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Black or dark horse: Unaccepted passions; threat
of death; the unknown or threatening changes.
Blinkered horse: Not allowing oneself to see what
is happening around you; anxiety about life.
Controlling the horse or fear of it: Trying to
control, or fear of, feelings of love and sexuality, of our own
natural drives and emotions that are powerful enough either to give us
motivation in our activities, or drag us along unwillingly.
Dead horse: Serious loss of energy or motivation
which could lead to illness or depression; an old and dying set of
habits and motivations or way of life.
Falling off horse: Relating badly to ones urges
and needs. This could result in tension, breakdown or illness.
Grooming a horse: Taking care of ones basic needs
such as food, shelter, sex.
Horse and carriage: The natural processes of life
that move us through youth to old age; forces that can move us, either
from within or as natural events.
Horse dragging the dreamer along: Impetuosity of
feelings; feelings dragged along by natural urges.
Horse loving you or expressing sexual feelings:
The flow of positive sexuality and warmth from within.
Horse race: The events of everyday life, and your
relationship with people; everyday competition and where you rate
yourself in it; what happens in the race shows how you are relating to
opportunity, or how you feel about your accomplishments.
Horse running freely: Allowing ones emotions or
sexuality free reign; love of life.
Horse unwilling to move or carry: Your inner
reaction is against the action or direction you are trying to go.
Horseshoe: Good luck, receptivity if prongs
upwards; bad luck or lack of receptiveness if prongs downwards.
New born horse: Emerging energy or new
motivations.
Old or worn out horse: State of your feeling,
perhaps worn out from overwork; may refer to a member of the family.
Riding or leading horse easily: Good relationship
with inner drives and emotions; the harmony between instinctive drives
and personality.
Riderless horse: Sometimes represents the death of
someone, as in the following example.
Example: "I dreamed that I was awakened by the sound of a
horse's hooves in the street. I saw a white horse, with no rider,
stopping at midnight in front of our house. I knew it came for my
younger sister. I went to the door and opened it to call her, when
suddenly I saw her coming down the stairs, all dressed in white. She
did not say a word to me, but walked with stately steps down the
stairs, through the hall, and out of the door. She mounted the horse
and rode away. I woke up crying." The woman's sister died a
month later.
Running away from a horse or horsemen: Fear of
sexuality, which includes responsibility for parenthood and
relationship; fear of ones own strong desires or urges; avoiding the
responsibility of directing ones own feelings and desires.
Sick or dying horse: loss of health, energy,
enthusiasm.
Speaking horse: Realisation of what you are
feeling but have not been aware of; expression of levels of feeling or
body processes usually unconscious.
Strange or unknown horseman/woman: Message from
the unconscious; a new opportunity or event.
Struggling to control the horse: Fighting with
ones urges and natural drives; difficulty in controlling ones emotions
or sexuality.
The mare: femininity, receptiveness, fertility.
The stallion: masculinity, power and virility.
The winged horse: In folklore and religion we
also find mention of the winged horse. This symbolises the sexual or
instinctive drives that have not been repressed, but allowed, in
conjunction with consciousness and reason, to develop the higher
possibilities latent in them. Put in plain language this suggests that
the sexual drive rises like a wave that carries our conscious desires
with it. This energy wave rises, but in fulfilling itself in genital
sex the wave falls again, self-awareness with it. However, if the
energy is released, and yet not allowed to spill out in the full
sexual release, the energy keeps on rising - flying in fact - lifting
awareness with it, until it becomes a vast awareness of life and
death. The white horse can have a similar meaning. For instance a
woman turning her love of her children into social caring suggests a
way of expression that goes beyond personal drives or the instinctive
urges toward personal survival. She 'flies up' into a wider social
context. See: Cayce, Edgar.
In mythology Pegasus was born from the blood when Perseus cut off
Medusa's head. Pegasus then lived roaming freely until Bellerophon
caught him with a golden bridle given him by Athena. Bellerophon went
through adventures such as the slaying of chimera with the help of
Pegasus. But Bellerophon tried to ride Pegasus to Mount Olympus
(Heaven) but Zeus caused Pegasus to throw him off and fall back to
Earth. However Pegasus arrived at Mount Olympus where he served Zeus.
The symbolic meaning of this is that when the uncontrolled and
undirected processes of thought and intellect are stilled a new level
of experience or energy is released. This new way of relating to
sexuality or life energy can uplift or expand consciousness to the
point where we arrive at cosmic consciousness. But the old human
personality cannot manage this and falls away as a new being emerges.
Chimera, the destructive and illusory view of life arising from a
purely sensory view of life is killed in the process. See: cosmic
consciousness.
Tied up horse: Inhibition; need for release of
feelings and allowing ore freedom of expression to ones feelings and
creativity.
Training a horse: Developing new habits;
directing ones energies in a socially acceptable way; learning to
direct ones sexual and emotional energy.
Uneasy on ride: being taken for a ride; feeling
ones emotions are dominating.
White horse: Changing sexual drive into love and wider awareness; a
meeting with expanded awareness of ourselves.
White horse: Changing sexual drive into love and
wider awareness; a meeting with expanded awareness of yourself.
Wild horse: Undirected energy; sexuality which
might not take care of personal or interpersonal needs.
Working horse: The energy or motivation needed to
work; how you feel about yourself, that you are only a work-horse, or
perhaps treated as such.
IDIOMS: Back the wrong horse; from
the horse's mouth; don't look a gift horse in the mouth; horse sense;
you can lead a horse to water; wild horses; workhorse; horsing about;
getting on your high horse; eat like a horse; back the wrong horse;
beating a dead horse. See: spiritual
life in dreams .
The astrological sign of Sagittarius is depicted by the half man
half horse. Sagittarius, the Archer, is a "Mutable" "Fire"
sign. In it the free, unrestrained activities of Aries which became "fixed"
qualities in Leo, now become balanced and harmonised, and work toward
high aims. It is represented in the Zodiac as a Centaur-like being,
half man, half animal, turning to shoot an arrow at the "Scorpion."
The Sagittarian is said to have high ideals and philosophy, prophetic
insight, and the power that overcomes sin and death. In this sign the
animal nature is ruled and directed by the human spiritual nature. The
symbol of Sagittarius - half beast and half man represents this new
emergence. The emergence of the human out of the animal, and the
different sense that human beings had of themselves. It suggests a new
type of human being in fact. If we look at the Zodiac from there on -
Capricorn, we have the half goat half man figure - until we arrive at
Aquarius, a fully fledged human figure. The human faculty is to
transcend, to make that change. To switch across seasons,
physiological changes, to actually attain consciousness. This allows
us to look at the seasons, to adjust to them in a completely new way
than the animal.
EXAMPLE: "As I talked to the
pale golden horse it felt more and more as if I were talking to a
male companion who was in union with me." Alison B.
Alison's horse is obviously portraying her feelings for a man. The
dream shows how easy and integrated she is with these.
EXAMPLE: Quoted from Dreams and
Dreaming by Norman Mackenzie - page 23. "I dreamed that I was
awakened by the sound of horse's hooves in the street. I saw a white
horse, with no rider, stopping at midnight in front of our house. I
knew it came for my younger sister. I went to the door and opened it
to call her, when suddenly I saw her coming down the stairs, all
dressed in white. She did not say a word to me, but walked with
stately steps down the stairs, through the hall, and out of the
door. She mounted the horse and rode away. I woke up crying."
The woman who had the dream thought it foretold the death of her
sister (which in fact occurred about a month later) whom she hated for
marrying the man that she herself loved.
EXAMPLE: I was driving along
Tottenham Court Road with my wife and my youngest son. As we neared
Euston Road I saw the magnificent sight of hundreds of horses coming
full gallop toward me. I knew it was a great horse race - something
like the Grand National. There was every sort of horse - many
riderless, all surging in a mass so thick there seemed no space
between them. Then we were walking in the Covent Garden area, and it
was still a market. I was crying openly at the wonder of what I had
seen. Edward.
Edward's tears are because his dream brought him a glimpse of
something much bigger than his own small life. He touched the amazing
flow of the energy behind the human race in its infinity of forms.
Perhaps just lightly he experienced cosmic consciousness, the state of
awareness that transcends ones own limitations of body and mind. But
the dream also has elements of the competitive drive we feel as
humans, and the struggle to know where we stand in relationship with
others and the mass of other people we exist within.
Useful questions are:
What is your relationship with the horse and what does this say
about how you relate to your own motivating and energising drives?
Where is the horse taking you, or where are you directing the horse
- this gives you clues to your direction in life?
Is the horse decidedly male or female - if so is there a connection
with how you are relating to someone or yourself?
HYENA
- Because of old and stereotyped beliefs about hyenas, they probably
depict an attitude of living on other peoples vulnerability or
weakness; taking advantage of someone or being taken advantage of;
underhandedness; messenger or bringer of death; feeling parasitized.
In fact the hyena is a resourceful hunter and pack animal.
Useful questions are:
What qualities is the hyena in my dream portraying, and how does
that relate to me?
If I imagine myself as my dream hyena what do I feel or realise?
(For help doing this see Stand in
Role under peer dream work.)
What is the theme of this dream? See: themes. |
