Nakshatra is the term for lunar mansion in Hindu astrology. A nakshatra is one of 28 (sometimes also 27) sectors along the ecliptic. Their names are related to the most prominent asterisms in the respective sectors.
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Autumn Solstice and Burning Away the Old Self I feel like I should warn you.There is a fierce feminine fire building. It is Kali Ma-like, creator and destroyer. Burner of all that must go so that life can give birth to life. She is the wolf-woman coming, hard and strong and asking you for more than you want to give, but only because she loves you.She knows that your greatest self can only rise from the ashes of the lesser you.Kali means dark mother or black one. She is most often depicted in her destructive form -- a blood-thirsty goddess, killer of Shiva and eater of babies. The demon goddess, the goddess of death. But Kali is more than that. She is not just ruler of death, but of life, too.The early Tantric texts identify Kali as Mother, the primary and primordial creator of the Universe. All things rise from her and disappear again into her; endless cycles of birth and death, creation and destruction. Kali is Om, she is Shakti, she is existence.Understanding destruction as a...