Horse Horses
There is not so much difference between the horse and the dog. They are both domesticated animals, and so represent urges and drives in ourselves we have learned to harness or direct. The big difference is that the horse can carry us and serve us in our labours much more powerfully than a dog.
For myself I feel the horse is the most beautiful and loved herbivore.
The dream horse also depicts or expresses our pleasurable energy and exuberance, the sort of enthusiasm or feelings of well-being that can ‘carry’ one through the day easily; dynamic sexual drive; the physical energy and life processes that ‘carry’ us around. As such it may also link with the life processe. Horses like other animals are quick to respond to love and danger. So they can be panicked and you can feel the effect of this part of you. See Mammal Brain
The energy that carry – or pull – us through growth and ageing, as happens when we dream of a horse drawn carriage or cart. Therefore in old age the unbidden processes which move us toward death may be depicted as the horse in a threatening or helpful role. The horse depicts human instincts that have been harnessed or socialised for generations, but have perhaps been let slide into non-use or crushed. It is also survival drive, sexuality, love, all yearning toward service, toward metamorphosis, all that has powerful energy to move us.
A horse or a man on a horse can sometimes signify a messenger or a message.
In his book Dreams and Dreaming, Norman MacKenzie says the horse ‘… is dynamic power and a means of locomotion; it carries one away like a surge or instinct. It is subject to panics like all instinctive creatures which lack higher consciousness. Also it has to do with sorcery and magic spells, especially the black, night horse, which heralds death.’ In a woman’s dream the horse can sometimes represent her relationship with a man and the power and strength she gets from that, as in the following dream.
Example: As I talked to the pale golden horse it felt more and more as if I was talking to a male companion who was in union with me. As I talked about my mother, she was standing before me in full anger and blaming me for bringing out the witch in her. H.
Example: A rather shadowy man in a building opposite to where I used to live as a teenager was introducing me to a new job. I seemed to understand that I was to do a milk-round. He led a small horse from out of the building. It was to draw a cart. When the horse saw me it ran to me and become very excited and loving, rubbing against me and licking me with a very long tongue. I was both pleased and slightly threatened. Threatened because it was so intense. At one point though we rubbed against each other with a degree of sexual pleasure.
I believe many young girls feel totally as if they are fully connected and loved as the photo illustrates.
But our dream horse can be a wonderful guide and mirror for us.
Example: I love horses too and they are great teachers, for they mirror what goes on inside us. I used to ride horses for many years and when I was not convinced about what I asked the horse to do, it would not consider me as its leader and was more likely to refuse to do what I had asked. Their sensing is perfectly developed. Anna, A few weeks ago I saw a documentation about Buck Brannaman. He says –
“Your horse is a mirror to your soul, and sometimes you may not like what you see. Sometimes, you will.” So says Buck Brannaman, a true American cowboy and sage on horseback who travels the country for nine grueling months a year helping horses with people problems.
Black or dark horse: Unaccepted passions; threat of death. The unknown parts of your tremendous energy arising out of unconscious processes. The dream horse represents the very long history we have had with horses, through peace and terrible wars there are very long associations we have with them. It shares all that with us and so can be realisations emerging from our long past. Or it can represent threatening changes. Riding a black horse can represent the amazing energy used to bring awareness of things that had been unconscious into consciousness.
Blinkered horse: Not allowing oneself to see what is happening around you; anxiety about life, or an attempt to control ones natural anxiety or panics.
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, but which, if we are relating well to the horse, we can guide in some measure. It can also indicate the inner power which brings thoughts to awareness, things you might be blocking to think about. The horses represent the power which draws the mind.
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 and natural 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 and being part of the ‘human race’.
Horse running freely: Allowing ones emotions or sexuality free reign; love of life.
Horse unwilling to move or carry: Your inner natural reaction is against the action or direction you are trying to go. Sometimes this is a warning that you should not go in that direction.
Horseshoe: Good luck, receptivity if prongs upwards; bad luck or lack of receptiveness if prongs downwards.
Large horse: Enormous energy.
New born horse: Emerging energy or new motivations.
Old or worn out horse: State of your feelings, perhaps worn out from overwork; may refer to a member of the family.
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.
Riding or leading horse easily: Good relationship with inner drives and emotions; the harmony between instinctive drives and personality.
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. Have a physical check.
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 or a woman.
The stallion: masculinity, power and virility or a man.
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.
Thrown from horse: It depends on who is thrown from the horse and why. In general though it suggests that the instinctive or spontaneous life force has cast off an attitude that is restraining it, or not dealing with it well. One dreamer who saw a man thrown from a white horse realised that it showed how, “The forces of restraint, moral, sexual, worldly active that I have been imposing on myself have been thrown off.”
Tied up horse: Inhibition; need for release of feelings and allowing freedom of expression to feelings and creativity.
Training a horse: Developing new habits; directing your energies in a socially acceptable way; learning to direct sexual and emotional energy.
Uneasy on ride: being taken for a ride; feeling ones emotions or natural urges are dominating.
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.
The astrological sign of Sagittarius is depicted by the half human 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 human, 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 have 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, but also that motivating and active power in herself. The dream shows how easy and integrated she is with this.
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.
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 .
Useful Questions and Hints:
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?
See Talking to Inner Self – Summing Up – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Martial Art of the Mind
Comments
I have a dream with 5 horses, two of them was very sick and I knew they would die, the other 3 was sick as well but I knew if I would help them they would survive. So confuse but I know that is a message related to me.
Najat – A horse is usually depicting your physical energy, your underlying joy of life. So I think the dream is saying that you have not been feeling very motivated. We do sometimes get low and some of our inner world dies, but you have two horses that will recover and reproduce. That is how life repairs itself.
So take care of your health and exercise. See http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/
Tony
Hello Tony, I had very strange and wonderful dream today. I was on the trip walking around the town and on the way back I got lost. It was beautiful weather but I just felt more and more desperate, because the road I followed went nowhere and all around me tall, deep green grass. All of a sudden I realized a light brown (shiny) horse standing in the grass which was almost covering him up, but he was trying to get my attention. I thought hmm was a big horse, I hope he won’t attack me or something, and all of a sudden the horse jump over the road and me (like he would fly) to the other side where I thought was nothing till now, but now I see there was another path hidden. So I went there and I found civilization and I had good feeling of help and being safe, also a surprise then the horse helped although I did not expect him to do so. And the horse was watching me and making sure I was safe, saying: this is the right path to follow, just listen to me and you will see. He was strong, young and I felt such a respect towards him. I never dream about horses, although I recently started to be more spiritual than ever. I have more and more dreams with animals (kittens, tigers and lions) trying to tell me something and I just don’t know if I should take these things seriously. Could the horse me someone around me, or is it just a symbolic for something else? Thank you for you help!
I dreampt of a giant brown horse was climbing up the side of a two story house on to the roof. then when it tried to get down it lost its footing and, fell to the ground. then I woke up. What does this mean?
Two evenings ago (exactly one month after moving in to our new home), I dreamed of my husband and I standing on top of a hill, old New England style brick buildings behind us, overlooking a valley where a large brick factory sat. It was dark twilight, only threads of bright orange sky remained on the horizon as dark gray clouds and night descended from above. We observed, peacefully and calmly, as great plumes of gray smoke billowed up from the factory smokestack, and suddenly began to swirl and twist with the clouds above. Then, from amidst the swirling, appeared a man on a horse, riding skillfully, swooping down from the sky, leading 12 other men on horses over the valley and towards us on the hill. The men and horses were a translucent gray, seeming to be of the same clouds and smoke from which they emerged. I watched as the front hooves of the first horse made contact with the ground at the hilltop and at the same moment, the man, clad in a farmer’s hat and long coat, turned his head and looked me straight in the eye. I commented to my husband, “That is my grandfather,” even though I knew it wasn’t. As soon as the hooves left the ground with the start of their next step, the whole group turned to dust and swirled away, and I awoke. The dream did not elicit any fear or sense of foreboding, but rather, calm, contented certainty.
I dream my 30 year old thoroughbred gave birth
to a black foal.
Bette – I wish I knew how old you are, because almost everything in our dreams is about us/you.
Anyway it sound like a very good thing that was previously unlikely is emerging into your life.
Tony
I had a dream of a man I never seen but his face was clear. He rode a white horse to a house I’ve never been in. He parked the horse on the porch and knocked on the door. I answered it. I open the door to him smiling at me. We both don’t say anything as my dream fades away. I felt a good warmth…..what’s the meaning of that?
Asyria – This is about a message you will receive of a new man in your life. But it is more likely about an important new relationship that is coming. The white horse and the good feeling are signs of its value.
Tony
i dreamed of an insect like organism that was eating a piece of brain that had been taken off somebody else (it was a bizarre dream most of it i don’t recall). after it ate that little piece (of brainy “flesh”), which was still moving as i peeked from a corner in my house, the insect went upward, turned toward me and flew in my direction with such a great speed that i had not enough time to run away (or get a thick dictionary to smack it it with), and as i looked in my horror it had a horse’s face down to a horse’s neck, but the rest of it were insect-y, which was gross. i screamed and woke myself up.
Kat – Very occasionally – and I mean occasionally – dreams like yours can indicate an illness. But please realise that I have to mention this just in case.
So please have a check up if and when any signs of illness show.
Tony
nice one.
I dreamt of a dark brown horse, funning freely and wild as his mane was moving with the wing but i could only see his head and he kept turning to look at me and it was crying, his eyes full of tears.
What does the crying mean in relation to the horse?
Today i had a dream that i was somehow on a forest and like most dreams its started in the middle of a whole story. I had a pure white wild horse, we were allways riding in the forest, going up and down from a few mountains, sharing time like best friends. God i loved that horse, i was allways taking good care of him, talking to him even thou he couldnt speak, it allways seems like he understands me. I found this horse before our story started with somehow a medieval or some kind of noble armor made with silver chains, beautiful, never tried to take it away from him.
One day i found on him a sort of emblem grasp to one of the smallest chains of his armor. This emblem of a silver man, looks like a native man, beautifull emblem. I was trying to fix it because it seems that it has fallen apart from the armor’s crown of my horse. I love this horse so much, i wanted the best for my best buddy, trying to fix it, to put it back we went to somehow a party in the woods. In the middle of the party i was so insistent in fixing this chain to put back the emblem. For the first time i took his armor away and once i could connect the emblem to the small chain i look at my horse, knowing that we did it and said with my hands ! i love you! and pointed to my heart. When i suddenly looked back, instead of my horse it was a native, tall, young man, looking like a prince, whis his strange clothing, not a traditional medieval garnments of a prince, nor it was a native full garnment, it was different. He make a sign with his hands pinting like i did to his heart saying that he loves me too.
I felt inmediately in love with this man, bronze skin, deep dark and noble eyes. We couldnt stop looking to each other, like magic we make a bond and started to dance slowly a ballad, not music at all in the scene. I was so excited, and confused, the love i felt for that horse transform to more love now that he was a man, and same to him. I started making a short line where a man was cooking in front of me different types of fish, i just wanted to go out of the party with my soulmate so i insisted to take a few fish with us and cook in our privacy in the forest. A grown up lady that i suddenly recognize as someone that i know when im awake started to make me wonder of this dream and then, sadly i started waking up. So sad, i never felt in love that way, to a horse or to this native man that dont even had a name for me, just my partner, my friend, my soulmate that im not going to see again in my life. What this could mean? help me out please!!
Tatiana – You need to understand more deeply what dreams are and what strange and wonderful world they open to you. For a start your inner world is the world of dreams, and is just as real in another dimension as your waking life. So the beautiful and loving man can never ever be lost, and of course you can meet him again. But in the nature of dreams he is a shape shifter, but you will always know him through the love you feel. You can see this because at first he was the horse and then shape shifted to the man. See http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/inner-world/
The dreams tells me you have great artistic talent – or at least a destiny you are moving toward living. Maybe connected with the great art of loving all nature and life. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions/#AnimalMean
The man is our real soul mate, and is actually a real part of you that you have called out of you by loving. It will always be with you. The woman in the dream represents the worldly part of you that is not understanding the inner world.
Tony
I Dreamt About A Brown Horse Who Was Running Trying To Reach Me But Couldn’t It Kept Running Into The Fence What Does This Dream Mean?
I Had A Dream About A Brown Horse Who Was Trying To Get To Me In The Stable But Kept Running Into The Fence He Couldn’t Get To Me, Can You Tell Me What This means
I dreamt last night that as I was walking through my local shops, I saw a young horse that belonged to someone I knew but had escaped and was roaming around on its own. I had another animal with me – my dog maybe? – and I tried to call the horse so I could take it home, when it suddenly fell over in the middle of the road and couldn’t get up because it had hurt its leg. I spent the rest of the dream standing in front of the horse so no cars could hit it (it was dark, and I remember thinking it was strange that hardly any of the cars had their lights on) screaming for help but no one would stop, until finally a woman stopped and got out to help me but she was drunk, and had been drink driving. I woke up exhausted….
I’m confused with what I dreamt. I was in a Car with my mom and all of a sudden we get cut off by a Jeep that was driving crazy. Next thing I see he moves over to the other side of the street and make a huge U turn and ends up in a canal. Once we get close enough I see like 3 or 4 brown horses trying get out of the canal.
Lilly – Let me put it like this – you were going somewhere and got stopped. But you do not say who was driving the car – was it you or your mum.
The crazy driver was something that has stopped you staying in the same direction you were going. Think about it, because the horses were trapped in the jeep and the canal and are trying to escape.
Often the way we direct, socialise or control our emotions – therefore relates to relationships and goals.
The canal may also indicate what you have inherited from your family or the past in the way you direct or control your urges and emotions. So the morals you live by or the standards of behaviour you accept might be already formed from the past. That is why your natural urges – the horses – are trying to climb out. Use to help the horses – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/secrets-power-dreaming.
Tony
I dreamed of a dark horse but with human body looking still at me and I was afraid and cannot move shouting In Jesus name! for it to go away but my tongue tied and no voice would come out of my mouth until my husband woke me up everything disappeared!