{"id":20163,"date":"2019-08-01T01:10:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T06:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=21995"},"modified":"2019-10-23T00:30:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T00:30:20","slug":"she-who-is-all-the-goddess-of-ten-thousand-names-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2019\/08\/01\/she-who-is-all-the-goddess-of-ten-thousand-names-50\/","title":{"rendered":"She Who is All \u2013 The Goddess of Ten Thousand Names"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Dakini<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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(Photo Credit: The Divine Feminine Oracle Deck by Meggan Watterson – Photo by Susan Morgaine)<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Female, Powerful. Supernatural. Wisdom. Enlightenment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Dakini are beyond intelligence; they are the embodiment of female wisdom and enlightenment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Dakini, translated, means “sky dancer”. They are seen as the attendants of Kali. Like Her, they can be vengeful and protective. The Dakini can be unruly; they make their own rules and love their freedom. They can appear as intense or nurturing as they represent energy in in all of it’s ever-changing forms.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Their resemblance to Kali is seen within the garland of skulls that they wear.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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She\/they is also seen carrying a vessel of menstrual blood – the elixir of life.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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In other representations, She holds a gold Tantric staff, which symbolizes the ultimate union she has attained within herself.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In Tibetan Buddhism, the Dakini is the most sacred feminine principle. As Tantric Priestesses, they are limitless possibility.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

She represents the inner realm as a meditation guide, and the outer realm as a Tantric yogini.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

A Dakini can also be a sacred female spirit, a woman who has reached a certain amount of spiritual development and who teaches truth and spiritual wisdom in every aspect of her life. She carries power and grants insights to the serious yogini, especially those who practice Kundalini Yoga.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It was believed by Padmasambhava, who was a pioneer in Buddhism, that women were better able to go more deeply into meditation than males and, thus, were able to realize the wisdom of his teachings.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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There were many Dakini temples, round structures, with no roof, open to the sky. The most famous is the 64 Yogini\/Dakini Temple, which has 64 niches with carvings representing various aspects of this Goddess.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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(Image Credits: tsemrinpoche.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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About the Author:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Susan Morgaine<\/strong>\u00a0is a Daughter of the Goddess, Witch, Writer,\u00a0Teacher, Healer,\u00a0and\u00a0Yogini.\u00a0She is a monthly columnist with\u00a0PaganPages.org<\/a>\u00a0Her writings can be found in The Girl God Anthologies,\u00a0\u201cWhatever Works: Feminists of Faith Speak\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cJesus, Mohammed and the Goddess\u201d, as well as Mago Publications\u00a0\u201cShe Rises, Volume 2, and \u201cCelebrating Seasons of the Goddess\u201d. She has also been published in\u00a0Jareeda<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0SageWoman<\/a>\u00a0magazines.\u00a0She is a Certified Women\u2019s Empowerment Coach\/Facilitator through\u00a0She is the author of \u201cMy Name is Isis<\/a>\u201d, one in the series of the \u201cMy Name Is\u2026\u2026\u2026\u201d children\u2019s books published by The Girl God Publications.\u00a0A Woman International, founded by Patricia Lynn Reilly. She has long been involved in Goddess Spirituality and Feminism, teaching classes and workshops, including Priestessing Red Tents within MA and RI. She is entering her 20th year teaching Kundalini Yoga and Meditation, being a Certified instructor through the Kundalini Research Institute, as well as being a Reiki Master. She is a member of the Sisterhood of Avalon. She can be found at\u00a0https:\/\/mysticalshores.wordpress.com\/\u00a0<\/a>and her email is\u00a0MysticalShores@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dakini (Photo Credit: The Divine Feminine Oracle Deck by Meggan Watterson – Photo by Susan Morgaine) Female, Powerful. Supernatural. Wisdom. Enlightenment. The Dakini are beyond intelligence; they are the embodiment of female wisdom and enlightenment. Dakini, translated, means “sky dancer”. They are seen as the attendants of Kali. Like Her, they can be vengeful and protective. The Dakini can be unruly; they make their own rules and love their freedom. They can appear as intense or nurturing as they represent energy in in all of it’s ever-changing forms. Their resemblance to Kali is seen within the garland of skulls that they wear. She\/they is also seen carrying a vessel of menstrual blood – the elixir of life. In other representations, She holds a gold Tantric staff, which symbolizes the ultimate union she has attained within herself. In Tibetan Buddhism, the Dakini is the most sacred feminine principle. As Tantric Priestesses, they are limitless possibility. She represents the inner realm as a meditation guide, and the outer realm as a Tantric yogini. A Dakini can also be a sacred female spirit, a woman who has reached a certain amount of spiritual development and who teaches truth and spiritual wisdom in every aspect of her life. She carries power and grants insights to the serious yogini, especially those who practice Kundalini Yoga. It was believed by Padmasambhava, who was a pioneer in Buddhism, that women were better able to go more deeply into meditation than males and, thus, were able to realize the wisdom of his teachings. There were many Dakini temples, round structures, with no roof, open to the sky. The most famous is the 64 Yogini\/Dakini Temple, which has 64 niches with carvings representing various aspects of this Goddess. (Image Credits: tsemrinpoche.com) *** About the Author: Susan Morgaine\u00a0is a Daughter of the Goddess, Witch, Writer,\u00a0Teacher, Healer,\u00a0and\u00a0Yogini.\u00a0She is a monthly columnist with\u00a0PaganPages.org\u00a0Her writings can be found in The Girl God Anthologies,\u00a0\u201cWhatever Works: Feminists of Faith Speak\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cJesus, Mohammed and the Goddess\u201d, as well as Mago Publications\u00a0\u201cShe Rises, Volume 2, and \u201cCelebrating Seasons of the Goddess\u201d. She has also been published in\u00a0Jareeda\u00a0and\u00a0SageWoman\u00a0magazines.\u00a0She is a Certified Women\u2019s Empowerment Coach\/Facilitator through\u00a0She is the author of \u201cMy Name is Isis\u201d, one in the series of the \u201cMy Name Is\u2026\u2026\u2026\u201d children\u2019s books published by The Girl God Publications.\u00a0A Woman International, founded by Patricia Lynn Reilly. She has long been involved in Goddess Spirituality and Feminism, teaching classes and workshops, including Priestessing Red Tents within MA and RI. She is entering her 20th year teaching Kundalini Yoga and Meditation, being a Certified instructor through the Kundalini Research Institute, as well as being a Reiki Master. She is a member of the Sisterhood of Avalon. She can be found at\u00a0https:\/\/mysticalshores.wordpress.com\/\u00a0and her email is\u00a0MysticalShores@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-columns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20707,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163\/revisions\/20707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}