POTENTIAL. Is it time to let go? The Goddess of Potential welcomes you into the space of not knowing. Let go of what was. Dhumavati teaches us to see the essence of all things. Through the wisdom of age — good, bad, young, old, ugly, beautiful — one sees beneath these apparent oppositions the oneness of creation. Suspend all judgement. Now is the time to make room for what is to come.
DHUMAVATI MANTRA
DHOOM
The Goddess Dhumavati is the seventh Mahavidya, the Great Wisdom Goddess called upon when work on the inner plane is required. This can be in times of outer stress or sickness, or simply when a period of life is at its end and some letting go needs to happen before the new chapter can begin. Her name means the one who is clothed in smoke. She reveals the darker side of life — the side that is sometimes uncomfortable to look at. She comes to you when your life is devoid of outer movement and you feel enshrouded in a veil of smoke, fog, or uncertainty. At these times she gives the boon of deep and profound meditative experience; when you cannot progress forwards on the physical plane, the freedom to dive into the subtler planes of reality opens before you.
Dhumavati is depicted as an elderly widow, dressed in torn clothing, residing in a burial ground, seated in a chariot with a broken wheel or perched upon an oversized crow. The crow symbolizes death and the end of something — here it is not even flying. The imagery is deliberately unattractive. She is known as Alakshmi, possessing the opposite of the beautiful, fluid qualities of Lakshmi. She has crooked broken teeth, a grey complexion, and she is alone. She is the only Mahavidya not seen with the erotic couple of Shiva and Shakti. Here there is only Shakti, without Shiva. The feminine energy is present but there is no movement.
And yet this is precisely where her gift lives. Dhumavati brings you to your heart center. When you are stripped down to your core and the outer world holds no allure, can you see the truth? Can you meet the beauty behind the veil of smoke? Can you go beyond outer appearances? This brings a deep peacefulness — an end to grasping, to expectations, to seeking another to fulfill you. Her worship can bring the end to poverty. A cycle is ending. The potential for a new cycle, and all the promise it holds, is about to begin.
POTENTIAL. Is it time to let go? The Goddess of Potential welcomes you into the space of not knowing. Let go of what was. Dhumavati teaches us to see the essence of all things. Through the wisdom of age — good, bad, young, old, ugly, beautiful — one sees beneath these apparent oppositions the oneness of creation. Suspend all judgement. Now is the time to make room for what is to come.
DHUMAVATI MANTRA
DHOOM
The Goddess Dhumavati is the seventh Mahavidya, the Great Wisdom Goddess called upon when work on the inner plane is required. This can be in times of outer stress or sickness, or simply when a period of life is at its end and some letting go needs to happen before the new chapter can begin. Her name means the one who is clothed in smoke. She reveals the darker side of life — the side that is sometimes uncomfortable to look at. She comes to you when your life is devoid of outer movement and you feel enshrouded in a veil of smoke, fog, or uncertainty. At these times she gives the boon of deep and profound meditative experience; when you cannot progress forwards on the physical plane, the freedom to dive into the subtler planes of reality opens before you.
Dhumavati is depicted as an elderly widow, dressed in torn clothing, residing in a burial ground, seated in a chariot with a broken wheel or perched upon an oversized crow. The crow symbolizes death and the end of something — here it is not even flying. The imagery is deliberately unattractive. She is known as Alakshmi, possessing the opposite of the beautiful, fluid qualities of Lakshmi. She has crooked broken teeth, a grey complexion, and she is alone. She is the only Mahavidya not seen with the erotic couple of Shiva and Shakti. Here there is only Shakti, without Shiva. The feminine energy is present but there is no movement.
And yet this is precisely where her gift lives. Dhumavati brings you to your heart center. When you are stripped down to your core and the outer world holds no allure, can you see the truth? Can you meet the beauty behind the veil of smoke? Can you go beyond outer appearances? This brings a deep peacefulness — an end to grasping, to expectations, to seeking another to fulfill you. Her worship can bring the end to poverty. A cycle is ending. The potential for a new cycle, and all the promise it holds, is about to begin.
