Kali ~ Ritual Anointing Oil ~ Dark Mother ~ Liberator ~ Primordial Mother-Creator ~ Death of Ego ~ Awakening ~ Destroyer ~ "The One" ~

~✴~“Maternal cause of all change, manifestation, and destruction…the whole Universe rests upon Her, rises out of Her and melts into Her. From Her crystallized the original elements and qualities which construct the apparent world. She is both mother and grave… The gods themselves are merely constructs out of Her maternal substance, which is both consciousness and potential joy.”~✴~ Kali like most of the dark goddesses is greatly misunderstood in her iconography. She is seen wearing a skirt of severed arms, a rope of severed heads adorns her neck. Sword in one hand, bloody head in the other, her wild tongue juts from her mouth as wild feral eyes pierce your soul. She is a fearsome thing indeed. A primordial mother-creator. The beginning, life, the womb and also the end, the destroyer, the tomb. Kali is the great liberator, freeing her children from Ego, the self-centered illusion of reality. Her association with death enters here. However, it is not physical human death, it is the death