The Lantern
The one who became the thing she feared, so she could come home to what she buried.
Mantra
Sā Tā Nā Mā — Kirtan Kriya
Infinity · life · death · rebirth — the full cycle of existence in four breaths. The loom of the Weaver.
Power as self-punishment — became the betrayer she had dreamed of since childhood.
Structural mastery — knows exactly how systems are made, so she knows exactly how they can be remade.
The Reclaimed One — the shadow fully integrated as enormous generative power.
Begins in the Circle of Fire. Eventually reaches the Lake of Stillness.
Her egg sits beside three dead flies in a window cleaned on the ninth morning; the dragon wakes when she reads a poem by a Syrian poet named Nour.
Linked to Ixchel — Selene was a minor Inquisitor in 16th-c. Toledo who broke a captured Mayan priestess. Four centuries of pattern have followed.
The complicit — the silence of the one who became the silencer. The hardest voice to recover.
The Sisters of this Path walk these tales of the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha: one a week, in order.
- 6Karkaṭī, the Demoness Who Became a NeedleGuilt → Forgiveness · Seat 47
- 19Bali, Virocana and ŚukraDenial → Ease · Seat 16
- 28The Vilva (Wood-Apple) FruitSeparation → Care · Seat 53
- 32The Vetāla's RiddlesRejection → Gentleness · Seat 23
- 37The Wish-Gem and the Piece of GlassShame → Humour · Seat 48
- 59The Hewn StatueRepression → Honesty · Seat 8
- 63The Great Inquiry: King Prajñapti's QuestionsGuilt → Forgiveness · Seat 63
Every tale, with its guided practice and its song, in The Sixty-Four Tales of the Supreme Yoga (two volumes, ePub).