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This morning we shall discuss a bit on the fundamental principles of Shiva and Shakti as outlined in the Vedic Texts.
Now this is a combination of my decades of extensive study on the Vedic Texts, combining Vedic Ones, the Upanishads etc.
There are many philosophies and many principles combined in the Vedic Texts and we shall briefly see how that ties into the astrological part.
So Shiva and Shakti, what are these principles? The Shiva is, think of it as just to put it oversimplistically, it's just pure consciousness.
Pure consciousness does not have any propensity to materialize or to move in the world.
It's the stable aspect of pure consciousness or pure awareness itself.
It does not move, it's a still point.
If you can even conceptualize as the absolute still point in all of creation and beyond creation itself, that's the pure consciousness, that's the Shiva aspect.
Shakti on the other hand is one which wants to create, is one which moves in existence everything in creation.
He's built by Shakti, even the bodies which we have, physical or non-physical, it doesn't matter which dimension.
We are considering all dimensions here of existence.
When you say existence itself, when you say speak of creation itself according to Vedic Texts, it's all built by Shakti, it's all built by the Mother Goddess, the Mother of God, the Mother of existence.
What sustains it?
Everything is born and created and sustained by Shakti.
Shakti is the one which is creation itself, you could say.
According to these principles, one is pure consciousness and one is Shakti.
Now how can Shakti be characterized as, well it can be characterized as pure desire, purest form of desire, not obsessions, compulsions of the mind or what one wants in an individuated body.
But this we are speaking in terms of absolute here.
So in absolute terms, Shakti is pure desire.
Pure desire, what does it want to do?
It wants to actualize, materialize as a body, as a form, physical or non-physical.
All the bodies that we have, the five koshas which the Vedas speak of is also part of Shakti.
Everything is part of Shakti, everything in creation.
All bodies, all forms, all atoms, all molecules, all subatomic particles, all of this is part of Shakti, the Mother of the Universe or the Mother of all creation.
Why is it signified as Mother in Vedic text? Well because Mother is the one which wants to sustain the first Satvik principle in Vedic Astrology in female terms.
Female sign comes in Cancer which is the Mother energy.
The Satvik movable and female sign is Cancer with Pushyarana Shlesha, Lakshata is there, Prahidakras.
So Cancer is the first sign of the Mother. That's female again. But it's Satvik female.
So it is the purest form, Satvik means anything which has got the purest form of it.
So Shiva and Shakti are these two poles of how the existence itself operates.
The existence operates on the basis of Shiva and Shakti. There is only Shiva and Shakti everywhere in operation.
These are the two poles. Think of them as two poles of existence. Creation and everything beyond creation operates between these two poles.
Why we say these two poles? Well existence doesn't matter again which bodies, the David bodies or the physical bodies or the super dense bodies, whatever bodies you want to call the rock, the tree, the plants, the birds, the stars, the galaxies, all have bodies.
These are all bodies. Okay. We are talking in absolute terms. So please expand your mind a little.
So when you talk of Shiva's principle as the still point and the Shakti principle as the movable point.
So between the still point and the movement, all of the creation occurs and is sustained and is maintained, is nurtured by, is fulfilled by and it moves in this existence.
This is how polarization happens in this creation. In a unified field of consciousness, if you talk of God or the absolute oneness principle, both Shiva and Shakti are combined.
When pure consciousness combines with pure desire, what does it become? Even projecting, just this morning I received this.
What happens when pure consciousness and pure desire combine? Well it just becomes pure love.
That's the one which everybody perceives, senses, sees as love.
The quality of love is the unification of Shiva and Shakti, pure consciousness and pure desire.
Without needing or wanting anything is purest form. In its purest Satvik form, it becomes pure love.
That's the unconditional love which many speak of. What is this unconditional love?
It's the unification of Shiva and Shakti principles.
In this one, we'll talk a little bit about how it plays out in astrology with respect to Shakti.
Tomorrow we'll speak of Shiva principles. Today we'll speak of Shakti, the mother of the universe.
How it plays out in science?
You've got to understand that the four termistic signs in Vedic Astrology all belong to the female because of this reason.
Because the female energy is the Shakti energy. It's part of the Shakti.
All the physical females, let it be of any species including humans, they are all embodying this Shakti principle very strongly.
In astrology, the female tamasic signs start from Virgo number 6.
The original sixth house, sorry, I'm shifting around and coffee.
So it starts from the sixth sign of Virgo, right? The one which is ruled by Mercury.
So Virgo is ruled by Mercury where Shakti wants to go and physically actualize everything.
The intellect wanting the physical aspect is Virgo, the creative earth.
That's an earth sign.
So first it starts with earth, it goes into the next tamasic sign which is Scorpio ruled by Mars and Ketu and Pluto as well.
So when it goes to Scorpio, it goes into water sign, it goes into fixed sign, it goes into all the hidden places.
It unlocks everything because the entire creation, like I just spoke of, belongs to Shakti.
Shiva just sits there and watches everything going on. He doesn't participate in anything.
The participatory aspect of creation itself is Shakti, not Shiva, the goddess.
So in east of India, lots of goddess energy is there which is worshipped in Calcutta and etc.
All those places, but they are digress.
So Scorpio, it becomes a still water. Remember we spoke of Scorpio as the still water.
Virgo as the creative earth. So the next tamasic sign, Scorpio is still water.
What does the female energy want to do here? What does Shakti want to do here?
The female goddess principle here, it becomes the one which wants to go and uncover all the secrets hiding anywhere in creation.
That's why Scorpio goes deep into things. It is still water, still water, run deep as they say.
So it would last to go and uncover all the secret hidden places, uncover all the stuff.
Because nothing in creation is allowed to permanently hide in secret.
Everything comes out in the open. The truth they'll out as they say.
It can't remain hidden forever. It doesn't matter what person thinks or who thinks it.
The next one, tamasic sign will be the Capricorn.
In Capricorn, ruled by Saturn now, it wants to go and anchor it.
Saturn becomes the anchor point. It wants to physically actualize, materialize all the things in physical form.
This is the drive-in tendency of the Capricorns.
So in the sign of Capricorn, it goes through the energy of Saturn and wants to ground the energies which it has gained from number six and number eight.
It's gone and uncovered everything. It's the confident one which wants to go and actualize everything.
The last tamasic sign in female which is Aquarius, it goes towards Saturn combined with Rahu.
You see how the female sign or the Shakti principle goes right from eight with Mars and Ketu and it moves all the way, graduates up to Aquarius which is Saturn with Rahu.
So the Rahu and the Ketu energies which is between our head and our body is both are governed by Shakti.
You see how powerful that is. This is why these energies of Goddess are very crucial.
Now, just talking a little bit about the new energies as we all know, the new energies which is on the planet now and it's been for quite number of years.
Many women around the world, the souls embodied in a woman's body are awakening more than the men.
Why is this? Because this Shakti wants to uncover everything which is hidden, uncover all the secrets, bring back all the secrets.
See, eighth sign is held by Shakti, it's tamasic. So is Saturn ruling the two houses of tamasic, it wants to ground it.
The female principle of Shakti is the one which embodies everything physical.
A woman gives birth to us, a woman feeds us right from any helpless babies, looks after us, cares for us, nurtures us, everything in creation.
The female principle is doing this. The female is actually the one that's governing everything.
It's not the male science. Male science have pure awareness. They come from another aspect which we should talk about tomorrow.
But remember these two principles and the Shakti principle, how powerful it is.
The Goddess principle which is also the mother principle.
So there are these two faces of Shakti which, where she becomes the muse, the virgin and goes on to become the mother, the caring
and protects, the nurturing caring protection aspect which the Hindus worship as the divine Goddess, the mother of everything.
The mother energy, that's the Satvik form of the Goddess which assumes a caring posture for everything.
You have given birth to babies, a whole litter of them and now you take care of them, you nurture them with love.
You know their weaknesses, mothers know the weaknesses of their kids.
So you know their weaknesses, still you kind of put it to be protective about them.
Now, about them, this is a beautiful principle of creation, the Shakti principle.
And it has lord ship in astrology over two of the most powerful science, the Scorpio and Aquarius.
One with Rahu and one with Ketu in it.
One with the south node of the moon and Mars which is number eight, the hidden one
and one which wants to go and dig deep into the mind if it's Saturn in it.
Saturn has got the Karaka of both the eight in the 12th houses.
This is why females who are awakening now across the world have started becoming very psychic.
They are opening up to all kinds of psychic abilities and ancient wisdom, shamanic practices, occult practices, healing of the body, healing of the mind.
Let's face it, just to digress a little bit, what does healing require?
It requires the knowledge and the strength and the power of Shakti.
The power of Shakti has the power to transmute any lower forms of energy because it needs to first go there, unlock it, uncover it, see it for what it is and then only remove it.
This is how all women who are awakening now are feeling this energy since in the shift.
So understand this even from an astrological perspective, the Shakti principle, the mother of the universe, the goddess principle and where it is reflected in the signs of Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn and Aquarius.
All these four signs are Tamasik and they belong to the female. No male signs as per Vedic astrology are Tamasik, they are either Rajasik or Satvik.
We will come to that later tomorrow. Take care, have a good day. If you need activations for your charts, you can get in touch with me on Facebook.
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