February packs a punch, according to experts on planetary movements. 

With Valentine’s Day tomorrow, the Lunar New Year coming from the first hour of the 17th, followed by the Muslim Ramadan that same evening, plus the Catholic faith’s Ash Wednesday the next day, it behooves us to take a minute and let it all sink in.

Are all the forces of good coming together to make that final push for a change that we can really feel?

Reports say the Philippine economy’s growth in the last quarter of 2025 was at a measly 3 percent, a deceleration attributed to low spending and sluggish private investment. Total growth was at 4.4 percent for the whole year, disappointing against the aimed-for 5.5 to 6.5 percent target, and quite below the previous year’s 5.7 percent expansion.

One can blame the rain, the miserable typhoons, but Filipinos know it is from the decreased morale, depletion of trust, and the uncertainty about the justice system in our country. 

The last part of last year was heavy with negativity that not even Christmas could bring back the usual high level of cheer of celebration-loving Pinoys.

And the energies of this month have gone berserk. Perhaps even those who are of the mistaken notion that feng shui is a sin would agree that many events in the recent past may possibly be explained by unseen “forces.”

Because energy is not faith, and therefore not religion, we may admit that things had indeed shed like a snake in 2025, leading us to plainly see the play of corruption and how government leaders and employees had willfully participated in the thievery.

Maybe there is something to be said about luck and the grace of our spiritual beliefs working all at once, but the Chinese Zodiac’s Wood Snake did urge a transformation among us or, at the very least, made us want to quit being “resilient.”

This month, we must brace ourselves for the energy and possible turbulence brought by the Fire element in the galloping Horse, its energy intense and forceful.

Many feng shui experts are saying this is the time to be clear about our goals and intentions, because there is no slowing down the action in a year full of momentum. But what momentum are we to speak of in our part of the planet?

The way things are, we might do well to brace for a breaking point, where our leaders are busy not working but just making a point. Word wars, exposés without recourse, infighting, and a most apparent lack of love and loyalty to the country. If we continue on this bent, we will only speed up our own destruction.

A ceasefire, therefore, among our warring leaders, may be the best action to take at this point.