“The year is a stallion running through twelve changes; the month is a mare that bears a foal in thirty days; the day is a horse with four feet, white, red, yellow, and black; the hour is a swift-footed steed that gallops through sixty steps.”
~ Sri Aurobindo
Ever since I was a young boy I have had a certain affinity with horses. Attending camp in north Jersey, the stable master named a few of the ponies Crosby, Stills, and Nash. It was the early 1970s and I hadn’t even out grown the Banana Splits, yesteryears version of Pee Wee Herman or Blue. Crosby in particular was an irascible blonde and reddish Halflinger who was as nasty as he was strikingly beautiful. Most campers couldn’t ride Crosby because he’s turn around and bite their feet, or run so close to the corral fence that riders would get pretty banged up.
One day the stable master had enough and mounted poor Crosby and rode the piss out of him. Anytime Crosby turned to bite he was summarily kicked in the teeth. His rider then grabbed the reins tight and pulled with all his might while digging his spurs into his belly and whipped the snot out of him. Crosby reared up, and bucked to no avail. He was under the cruel command of an angry and tortuous master who was intent on delivery a simple message, “behave or else.”
As fate would have it I was the stable boy assigned to Crosby after this ordeal. Crosby was never a problem for me. I’m not sure why but I think that’s one of the reasons I was assigned to him. He behaved for me and didn’t need to be punished into submission. It’s almost as if we could just talk about things and he’d settle down.
Horses are prescient beings and communicate incredibly well without words. Their eyes especially are filled with a ghostly knowing, or at least that is what it seems in my experience.
There is a power in the horse that by form and appearance is self evident. But as a rider the experience of the power of the horse is altogether another matter. Symbolically Sri Aurobindo also referenced the ides of horse power in spiritual work: “The Horse is the symbol of Power in motion—often of the Power that makes for rapid progress in sadhana. The horse is a force acting for progress.”
In Aurobindo’s work the horse represents not just power and progress but also the dynamic force of Time itself, embodying its vastness and creative energy. If I might compare myself to any animal I wish that I might find myself comparable to the horse, the Time Spirit, and not by half(linger).
HVA
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Hudson Valley Astrologer 
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