Could Photos of our Horses be Contributing to the Energy Underneath Their Dysfunction?

My mare seems to think so, and she’s not alone. 

Yesterday during a meditation she came to me with a gelding I was about to have a session with — they had a message on behalf of the collective. 

If you can’t be mindful, deliberate, and conscious when you are looking at photos of us… stop taking them. 

We are in an age of documentation and comparison, and don’t get me wrong, from a human point of view I think before and afters are very helpful, but the horses are encouraging us to consider the messages we are sending them when we analyze photos. 

For almost a decade now I’ve been connecting with animals through their photos. Just looking at their photo and placing my intention on it is enough to open up their world into mine. To feel what they’re feeling, to learn what they know, to send and receive detailed and intimate information. 

If I can open that channel of energy through a photo, what’s happening when I take photos for analysis? Or when I take a photo and admire it? Or when we take photos to capture something beautiful only to look at it and lose the feeling. 

The gelding's higher self came forward; Even photos that are a result of the nicest cameras with the nicest lenses need editing - why is that?

Would you edit the experience and try to see something differently if you were just living it? 

Not so much, because the way it made you feel is why you’re taking a photo in the first place. 

Then humans look at a photo and something within them says; This isn’t alive, let’s alter it to make it so — why not be with the aliveness in front of you? Humans are always chasing something they’re constantly giving away, and they don’t even recognize it. 

The horse collective has strongly encouraged this consideration. 

Funny enough, the two horses who came through had photos taken of them very recently. I was out saying hello to my horses, and stopped in my tracks at the beauty and energy of my mare (pictured above). She’s stunning in all ways, and her spirit radiates. I wanted to take a photo and keep it forever, or share it with the world so everyone can admire how beautiful she is along with me. But something happened… when I shared the photo, I noticed muscle striations in her shoulders that I didn’t before. My energy, subtly shifted into a lower vibrational energy - one rooted in worry or concern, or simply further away from the love and awe I was experiencing before. The photo took a beautiful 3D energetic representation of her body, flattened it into a 2D representation of curves and lines and tried to convince me it’s who she is. 

The photo is her body, not who she is, she reminded me. The reason for taking the photo in the first place is what I should be chasing and amplifying. Not the photo. 

Alternatively, there are moments where we absolutely adore seeing our animals in photos, like the gelding who came through with her. He’s photogenic, his person always feels he looks good in photos, even in comparison. They can be a way to share in joy with others, and to send amplified energy to our animals, if we are mindful. 

So what are our horses feeling when we look at photos in joy, and love and admiration? What about when we look at their weight, their muscles, their feet?

It depends. 

What matters is that we become conscious and aware of how we are feeling when we are looking at photos, and focus on the reason we are taking them in the first place. The aliveness, the soul within the physical representation.  

The 'reason' for the photo is where the lessons are 🤍. There’s an individual behind that photo, and they hear and feel you. 

Love,

Fern, Malachai and the Equine Collective