SHIVOHAMPATH

Few Sanskrit words have been flattened by modern conversations about Tantra as thoroughly as yoni. For some, the word immediately becomes sexual. Tantra mentions the yoni, therefore Tantra must be a tradition of sacred sexuality, erotic techniques, or sexual liberation. The opposite reaction is almost equally misleading. Faced with that sexualization, people sometimes rush to sanitize the word completely: yoni is “only symbolic,” it merely represents “the divine feminine,” an

Why bridal devotion is one of the oldest languages of intimacy with the Divine, and why it still makes modern people uncomfortable There is a peculiar contradiction in the way we speak about devotion today. We are comfortable saying that God is our father. We understand calling the Divine our mother. We accept the language of master and servant. Friendship with God sounds beautiful. Seeing the deity as one’s child is considered tender and devotional. But the moment someone sa

When astrologers today speak about past-life karma, the conversation tends to move almost automatically toward Ketu, the 5th house, the 12th house, or the Shashtiamsha, the D60. D60 in particular has acquired an almost unquestioned reputation as the chart of previous-life karma. But hidden inside the Drekkāṇa chapter of Secret of Vargas is a considerably more specific technique. It does not begin with Ketu. It does not begin with D60. It begins with the 9th house. And after j