Kali is a powerful goddess of time, transformation, and radical inner change. Her name comes from the word kala, which means black, time, or death. Kali is thus associated with the end of life, overseeing change, death, and the destruction of the old.

Although she appears menacing – wearing a necklace made of enemy heads, holding weapons, and her tongue stuck out – but all of these symbols speak of the death of ego. For this goddess comes to destroy our pride and to dissolve what no longer serves us, not to actually kill or harm someone. She does not kill people, but “demons” – the inner shadows of attachments and self-destructive patterns.

At the same time, she is considered one of the most compassionate forms of the Great Mother, accepting everything, even the “dark” parts of ourselves.

Her main temple is located in Chidambaram, a few hundred meters from the Akashic Temple.