Conversations With Oak

This is a series of telepathic translations with my horse. She has agreed to share, and also to help bridge the connection with the greater collective consciousness of horses during the communications. Please enjoy and also understand that the information is altered as little as possible in the process of being translated and transcribed through me.

 

February 8th 2026

When we are born into domestication, we enter willingly into the domesticated relationship with humans. Being valued and respected and honored for our services and contributions, is rewarding and a big part of the benefit for us. Some of us have more difficult jobs than others but that is the path of the individual, just like some humans have much more labor intensive work and harder conditions. Being loved and appreciated as a family member or understood and cherished a competitive athlete, can be very fulfilling.

The transition from being completely free to captive within a lifetime can be a big change to go through. If there is fear in our capture or containment, and we are separated from our horse family it may be a more difficult scenario to settle into. We do appreciate some of the luxuries of being domesticated (ample hay, feed) and fulfilling relationships with our humans is one of them. Some of the conditions we may experience as a result of domestication are accepted as part of the deal – it’s not much different than health conditions that may arise for a human that lives life in a more contained or static way.

 

February 1st 2026

When we are out with a herd moving across land, time and the constraints and programs of domestication are lessened. When we interact with each other in free movement and energetic exchange, our open expression moves energy through our physical body and we help each other with processing. Our nervous systems are in harmony with the natural flow and rhythm of the day, and we follow the flow with ease to maintain this natural synchronized state. Whatever is happening in the moment is the most important thing, and is processed fully (without judgement or residual opinion). When I am in a paddock with fencing around me and between any other horses and me, the interaction and energetic exchange is restricted. My physical body has less movement and so there is more restriction and blocked energy – it’s not possible to do some of the more exuberant movements and WITH other horses, that help to keep my energy flowing clear and strong.

Some patterns of domestication require us to be polite (incongruent), blocking or inhibiting natural energetic expressions and processes that keep us and our relationships clear and flowing. Humans have a sort of top coat or layer or film of incongruence. You interact on a superficial level with MANY people, sometimes even many at the same time, directly and indirectly. Your tight constraints of a schedule and the rigid restriction of time can prevent natural flow and processing, decreasing the frequency of more exuberant expressions and honest in-depth interactions with each other. The constant prevailing focus of a schedule and the need to interact with many others in this polite, surface level way, can cause a kind of buzz or staticky nervous system. If you take enough time and relax plans about all the things that you think you want to do within a visit, being around us can help slow your breathing and harmonize your nervous system.

 

January 25th 2026

Many contrasting situations between us and humans come from a lack of acceptance. It’s like you are ordering French fries and we are a sweet potato, and you keep saying, “french fries, french fries is what I want” and we keep BEING (producing) a sweet potato. When we are unable to perform a specific movement or task and choose an alternative movement that is undesirable to you, angering doesn’t help. If you become frustrated, the best thing to do in most cases is to stop and process your own emotional wave, and use your (human) planning brain to make plans for something different before returning to the challenging interaction. This could take a minute or days or weeks. Sometimes you might seek help to resolve the contrast before returning to the interaction with us. It’s not that we are trying to teach you in these more difficult types of interactions, but that we are simply being as we are. It is your lesson to learn to accept and to educate your own mind and body-being, to know what to do in order to help us participate in the interaction with greater ease and harmony.

It is of high value to educate our physical bodies for movements and tasks that we will be asked to participate in, when we are young and developing. The undesirable movement pattern that you may identify as a “behavioral issue” is one that restores or maintains safety in our body and nervous system. We are not deciding to do a certain behavior – it simply arises as a pathway that the body has taken previously (sometimes thousands of times over many years) in order to maintain safety. When the habits are strongly developed and established, your physical interaction with presence (timing) and fluidity and clarity (feel) can be the most effective in helping to change. To re-educate the habitual movement patterns, offer new viable/realistic options, BEFORE the habitual old safety pattern becomes necessary. Great clarity of the new option, including knowing what is physically possible for us and then presenting the option in the movement moment, can help immensely. Then shorten the length of, or ease the task, to something that feels good and is over before we are sparked to need the old safety pattern.

 

January 18th 2026

People aren’t really available to listen. It starts with being present (in your body). When you are going about the day rushing here and there, it could take a major rhythm shift to get slowed down enough to what we (horses) are doing or how we are being. We are moving much more slowly and to listen means getting in tune with that slower rhythm to allow space for feedback, for (my) expression to be received. The exchange is much richer and slower than most people’s pace and depth of awareness. Quieting/clearing the mind is an important aspect of listening, because if you are constantly making plans and focused mentally on what you want to do, and what you want me/us to do with you, there isn’t really space for me to offer anything or even be received/heard within the task completion process. Moving together is a good way to get into a flow state with us. The focus on moving and how it feels to be and move in your body, takes your mind off all the planning activity and busyness. And the movement syncs us up so we are both present in the same movement moment together.