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Deities Who Guide Me | White Tara

Name: White Tara (Sita Tara, Mother of Compassion)

Form: Gentle protector

Appearance: Radiant and serene, seated in lotus posture. Her body shines with pure white light, symbolizing truth and clarity. Adorned with silks and jewels, she bears seven eyes—on her face, hands, and feet—seeing all suffering and offering boundless compassion.

Symbols: Lotus, seven eyes, moon disc, white radiance

Role: Goddess of longevity, healing, and compassion. She embodies the nurturing aspect of enlightened wisdom, extending life and easing suffering.

Energy: Gentle. Healing. Watchful. The quiet strength of compassion that endures beyond time.

Mantra: Om Tare Tuttare Ture Mama Ayuh Punya Jñana Pustim Kuru Svaha: a prayer for long life, merit, and wisdom.

Guidance: White Tara watches. She reminds me that compassion is vigilance, that healing is sacred, that longevity is not just years but depth of presence. She teaches me to see with all eyes, to hold suffering tenderly, and to let my care ripple outward like light across water.

🌙 Please reblog if you walk with healers.

Share if you’ve ever needed compassion to guide you.

I recently realized a lot of my writings with my divine feminine visions are very seasonal. Many goddesses are seasonal, and even if not they have their own holy days marking seasons afterall. Makes me think of Kali in particular whose name comes from the Sanskrit root word “kal” which means time 🌞  काल  🌚 along with denotations of death, as integral to the nature of time.

It is unpopularly theorized that the word “calendar” itself has its etymological root in Kali reverence by the Romani people who were found throughout the ancient Roman empire. The word for calendar shares the root sound “kal” throughout over a dozen European languages until this day. According to formal acedemically recognized etymology “calendar” comes from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (account book), from kalendae (the first day of the month), from calo (to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon). 🌚 Those who know of the ancient tradition of monthly Romani rituals which called aloud to Kali every new moon (associated with Her blood flow) theorize along with these definitions that Kali is where we get “calendar” in a kind of ancient cultural appropriation.

All European language etymology studies tend to lead back to Latin even in instances professed to be only a vague theory, further obscuring from history countless native languages of the “barbarians” conquered by ancient Roman colonization. The history of how subsequent European cultures since Romanization have oppressed Romani peoples as “Gypsies” up to today is inherited from Roman culture. Why wouldn’t these systems actively repress the truth of any such influences? So with that in mind I think why not Kalinder? 

PS! ”rom” is a Romani word for “man” and so the similarities of Roman and Romani are not etymologically linked as some have assumed, mistakenly believing that Romani means “from Rome” in the way that the derogatory term Gypsy meant “from Egypt”. The Romani have their roots in India.

So many juices…