Horse spirit animal meaning and symbolism

Remember that whatever you focus on grows in power and strength. By learning to change the direction in which you channel your energy, you’ll be able to reclaim the spark that you’ve temporarily lost. And with that spark, you’ll have more fuel to stay confident, motivated, grounded, and aligned with your Higher Purpose.

3. Passion and motivation

On a similar, but slightly different note, the Horse Spirit Animal also symbolizes that which motivates and impassions us in life.

When we don’t know what drives us on a spiritual and emotional level, we wind up feeling lost, empty, and restless.

So here are some important questions for you: what lights a fire within you? What makes you want to go running for miles and miles? What is worth dedicating massive amounts of energy to? What do you value and cherish? What are you devoted to? What would you like to master in this life above all else?

You’ll greatly benefit from asking these questions at this point in your life. More focus needs to be given to self-actualization. When you know what drives you, and when you channel that awareness into what you do, you’ll be able to move much further and faster than you ever thought was possible.

When it comes to obstacles and blocks in life, the best course of action for you right now is to keep moving! In nature, the only natural form of defense Horse has is to run and keep going.

In other words, if you need guidance surrounding overcoming a hurdle in your life, the answer is to move on, change directions, or propel yourself with momentum. The worst option would be to stay still, stop, or become stagnant.

4. Finding inner balance

The final message of the Horse Spirit Animal is balancing the instinctual and tamed part of your nature.

When we observe Horse, we can see how she adapts quite well to both tamed and wild modes of living. The idea here is that there’s an imbalance within your nature: either you have explosive outbursts of emotion, or you are too repressed, restrained, and controlled with your emotions.

In either case, more balance is needed. If you struggle with taming emotions such as anger, outrage, disgust, etc., Horse will help you to “put the leash” on these emotions as they are creating suffering in your life.

Whether this involves a simple breathwork technique or a more holistic practice, Horse will help you access the knowledge you need.

If, on the other hand, emotional containment is a problem for you, Horse will help you to loosen up. She will explore with you what childhood wounds or unconscious beliefs have led you to be overly controlling with your emotions.

Letting out your emotions in a healthy way is beneficial for your well-being. It doesn’t make you “weak” or “sappy.” Expressing how you feel in a balanced way is a sign of strength.
When we are able to balance both our instinctual and tamed nature, we are able to find more inner peace and harmony with others and life in general.

Horse spirit animal mantra and affirmations

You can use these mantras and affirmations to get in touch with the Horse Spirit Animal and bring its wisdom into your life:

• I have the freedom to choose
• I reclaim my personal power
• I take responsibility for my well-being
• I liberate myself

Horse power animal

Power Animals help us to tap into our hidden strengths (or inner power) and can be invoked and evoked through our behavior to help us rediscover our Wholeness.

If you’d like to invoke or evoke Horse as your Power Animal, focus on the following keywords in your journaling, visualization, or meditation practice:

• Freedom
• Entrapment
• Empowerment
• Liberation
• Self-Confidence
• Authenticity
• Personal Power
• Fire
• Strength
• Motivation
• Self-Actualization
• Proactivity
• Sexuality
• Wildness
• Instinct
• Repression
• Self-Doubt
• Tamed
• Self-Expression
• Emotional Balance

Do any of these keywords that define Horse as your Power Animal stand out to you? If so, be sure to call on Horse to help you embody one of these qualities (or release the negative qualities if they’re holding you back).

Background info on horses

Horses are beautiful and majestic creatures that come in over 350 breeds. The smallest breed of horse is the Falabella breed which stands at 81 centimeters tall, and the largest is the Shire breed which stands at 173 centimeters high.

Male horses are called stallions, female horses are called mares, and baby horses are called colts (for males) and fillies (for females).

It is believed that humans first domesticated horses around 5,500 years ago. Since then, humankind has forged a close connection with the horse species. It is estimated that there are around 60 million horses worldwide, with the oldest known species being the Arabian horse.

Interestingly, horses can sleep while standing up, but groups of horses won’t go to sleep all at the same time. At least one horse will stay awake to look out for the others.

Horses are also very expressive creatures: like humans, they can use different facial expressions to communicate their emotions.

Also, unlike popular belief, horses aren’t completely color-blind. They can, however, see some colors better than others. The eyes of the horse are bigger than any other land mammal, and because they sit on either side of the horse’s head, they possess 360-degree vision.

Horses also have humongous teeth! The space occupied by their teeth is larger than that occupied by their brain. When it comes to speed, a regular horse can gallop at 27 miles per hour (the fastest horse on record could gallop at 55 mph!).