The Star, the Sun and the moon of 2015

We started the New Year with a meditation on the midnight of Deceber 31^st 2014 in Tiruvannamalai. On the January first, Jeevatma and Pia Sofia invited interested people for Anandamandala meditation and a tarot card reading later.

At 11 am a few of us assembled together and had a wonderful Anandamandala meditation. Then Pia Sofia spread out the Tarot cards and each one of us picked a card. I got ‘The Star’, which is a very spiritual card. I was really happy. It can help accomplish nearly anything that I set out to do now. One can expect new opportunities to come flying into life if one is open to them. It also indicates that one is so in touch with spirituality that this is a great time to reach out to others, and to share the wisdom and joy. The efforts in doing so will be repaid many times over.

We came back from Tiruvannamalai and on Monday the fifth January, I was doing puja in my Reiki Academy. As I burned the camphor, the Sun suddenly peeped through the clouds and was shining brightly into my third eye. It was an amazing experience! After a moment it disappeared into the clouds again.

During the morning yoga time, I do upavistha konasana sitting between the wall and a pillar and there is a glass window in front of me. On three consecutive days from 6^th January, while doing upavistha konasana, the moon was shining on me and it was a pleasant sight. Later the position of the moon changed and I couldn’t see it.

I feel really blessed to get messages from the Star, the Sun and the Moon this year!

The tilting Trishul

Tiruvannamalai is a world renowned temple town in TamilNadu which is synonym to deepam(fire). Here Shiva (Arunachaleswar) is worshipped in the form of fire.

In Hindu mythology, Parvati, wife of Shiva, once closed the eyes of her husband playfully in a flower garden at their abode atop Mount Kailash. Although only a moment for the gods, all light was taken from the universe, and the earth, in turn, was submerged in darkness for years. Parvati performed penance with other devotees of Shiva, and her husband appeared as a column of fire at the top of Annamalai hills, returning light to the world.

Ramana Ashram is situated in Tirvannamalai, where Ramana Maharishi, the 20th century saint lived here and taught simple  methods of meditation to his disciples from all over the world.

We have been visiting Tirvannamalai for starting New Year in meditation since three years. This time on January first, we went to the temple early morning and the first food that we took on New Year was Prasad. While coming back, I bought a beautiful Shiva’s idol with trishul.

On our drive back, there were many temples on the way. I noticed the idol in only one temple, and it was a bigger version of the idol that I had bought. After reaching home, I kept the idol in my puja room. 

Next day morning when I entered the puja room, I noticed that the Trishul that was stuck straight on the wall was tilting in the direction of Shivji’s idol. That Trishul I had received as Prasad from Kedarnath some years back and all this time it was always remaining straight on the wall.

Thank you Lord Shiva for showing me your presence in my puja room! And I uprighted the Trishul on the wall.