6th Day After Dark Moon ~ The Creator Destroyer

I focus ~ I Create

 

This is the time for the Creator ~ Destroyer, time to focus and to create, time for the colors black, white and red. Some of the symbols for this archetype are skulls, blood, graves and volcanoes. One of Her crystals is ruby, Her sacred tool is Crystal Skull; the Hindu mantra is Kaliyei Swaha. The element is Earth and Fire, the scent is nag champa (or frankinense, myrrh) the herb is ginger, black pepper or cayenne. So, consider having a ginger tea this day, being fully aware of the fire, of the Destroyer aspect of the Divine Feminine in ginger. Even if you didn’t do anything else but had a freshly, consciously made ginger tea and communed with it, let it “speak to you” while drinking it, you opened your awareness to the frequency of, and consciousness in ginger, you opened the door to the Creator ~ Destroyer, to the mysteries of the Divine Feminine! Remember the holographic nature of Creation? The Goddess is in everything if we are just willing to be open and aware: in plants, trees, colors, forms, tones, crystals, elements….everywhere…

Vivianne, in “The Mists of Avalon” says: “The Goddess holds all things in balance: Good and evil, death and rebirth; the predator and the prey. Without Her, destruction and chaos will prevail.“ If you wish to deepen with this archetype these daysy here are some questions for you: Remember it is never about coming up with answers, let alone the correct answers! It is about what the question stirs and catalyzes in you and for you:

Why is the Creator and Destroyer one?

Is creation possible without destruction? Is destruction possible without creation? 

How are you creating and destroying on a daily basis?

How is your physical body creating and destroying at the same time each and every moment?

How are you consciously living as a Creator and Destroyer in your life?

How are you holding creation and destruction in your consciousness?

 

Image Source: Kali by Raja Ravi Varma, Wikipedia

One of the Goddesses of this archetype is the Hindu Goddess Kali, Kali Ma. She often holds a sword and a freshly severed head dripping blood. It is said that in a battle she destroyed the demon Raktabija. The ego trembles with fear at Kali’s appearance but the awakened sees Her compassion and overflowing Love for Her children. Kali Ma also wears a garland of skulls around her neck and her skirt is made of dismembered arms symbolically pointing to ego’s attachment and identification with the physical body. The garland of skulls and her skirt are “trophies” won by Her, symbolizing her power to liberate Her children from all attachments and illusions. She is one of the most misunderstood (and thus feared) Goddesses of all.

She is also associated with empowerment and is known as the Goddess of Time and Change. She is represented as the consort of Lord Shiva, on whose body she is often seen standing. At a transcendent level, her horrific, terrifying nature comes to be seen as symbolic of her power to destroy ignorance and shatter the delusions of the ego….Kali represents Mother nature in her creative, nurturing and devouring aspects. She is the creator, the preserver and the destroyer (red, white and black). She eats what she has given birth to, for she has given birth to everything. (from The Alchemy of Ecstasy)

(Kali Ma): I ,Kali Ma

dance on the grave of your attachments

your jealousy, your anger, your fears, comforts of all kinds

I dance on your mind’s distortions that keep you  blind

to the now

you’re avoiding standing naked in,

watching past perception’s grin

“protect” you from the immediacy of death…

from (The Alchemy of Ecstasy, by Ariel Spilsbury)

This moon phase I am focusing on my creations, where I am still possibly holding victimhood in my consciousness, where I am possibly not taking full responsibility for the creation of my own reality. How I might be still holding the belief that life is happening to me and not stepping into full conscious co-creator-ship with the Divine? What am I too attached to and unwilling to destroy? So I invite Kali into my Heart temple, into my life, into my Being these days, to ask Her for her Shakti force, for Her fierceness and for Her wild dance on the grave of my illusions, attachments to liberate me from my own ego creations, releasing me into total freedom. And I will dance with Her in ecstasy…releasing me into ME!

Kaliyei Swaha!

 

Suggested music for this archetype:

Jai Ma, from the CD Awakening by Robert Gass

Passion (the CD) by Peter Gabriel #1,3, 5 (from the Alchemy of Ecstasy)

 

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