Witchcraft Wednesday: The Threefold Goddess Tradition

With Advanced Witches & Warlocks, I have had in mind a certain goal: to give the witch traditions the weight of actual occult practice. I do not want it to be a matter of "this witch has fire, that one has healing." There is more to it than that; it is about how one comes to terms with magic and divinity, with their coven, the world, and the self.In pursuit of that, I have been drawn back to an old friend of my witch material, the Triple Goddess."Maiden, Mother, Crone" by Ben HoneycutFor some time now the Maiden, Mother and Crone have served as my way of putting the threefold form of the Goddess into words. It is a familiar shorthand that says something essential about the craft. Yet as I put in the work on Advanced Witches & Warlocks, I came to see that this was no longer an idea or conjecture to be just a background notion. It could stand as a tradition in its own right.Hence The Threefold Goddess Tradition.It is not to be confused with a neo-Pagan convenience or the simple equation…