If you agree with his agenda because your power/job depends on Trump, this is bad news. If you disagree with his agenda, this is good news. The Water in his fate is clashing his Fire. The clash of Water and Fire is a major theme of the Fire Horse year.
Best of luck to the people of the United States of America!
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