Pentacle Vs Pentagram
It is common within witchcraft, wicca, and paganism to confuse the pentacle and pentagram. Although there are several arguments that go around saying they are one in the same, this is not exactly true.
Through many different historic texts through the ages, the pentacle and pentagram have come to represent different meanings depending on the faithful who hold these symbols in holy light.
This posting will summarize the differences between the pentacle and pentagram
The Pentagram
A pentagram is a five pointed star and means “five line” or “five lines” which stems from the Greek word pentagrammos. The pentagram was used extensively in Greece and Babylonia. To the Greeks and Babylonians, the pentagram stood for magical energies and associations. Those who wore a pentagram or showed a pentagram adorned on their clothing would show off without fear their practice of witchcraft freely.
Neo Pagans are also heavily associted with the pentagram, and it is commonly tied to a deity The Horned God.
Ironically, the Christians once symbolized the pentagram as the five wounds of Jesus.
The pentagram is often represented with Venus the planet and Venus the Goddess. Ancient astronomers when viewing into space every eight years could make a constallation around Venus in the shape of a five pointed star.
By the mid-19th century a further distinction had developed amongst occultists regarding the pentagram’s orientation. With a single point upwards it depicted spirit presiding over the four elements of matter, and was essentially “good”.
However the other way up was considered evil. A reversed pentagram, with two points projecting