From Shedding to Momentum: Riding the Fire Horse With Money
Are you feeling it?
A shift in the air. A change in pace. A quickening beneath the surface.
Today, on February 17th, we close the Year of the Snake and enter the Fire Horse Year in Chinese astrology, at the same time of the solar eclipse.
As a Priestess of Finance, I work with larger archetypal cycles like these, because money itself is cyclical.
It moves in seasons of contraction, refinement, and expansion.
Just like the movement of stars and planets in our solar system.
Everything in our observable universe operates in cycles.
Sometimes, those cycles span billions of years.
In our world, we're much more in tune with the shorter cycles.
The Chinese New Year follows what is known as a lunisolar cycle, which means it harmonizes the movements of both the moon and the sun.
Astrological cycles can affect us as a whole collective, but they also offer archetypal wisdom we can apply very practically on an individual basis: how we can earn, save, spend, invest, and grow in alignment with our vision, our values, and the season we're in.
Even if you don’t follow or believe in astrology, these are ultimately archetypes that represent the highest expression of certain qualities.
I use them personally as a way to step into a way of being that isn’t just my subconscious default mode
Over the past two decades, what I’ve seen with my clients again and again is this:
The people who build sustainable wealth aren’t only following strategy and numbers.
They're attuned to timing, cycles, and the deeper patterns shaping their relationship with money.
As we leave the Snake year and step into the Fire Horse year, let’s look at what just shifted, and why it matters for your money.
From Shedding to Momentum
The Snake year was about refinement.
Snakes are strategic, observant, and precise. They shed before they expand.
This past year may have matured your relationship with money in some way.
It sure did for me.
Selling my home in a down market and almost buying a new one that wasn’t quite right was a challenging process.
And at the same time, it created a tremendous amount of growth.
You may have shifted financial obligations or commitments that no longer reflected your values, and redirected your money toward what truly matters.
You may have changed income streams that felt misaligned into ones that feel more intentional and sustainable.
You may have simplified your financial life by clearing unnecessary expenses, clarifying priorities, and building money systems to support you.
You may have made significant decisions because life asked it of you, or simply because it felt right.
The Snake year may not have brought quick wins. It may have felt taxing at times, even difficult, not always knowing where it was leading you.
But it likely offered you refinement, release, and the conditions for new opportunities to emerge.
And this matters, because most people try to create financial momentum without completing the old pattern.
They try to layer new goals on top of messy money relationships.
They aim to make things happen without shedding what holds them back.
Then they wonder why things stall, burn out, or feel heavy!
Here's what I can tell you:
Money responds less to effort and more to congruence.
The Fire Horse doesn’t drag old baggage.
It runs best when things are unencumbered, light and free.
So before we talk about momentum, we begin with lightening the load.
Here are three grounded steps you can apply right now to honor this transition and build lightning-fast momentum.
Step One: Completion before creation
Choose ONE pattern you're ready to release.
Don't overthink this.
Let one choose you:
Saving only when I feel scared, then loosening my consistency once the pressure passes
Earning in intense bursts, then giving up or crashing out
Avoiding the financial changes I know need to be made
Undervaluing my work and overdelivering to compensate
Holding cash tightly instead of circulating it with intention
Relating to money as a source of stress rather than partnership
Spending too much based on the money cycle I'm in, or accumulating credit card debt for no good reason
Got yours? Great.
Now complete it.
Choose one of these three ways:
Option 1: Write a completion letter.
Acknowledge the role this pattern has played in your life.
You might write:
“Thank you for what you once protected. I release you.”
Option 2: Create a physical release.
Write the pattern on paper and intentionally discard it.
Tear it. Burn it safely. Bury it in the ground. Release it back to the cosmos.
Mark the ending with deliberateness, and allow yourself to fully experience the somatic shift.
Option 3: Make an identity declaration.
Name the version of you that carried this pattern.
Then name the version of you who no longer needs it.
Let your posture reflect the shift.
Completion is a structural decision.
When you consciously complete a pattern, you create space for a new level of financial identity to emerge.
Step Two: Mounting the Fire Horse
The Fire Horse year supports forward movement.
It favors direction and momentum over hesitation.
You don't need a "perfect plan."
But you do need something worth riding toward!
Here's what I'm inviting you to do:
For the next 30 days, choose one lane to build deliberate momentum.
One lane only.
Expansion becomes powerful when it's focused.
Select the area where movement would create the greatest shift in your financial life.
🔥 Earning Momentum
Introduce one new offer.
Initiate one important conversation.
Upgrade one system that supports consistent revenue.
🔥 Saving Momentum
Establish automatic transfers that build financial peace and confidence.
Strengthen consistency by having a spending plan that prioritizes savings.
Increase your savings rate by a defined percentage.
🔥 Investing Momentum
Refine your allocation strategy by looking at the numbers.
Talk to your financial planner about how to reach your retirement goals.
Commit to learning one new thing about long term investing.
🔥 Spending Momentum
Select one category of spending. Assess and determine how this category is aligned with your vision and values or not. If it isn't, get rid of it immediately.
Reduce one expense that is easy and painless.
Direct money toward long-term growth rather than unconscious leakage on mindless spending.
Momentum is cumulative!
When you build it steadily in one direction, it carries forward.
The Fire Horse responds to this kind of disciplined movement.
Choose your lane. Commit to it. And let consistency create acceleration.
Step Three: Stabilizing your capacity to hold what you’re building.
Completion clears space.
Momentum creates growth.
Calibration determines what you can actually hold, and whether that momentum will actually sustain.
Most people focus on the external strategy.
What they rarely examine is their internal baseline with money.
As a Financial Coach, I can tell you this with certainty:
Your income rarely exceeds what your nervous system feels safe holding.
You can increase your savings rate. You can launch the offer. You can restructure your pricing.
But if growth still feels destabilizing at a subconscious level, you will unconsciously regulate yourself back to what feels familiar.
This is why I created The Wealth Calibration.
It's a daily money hypnosis designed to recalibrate your relationship with wealth at the identity and nervous system level.
Rather than pushing for change through effort, it works by strengthening your internal sense of safety, clarity, and capacity.
It helps normalize expansion so that forward movement feels grounded instead of pressured.
In a Fire Horse year, where momentum and acceleration are amplified, calibration becomes essential.
When your internal state is aligned with the level of wealth you're building, growth stops feeling like something you have to manage and starts feeling like something you can inhabit.
The Wealth Calibration is simple by design, yet incredibly powerful. 20 minutes a day.
Consistency over intensity. Identity shifts through gentle repetition.
If you're choosing to build deliberate momentum over the next 30 days, this is the practice that will support you in holding it.
Because sustainable wealth is never just about what you do.
It's about who you're becoming in relationship with money.