TRIPLE GODDESS
The Triple Goddess also known as The Triple Moon Symbol is a powerful Goddess symbol, a sacred
and pagan symbol(sigil), an icon, a deity or deity archetype used, venerated and revered in nature
worship/nature-based/earth-centered/Neopagan religious and spiritual traditions, rituals and practices
which represents the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone; the Goddess in Her entirety, essence, Divine
Feminine, and in all of the roles and aspects of her trinity/triunity of Oneness and One Being.
Each aspect signifies and symbolizes a different part of the lunar cycle as well as a different stage in a
female’s collective life cycles and womanhood. The Triple Goddess has a masculine consort, the
Horned God. One part of Her is bound to the heavens and rules them, one part to Earth, and one part to
the Underworld. The Maiden is represented by the new waxing moon(growing, crescent), the Mother
by the circle(full moon), and the Crone by the faded waning moon(diminishing, crescent). The Triple
Goddess symbol is universal and cross-cultural, used by spiritual practitioners, occultists, witches,
individuals and groups all around the world. Some say the symbol is Wiccan, but this is only true in
part. Some people who use it are definitely Wiccan and Dianic pagans, but not all who use it are.
Some who use it are different, more of an eclectic practitioner or more eclectic altogether, but are also
divining with the power of The Triple Goddess Herself through the use and expression of Her symbol.
Some just want to vibe with talismans, amulets, jewelry, goth, Hollywood-ized and taboo association of
the Triple Goddess sigil, but are not necessarily an active spiritual practitioner. The Triple Moon
symbol has a very deep spiritual reality about it as it explores the aspects of the divine feminine, female
power, spiritual triplicity, triads, and Goddesses who have three aspects and are conjured using the
sigil. Hecate, Artemis, Diana, and Lucina are Goddesses associated with the symbol. I know many
more who may be venerated with the symbol and are summoned and honored by it. The constant flow
of life, death, and rebirth is embedded in meaning of the Triple Goddess symbol, as is She. It is a
reality for many occultists and practioners to withhold their use of this sacred symbol as a secret for
various reasons, mainly because what is spiritual to them is too sacred to share with non-believers or
even other believers, some are avoiding getting ostracized for using the symbol due to its occult,
witchcraft, demonic, Wiccan or Satanic associations, and in some instances the Triple Goddess Herself
wants you to keep your use of the symbol to yourself for whatever reasons. It stands out and can evoke
awkward, strange, uncomfortable emotional responses from people who are not open. How it makes
one feel is important as it is supposed to illicit a response of some kind even if it is a neutral one.
For when She is imprinted into one’s sight and thought, She is to be stamped into the person forever;
essentially, becoming internalized into one’s soul, even expediting one’s life healing processes and
slowing them down in some cases, and evening out the pace and flow of everything and everything
which embodies a person’s spirit, soul and life. The Triple Goddess Herself can choose not to work
with an individual. She can help you or protect you, claim you or reject you. An individual must gain
Her respect, love and devotion to give the person any real benefit through the usage of her sigil.
For some the Triple Moon sigil can make them feel like they are floating on a cloud with not a care in
the world, yet still caring for everything they should be, and being in the state of knowing that everything will be fine as long as they stay their own true course and path and stay true to themselves.
For those who are open and in the spirit of venerating and harnessing the power of the Triple Goddess
symbol, it can bear more than one meaning to them. Embracing one’s own womanhood is one reason.
Wearing the symbol in the form of jewelry is a great way for one to connect to/with the Triple Goddess
in her triunity aspects, to unite their inner selves with the essence of her feminine divinity and
womanhood, and to revel and connect with those aspects of womanhood, the Divine Feminine in
themselves, and pull them together for their own spiritual triplicity, triunity, and cultivation of their
inner Goddess self. Many believe the author Robert Graves who wrote the book The White Goddess
was responsible for motivating and influencing the origins of the Triple Goddess with its publication.
Some believe the Triple Goddess was born before Graves wrote his novel and some insist it was after
its publication in 1948 that the Triple Goddess was born. Some believers claim much earlier
documentation of the Triple Goddess in our history than the publication of The White Goddess and that
it was suppressed from widespread knowledge for quite awhile. Matter of a fact, there are many
pagans and practitioners who can attest that the Triple Goddess existed a very long time ago,
way before The White Goddess even came into play. Many have been seen wearing the Triple Goddess
Crown, using them as headpieces for costumes and their High Priestess ensembles. The waxing
gibbous moon, representing the Maiden stage of a woman’s life, is embodied with youth, purity,
intuition, psychic insight, expansion, new life, inception, newness, creation, new beginnings,
rejuvenation, enchantment, excitement and pleasure. The Maiden summons one to study herself,
her spirituality, passions and aspirations, and to explore her imagination, dreams, impulses and desires.
The full moon, representing the Mother stage, is embodied with love, creative energy, fertility,
motherhood, responsibility, nurture, nourishment, self-care, self-love, patience, power, compassion,
giving, caring, protection, power, potency, ripeness and fulfillment. The Mother summons one to
navigate her life’s responsibilities, motherhood and to explore the give and take of love. The waning
gibbous moon, representing the Crone stage, is embodied with knowledge, understanding, maturity,
experience, repose, culmination, fulfillment, wisdom, mystery, death and endings. The Crone is
considered the keeper of mysteries and the keeper of arcane wisdom. She summons one to accept the
inevitably of death and that without death rebirth cannot occur. Knowledge of the Triple Goddess sigil
may destigmatize the negative perceptions of it, but may also destigmatize how one feels about death
and dying. Once death is not condemned and one is no longer afraid to die, the process of true
fulfillment and living life to one’s fullest is so much more possible and within reach. As all life is
cyclical, so are certain perceptions. Some of these perceptions can, will and MUST be changed, but the
cycle of life, death and rebirth in itself is constant. Understanding, comprehension, and access to
higher, divine power comes with open-mindedness, experience, research, knowledge, time and
perseverance, but not without.