"Triple Goddess"
Oil on Canvas
62 cm x 47 cm
"The Triple Goddess" — Oil on Canvas
In
Pagan mythology, she is never just one woman. She is three. This is the
Triple Goddess — the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone — the waxing,
full, and waning moon, the three phases of every woman's life, and
every life itself. Look at how they exist together in the painting. In
the foreground, the Maiden stares directly out at you, luminous,
aqua-blue, her hair wild with ivy and moonlight.
She is newness, curiosity, the spark on her forehead just opening. She
is the present, awake and questioning. Behind her to the right, larger
and softer, eyes closed in knowing, is the Mother — full moon, full
bloom, full of power. She is the summer of life, the creator, the
protector whose chest glows with tiny lights like seeds or stars she is
carrying. She is not looking at you; she is looking inward, listening
to what grows inside her. And to the left, in the background, ethereal
and ghostly by her cauldron, is the Crone.
She is winter, wisdom, the waning moon. She pours light from her hands.
She is the one who knows how to end things and begin them again. Their
relationship is the secret of the painting. They are not standing next
to each other — they are inside each other. Their hair flows into one
another, their colours bleed, their forms overlap. You cannot cut one
away from the others.
Behind them all, holding them, is the great Triple Moon symbol — two
silver crescents cradling a full moon with a fiery pentagram at its
heart — the ancient sign of the Goddess in all her forms. Painted in
haunting, otherworldly shades of turquoise, moon-silver and burnt
orange, this is a painting about remembering that you contain
multitudes.
You are the maiden who dreams, the mother who creates, and the crone
who knows. All at once. All sacred. For the wild woman who walks with
the moon.
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