"Blessings of the Triple Goddess"
11"x17"
acrylic and Berol Prismacolor Pencils on Illustration board
Many ancient cultures recognize the Goddess in a triple form, Greek,
Roman, and Celtic to name a few. The concept of the Triple Goddess is a
representation of the divine feminine reflecting three phases of a womans'
life, Maiden, Mother and Crone. In the form of the Triple Goddess, the
feminine principal is celebrated in all three forms, each equal in
importance, and each with an significant part to play in the cycle of the
year, as well as the cycles of the moon. The Maidens' season is the spring, her color is white, her phase of the
moon is the new, waxing crescent smiling down in the early evening sky.
She is new beginnings and possibilities, she is the awakening earth, fresh
and new. The Mother is the growing bounty of the earth, the height of
summer and the early harvest. Her color is crimson to represent the womb
from which all life is born. She is seen in the full round moon high in
the sky. The Mother is nurturing and encompassing, she is powerful and
giving. She protects her own like a mother bear. The Crones' time of
the year is the end of the growth cycle, when the leaves turn, then fall,
and the earth sleeps deep in winter. Her phase of the moon is the waning
moon that you may see rising in the eastern sky very late in the night.
Her color is black, protecting and deflecting negativity. This Grandmother
figure brings wisdom and teachings, she is tough yet reserved, she takes
all that dies into her cauldron of rebirth to be born again. All three Goddess archetypes are known individually, but when the three
aspects come together in the triple form, their power multiplies. She
reminds us of the beauty of all the parts of life and the cycles of the
earth. We all come from the Goddess, unto her we shall return, like a drop of rain, flowing to the ocean.