Episode – StarSoot

Constellations myths of language

In this mythological companion to the 108 Steps, we explore the deeper architecture of the sky: the birth of the Sun as Martanda (the eighth son cast out from the Seven Sages), the sage Agastya who drank the oceans and became a star, the dragon Thuban as the eye of Brahma, and Ganesha writing the Mahabharata while Vyasa narrates.

We follow the three turns of the Seven Sages around the pole star, the eleven whales of Rudra carrying knowledge across the cosmic ocean, and the guardian knot of Pisces that binds language to the soul.

The ship Argo Navis sails through these stories – the vessel of consciousness, carrying the map of evolution.

In the latest episode of Starsoot, we step away from the linear 108 Steps to explore the mythological underpinnings of the constellations themselves – the stories that transform random points of light into a coherent cosmic grammar.

Episode 3 – Rebirth

The Upanishads describe a cosmic horse whose bones are the stars. On this second step of the Moon’s path, we follow that horse through the chain of Andromeda (the karmic knot), the clay of the Kumaras (the shaping of form), the fire of the Phoenix (rebirth beside the Sages’ knot), the clock of Horologium (time itself), and the girdle of embodied form. The horse carries gods, celestials, asuras, and finally man. This is the second step.

Cosmic egg of creation – Hiranyagarbha

Bhrigu’s Kick and the Cosmic Egg What existed when nothing was? In that dreamless slumber before creation, the stars began their stories. And here, on the first degree of Aries, we take our first step into the 108-fold path of the Moon. This episode is a descent into the origin myths of the cosmos. We … Read more

Starsuite – Introduction to the Soot of Stars

The very essence, origin point and sacrament to living spirit in the universe is considered the Milky Way, of which our galaxy is named after.

This, Milky Way is collection of thousands & thousands of stars collected together almost as a path through the sky. We see it, at least in the northern hemisphere as an archway or white threaded sheet wrapping the sky holding it together. The path of spirit, so to speak, of all stars. The Brahmins called this the ‘Janeyu’, the sacred thread.

At some point, billions of years ago, the milky way entered what became our galaxy.

Upon the star of the rock, Keph, or Alphirk the Beta Cepheus, this living receptacle the starry universe descended.

And a waterfall of stars descended upon a rock. Water and Fire, fused into awakening, and our galaxy took shape.

To the Indian mind, this is the Shiva-Linga, the basilisk-phallic symbol of Water falling upon it to make holy. Cepheus, the constellation of the old king is known to the Indians as Sheffali, an epithet of Shiva.

An Indian holy book, Kali-Purana says in the beginning, there was only darkness. Mahamaya existed in the inert state as Yoga-nidra, the sleeping universe. And then with this, waterfall of fire, the universe awakened in our galaxy.

Shiva, as a god-head is said to represent the entire universe as our galaxy’s context of spirit. The pure crystal heart of knowledge of the one beyond the worlds. Both feminine and masculine energies are his Shiva-Shakti form as the phenomenon and the awareness.

While the Kalika Purana starts its stories from 8 degrees after Aries point, which is the beginning of the Zodiac, we attempt to trace the steps a little further back.

From evolution of form even before language began to form.