Last night the restless sleep continued, as did the bizarre dreams.
I was at a market and there was one sall not getting much attention. It was full of beautiful, healthy looking organic veg but nobody was much interested because it had come all the way from India. A white family had emigrated and spent half the year growing and would then come back and sell their bounty.
After talking to them a while they said they had other things under their main stall including a tray of jewellery. The tray was intricate and sparkly jewellery, mostly made of metal. I could see a tiny bit of unshiny metal and I grabbed that one knowing it was the one I wanted. It turned out to be part of an old shield that they had based all the other jewellery on. It turned out to be far bigger piece than I had first thought and was intricate and beautiful with aged metal. It was part of a T and apparently the shield had belonged to some lady called Tara.
So I look her up this morning and she turns out to be pretty big in that part of the world and she comes in several different colours. I don't have much time before work to research her but there is something interesting here. Any ideas which Tara would have a shield?
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5 months ago
it is full moon remember.. usually a time of bizarre dreams for me too.
ReplyDeleteI had a dream about a Goddess statue once.. I dreamed that I was in a shop and there was a tag that kept appearing and on it was the word Lakshmi.. I took it as a sign and went out and bought one..
your dream is of Tara.. I know she is the Green Goddess in one instance and yes she is one of the big guns...not sure about the shield though.. I will think on it.. what does a shield mean for you??
I found this on PsychicSophia.com:
ReplyDeleteInvocation of Tara
Praise to Tara
The Great Mother and provider of all
Energy supreme
In the boundless universe
Star flashing in the heavens
Eyes of lightening
Lotus-born
Tear of the compassionate cosmos
Help me to heal others
Help me to heal myself
Face like a million moons
Full and bright
Filled with peace and love
Goddess of mercy
We call upon you
In this our hour of need
Goddess of all that is right and true
Scattering blue lotus petals
Laughing with joy and love
Most giving one
Oh perfect crystal mother
Help us to heal others
Help us to heal ourselves
All the gods worship you
Great Mother of the universe
Songs fill your sky
Demons and evil spirits
Are driven away by your joy
Purify the land
Help me to heal others
Help me to heal myself
You are the great destroyer
Of fear, of failure
Of oppression & disease
Lift the burden of helplessness
Empower us to see potential
Radiant and joyful Goddess
Dancing across the face
Of this troubled planet
Healing as your lotus feet
Tread the lands about us
Oh great protector
You who call upon all the powers
All the gods
All the people of the many worlds
Help me to heal others
Help me to heal myself
You burn as holy fire
Goddess Tara
Purify us in thy flaming embrace
Joy replaces fear
As our doubts disappear
Blissful Goddess
Virtuous, honest and peaceful
As I become you
The ills of the worlds
Run off me as water drops
Greatest Goddess
Upon whom all the gods and peoples rely
Earthspirit mother
Cover and protest me
Your form my armor
Fill me and soothe me
Fill me with calm and a will to act
Help me to heal others
Help me to heal myself
Come Great Mother of all life!
Here is Tara the red, to the South!
Here is Tara the yellow , to the North!
Here is Tara the black, to the West!
Here is Tara the green, to the East!
And here within me
Is Maha Tara, primal Tara, ultimate Tara
Shining as a star in my heart!
Om tare tuttare ture soha! Tara!
Help me to heal others
Help me to heal myself
Om tare tuttare ture soha!
She is often pictured with a sword, but mostly a lotus...could not find her with a shield, but perhaps she, herself, is the shield for one who invokes her name?
Blessings on you this day. Your dream made me journey.
I know that she was a far eastern Tara rather than the Celtic green Tara because her shield was most definitely from India....
ReplyDeleteI think that the shield means protection - by finding part of her shield, I was finding protection given by her. The fact that it was jewellery makes me wonder if she was claiming my charm bag and smokey quartz but I don't think so. I think they are just one way I have been finding protection and really once I had the piece of the shield, it was too large to wear as a pendant!
That is a lovely piece you found Holly and it explains much of her spirit. If she has a sword then chances are she would be no stranger to a shield. Maybe she is my shield.
It is odd because i don't remember hearing of her before and here she is a Buddhist / Hindu Goddess of immense proportion, in my dream... Truly a gift!
For a different angle...Tara was also a place - the ancient seat of the High Kings of Ireland...who would, of course, have shields....
ReplyDeleteI remember this verse from The Wrinkle In Time books...
At Tara in this fateful hour,
I place all Heaven with it's power,
The sun with its brightness
The snow with its whiteness
The fire with all the strength it hath
The lightning with its rapid wrath
The winds with their swiftness
The sea with its deepness
The rocks with their steepness
The earth with its starkness
All these I place
Between myself and the powers of Darkness..
So again, it fits with the theme of protection and shielding...it intrigues me the connection between Celtic Tara and Indian Tara......
Oh mel, what a beautiful piece and so appropriate. In my brief readings I did read there was a connection...
ReplyDeleteThings wern't as separate as sometimes we think in days gone by. People did travel and ideas and things did migrate. The Book of Kells for instance shows artistic styles drawn from around the world, including the Muslim world.