Category: Kali

Kali is she who is time and change, and in essence energy, where her consort is matter. Shiva is her consort. Change is possible due to the interaction between Shiva and Kali.


Kali is time, the great mother. She is universally depicted as being very dark, like a deep clouded night sky or deep oblivious sleep. She came into being before Shiva, before matter. Without Kali, Shiva lies dead, matter loses life and meaning. Without Shiva, Kali’s potential remains empty, vast but without substance to manifest awareness in.


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  • The Gods Move

    The Gods Move

    I will describe things in a way that some traditionalist may object to. I don’t mean to offend anyone by it. I’m just drawing from my general sense of the cross cultural meaning of these things. How do you feel about time? About time in general? Yes. It moves too fast, and moved too slow…

  • Kali Unites

    Kali Unites

    Kali is seen as a destroyer not because of any evil in her. She is well above the potential for evil. What they observe is that many things in life are unstable. They can’t persist for very long. So Kali is the destroyer of evil because with time weakness inevitable emerges. Ah, time is the…

  • Kali Is In You

    Kali Is In You

    Shall we move onto practice? Have I described the nature and character of Kali? Well, besides serving as a model to understand the natural world, the gods can serve as a locus for one’s personal understanding. Remember how earlier I said in order to be able to handle information people have to structure it into…