The Horse
Horses carry, run and bolt. People log them as wild, as white, or simply as horses.
What Jung wrote
In Symbols of Transformation Jung writes about the horse at length. He saw it as the animal side of human nature, the instinctual energy that carries a rider forward, and he noted how often myth credits horses with seeing what people cannot, sensing danger or finding the way home.
A horse is power that can be ridden. Whether it carries the rider or throws them depends on the relationship between the two, and Jung took that relationship between consciousness and instinct to be one of the central tasks of a life.
- C. G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation, Collected Works, Vol. 5
What the world is logging
Logged with the mood
- Sad36%
- Calm18%
- Anxious18%
- Angry18%
- Happy9%
Where it is logged most
- Türkiye4
- Colombia3
- Italy2
- United States1
- Kazakhstan1
Most common moon phase
Waning Crescent (3 entries)
Counted from anonymous Archetype Matrix entries. Updated October 8, 2026.
What we don’t do
We won’t tell you what your horse means. Jung himself distrusted fixed dream dictionaries and held that a symbol can only be read in the life of the person who dreams it. Archetype Matrix only counts: who logged the same image, where, and in what mood.
Other symbols
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