Triple Goddess (Neopaganism) other female reproductive processes — are ways that women may embody the Goddess, making the physical body sacred. The triple goddess sign is identified with Greek moon goddesses: Helen Berger writes that "according to believers, this echoing of women's life stages allowed women to identify with deity in a way that had not been possible since the advent of patriarchal religions." The Church of All Worlds is one example of a neopagan organization which identifies the Triple Goddess as symbolizing a "fertility cycle". This model is also supposed to encompass a personification of all the characteristics and potential of every
Celestial spheres was a lasting remnant of physical celestial spheres in Kepler's cosmology. In Cicero's "Dream of Scipio," the elder Scipio Africanus describes an ascent through the celestial spheres, compared to which the Earth and the Roman Empire dwindle into insignificance. A commentary on the "Dream of Scipio" by the Roman writer Macrobius, which included a discussion of the various schools of thought on the order of the spheres, did much to spread the idea of the celestial spheres through the Early Middle Ages. Some late medieval figures noted that the celestial spheres' physical order was inverse to their order on the