#and my body (outer shell) expands with the sheer awe of your mind

[liliaceaae]

one thing about me is that i ALWAYS care about my moot’s OCs‼️‼️

if no body’s got you, Lili’s got you‼️‼️

every time I post abt my ocs I feel like a tyrant king playing cricket in front of the court, and every time I hit the ball I turn around and my trusted advisors are there going “wonderful shot my lord” “absolutely phenomenal my liege” “shall we invade the neighboring kingdom again your majesty” then I swirl my cup of wine and say “no…. I tire of these games… I shall rest for the evening” and they all cheer and say goodbye and then fill out all the holes I made bc I don’t know how to play cricket

[phynxrizng]

TRIPLE GODDESS SYMBOLS

Crescent Moon

A Crescent Moon is the most obvious sign of the Moon.

Full Moon discs may be confused with other Circles, but Crescents are unmistakable, so they are used as very obvious Goddess symbols.

More specifically, Crescent Moons symbolize the waxing and waning phases of the Moon.

The word "crescent" derives from the Latin creare, which means to create. So the Crescent Moon is linked with the Creative Power of the Mother Goddess.

See also Wicca God Symbol - Horns.

Darkness

Darkness in Wicca Spirituality is not a negative thing, as it is is Christianity. Darkness represents the Goddess, in Her Black aspect.

Darkness in the world represents rest, stillness, letting go, and death.

In our culture, these things are seen as signs of weakness, failure, and great fear. But in Wicca Spirituality, Darkness is honoured. It is a necessary and valuable part of the Cycle.

Without rest, how could we work? Without letting go, how could new things arise? Without death, how could we return to the One?

Although there is great cultural prejudice against the Dark -which is expressed, for one thing, as racism - the Dark half of the Divine is as sacred as the Light half.

It is the loving interplay between the dark and the light which creates form, that is, matter. This is the dance that gives birth to life.

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Double Spiral

The Double Spiral represents the dual purpose of life -the journey inward to your Essence, and then outward to the world.

It is weaving the Path Home, forever inward and forever outward, on each path coming closer to your Divine Essence. The Double Spiral is the Dance of Life, inhabiting both planes of existence simultaneously.

This is an expression of the Goddess manifesting as physical life, and physical life realising its Divinity.

The double spiral is related to the yin-yang symbol - the Taijitu - which depicts the balance and the interwoven nature of the worldly realm and the spiritual realm.

There are at least five common forms of the Double Spiral. The one above is the one most commonly used in Wicca as Goddess symbols.

See also Spiral.

Earth

The Earth is more than a Goddess symbol, She is a Goddess.

The Earth is the physical expression of the Great Goddess - for Terrestrials, the primary one. The Earth is the body of the Goddess.

The Earth has been worshipped as Divine Mother probably as long as humans have been human. The most ancient figurines depict a lush nurturing Mother. And symbols of circles and spirals abound - symbols of the planet and the seasonal aspect of life on Earth.

The Earth is our Mother, in far more than a symbolic sense. We are literally made of the soil, the air, and the water of the Earth.

More than any other Goddess symbol, the Earth is the most apparent aspect of the Goddess.

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Elder

Elder is one of the many woods that have symbolic meaning in Wicca.

The Elder is sacred to the Goddess Hel - a Crone, Queen of the Underworld.

It is referred to in the Wiccan Rede, the expanded version.

You can find out about magickal woods in the herbals, Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, and Beyerl's Master Book of Herbalism

Eye of Maat

The All-Seeing Eye of Maat was the symbol of the Goddess Maat, as Goddess of law, morality, and justice.

The Egyptians believed that it was Maat who held the universe together. It was Her quality of order which maintained the world.

As Walker states, "The Mother-syllable Maa meant 'to see'; in hieroglyphics it was an eye." (Barbara Walker, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, p 294) Even the ancients knew that mother's had eyes at the backs of their heads!

The Eye of Maat, or Utchat, later became known as the Eye of Thoth, Eye of Ra, and is commonly called the Eye of Horus today. Although it became associated with male Gods, it is sometimes -confusingly - still referred to with the feminine pronoun.

The Eye of Maat is the origin of the Evil Eye superstition. The Goddess would not only judge, but mete out retribution. To those with a guilty conscience, the Eye of Maat became a source of fear.

See also Wicca Symbol - Evil Eye, and Wicca God Symbol - Eye of Horu

Hecate's Wheel

This stylized womb-like Labyrinth is a symbol of Hecate as Triple Goddess.

Of all the Goddess symbols on this page, this is one that refers to a specific rather than general Goddess - Hecate. Although it is likely that it is Her Triple Goddess, or Great Mother Goddess, aspect.

According to Wikipedia, "The symbolism referred to the serpent's power of rebirth, to the labyrinth of knowledge through which Hecate could lead mankind, and to the flame of life itself."

This symbol comes to us through the Greeks, who found it in the Chaldean Oracles. These are texts from the 2nd century AD, which were believed to have originated in Babylon (Chaldea).

Hecate's Wheels are not commonly used as Goddess symbols, even in Wicca. Apparently, it is used primarily by practitioners of Hellenic Recon or Dianic Traditions, but I have no confirmation of this.

Labyrinth

The Labyrinth is a symbol of death and rebirth.

Walking the Labyrinth is a mystical journey into the other realms, and back to Earth. It is a symbolic pilgrimage out of the small self, or busy mind, back Home to the Divine.

Unlike mazes, which were modeled on Labyrinths, you can't get lost in a Labyrinth. Despite the twists and turns, there is one path in, which is also the path out. Just like life.

The evidence seems to indicate that the Labyrinth was presided over by the Great Goddess. In Crete, the Labyrinth was dedicated to the Goddess Ariadne, and was created as a dancing ground in Her honour. (Karl Kereny, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life.)

See also Hecate's Wheel.

Moon

The Moon has been one of the most universal and ancient Goddess symbols.

The Moon has been worshipped in every religion, even though that fact has been obscured or corrupted through the domination paradigm that has ruled for a handful of millennia. For example, according to Walker . . .

"A primal deity of Persia was Al-Mah, the moon, whose name became the Hebraic almah, 'nubile woman': the word that Christians insisted on translating 'virgin' when it was applied to the mother of Jesus. …

As Manat, the old Moon-mother of Mecca, she once ruled the fates of all her sons, who also called her Al-Lat, the Goddess. Now she has been masculinized into 'Allah,' who forbids women to enter the shrines that were once founded by priestesses of the Moon." (Barbara Walker, Woman's Dictionary of Symbols & Sacred Objects, p 345, 346)

The Moon is the eye of the Goddess, the Mirror that sees and reflects everything on the Earth. The Moon is also the Yoni through which all life is born.

See also Crescent Moon, Ocean, Triple Moon, and Wicca Symbols - Moon.

Ocean

The Ocean is the Womb of the Earth Mother.

The Ocean is the symbol of the Ocean of the Mother's sacred and magickal blood. It is the primordial womb that gave birth to the universe when there was only the Darkness of non-form.

From Her womb, was born night, and water, and eternity. From these were born light, and earth, and time.

All life comes from the sea, as the Wicca chant goes. Life on Earth began in the Ocean.

And when we moved onto land, the Ocean came with us, traveling within our cells.

The Ocean is the fluid which runs in your veins. The salt water of the Ocean lives in your sweat, flows in your tears, fountains in your sexual juices.

Mother Ocean purifies and rebirths everything that enters Her.

The Ocean is virtually interchangeable as a Goddess symbol with the Moon. The Moon's effects on the Ocean demonstrate their eternal interconnectivity.

See also Shell, and Wicca Symbols - Menstruation,

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Rose

The 5-petaled Rose everywhere was sacred to the Goddess.

In ancient India, the Great Mother was the Holy Rose. In Asia, the Flower of the Goddess was the red China rose. In Roman times, the Rose was the Flower of Venus. Even the Christian Mary is associated with the Rose.

Roses are symbols of the sacred Vulva of the Goddess. The Vulva is the gateway through which life is born, which is awe-inspiring enough, but that is not it's only meaning.

The Vulva also represents the ability of men to "plug in" to the Power of the Goddess, and access Her directly. (An event sadly long-forgotten by most.)

And lastly, it represents beauty and joy - the sheer physical pleasure of life on Earth.

See also Vesica Piscis

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Serpent

The Serpent is one of the first Goddess symbols.

Serpents are mysterious creatures. They dwell in the dark inner Earth and sunlit outer Earth equally - crossing the borders between the worlds.

They move with the fluidity of water. In ancient times, it was believed that snakes never died of age, but shed their old skins and were reborn.

Serpents are ancient Goddess symbols, for all these reasons, and many more . . . They have been identified from time immemorial as the Consciousness and Will of the Divine, which creates all life and guides humanity to the realisation of its spiritual potential.

The serpent represents the Feminine Spiritual Energy. This is the Kundalini - the Goddess Within. This life energy lies essentially dormant in most people. It seems to awaken spontaneously, to some degree, in women during menopause and childbirth.

(This is my own theory; I have no objective verification of it as yet. But the signs are striking.)

The Serpent has a long and fascinating history of worship and supernatural struggle between the Gods and Goddesses. (The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets details this drama.)

Even in Gnostic Judaism and Gnostic Christianity, the Serpent was revered as Divine.

There is also a connection between the serpent and the mysterious and magickal DNA molecules. This Rainbow Serpent is worshipped in many forms, all over the world, by shamanic cultures.

The Goddess has been celebrated in the serpentine motions of bellydance, for millennia, despite efforts to stamp it out and defame the women who practiced it. This is a practice that is gaining great popularity again, as the Goddess becomes honoured once more.

See also Apple.

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Shell

Shells are common Goddess symbols. Not only because they represent the Ocean, but shellfish have similarities to the female Yoni.

Shells are sacred to the Goddess, Cowrie Shells in particular.

Although they are often used to contain incense or smudges, this is inadvisable. There are fire safety reasons for this, but also because putting fire elements into a Shell is an offense to the Goddess.

SOURCE WICCA SPIRITUALITY.COM

REPOSTED BY, PHYNXRIZNG