The Energy of Spring 2026 | Creative Fire Ignites
The sunrise of the year, spring holds the energy of waking up, shaking off slumber, and clearing the system to begin again. While winter cradles the dream, spring births the reality — which is always a little different from what we imagined. Like weather that teases warmth before dragging us back into a chilly storm, spring is filled with false starts, engine revving, and the gradual clearing of last year's clutter as we find our clarity and direction.
Do you love slow mornings — savoring coffee, reading something soothing? Do you wake at dawn and head straight to the gym? Do you sleep until the last possible moment before the day demands you? Take Aries Season, the first season of spring, the way you naturally take your mornings: slow and steady, right into action, or resting until life calls you forward. We all ignite in our own way. Don't judge your style.
In the 19-year cycle of the Draconic Zodiac, we are in a year that opens each season under a degree of pressure and stiffness. Spring may wake us into a day that asks for detachment — for the long view. Where are we coming from? Where are we now? Where do we want to go? Responsibilities weigh on us, but they call for stepping back to plan rather than pushing blindly forward. My sense is that we may rise with a touch of weary, worn energy — and yet something new is also quietly stirring. We are in a 1 numerological year, and seeds of fresh possibility carry their own subtle pep beneath the fatigue. We are also now in the Fire Horse year, a creature built to add power, spirit, and momentum to whatever is already in motion. The Horse works tirelessly and with spirited independence; add the Fire element, and you have passions that genuinely want renewal. This Horse will not hesitate to answer Aries Season's call to clear the slate of whatever is holding us back from new directions and new aliveness.
Mid-spring's Taurus Season arrives like the early part of a day when we finally find our footing — settling into a pace that feels right, gaining the kind of grounding that allows us to thrive. The Horse spirit steadies here. Questions about what we value now versus what we've valued for the past 19 years begin to surface, nudging us toward new ways of forming our world. Though Taurus is deeply personal energy, the astrological cycle we're in tilts us toward collective inquiry: What are the societal value systems we've accepted without examination? Are we actually valuing the right things? Is the society you live in designed to honor your natural essence and gifts? Is our economy built on the right morals? What is beautiful — and what is not — about the world that has come to be? The 1 year and the Fire Horse will not be shy about naming what isn't working and sparking fresh possibilities.
By the end of spring's Gemini Season, the Fire Horse is fully in its element — heady, moving with the wind, finding its herd of wild stallions to storm open fields. Catch the momentum. Let the power of the year move your life toward possibility and freedom. Charge past old boundaries. Lose yourself to the spirit of the sun over a vast, open expanse. This will be a season for brilliant ideas to shake loose pent-up energy — personally and collectively. Unleash your wildest visions and let them set fire to whatever has grown too brittle to hold the power of your heart's beauty.
This spring, as we move between tending the pressures of a world we've built and liberating from what's cracking and shattering, notice where fire wants to burn away what has caused pain. Notice where the wind wants to carry you toward new ways of feeling alive, valued, and open. What do we want to build that looks genuinely different from what is? This may not be the year we break ground — but it is the year to envision, plan, and experiment. If you sense a need to course-correct — in career, home, relationships, or your whole sense of self — this spring is designed for exactly that: identifying it, and beginning to explore what a different trajectory might feel like.
The power of this spring is not about small adjustments. While spring's energy is inherently personal, this particular spring is about disrupting the macro structures of society that are overdue for fresh air — and awakening to how those constructs have been quietly holding your personal energy, desires, and gifts hostage.
Spring Numerology in the Horse year
In a 1 numerological year, every month number moves forward one from its core number. When you add January (1) to the ignition of the 1 year, you get 2. There is a sense that things are moving forward from where we’ve been. While 1 in numerology is ruled by the Sun, it also has self-interested qualities. Try to be mindful of others this year, even as you hold on tight to your own rapid growth.
Let’s peer into the numerological vibration of the winter months to gain insight into the collective energy we might experience. While each of us has a personal month number in numerology, this reflection observes the universal qualities of these months.
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The 4 month calls for responsibility and sustained effort. What needs cleaning up? What plans require shaping? Where can you build containers strong enough to hold your passions? Channel the Horse’s drive into steady work; its stamina is unmatched when focused on purpose.
Pisces season softens the first half of the month with imagination and vision, urging us to build from our dreams. As spring and Aries Season approach, the 4’s energy crystallizes into a clear direction—ready to construct what the winter inspired.
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The 5 month brings the energy of change and restlessness. You may feel boxed in by the very structures you've just built, confined by responsibilities that seemed purposeful just weeks ago. But the trick with 5 is not to break out through the base—not to shatter what you've created in frustration—but to elevate. Rise above the container. The Fire Horse wants to bolt, to kick down the walls, but true freedom comes from finding your heart and using it as a bridge to your more divine form.
Aries Season dominates the first three weeks, igniting urgency and impatience. The 1 year's newness meets the 5 month's hunger for transformation, and together they can feel explosive. But channel this fire upward, not outward. Let passion lift you to higher ground rather than scorch what you've planted. When you elevate to your heart's perspective, the changes you seek will naturally settle into place. You'll see pathways you couldn't see from ground level—solutions that emerge not from forcing or fleeing, but from rising.
As Taurus Season arrives late in the month, the Horse's gallop slows to a purposeful trot. The elevated view you've gained in Aries begins to ground into something tangible. From this higher perspective, you can discern what changes are essential and what were merely reactions to feeling confined. Build from this elevated heart-space, and April's restlessness transforms into inspired movement.
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The 6 month grounds the changes of April into rhythm and purpose. After the restless elevation of 5, the 6 brings duty and responsibility—not as burden, but as the very thing that helps us find our flow. This is the number that organizes systems, that takes divine inspiration and weaves it into the structures of daily life. Heaven meeting earth. Vision becoming practice.
Taurus Season fills most of May, asking: What feels sustainable? What pace allows your Fire Horse spirit to work without burning out? The 6 wants flourishing conditions—not just survival, not just ambition, but true thriving. This month, you're building the rhythms that will carry your passions forward: morning rituals, collaborative systems, the right balance of effort and rest. The Horse learns that sustained power comes from knowing when to gallop and when to graze.
As Gemini Season arrives at month's end, the systems you've organized begin to circulate. Ideas flow, connections multiply, and the structures you've built prove their worth by how easily they adapt. The 6's gift is this: when you align duty with purpose, when you create containers that serve life rather than control it, everything begins to flourish. You're not forcing growth—you're tending the conditions that allow it to happen naturally.
May asks you to be the architect of your own thriving. Let responsibility become your rhythm, and watch heaven settle into earth.
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The 7 month turns inward after May's outward flourishing. This is the number of depth and specialization, equally at home in laboratory and temple. The 7 seeks to understand what lives in the dark, unknown edges of the container you've built—not to fix or expand, but to discover what makes those shadows sacred. The Fire Horse, used to charging across open fields, must now descend into caves, explore hidden chambers, and trust that magic lives in the intricate, the subtle, the unseen.
Gemini Season fills the first three weeks with curiosity and scattered light, but the 7 asks you to follow one thread all the way down. What mystery calls to you? What question won't let you rest? This month rewards specialization over breadth. The 1 year's pioneering energy meets the 7's need for mastery, and together they pull you toward something you're meant to understand deeply—scientifically, spiritually, or both at once.
As Cancer Season arrives late in June, the inward journey reaches the heart's deepest waters. Here, in the darkness, you find what's truly special. Not the obvious gifts, but the intricacies that only reveal themselves to patient observation. The 7 teaches that magic isn't always loud or bright—sometimes it's a whisper in the margins, a pattern only visible when you stop moving and simply look.
June asks you to be both mystic and scientist. Explore your edges. The unknown isn't something to fear or fill—it's where your most magical discoveries wait.
The Emperor, the Hierophant & the Lovers
TAROT SYMBOLISM FOR THE Spring SOLAR SEASONS
The HeART Tarot
ARIES SEASON (MARCH 20 – APRIL 19) | THE EMPEROR
From the oceanic dream of Pisces, a spark strikes. The waters part. A single flame declares: I am. Aries Season is the ignition point of the zodiac — the first breath, the first cry, the first decisive step onto new ground. Where Pisces dissolved the old story, Aries begins writing the next one.
In the tarot, The Emperor embodies this primal force of initiation. He does not wait for permission. He establishes order where there was none. After the formlessness of the deep tides, he plants a flag in the soil and says: Here. We begin here.
Aries energy is not concerned with preserving what was — it is compelled to create what could be. It thrives on forward motion, instinct, and the courage to act before certainty arrives. The Emperor channels this drive into structure, building frameworks that allow life to organize itself around a clear center. A new order is born not from hesitation, but from decisive presence.
Yet this archetype holds a lesson that reaches beyond dominance or control. True authority arises from self-leadership. The Emperor teaches that before we can guide anything outward, we must first claim sovereignty over our own will. What are you choosing? What are you initiating? What standard are you setting through your action?
Aries Season reminds us that every cycle requires a brave beginning. The spark may be raw, even impatient — but it is alive. And from that aliveness, systems form, momentum gathers, and a new chapter asserts itself into existence. The question is not whether you are ready. The question is: will you step forward and create the order your vision demands?
TAURUS SEASON (APRIL 19 – MAY 20) | THE HIEROPHANT
After Aries establishes a new order, Taurus settles into it. The ground is claimed; now it must be cultivated. Taurus Season roots the spark into soil, asking not just what are we building? but what do we value enough to preserve?
In the tarot, The Hierophant represents the transmission of wisdom through form — tradition, ritual, lineage, culture. Where The Emperor creates structure, The Hierophant sanctifies it. He embodies the codes, customs, and shared meanings that bind a community together. Taurus, ruled by Venus, seeks stability not only in material security but in moral and aesthetic coherence. It wants to know what is good, what is worthy, what endures.
Yet this archetype carries a delicate responsibility. The Hierophant shapes belief — influences what is normalized, praised, and passed on. Taurus energy, with its earnest desire to be seen as good and worthy, can become deeply impressionable here. Enculturation offers belonging, continuity, and shared beauty. But it also molds identity. The desire to be valued can either root us in integrity or tether us to systems that quietly constrain.
This is the paradox of Taurus Season: the longing for approval and harmony can be a devotional offering — or a subtle trap. The Hierophant asks us to examine what we've internalized. Whose values are you living? What definitions of "good" have quietly shaped your sense of worth? And are they truly aligned with your embodied truth?
At its highest expression, this archetype protects what is sacred. It tends the garden of culture with patience and discernment. It honors the weight of influence, knowing that stability must remain conscious to stay alive. Taurus teaches that values are not merely inherited — they are cultivated. And what we choose to revere becomes the foundation upon which others will stand.
GEMINI SEASON (MAY 20 – JUNE 20) | THE LOVERS
After Taurus roots us in shared values and inherited meaning, Gemini begins to question, compare, and connect. The soil has been tilled; now the mind wanders. Gemini Season opens the windows of the zodiac, letting fresh air circulate through what we thought was settled. Curiosity becomes the catalyst.
In the tarot, The Lovers is often reduced to romance and attraction — but its deeper current runs through choice and integration. It is the crossroads moment, where two paths call, two voices speak, two desires stir. Gemini, ruled by Mercury, understands this multiplicity. We are not singular beings but dynamic constellations of impulse, idea, and identity.
At its core, The Lovers is an internal reckoning. The outer attractions it stirs are mirrors — reflections of unintegrated aspects of self seeking dialogue. What draws us outward often signals something longing to be known within. Exploration becomes pollination. Through conversation, relationship, and exchange, we cross-fertilize the yin and yang of our inner world.
Gemini teaches that coherence is not sameness — it is harmony between differences. The mind flits, compares, contrasts, but beneath the movement is a deeper aim: to discover the unified message of the higher self. Each choice refines alignment. Each dialogue reveals where fragmentation might become synthesis.
This season asks: what are you saying yes to? And what inner polarity is seeking reconciliation through that choice? The Lovers reminds us that connection begins within. When we find pathways between our inner opposites — logic and intuition, independence and intimacy, shadow and light — our voice clarifies. Our message becomes whole.
Gemini Season shows us that unity is not static. It is alive, conversational, ever-evolving. Through curiosity and courageous choice, we begin weaving the many strands of self into a coherent thread — one that can truly meet another without losing its center.
Elements of the seasons
Spring with the Celtic & Qigong seasons
From Growth to Light
Spring bursts onto the scene and we feel our boundaries return to ourselves. Like dawn, we rise into the year's active phase. And yet we've felt it in our bones for weeks — the days lengthening, life charging quietly beneath the surface.
In both the Celtic Wheel of the Year and the Qigong seasonal system I work with, we've been in a quarter of relative balance between day and night since early February. Weather always follows the quality of light — the earth must catch up to the sky. It is slower, heavier, needing time to anchor life's rhythms into her memory and her nourishment.
By the time spring fully arrives on the land, the skies have been in spring for roughly six weeks, gently coaxing the earth toward movement. The earth moves mountains; she holds the weight of things in her phases. Mysterious stirrings have been underfoot all this while — we simply don't feel her response until something is fully cooked. The sky, nimble and mercurial, responds at the speed of light. The earth responds in her own time.
In the Celtic Wheel of the Year, we moved into the East direction and early spring with Imbolc in early February. Goddess Brigid — fire in her head, poetry in her breath, bravery in her bones — has been stoking the hearth fire, tending our inner light, and paving the way toward fertile times. At the spring equinox, we reach Ostara, and Brigid's fiercer aspect rises: the metal-smithing, warrior dimension of her nature ascending with the sun and warmth.
Themes of Ostara: Rebirth, balance, cleansing, realignment, purity, self-awareness, and the beautiful tension between patience and impatience.
In the Qigong tradition I follow — which similarly honors the patterns of light and dark — the East direction began at the same time as in the Celtic tradition, in early February. The Wood element, governing growth, has been gathering strength. Ruling the liver and pancreas, this element awakens a deep want for things to grow as light increases. The difficulty is that the earth is still cold and hard. This friction can breed anger and frustration. The path through it lies in softening — feeling our way into warm, fertile spots where fresh energy can be nourished. Forcing brings resistance; kindness and softness lead us to the patches where growth finds its way.
The Light Quarter of the Year (May 5th - August 7th)
At mid-spring, around the midpoint of Taurus Season on May 5th, we reach the lightest quarter of the year — the point when the sun rises earliest and sets latest. In the patterns of light and dark, early summer has already begun in the sky, even as the earth is still dressing herself in spring's finest. The light teases us gently toward what's coming.
In the Celtic tradition, this mid-Taurus midpoint brings one of the four Cross-Quarter celebrations: Beltane, where fire is honored at each of the year's great junctures to mark the turning of the season. This moves us into the southern direction of the Celtic wheel and the quarter when light burns brightest. Yang energy is dominant; Fire is the element of this quarter, carrying through mid-Leo Season at Lughnasa, about August 7th. Its symbolism is rich: creativity, abundance, love, passion, sexuality, purification, youth, and psychic opening. Aine is its goddess — guardian of crops and cattle, granter and remover of royal power, encourager of passionate love. She is said to be a faery queen. The south invites us to speak to the music of nature — to talk with trees and plants, to let them share their alchemical secrets, to heal our hearts and our love of life through that quiet communion.
In Qigong, we also move to the South direction and the element of Fire from mid-Taurus through mid-Leo Season. Here, Fire rules the heart, small intestine, and the pericardium & triple heater — the system that protects the heart and manages the body's heat and energy flow. Generosity and compassion help us embody the heart's higher nature; imbalance tips us toward anxiety and restlessness — monkey energy. While our embodied selves are still stirring with spring's hunger for growth and awakening, the light begins coaxing us to lighten up and move from mind into heart.
In the Chinese philosophical system I use, earth energy appears for 17 days at each seasonal transition — a bridge to help us integrate the ending season and prepare for the new one. As Taurus Season opens on April 19th, we enter two weeks of earth energy. We begin processing the wood energy we've been gathering, finding ways to make use of growth — metaphorically turning it into fuel for fire, basket weaving, fences, bowls. There is an artisan quality to this phase: skill, resourcefulness, and the satisfaction of making something useful from what has grown. In balance, earth energy brings radiance and rhythm. Out of balance, it can tip into worry and overwhelm.
One more lens worth offering: in the Myers-Briggs system and its four core temperaments — a framework also used by the CIA, which assigned animal names for quick identification — each quarter of the year carries its own dominant psychological energy, and spring moves through two of them.
From the Spring Equinox through Beltane (around May 5th), we are in the territory of the Rationalist, or Fox, energy. This is the realm of intuition, pattern-seeking, and ideas — the mind that loves to poke at dualities, test hypotheses, and find out how things actually work. The Fox is a natural strategist and a born experimenter, driven not by tradition or precedent but by the question: does this work? Psychological growth during this phase comes through developing your intuitive, idea-generating capacities and then grounding them — taking the spark of a concept and testing it against concrete reality to produce something genuinely useful and ingenious. This is clarifying energy. It shows us how things begin, how systems form, and where innovation lives when curiosity meets rigor. Let your mind roam widely during Aries and early Taurus Season, and don't be afraid to challenge the assumptions underneath the structures you've inherited.
When we cross into the light season around May 5th, the Artisan, or Cheetah, takes the lead — and the energy shifts from ideation into embodied creation. Where the Fox thinks and tests, the Cheetah makes. Psychological growth here comes through developing your sensory, extroverted capacities: using your five senses to craft things in the world, practicing skills that require tactile presence and physical attunement, and noticing — concretely, practically — what works and what doesn't. This is tactical, artisan energy: light, joyful, audacious, and alive in the moment. It helps us break through stagnation, build genuine confidence, and activate gifts that have been waiting in the wings. At its best, it is pure creative fire — the satisfaction of making something real from raw material, of sprinting toward a goal with full-bodied commitment. At its edges, it can bring tempers, ego flare-ups, and resistance to collaboration. The animating question of this phase: What is real, and what can you do with it that enhances life's utility, creativity, or joy?
Together, these two temperament energies trace the arc of spring beautifully — from the Fox's visionary intelligence to the Cheetah's embodied execution. Think, then make. Dream, then do. Spring gives us both.
Integrations
Spring 2026 is not a quiet season. It arrives carrying the accumulated fire of a 1 numerological year, the restless spirit of the Fire Horse, and the momentum of outer planets actively dismantling what is no longer structurally sound. Beneath all of that, the seasonal systems — Celtic, Qigong, tarot, temperament — are remarkably in agreement: this is a spring that moves from vision to creation, from idea to embodiment, from spark to sustained flame. Learning to read these overlapping currents together can give you something genuinely useful: a felt sense of when to think, when to act, when to root, and when to run.
Aries Season | March 20 – May 4 The Emperor · Fox Energy · Wood Element · Goddess Brigid · Month Numbers 4 (March) & 5 (April)
Spring opens in Fox energy — the Rationalist temperament of pattern-seeking, intuitive intelligence, and strategic experimentation. This maps beautifully onto Aries Season's Emperor archetype: both are oriented toward initiation, toward building new order from the ground up. The Fox doesn't follow the established path — it finds the smarter one. The Emperor doesn't wait for permission — he acts from inner authority. Together, they ask you to be both visionary and decisive in these opening weeks.
The Wood element of Qigong is also surging here, filling us with the biological want to grow, push upward, and expand. Brigid's fire has been quietly stoking this inner warmth since Imbolc in February, and by the equinox her warrior-smith aspect rises fully — the part of her that forges, that shapes raw material into something useful and lasting. This is the energy of taking what has been dreamed in winter and beginning, however tentatively, to test it against reality.
The 4 numerological energy of March grounds us in the practical: lay foundations, make plans, identify what structure your new vision actually needs. April's 5 energy then opens things up — this is a month of dynamic movement and change, perfectly suited to The Emperor's charge. Reach for something genuinely new in April. Let the Fox mind roam freely and poke at assumptions. Ask: what old pattern am I finally ready to think my way out of? With the Fire Horse adding spirit and momentum to everything, the ideas generated in Aries Season carry unusual power this year. Don't dismiss them. Write them down. They are seeds.
One note of care: Wood energy, when it meets resistance — and the earth is still cold and hard in early spring — can curdle into frustration and anger. The growth impulse is real, but the ground may not be ready yet. Brigid's wisdom here is gentleness: soften into the fertile patches rather than forcing through frozen ground. The Fox, too, benefits from patience — test your ideas rather than demanding they work immediately.
Taurus Season | April 19 – May 20 The Hierophant · Fox into Cheetah · Earth into Fire Element · Month Number 6
Taurus Season brings a welcome steadying after Aries' ignition. The Horse spirit, so restless in Aries, finds its footing here — and that grounding is genuinely productive. This is where the visions and experiments of Aries begin to be evaluated: what is actually worth keeping? What do I value enough to build upon?
The Qigong tradition offers a beautiful bridge at this juncture: earth energy appears for the first half of Taurus Season, serving as an integration period between Wood's growth and Fire's creative expression. Think of it as the artisan phase — taking the wood you've gathered and deciding what to make with it. A fence. A bowl. A fire. There is skill and resourcefulness asked of us here, a patient craftsmanship that transforms raw growth into something genuinely useful. When in balance, this earth energy brings radiance and rhythm. When strained, it tips into worry and overwhelm. Stay practical and purposeful, and it becomes one of spring's most quietly satisfying phases.
The Hierophant's influence in May — combined with the 6 numerological month — deepens this. Six is a number of harmony, care, and devotion to craft. This is a favorable time to find teachers, establish rhythms, and commit to practicing what you've envisioned. Ask: what do I value enough to practice consistently? The Fire Horse will keep the energy lively, but Taurus and the 6 month ask you to channel that liveliness into something that actually builds.
Around May 5th, Beltane arrives and the wheel turns. Brigid gives way to Aine — the faery queen of passionate love, abundance, and the full flowering of life. Fire is now the dominant element in both Celtic and Qigong traditions. The Fox energy of the earlier season begins yielding to the Cheetah.
Late Taurus into Gemini Season | May 5 – June 20 The Lovers · Cheetah Energy · Fire Element · Goddess Aine · Month Numbers 6 & 7
Once Beltane's fire is lit, the energy of spring transforms. The Cheetah — the Artisan temperament — takes the lead, and the shift is palpable. Where the Fox was strategic and conceptual, the Cheetah is embodied and kinetic. This is the energy of making, of tactile creation, of sprinting toward a goal with full-bodied commitment and sensory aliveness. The Wood element's patient growth has been handed to Fire, and Fire does not hesitate.
This convergence of Cheetah energy, the Fire element, Aine's passionate guardianship, and the Fire Horse's spirited independence creates one of the most electrically creative stretches of the year. Gemini Season's Lovers archetype adds another layer: this is the moment of integration between the many ideas and experiments of spring, a choosing and weaving of the threads that belong together. The Lovers is not simply romantic — it is the moment when inner polarities find their synthesis, when the mind and heart agree on a direction.
With the Fire Horse at full gallop in Gemini's open fields, and the 7 numerological energy of June deepening your focus and connecting you to inner guidance, this is the time to specialize, to follow the thread that feels most alive, and to trust the quiet knowing that has been building all spring. Seven is a mystical, inward-turning number — it asks you to go deeper into what you've started rather than scattering your energy further. Let the Cheetah sprint, but let the 7 direct that sprint toward something meaningful.
Aine's energy here is worth invoking directly. She guards what is precious, stirs passionate love — for life, for beauty, for creative work — and connects us to the music of the natural world. Speak to trees and plants in this season. Let nature reflect back to you what is real and alive in your own creative fire.
A word of care for this phase: the combination of Fire Horse, the 1 numerological year, Cheetah energy, and the fire quarter of the year can bring genuine heat — in temperament as well as inspiration. Watch for ego flares, impulsiveness, and the tendency to burn through energy faster than you can replenish it. Tend your heart. Stay hydrated, literally and figuratively. Use the momentum without being consumed by it.
The Through-Line
Taken together, spring 2026 traces a clear arc: the Fox mind opens the season with vision and strategic intelligence, the earth phase of Taurus refines and roots what's worth keeping, and the Cheetah carries it all into embodied, fired-up creation by Gemini Season. Brigid stokes the inner hearth; Aine ignites the outer world. Wood grows the material; Fire transforms it into something beautiful and useful.
The 1 numerological year and the Fire Horse run underneath all of it like a current — restless, spirited, unwilling to accept the limitations of the past 19 years. This spring is not asking for small adjustments. It is asking for genuine courage: the Fox's courage to think differently, the Cheetah's courage to make something real, and the heart's courage to love what you are building enough to protect it.
Plant seeds in March. Experiment boldly in April. Root what matters in May. Catch fire in June. And through all of it, trust that the season knows what it's doing — and so do you.
