Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - Comtesse de Cérès Former title (from 1963 to 1992)- Lady Folding a Letter [+]
#hm... fascinated by that #yellow.
#ElisabethLouise VigéeLeBrun #art
#yellow
10 April, 2024 Wednesday Dwitiya #Yellow #Brahmacharini Puja
#Mantra
Om Dadhana Karapadmabhyamakshamala Kamandalu
Devi Prasidatu Mayi Brahmacharinyanuttama
Om Devi Brahmacharinyai Namah ॥
Significance
It is believed that the individuals who worship Maa Brahmacharini are granted peace and happiness. She is said to control Lord Mangal, the controller of fortunes, and provides her followers with wisdom and happiness.
Maa Brahmacharini is worshipped on the Second day of Navaratri. Maa Brahmacharini performed strict ‘Tapa’ (penance). In Sanskrit, “Brahma” means Universal Self Spirit, Absolute Reality often used in connection to tapa or tapasya (penance) and “Charini” means performer. Brahmacharini means “Goddess who practices devout austerity”. In the magnificent embodiment of Goddess Durga, She enlightens us with divine knowledge and grace. Brahmacharini Mata is also known by other names such as “Devi Yogini”, “Uma”, “Parvati”, “Tapascharini” and “Aparna”. According to Vedic texts, Brahmacharini is a feminine version of a Devi who performs sacred religious practices.
Maa Brahmacharini bestows the boon of love, loyalty, wisdom, and knowledge to Her devotees. Those who worship Her with utmost devotion, are blessed with calmness and happiness in their life. It is believed that she governs Planet Mars (Mangal). She is worshipped to remove Mangal Dosh and the problems resulting from unfavorable position of Mangal in the horoscope. Worshipping Maa Brahmacharini bestows devotees with values of devotion, virtues, nobility and solitude.
Brahmacharini Maa Vrat Katha
Maa Brahmacharini was born as Devi Parvati to Lord Himavan and Devi Menavati in the Himalayas. She blossomed in a beautiful princess, full of wisdom and grace.
There are many versions of legendary tales, but as mentioned in the Holy Puranas, Devrishi Narad influenced Devi Parvati with thoughts to marry Lord Shiva as Her divine consort. Devrishi Narad also guided Devi Parvati that the path to her reunion with Lord Shiva is not an easy one. She will have to practise tough tapasya (penance) to marry Supreme God – Shiva. Upon knowing Her predestined conjugal bliss with Lord Shiva, Devi Parvati’s desire to reunite with Lord Shiva became even stronger. Her divine being in the Manavatar (Human life) was devoted to win the heart of Lord Shiva. Based on the advice of Sage Narada, Devi Parvati took up intense tapasya (penance) for one thousand years. It is the due to this tough and arduous penance that She got the name of “Tapascharini”.
According to the Puranas, in the meanwhile Tarkasur – the demon king performed hard penance and pleased Lord Shiva. Tarkasur cunningly gained boon from Lord Shiva to be killed by only Lord Shiva’s son. Pleased by Tarksur’s penance, kind-hearted and benevolent Shiva granted him the boon. All the Gods and Goddesses were unhappy because Tarkasur was an evil demon and due to Bholenath’s boon (Bholenath meaning -Innocent One, name of Lord Shiva), Tarkasur became more powerful and performed malevolent acts in Heaven and on Earth. Gods and Goddesses got worried that Lord Shiva is a hermit and so its only after His marriage, that Lord Shiva’s child would kill Tarkasur. In order to invoke desire of love in Shiva for Devi Parvati, Gods and Goddesses took the help of Kamadeva (Hindu God of desire, love and attraction). When Lord Shiva was in deep meditation, Kamadev, arrives Mount Kailash and shoots arrows of love and desire on Mahadev. Due to Kamadev’s disrespectful intervention, Lord Shiva opens His third eye in anger and burns Kamadev into ashes.
With complete devotion, Devi Parvati begins her austerity and tapasya. Despite the reluctance from Her parents (Lord Himavan and Devi Menavati), She pursues the path to ascetic life. She begins to live in the mountains, and like Lord Shiva, She engages in the same activities of asceticism – yogin and tapasya.
Devi Parvati, endures tough weather conditions during Her penance – changes of seasons, scorching heat, rain, cold, winter, storms none of the extreme conditions discouraged Her from continuing her tapasya. She embarked upon extremely difficult regime. For thousand years, She ate only fruits and flowers. Thereafter, as described in the puranas, for another 100 years, She ate only vegetables followed by another three thousand years, She ate only fallen leaves – Bilva leaves. She later stopped eating Bilva leaves too and merely lived on air. Due to such severe penance, She is called as “Aparna” (meaning “leafless” in Sanskrit). Devi Parvati continued severe penance and pushed her austerities to extremes for thousand of years, her body became extremely weak and fragile.
All the gods, goddesses, sages, rishis and munis venerated Devi Parvati’s extremely tough penance. Lord Brahma was captivated by Devi’s devotion and meditation. At this stage of Her tapasya, Lord Brahma blessed her and granted a boon that Devi Parvati in her unmarried form during Her tapasya stage will be known as “Brahmacharini”.
Her ascetic life and arduous penance drew attention of Lord #Shiva. Lord Shiva disguises Himself as a sage and tries to discourage Her. Devi Parvati, refuses to listen and continues with Her resolve. As Devi Parvati, continues Her penance, a demon named Prakandasura with an army of million asuras tries to attack Devi Parvati and break Her tapasya. Since Devi Parvati cannot breach the tapasya, Devi Mahalakshmi and Devi Saraswati, come to Her rescue to save Her from demon Prakandasura and his army. But they were unable to defeat so many demons. According to the legends, the battle continued for many days. Then the water in Devi Parvati’s kamandal fell and washed away all the demons. Prakandasura continued his rampage. Devi Parvati opened Her eyes, the intense energy in the form of fire burned the demon into ashes.
All the celestial gods, goddesses, ganas, rishis, munis were impressed by Devi Parvati’s immense tapasya. Lord Shiva was pleased with Devi Parvati’s tapasya in the form of Devi Brahmacharini. Lord Shiva agrees to marry Devi Parvati.
Appearance Of Devi Brahmacharini
Devi Brahmacharini is #Devi #Parvati’s early phase before Her marriage. Devi Brahmacharini wears white saree which symbolizes purity. She carries Jaap mala (rosary) in Her right hand and Kamandal in Her left hand. Jaap mala represents devout meditation and concentration. Kamandal represents acceptance and water in the kamandal represents pure thoughts. She is depicted walking bare feet. Maa Brahmacharini wears lotus flowers in her neck and wrists. Lotus symbolizes knowledge. The flower grows from the mud of “ignorance” to seek the light of knowledge. Lotus grows above the water level, which depicts the spiritual growth of person. Such is the beautiful depiction of Lotus on Maa Brahmacharini. She adorns a prominent crown just like Goddess Durga. Despite her simplicity, She shares her magnificent knowledge. She has a pleasing smile and a radiant face full of grace.
#Goddess Of #Svadhisthana #Chakra
Svadhisthan chakra is the second chakra. It is the sacral chakra which is centre of pleasure, emotions, sexuality and sensations. Maa Brahmacharini represents one who practices devout austerity. Maa Brahmacharini symbolizes svadhisthan chakra in spiritual practice. One who meditates on Svadhishthana is believed to obtain siddhis like freedom from enemies, honesty and self-discipline, eloquence and clarity, knowledge, and words flowing like nectar in well narrated discourse along with awareness of astral entities.
Sadhaks and yogis keep their mind on svadhisthan chakra to maintain their dedication and devotion in steady phase. Concentrating on this chakra helps the spiritual aspirant move upwards in spiritual journey.
Worshipping Maa Brahmacharini
Maa Brahmacharini is worshipped on second day of Navratri. The pooja vidhi involves offering flowers, rice and sandalwood in Kalash that is established on first day of Navaratri during Ghatasthapana. If diety is worshipped in idol, She is given abhishekam with milk, curd and honey. If worshipped in image, she is garlanded with fresh flowers. Aarti is performed. Devotees offer prasad and chant mantra and stuti to offer obeisance to Devi Brahmacharini.
“Yellow spots in Tristesse-City”
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#YellowStar is your Conscious Self - who you are and who you are becoming.
You are a starseed! You contain a holographic ‘seed packet’ of your evolution into the Mind of Light and the energy that directs you toward wholeness. This resonance offers an expanded view of the larger self and new ways of perceiving reality. Through self-acceptance, you are gifted with this journey. Yellow Star is ignition, like a cosmic milkweed explosion of resonant sparks. It is the launching pad from which you can hear the rumble of the rocket of your accelerated evolution.
The energy of Yellow Star may be experienced as a gentle rocking that becoes a floating and spiraling sensation, ending in a rush of feeling as you move into expanded reality. This sensation has been described as gently cascading fireworks, shimmering burst on the tapesty of Creation. Cascade into this unchartged perspective. Flow on the cosmic winds wherever Divinity directs, arching back to this reality wth a new experience of self.
Yellow Star’s starseeded gift is the revelation of the harmony that unites all things. Instead of just aspiring to be harmonious, become harmony. Practice harmony not just as an abstraction, but as a living reality. This practice blends different energies, thoughts, people, and processes. Act on intuitive guidance as to what to combine and when. As you begin to follow your heart, you will know the feeling of being on the return path to the stars.
Yellow Star offers you the ability to hold a greatly expanded focus, a unity of awareness that encompasses aspects of the larger constellation of self. An example of this would be a simultaneous awareness of the desires of the existential self and the truth of the Essence Self. This star harmony encompasses the greatly enlarged perspective of your starseeded self, the part within you that holds the potential of your greatest destiny.
Unlike the preceding 7 tones, which were seperate and distinct, Yellow Star begins a more complex harmonic series as it completes the preceding octave. On a spiritual level, Yellow Star begins the development of higher being. The fundamental tones that occur in this series are of a more expanded frequency than those of the preceding seven tones. In this new octave, there is alignment in the harmonies of Earth and the harmonies of the stars that are now being sounded on Earth. Yellow Star is the first in a series of star harmonies that evoke accelerated growth of the starseed potential within you.
#Kin: 88
Tone: 10 Planetary
Producing * Manifestation * Perfect
Tribe: 8 Star
Beautify * Art * Elegance
#Haab 11 muwan
#Yellow Planetary #Star
White Northern Castle of Crossing
Earth family- Signal Clan- Blood
Galactic Activation Portal
I perfect in order to beautify
Producing art
I seal the store of elegance
With the planetary tone of manifestation
I am guided by the power of intelligence
I am a galactic activation portal enter me
#Yellow Star is your Conscious Self - who you are and who you are becoming.
You are a starseed! You contain a holographic ‘seed packet’ of your evolution into the Mind of Light and the energy that directs you toward wholeness. This resonance offers an expanded view of the larger self and new ways of perceiving reality. Through self-acceptance, you are gifted with this journey. Yellow Star is ignition, like a cosmic milkweed explosion of resonant sparks. It is the launching pad from which you can hear the rumble of the rocket of your accelerated evolution.
The energy of Yellow Star may be experienced as a gentle rocking that becoes a floating and spiraling sensation, ending in a rush of feeling as you move into expanded reality. This sensation has been described as gently cascading fireworks, shimmering burst on the tapesty of Creation. Cascade into this unchartged perspective. Flow on the cosmic winds wherever Divinity directs, arching back to this reality wth a new experience of self.
Yellow Star’s starseeded gift is the revelation of the harmony that unites all things. Instead of just aspiring to be harmonious, become harmony. Practice harmony not just as an abstraction, but as a living reality. This practice blends different energies, thoughts, people, and processes. Act on intuitive guidance as to what to combine and when. As you begin to follow your heart, you will know the feeling of being on the return path to the stars.
Yellow Star offers you the ability to hold a greatly expanded focus, a unity of awareness that encompasses aspects of the larger constellation of self. An example of this would be a simultaneous awareness of the desires of the existential self and the truth of the Essence Self. This star harmony encompasses the greatly enlarged perspective of your starseeded self, the part within you that holds the potential of your greatest destiny.
Unlike the preceding 7 tones, which were seperate and distinct, Yellow Star begins a more complex harmonic series as it completes the preceding octave. On a spiritual level, Yellow Star begins the development of higher being. The fundamental tones that occur in this series are of a more expanded frequency than those of the preceding seven tones. In this new octave, there is alignment in the harmonies of Earth and the harmonies of the stars that are now being sounded on Earth. Yellow Star is the first in a series of star harmonies that evoke accelerated growth of the starseed potential within you.
Kin: 8
Tone: 8 Galactic
Modeling * Integrity * Harmonize
Tribe: 8 Star
Beautify * Art * Elegance
#Haab - 11 sak
Yellow Galactic Star
Red Eastern Castle of Turning
Earth family- Signal Clan- Blood
I harmonize in order to beautify
Modeling art
I seal the store of elegance
With the galactic tone of integrity
I am guided by the power of free will
Today is the fifth day of the #Navaratri #celebrations which are held for nine nights.
#Jupiter
As the nine nights represent the nine planets, we will be having a planetary observance of Navaratri with an account of one of the planets for each of the nine nights. The fifth day of Navratri is marked to worship Goddess Skandamata, mother of #Murugan (var. #Skanda, #Subramanya, #Kartikeya), is worshipped on the fifth day, one should wear #yellow. This colour stands for happiness and brightness. Skanda-Murugan is the leader of the armies against evil.
#Goddess #Skandamata
All festivals are meant to remind mankind that they should cultivate noble qualities by engaging themselves in activities beneficial to one’s own self and society. Sai Baba has told that Navaratri, the nine nights, represents the Nine Planets.
In Hindu mythology, Navaratri celebrates the victory of Goddess Durga over Mahishasura, the buffalo-headed demon. She fought for nine days and nine nights before emerging victorious on the tenth day. Goddess #Shakti in the nine forms is worshipped during the period for knowledge, wealth, prosperity and auspiciousness. Knowingly or unknowingly during this period we also recognize the primordial source of energy (Shakti), which manifests in all living and nonliving.
Sai Baba went on to say that each planet has its own significance. However, these planets are not outside, they are within. So we take the opportunity to examine the energies of the planets within, and examine how the Divine Mother is related to these energies.
#Jupiter
Jupiter is watery in constitution ( #kapha), wears yellow clothes and yellow flowers; his gem is yellow sapphire. A #Brahmin, Jupiter knows all the Vedas and is expert in all forms of knowledge. As #guru, Jupiter has the highest forms of knowledge, philosophy and spirituality (para vidya) and teaches the #sacred paths.
Jupiter is Lord of the body’s fat, of the northeast, rules Thursdays, and the signs of Sagittarius and Pisces. Jupiter is known as the Lord of Worship and as the Guru. He is called Teacher of the Immortals, the Soul, the Advisor, the Lord of Speech, the Golden, the Creator (he is but another form of Brahma) the Compassionate, the Creator of Polity, remover of oppression and the Peaceable. As Guru, one honours one’s own guru by honouring this planet, Jupiter.
Jupiter grants knowledge of Yoga, Astrology, Vastu, science and mathematics, and is the giver of wisdom which overcomes obstacles. Jupiter as guru guides us in following dharma (the path of righteousness within and without) for dharma is the basis of the Universe itself. Jupiter indicates such domains of principle as law, religion and philosophy. He is the planet of intelligence.
Jupiter’s energy is that of #expansion; it expands everything it touches, making it bigger and greater. Some call Jupiter a multiplier, for this is what Jupiter does. If Jupiter is well placed in your horoscope its influence will be toward humanitarian activity, compassion, morality, caring, spirituality, optimism, faith and good judgement. One will be powerful, respected, healthy, wealthy, and a leader in society. Ambitious people who are aiming for high office whether it be politicians, priests, executives or judges are all under the influence of Jupiter. When Jupiter is afflicted in one’s astrological chart it will bring poverty, anger, arthritis, illness of the liver and pancreas, and overall bad luck.
Goddess Skandamata
Skandamātā is the fifth form of Hindu Goddess Durga. Literally meaning Mother of Skanda, her name comes from two words – Skanda is one of the names for the war god and her son Kartikeya (or Murugan or Subramanya) and Mata is the term for mother.
Skandamātā is four-armed and rides on a lion. She carries a lotus. Her one hand is in blessing posture. Lord Skanda can be seen in her lap. She possesses four arms out of which two often hold the lotus flowers. One of her hands is always in the boon-conferring gesture and with the other she holds her son Skanda in her lap. Her complexion is white and she is seated on the lotus. So, she is also called Goddess with a lotus-seat (Padmāsana). The lion is her vahana (vehicle).
Significance of Navaratri
“During the Dasara festival, three goddesses – Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati -are worshipped according to certain traditional practices. Durga represents the prodigious power of nature (Prakrit-shakti). As against this power of nature is the Paraa-Shakti (the power of the spirit). When spiritual power is predominant, the power of nature is kept under control. When spiritual power is weak, the power of nature becomes predominant. This is illustrated by the example of smoke and fire. When smoke is predominant, the fire is suppressed. When the fire is blazing, the smoke vanishes. Hence, to enhance the power of spirit and limit the power of nature, man has to cultivate detachment (Vairaagya). To the extent that power of nature is under control, to that extent spiritual power grows. “Ichchaa-Shakti” is one of the of several other potencies like intellectual power, the discriminating capacity and others. To develop this “Ichchaa-Shakti” (will power), one has to worship “Devi”. This calls for the cultivation of Tyaaga (detachment or renunciation). For instance, if one has a desire for various drinks, he can bring the desires under control by giving up, to begin with, the desire for one of them. Thereby the Will Power (Ichchaa-Shakti) is developed and in due course, it becomes easier to give up other desires.
In Vedantic parlance this is described as “Vairaagya” (renouncing attachments). Vairaagya is not abandonment of hearth and home and retiring to a forest. It means developing godly thoughts and reducing worldly feelings. When this balanced development takes place, one acquires control over the powers of nature (Praakrita-Shakti). When these powers are got, the mental power in a person increases. Durga represents the Praakrita-Shakti and Lakshmi represents the Thought Power (Sankalpa Shakti). Vaak-Shakti (the power of speech), is represented by Saraswati. In order to acquire these three powers, various forms of worship are performed during the Navaratri festival. But prayers alone are not enough. Prayers should not be just from the lips. They should emanate from the heart. The heart (Hridaya) symbolizes the Ocean of Milk (Ksheera-saagara). When Lakshmi emerges, purity of speech follows. Whatever you speak should conform to truth.” Sai Baba, SS. 12/92. pp.304 & 305.
Ellen Randell Dreams of Wattle
"I think of Ellen every time the wattle blooms. She was 20 and on her way home from Maryborough with her fiancé when she stopped to pick wattle from the side of the road. It’s the last thing she’d ever see. Her fiancé shot her in the back of the head and then shot himself. He was deep in gambling debt and had planned to take his own life, and had written a suicide letter to Ellen. I can only guess as to why he changed his mind and killed her too. Not wanting her to have a life without him? What a disgusting human. Ellen is a 19th century victim of domestic violence, but she’s so much more. A young girl in a new land with her whole life ahead and a love of yellow flowers. I want people to remember her name.
Aug 26, 2023
#Photography by Lauren Starr, from "LUMINARIES - Reimagining Women on the Australian Goldfields"
#photo #Australia #gold #yellow #wattle
Yellow reminds me (musically and visually) of many things, from Donovan's Mellow Yellow to Yellow Submarine and of course, Banana...;
Seeing the above cartoon reminded me of a great Little Feat Song...
Skin It Back
The lyrics were rather prescient too, and definitely applicable to the co-subject in the cartoon:
"Well I'm waitin' for something to take place
Something to take me away from this race...
Runnin' around in the shoes of a clown
And that desperate, no count, desperado...
GEORGIA'S SO SWEET...." Full Lyrics Below
#LittleFeat #1974 #music #musica #banana #TrumpVirus #musica #musique #SkinItBack #yellow #Mellow #Submarine
Margaret Olley (1923-2011)
Basket of calendulas 1967
oil on composition board, 74.5 x 100cm.
Exhibition https://gallery.tweed.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/margaret-olley-art-of-flowers
Audio guides https://gallery.tweed.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/audio-guide-art-of-flowers
Earlier today, I used a #MacroLens to #photograph a subject close up. Now I switched to a #telephoto lens with a #FocalLength of 400 mm to capture objects effectively at #infinity.
You may have seen some of my #sunset #photographs before and, yes, it's the same #horizon and the same old #Sun but this one caught my eye because of its sharpness. There wasn't a cloud in the vicinity of the Sun when it was setting. You can see the bright, smoothly varying #yellow, #gold and #orange of the #sky contrasting the dark, sharp #silhouettes of the #trees in the #foreground. Also there's that mobile phone mast too.
#Cropping the image around our local #star, you see the #trees in what I'm calling #ExtremeSilhouette as the blinding light of the Sun seem to flow around solid wood and renders it invisible with only the ends of branches seemingly suspended in mid air disconnected to the trunk and giving the Sun the appearance of having spiky hair.
