What's in Store For Your Dating Archetype In The Year Of The Horse

Dateable: Your insider's look into modern dating and relationships

Yue Xu and Julie Krafchick

Science, Social Sciences, Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.7 • 910 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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As we approach the year of the horse – a year full of movement, momentum, courage and moving forward – we wanted to dive into how 2026 will look for each dating archetype. If you're new here, definitely take our quiz (https://howtobedateable.com/) or it's in our book 'How to Be Dateable'! We discuss the superpowers each dating archetype brings, the boost you need for 2026, and what to watch out for. Plus we do another segment with Dr Serena Sterling, the founder of the new dating app Satya, about the 'rate your match' feedback loop she created. Enjoy! Learn more and download Satya today: https://www.satyadating.com/ 🧠 Take the Dating Archetypes quiz now: https://howtobedateable.com/ 📖 Read our book: How To Be Dateable: The Essential Guide To Finding Your Person and Falling in Love: https://howtobedateable.com/ 🤖Try the Dateable AI Dating Coach: Get personalized advice trained on our years of podcast episodes, courses and frameworks: https://studio.com/dateable Follow us @dateablepodcast, @juliekrafchick and @nonplatonic. Check out our website for more content. Also listen to our other podcasts The Psychology of Relationships and Exit Interview available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. WE WROTE A BOOK! HOW TO BE DATEABLE (Simon & Schuster) is available now: https://howtobedateable.com/ Want to remove distractions from your dates? Download Brick and get 10% off at https://www.getbrick.app/DATEABLE Our Sponsors: * Avocado Green Mattress: Check out their mattress and furniture sale: https://avocadogreenmattress.com/DATEABLE * Get Rain of Shadows and Endings wherever books are sold or at Kensington Publishing https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Quince: Get free shipping and 365 day returns at https://quince.com/dateable * Ruggable: Get 10% off your first order, sitewide, with promo code DATEABLE at https://ruggable.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm U.E. Shue. And I'm Julie Craft-Chick. We're active daters turned dating insiders.
0:05.9	Here to dive into everything, modern dating and relationships. Welcome to Datable.
0:15.6	Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Datable.
0:24.3	Off on, on, off, off, off on, off season.
0:38.5	Sounds so non-committal. But we're committing to this episode. We are. Because we have to talk about the new year and the year of the horse. And we have to talk about how the archetypes will experience the year of the horse.
0:54.6	I'm really excited about the year of the horse. I mean, obviously it starts in February. So I'll put that out there. We still have a month to prepare. But I feel like the year of the horse, what makes me excited about it is that I keep reading a lot about just how much momentum is going to be happening.
0:57.5	Like how much is going to just go into motion.
1:04.2	And I feel like that's what's missing, like in dating and love, but even just life in general. Like I feel like the last year was, I mean, so great in so many ways.
1:08.9	Like I have so much to be thankful for.
1:10.6	I'm not trying to say it in that
1:11.8	way. But I do feel like I was like harvesting this energy that felt like a little stuck and just
1:17.0	like thinking about all the different things and not like doing. I find a hilarious that nobody
1:23.0	gave a shit about the Chinese zodiac until the horse came along. I mean, it's been around forever,
1:29.2	everyone. But apparently, and I think this goes to what you're saying is everyone felt like
1:34.6	when they read about the year of the horse, it really resonated. So now every influencer and their
1:40.1	mom is posting about the year of the horse because I think we're so sick of being in analysis
1:45.9	paralysis, being in the stuck energy, like almost losing agency over our actions because
1:52.6	I felt like last year was very much just like just being stuck in molasses.
1:58.2	Yes.
1:58.5	And then the year of the horse comes along, it's like, you're going to have
2:01.6	movement and momentum and courage and energy. We're like, yes, let's go. Let's fucking go. I do think
2:08.8	there's also this side of, I don't know if you've read about this with like numerology, where it's like
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