Ushas
Ushas is the Vedic goddess of dawn, the sister of the night and the bringer of the first light. She rides a chariot and wakes every living thing; she is young and born again every morning, and the poets ask her not to leave too soon. Some twenty hymns of the Rig Veda are hers.
The planetary, elemental, zodiacal, stone, herb and tarot values are modern Western correspondences chosen for coherence with the rest of the corpus, not ancient attributions.
Correspondences
- Planetary Correspondence
- Venus
Offerings
- Offerings
- FlowersLightIncense at dawnHoney
Sacred timing
- Sacred Timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- UshaDawnThe Shining One
- Gender Expression
- Feminine
- Titles
- Goddess of DawnThe Shining OneSister of Night
- Symbols
- DawnChariotLotusFirst light
Practice
- Invocation Approach
- ToneBright and quickAddressUshasDawnShining OneRelationshipThe first light that returnsWarning
she comes every day and does not wait. The working is at dawn, not at convenience.
ResonanceNew starts waking the first step - Modern Practice
Worked with at dawn for beginnings, for the first step of a thing, and for the return of lightness after a dark stretch. The practice is the hour itself: the offering goes out with the light, not later in the day.
Nature and meaning
- Domain
- DawnLightAwakeningBeginningsThe first hourRenewalYouth
- Mythology Summary
Ushas is the Vedic goddess of dawn, the sister of the night and the bringer of the first light. She rides a chariot and wakes every living thing; she is young and born again every morning, and the poets ask her not to leave too soon. Some twenty hymns of the Rig Veda are hers.
Details
- Secondary Planets
- Sun
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