Yesterday I wrote about my feelings on the Rede. Today, I’d like to look at the Three Fold Law. In simple terms, it says that any thing we do will be visited upon us three times, for good or ill. In her book Philosophy of Wicca, Amber Laine Fisher suggests that the Three Fold Law refers a return of actions through body, mind and spirit. While I don’t necessarily agree with her, I think that that is an interesting theory.
My thoughts are a little different then what is “traditionally” taught. I don’t necessarily believe that my actions will be returned to me in threes. Rather, I see the universe as trying to maintain some sort of balance. I don’t mean that if you do something good then something bad will happen. Goodness knows that there are enough people doing actions on both sides that there is no need to create balance that way. Instead, if I do good actions, I create an aura of goodness about me, for lack of a better term. In doing so, I draw good actions towards me. If I do bad things, then it only makes sense that I open myself up to have bad things happen to me. We draw to us what we put out.
Sometimes, however, bad things happen to good people. I don’t see this as a form of punishment or the Three Fold Law in action. Rather, it is part of the set of lessons that we must learn in this life. It may be that our lesson is to overcome pain, death, etc, and the method we choose to do so is up to us.