Troma Nagmo

She arises, instinctively responding to a severe threat to your well-being, freedom and sacred fulfillment. Her fierce form causes the impure to tremble, and the pure of heart to move close. She is ferocious in her wrath against injustice. Dispense with thoughts of vengeance. Pray for mercy for all beings, especially those trapped in patterns of consciousness, harmful toward themselves and others. Open your heart to her heart, and allow her to attend to all matters of karma while you remain true to your higher self.

Kali is so responsive to those in need of her that she will manifest in unlimited forms to provide the necessary protections. Her fiercest forms manifest to support us and confronting powerful darkness within ourselves, others in our world. In Tibetan Buddhism, a dakini, or ‘sky dancer’, is a feminine spiritual being offering guidance and protection. The dakini known as Troma Nagmo, and also as Krodakali, is a fiercely protective, divine feminine being upon whom we can meditate. As we place our focus upon her, we enter into her being for Sanctuary. Her appearance is meant to be repelling for a spiritual purpose, not to keep us away from her. So, allow any fear or a version that arises as you contemplate her to rise and then fall away. This is how contemplation upon the sacred being becomes an act of spiritual cleansing and psychological release. As the aversion dissipates, our sanctuary with her is activated from a pure, trusting heart, deflecting, unwanted negative energies and psychic contaminants.

Troma Nagmo is our black, wrathful mother of Tantric wisdom. As our mother, she is available to all hearts who seek her protection, teaching and assistance. She is a fiercer form of the already fierce Vajrayogini from the Tibetan spiritual tradition. As such, she takes spiritual protection to the highest level. She is associated with the Tibetan practice of Chod, which facilitates, complete fearlessness, rapid spiritual growth, and the severing of attachment. The word, chod, translates as ‘cutting through’.

Troma Nagmo’s presence and a reading indicates that you will outgrow any issue, even those so persistent as to last for a very long time, or that appears to be beyond your capacity to overcome. This confronting, powerful obstacle, maybe an attachment, stuck pattern or unhealthy misuse of energy. It may be a set of circumstances you have created, or that another has imposed upon you. It may relate to this or other lifetimes. Whatever the cause, her presence indicates it is time for it to end. As you move close to her presence in your heart, you will be able to cut through the mental and emotional clinging to a particular outcome or interpretation, so the situation unravels rapidly allowing for swift progress on your soul path.

If you have felt as though the way forward and any matter of concern has been barred, her spiritual intervention to clear it is imminent. No obstacle can withstand her will. No suffering can continue in her presence. Her ways are exceptional and expedient, precise and effective. Liberation and enlightened empowerment are always the results of her activity. And expanded capacity to accomplish your sacred work as indicated, and it shall bring far reaching benefits for all. Give up your notions of how things should be, and seek Sanctuary and the wild wrath wisdom unfolding. It may seem to be a chaotic, bumpy ride at times, but there is a loving intelligence guiding the process, and you are safe.

You may not understand her wisdom and method, but you can trust in what is happening, especially the things breaking apart or arising anew. Any pain you may be experiencing now is so much less than what would have taken her, if certain circumstances were allowed to continue. When a boundary needs to be set, it is not a time to play nice, nor to pacify people or circumstances attempting to exploit your good nature. Troma Nagmo shall not stand for such disrespect, and trying to keep the peace by cultivating behaviors that are not self honoring will backfire. Authenticity was compassionate detachment as the only way forward now. Trust in her more than you trust in your doubts or fears. She has the power to bring about what needs to occur.

Invocation Ritual

Say the following invocation while gazing from time to time at the image on the card. Allow yourself to surrender into your heart. Offer her any feelings of aversion. Letting go facilitate your release into her healing, protective fires.

Wrathful black dakini, mother of wisdom, grace, and power, Troma Nagmo, Krodakali, I bow before you with respect. I surrender to your workings. I humbly offer you the attachments, karmic seeds, and obscurations of mind and bodies, so that transformation and liberation may occur for the spiritual benefit of all beings. All the developments submit to your liberating presence. Hai Ma Krodakali!

Allow yourself to imagine, visualize, or feel invisible shackles, falling away from your soul, your body and your mind. You may sense or hear them as they hit the ground with a clunk before melting into powerful cleansing fires that rise to consume them. Even if you cannot sense such a thing, trust that it is happening.

Notice how you feel- perhaps clearer, free, more able to breathe- and expand more naturally and easily as constraints or released. You may feel different and not yet comfortable in that difference. That is okay too.

Gaze again at the image on the card. Place your hand on your heart and then lightly touch that same hand to the card as a symbol of gratitude and acknowledgment of the Divine Mother’s presence in your life. Hands in prayer and bowing your head.

You have completed your invocation ritual.