Kalika Tantrika

Our wild mother goddess overcomes duality, resting in the sweet spot of integration, healing and creativity. She facilitates the overcoming of tension and conflict, birthing sacred solutions and evolution into greater bliss. Kalika Tantrika is Kali, the tantric queen. As Kalika Tantrika she overcomes all karma, realigns pathways when we have veered off course, reverses the momentum of negative uses of free will, and detaches draining energy cords, restoring us to full vitality. Her presence announces significant change and positive improvement in all aspects of your life, especially your spiritual life.

The tantra of Kali is the teaching of the eminence of the Goddess. Her appearance in a reading indicates a time when the feminine principle must be in the dominant position. This is not a declaration that the feminine is superior – it is equal to the masculine, yet different. It is a recognition that the feminine is the holding and birthing energy. To shift from one way, paradigm or political structure, the feminine must lead. As Kali, she disrupts negative power structures and holds the space for something completely new to emerge from the rubble.

The simplest way to describe the eminence of the Goddess is that it’s the deep respect for intuitive knowing and action taken on the non-rational, yet deeply insightful instincts of the heart. This is not about being emotionally reactive. There are multiple expressions of this sacred tantric inversion, placing the Sacred Feminine in the leadership position and deconstructing patriarchy. We practice it when listening to our intuition with complete courage, rather than going against our inner knowing for the sake of logic. Another is reversing the flow of what has been generated. This may mean halting a path you wanted to travel but have now come to realize is not honoring of your heart. It could be a breaking down of what has been established because it has become too restrictive and needs to be rebuilt in a new way — or perhaps released altogether. Remember, that which appealed to the caterpillar is not going to tempt the butterfly. As the soul evolves, our needs and desires often undergo a profound transformation, too.

Tantric teachings resonate less with clean, tidy and methodical approaches and more with wild spontaneous shamanic energies innately tuned to and responsive to life. The primal force of the feminine is moving you along your soul journey at present. To tune in to that primal power requires loosening the mental grip over your life. Allow for more space, more flexibility. If your schedule is so tightly wound that every minute is accounted for, set the intention to slacken the reins. The feminine needs freedom. She cannot be crammed into minimal spaces and expected to thrive. If you try to control her, she will rebel and when she is Kali, her rebellions topple kingdoms. It is possible to heal and transform-even radically- without evoking her wrathful nature if you are open to her guiding presence. Her wrath is love, so we need not fear it. But, it can certainly be a welcome change of pace for powerful shifts to be able to happen with grace and ease.

When Kali Tantrika arises in your reading, you are encouraged to listen to your gut and allow for wisdom to emerge. Act according to instinct and let go of methods that do not resonate with your heart — even if your mind tells you that not following those methods will lead to failure. The Tantra of Kali is the practice of unconditional trust in the feminine. Her ways are unpredictable, apparently ever-changing, and when she manifests as Kali, if you try to pin her down and control her, she’s likely to lop off the offending appendage! Instead, we submit to her, entering into the black void of possibilities and not knowing with the realization that even when we don’t know what is going on, the Divine Feminine does. If we willingly open to her sacred knowledge, rather than try to impose our will and logic and desire upon her, she will show us what is going to work best.

This is a time when the heart-knowing must lead above the intellectual assessment of things. It is also when we are best moved by a greater guiding intelligence, rather than doggedly sticking to a plan and trying to assert ourselves. The feminine is not as direct in her approach as the masculine. Her seeds germinate in darkness. Her creative methods are not always seen, yet are powerful. The oracle brings encouragement that even though it seems like your will is being thwarted, or you are not getting what you want (right now), or you just wish you could have clarity and know your direction, you are still making progress. Things are coming together in the best way and something is growing that is aligned with the divine plan you were born to fulfil. You are encouraged to restore your inner energies, and move when you feel inspired rather than thrusting forward in an attempt to make progress. The Goddess knows what she’s doing. Her actions will benefit you, and all beings, profoundly. Allow her to have her way.

Invocation Ritual

Place your hands at your lower belly. Sense the energies that stir and swirl into life when you place your loving, non-judging attention beneath your hands. Allow your awareness to move deeply beneath your hands as if you are moving into a vast, oceanic realm of feminine being within your body, no matter what your biology or gender may be. You can settle and meditate within this feminine presence. Perhaps that presence is gentle ocean waves rising and falling in a rhythmic lullaby, or a raging storm with flashes of lightning and shuddering thunder. Be with what is. Sense the grounding as your mental energies begin to descend into the belly and gather there, returning to the primordial and restorative ocean of consciousness deep within the sacral chakra.

Say the following prayer:

Jai Ma Kali, I drop into the realm of deep wisdom located in the belly. I feel for your guidance, for the innate pattern of intelligent, spiritual becoming that exists within my soul and knows how to manifest itself to fulfilment for the benefit of all beings. I open to your blessings, I let go of that which I have held on to more than I have trusted in you. Jai Ma Kali!

Allow any residual tension or stress to melt away. Be in the quiet bliss of peaceful, authentic, inner divine communion. Place your hands in prayer.

You have completed your ritual.