Maa Matangi and Mercury Speech

Sadhana muhurat and basic rules

• Best days: Wednesday and Friday
• Paksha: Shukla Paksha, Purnima especially favourable
• Nakshatra: Hasta, Revati, Mrigashira, Rohini
• Hora: Budh hora or Shukra hora
• Direction: Face east or north east
• Attire: Green, yellow or white clean clothes
• Lamp: Ghee lamp
• Offerings: Green flowers, tulsi, crystal sugar, banana, fragrant incense, remembrance of the veena or music
• Root mantra: Om Hreem Aim Hreem Matangyai Namah 108 times
• With Saraswati beej: Om Aim Hreem Shreem Matangeshwaryai Namah 11 or 21 times
• Duration: At least 40 days without a break, 21 days before an exam or a stage event for artists
• Basic discipline: Truthful and sweet speech, leaving bitter sarcasm, no wish to bind anyone through false charm, no fierce ucchishta rites without a guru

When speech itself becomes a deity

Some powers do not descend from a book. They descend from a word. When a singer places a note, the room changes. When an actor speaks a line, the crowd grows quiet. When a speaker says a simple sentence, the listeners mind bows without pressure. Shastra does not call this power talent alone. It calls this vak siddhi, accomplishment of speech. Among the ten Mahavidyas this siddhi rests in the hands of Maa Matangi.

Maa Matangi is called Ucchishta Chandalini. Ucchishta means what is left over, what society does not count as pure. Chandalini means the power that stands outside the boundary. This name is not an insult. It is a declaration that knowledge does not remain limited to the temple threshold. The voice, the art and the community kept outside the mainstream sit in Matangis lap. Therefore she is called the Saraswati of Tantra. Saraswati is the clean stream of vidya. Matangi is that same vidya when it enters the lane, the stage, media, music and life at the margins.

In Vedic astrology this joint power moves through Mercury and Venus. Mercury is the karaka of speech, intellect, writing, communication, calculation and media. Venus is the karaka of music, beauty, acting, rasa, attraction and the fine arts. When both cooperate, a person does not only know. The person is also heard. Maa Matangi is the presiding deity of that yoga. By her sadhana a sweetness enters speech so that the listener becomes as if spellbound. This spell is not deceit. It is purity of nada.

The deep meaning of Ucchishta Chandalini

The gross meaning of ucchishta sadhana in some traditions is offering leftover naivedya. For a householder that fierce method is not necessary without a guru. The deeper meaning is that the leftover portion of life is also fit to be offered to the Devi. An unfinished poem, a broken note, a rejected artist, a body kept outside society, none of these are treated as impure at Matangis door.

Where Saraswati teaches pure pronunciation and shastra, Matangi teaches living speech. Market language, stage dialogue, a film song, a news line, the blessing of the kinnar community, these are all forms of vak. Matangi is the sovereign of these very forms. The person who feels shame about speech, the artist who thinks the voice is cheap, the speaker who trembles on stage, it is in that throat that Matangi sits.

Another meaning of ucchishta is residual knowledge. The knowledge that is not spoken in assemblies, the experience that remains at the margin, that knowledge is sometimes the sharpest. Matangi turns that residual knowledge into speech. Therefore her grace does not touch only the student. It especially touches the maker, the singer, the dancer, the journalist and the actor.

The art yoga of Mercury and Venus

Mercury is the youthful graha. He joins words. He reasons. He makes news. He writes a script. He gives an interview. When Mercury is weak a person knows yet cannot say. Sentences tangle. Memory slips in an exam. The message scatters in media.

Venus is rasa. He fills water into the note. He brings feeling into acting. He makes cloth, colour, camera and stage beautiful. When Venus is weak, art feels dry. The song may be technically correct yet it does not touch the heart.

Matangi threads both into one rope. Mercury gives meaning. Venus gives sweetness. Matangi gives the magnet through which meaning and sweetness reach the listener. In Jyotisha the fifth house is art and intellect. The third house is writing and courage. The second house is speech. The tenth house is fame and karma. The eleventh house is the listener and the audience. When Mercury and Venus in these houses are purified by Matangis grace, art becomes livelihood and sadhana together.

Art and speech in the houses

House	Role	Fruit through Matangi grace
Second	Speech, taste, family	Sweet and influential words
Third	Writing, communication, effort	Script, dialogue, courage
Fifth	Intellect, music, acting	Creation and memory
Seventh	Audience, partnership	Stage and public contact
Tenth	Field of work, honour	Media and art profession
Eleventh	Listener group, gains	Appreciation and lasting audience

The sixty four arts and Matangis authority

In the Indian tradition the 64 kalas are skills that complete a life. Among them are music, dance, instruments, painting, garland making, cookery, dress, conversation, theatre, poetry and many household and royal arts. Matangi is called the sovereign of these arts because art is not only cleverness of the hand. Art is an extension of speech. A note is also speech. A gesture is also speech. A colour is also speech.

When an artist learns only technique, the artist becomes skilled. When Matangi touches, the artist becomes a conversation. The song touches old wounds. The dialogue is remembered. The writing is shared. This is the attraction that Tantra calls vashankari shakti. For a householder the pure meaning is that speech should be true, gentle and respectful of another persons freedom. Binding someone through a lie is not Matangi. It is adharma.

Special fields for artists

• Classical and light music
• Dance, theatre and cinema acting
• Writing, journalism and oratory
• Painting, design and stage craft
• Teaching, language and translation
• Radio, television and digital media
• Dialogue writing and voice acting

Success in these fields does not come from planetary strength alone. Daily riyaz is needed. Matangi gives fruit to riyaz. Without riyaz the mantra remains only vibration.

The kinnar community and the goddess beyond the line

A tender chapter of Matangis glory is joined to communities that society kept at the edge for a long time. The kinnar community has been an old carrier of art, blessing, dance and speech. In many traditions their word at a birth, a festival or a doorway is held auspicious. In the view of Tantra this meeting is not meaningless. Matangi herself is the goddess who breaks the hard line of caste, gender and purity.

In kinnar life speech itself is capital. Blessing, song, gesture and presence are the power. When society gives insult, the form of Matangi reminds that a body standing at the margin can still be divine. This part of sadhana is not the use of a community. It is remembrance of honour. A seeker who chants to Matangi should leave harsh language, mockery and discrimination. Otherwise mantra and conduct cut each other.

At the psychological level Matangi is the permission through which a person can release a true voice. Many artists do not shine because they lack a note. They remain pressed because someone said the speech, the body or the family was not pure. Matangi opens that very knot.

How Matangi sadhana brings attraction into speech

Speech moves on three levels. Thought in the mind. Tone in the throat. Effect in the world. Mercury gives order to thought. Venus gives rasa to tone. Matangi joins effect with dharma. When the three meet, the listener feels spellbound because what is heard is not a lie. What is heard is presence.

Tantra says the Devi sits on the tongue. Harsh speech removes the Devi. Sweet yet false speech also removes her. Therefore the first limb of sadhana is a vow of speech. For one week reduce blame. Keep the voice low. Keep silence before singing. See the meaning before speaking. Then Om Hreem Aim Hreem Matangyai Namah finds soil. Aim is the Saraswati beej. Hreem is the shakti beej. Matangi brings both into worldly conduct.

Daily sadhana method

Step	Act	Bhava
1	Bathe and wear green or yellow clothes	Purification of art and Mercury
2	Keep a green hued image of Matangi or remember the veena	Seat of nada
3	Light a ghee lamp and fragrant incense	Rasa in the room
4	Offer green flowers and crystal sugar	Sweetness of speech
5	Chant Om Hreem Aim Hreem Matangyai Namah 108 times	Seed of vak siddhi
6	Sing a few lines or practise notes	Awakening of Venus
7	Write one page or speak a dialogue	Practice of Mercury
8	Honour an artist, a teacher or a kinnar kin	Respect at the ucchishta door

The fierce tantric method of Ucchishta Chandalini, smashana work or complex leftover offerings should not be done without a guru. For a householder, offering leftover ego is enough ucchishta. That means leaving pride of fame, contempt in speech and misuse of art.

Who receives special fruit from this sadhana

• Those whose Mercury or Venus is afflicted and whose speech lacks rasa
• Those connected with music, acting, writing or media
• Those who struggle with stage fear, stammering or a harsh voice
• Those whose fifth or second house is weak
• Those who wish to make one of the 64 kalas a livelihood
• Those who have silenced their voice because of social insult
• Seekers of the kinnar community who live by blessing and art

What should not be done

• No japa to attract or control someone in an unethical way
• No sadhana beside false news, inflammatory dialogue and blame
• No fierce ucchishta tantra without a guru
• No treating vulgarity in art as siddhi
• No mockery of the kinnar community or of people at the margins
• No mantra only from greed for fame

Matangi is the goddess of speech. If speech becomes violence the Devi turns away.

FAQ

Why is Maa Matangi called the Saraswati of Tantra?

Saraswati is the goddess of vidya and speech. Matangi is that same power when vidya descends to the stage, to music, to media and to the edge of society. Therefore she is called the Saraswati of Tantra.

What is the relation of Mercury and Venus with Matangi?

Mercury gives word, intellect and communication. Venus gives music, rasa and art. Matangi joins both and brings attraction into speech.

What is the meaning of Ucchishta Chandalini?

Ucchishta is the leftover portion. Chandalini is the power outside the boundary. This form teaches that life at the margin and unfinished art can still be a divine offering.

Does Matangi sadhana give success in music and media?

Regular japa, riyaz and sweet truthful speech increase influence in music, acting, writing and media. Mantra alone cannot take the place of practice.

Why is Matangi important for the kinnar community?

Matangi is the goddess beyond social lines. The kinnar community is joined to the speech of art and blessing. Her grace becomes support in honour, voice and livelihood.

The note that opens a door

The world is won not by a weapon but by a sentence. One harsh sentence breaks a home. One sweet true sentence joins a home. Maa Matangi sits at this delicate door. She gives Mercury the word. She gives Venus the note. She gives the artist courage. She gives dignity to the blessing that stands at a kinnar doorway. As Ucchishta Chandalini she reminds that what society throws away can become the most sacred nada.

The seeker who takes a forty day vow of truthful speech and chants Om Hreem Aim Hreem Matangyai Namah finds bitterness slowly leaving the throat. The listener pauses because weight and sweetness walk together in the word. This is the spell. This is the door of the 64 kalas. This is the yoga of Mercury and Venus that remains on the stage and in the puja room as well. When Matangi is pleased, the person may or may not become famous, yet the speech is surely honoured.