What do you associate with the triangle?

I would associate the triangle with the triangular bone at the base of the spine known as the sacrum bone.

Coiled up within this bone sleeps the subtle body of the Kundalini in three and a half coils. The Kundalini is a feminine energy so it may be described as a Goddess (Your reference to Shri Durga) and needs to be awakened (your reference to the eye). Upon awakening it rises up the spinal cord and pours from the fontanel bone area through the Sahastrara or crown chakra. Uniting us with the all pervading source.

The chakra on the forehead 'Agnya' is related to Christ who is the incarnation of the power of eternal innocence which never the less starts at the root of life in the chakra associated with the sacrum bone.

Very interesting and informative question.

I associate the triangle first with its geometric nature, specifically, that of a figure bounded by three straight lines. Sometimes the lines can be imaginary, when the points are similarly arranged.

A triangle also can be a symbolic figure that represents comparable ideas. The mental image exists in the mind. When I encounter the word "triangle", I often think of the Christian symbol of the Trinity. The figure of the Celtic knot, which makes a triangular pattern, often comes to mind in this sense. I also think of the term "Eternal Triangle", used to describe a relationship involving two men and a woman or two women and a man, where problems stemming from conflicts in sexual attraction result. A related term would be the proverbial French "ménage à trois", referring to the same "three-cornered establishment". This relationship can be a mental one or it can refer to the actual physical situation in bed. Actually, a triangle, in a figurative sense, is really just a dilemma of choices, of being caught in the middle or of having to choose between two options. It is how I look at it.

I associate the triangle with the symbolic "trinity".Not the trinity of Literal Christianity but the symbol of the Male -Female-Child in an ordered divine purpose.

We could equate this with the concept of the father ,son and holy spirit but the mistake made has been to exclude the feminine.

In Gnosticism this is the view but the female aspect of the divine is included for from that comes the androgynous Spirit within.

I would love to study the Zhoar for it contains many mysteries which real Kabalahists study and meditate upon.

Jung wrote many things about symbols and when awareness comes forth then these symbols can enlighten you to fundamental spiritual truths that are not in scriptures or new age philosophy.

Oh by the way are you the real Paul Coelho? Because I read a book about the Warrior of light that gave me great strength through a dark period of my life and I am eterenally grateful for finding that book or perhaps the book found me.

The triangle is the ultimate image of how all paradoxes, all dualities are reconciled at a higher vertical point. It represents the active/generative/male, and the passive/reflective/female and the high point represents the neutralizing/reconciliation/unity/child.

The base of a triangle is a line with two points on opposite sides (paradoxical sides, opposite sides, duality). A line with two ends that can continue on and on forever in two different directions, opposite to each other. But when you turn the points at a particular angle, they will eventually meet at a higher vertical point. So within the little Triangle is the answer to all the dualistic thinking, of how you can't have this and that -- maybe it isn't that you can't have this and that but more so that one has not reached that realm, or concept, or understanding where this and that is harmonious. And it is not a limitation of the concept, but rather a limitation of the individual to not reconcile it. One must overcome the limitations of the two in the lower.

The ancient mystical systems understood this tripartite of all things, its a Divine Pattern, a Law of Three of Forces, that permeates all things.

Symbolism of Triangles -

I think this symbols can have many different interpretations and it really depends of it's context.

I think the triangle obviously resembles a arrow, so it can indicate direction.

And the inverted triangle is obviously pointing down. Also at first thought for some reason I thought of the female sex organ. I thought I might just have had something on my mind, but apparently especially with a line down the middle it dose in fact represent that. Of course their is other interpretations such as associations with the devil since hell points down. I think in the case with the Rosicrucians it is referring to a female aspect because of the way they give appreciation to the female.

The inverted triangle also denote the dark earth which imprisons the infernal subterranean fire.

In the eastern tantric tradition (in which women play a very special role), one of the symbols used for representing the female principle is a downward-pointing, inverted triangle. According to Philip Rawson, this female tantric triangle represents the vulva (or yoni), which, in turn, symbolizes the woman's genitals (Rawson, P., "Tantra - The Indian Cult of Ecstasy," Thames and Hudson, London, 1973). However, except for the obvious inverted triangular configuration of the female pubic hair, the vulva itself has no resemblance at all to a triangle. Probably the downward-pointing tantric triangle that symbolizes the female may rather be an unconscious representation of the uterine cavity. As these symbols date back to very ancient times when little was known of anatomy, a possible explanation for this "coincidence" may be what I call "uterine archetypes."

The symbol of the inverted triangle - the womb, Catholicism, symbols, the serpent being linked to religion, the obliteration of 25,000 years of goddess worship by the ancient Greeks (Athena, formerly a goddess of love becomes a war goddess and - strikingly - sprang from the head of Zeus, as Eve came from Adam's rib).

Inverted triangle which denotes Water. There is a necessary connection between water, female power, passive principle, Binah, and Sephirotic Mother, and Bride. (See the Kabbalah by Mathers.)

The pentacle includes the following symbolism - Here inverted triangle is the first degree, inverted pentagram second degree, upright triangle third degree-

in feminist days gone past sisters would sign each other with fingers in a triangle for sisterhood.

When I worked in a building co-operative on the tools I learned that triangulation is to strengthen structures like roof trusses. King and Queen posts.

At school I was so dumb at maths I never got that the geometric theorems were what you used to solve the problems then someone showed me ho to calculate the height of a tower by measuring paces away from it and calculating the angle from your eye on the ground to the top - and using pythagoras - It was brilliant. Also the musical instrument I love how the triangle player always stands so proud - that his her one note is as necessary to the whole concerto as the first fiddlers.

The pink triangles worn by homosexuals in the labour camps now worn by gay pride.

And the lovers triangle representing a stuck situation.

Fear. I'm not being wise here, either. Once, a couple of years ago, I took an early evening nap and was having some kind of dream about a green triangle. I partially woke up, into a semi-lucid but clouded state, and saw the triangle from my dream on the ceiling of my bedroom. I was terrified because this evil triangle had made it from my dream back into my reality, and was glowing green on the ceiling above me. Still half awake/half asleep, I jumped out of bed and ran into the living room, screaming to my wife that there was a triangle in the bedroom. She did not understand my fear, and only saw me as some kind of weirdo. She yelled my name a few times, and I snapped out of it, fully awake, and realized it had been some kind of sleep episode, but was still a very curious experience.

Triangle has positive and negative connotation. Since the positive aspects are being touched I am inclined or bent to mentioned the rare abd negative aspect. Triangle is associated with firstly, mystery like the pyramid of Egypt which produced the principle of triangle that it has healing effect; second, triangle unrelenting fatal force like the Vermuda triangle, love triangle. So it symbolizes power. And many remarkable people in history used it in triumverites, forming the three muskeeters, using odd number in the third eye.

Since it is powerful and mystic number it was used by group of people forming an alliance and adopted a seal sketched as triangle. Inside the triangle seal is printed the word GOD. So God is encased. For God is supposed to be outside the box to be omnipotent. But these group of brotherhood imprisoned God in the triangle, as if to control God. And wanting to control God those group of powerful people would like to gain control to all things. They use God for their own purpose. Hence we have the control like the economic control. I dont need to print their name because they could be identified by people like me (kiddingly aside.) So I associate the triangle to fatalism.

Just like cars. I mean, in the 70's, round headlights were the way to go. The 80's come around, and nothing but rectangles. 90's brought rounded edges to rectangles. 00's brought in some weird angles, but were still mostly rectangular. Now they're jagged and crooked. Society sees too much of something and gets tired of it(X's), so we move on to other things we haven't seen as much of(triangles). It's a matter of boredom, really.

As a painter, triangle form a pleasant composition in a painting. I also like geometric shapes, so triangle to me is a challenge... How to make things nice within and beyond this triangular shape?