This week, during Easter and Passover, powerful and mythic holiday stories, are told and retold, of journeys through great obstacles, from death to rebirth, from bondage to freedom. These lessons of struggle, metamorphosis, radical transformation, and awakening to one’s truth, are the core teachings of these world philosophies/religions. In the yogic pantheon, this release from, and through obstacles is represented by Ganesha, the great and beloved, elephant avatar/deity. The