I know some people take whorl placement pretty seriously. Don’t know how much I read into it personally but this mare definitely has a unique thing going on.
Anyone want to explain what this is supposed to mean in the world of whorlology?
Could it be from a scar more than a whorl/whorls?
Nope, no raised skin no lump underneath or detectable scar tissue. That’s her arrangement of sworls.
It predicts a lifetime of spending two hours on a ladder muttering words that can’t be said in front of the pony kids as you attempt to clip her face. That’s what it foretells for her.
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When I was a kid in riding school, knew a horse with two face whorls much like those, that sort of matched off with his two white stars colliding.
We decided it meant good luck. We used to decide that most things meant good luck.
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I’ve read about the Beduin folklore on whorls, but I don’t remember the meanings.
Here’s one theory:
Two vertical swirls or horizontal swirls – A higher percentage of these horses are rather sensitive and emotional. They can overreact at unexpected moments and are easily upset. They do not respond well to correction, and only become more resistant. These complicated horses can be very talented with the right rider.
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If it’s any comfort, my horse’s forehead is a bigger whirl zone. It’s like a bloody whirl cyclone touched down :o Like crying in baseball, there is no whirl counting on my horse’s forehead.
That said, she is smart, has a super sense of humour, is a great communicator, very sensitive, very talented, CAN take correction and understands fairness and rules … and her nickname was My Little Nutjob for literally years 
Not everyone’s cup of tea in terms of training/riding, but everyone who knows her loves her personality and respects that not only does she see herself as queen of the universe, she actually is queen of the universe and judger of all things including other horses’ behaviour, tardiness in her humans, the colour of the sky, and so on.
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I have one with double worls. She is in training and doing well… However she can capriole like a Lipizanner out in the field. I watch her and think… I sure hope she doesn’t do that under saddle. I’m not trained for that! Although if I could learn to sit that it would be very impressive. Most horses run, buck, and leap but you don’t often see one with that much talent for the airs… She tends to be lazy except for when she isn’t.
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Haha, maybe this is a whorl trait. My mare reserved regular ol’ caprioles for first learning piaffe in hand (thankfully never under saddle), but her out in the field caprioles were backwards and covered vast expanses of real estate - 20m in 3 backwards leaps. Her herdmates quickly learned that she was Queen of Everything and not to be messed with. “Everyone must behave themselves!” Thankfully everyone was smart enough to catch her drift without catching a hoof!
You would have to look at linda tellington jones book. 2 whorls is spicy i think, 1 whorl is good, and that whorl coming up the neck is difficult.
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I had a mare with similar markings, she could capriole in her stall at a standstill! Thats 3 for 3!!
She was also generally a laid back personality until she wasn’t. She was the most interactive horse ever, :).
She also had sworls on her neck.
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Ah! Double Whorl horses. Tough buggars. Both the good and bad connotations of tough. I’m not much of a believer in reading hair whorls but every double whorl horse I’ve had have fit the profile!
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I have one with the exact same whorl markings—she’s as docile as a kitten, though!
I have a double whorl horse. He’s sensitive, smart and made me a better horse person. He’s also sweet as sugar and has great “try”
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Here’s the breakdown
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My side-by-side double whorl horses have all fit the profile - sensitive, tough, spicy, but full of try and potential. My stacked double whorl horse also fits that profile - he’s a total split personality. Dead broke and docile one day, and an utter pain in the arse the next. I tend to be attracted to the double whorls without knowing it. I’ll buy off of jog video and - sure enough - they get off the trailer and, oops I did it again!
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I have a side-by-side double whorl mare.
From the day she was born, she’s been smart as a whip and so sensible I joke I never actually trained her - she just came out broke.
But, she has a few things that are non-negotiables for her. For example, she has zero patience. All of my horses are more than happy to be put into their stalls and rest or stand tied to the trailer for a snack break. Not her. Six years in - no mistreatment - she still is beside herself if you ask her to stand tied somewhere and don’t have total focus on her. My farrier laughs every time - she’s pawing and kicking and throwing an absolute fit while waiting for her turn… grab her, pull her into the aisle - stands quietly, no fuss, no problem… back to the tie wall - back to losing it. I’ve tried everything over the years to get her to quit - at this point, I’ve just accepted it’s who she is and I roll my eyes every time she starts up.
I don’t know that I personally would like a barn full of them, but I do have a soft spot for this one.
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Sounds similar to mine. She learned to deal pretty early on, but there are things that will set her off and she will push just as hard as she needs to get the appropriate response from me. I’ll never forget one day after a hunter pace she and her buddy were tied to the trailer (both had done it perfectly many times before) and my friend and I were sat a few hundred feet away enjoying our lunch. Suddenly I felt a burning sensation on the side of my head so I turned to see whether I’d accidentally sat myself in the path of a hot laser. Nope. There’s my mare with just her head turned staring at me with unblinking eyes while she made mini rears - up down up down - no more than about 4" off the ground. Staring at me. LOL. “Ok, ok, I’ll put you back in your trailer and you can snack and snooze in there.” I did and she was fine.
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I bought “Getting in TTouch” by Linda Tellington-Jones a soon after it came out. I was doubtful at first, then I took the book down to the 5 horses I owned then and she was right about the horse’s head and its whorls to an amazing degree. I was gobsmacked.
Recently “Understanding Horse Whorls” by Noche Miller came out. She covers a lot of the same ground but it can be useful to see different photographs and read different people about what they have discovered about the whorls on a horse.
I am too old and disabled to buy another horse. If I did go out and buy another horse I would most certainly take these books with me (or consult them if all I had were pictures.)
My first horse, my angel from heaven, had a center whorl that was slightly to my right. Just like Linda Tellington-Jones wrote he was wonderful but occasionally liked testing me, his rider. He did not test beginners at all, just me since I was supposed to know what I was doing. I introduced to this horse to so many women who were scared of horses and after a few minutes they would turn to me with tears in their eyes asking “why isn’t he a man, I’d marry him in a heartbeat.”
My mare has 2 whorls on her face. I started a whole thread about how she is sweet in the summer and satan in the winter. Count me in as a believer in whorl theory!
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