The Power of Creative Destruction – Invoking Kali Shakti, Part I

Kali is my goddess.

She represents the fiercest face of the feminine — the Goddess of Revolution. And right now - socially, politically, planetarily —we desperately need her.

She came into my life viscerally and raucously the day Hurricane Helene hit Asheville, NC. This town nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a stop on my nomad journey, had so captivated me that q three-month stint stretched into a year. I fell in love with the place. And a man.

I lived in a neighborhood called Chicken Hill, perched above the French Broad River — no view of the water from my house on the hill. But that auspicious September day in 2024, after days of record rains and winds up to 140 mph, the sun came out a-blazing — and we could see that river a-rising. Cresting its banks. Engulfing roads. Swallowing the entire River Arts District whole.

Standing high atop the Haywood Road Bridge with my neighbors, I witnessed it firsthand: school buses, dumpsters, campers, barrels of beer, works of art — careening down the swollen, raging river — obliterating buildings, streetlights, electrical infrastructure, trees, bridges. Anything in its path.

I watched in awe and terror, the trauma of such devastation imprinting on my DNA. I wasn't ready to see it then — this was Kali at work.

She comes to Mother Earth's defense, wreaking creative, awakening havoc as retribution for the damage humans have caused. According to Indian mythology, Kali first appeared as a frenzied demon slayer — born from the third eye of the warrior goddess Durga, her mission: to rid the world of the dark forces threatening civilization and especially the feminine.

Kali is that fierce. Blue skin, long red tongue, she laps the blood of the slain chief demon before it can transmute into new enemy warriors. Her golden sword slices through delusion. The skulls strung around her neck represent the ego that must be eradicated to live a life of love.

Can you see how she might come in handy right now?

Kali Ma — fiercely loving mother goddess, goddess of creative destruction — is present in cataclysmic events: the Big Bang! And in the everyday violence of life: job loss, illness, moments of humiliation and elation, childbirth, weddings, divorce.

She is the Goddess of Duality — of darkness, and of the light that follows once we dare face it.

Light did emerge in beloved Asheville in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Death toll 250, damage estimated at $70B. The community came together to feed, clothe, and shelter those hit hardest - to raise funds and awareness. Hearts cracked open. Structures — and spirits — rebuilt.

We can only hope that humans learn something from these repeating, unnatural natural disasters. That we shed the cloak of ignorance and ego that Kali bids us remove — so that we may live peacefully and powerfully.

Kali teaches us...for something new to be born, old structures must die. For there to be any real YES, there must be a clear and powerful NO.

• What are your real NOs? 

  
  

• What must die in your life for something new to be born?

  
  

• What duality lives in you — and how might Kali help you claim your fiercely loving feminine power?

Join us. Thursday, April 23rd — 6 to 7:30 PM EDT online.

A gathering of women to reflect on these questions — through movement, breathwork, guided meditation, and community. Sliding scale.

Make this your powerful YES. 👉 Claim Your Kali Power

Stay tuned for Part II of the Kali in Asheville story. I planted a man in italics in the second paragraph — and he will return. I'll be invoking shakti power to lift a veil of ignorance around that one, and find my way to freedom.