Triple Moon cast iron cauldron

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Moon incense: burn mugwort, jasmine or a lunar incense on charcoal in the cauldron during esbats and full moon circles.
• Scrying: fill the cauldron with water on a full moon night and gaze at the reflected moonlight on its dark surface.
• Kettle libations: fill the kettle with moon water or a cooled herbal infusion and pour libations from it onto the earth at the end of a rite.

A Simple Working

• On a full moon night, set the cauldron where it can catch the moonlight.
• Fill it with water and add a pinch of sea salt.
• Light a white candle beside it.
• Gaze into the water, letting your eyes soften, for several minutes.
• Write down anything you see or sense.
• Pour the water onto the earth and thank the moon.

Pairs Well With

• Mugwort: the classic herb of moon work and dreams.
• White candle: to light the scrying.
• Charcoal discs: for burning loose incense in the cauldron.
• Moonstone: to set beside it on the altar.

What You Receive

Black cast iron Triple Moon cauldron, available in 2 3/4″ with lid and handle, a 2 3/4″ kettle with lid (about 4″ x 2 3/4″ x 2 3/4″), 3″ with lid, 4 1/2″ with lid, and 5″ with lid. Sizes and finish vary slightly as cast iron pieces.

Origin & Lore

This is a small cast iron cauldron (or, in one size, a lidded kettle) cast with the Triple Moon symbol. The cauldron is a hearth pot adopted by the craft for burning and brewing, and the Triple Moon is a modern pagan symbol of the moon’s phases, often linked with the maiden, mother and crone. Together they make a vessel kept for lunar rites and divination.

Waxing crescent, full disc, waning crescent: the Triple Moon shows the whole lunar month in one glance. Cast on an iron cauldron, it marks a vessel for moon work.

The idea of a single goddess in three aspects, maiden, mother and crone, was popularised by Robert Graves in The White Goddess (1948) and taken up by modern Wicca and goddess spirituality. The Triple Moon symbol grew out of that twentieth-century current. The ancient world had its own triple goddess in Hekate, often pictured with three bodies.