by Michelle Cross | Sun Mar 2015 | Michelle Cross
Victory Day of Navratri
Victory Day of Navratri is a festival of victory and purification, victory of our limiting, contracted forms that are purified through the practices of sadhana (spiritual journey). Victory of coming into the Feminine, letting go of the grip, the competition with our masculine side or the masculine and seeing that the masculine is within the feminine the whole time!… Read more
by Michelle Cross | Sat Mar 2015 | Michelle Cross
Navratri 9th Day
Navratri 9th Day honours Siddhidatri Ma
Siddhadaarti is the Bestower of Psychic Powers called siddhi, she fulfils your desire in miraculous ways. Siddhadaarti is celebrated on this Navratri 9th day to reveal to you that you have infinite possibilities. Yet all too often we contract and limit ourselves sin the finite view or what the mind can logically grasp.… Read more
by Michelle Cross | Fri Mar 2015 | Michelle Cross
Navratri 8th Day
Navratri 8th Day honours Ma Gauri Devi – Great White Goddess.
Ma Gauri means ‘she who dispels fear” – She is the great space beyond what we perceive, or limited to the mind-body.
She is an awaken dawn after the dark night of the soul. She is shimmering with light.… Read more
by Michelle Cross | Thu Mar 2015 | Michelle Cross
Navratri 7th Day
Navratri 7th Day honours 7th form of Goddess Durga, Kalratri Ma. I always resonate with Ma Kalratri.
And we also come into the sattvic flow of Ma Saraswati, She is the Goddess of wisdom, creation, and intelligence. This final phase, these last 3 nights of Navaratri are an auspicious time for transformation, manifesting prosperity, creating shifts toward more balance (sattva).… Read more
by Michelle Cross | Wed Mar 2015 | Michelle Cross
Navratri 6th day
Navratri 6th day is half way point of Navratri, the goddess worshipped as Katyayani. Seated on her vehicle lion, Katyayani has three eyes and four hands. who represents divine power for sustaining power of love in the flow of life, amidst the storms (or battle in Devi Mahatmya) by surrendering to her creative power.… Read more
by Michelle Cross | Tue Mar 2015 | Michelle Cross
Navratri 5th Day
Navratri 5th Day honours Skandamata Ma!
Skandmata is none other than Goddess Parvati. Being the wife of Lord Mahadeva (Shiva), She is the mother (mata) of Lord Skanda and thus known as Skandmata. She holds a lotus and abhaya mudra and is full of abundance of love, even on the battlefield, the battlefield in modern day are the storms, the trials and tribulations of a householders life.… Read more
by Michelle Cross | Mon Mar 2015 | Michelle Cross
Navratri 4th Day
Navrarti 4th day honours Kushmanda Ma.
It is a time for now honouring the next three nights of Navratri dedicated to Ma Lakshmi, having cut through the darkness and tamas qualities that limit and contract and the shadows natures we move towards the light, beauty and abundance of Shri.… Read more
by Michelle Cross | Sun Mar 2015 | Michelle Cross
Navratri 3rd day
Navratri 3rd day honours Chandraghanta. the third aspect of Goddess Durga, who is worshipped for peace, tranquillity and prosperity in life. Durga is know as the Mother, Ma and so By the grace of Mother Chandraghanta all the limitations are burnt up and obstacles removed. The Mother holds you, her name means protectress, fortress, she holds you in her inner state peaceful like the moon.… Read more
by Michelle Cross | Sat Mar 2015 | Michelle Cross
Navratri 2nd Day
Navratri 2nd day honours Brahmacharini who is the unmarried Parvati. She is the second Goddess worshipped during Navratri. Her name is derived from the word ‘Brahma’, which means ‘Tapas, deep meditation to realise the Self’ , which is devotion. Also Brahmachārya is often referred to as celibacy, whereas in Tantra it is the cultivation of our sexual energy or Shakti, through Sadhana.… Read more
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