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Hello from the final weeks of the Wood Snake year ;) …. This week, we pick up where we left off with “Metal Season," to dissect the ever-accelerating Chinese-ness of internet culture these days. We talk more TCM (seasonality, womb health, qigong morning routines, etc.), the newly mainstreamed fascination with the Chinese Zodiac system, and the ways I’m choosing to let the Year of the Horse vibes wash over me and spur me into clarity & aligned action.

Plus: 2016 nostalgia acceleration machine, Fetty Wap out of prison, UDA virality and the overly-masculine approach to hip-hop dance, the shifting signifiers of health and beauty, and why, as always, it’s important to not primarily view your life/other’s choices/the world through a political lens and to instead connect to intuition so you can be self led. Shine on!

Links:

• “This Is What Year of the Horse Means for You” Morgan Fargo in Vogue (2026)

• “Why everyone is now Chinese” Elle Jones on Substack (2026)

• Anne Hathaway sings North London Forever

• Fetty Wap’s label welcomes him back after he returns from prison

• UDA: LSU Hip Hop finals 2026, LSU Hip Hop Finals 2022

• “The hip hop category feels to Jabbawockeez” dre.shady on TikTok