The animal itself
Horses sleep standing through a locking mechanism in the legs, but must lie down for REM sleep. A horse that never lies down is a horse that does not feel safe.1 of 2 calendars · 1,620 searches a month
Horse
The horse is read as drive that needs somewhere to go. It appears in one of the two birth calendars we cover. The two are presented online as interchangeable, yet they name the same animal on only 17 days of 365 — 4.7% of the year.
Which calendar assigns it, and when
Celtic calendar
8 July – 4 August
Its tree
Holly
Only the Celtic calendar assigns this one. Anyone born in these dates gets a different animal from the other system — the two agree on 4.7% of days →
What it stands for, and where that came from
Drive that needs somewhere to go — energy that turns destructive when penned.
Honoured in: Celtic Epona, the only Gaulish deity Rome adopted wholesale; Norse Sleipnir; Chinese zodiac.
Counted across all 39 animals
Where the horse sits
22/39
animals here carry a birth-date range. The other 17 are symbols
people choose, not ones a date assigns.
4.7%
of the year — 17 days out of 365 —
is where the two calendars name the same animal. The rest of the time they
disagree.
14th
most looked-up of the 39 animals we cover.
Both calendars are published online as though interchangeable. They are not, and the disagreement is the reason two sites can give you different animals for the same birthday. How the two calendars differ →
Searched about as often
Horse is ranked 14 of 39 by search demand. Of all 39 animals here, 22 sit in one of the two birth-date calendars and 17 are searched as symbols only.