Do you feel like youâre playing Tetris with your calendar everyday, trying to fill in every vacant spot with blocks, pretending youâre coping while your body quietly disagrees? This isnât a personal failure or a productivity glitch. Itâs collective burnout, normalised and renamed âbusyâ. New year, same shit, you might think. But thereâs a reason why this year feels especially charged with energyâweâre on the threshold of the Year of the Horse. A Fire Horse, to be specific.
On February 17 the calendar turned to the Year of the Fire Horse, and subtlety will not make the cut. Over a video call, Scheherazade Merchant, a Feng Shui and Chinese Metaphysics consultant with over 25 years of experience, better known as Sherry, tells us why this year feels combustible and how you can avoid getting scorched.
