Phoenix bird – a
symbol of renewal
Maha
Shivaratri is a Hindu festival celebrated annually in reverence of the God
Shiva. It is believed to be the day shiva was born to save the universe by
drinking "haalaahala" and Gaaja the poison and drug that emerged from
the churning of the ocean (samudra manthana). While most Hindu festivals are
celebrated during the day, Shivaratri is celebrated during the night by keeping
a "jaagaran" - a night-long vigil as it is believed that Lord
Shiva saved the universe from darkness and ignorance. This day is also
believed to be the day that Shiva was married to the Goddess Parvati. The
Maha Shivaratri festival, also popularly known as 'Shivaratri' falls in
February or March as per the English Gregorian calendar. Of the twelve
Shivaratris in the year, the Maha Shivarathri is the most holy. In 2016, Maha
Shivaratri is being celebrated on March 7 just before the solar eclipse of
March 8-9.
Shiva
literally means "auspiciousness, welfare". He is the third god of the
Hindu Trinity who destroys negative presences such as evil, ignorance, and
death in order to renew and regenerate. Resonating to the essence of Shiva’s theme, the upcoming eclipse [18pi] is conjunct Ankaa, alpha Phoenix – a mythical
bird that regenerates from its ashes.
In addition,
the eclipse forms a T-square with Jupiter-Saturn with Saturn at the apex. Here
Saturn is conjunct the star Sabik. About Sabik Nick Fiorenza writes:
Sabik of
Ophiuchus, and surrounding entries, can stimulate involvements that lead to our
greater biological well-being and illumination--especially regarding
transmutation of our experience and our human condition from a lower-order to a
more refined state of being. This level of transmutation in our lives requires
full unconditional acceptance and integration of our past experience, so the
bio-energetic patterning we hold within can be inverted to re-express its
compliment--thus allowing a new expression that subsequently draws new fulfilling
experience. This process in esoteric science and physics is called
time-reversal or phase-conjugation. In advanced healing and meditative
techniques, this is a means of producing the opposite but properly phased
cellular pattern or signature within self that cancels (actually fulfills) the
existing pattern we embody. Generally, this is an all-or-nothing deal requiring
our unconditional willingness to embrace the healing / transmutational process.
The choice is ours. Sabik also can simply indicate a threshold to cross or
transition to make, generally regarding a change in our neurology, how we act,
or in our capacity to take action to change and evolve.
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