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Homage to You who burn like fire at the end of an aeon;

Thou, seated in the midst of a wreath of flames,

Joyously, with right leg outstretched and left leg folded,

You totally destroy the enemy forces.

- Jo Nang Tāranātha (early 17th century)

“Appendix. Homage to the 21 forms of Tārā,” in The Origin of Tārā Tantra, translated and edited by David Templeman. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 1981.

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Homage to You who wear the horned moon as a head ornament,

And who art bedecked with fiery baubles.

From the Buddha Amitābha who is in your chignon of hair

You are constantly bathed in light.

- Jo Nang Tāranātha (early 17th century)

“Appendix. Homage to the 21 forms of Tārā,” in The Origin of Tārā Tantra, translated and edited by David Templeman. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 1981.

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Homage to You whose face is filled

With a hundred autumn moons,

O Thou who glows with the delicate light

Of a thousand assembled stars.

- Jo Nang Tāranātha (early 17th century).

“Appendix. Homage to the 21 forms of Tārā,” in The Origin of Tārā Tantra, translated and edited by David Templeman. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 1981.

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“We crystal witches of the internet think what we’re about is not New Age, but it surrounds us like water surrounds a fish. I’m learning from Wikipedia that it’s exactly what we’re about, only we get our horoscopes as tweets and find our psychics on Yelp. We want the divine. We want to be healed and we want to fix. Most of all, we seek what we can’t locate in the vast universe of the internet: reassurance that it will be okay.

New Age eats the ancient, trying to digest old systems. It’s a collage of angels, magic numbers, incantations, and stolen beliefs. A collage is made not just of what’s there, but also of the absence of the material from which the pieces are cut. I got good at working gaps in essays, but not in life. Instead of fearing silence and disrupting stillness, I want to be ready to set down my cards, close the JPEG of my natal chart, and ask the quiet to tell me what this life should be.”

Elissa Washuta

White Magic : Essays (Tin House, Portland, Oregon : First US Edition 2021)