High voltage shakti strikes and all our plans fly out the window. Like a lightening bolt, this force of nature shocks us into submission by destroying in an instant the power structure we built up.
In the Kali Yuga our patriarchal civilization has advanced by destroying or suppressing mother nature. This phallic intelligence, must now be offered to the supreme force of mother nature- Kali, the wrathful goddess of destruction, who, in a cosmic act of balance, obliterates what’s unnecessary or is preventing a soul’s evolution toward unconditional love.
This collapse of the phallic structure and ejecting of the royals from the tower symbolize life force being expelled from the ego and all its projections, revealing only raw reality- a force much more powerful than our human power constructs and hierarchies.
This is also represented by ejaculation of the life force/ semen during the sex act in which a man is said to lose himself/ his consciousness or be pulled down/ absorbed back into the earth by the divine feminine to a deeper truth than the ego construct he was used to.
Truth, symbolized by the intense light of the lightening bolt, leaves us knocked off balance, thrown out of our comfort zone. But also it throws off the shackles that kept us in separation/ self-deception. The wrath of Kali is the kind that shatters illusions. Literally, she devours our metaphorical head as all our maya- from infantile fantasies to masterfully built creations- and forcefully brings them down, then re-integrates us into pure being/ existence.
This ‘breaking down’ initiated by the wild feminine, brings us closer to the wild feminine- symbolized by the water which surrounds the tower. Water represents our emotions, subconscious, and healing. To be naked/ vulnerable, exposed, dropped into uncertainty, falling, with nothing to hold onto, no protection- is terrifying. But also liberating.
With everything out in the open, the veil is lifted, our disguises seen. Transformation is quickened, and instead of leaving us to burn in the intensity of the fire/ heat of resistance or battling ourselves, Kali Ma’s mercy takes us to the cooling water of surrender. We emerge with the gifts of detachment, wisdom, and a newfound intimacy with reality.