Invoking goddess Shakti isn’t only a girl thing—it’s a way for everyone to tap into the deepest source of empowerment, creativity, and happiness”

It’s time to celebrate Shakti, the divine feminine power that is in all of us and everywhere around us. According to the Hindu traditions, Shakti is the formless source of everything, she is the power, movable, creative aspect of the Archetypical being. She is in the consciousness as well in the Supreme Divine. Shakti is understood to take forms—as goddesses, personifications of the different energies that make up the world and our own consciousness.

What is so beautiful during this time of year is that in India a big celebration called Navaratri is occuring. In 2013 it will start on Saturday, the 5th of October and will continue for 9 days until Sunday, the 13th of October. For nine nights and ten days (Nava= nine/ ratri= night) participants celebrate Shakti in all her Goddess forms. We celebrate Navaratri during this fertile transition to fall as the feminine aspect of the Universe is the one that gives birth and sustains us in our material and spiritual endeavors. We honor the power within the creativity, beauty and love in us. Shakti arises in many forms, and the Big Three Indian figures to tap into goddess energies are Durga/ Kali, Lakshmi and Saraswati.

Durga (hard to know/ hard to conquer) is the fierce one, she is riding her lion and is the cosmic warrior. She is the strength one can draw on when facing challenging situations. When Durga is in her most authentic manifestation, she becomes Kali, the Black one. Kali is the energy that can take us beyond our concepts about our life and ourselves. She can remove every sort of veil. The first three days in the festival Navaratri is devoted to Durga, to destroy all our vices, impurities and defects. Then we have Laksmi (good fortune), the energy of everything that we hold desirable. She is the beauty, love, harmony, wealth and happiness. She is Goddess of abundance and generosity. The middle three nights are dedicated to Lakshmi because she is the giver of spiritual and material wealth.  The last three nights are devoted to the third form of the Goddess, Saraswati (the flowing one), the Goddess of wisdom, knowledge and intelligence. She is the deity of language and speech as well as the power behind creative inspiration. Her great gift is the discernment that lets us find divinity in the world. Each of these Goddesses represents energies that are expressed in every arena of life: physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual. Blessings from all three aspects of the divine mother is the only way to reach integral success in life.

What is so lovely is that this celebration reminds us that we are supported by the Goddess in all of her forms in life. To flow with her in the light and especially in this transition to fall where time is given to slow down, clean and reflect. To touch our deepest desires and fears and be with them. It can mean to let go of something that we have held on to so tight, because we may fear what might happen if it’s no longer exists in our lives. It can be to just stay in the experience and feel without any action, let her fill you with the strength, love and wisdom she has. That you have. It’s just a matter of tuning in to what we have to face in live. What you have to face in life. She encourages us to see aspects of us, reflected in all of her glorious forms.

To become more engaged from the core of our heart, we need to be reminded of the Goddess´s existence. Of Shakti’s pulsation and flow that is both inside and around us. She reminds me every day that she is with me, when I look at her from my right underarm, were she is painted as a tattoo (see photo above). She reminds me of the source of my power that is drawn from within, my strength to love, care and serve myself, my family and friends, my community, the Earth and all the living system. To be connected with the Divine in the bigger perspective, and in myself even in the darkest time of life. To be with my heart, the power over my thoughts and actions, Life!  She makes me see the bigger perspective in life and to let go of all the expectations and how everything should be and instead flow in the process of Life. To trust in Life, to trust in Shakti and to live deeper. She flows in all of us, in all creatures in this world in the formless form of everything. So it’s time to invite her and let her be engage in your life, so you can live a fierce, powerful and lovely life from your potential, so you can take actions and serve yourself and mother Earth. Be in the present moment, with responsibility for the future. We are all sharing it.

When ever you make an decision, the whole Universe conspire on your behalf”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

So close your eyes and invite her, tap into the source of empowerment, creativity and happiness. She is a part of you, she is a part of us.

If not now, when? ”- Talmud

Shakti boom boom happy Navaratri!