The Horse

Strengths

• ✦Overflowing vital energy
• ✦Sincere generosity and loyalty
• ✦Deep emotional sensitivity
• ✦A healthy need for movement and freedom

Shadows

• ◦Fleeing from whatever confines you
• ◦Nervousness and raw reactions
• ◦Difficulty committing for the long haul

In love

You love with a momentum that sweeps everything along, but you need to feel the door stays open, even if you never walk through it. You give a rare loyalty to whoever earns your trust without pulling on the reins, and you rear up at the first attempt at control. What you dread is the paddock disguised as love: the questions about where you were, the sulking silences when you come home late.

At work

You need work that moves: fieldwork, travel, short missions, goals that can be reached at a gallop. You shine when you are given the launch of a project — the kick-off, the prospecting, the training of a team, anything that calls for energy and generosity. What drains you is the closed office, the procedure that never changes, and the boss who watches your hours instead of your results.

Taming its shadow

You run away, and you call it freedom. Next time the urge to leave takes you — a place, a relationship, a project — stay twenty-four hours longer and write down what you really feel underneath the impatience: it is often a fear, not a need for space. Learn to tell cages from fences: some barriers protect a meadow where you can run.

When it calls you

The Horse calls you when you dream of galloping with no rider, when your legs itch under the desk, when a path, a road or a train ticket presents itself to you for no reason. He often comes when you have lived too long in cramped quarters, in a daily life that has stopped letting you breathe. He asks you to move, but also to decide towards what — running with no direction is just another form of confinement.