The listing, Pentagram Necklace * Occult, Wicca * has ended.
This is a very simple necklace, and as you can see it's not very long.. It's yet but not a choker kind of style. The necklace is leather with a silver pentagram pendant.. You can always put the pendant on a different necklace if it's too short or whatever you like.
In ancient times, the pentacle was revered as a symbol of life, the four classical elements of earth, air, fire and water, join with spirit to create life. Wearing the pentagram was and is viewed as protection and as a talisman of divine life and good health.
Did you ever notice that the natural way to draw a "star" is by making a pentagram, or that cutting an
apple crosswise reveals the Earth Mother's own pentagram? Since the apple has been a sacred
symbol of knowledge and eternal life for thousands of years in many different cultures, this certainly
gives the geometric pentagram almost "genetic" weight as an unconscious universal symbol of life!
The protection of the pentagram can be invoked by using the pentagram to make the "sign of the
cross": beginning at the left breast, with the right hand, go to the forehead, to the right breast, then left
shoulder, right shoulder and end at the left breast. A cycle is complete, the end is the beginning. This
continuous and closed or gateless sign of protection was used long before the Christians began to
cross themselves with a four-pointed cross.
The numerical properties of the pentagram also includes its 13 sides (13 lunar months), and its 8