Bhūvaneśvarī Dvādaśī & Vāmana Jayantī
Today marks two auspicious festivals on Śukla Dvādaśī (bright twelfth lunar day) in the month of Bhādrapada (aug/sept).
Bhūvaneśvarī, the Mahāvidyā aligned with the Moon, arises as the boundless expanse of consciousness itself. She is the sovereign Queen of the cosmos, whose presence is the infinite sky in which all forms appear and dissolve.
Like the Moon, she reflects and nourishes, embodying saumyatā—the cooling, gentle essence of grace, the Presiding Śakti of space, sky, and the entire manifested cosmos (bhūvana = worlds).
Her essence is ākāśa tattva (the principle of space), the infinite container of creation. Through her teachings, the mind is stilled in her vastness, the heart attuned to her rhythms, and the individual self dissolved into the ocean of the universal Mother.
oṁ hrīṁ bhuvaneśvaryai namaḥ
ॐ ह्रीं भुवनेश्वर्यै नमः । 🌙
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Vāmana Jayantī — As Śrī Vāmana, the fifth avatāra of Lord Viṣṇu, he employed divine strategy (māyā-upāya) to restore the worlds to their rightful place—subduing the asura king Bali by requesting three paces of land and then covering the universe in three steps.
Connected to Bṛhaspati, Guru to the Devas in Jyotiṣa (Vedic astrology), who is the carrier of Ākāśa-tattva and is Jīvakaraka—significator of life itself—the one who restores things back to their rightful place; we invoke him to protect our intelligence (buddhi), wisdom (jñāna), and discernment (viveka).
oṁ hrīṁ śrī gurubhyo namaḥ
ॐ ह्रीं श्री गुरुभ्यो नमः । 🐚
Ḥāfeẓ // “Even from the distance of a millennium
I can lean the flame in my heart into your life
And turn all that frightens you
into holy incense ash.”