If you have been with us for Kali Puja at PantheaCon in the past, you know that the structure of the ritual remains intact while the meditation and focus through Maa's eyes takes a different form each year. This is because we acknowledge that setting a strong container will help birth whatever is most necessary for those present to experience in that moment. We open to those who walk into the room, our temple, for the puja and discover in an unspoken collaboration what is yearning to come forth in the space we together inhabit and create. 

This Kali Puja, we were blessed by insight before the ritual to hold those who would be present as Her children. As the doors opened, we welcomed participants on a journey to experience Kali as Universal Mother, and much came of our meeting. From the depths of yearning to be held and loved, we surrendered before Her and made our personal offerings. Sacrifice, we came to understand, is birthed, much like puja itself, from the strength of the sankalpa (sacred intention), or resolve, we hold in our hearts.  

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