Pagan symbols
And other magic signs, including the elements, zodiac, and alchemy
The magic use of the symbols is adapted in sorcery of today. Pagan symbols, the magic of symbol or the symbols magickal were employed in many manners, extending from alchemy to astronomy, astrology and naturally to the magic. No matter who who never is asked “what is your sign? ” really refers to the symbol concerning your zodiac or signs astrological. These signs and symbols represent the chemical compounds and were employed the first time like codes for the secret societies or short hand for scientists. As a witch these symbols are accustomed to concentrate on a result in ritual practices or to focus your energies towards an element or a specific deity. We with the magic wands of Goldentree employ symbols in all our work. That it is above a magic wand magic, a book of the shades, or as simple as your pentagram of furnace bridge. These symbols can be of great power if you can employ them.
Below you will find four sets of magic of symbol: The elementary symbols, which cover the four elements employed in the ritual one of Wiccan. Symbols of Wiccan, such as the triple moon. Alchemical symbols, which were around for ages. And naturally signs of the zodiac.
ELEMENTARY SYMBOLS
GROUND
Tool of Wiccan:
Cauldron or pentagram
Furnace bridge/ritual place of circle:
North
Suggestion for the representation:
To represent the ground in your ritual circle, we suggest a salt cup, dirtiness (ours rests in a porcelain pumpkin), or grass and seeds.
Ritual use:
The full element. Useful for the magic which is regular progress concerned, safety, fertility and total abundance. This element is indeed good for all the things worked in the physical form.
AIR
Tool of Wiccan:
Athame or magic wand
Furnace bridge/ritual place of circle:
Is
Suggestion for the representation:
To represent the air in your ritual circle, we suggest the extreme incense.
Ritual use:
The evasive element. Te makes it possible to send messages (communication) and to write poetry. The air also gives you the clearness of the thought and the assistances while studying, to dream magic and work with spirits.
FIRE
Tool of Wiccan:
Athame, magic wand or sword
Furnace bridge/ritual place of circle:
South
Suggestion for the representation:
To represent fire in your ritual circle, we suggest burning a white candle.
Ritual use:
The element of clearness. Fire represents passion and the emotion with the gathering of the people. It is useful by destroying bad habits and by burning these things which we do not have requirement in our lives. It brings the purity, the explanation, the power and the vision.
WATER
Tool of Wiccan:
Cauldron or chalice
Furnace bridge/ritual place of circle:
Westerner
Suggestion for the representation:
To represent water in your ritual circle, we suggest a basin of holy water. Holy water can be made by combining part of your salt (element of the ground) with water your (we employ the purified water of a filter) while saying an incantation.
Ritual use:
The element of the movement. Water cleans and purifies, it represents subconscious and spiritual energy, with the consolidation, abundance, the movement and the transformations.
SPIRIT or EACH OF the 4 ELEMENTS or HEXAGRAM
Tool of Wiccan:
Furnace bridge/ritual place of circle:
Center
Suggestion for the representation:
Your pentagram of furnace bridge.
Ritual use:
The fifth element (not, not the film with Bruce Willis). This symbol gives you the instruction and is the obligatory bond above each of the four elements, grounds, airs, fires and water. It is created by calling all these elements together in a circle. The element of the spirit is employed when you want to invite a specific deity. This symbol is drawn by linking the symbols of fire and water.
SYMBOLS OF WICCAN
What follows are symbols used in Wicca. Majority of the symbols which you will find here to have summers around for ages. Use of Wiccans a collaboration of the symbols of other pagan religions which they adopted for their clean. Consequently, they are not symbols simply of Wiccan, but of the universal symbols of other sectors.
PENTAGRAM
Other names:
Five-acute to hold the first role. To hold the first role of microcosm. The foot of the witch. The morning hold the first role. The evening hold the first role. Node without end.
History:
Theacute ones hold the first role are the result of astrological research made on 6.000 years ago having for result any connection some with Satanism or Christianity. Pythagore used the pentagram to represent the human being with the points of holding the first role representing the head, the arms and the legs, adding the circle unifies and creates the spirit. On a side note, the pentagram or Pentagram represents the phi: 1.618, the perfect number. This number symbolizes the perfection in all the things which exist on this plane, for an example, the human face, broken up in the form has the basic core and structure of Pentagram. How is it for the perfection?
Elements:
The pentagram represents the five elements of the ground, the air, fire, water, and the spirit.
Uses of Magickal:
Like protective device: To carry a pentagram around your neck to protect itself.
Ritual use:
A pentagram is synonymous with the ritual one with Wiccan. It represents the spirit and protection. A pentagram is one of the most important devices in your ritual circle and can be simply represented by drawing a pentagram in the sky above your operating area, in dirtiness if working outside, or on a piece of paper to be thrown later.
PENTAGRAM
Other names:
Five-acute to hold the first role. To hold the first role of microcosm. The foot of the witch. The morning hold the first role. The evening hold the first role. Node without end. Wild Rose.
History:
Pentagram represents the five elements and was thus employed like top hat of tree of Yule in ancient Celtic traditions, consequently to hold the first role on the Christmas tree. For more history, to see the pentagram please above.
Elements:
Ground, of the air, fire, water, and the spirit are represented by the five points of Pentagram.
Uses of Magickal:
It is a sign of the secrecy and can be used your book of the shades or your box of furnace bridge in which you store all your materials ritual.
Ritual use:
Since Pentagram represents the elements it can be employed instead of a pentagram for all operations ritual.
RING SPIRIT
Other names:
History:
The circle of spirit is useful simply for Wiccans, in much of cultural stories that a person would walk around an object, nobody, or place during a ceremony of birth, marriage or death, or to carry happiness or destroy the evil.
Elements:
Ground, air, fire, water, and spirit
Uses of Magickal:
A circle of spirit can be employed instead of a pentagram.
Ritual use:
The circle of spirit represents the walk or the moulding of the ritual circle. All the ritual one claim the frame of a circle and to call quarters to seal and create an environment of operation crowned for the witch.
RING TRIPLE
Other names:
History:
Elements:
Uses of Magickal:
Ritual use:
In the ritual, the triple circle is employed to invite the triple goddess: Young lady, mother, and woman. This gives the power to your ritual circle by amplifying the body, the spirit, and the spirit.
THE TRIPLE MOON
Other names:
The goddess
History:
The triple moon was associated the life of the goddess: Young lady, mother, woman. While the waxes of the moon, becomes weakens completely then, it is an interminable cycle which also represents the life.
Elements:
Goddess
Uses of Magickal:
A certain use of Wiccans this symbol to indicate their sector simply, if it is on a collar or a tee-shirt.
Ritual use:
This symbol can be placed anywhere on your furnace bridge to mean the towers of the life, birth, life and be died or also our large mother or any female deity which you wish to connect to.
GOD WITH HORNS
Other names:
Green man
History:
God with horns represents the male aspect in Wicca and is as old as the goddess itself.
Elements:
God. Nature.
Uses of Magickal:
Can be carried like collar to represent your belief in Wicca subtly.
Ritual use:
God with horns is marvellous in the ritual when you want to celebrate a male deity. Once used as well as the triple moon, it represents the nature of the opposúx perfectly.
HEPTAGRAM
Other names:
Seven directed hold the first role. To hold the first role of Come
History:
The original base for the heptagram came from the astrology and seven known planets of time with the seven days of the week. The heptagram, for the modern day Wiccans, represents the distribution of planetary energies by the seven days of the week. Heptagram was also adopted like symbol for the magic in the traditions of Wicca de Faerie.
Elements:
Sun, the moon, Mars, mercury, Jupiter, Come and Saturn
Uses of Magickal:
Can be engraved or painted on your book of the shades to defend and protect the contents inside.
Ritual use:
Calculated planetary hours. In the ritual, each planet holds the specific elements and energies (see diagrams below) and the heptagram can help to concentrate these energies on a specific planet.
CELTIC CROSS
Other names:
History:
The history of the Celtic cross is a muddle of information which is difficult to match through and is also difficult to find the true story. Suivret as close to the history and the truth which we could obtain without writing a pound and spending to seek years. From the point of view of pagan history anything of similar goes: These crosses started outside like rings simple representing the moon. When the Christian came to convert the druids, they employed symbols, which in their case was the cross. They drew the cross in the circle to show that their religion was of higher value, of this fact of creating “the Celtic cross. ” On another note of paganism: The circle still represents the moon, whereas the cross or four lines intersecting represents the sun. Consequently, the druids adored the sun and the moon. The complaint of Christians and catholics who it is was always a symbol of their religion, however to prove a point on the pagan side, Christianity is a new religion, whereas the druids were around during centuries. Still of others, claim it like phallic symbol. You are the judge.
Elements:
Sun and the moon
Uses of Magickal:
Can be employed for beautiful decoration while the majority of Wiccans celebrate Celts and their beautiful drawing-model.
Ritual use:
Use to represent the sun and the moon, God and goddess, or male and female
ALCHEMICAL SYMBOLS
ALCHEMY
Significance:
“Alchemy is a bridge between the ground and sky, matter and spirit, the full one and the fluid, the obvious one and the invisible one, joining together the horizontal one and the vertical. ” ~ J. Ramsay. Alchemy, in short, is to transform the thought into matter. While concentrating on the following symbols of alchemy, one says that one achieves a goal such as a change of the life. It is how you, like use of Wiccan this symbol to enrich and engage in your ritual. Alchemy, if studied and practised rather hard were known as to transform the wire into gold.
Energy:
The vacuum
SUN
Energy:
Will and success
Element:
Fire
Color:
Yellow or gold
The MOON
Energy:
Emotion
Element:
Water
Color:
White or blue
MERCURY
Energy:
Communication and speed
Element:
Air
Color:
Blue or money
COME
Energy:
Socialization
Element:
Air
Color:
Green
GROUND
Energy:
Force and stability
Element:
Ground
Color:
Yellow or green
MARCH
Energy:
Action
Element:
Fire
Color:
Red
JUPITER
Energy:
Expansion
Element:
Fire
Color:
Crimson
SATURN
Energy:
Order, restriction, authority, crossroads
Element:
Ground
Color:
Black or blue of midnight
URANUS
Energy:
Experimentation
Element:
Air
Color:
Blue-clearly
NEPTUNE
Energy:
Transformation
Element:
Water
Color:
Aqua
PLUTO
Energy:
Regeneration
Element:
Water
Color:
Black or brown
SIGNS OF ZODIAC
RAM
Dates:
March 21 to April 20
Reigning planet:
March
Element:
Fire
Part of body:
Head
Color:
Red
Energies:
The chief: Control, beginnings, action, energy
BULL
Dates:
April 21 to May 21
Reigning planet:
Come
Element:
Ground
Part of body:
Gorges and neck
Color:
Yellow
Energies:
The pragmatist: Safety, resistance, sensuality, demonstration, persistence
GEMINI
Dates:
May 22 to June 21
Reigning planet:
Mercury
Element:
Air
Part of body:
Lungs, arm, hands
Color:
Red or crimson
Energies:
The transfer one: Talkativeness, movement, mental energy, ingeniousness, versatility
CANCER
Dates:
June 22 to July 22
Reigning planet:
The moon
Element:
Water
Part of body:
Centres and stomach
Color:
Green
Energies:
The mother: Home environment, emotions, sensitivity, affection, sympathy
LION
Dates:
July 23 to August 22
Reigning planet:
Sun
Element:
Fire
Part of body:
Heart
Color:
Yellow, gold, orange
Energies:
The interpreter: Confidence, free expression, success, courage, vitality
VIRGIN
Dates:
August 23 to September 22
Reigning planet:
Mercury
Element:
Ground
Part of body:
Intestines
Color:
Blue of sky, purple
Energies:
The analyst: Service, analyzes, effectiveness, understanding
BALANCE
Dates:
September 23 to October 22
Reigning planet:
Come
Element:
Air
Part of body:
Kidneys
Color:
Purple
Energies:
In love one: Diplomacy, report/ratio, beauty, socialization, balance
SCORPION
Dates:
October 23 to November 21
Reigning planet:
Pluto
Element:
Water
Part of body:
Bodies of sex
Color:
Brown-reddish
Energies:
The controller: Secrecy, power, justice, regeneration
SAGITTARIUS
Dates:
November 22 to December 21
Reigning planet:
Jupiter
Element:
Fire
Part of body:
Hips and thighs
Color:
Orange or crimson
Energies:
The traveller: Idealism, study, exploration, honesty
CAPRICORN
Dates:
December 22 to January 20
Reigning planet:
Saturn
Element:
Ground
Part of body:
Knees and bone
Color:
Brown or blue
Energies:
The father: Rewards, building, businesses, ambition, diligence, conscience
VERSEAU
Dates:
January 21 to February 19
Reigning planet:
Uranus
Element:
Air
Part of body:
The ankles and puts low
Color:
Blue or green sea
Energies:
The humanitarian: Detachment, independence, humanitarian
FISH
Dates:
February 20 to March 20
Reigning planet:
Neptune
Element:
Water
Part of body:
Feet
Color:
White, crimson or Aqua
Energies:
The visionary: Hymn, transformations, visionary, compassion, imagination, receptivity