Dreaming the Soul Back Home by Robert Moss

Author:Robert Moss
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781608680597
Publisher: New World Library

MARE’S WAY TO COLORADO

A horse dream carried a woman through the pain of a bruising divorce. It gave her the courage to cross a continent, as a single mother with young kids, and to make a new life that included writing and publishing her first novel. Her name is Michele Lewis, and I’ll let her tell her story in her own words.

My life would have been very different without the horse dream, which came after my very painful divorce. I had two small children, aged two and five, and I was torn. I felt called to leave

our home in Maine and move to Colorado. I wanted mountains, adventure, and a fresh start. But my ex and the families on both sides were in Maine. I couldn’t be that selfish, could I? After some agonizing, I asked for dream guidance. I wrote down, “Should I or should I not move to Colorado?”

I dreamed I was with an older woman, someone I know only from dreams. We were leading two pregnant mares across the country. The journey was long and difficult over the seemingly endless plains, and I worried that the horses would not survive the trip. Finally, we came to the borders of a spacious and lovely farm and led the horses through the opening or archway in a fence line. We walked up the driveway toward the buildings.

Right away, the horse I had been leading went into labor. I didn’t know what to do. I had never delivered a colt. The feet were coming out first, and I thought, “Oh, no! A breech birth! Is that how it’s supposed to come out?” I guided the legs out and helped the mother as best I could. Eventually the whole body slid out into my arms. It was warm and sticky, and didn’t seem to be breathing. I tried to clear its airway.

At last, the colt took in a long, deep breath; but it was more than that — it was like I had taken my first breath of life, like the whole world had inhaled. I felt exhilarated and yet peaceful, my whole body charged. Then I remember saying to the mother horse, “Don’t get too attached to it. The owner may not let us keep it.”

The older woman who had journeyed with us guided me to a horse trailer that was lavishly furnished, presumably for the new colt. She said, “I don’t think we have to worry about the owner. He’s invested a lot in this one.” I felt relieved, and I became aware that we had one more horse with us that could give birth anytime.

When I awoke in the morning, the answer to my question was entirely clear to me. The move to Colorado would be a challenging and painful crossing, but it would result in the renewal/rebirth of my life. The newborn colt came to have multiple possible interpretations for me: it was my own self, my books to come, perhaps my own children, who would also be along for the ride.

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