June is the month of summer vacation, picnics, Solstice, parades and finding peaceful solace under shady trees. In this green pasture of time, grazes our power animal of the month: Horse.
Horses have long been associated with the yang principle of masculine energies, because of their ability to take quick, powerful and decisive action, for their own sake and for the aid of humans. Horses are earth-bound and grounded: their hooves listen to the wisdom of the terrain, their nostrils sense danger, their instincts tell them when to go, when to stop, and who is friend or foe.
Yet because horses gallop and jump, riding one feels like flying through the air. This heavenly sensation, (terrifying for some), along with their keen sensitivity and extraordinary communication skills, makes horse a magnificently powerful and gentle being, all at once. This yin-yang quality is doubly emphasized in renditions of Pegasus and Unicorn.
These four-legged masterpieces of creation are deeply instinctual, passionate and sexual: their physical prowess and speed awes and delights and lifts the load us rational humans carry. The horse has been credited with the greatest contribution to modern civilization, for they were the precursor to the steam engine. Without their ability AND willingness to carry us tremendous distances, communities would be separated, native tribes would have become extinct, and most of us would not be living in the wild west (aka Santa Barbara) today.
Horse: hardworking, quick running, wild, free, domesticated, strong willed, rebellious, powerful, passionate, beautiful, helpful, carrier of heavy things, intelligent, sensitive, wary, quiet, still, gentle, bucking, galloping, racing, flying through the air.
When Horse makes an appearance in the Dreamtime and in waking, approach him/her respectfully, expose the contents of your own heart, trust him, but trust yourself too, ask him to take you places you have never been, to help you embark on the hero’s journey, to guide you towards your instincts, to allow passion into your life, or to reign it in if it is destroying you.
Horse is here to show you how to move ideas from the realm of dreams to the arena of action; to help you become spiritual grounded, embodied, in a way that will allow you to be of service to others.
