Our guide this week is the Tibetan Goddess Tara from The Oracle of the Goddess by Gayan Sylvie Winter. In the card, Tara is depicted sitting on a Lotus flower, wearing a pink skirt, with golden jewellery and a crown. Tara sits with her right hand on her knee, palm facing up, and her left hand is raised, with the palm facing forward. Her forehead, her hands and feet have the symbol of the eye painted on them. There is a yellow colour radiating from behind her, surrounded by green shapes and pink Lotuses. The sky is painted in shades of blue, and there are pale violet-pink and light blue clouds below her.
The message of this card is that now is the time to find your own power, wisdom and balance through stillness. Tara, who is the Goddess of meditation and self-knowledge, asks us to find silence and stay quiet until we merge with our inner truth. Tara is a word originating from Sanskrit and it means star, symbolising the light of the soul, and commonly Tara means rescuer, called so because she rescues us from the eight outer fears of lions, elephants, fire, snakes, thieves, water, bondage, and evil spirits, and the eight inner fears of pride, ignorance, anger, jealousy, wrong views, attachment, miserliness, and deluded doubts. She is a female Buddha, a bodhisattva, and the manifestation of the ultimate wisdom of all the Buddhas. There are twenty-one Taras and created from the principal Green Tara. She is said to be born from a tear of Avalokiteshvara, another bodhisattva. Her companion flower, the Lotus, is the eternal symbol of spiritual enlightenment. By focusing on the Lotus as a guide for meditative journey, we can merge with the sensations of being timeless and of pure light.
The eyes on Tara’s forehead, hands and feet are divine signs of her awakening, and these suggest that we sense acts and thoughts through the whole body. If something does not feel right, trust this feeling. By turning inward to find your own light, you will be guided to know what and who to cut out and what to keep.
Our additional helper this week is the Nightstar amulet from the Amulets of the Goddess by Nancy Blair. The image of the star is from a Minoan seal impression, ca 4000 years old. In ancient societies the night sky was filled with images of the Goddess such as Venus alternating as the morning and evening star, the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades offering solace, and the Goddess Nut and Hathor creating the Milky Way, pictured with her long body arching across the horizon.
The message of the Nightstar amulet is to find ways to rejoice in your ultimate personal fulfilment, and to see your own beauty, radiance, strength and honour. A potent time for ceremony and divination, where the Goddess speaks through you, granting any heart-felt wish to manifest as soon as it is planted.
Journey with the Nightstar
For this meditation, find a comfortable place to sit or lie down. Take a few deep breaths, exhale and relax your whole body. Feel calm, grounded and peaceful as you go into the journey.
Imagine yourself standing in a small tropical forest. All shades of green exists here, visible in the trees, bushes and plants around you. The melody of tropical birds beckons you further into the forest. The warm temperature feels relaxing as you continue through the dense foliage. You arrive at a cleared area where there is a small circular pond, with a giant Lotus flower at the centre. You walk towards it and see that the Goddess Tara is sitting on the Lotus. She sits calmly with her right hand on her knee, palm facing up. The left hand is raised, with the palm facing you, and she smiles. You notice that there is a pink ray of energy extending from her left palm and this pink energy is coming towards you. The pink ray of energy is entering your heart chakra, and then going up to your throat chakra, your third eye and then your crown chakra, where the pink energy continues up and connects to the sky above. Then the pink energy starts to travel down from your heart chakra to your solar plexus, to your sacral chakra, to your root chakra, the knees, the feet and then connecting to the earth below you.
You feel the pink ray of energy everywhere in your body. It is deeply healing your chakras, removing any obstacles and blocks as it travels in your body, mind and soul.
Now you see that Tara is offering you something. She looks at you with her stunning dark brown eyes and smiles. Then you see a Nightstar in her right hand, it is radiating with beauty and peace. Tara places the luminous Nightstar in your solar plexus chakra. Here is begins to shine with a warming energy, cleansing any blocks which you have accumulated over time and which now will be released. The Nightstar is filling you with brightness and pink -white light and you feel graceful and embraced in your own power.
Stay quiet and focus on the Nightstar in your solar plexus. Make note of any messages you receive at this point.
After a while you feel the pink and white energy disappearing, and you are back in the present moment. Take a deep breath, exhale and slowly open your eyes. Say thank you for the messages and the healing received.
After the meditation, journal about the below questions:
How did it feel to connect to Tara?
What messages did the Nightstar bring?
You can repeat this meditation anytime you feel you want to embrace and heal your own beauty, inside and out, feeling content and happy with who you are.
Mirasol