Becoming Worthy of a Horse

I used to love horses for their physicality. Now I’m so captured by all the extraordinary things that can’t be seen – their wisdom, their personalities, their love of each other, their knowing of the future, their playfulness and their capacity to read a human in an instant.

As a kid I loved galloping with my sister on dirt roads through huge pine forests. I loved plaiting manes and tails. I was taken with the wild speed and beauty of horses.

Now I love the telepathic relationships I have with them.

I adore falling into tears as I feel them shed layers of past traumas and their relief streams through me.

I delight in bringing visitors to the paddock and having the horses share healing insights about the person which I translate.

I love working every day to help them recover their true wild spirits that were stolen away by insensitive human demands.

The horse nature is generally one of unusual compliance. They are extraordinarily gracious and forgiving in their relationships with people. It’s very unusual for a horse to protest against something wrong or undesirable in the way that a human would. I must be ever careful to listen closely enough to catch the feeling of their own true desires.

I love the way I’m becoming more horse-like in the way I completely forget some discord that happened only 3 minutes ago.

I am dedicated to their togetherness. I dream of a world where each horse is born knowing their father. And where they roam free in family herds on spacious land where there’s endless opportunity to gallop and play.

Conversations with horses are helping me to understand conversations with God. Every now and then I find myself pausing and wondering, Hang on – did I just say that to the horse or did the horse just say that to me?. And then I’ve realised that it was actually God making information known to both the horse and I together.

I am learning more and more to view each horse not as a distinct individual but also as a reflection of the entirety of the horse collective. Their behaviour is not fueled by their personal experience alone. They are also informed by the unified field of every other living horse on the planet. Horses are herd animals and as such, they feel each other deeply. The inner workings of one are felt by all their paddock mates. But their sensitivity also extends far beyond their immediate surroundings. There is an energetic web around the earth that holds the awareness of all creatures. Horses live in attunement with this network, contributing their feelings to it and receiving back the feelings from their kin across the world. They are alert to the planetary herd.

We humans are also herd animals. The richness of community connection can offer so much that helps us rise up and thrive. Technology can deter us from reaching for enough of that togetherness in person. The more time we spend with sensitive creatures, the more we can feel our own hearts, recover our connectivity and deepen our empathic capacity to feel the plight of our own kin both near and far.