Great Black Mother, I Invite You to the Dance . . .

[omimouse]

Owing Kali a lifedebt is starting to look like a good option, here.

Yes, I read the most recent news on Iraq, why do you ask?

(And before anyone starts to think that I'm considering murder and/or suicide here: I'm a fertile female. Life for life is the price that Kali tends to ask, and it doesn't need to be a life lost. Never forget that Kali Durga is also Kali Ma.)

Comments

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

OK... ummm. forgive my stupidity but... "Never forget that Kali Durga is also Kali Ma." ... the difference being?
I thought Kali was the Goddess of destruction and death- a destroyer of men and worlds.

[warinbear.livejournal.com]

On request, my comments.

I do not see Kali as 'evil,' or as destruction incarnate -- though She can look like them when viewed from the right direction. Neither do I see Her in the same sense that the modern Churchian church [1] portrays their God, that being the confusing combination of 'love Me' and 'fear Me' referenced above, which is in itself different from how I as a Christian view my God.

Kali is Change. She can be, or represent, change that most see as for the better (creation, motherhood, dance and art) or for the worse (death, battle, dismemberment), but She is not static. When I talk to Her, I embrace Change. She's not just the start and/or end of life; She's the whole unbroken circle.

I don't love Kali, nor do I fear Her. I respect Her. I understand Her -- not in Her entirety, but enough so that I am more comfortable with Change than many, and certainly more so than I used to be. I don't hate Her, and I wouldn't try to put Her out of my life; She is one of my metaphysical Patrons, but as personal as our relationship is, it's not one of a deity and a worshipper.

This is probably a bit disjointed, but that's okay. Trying to explain how I feel about Change is likely to be a bit chaotic even when I'm not just coming off a twelve-hour shift.

[1] If that isn't either a contradiction or redundant.