Shakti

Kali is Shakti, the great goddess, creating the three gunas: sattvas, rajas and tamas.Kali,the goddess,is dark, She is Devi Kalika, an equally high symbol of death and destruction. Throughout Her different manifestations and phases, Kali remains the one true goddess, Shakti, energy itself. She is symbolised by the yoni and the female cycle, which also shows waxing and waning throughout the month. Her spouse, Shiva, is symbolised by the Sun, by the phallus, by sperm, and as an emblem of consciousness without attributes. According to the tantrik phraseology "Only when Shiva is united with Shakti has Shiva power to act. Otherwise he is a corpse