Symbols: God Is A Girl

(Image taken from Google Images, borrowed from: RedBubble)

I'm going to talk a little about this Celtic knot. It's real cute, a heart and a triquetera woven together to form one knot. Not as simple to draw as a normal triquetera, but still easy. Where have you seen this symbol? Nowhere, probably. Just like the triquetra, it's a Pagan symbol. It's a goddess symbol and is generally interpreted as "God is a Girl" is the impression I've been given. It's on T-shirts, book bags, Google Images, a girl in my English class (who most likely doesn't know what it means) has it tattooed on her back, I've drawn it on my notebook besides "BORN AGAIN PAGAN", a double pentacle with the triple moon and yin yang at the center, a triquetera in a circle, a regular pentacle, a clockwise swirl, a septacle, and another moon goddess symbol. So, what does it mean exactly? Well, I said its meaning was "God is a Girl", as the above picture states, but what if you've never seen the symbol before and that slogan was not with it? So, with that hypothetical situation is where I will make my case, breaking it down into separate symbols then building it back up for definition.

Let's take a look at the symbol everyone will recognize from this symbol: the heart. Hearts bring to mind love, Valentin'es Day, romance, (my awful typos I'm not always going to fix *ahem*), couples, red, pink, crushes, kisses, sex, dates, marriage... So what does the heart stand for then? The agreed upon meaning will be "love" or "romance", but we could delve deeper in to this. A heart could be love, it could be the soul, it could be one's desperate search for purpose or a meaningful existence. Then again, what does that all point back to? Love. I'm not talking romance; I'm talking that raw, deep feeling, that true emotion, the thing that will rip your heart out (I apologize for saying "heart" when talking about hearts, LOL), that one thing that makes everyone go crazy. So, yeah, you cant' get much deeper than "love", but most people think puppy love or fleeting romances, hugs and kisses for your temporary lover. If you look at the heart symbol, it's usually perfectly symmetrical down the vertical central axis. Symmetry is associated with perfection, like how your face could be if you never, ever, ever got sick a single day in your life. Also, if you went on the assumption that love automatically brings trust, then you could say that the heart can symbolize trust as well. Also, when looking at it, there are only two corners, two sides, as if to speak of the duality of the Universe, which is actually a spectrum, but humans seem to generally only see things as binary. It has no openings, like a protective barrier. Both sides are exactly the same, creating unity withing the symbol. So, judging from all this, you could say that it means "Perfect Love and Perfect Trust" (which is a phrase that's common among Wiccan and other Pagan-themed books and stories) or "Unity of Duality". But let's go with the former, to make things simpler.

Now let's take a look at the other lesser known symbol: the triquetera. Triquetera is a symbol of three, of Life, Death, and Rebirth, of Young, Mature, and Old. It's Celtic and has been seen in the show Charmed, borrowed by many Christian organizations, and seen throughout different areas, though not as commonly as the heart. It's hard to tell where it begins and where it ends, which is generally the point of Celtic knots, it seems. It stands for a few things, which I've listed, but let's focus on the numbers: three. The Power of Three. (Yes, kind of like the show Charmed, I suppose, which is probably why they chose this symbol to appear repeatedly throughout the series). The number three is seen as powerful, auspicious, good, or meaningful in many religions it seems. And from three stems the circle of life, the course of time, and, apparently, the Christian gods. Three is seen in Life, Death, and Rebirth, which is something celebrated nearly all year by Pagans, as that is what is seen as the cycle of life: in the spring everything is young, the summer it all matures, the fall is when things have grown old, the winter when they die, and the spring when they are to be born again... Not exactly the way festivals and holidays go, seeing winter as the time of Rebirth, but that is in regards to religous observances and not seasonal ones, which could be quite secular. Three is seen in Young, Mature, and Old, as seen with the Christian gods and the Pagan Triple God and Goddess, which are all, respectively, the Son, the Father, and the Holy Spirit, the Youth, the Father, and the Sage, and the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone.

Now, putting these two together, I';m just going to put the "ignorant" interpretation simply: "Power in Love". Because Love has Power. It's what keeps us going, it's what we all yearn for, it's the thing that brings us alive, and the same thing that most effectively kills us.

Now, to put it in closer terms with it's usual meaning: "Perfect Love and Perfect Trust with the Maiden/Youth/Son, Mother/Father, and Crone/Sage/Holy Spirit". But that part depends on how you believe.

What do you think? Leave your interpretation in a comment below.