The Power of Three Will Set You Free
One of the powers of
the Moon was expressed by the number three, an energy which is so prominent in
the fairy tale Allerleirauh, as well as many other tales. Three is considered a sacred number: we have
many old sayings about the power of three bringing good or bad luck. When something happens once, we might ignore
it as unimportant. When it happens
again, we might say it's a coincidence. But if it happens for a third time, a
pattern has been established. Now we know
that something important is happening: it carries certainty and power, the
energy of forward motion, the power of expression and synthesis.
Three symbolizes the
stages of human life: childhood, adulthood and old age. It stands for birth, life and death as well
as beginning, middle and end. It makes
up the trinity of body, soul and spirit.
In numerology, three is the number of creativity, talent and
knowledge. And in many religions, there
is a trinity of gods or goddesses.
Christianity picked up on the power of three and declared their God was
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Trinity
symbolizes unity in diversity.
The ancient Moon
Goddess manifested as a triple-figured Being, the Creator, the Preserver and
the Destroyer. As crescent Moon she was
Maiden, as full Moon she was Mother, and as waning Moon she was Crone or Wise Woman. This triple Goddess represented the three
stages of a woman's life, as well as Fate.
In many mythologies, Fate is depicted as a triple Goddess, the weavers
of destiny. In Greek mythology, they
were: Clotho, the Spinner of the thread of life; Lachesis, the Measurer, giving
the element of chance; and Atropos, the Cutter, who finally cuts off the thread
of life. Like the golden spinning wheel
that Allerleirauh puts into the king's soup after she wears the dress of the
Moon, this lunar consciousness gives us a chance to consciously meet our fate.
The Moon measured time
for most cultures, whereas we depend on a solar calendar and so are out of sync
with the Moon's time. The dynamic energy
of the Moon was worshiped as the Bull of the Mother, whose horns symbolized the
crescents of the waxing and waning Moon.
The zodiacal sign of Taurus represents this dynamic feminine energy. The
receptive, opened, meditative, dreaming energy was worshiped as the new and
full Moon and was represented by the sign of Cancer. The Moon set the rhythms of life and so was
intimately connected to their lives.
Like my dream of the calendar and having to wait, what did we lose when
we were banished from our home in the Moon?
Perhaps our sense of timing, but certainly our sense of the right time.
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