XVII - THE STAR
Literature: Atharva Veda
Artist: Falguni S. Mehta
Energy medicine is the subject of interest for Falguni and as a healer she has always sought natural and cosmic means to heal, energise and empower the lives of people, friends and family. Tarot mystically and amazingly turned out to be a wonderful source of guidance and healing and so she calls it a friend, philosopher and guide. According to Falguni, "There is so much one can do with Tarot that I feel one lifetime is les to totally explore it. It truly is the 'Star' in my life. While researching on tarot I unknowingly and subconsciously healed several sections of my life. If it has subconsciously helped so much, surely it can consciously create miracles. I intend to use it to create magic in the field of energy medicine. Let the Star illuminate my path of healing to bring wellness to all sections of life universally."
Description:
The Star card from Tarot can be described as the Shree Yantra in Vedas and Vaastu Shastra. The Shree Yanta has divine origin and is the symbolic form of all Gods and Goddesses. It shows the origin and formation of the entire universe. The Vedas explain Sri Yantra as a scientific, cosmic and planetary energy zone. Vastu Shastra says that all constructions based on Vaastu must essentially have Shree Yantra in it.
Sri means money and Yantra stands for equipment or instrument. Thus it is an instrument to all materialistic pleasures of the world. Sri Yantra is geometric in shape and has many constructions of circles, triangles, points, lines and angles. In the centre of the innermost circle is a point around which are nine triangles, of which five point downwards (towards Shakti or power) and four triangles point upwards (towards Shiva, the essence of static wisdom). The triangles are arranged in such a way that they produce 43 subsidiary triangles at the centre of the smallest of which is a big dot (bindu). The smaller triangles form the abodes to different gods. The outer ring consists of an eight-petaled lotus enclosed by a sixteen-petaled lotus girdled in turn by three circles all enclose in a square with four doors, one on each side. The square represents the boundaries within which the deities reside protected from the chaos and disorder of the outside world. The upward triangles indicate the fire element, circles indicating Air, points indicating Sky, base indicating Earth and downward triangles indicating Water. The entire Shree Yantra shows the complete life cycle of the universe. The possession of a mere glimpse of Shree Yantra brings universal abundance to life.