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Fire, Water, Air, Earth, and Spirit.
The Pentagram
The five-pointed star, or pentagram is one of the most potent, powerful, and persistent symbols in human history. It has been important to almost every ancient culture, from the Mayans of Latin America, to India, China, Greece, and Egypt. It has been found scratched on the walls of Neolithic caves, and in Babylonian drawings, where it marks the pattern the planet Venus makes on its travels- a secret symbol of the Goddess Ishtar. Scriptures, especially Hebrew, are abundant with references to pentagrams.
According to the Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras, five was the number of man, because of the fivefold division of the body, and the ancient Greek division of the soul. According to Pythagoras, the five points of the pentagram each represent one of the five elements that make up man:
Elements of the Pentagram
Air (masculine)
Air is the unpredictable realm of the mind. It is related to the intellect, study, astral travel, communication, music and sound, weather magick, and power raising.
Associated with: Athame, Sword, Incense, Earrings, Broom, copper and the suit of swords of the Tarot.
It’s time is dawn
Fire (masculine)
Fire is the realm of transformation and passion. It is related to protection, exorcism and banishing, sex and sex magick, work, purification, divination, masculine power, personal energy and strength, the Lord, and candle magick.
Associated with: Candle, Balefire, Wand, Bracelets, gold and the suit of wands of the Tarot.
It’s time is midday
Water (feminine)
Water is the realm of the psychic, the dream world. It is related to children, childbirth, pregnancy, inner transformation, purification, emotional healing, romantic love, manifesting, most spell work, death and rebirth, past-lives, and new beginnings.
Associated with: Cup, Cauldron, Bowl, Goblet, Rings, silver and the suit of cups of the Tarot.
It’s time is dusk
Earth (feminine)
Earth is the realm of stability, growth, and of the Lady. It is related to fertility, prosperity, grounding and centering, money, dance, motherly love, planting and harvesting, the home, and herds and pets.
Associated with: Disk, Pentacle, stone, clay, salt, gems, plants, pentagram, necklace, bronze and the suit of pentacles of the Tarot.
It’s time is midnight
Spirit (no gender)
A fifth element is Spirit, usually called Aether.
Spirit is in and of all the elements, and it transcends them.
Spirit is the unifying force that animates all the other elements. Spirit is sometimes represented by the cord often worn around a witches robe.
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Pentagrams
