Kristin Marshall
Devotional essays, Jyotiṣa teachings, and lunar reflections from motherhood, land, and the slow work of remembering. Written by Kristin Marshall, on Galinyala country (place of sweet water).
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The Sacred Almanac ~ October (opens the original)
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Ancestor Fortnight begins tomorrow (opens the original)
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Blessings sangha,Firstly, make sure you save this article so you can access it easily moving forward. Tap the bookmark/Save icon on the post in the Substack app, or click the top right three dots → save, on desktop.Behind each of us stands a vast and unseen lineage: lives endured, sacrifices made, prayers whispered, grief carried, love given, and stories that disappeared before they could reach us.Pitṛ Pakṣa is the ancestral fortnight—a sacred passage beneath the waning Moon in which we
{Lunar Letters} Uttarabhādrapadā Pūrṇimā | The River That Reached You (opens the original)
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Practice Online With Me Tomorrow (opens the original)
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Today, we are preparing to immerse our Gaṇeśa mūrtis in the water, and I am feeling far more emotional about it than I expected. Many of you have reached out to share the same tenderness ~ the strange intimacy of shaping him with our own hands, living beside him, offering our prayers, and now preparing to let his form go. The clay has become beloved. This is the teaching of immersion: we return the form to the elements not because Gaṇeśa is leaving us, but because his presence can no longer rema
Gaṇeśa Caturthī: The Final Day + Mūrti Immersion (opens the original)
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Today is the final day of our Gaṇeśa Caturthī sādhana.Personally, this sādhana has been more challenging than I anticipated. I have been met with an intensity I was not prepared for, especially through Ketu. Ketu can feel like nothingness ~ a black hole around which our attention begins to orbit. He creates pressure through absence, drawing our awareness towards what is missing, severed or no longer available. Our instinct is to fill the space, repair what has broken or reach for something that
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