Why We Love the Number 3: Trinity: Tri-Unity

The number 3 and triangle enables opposites to balance and transcend to a new wholeness they couldn't achieve by themselves. A third leg makes a tripod stable, and a third strand of hair allows a braid to knot as one whole, just as neutral judges balance opposing parties, neutrons balance atoms, and the Supreme Court plays the role of the balancing, transcendent third force between the Executive and Legislative branches. The triangle is the strongest and most stable of shapes and so appears in the constructions of humans and nature. Trinities appear in nature and as worldwide religious symbols and spiritual art which uses the unseen triangular frame to convey this archetypal power.