Celestrial Bija Mantras and the Five Elements
Gaze into the night sky and pretend there is no distance between yourself the planets and the stars. Tune into the wonderings of the planets across the zodiac and notice their different relationships as they move through different alignments. These alignment were considered Sacred by the ancients of many cultures and they perceive them not only as visual relationships but also Sounds. These sounds have been passed onto us in the sonic language of the bija mantras or the seed sounds of the spinal chakras. The pictures show the bija mantras as seeds within the lotus pedals of the chakras. The Hermetic axiom "As above so below" applies to the night sky. One can, with a little patients and practice, learn to pick out the bija mantras through watching the relationships of the planets.
Earth has 4 mantras: va, sah, sha, sa. These mantras are found in the night sky as the 4 phases of the moon. They are in a 3:1 ratio. va is the new moon. sha and sa are the ascending and descending half moons. Sha is the full moon.
Water has 6 mantras: ba, bha, ma, and ya, ra la. These mantras are related to the conjunctions of the planet mercury and the sun. Mercury conjuncts the sun 3 times in the morning sky (dusk) and 3 times in the evening sky (dawn) every year. The conjunctions form 2 interlaced triangles. Each point of a triangle is the sound of a mantra. ba, bha, ma form one triangle and ya, ra, la form another triangle. Water is associated with Mercury or Hermes the messenger. In the night sky the two triangles rotate and move through the constellations of the zodiac every twenty years. Mercury the communicator relates with and connects all elements of the Zodiac.
