Triple Moon

The Goddess in Three Phases

First attested

1948Robert Graves, The White Goddess — the Maiden, Mother and Crone triad, which entered Wicca and became the waxing-full-waning mark

Claimed

around 3000 BCEasserted by the twentieth-century Goddess movement, as a survival of prehistoric goddess religion

The claim runs about 4.9 thousand years ahead of the evidence.

Maiden, Mother, Crone: every phase of a life holds its own power, none of them worth hurrying past.

The Triple Moon is a central symbol in Pagan and Wiccan traditions, portraying three phases of the moon: a waxing crescent on the left, a full moon in the center, and a waning crescent on the right. This celestial triad mirrors the life cycle of the Goddess—Maiden (youth, new beginnings, purity), Mother (fertility, fulfillment, power), and Crone (wisdom, repose, death). It honors the sacred feminine, the rhythms of nature, and the passage of time, reminding practitioners of the beauty inherent in every stage of existence.