Today,
We step into the garden of life with the powerful goddess,
Kali Ma.
Take a deep breath and exhale slowly.
Allow your body to relax and drop your focus into your heart.
Breathe deeply into that heart space and slowly exhale to release all tension.
Continue breathing naturally,
Gently,
Softly.
In your mind's eye,
Imagine yourself in a beautiful garden.
This is your garden of life.
Look around and take in its beauty with all of your senses.
What do you see,
Feel,
Hear,
And smell?
As you stand in this garden,
You see a woman walking toward you.
As she approaches,
You see that she is Hindu.
She wears a mask that startles you with its fierceness.
And yet as she walks,
The most beautiful flowers bloom out of her footprints.
This is Kali Ma.
Although she looks fearsome,
Her energy feels ancient and loving and you are not afraid.
She stands before you and places your body in a Hindu goddess stance with arms bent and hands in mudra.
Suddenly you are aware that you have become a cherry tree.
You sense white blossoms blooming from your chest,
Womb,
And hands.
You feel very rooted standing there as the tree in your garden of life.
As Kali Ma stands before you,
You notice an axe in her hand.
She takes that axe and cuts you into pieces.
You are very surprised,
But there is no pain,
Only a sense of letting go.
You realize that you were a very old tree,
Beautiful but gnarled and at the end of its life.
Kali Ma bends over and plants a cherry pit where you had been standing,
And you feel yourself growing into a vibrant and sturdy tree,
Filled with more blossoms and a greater bounty of fruit.
You feel reborn with a new vibration and more abundance than ever before.
Your awareness shifts out of the tree and you are now sitting beside Kali Ma on a bench.
Archangel Uriel sits on the other side of you,
And you can feel his wise,
Powerful,
And radiant energy wrap around you.
He has a big bowl of cherries on his lap.
Kali Ma removes her fearsome mask,
And underneath is a plain yet very beautiful woman.
She lets down her hair and takes off her jewelry.
Together,
You adorn each other's hair with cherry blossoms and eat cherries with Archangel Uriel.
There are so many seeds of wisdom in that bowl of cherries.
Doves arrive,
And Kali feeds them cherries as they land in her hair.
She looks at you and says,
Time to burn with the fire of love and peace.
And so what does this journey with Kali Ma mean?
Fearsome Kali Ma.
Powerful Kali Ma.
Scary,
Some may say.
Destroyer.
Goddess of War.
But destroyer of what?
That is the question.
What does she truly destroy,
Our misunderstood Kali Ma?
Ego,
Yes.
Old belief systems,
Yes.
Old energy that does not serve us.
And that is the true value and the true purpose of Kali Ma.
She is here to awaken the fire within you.
The fire to move forward and not look back.
To move forward looking through her eyes straight ahead.
The fire of wonder,
Magic,
Love,
And peace burning within you.
She is not the destructor.
She is the creator.
The creator of new life that comes after stripping and burning the tower down.
That is Kali Ma.
It is time to cut down the old beliefs.
Even though some may be truly beautiful.
And some still may nourish the soul.
But it is time to plant anew and say,
Thank you for what you have given me.
But now I say goodbye to that.
New trees can be grown that are more vibrant.
More plentiful.
More bountiful.
Trees of healing and love.
Peace and beauty and creativity.
Within the many possibilities of your soul.
The many possibilities of humanity.
Time to step into the garden of life.
As you step into the garden you awaken to the understanding that you can sow the seeds of this new life for yourself.
You can nurture your soul with love,
Light,
And wisdom within your heart.
There are many seeds to be found in a bowl of cherries.
Feed them to the doves and they shall distribute them.
Plant them in peace and unity and love.
Kali Ma shows us it is time to take off the mask.
She removes her mask of fury and fire.
And what is beneath?
A friend and a guide.
Beautiful in her unadornment.
Pure and simple and relatable.
She is a woman of grace and ease and love and peace.
This is the image and aspect of her energy that she wishes for you.
Take away the adornments and trinkets.
Take away the capturings of materialism.
Find the purity,
The true authentic self behind the mask.
And when you do,
Abundance and love and peace and light shall fill you up and nourish you.
It is time to peel back the layers of old beliefs.
The trappings of dogma and myth.
It is time to find true authenticity in the love and energies of the divine.
Let down your hair.
Stick your toes in the mud and dirt of the garden of life.
Feel it upon your feet.
Root yourself in that love and the connection to Gaia.
She will hold you strong and sturdy and grow with you.
She will allow you to grow in wisdom and love and peace.
If you already knew the wisdom Kali Ma had for you now,
What would it be?
Drop in,
Tap into the heart,
And trust the first answer you hear,
See,
Feel,
Know or sense.
And when it arrives,
Place that wisdom in your heart to bloom like the cherry blossoms.
If you already knew the wisdom Kali Ma had for you now,
What would it be?
Drop in,
Tap into the heart,
And trust the first answer you hear,
See,
Feel,
Know or sense.
And when it arrives,
Place that wisdom in your heart to bloom like the cherry blossoms.
Peace be.
And so it is.