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I have been thinking long and hard about my resolutions this year. Unlike last year, I made a much smaller list, focusing mostly on improving myself and various aspects of my life. I did not focus on doing things to my home nor did I take on a bunch of tasks for 2017. While I love having a nice list of things I want to accomplish, we aren't in a financial place right now to take such things on. Unlike last year, I would like to put all my resolutions into a single post. I really liked Witchy…

Pentacles and pentagrams, though often used interchangeably, are not one! Both are used in similar contexts but there are differences.

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Pythagoreanism originated in the 6th century BCE and used the pentagram as a symbol of mutual recognition, of wellbeing, and to recognize good deeds and charity. From around 300–150 BCE the pentagram stood as the symbol of Jerusalem, marked by the 5 Hebrew letters ירשלם spelling its name. Today, the pentacle, commonly mistaken as a pentagram, is the most commonly used symbol of Wicca. Some post-Gardnerian wiccans, imitating Taoism, associate the five points of the pentagram with the four…

A pentacle is a five-pointed upright star with a circle around it, whereas the pentagram is a five-pointed upright star without the circle. From an occult perspective, pentacles are representative of "white" magic and "good." It also represents man's intellect and reason. Often times pentacles are used as talisman-inanimate objects laced with psychic powers. Pentacles also represent the "feminine element Earth." Following this "Earth" line of thinking, one particular advocate of witchcraft…

The difference between the pentagram and the pentacle (although very often the term is used interchangeably today) is that the pentagram is only the five-pointed star, whereas the pentacle is a five-pointed star within a circle. The modern pentacle is widely used in many nature-based religions, including Neopaganism, Wicca, Hermeticism, and even as a Tarot suit. One interpretation is that the five points on the star represent the five Elements: Air, Water, Fire, Earth, and Spirit.