Ways to Nurture Yourself Using Color and Gemstones in the Year of the Fire Horse

The year of the fire horse is about showing yourself and taking inspired action.

The year of the horse may be more fast paced, but it is also about intentional self care and pampering.

While the year of the wood snake was all about shedding, planting seeds for your future self, and redefining yourself, the year of the fire horse is about expressing outwardly, showing yourself, and taking action. Now is the time to go for your dreams, to carve your own path, and to honor your passions like never before. Getting into nature and physically pushing a little more than usual will be grounding and will help to channel this intensity. We are entering a season of dynamic energy full of potential; however, it may be easy to spin your wheels without direction, get overwhelmed, or feel burned out. This is why balancing your exertion with dedicated self care time will be more important than ever.

Its not about powering through.

Consider what helps you to feel focused and inspired, while feeling nurtured and abundant, as you bring transformation into your life.

While the year of the horse may feel fast paced, the idea is not to power through and work, work, work. We can harness the fire horse momentum through clarifying our desires and then taking consistent inspired action steps towards our goals. As we focus and are selective with how we use our energy and attention, we get to prioritize nurturing ourselves. Let’s not forget, horses like to be pampered. Take a calming bath, make a foot soak, lay under the clouds and loose yourself in your breath and the breeze. Schedule nourishing rest.

So how do we navigate the year of the fire horse?

Bring in supportive elements to lean into the shifting energy of the new year.

How do we stay on track when things feel fast and fiesty? Here are some ways to use the elements of color and gemstones to support and balance our selves during the year of the fire horse:

If you’d like to boost the positive qualities of the fire horse consider bringing red, gold, and orange into your home, clothes, and adornment. Warm toned gemstones like Ruby, Garnet, Agate, and Sunstone mirror the fire element, uplift our mood and stoke our yearning to bring our passions into reality. The sparkle of gold chain also adds to this magnanimous feeling of blossoming into being. Take action, don’t hesitate on decision making, operate with an abundance mindset. You’ve got this! The possibilities are endless. We may not know the ‘how’, but we certainly know the ‘why’.

We may not know the ‘how’, but we certainly know the ‘why’.

Fully committing to bringing something new into being can be invigorating, stressful, and make us doubt ourselves, but mini self care rituals like bringing colorful flowers or crystals into our homes allows the truth of beauty to be a guiding light. Wearing gemstones can provide reminders of the qualities we are intentionally bringing into our lives.

If you’d like to cool down the fire horse energy and find calm in the midst of the transformation, the colors white, silver and blue will sooth and provide respite. Shimmering Moonstone, iridescent Abalone, Freshwater Pearl, silvery Kyanite, icy Aquamarine, crystalline Tanzanite, and watery Apatite bring qualities of tranquility. Silvery stones and metals reflect like water and bring the stillness of lunar energy. Take a mini retreat and nurture your inner peace.

Color and gemstones are like medicine for the soul.

The power of color is undervalued in our culture. Color in the form of a gemstone born from the earth is an energetic reference point that automatically inspires, calms, grounds, and brings authentic experience directly into our hands.

And if you find that you need a little grounding as you come back to your center, try incorporating shades of green and yellow. Green shades immediately calm the nervous system and signal a sense of wellbeing. You can feel this while gazing at rustling leaves or gassy fields. And shades of yellow bring a sunny feeling that evokes joy and wonder. Peridot, Chrysoprase, Green Fluorite, Tourmaline, Chrysocolla, and Chrome Diopside exude the grounding presence of green. Crystal clear Citrine with it’s yellow glow brings crystalized sunshine into a wearable form.

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