Equus

My neighbor's horse, Angel:     1/11/20
CC Jean Stimmell

Two takes on Equus:

1)  A distinguishing feature of Jungian analysis is the concept of archetypes, symbols rising from the dark, deep psychic pool of the collective unconscious where humanity’s common experience is stored.

Archetypes express a complex of images and emotions that surround the defining experiences of human life.  One of the most commonly recurring archetypes is the Horse: 

“The Horse archetype throughout the ages has been closely linked with our instinctive, primal drives." –Taken from https://jeanraffa.wordpress.com/tag/dream-symbol-of-horse/

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2) While Linda Kohanov, in her book The Tao of Equus, makes the case that horses relate to the world from a primarily feminine, or yin perspective:

"As a result, the species is a living example of the success and effectiveness of feminine values, including cooperation over competition, responsiveness over strategy, emotion and intuition over logic, process over goal, and the creative approach to life that these qualities engender.”