Lakshmi in February: Sustenance, Circulation, and the Quiet Economy Lakshmi is often invoked as a goddess of wealth, abundance, and prosperity. This framing is accurate, but incomplete. It flattens a much more exacting current. In Hindu cosmology, Lakshmi is not the force that creates wealth out of nothing. She governs circulation. She moves through systems that are already alive, already in motion, already capable of sustaining life. Lakshmi does not reward grasping. S