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Creation is not a dead machine. It begins with SHAKTI — the living power of consciousness. Her pulse is SPANDA, the subtle vibration behind all life.

Like waves are only water, all worlds are movements of the same divine energy.

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Swami Vivekananda once dismissed the teachings of Advaita Vedanta as absurd. How could everything, including ourselves, be Brahman? But a single touch from Ramakrishna Paramahamsa transformed his perception. For days, he experienced everything around him as one divine reality. This incident reveals a profound truth. Spiritual realisation goes beyond intellectual understanding. What the mind struggles to accept can become clear through direct experience.

After a five month retrograde, Pluto turns direct at 3 Aquarius. What is hidden may be revealed. Pluto invokes powerful emotional and psychological forces. Through inner reflection and emotional honesty, we can use this energy to make a great change.

When Pluto is strong in the sky, whether by aspect or a change in its direction (Pluto turned retrograde on May 6, for example) it's important to pay attention to the subtext of whatever we are going through. Pluto is an evolutionary planet. Events this week and next are pushing us to grow and evolve.

One of the stock examples that I use to explain the power of Pluto as a force of emotional and psychological alchemy, is how our repressed emotions can mirror through our relationships. For example, our repressed anger may show up in relationships with people with anger issues. Pluto reveals to us what has been hidden or repressed in the unconscious. When we acknowledge our own shadow self, our repressed and rejected emotions, a powerful shift of consciousness can happen that creates alchemy. Anger can be transmuted into positive action and motivation.

Whatever relationship dynamics we are navigating at the moment, romantic or otherwise, is it possible that that person is an avatar or a mirror for something we can't see about ourselves?

Keep in mind that we are in the early stages of a great story of transformation that will work its way through the Aquarius part of our astrology over the next two decades. We've only had 2-3 years of Pluto in Aquarius in our lifetime, a sign it first entered in March 2023 and then again in January 2024 and finally in November 2024. Whatever is happening this week and next week could be part of a larger story. (Read Pluto in Aquarius: Sign by Sign to refresh what area of our lives is in the beginning of a great change.)

This weekend, October 17-18, I will be teaching a module 1 intensive of Energetic Sciences. In this module 1, we will learn about energy, consciousness, and the Weft — the invisible fabric of creation. We will also learn how to be an acupuncture needle for the planet. Recorded for replay and hosted by Mercia Academy in Switzerland. Learn more and register in the link below.

If you are in AUSTRALIA or NZ, this forecast applies approximately for October 16, 2026.

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Pluto in Aquarius: Transforming Humanity
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Throughout her infancy and youth, Ma manifested states of yogic trance known as samadhi. Sometimes while playing with her friends, she would suddenly be transfixed and her face would begin to radiate light as divine mantras issued from her lips in flawless Sanskrit.

Two major traits manifested from Ma’s birth and were dominant throughout her life.

The first was her power of Divine attraction.

From her infancy she captivated the hearts of all who beheld her, and her neighbours flocked to her home to see her and play with this radiant and joyful child. As she grew into a young girl, the villagers called her ‘Ranga Didi’ (beautiful sister) and commented on how her presence lit up any area when she arrived. They even noticed that as she walked at night without a light, a gentle radiance enveloped her.

This continued throughout her life as Ma’s simple being charmed, drew and transformed the minds of all wherever she travelled. Even till the end of her life, Ma’s arrival anywhere brought joy and her departure drew the sobs and longing of all who had been with her.

Thus without sermons or exhortations but with only the sweetness of her presence, she began to release people from the bonds of worldliness and fill them with longing for the fulfilling joy of the Divine Presence, which she often said was itself the path to the Divine.

The second trait was her complete and utter desirelessness. If left alone, she reposed blissfully within her own Self in complete contentment. From infancy her every movement and motivation sprang from the needs and necessities of others. In youth this manifested as an untiring spirit of service to all, and in later years, Ma’s whole programme of travel was only in response to the longing call of the devotees’ hearts.

So many tales of devotees relate to Ma suddenly appearing unscheduled in their midst to fulfil their deep desire or to give a darshan at a crucial time of their life or immediately before a death.

Ma later stated, “Anything that this body does is only for all of you.”

About Anandamayi Ma - A Wonder of Our Times written by
Swami Mangalananda

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