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"The Triple Goddess" — Oil on Canvas
Original oil painting by Bonny Hut
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. |
