Featured image, Jana Astanov, Icarus, Dominican Republic, June 2015.
The sign of two fish swimming in opposite directions— the visionary one who believes and is ready to turn the fantasy into reality, and the other, who doubts and denies its vision, persuaded that the world would reject it anyhow. When the visionary fish follows her dreams, it disturbs the resting fish and when the resting fish avoids her dreams, it disturbs the visionary fish. This is a tale of divine discontent and how to handle your visionary nature. The path to understand that vision is not there to grab, instead more so to move towards.
Piscean energy is intuitive, psychic, and connected to the source. It is trance-inducing and oceanic, belonging to the element of water. The planet Neptune, named after the Roman god of the oceans, has been the astrological symbol for Pisces, even though every sailor knows the ocean is female… So, Neptune is the closest to being androgynous, gender fluid, and dissolving. Astronomy confirms that with its nomenclature of TNPs aka transNeptunian planets, which were the planets discovered beyond Neptune…
In Slavic mythology the water goddess Mokosz (also Mokosh), the life-giving and life-taking force representing fertility and moisture, was the major deity of the Slavic pantheon. I would venture further that she was the representation of an ancient deity that migrated with its people from Asia to the eastern parts of Europe. In a similar way, the Sanskrit word “devi”, became “deive” in Baltic languages, which I wrote about in my past posts. Mokosz has its linguistic roots in Sanskrit, too. And that’s the beautiful, unexpected gift for those who study ancient religions. While a migratory group brings their belief system with them, they separate from the source and develop in their own ways. A thousand years forward and we seemingly have two unrelated religions, mythologies, or philosophies. Just like American English accent is closer to the original English of XVIII century settlers than the contemporary British English, the Slavic (and Baltic) beliefs may give us clues about human beginnings, if we carefully investigate its etymology, mythology, or cultural calendar.
In Hindi the term “moksha” refers to freedom from samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth, it is also freedom from ignorance associated with self-realization, self-actualization, and self-knowledge. It is a dichotomy: it can either be liberation through enlightenment, “nirvana” or it can be emancipation from suffering, “mukti”.
You may ask why the female deity of self-realization would be associated with the goddess of water? The answer becomes clear to those following Jyotish or Hindu astrology. Moksha is the enlightenment, and within the Jyotish astrology it represents the water element, next to Dharma (fire), Artha (earth) and Kama (air). Moksha includes the Grand Water Trine of Pisces, Cancer and Scorpio. As the Baltic and Slavic nations descended from the ancient tribes, so did their language, culture and religion. The state of enlightenment derived from the power of our emotional nature represented by the water signs – Moksha, became personified by the Slavic Goddess of Water in her life-giving and life-destroying form – Mokosz (in Polish, it shares its root with the noun ‘mokrość’ ‘wetness’ and adjective ‘mokry’ ‘wet’).
Just like the Western and Hellenistic astrology gives us insights into our past lives and the current life path through the Nodes while also describing the present life psychological characteristic, Jyotish tells us how to attain MOKSHA, and cut the ties of reincarnation. If we are able to follow and understand the science of light, or the science of light emitted by the STARS – the actual translation of the word Jyotish – this knowledge may bestow on us a complete picture of our soul’s evolutionary journey going beyond the present life karmic entanglements. Vedic astrology teaches us that every planet within a chart tells us a karmic story, with Saturn, the Lord of Karma presenting the most challenging aspect of our deeds, Rahu, the North Node, representing our past lives desires that we are desperately trying to fulfill however, their fulfilment will never bring us satisfaction as they belong to the past, and Ketu, the South Node, which possesses all the spiritual teachings and realizations we attending in our past lives which are mostly unavailable to us in the current life, unless they are activated by a particular set of circumstances involving…. well, you gotta work for that gnosis to come to you! Mediate, pray, stay centered.
Is the Slavic Goddess of Water MOKOSH, the vehicle of liberation, our speedway to self-knowledge and realization of who we are? Should she be the second half of Neptune, the feminine one, the Slavic one that unites the astrology through Astrofeminism? As someone born in the Mazuria Lake District, native land of Jacwingians, the Baltic people, then populated by the people of Podlasie and Mazowsze of the Slavic origins, I feel that the ancient mythology contains valid clues to our understanding of karmic bondage and the ultimate liberation, MOKSHA.
Agni Jnana Yannanda, The One Who Speaks With The Stars
