Witchcraft Symbols

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