Power / The Divine Feminine (Śakti)

Śakti means 'power' or 'energy' — the dynamic, creative force of the divine. In much of Hindu thought it is personified as the Goddess, worshipped as the supreme in the Śākta traditions. In Kashmir Shaivism, Śakti is the inseparable power of Śiva-consciousness by which it knows, wills, and unfolds itself as the entire world — so that reality is Śiva-and-Śakti, awareness and its own creative dynamism, never one without the other.