Pagan pentagram

What is a pentagram? Is it the same as a pentacle? Discover the difference between the symbols, how they're used, and what an upside down pentagram means.

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Pythagoreanism originated in the 6th century BCE and used the pentagram as a symbol of mutual recognition, of wellbeing, and to recognize good deeds and charity. From around 300–150 BCE the pentagram stood as the symbol of Jerusalem, marked by the 5 Hebrew letters ירשלם spelling its name. Today, the pentacle, commonly mistaken as a pentagram, is the most commonly used symbol of Wicca. Some post-Gardnerian wiccans, imitating Taoism, associate the five points of the pentagram with the four…

Some also call it - Open Pentagram (left) and closed Pentagram (right) The pentagram has long been believed to be a potent protection against evil, a symbol of conflict that shields the wearer and the home. The pentagram has five spiked wards and a womb shaped defensive, protective pentagon at the center. Open Pentagram A pentagram may be open, without a surrounding circle.This is the active form... symbolising an outgoing of oneself, prepared for conflict, aware, active. (One wearing an…

A pentacle is a five-pointed upright star with a circle around it, whereas the pentagram is a five-pointed upright star without the circle. From an occult perspective, pentacles are representative of "white" magic and "good." It also represents man's intellect and reason. Often times pentacles are used as talisman-inanimate objects laced with psychic powers. Pentacles also represent the "feminine element Earth." Following this "Earth" line of thinking, one particular advocate of witchcraft…