Alright, so today I wanted to share a bit about my own journey with the triple moon symbol. You see it popping up all over the place, especially if you're into vaguely spiritual or pagan-y things. For the longest time, I just nodded along, you know? "Oh yeah, maiden, mother, crone. Got it." Seemed simple enough.
But the thing is, the more I saw that explanation, the more it felt… flat. Like, okay, cool, but what does that actually mean for me, right now, not living in some ancient myth? It was like everyone was just repeating the same lines they read somewhere. I started digging around, trying to find something deeper, something that clicked.
My "practice," if you can call it that, wasn't about lighting candles or chanting under the moonlight, though no shade if that's your thing. For me, it started with just paying attention. I'd see the symbol, and instead of just labeling it, I'd try to feel into it. What was going on in my own life? Was I starting something new and exciting, like that waxing crescent? Was I in a period of fullness and expression, like the full moon? Or was I winding down, reflecting, letting go, like the waning moon?
It sounds super simple, and honestly, it kinda is. But it was a shift from looking for an external definition to finding an internal resonance. I stopped trying to cram myself into those "maiden, mother, crone" boxes because, let's be real, life isn't always that neat. Sometimes I felt like all three in one day!
I found that the real juice for me was in its cyclical nature. The constant flow. It wasn't about being stuck in one phase. It was about recognizing that energy is always moving, always changing. Some days you're all about that fresh, new-idea energy. Other days, you're about celebrating what you've achieved. And then there are days for quiet and release. The triple moon just became a visual reminder of that for me.
I remember trying to find the one true meaning. I'd read one thing here, another thing there. Some people were super intense about it, like there was a right and wrong way to see it. And honestly? That just pushed me further into my own way of understanding it. It became less about ancient goddesses and more about my own internal landscape.
So, when I look at the triple moon now, I don't just see three stages of a woman's life or three aspects of a deity. I see a reminder of the natural rhythms in everything. Projects have these phases. Moods have these phases. Even a single day can have these energetic shifts. It's become a personal shorthand for "where am I in the cycle right now?"
My whole process was really about ditching the need for someone else's definition to be the definition. It was about taking the symbol and letting it speak to my own experience. And honestly, that's made it way more powerful for me than any textbook explanation ever could. It’s not about getting it "right," it’s about making it real for yourself. That's what my practice with it taught me, anyway.
