Taurus the constellation Vrisha Mandala – Guttana (the heavenly bull), Aleph, Alap-Samé, Taburi, Burj Al Tawr, of the bull. Made up of 44 stars. Taurus. Alpha – Alderberan/Ad Dabaran – one who follows. Ain el Tawr – eye of the bull. – Rohit – Bir (the vermillion) – Oculus Tauri (eye of the bull) – Suravi …
Camelopardalis Constellation Chitra Kramela mandala. The constellation of the giraffe. And the Camel. Auriga constellation Brahma mandala – Charioteer. Hēniochus – rein holder. Mūmsik al ainna. Also known as Rathitama Pushan, the best of charioteers, Margidda, Rakhov, Mar-urbi(chariot), Heniochos(bridle-holder) and Waggoner. Alpha – Capella, a little goat. Brahma-Hridaya, heart of Brahma. Also known as Askar(the …
Betwixt because It is the Zodiac that represents the stars in our inner sky. In each part of us… extended to its links. But then the zodiac constellation themselves, holding as if in tether in its 30 steps to a degree. That thin line we take to cut a path through the sky. The tantra …
Cetus constellation Timi mandala – Ketos – The whale, also known as Kumar, Ceti, Kaitos, Pistris and Kumaru. Cetus constellation. Alpha – Menkar – nostril. Beta – Diphda – the frog. Deneb Kaitos, tail of the whale. Zeta – Baten Kaitos, belly of the whale. Omicron – Mira – Wondrous star. Pradyumana. Also known as …
Aries constellation Mesha mandala – Burj Al Hamal/ Krios – of the ram. Deity – Mangala. The Indian version styled upon Indra. Made up of 18 stars. Alpha – Hamal – Amal. Beta – Sheraton/El Sheratain – the two signs. – Asvayauk, Aswini Gamma – Meshartim – Attendant. Delta – Botein – little belly Other …
Perseus constellation – Parsuram Mandala. Also the star Mayawati resides here.
The following are the introductions to some of those guiding lights of consciousness and the night, at least from the Indian sky.
Om, divine salutations to the ethereal and surreal of space, to the one that bridges the barriers and all of its frontiers, to the space that becomes in all forms, salutations to the one that transcends.
Sivaye , the supreme, the lord-maker, make thy form in our reverence.
From beginnings begotten in their ends, the forces of nature in their power to append. The primal in-built enforced in every foundation. Sweet words and glory merely pedestals to raise and grace that which is to behold, affixed in its guiding star of manifestation.
The emergence a river of sound, set upon in arrows bound together in their quiver. The midsummer archer set in the sky, the sun to reflect. Angled to cast in planetary musk to bask. The objective apart, yet within reach. Remaining in the constellations bonafide, a path through the skies. Each star knows itself in …
Along the singing wind, narrating stories to its attentive as to its wayward. Across the weeping rivers, as they bemoan all that the mountains amass. As whispers in the tresses, pulled back and behind memory’s ears. Careening glances still holding sway endearing the breeze to stay. “Awhile, and hear ye.” Cajoling the senses, like a …
You found heaven for me. The gates concealed as they were, to my existence until the point of you in revelation. Now, sight itself wears me in its vernacular, and wonder wrapping the formless to every shape and size to my cognition. You put me together as if strewn prior to your perception. The sheen …
There is an inertia to love, there syllables slip and meaning flits. Where the heights of one exist in the depths of the other. Like some parts of one have to see the eyes of the other. Sheer want of affection cannot scratch that surface. Just as token existence outside of posterity cannot derive outside …
4. When the breath is all out (Up), and stopped of itself. Or all in (Down) and stopped, in that universal pause, one’s small self vanishes. This is difficult only for the impure. Kumbhitā recitā vāpi pūrita vā yadā bhavet | Tadante sāntanāmāsau śaktyā śantaḥ prakāśate || Retention of breath, or the extension of gap …
3. Whenever In-breath and Out-breath fuse, at that instant – The energy-less, the energy-filled center. Na vrajenna viśeçchaktir marudrūpā vikāsite | Nirvikalpatayā madhye tayā bhairvarūpatā || The inner column of energy, the Sushumna nadi/stream. No energy enters, none exits, when of the pathway of Maruts grace stands illuminated. In that middle path is the means …
2. As the breath turns from down to up, and again as breath curves from up to down – through both these turns, realize. Maruto’ antarbahirvāpi viyadyugmānuvartanāt | bhairavyā bhairavasyetthaṁ, Bhairavi vyajyate vapuḥ || The Maruts are the pathways between the ethers(voids). In the pause at end the exhalation and inhalation, before the moment restarts. …