Trinities
by Dawn Gribble“Mind the threefold law ye should, three times bad an’ three times good”The Wiccan Rede is not the only place that the number 3 has significance, trinities appear all throughout the world and its religons. Here are just a few examples:Maiden, Mother, CroneWarrior, Father, SageFather, Son, Holy SpiritMind, Body, SoulTriskeleTriple MoonOsiris, Isis, HorusConceive, Create, ExperiencePast, Present, FutureOak, Ash, ThornThree Fates/FuriesIn numerology the number 3 represents Communication, Interaction and NeutralityTrimesterThree dimensions (Length, breadth, width)Thought, Word, DeedAnimal, Vegetable, MineralThree Kings/Wise MenThe ValknutRSolomon’s SealTrefotThree Primary ColoursMake-up of the Earth - 1/3 Land 2/3 WaterOrder of Angels - grouped into 3 triadsTridentTriquetraTriangleThe humble Bee is prehaps the most fascinating of all: * In three days the egg of the queen is hatched. * It is fed for nine days (3×3). * It reaches maturity in 15 days (5×3). * The worker grub reaches maturity in 21 days (7×3). * And is at work three days after leaving its cell. * The drone matures in 24 days (8×3). * The bee is composed of three sections,— head and two stomachs. * The two eyes are made up of about 3,000 small eyes, each (like the cells of the comb) having six sides (2×3). * Underneath the body are six (2×3) wax scales with which the comb is made. * It has six (2×3) legs. Each leg is composed of three sections. * The foot is formed of three triangular sections. * The antennae consist of nine (3×3) sections. * The sting has nine (3×3) barbs on each side.Of course a lot of us will have come to the concluson that in our universe there is no such thing as coincidence, but why does the number 3 affect our life so much?To understand this, you have to look at the bulding block for all physical experience - the atom.An atom is the smallest particle of matter, it consists of a dense nucleus, which contains positively charges protons and neutral neutrons - these are surrounded by negatively charged electrons.As you can see the structure of the atom is the perfect trinity - 3 into 1.The number 3 is hard-coded into every physical item, could this be the reason that trinitities, triads and the number 3 play such a large part in our thought processes, religion and culture?