Kali is the Goddess of Revolution
She has blue-black skin, wild hair, red eyes, fangs, and four arms. She wears almost no clothes. In one of her hands she holds a sword, a symbol of her ability to cut through ignorance, delusion, and ego. Another of her hands gives blessings.
Kali challenges us to find the love in the pain of life.
Kali represents the "audacious fierceness" that has historically been denied to both the divine feminine and individual women. Kali helps us stand up for ourselves, discover our inner fierceness, or to express the "outrageous side of [our] sexuality".
"Kali is the force many young women call on in those moments when they courageously face and move beyond their own trauma, or when they want to break through sexual shyness, politesse, insecurity, and discomfort."
"Kali's power, suppressed, will often turn in on us, fester in the form of rage, attack our bodies in the form of illness and accidents, and surface in ways that can destroy our love and the love others have for us. It was not until the 1980's that clinicians realized that many women suffering from depression and eating disorders had been the victims of rape or sexual abuse of different kinds. Their raw and pain had been "stuffed inside," and needed to be expressed as well as cleared in order for the women's bodies and psyches to heal."
Inhale freedom, exhale anything that is getting in your way.
Blackness: night, space, depth of ocean, void
Kali's power is that which dissolves the feeling of separateness and helps us see we are one.
Kali's power is in volcanoes, tsunamis, tornadoes, childbirth, lightning storms, wild outbursts of ecstasy, and sudden enlightenment experiences.
Quotes taken from "Awakening Shakti" by Sally Kempton
