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[quote=Gaia][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a westerner, but am currently in a class studying shakti and have just been introduced to Navaratri. Please share more. I would love to hear about it.[/quote]

Aww yay! I'm the OP and I'm a devotee of the Goddess (so I belong to the Shakta sect of Hinduism). Sure I can share a few things; let me know if you have any questions.

The Divine Mother worshipped in both Tantric and Vedic traditions of Hinduism, and in Shakta Hinduism, she's the supreme reality - Godhead is conceived of as feminine, as she is the Creatrix of the Universe. All the male gods are her disciples and she is their guru. She creates, preserves and destroys the universe in endless cycles. This is her divine play of consciousness, her [i]lila[/i]. In Tantra, she is ultimately neither male nor female (or agender, or really any gender), and everything is her - all the suffering and horror in the world, and all happiness, is the Goddess. All prosperity, all injustice, all beauty, all pain - all of this is the Goddess. Everything is an illusion of her making. The delights and horrors of Earth are not real, only she is real, and she takes us to union with Shiva.

(The best way to describe the relationship between Shakti and Shiva - the Divine Mother and her consort, the Primordial Yogi - is to compare an ocean to its waves. Shiva is the still ocean, Shakti is the ripples and the waves. He is consciousness, she is matter. He is the static principle, she is the dynamic one.)[/quote]

This is very similar to my Wiccan/Pagan beliefs.

Blessed be.[/quote]

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