I have got a pentagram tattoo on one of my limbs. And because it is moving, sometimes it can be seen as an upside down pentagram, sometimes it is upturned. I get many questions and condemnations because of it. (Yeah, it was a bad idea to tattoo it on a visible place…)
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The symbols of witchcraft doesn’t contain the pentagram. Yes, it’s true, because witchcraft itself doesn’t have/had ANY symbols. It’s confusing, I know, but I was mention that in an earlier post: early witches did not practice witchcraft as a religion; it was their everyday routine’s part. The pentagram was a Mesopotamian symbol which meaned the word “corner”. In the ancient Greece it meaned Venus, then in the middle ages it was symbolizing the elements. This view stays up today as well: the five corners of the star represents the four elements (Fire, Earth, Air and Water) and the Spirit; the ring around the star is the symbol of consistence. This pentagram was appropiated by the Golden Dawn and started to spread in witchy groups worldwide. Later Wiccan groups started to use the upturned pentagram. Christians pronounced the downturned pentagram to a satanic symbol (because if you do not worship the Christian God, you can only worship Satan of course, f..k logic…) even the downturned one represents only the spiritual world.
Nowadays the upturned one means white magic, and downturned means black magic (and it is still NOT equal to satanism!) but the upturned pentagram can be mistaken by people who do not know the origin of the symbol.
A Wiccan writer was told this: wear a silver (upturned) pentagram as a necklace to protect yourself from curses and hexes. After this book was published, many Wiccan people started to wear the pentagram. This is not a bad thing, of course, it can help us to find people with similar approach around us, but you’d better handle this in the right place.
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