The Year of the Fire Horse & Adar
- Manny Srulowitz
- Feb 18
- 2 min read
Yesterday, over a billion people celebrated the Chinese New Year. 2026 is officially the year of the Fire Horse, the first since 1966. A lot has changed since the Vietnam War, the Soviet Union sending Luna 9 to space, and the Beach Boys releasing Pet Sounds.
Just kidding! Geopolitical tensions, the space race, and groundbreaking new music were playing on the radio all 2025.
Many cultures and religions rely on the lunar calendar, and one of them is the Jewish Calendar! This year the Lunar New Year falls out on the Rosh Chodesh Adar. Lets talk about how the Chinese New Year and the Jewish month of Adar can be an amazing tag team to start the year.
The Year of the Fire Horse signifies a period of energetic change, bold action, and freedom. Think of a blazing wild horse galloping across the Mongolian steppe. Unstoppable, majestic, and powerful.
Adar represents transformation, ecstatic joy, and good fortune. The most significant trait of Adar is bringing the hidden into the light. Like the Lunar New Year, Adar is the time in the calendar where the days begin to get brighter, as the Talmud dictates, "When Adar enters, joy increases."
It is no surprise that the dawn of Adar and the Year of the Fire Horse happened at the same time. They balance each other out perfectly:
We will see energetic change for those who work hard when nobody is watching (bringing the hidden to light)
2026 will be a time for bold actions, new projects, and great changes, as it is marked by Adar, which bears good fortune.
We should all strive for the ecstatic joy and freedom of a charging horse.
This is the year for starting projects, making a radical changes to your lifestyle, putting your head down to work, and to taking crazy risks.
A freilichen un lichtigen Purim!
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