"Horse-Year Women", Michaela Roessner

SS F&SF Jan 2006 - modern fable
Western woman born in the Oriental Year of the Tiger, hears of bad things about Year of the Horse women from her martial arts teachers. Later she meets a young woman, Thera, who is a Horse-Year woman. Old time fables of horse-year women and horse folk are mixed in with the tales of the ups and downs in Thera's modern day life.

A well-done story.