Year of the Fire Horse

In the Chinese zodiac 2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse.

 We saw the first nod to the Fire Horse in the movie GOAT which came out in February.

The character Mane Attraction is a horse who plays for the team MAGMA.

The next reference to the Horse came in March via the movie Project Hail Mary.

There's no direct reference to a Fire Horse...

...but if we look at Ryan Goslings role in Blade Runner 2049 one of his key 'memory scenes' involves this wooden horse and a burning furnace.

We also see reference to this ashtray.

 The Fire Horse is a little more obvious in July's big movie The Odyssey.

 I like how Matt Damon voiced this horse in the movie Spirit.

 

 I've noticed one other repeating theme in this years big movies and that is the Eye.

The one-eyed Cyclops will feature in The Odyssey and we saw a subtle nod to it in the June release of Disclosure Day.

This years World Cup shows a giant Eye in the centre of the pitch in every pre-match ceremony.

 All of the players enter it prior to kick off.

The other big movie of July is Minions & Monsters.

 

Which follows on from this months Supergirl. 

 

The signs suggest we keep our eyes peeled.

 RA

Cat on the Track SYNC VIDEOS

How far can you push a synchronicity?

5 years ago I asked this very question and set myself the challenge of spending a full year focusing on a single sync thread to see where it would lead me.

I read through some of my old blog posts and decided that Keeping Track of the Cat, written in 2009, was fertile ground for a new video. 

The premise is simple. 

DNA contains the word CAT (taken from the base pairings GCAT) and when unravelled the DNA strand resembles a Train Track. 

Over the following months I did a deep dive into the pattern, watching dozens of movies, both good and bad, and came up with a 10 minute video that I was proud of. 

But then some weird and wonderful things started creeping in. Wherever I found references to Cats and the Track I found syncs involving Boxes. Or Adam and Eve. Even my own surname (via the band Aerosmith) entered the pattern and before I knew it I had a 30 minute video, then a 40 minute video and it just kept snowballing. 

When I had an hours worth of footage, and feeling slightly overwhelmed by the whole undertaking, I politely asked the universe to stop with the synchronicities so that I could catch up with the editing and actually share some of the footage. 

There was one point early in the process where I was working on a section of video involving Uma Thurman. I felt like I had too much footage on her so was trying my best to scale things back. For this reason I deliberately avoided watching Kill Bill because deep down I knew there would be synchronicities in the movie which would find their way into my already bloated video so I firmly said Nope..not watching it.

Then the very next week this riot happened which dominated the UK headlines.

So I submitted and thought fuck it, I'll watch Kill Bill.

And I'm glad I did because I'd seen this movie maybe 2 or 3 times in the past but I'd never once noticed the word CAT on Uma's iconic jumpsuit sitting above what could be interpreted as a Train Track.

And that's generally how things played out while making of the Cat on the Track videos. I felt like I was being steered in certain directions and tried my best to go with the flow.

So I dropped the first 3 videos back in 2023 then took a 3 year hiatus when I realised I was burning myself out and needed to step away for a while.

Having recharged I figured I'd revisit the videos, give them a final polish, and make them public.

So for anyone interested here is the latest batch and I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them.