Life of a white rhino

When I connect with the energy of the White Rhino there is a deep reservoir of ancient knowledge that is accessed by the Rhino. I am connecting in particular with a White Rhino that is unknown to me. This feeling of ancient knowledge is kept in the DNA. It is something that all rhinos hold within their DNA. Their history and their blueprint. This rhino is coming up to me and is sniffing me. It feels like the rhino is seeing inside of me. The female that is in my presence is using her ears to listen to me and her nose to smell me and even her taste to taste what I am like. Rhino vision is not very good so that sense is not their main sense. She says she can hear the blood coursing through my veins and tells me to drink more water. She is so right. She is wiggling her ears in different directions and is just standing to my right side. She is just taking me in to see how I am, how I function and it is a way of being together. What humans would consider hanging out. Now she is asking me to follow her and to feel what it is like to be her. We are walking. I am behind her and I can see her feet as they fall to the ground and act as suspension cushions for her large body. Her ears are still wiggling front and back - she is also checking where I am. Her tail moves from side to side. She is calm. She is showing me what it's like to be rhino and she wants me to know what it feels like to share with humans. She wants me to share what it's like so humans can connect on a personal level. She says humans find it difficult to connect. They are not connected to nature and themselves like the animals. The animals, she says, are connected to their bodies fully. She says we know when the rain comes, when Earth moves. We smell it, we hear it, we feel it through out legs and bodies. I am asking her if it's like the elephants. She says it's similar but not the same. She says the elephants are a different frequency and they feel different things at the frequency that they are at. She is telling me that the natural world is very well organized. She says that each of us have our purpose and our place. She is showing me that everything works together and the idea that things are separate as we humans think is not true. She says her kind know that their time on the planet is limited. She is telling me that humans are unable to see beauty. She said humans did see beauty at some time but then they became disconnected. Becoming disconnected means they do not see the beauty in the life that is present. They also want to own everything that they can. I cannot explain very well to her about the resources that humans use like money and that what she is describing is materialism - these are all human constructs that do not make sense in the animal world. What I am explaining to her is that humans are trying to hurt rhinos because they use the horn in medicine. She is looking at me very strangely. She is telling me that that is not what happens. It is not the horn that gives what humans are looking for it is the essence of who we are. She says I can share the essence of who I am very easily with humans if they only ask. Yes, I agree humans just take they do not understand that animals are beings that have an internal part to them (internal reality). She is agreeing with me. She wants to show me how she browses (this is indeed, such a treat because she is letting me into rhino life! I want to apologize to her and to tell her from me and other humans are trying to help rhino's that we do love and care for them as a species and that she means a great deal to all of us). She just looked at me, she heard it. Her head in the air, her horn higher still. She sniffs and stops chewing. Then she turns her huge body around and she is facing me. She stops and I am waiting. This is a special moment I do not want to interrupt. She is rather surprised. From what the rhino clan had told her humans cannot wait and need to do everything now. Humans are ones that destroy rhino families and lives. As she comes to me she puts her snout in my belly. She looks at me with her small and yet meaningful eyes. She is sniffing me and she decides I might be ok and that sharing space, energy and information is safe (I am honored). She is asking me if I really want to feel what it's like to be rhino? I tell her it would be an honor to do this. She is moving in front of me again. Looking at me with her meaningful eyes. She says:-
Don't let them take all of us away. We are part of the past (history) of this place (planet). Tell humans that we have beating hearts. Tell humans that we are of the land and we allowed to be here. Tell them that touching our essence is not via our nose (horn). It is via our essence. We are rhino and we can share who rhino is if humans ask.
(I sat for a moment and she was still in front of me. Her words hit my heart like small arrows. Not because they were unkind but because they were so poignant. It was how she and her fellow rhino's feel. They are peaceful (when left in their territory and not trifled with, most especially when they have a calf. All Mothers protect their offspring with a strength and fierceness that is innate. She looks at me again. I am still sitting down and she is much larger than me. She moves a few steps closer and her horn is right up to my nose. I know it is sharp. Her ears are wiggling around again. She is listening, always listening to the sounds around her. She is sniffing. Sniffing me. I blow out of my nose a little and she sniffs my breath. This is amazing at the same time so intimidating. Rhino's are a few tonnes in size and I am petite by comparison. She moves back a little and then she turns her body around and begins to trot away. She is wiggling her tail and turns her head slightly not too much and her eye is towards me. I feel the urge to trot and follow her. She is asking me to follow. So I get up and begin to follow her. She begins to gallop a little. She is fast. So much faster than I could ever be, I would have to sprint to keep up with her. She is telling me in my mind to let myself just be myself and to let the body find a rhythm with the earth and the rise and fall of my feet. I recognize I am different to her. She has four legs and has those cushions at her feet that help to buoy her weight as she moves. She is slowing down now. She is playful. HUGE! Playful. I am out of breath. There is a small dust trail that is behind us. She wanted to share what running with rhinos is like. She says rhino is an energy that is deeply connected to the Earth. She is telling me now you that you have run with rhino you can receive the rhino essence. She wants to know if I want to try the rhino essence more. I agree. Of course I want to fully feel what it is like. Here we go. I will explain it as it happens.
The energy is large, it is soft not harsh and yet there is a groundedness to it. It is the feeling of knowing who you are, fully embodying this groundedness that is sustaining on a level that i cannot explain fully. It is sustaining at the deep inner level that is connected the physicality of what it means to be human. It feels like my body is full. It has a fullness that is large that what my physical body usually feels like. It is also freeing. Truly freeing. Now I am feeling what it was like when she was trotting and then loping before. There is a rhythm. Oh my the rhythm. It is a rhythm between the rhino, the limb movement and the Earth. It is something is best felt rather than explained intellectually. It is a harmony of sorts. A harmony with the place you live, breath and touch. This is how it feels to be in communion with the Earth and the essence of rhino. It is beautiful. As she disengages from me. I feel like I am back in the mundane. And yes there is beauty in the mundane but there is even more beauty in the sharing of essence. It's this essence that humans try and capture but it cannot be captured unless one is able to sense it and is willing to see the animal and respect the animal from which it comes. Humans have a disregard for this. They have a disregard for anything that is not visible in physical reality. It is a loss for the human who is seeking deep connections with self, other and nature. The rhino is sensing all of my sensations and she is sniffing me again. Right in front of me. I am standing and decide to plop to the ground. It was a feeling that came over me to plop to the ground. She is sniffing my breath again. She is happy to share. She is happy to find a human who allows her to be. Allows her to be free. I apologize on behalf on humanity for their disregard of her species. Her tail wriggles and her ears move back and front. She is sending me another feeling. She likes to do this. The feeling I am getting from her is that this is the only way to teach. The only way to foster change is to feel the difference, to feel the animal. She is urging me to share my knowledge and the way I am with animals. She is asking to do it for her. For her species and for humans to grow. I am crying. How will I do it alone? She sniffs me and her horn meets my nose again (it feels like a listen up at this point), you are not alone because all the animals are with you. You are not alone is what I hear. She wants me to go with her. This time we are side by side. Walking. She takes me to an area of grass that has a small mud hole. She rolls in the mud and invites me with her eyes and a feeling to be with her. I am feeling hesitant but then I realize this is being rhino, I will. So I move to the edge and put my feet in first and then sit in there with her. She is huge! Rolling from one side then the other. It's cooling her down. She breathes out. She comes to me when we are out of the mud hole and is standing in front of me. I get this feeling over my body to look after the animals of the planet so that there is more harmony. She says she is her too and that she matters. Like all the ones in her clan. She wants humans to come back to their hearts. Come back to your hearts. If you leave my rhino clan to die then so will you because the Earth will change and she showed me a great many floods and fires and she is showing me how the loss of life on the planet means there is change and things will not be the same as before. She is sending me the feeling of being careful and not to hurt the planet so much.
She turns around and walks away very quietly, with great resolve and strength. She turns her head a little and I feel this feeling of "do not forget what you experienced. Remember to teach".
"I am rhino, I am here, I am here," is what I heard.

​White Rhino (via Chiara)