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
For many years I have dreamt of one horse. He is a large brown horse. I never remember his name, no matter yow hard I try. And I can usually remember my dreams very well in full detail. In the past, we’ve always been at a sporting event, and I am rising the horse. He can jump so high and it feels real. I can feel my legs grip to hold on and I can feel him move beneath me. Last night was different. I dreamt of a female brown horse. She was beautiful and large. She loved me and even came to lay down with me and was careful enough with me not to hurt me with her large frame. When we woke, I was excited to ride. She had on high heels on two of her feet, and I laughed and took them off. I mounted her, no saddle and up the stairs and off we went. Running free and jumping over everything from cars to people. Then we came to an area that wasn’t the beat for jumping I felt. She jumped anyway, and banged her head. Then she jump over picnic tables and banged her head again. Her behavior was erratic I got down, and said we would ride no more. She was shaken but not badly hurt. Why would I dream this, and where is the male horse from my recurring dream?
I dreamed I was in an abandoned house on the second floor. There was an enormous window,and as I was looking out I saw a horse looking at me and trying to get in. I took off my jeans and laid down to take a nap. I could hear the horse struggling to get in on the floor below me. He came up to my room and I was scared and found some kind of acorn that I was trying to give him,but them he was trying to pull flesh off my back. I jumped up and round out without my jeans. I remember he was dark brown but almost looked orange,and his tail,hoofs,face were black. And I am starting a new relationship and it does scare me because I havent been with anybody in a long time
Hi I dreamt tht iws standing with my family in our yront yardwhen I saw this beautiful large white horse trying to to climb over the boundary wall. He fails so he trys to jump over the wall near to which I m standing I start to run and dodge him but he finally catches up with me trapping me. I had this feeling that the horse does not have good intentions for me
Kate – The beautiful white horse was something within you trying to become known. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions-2/#Summing
It wasn’t trying to hurt you, nothing in dreams can, but you can feel fear because you are scared of growing beyond the known. But we have to remember that having a personality with self awareness is a very new thing and has only existed for a short time. Before that we were like animals that lived only in the Life Will – what we usually call instincts. So the development of self awareness was an immense step, and left us very vulnerable, and still does
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Many people as their awareness reaches beyond what they feel is their normal self feel scared. Such resistances cause us to create awful dreams and fears as a means of avoiding our own inner world and its wonders. We feel that we will be swallowed up and we will die. It is important to say that when we meet the experience of powerlessness through becoming aware of the hugeness of you Life, which we are usually unaware if, it feels like something alien or attacking, and it is a shock.
Tony
Please respond I been thinking about this all day
Zae – The white horse with wings – called Pegasus – represent something you have achieved but are scared off probably because you do not understand what has happened.
We all have energy that keeps us alive and enables us to move, speak, think, have sexual feelings and generally do things. Generally this energy is used in things like talking, watching TV, enjoying ourselves and using all our energy. But sometimes if that energy is not lost doing frivolous things, it starts to develop higher mental abilities. In some way you have woken up these higher functions, but like most people you are scared of them because you do not realise that you are a much bigger person and are scared of your bigness.
Please read http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us-3/#Reaction – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions-2/#Summing – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/martial-art-of-the-mind/
Tony
So I dream I was sitting outside on a bench with my sister and a white horse with wings is slowly running past then she says to me someone looking at you so I look at him again this time he came to me I was scared idk y so I close my eyes and stuck out my hand as he ran past my hand he disappear
Hi, can somebody help me with this dream please:
I dream i was on a train with my boyfriend watching through the windows then i saw like an small river but all a long the river were many dead dark color horses, then one of them that has a wounded leg start getting up…then i just move to other dream, i’m very curious about this dream cause i never dream with a horse before, thanks
Romy – It seems that in your thoughts and feelings you are exploring the possibilities of life with your boyfriend.
You come across a small river with dead horses, which I see as you lacking energy to get things done or to really become what you are capable of.
If there is any truth in that, then the horse that is moving with a wounded leg you need to care for it and help it to become the wonderful energy that you have. So please see http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/secrets-power-dreaming/
Tony
I had a dream last night very wierd. I was in my old house where I used to live in the 90’s in Puerto Rico. I was in my room, windows were open, but it was kinda dark and there I was, petting a big brown horse. As I was petting him, he had this sad look. I went outside the room and minutes later, I came back in and the horse was laying in my bed, belly up. I sat down on the end of the bed and I stared at him, he quickly started turning into a man and while that was happening, suddenly I was laying next to him as we were having a sexual encounter. He turn into a brown skinned man and got in top of me and as we were hugging each other, he was asking me: “I love you, why are you doing this to me?” And I replied: “I love you too!”. Then he turn into a white man, light brown hair, green eyes, it was a beautiful man and he asked me again: Why are you doing this to me?” And then he add: “my daughter, my nice and aunts love you too!” And suddenly we were going into a party at his family’s house and it was a very beautiful and spacious house and he was happy to see them all. He introduced me to some relatives and out of nowhere there he was, sitting on a chair with a little boy just like him and he kept on asking me the same question: “Why are you doing this?”, then I stand up and while I was cleaning up the little boy’s face, I whispered in his ear: “it doesn’t matter if I’m gone for 13 years, I will always love you!”, the I looked at tje man’s eyes and caress his face, I told him in a sad tone: “I love you, but I have to go…” then I was thinking, how all that people was his family if he was just a horse turned into a man?…
I had a dream that I was riding a big hourse and there was a girl on the side of me telling me don’t be scared of it u can ride him!! She said pet his head and in my dream I did and got comfortable then took the rope and was riding myself.but all most lost control but the hourse listen to me! I got off the hourse and the hourse laid down! And just wanted to sleep cause it was tired. and I walk around it and there was this man standing there and I felt he wanted to hurt me the hourse was big real big and brown!!! What dose this mean?
W.A. First of all there are certain things you need to know about a dream animal. In dreams we live in a world that it totally different to what we experience in waking life. For a start a dream animal is an expression of your own natural and instinctive feelings. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/brain-levels-and-dreams/#mammalbrain
Your dream shows you going back to a time when you were perhaps more in touch with your natural feelings. At first your feelings were shown as a horse, but as you got closer the horse transformed into a man. This is exactly why ancient civilisation gave gods the heads of animals, or often dressed and danced as animals, because they realised that the beautiful animals were the foundations of or human nature.
Didn’t you, in your mothers womb, For grow from a seed in your mother’s womb, and as it did so took you through the whole process of evolution, through the vegetative phase as cell division, then into the reptilian phase where you had gills like a fish, and up to the mammalian. Then you entered the time when you learned the amazing computer like program called language, up until then you were a little animal and you were living in the ‘unconscious’.
So in fact we are all of the animals and still go back to the slime of reproduction to start a new life. But in your dream you are struggling with old view of what you are from believing things in waking life – “how all these people are his family if he was just a horse turned into a man?”
Well, what were you in the beginning but slime, then a vegetable, then a fish like creature, a reptile and then a mammal. Your dream was presenting you with a great truth about life. So please see http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions-2/#Summing and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
Tony
Tony, I had a dream about a horse that disturbed me. A white horse pulling a carriage. People were gathered around curious about the horse. Suddenly I heard screams because the horse began bucking and biting. Then the horse began running around out of control. My family was screaming in panic because my grandmother (who has been dead for years) was on that carriage. Eventually someone killed the horse to stop it. When we removed the buggy my grandmother was injured badly, but alive. This is when I woke up. I can seem to figure out what this dream could mean, as there are good and bad elements to it.
I was on a dirt path, and next to me was a steep ditch, then further, there was a chain link fence and here was an old couple in rocking chairs in front of an old house, there was a dead yellow horse dressed in a tuxedo jacket, and on the porch of the old house, there was a black horse. Ive had this dream multiple times…
Lauren – The feeling I get from your dream is that you have taken a direction in your life that is not popular. The ditch too does not sound like a pathway to success. The old couple, dead horse and black horse do not sound like a way to success, but maybe a dead end. But that is my idea, so why not find out for yourself by using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
Tony
I had a dream that it was midnight with a very bright shiny moon. I was standing in front of my old house on the side walk. One white huge horse shows up on this sidewalk and starts galloping at full speed towards me. To the point where I was going I was pushing up on my white picket fence to not be run over.I was not very scared. Then another white huge horse showed up on the opposite side of the street parallel to the other on the opposite sidewalk. Then both horses faced each other and blue lightning seemed to be coming out their heads towards each other. By then I was in the middle of the street looking at the horses in awe. What was the meaning of this dream?
An excellent and in-depth explanation on the horse. Thank you for putting this up, good information is hard to find.
Thank you Ros. Most of the insights came through people sending me so many of their dreams, it became a non stop learning process.
Tony
I was in a car with a lover ..in my dream it was a famous actor. We were on a lovers cliff..aliens sent a light that took the car and us in it. We were going to be examined. In the realm we were in we had the ability to turn into horses. We turned into horses. I was a white horse he the same. We had a son. The aliens Saud they were finish examining us and instead of killing us they would send us back after 10 years of being away to be with our true loves. We went back everyone was surprised.I explained to my true love my ability to transform into a horse but not in this realm.
Any thoughts?
Please help me interpret my dream I first saw a beautiful yellow horse and then when I thought it was so large an even bigger yellow horse came they stood face to face and then to knew it was the male the male took the female horse with a female rider that suddenly appeared and threw them on his back and galloped. Into the clouds
Shoba – A huge horse is the enormous power of your harnessed instincts. In other words you love animals, and so are accepting the inner animal that you are. The male power is very powerful and because you are in touch with it, it is lifting you up into a wider view of life. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/brain-levels-and-dreams/ and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/kundalini/
Tony
I meant childhood “home” In my post.
Dear Tony,
I dreamed I saw my childhood and in the yard next to our home there was a male horse standing still and there were two female dogs beside him. One of the dogs was laying down at rest on her belly. The other dog was running around her, like in a circle.. The ground was worn out like, you could see the circle around the dog at rest. Then the dog running around began to bite at the horse jumping up at it. The horses legs grew taller to prevent the jumping dog from biting him. The horse didn’t have a rider. What does this dream imply?