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Quite a few years have passed by since I last connected to a horse and I miss them. I rode horses since I was 12 years old up until I was 28. I could never afford my own so I helped out at a local riding school and was then fortunate enough to have a horse on loan from the stables.
He was a lovely horse called Noddy, yes I know, not a great name and rather badly chosen I thought as he was such a lovely, bright, loyal, gentleman of a horse who loved to ride out in the countryside and have the space to gallop. There is nothing like the feeling of being on the back of such a powerful animal speeding across the fields, watching the ground fly by under his hooves, knowing that he is enjoying this just as much as you are, feeling the power of his muscles as he collects to jump over a bale of straw, flying through the air, landing, and galloping away, fantastic. Noddy used to be a point to point horse and he just loved to run. I used to sit on his back in the stable and lean down and cuddle into his neck and he would just stand there taking in the love. It was a sad day when we had to part; he was sold by the stables. They say that within your lifetime there is one horse which you really connect with, the one, he was my one.
I rode on and off for a few years and also spent 6 months riding in New Zealand which was amazing. I really found a connection with a bay mare called Belle. She was so clever, knew her job, knew how to get out of trouble if we got into any scrapes, which we did. You could really depend on her but she did not stand for any crap. If she got the slightest notion that she was being taken for granted she would do something to keep you on your toes. If I wasn’t concentrating when jumping fences out in the fields she would refuse and allow me to go over the fence first, so kind, then give me a look which said “that’s your own fault!” you could almost see her laughing.
When I got back to England I struggled to find anywhere to ride, the stables I used to go to had moved, and I didn’t want to just pay to go riding for an hour, jump on the horse, ride, then get off and go home. I wanted that friendship and bond which you get with being around horses and the people at the stables, I suppose I wanted that friendly family atmosphere we had at the stables which had now gone.
After a couple of years I started a course in equine studies and met a great lady on the course. At the same time I completed my Angelic Reiki 1 & 2. We got chatting about reiki and how I missed the horses and she asked if I had ever done reiki on a horse, which I hadn’t but thought it was a great idea. Horses are such open creatures and so special how they can show you unconditional love that I thought that they would be open to the healing energies of the angels. So I gave it a go.
What an experience! The first horse I offered healing to was a mare who was quite, how shall I put it, stroppy. She was forceful, dominant and was not keen on a lot of people. So as you can imagine I was a bit hesitant when I walked up to her stable. However, I was holding my quartz angelic crystal in my hand and I stood at her door and showed the crystal and asked her if I could give her some healing. I felt that she was willing but with this horse was not sure if this was just to get me into the stable then take a chunk out of me with her teeth. But I trusted her and slowly went into the stable. I placed the crystal on the stable door and she went up to it and had a sniff and then just stood. So I started, I put my hands on her, one on her chest and one on her side, closed my eyes and asked my healing angel to step forward and channel the healing energy through me into the mare. I was guided to a number of different parts of her body, slowly moving around her so not to spook her and always having my hands on her, at one point I was stood at the back of her with both my arms around her back end, my head resting just next to her tail, tuning into her base and sacral chakras, now that was trust! Thank god she didn’t fart.
I didn’t see much during the healing session with the mare but I was intuitively drawn to a few areas on her body which needed healing and was told by her owner that she did have some issues which is why I was asked to give her some healing. The mare herself was just lapping up the energy and just stood with her head resting, eyes half closed and just soaked up every bit of energy. I was still relatively new to healing I finished the session by asking the angels to watch over the mare in the next few days and told the owner to have plenty of water available but totally forgot to ground the mare back to her body. I left the stable and about 15 minutes later the lady who owned the mare came up to me and asked me what I had done as the mare had not moved since I came out of the stable, she was still standing in the same place and her eyes were half closed which was not like her at all. Usually the mare was trying to nip anyone who went past, or stamping or calling out to her friends or picking on the horse in the next stable. To just stand there was not like her at all. I thought, oh my god, what have I done to her. I admit I was scared. Then I realised that I had not grounded her so the mare was still away with the angels. So I went back into the stall, placed my hands on her once more and grounded her by sending her roots down into the ground and asking the angels to bring her back slowly. I stayed with her for about 5 minutes, thanked her, then left and within a couple of minutes of leaving her stable the mare let out the biggest and loudest whinny as if to say, ‘how dare you bring me back here!’ and stamped her hoof. It was very funny.
I did quite a few healings that summer which was a lovely and special time but this time I was the one to move away so again lost contact with my horsey friends.
I still have one horse which is around me though, my horse spirit guide. When I ache for that special friendship with a horse I close my eyes and spend some time with him. He is white, ok a grey, quite heavy and just over 16 hands, I regularly lay down with him in his meadow or take walks with him through the woods talking about this and that. He is wise, compassionate and loving, also strong, brave and can be fierce if he needs to be. He gives me guidance when I ask for it, listens if I have a lot to say, sends me unconditional love and tells me to stop being daft when I need to hear it. I know that in the future when the time is right I will again have some horse friends around me.
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