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Have you every seen dust dancing in sunbeams? How it glitters like flecks of gold? Maybe that is the true alchemy. Not chasing what something is, but seeing it in a new light.

Yantras for the “Mahavidyas” (”Great Wisdom”) Goddesses. These are mandalas for meditation whose geometric forms encode the attributes of the deity they represent.

To work with these images you should visualize them drawn on the ground in front of you. Imagine yourself entering through one of the four gates, and then move through the structure to the center point (Bindu).

The Goddesses shown also represent the ten cardinal directions surrounding a central point, and are the counterpart to the male “Guardians of the Directions”.

The yantras shown are, in order:

Kali (”Eternal All-Devouring Night, The Dark One Outside Time”).

Tara (”The Compassionate Star, our Guiding Light”).

Tripura Sundari (”Goddess of the 3 Worlds, 16 year old playful Lalita”).

Bhuvaneswari (”Queen and Creatrix, whose body is the Universe”).

Bhairavi (”Awe-inspiring, beyond the fear of death”).

Chinnamasta (”She who severs her own head”).

Dhumavati (”She who widows herself, the Smoky One”).

Bagalamukhi (”She who makes you silent”).

Matangi (”The wild, passionate and unclean one”).

Kamalatmika (”Last but not Least, the Lotus of Desire”).