Truth about Pentacle

The pentacle, a symbol used four thousand years before Christ and is the oldest symbol on Earth. The Pentacle is Pagan's religious symbol. The term ‘pagan’ had become almost synonymous to devil worship, which is a gross misconception. The word’s roost actually reached back to the Latin word ‘paganus’, meaning country dwellers. Pagans were literally un-indoctrinated country folk who clung to the old, rural religions of Nature worship. It was so strong that the church’s fear of those who lived in the rural villes that the once innocuous word for ‘villager’ had become villain, the wicked soul.

The pentacle is a pre-Christian symbol that relates to nature worship. The ancient envisioned their world in two halves, the masculine and the feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power- the Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced, there was chaos. The pentacle is the representative of the female half of all things. A concept religious historian calls the sacred feminine or the divine goddess. In its most specific interpretation, it symbolises Venus, the Goddess of female sexual love and beauty. Early religions were based on the divine order of nature. The goddess Venus and the planet Venus were one and the same. The Goddess had a place in the nighttime’s sky and was known by many names- Venus, the Eastern Star, Ishtar and Astarte, all of them powerful female concepts with ties to nature and mother Earth. The Pentacle most astonishing property is the Graphic origin of its ties to Venus. The planet Venus traced a perfect pentacle across the ecliptic sky every eight years. The Venus and her pentacle became symbols of perfections, beauty and the cyclic qualities of sexual love. The Greeks used her eight-year cycle to organise the Olympic games as a tribute to the magic of Venus.

The pentacle’s demonic interpretation is historically inaccurate. The original feminine meaning is correct but the symbolism of the pentacle has been distorted over the millennia through bloodshed. Symbols are very resilient but the pentacle was altered by the early Roman Catholic Church as part of the Vatican’s campaign to eradicate pagan religions and to convert the masses to ‘Christianity’ but in fact, rather ‘Churchianity’. The church launched a smear campaign against the pagan gods and goddesses, recasting their divine symbols as evil.

This is very common in times of turmoil; a newly emerging power will take the existing symbols and degrade them over time in an attempt to erase their meaning. In the battler between pagan symbols and Christian symbols, the pagan lost. Thus, Poseidon’s trident became the devil pitchfork, the wise crone’s pointed hat became the symbols of a witch and Venus’ pentacle became a sign of devil.

The medieval Italian card game showed the traced of the pentacle and was replete with hidden heretical symbolism and to tarot. The games’ twenty-two cards bore names like, the Female Pope, the Empress and the Star. Originally, the Tarot had been devised as a secret means to pass along ideologies banned by the church. Now, Tarot’s mystical qualities were passed on by modern fortune-tellers. The Tarot indicator suit for feminine divinity is pentacles. The pentacles is also divine in Mathematics, more precisely the Fibonacci numbers; 1.618, symbolism too in Arts. It is preordained to be as the divine proportion in nature and a very important number used, as it’s lucky in all domain.

The representation of the Pentacle is also the symbols of the Blade and the chalice. The Blade in the form of a pyramid represents all that is masculine. The Chalice in the form of the inverse pyramid represents the feminine. The blade and chalice if fused as one will form the pentacle. The Priory of Sion of describes it as the Star of David, the perfect union of male and female, that is the Solomon’s seal…making it the Holy of Holies where the males and female deities –Yahweh and Shekinah were thought to dwell.