Dates: Cultural & Mythic Frame Dashain, Nepal’s longest and most widely celebrated festival, honors Durga’s victory over Mahishasura. It is both a cosmic drama and a family ritual: goddess and demon, light and inertia, blessing and renewal. Homes are purified, jamara (sacred barley shoots) are grown as symbols of fertility and life, and elders place …
Date: Wednesday, 1 October 2025 — Navami Tithi, Śukla Pakṣa of Āśvina If Ashtami is the climax of battle, Navami is the sanctification of victory. The ninth lunar day is not consumed with the urgency of combat but suffused with the quiet force of establishment. The Goddess, having overcome, now dwells in stillness and radiance. …
Tuesday, September 30 2025 (Maha Ashtami, the eighth day of Navaratri) Durga Ashtami arrives when the year bends toward descent. The autumn equinox just has passed, the nights lengthen, and a subtle inwardness takes hold of the air. In the Ompyrean Calendar, this resonates with the transition of Fire into Air: the time has come …
Dates (CST): Mon Oct 20, 2025, 07:14 (sunrise) → Thu Oct 23, 2025, 12:17 PM The Myth and Symbol Prometheus was a Titan, one of the race of elder gods who ruled before Zeus and the Olympians. His name means “Forethought.” The Titans were said to be children of Heaven and Earth, representing primal forces. …