10/11/2026
In the medicine space with horses we often talk about what it feels like to be seen and witnessed by horses.
To be truly seen- not what we’re projecting, wearing, or how we’re pretending— but who we actually are and what is actually inside of us. We know that horses can sense our heartbeat from a good distance away, and they can smell our physical chemistry and hormones— but else can they sense?
I am someone who is always existing on the fringe. As the line of what is considered normal shuffles outwards— I continue to move further and further towards the edge.
For most of my life, I have not needed proof of what I believe and what I sense. And since I was little I have known that horses see me. And I also see them. Not just what they look like, or what is written all over their bodies. I see something else— I see their energy bodies, their auras, and I feel their stories. It doesn’t take me long to understand a horse— bc I look beyond the surface. How do they feel? What threads of story and medicine move under their skin? What is being communicated around them— who are their ancestors, where have they been, and what have they experienced?
In the time that I have been a guardian of my current herd, I have learned a lot about the healing process and the necessity of time and space. And it makes me think about how many horses don’t get that. When they arrive at a new home— most of the time they are thrown into their new life. Expectations, agendas, pressure. And so who they are— the unseen, un-tended layers of who they truly are— stay hidden.
Horses are so much more. So much more than how we’ve chosen to see them. There is a reason so many of us are drawn to them— their wild, untamed magic. They each have their own wisdom and gifts. Ways that they like to experience life and connect with the world around them. The roles they hold in a herd. The gifts of what they give each other.
We are only just beginning to brush the surface. We are only just starting to see them— and as we open more space for who they are to emerge in our worlds…the magic of horses. In order to truly see them and appreciate them- we have to stop using and abusing them. We have to start.