The Year of the Fire Horse

which means it’s the year of taking bold strides forward with power.

Sounds great isn’t it? However, this knowledge didn’t make me feel particularly great because from the mid of 2025, I’ve been consciously gravitating towards taking one step at a time, towards being more intentional…

For years I’ve been this ‘I had to get this done yesterday’ kind of a person… But in 2025, something changed, something snapped in me and I hit the internal reset button!

At the end of 2025, I traveled to India for a couple of months…The clarity, calm and grounding those 2 months gave me, it’s not possible to find it anywhere but at home!

So when I read about the Fire Horse, I wanted to explore more! And then I read about what the Fire Horse means for Earth signs (that is me)

The Fire Horse for the Earth sign means moving full steam ahead not by doing more, but by being more restrained, tapping into emotional intelligence rather than grappling with whatever is available… and most importantly, by putting the mind, body and spirit into what drives purpose and feels truly ‘meaningful’.

Honestly, I was not surprised, my reaction to this piece of information was… I somehow just knew it.

After I lost my full time job a couple of years back, I went knee deep into finding new projects and I did end up finding them eventually…

But I was so unhappy in this whole process. I could feel so much of me just withering away sitting behind a laptop screen, networking like a maniac, rewriting the same CV info endlessly, because the market is bat shit competitive.

I was not using all my skills, which made me feel weird, but there was a deeper psychological impact of guilt, of letting myself down, of becoming aware that I was sitting in my own shit and the stink was getting worse!

One fine day, I woke up, and my brain gave me an ultimatum — ‘quit’ the current and ‘pivot’ to what you truly want to do. A fresh start did not suddenly feel intimidating or out of reach anymore!

I sat with a piece of paper on what I really want to do and ‘why’. What I ended up with was a tiny list of 2–3 things with a clear reason on the ‘why’.

I could not believe I had written this… I had made a list like this many years back and it was much much longer. It also did not mention the why’s which I now know is the most critical element.

And that list somehow got stamped in my brain like a roadmap. I did not think beyond that list and ran behind every item there with my blinders on. And I did not even go back to the list to rethink if it still holds the same value or no (my biggest mistake)

Over the years, I did not stop to realise that my dreams, goals, aspirations had changed. And what were once professional goals had engulfed my personal identity. And ticking off every item on that list made me feel smaller, more invisible in front of my own self.

It will be unfair to claim that this shift happened magically one day. Since I was feeling this pull in my heart for over a year now, I had taken solace in some wonderful books, podcasts and coaching that helped me unpack a different perspective towards life, towards failures and what opportunities I was ignoring as a result.

We are inching towards the end of the first part of 2026, and this is what I have managed to put together!

I need to remind myself how transformational it has already been, to be able to take agency and control back of my life!

• I’ve registered two businesses in Finland with my co-founders
• Built 2 websites end to end (still cannot believe this)
• Launched two separate blogs (including this one)
• A brand new product launch is on its way, fingers crossed for a successful launch soon (wish us luck, we have been working on this for months)
• Signed up with 8 service partners
• Curating the IG page for my business
• Received bank loan to scale one of my businesses
• Set up the corporate banking services (a big deal for me)
• Overcoming the language barrier everyday to navigate the business regulations inFinland

A learning for me is also be able to appreciate and celebrate myself unapologetically, because I find this so hard to do!

Of late, the first thing I do when I wake up is thank the universe for this life where I have moved on from being a couch potato behind a laptop, to doing everything my heart desires — write stories (story telling might be my favorite skill), talk to people and build partnerships, up my digital marketing game, manage finances (that I need to make a lot more of), and improve my technical design skills (of course AI helps here a lot).

And this is just the tip of the iceberg!

Because there is so much more to do and so much more to learn!

I recently heard this in a business podcast and nothing makes more sense to me — Quitters are among the happiest and most successful in this world. They exit immediately when something is not giving ‘value’.

All this is to say that this is the year of the Fire Horse, and this Earth sign is ready to ride the wave with patience, grounding, restraint, calm, and purpose.

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Hi, I’m Adrita.

For years I have given every drop of my energy to be this person who is called an overachiever. When I walked into a room, I wanted people to call me ambitious, and acknowledge that I’m that person who has bested every hurdle to be where she is today!

Here are two fundamental flaws with this.

One, this goal is extremely myopic as it fixates on professional success only.

Two, it became my entire identity.

This has done me more harm than good. And it has taken me two broken jobs and three years of self work to realize this.

Yet I feel grateful that I went through this journey, and there is no going back to that old route anymore!

Today, I want none of the above. I want to be free.

So here’s what I’m doing instead.

Building two businesses, climbing the hill of entrepreneurship, steeped in challenges, new learnings, and juggling to strike a balance since my partner complaints some days he does not see me look up from my laptop all day.

But I have not felt more free, more empowered and happier in a long long time!

Why am I here?

Because for the longest time I have kept all of this to myself. But one day I read a line, to be human is to have a story! That shifted something in me. And this is my story…..

I am on this mission to :

live in the present

explore the luxury of a slow, more intentional approach to life

and use rest, reset and recovery as my biggest productive assets.

And I am building my businesses on the same principle.

Masala Chai Travel | Slow Brewed Luxury Journeys — is a travel agency that I have co-founded with my husband and it offers slow, experiential holidays close to nature to Finland, Northern Norway and Tuscany (Italy). (instagram : masalachai_travel) | www.masalachaitravel.com

K.I.N.D. Program for Emerging Leaders (MAG People Oy) is a people consultancy that I’ve co-founded. It equips tech and product experts and founders stepping into leadership, with emotional intelligence and regenerative leadership tools to build, grow and sustain themselves and their teams. These are skills AI cannot replace! www.magpeopleconsulting.com

So if you are…

feeling drained, completely out of yourself and finding it hard to let go of the control you think you have on your life, and you happen to come across my page,

This is your space and indication to embark on this change!

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