#PURVA_BHADRAPADA #NAKSHATRA
#Fire #Snake #Ajaikapad
Let us firstly consider the lunar house, known as #PurvaBhadrapada. This is the home of the fire Snake who goes by the name of Ajaikapad.
The fire snake Ajaikapad, translates as the one footed power beast of fire, this snake is a form of the Storm god #Rudra, full of fiery rage and creative destruction.
When we attune to his lunar house of Purva Bhadrapada, we pass through the door of fire.
The word Aja in his name refers to that which is mystical and mysterious. Working with this star energy is really an investigation into the secrets of the heat of #Kundalini #Shakti.
One summons the fiery Kundalini Shakti of Ajaikapad by working with fire within and without. A candle flame upon the altar is a ritual gesture of summoning Ajaikapad.
Fire is the form that this serpentine energy of Ajaikapad takes. He is the fire behind the storm… just as lightning in a storm can result in fire.
A Flash in the Dark
Purva Bhadrapada translates as the origins of a beautifully terrifying step. The lesson of this lunar house is all about learning to see what the effects of our fiery emotions are, upon ourselves, upon others, and upon the whole spiritual energetic field of our existence.
What is fiery emotion?
It is emotion that either warms or burns. Fire can bring light and warmth, which can turn into clarity and nourishment. But on the other hand, Fire can consume, burn and destroy.
When we get an insight into the origin behind our fiery actions, we take a magical step into the uses of fire.
When we get an insight into the origins of our fire, the nature of our expression of fire is transformed to one of spiritual efficiency.
The Fire Door
To take a metaphor: we learn about the dial on the stove and the right amount of heat required for the cooking at hand.
Each act of cooking requires a specific use of flame.
Our handling of the inner flame can either nourish or burn, a chronically hot flame can consume everything including ourselves. But when we start to see the origins of our relationship to fiery force, then we start to take back our power over the dial on the stove of feeling.
This is the wisdom that this lunar house transports to us.
This nights ritual will be an investigation into the origins of the beautifully terrifying steps of our existence.
Taking Back Power
The fiery formulas of working with the lunar constellation of Purva Bhadrapada is a magical ritual work of inner and outer Mudra and Mantra in alignment with this constellation of the fire serpent.
One summons the fiery forces of emotion by accessing deeply underground volcanic latent energies. Things like, frustration, anger, tension are brought to the sacrificial altar of Yog for this ritual.
We will centralise fiery emotion with concentration and vision, and then feed the force into the Kundalini channel of the spinal serpent of fire.
When fire of emotion is expressed willy-nilly it disperses force, but when it is focussed and strategically applied to the centralised position of the fire serpent in the inner spinal channel, then it is nourished unto Kundalini Shakti Jagra.
This translates as the awakening of the primal psycho/physical serpent power of the human energy system. This the Tantrics refer to as Kundalini Shakti.