FIRST WITCH
When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
SECOND WITCH
When the hurly-burly’s done,
When the battle’s lost and won.
THIRD WITCH
That will be ere the set of sun.
FIRST WITCH
Where the place?
SECOND WITCH
Upon the heath.
THIRD WITCH
There to meet with Macbeth.
FIRST WITCH
I come, Graymalkin.
SECOND WITCH
Paddock calls.
THIRD WITCH
Anon.

This passage from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, can be looked at through a Jungian lens, and parted out. In the first line of this passage, there is mention that there are three witches gathered together. The number three is an archetypal image that usually depicts a divine trinity. Shakespeare suggests these witches are in some way divine, because they possess the power of prophecy as well as the knowledge and power to cast spells. In the second line of this passage, Shakespeare uses forms of weather that produce water. When he does this, he is talking about when the witches should meet again. Water is an archetypal image for purity and cleansing. The witches are thinking that the next time that they gather shall be when things are more pure and right. In the fifth line, Shakespeare talks about how they must meet before the setting of the sun. Fire is an archetypal image that represents purging as well as tribulation. In a way, this could be representative of the acts that Macbeth will perform later in the novel. They will need to gather, once again, before Macbeth commits his murder. In line ten, a toad named Paddock calls upon the Second Witch to come. A toad can be an archetypal image for something that is strong but silent. The Second Witch herself can be described this way, because of the suggestions she makes, and the way they influence the group. She is not the most, nor the least outspoken of the group.