Feel Good Friday: Make Peace With One Person Before the Sheep Arrives

You already know who it is.

I didn't even have to finish the headline. The moment you read the words "make peace," a face came to mind. A sister. An old friend. A former business partner. Someone you stopped calling after this very loud year, or some loud year before it.

I'm the Firepig. In over 35 years of doing readings, I've sat across the table from a great many people carrying one of these around. They rarely come in to ask about it. It tends to come up anyway.

So here's what I believe, and why I'm telling you today.

I Believe This Year Started Some Fights It Had No Right to Start

The Fire Horse is a hard year on relationships. Too much passion, too much independence, too much walking out of the room. I told you that earlier this month. Some of what went wrong in your life this year was you. Some of it was them. And some of it was just the Horse.

You don't have to sort out which was which. You just have to notice that the year is ending.

I Believe the Sheep Is on Your Side

This week I've been telling you the good news about 2027. Here's my favorite part of it.

The Sheep is very much a peaceful sign. That makes next year a good one for conflict resolution. If you're at odds with somebody, this might be the year to seek resolution, and with Sheep energy, the odds are in your favor.

Almost nothing in astrology is that plain. Take the invitation.

I Believe Somebody Has to Go First

And I believe it should be you.

Not because you were wrong. You may have been completely right. The Sheep can lose an argument five times over and still come out ahead, and going first is how that starts. You give up the point. You keep the person.

Being right is cold company on a long winter evening.

I Believe Small Is Enough

You don't need a speech. You don't need to reopen the whole file and go through it line by line with a highlighter. That's the Horse talking.

You need one small, gentle sentence. Something like:

"I was thinking about you. I've missed you."

"I don't want this to be how we leave it."

"How's your mother doing?"

That's enough. A door doesn't have to swing wide open. It only has to come off the latch.

And a word to the wise: reaching out doesn't mean you owe anyone your safety or your peace of mind. If someone has truly hurt you, you can leave that door shut and bless it from a distance. This challenge is for the ones you actually miss.

The Weekend Challenge

Pick one person you're at odds with. Just one.

Sometime before Monday, reach out. A text, a card, a phone call, whichever is easiest to actually do. Don't explain. Don't relitigate. Just open the door a crack.

Then let it be. They may answer tomorrow. They may answer in March, when the Sheep has had a chance to work on them. Sheep energy isn't in a hurry.

But you'll have gone first, and you'll walk into February lighter than you are today.

Tend the garden. There's a good season coming.

Who's your one person? You don't have to give me a name. Just tell me you're going to do it.

And if there's a relationship you can't quite see your way through, a personal reading is a good place to look at it honestly. The way I think about decisions like this one is all in The Mahjong Mirror.