Category: Pentagram

Altar Pentagram Crafting 2025

3/18/2025

Magical Crafting
The Altar Pentagram

Magical Tool Crafting with Inner Circle Sanctuary

The Altar Pentagram

Saturday, April 19, 2025
6:00 to 9:00 PM
at UUCLV
3616 E. Lake Mead Blvd
Las Vegas, NV 89115

Join us as we craft our own altar pentacles.
Pentacles / Pentagrams is the foundation of your altar and the premiere symbol of the religion of Wicca. It encompasses the 4 elements and Spirit (The Akasha) all working together to help empower your spirituality and your work.

Stay tuned for a list of supplies.

Our events are always potluck and family friendly, so feel free to bring a dish to share if you’d like.

We ask for a $10 donation for our events. All money collected will be given to a local community charity.

Please consider one of these Southern Nevada charities that we love. Or, choose your own. Please message us a picture of the receipt so that we can keep track of the donations for posterity.

Three Square
https://www.threesquare.org/how-to-help/give

Furgotten Friends Dog Rescue
http://furgottenfriendsdogrescue.org/donate

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Las Vegas
https://www.uuclv.org/donate.html

The Las Vegas Natural History Museum
https://www.lvnhm.org/

If you’re unable to donate, don’t let that discourage you from attending.

This event will be held at:
UUCLV
3616 East Lake Mead Boulevard
Las Vegas, NV 89115
http://www.uuclv.org/location.html
We hope to see you.

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Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram

6/7/2024

The LBRP
Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram

"If You Love Your Pentacle So Much,
Then Why Don’t You Just Become It?”

We love our pentagrams. As witches, most of us own multiple pentagram necklaces, rings, earrings, piercings, and even tattoo our bodies with that awesome symbol of our Religion, Art, and/or Craft.

At Inner Circle Sanctuary, we teach that the pentagram represents the elements of nature (earth, water, air, fire) in total balance governed by Spirit. Their dynamic balance is contained and amplified by the intact circle surrounding it.

Now, imagine being in the middle of the pentagram, in that still-point, surrounded by the forces of nature and the divine power of the universe. As Witches and Wiccans, that is what we strive for: To be one with the earth and feel that connection to divinity.

Inner Circle Sanctuary is a school for Witchcraft and Wicca. To us, those terms are interchangeable. We are Witches. We are Wiccan. We use the natural world and our personal power to create change in our lives according to our Will. But, we are made stronger through our connection to Divinity.

Ours is a school for hardcore academics, but our purpose is to practice magic. The heart of our teachings is magic and ritual combined. So, for most of our magical workings, we perform some kind of pentagram ritual, from the LBRP of the Golden Dawn to a full Egyptian Ritual of the Pentagram and everything in between.

There are many reasons to perform a pentagram ritual: strengthening and cleansing your aura, helping you become more confident in your magic, etc

We like to do a pentagram ritual before our sabbat festivals because it also dispels any lingering energy or influences in our sabbat space. Our seasonal festivals are always held outdoors and in nature. So, when we go to a site, we physically clean the place of any garbage, we build our temple, and then we cleanse it spiritually using a version of the pentagram ritual.

Our sabbat rings, however, are a whole pentagram ritual on their own. We invite elemental guardians, we draw pentagrams, we invoke deity, and we do it all within a circle meant to contain and amplify Every single one of our sabbats and esbats are a pentagram ritual. You could even say that the LBRP is a condensed version of a sabbat ritual.

The purpose of a personal pentagram ritual is to ground and center you as the column or axis around which the universe rotates. You are the center of the universe. You are the center of your world. You are the center of the natural elements.

During our potential student interviews, people talk about wanting to find ways to bring more magic into their lives. But….You are magic. You just need to acknowledge and nurture it.

One way to do that is to perform your own Ritual of the Pentagram. You could do the well-known and well-loved Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, or you could do the whole ritual including the Invoking and Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram. Either way you do it, you are becoming that still-point in the middle. You are surrounded by all four elements and their rulers with the divine creative power as a brilliant white light above your head. You have entered the temple of the gods and are in the presence of divinity.

Perform your ritual every day and eventually you won’t even need to wear that pentagram jewelry you’re so fond of because you ARE the pentagram.

The LBRP Ritual

The shortcut version of the LBRP from Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts by Donald Michael Kraig

Step One: The Kabbalistic Cross
1. Touch your forehead with your pointer finger. Vibrate the word Ah-Tah (Ah-tay)
2. Point down to the earth. Vibrate the word Malkuth (Mahl-Koot)
3. Touch your right shoulder. Vibrate the word Vih-G’boo-Rah (Vuh geb oorah)
4. Touch your left shoulder. Vibrate the word Vih-G’doo-Lah (Vuh ged ulaah)
5. Fold hands at your chest. Vibrate the word Lih-Oh-Lam. Ah-men. (Lee oh lem, ah men)

Step Two: The Pentagrams
1. Go the east quarter of your space and face the east. Draw the banishing pentagram of Earth in the air before you. Point to the center of it and vibrate the god name Yud-Heh-Vahv-Heh (Yod hey vawv hey)
2. Draw a line connecting to the south quarter of your space so you are now facing south. Draw the banishing pentagram of Earth in the air before you. Point to the center of it and vibrate the god name Ah-Doh-Nye. (aww doe nye)
3. Draw a line connecting to the west quarter of your space so you are now facing west. Draw the banishing pentagram of Earth in the air before you. Point to the center of it and vibrate the god name Eh-Heh-Yeh (Eh hay yay)
4. Draw a line connecting to the north quarter of your space so you are now facing north. Draw the banishing pentagram of Earth in the air before you. Point to the center of it and vibrate the god name Ah-Glah (aww guh law)
5. Draw a line connecting back to the east, completing the circle. Return to center of your space.

Step Three: Evocation of the Archangels
1. Spread arms straight out to your sides so your body forms a cross with your palms facing forward.
2. Say: Before me, Raphael (Rah fay el)
Behind me, Gabriel (Gahb ray el)
On my right hand, Michael (Mih chai el)
On my left hand, Uriel (ohr re eel)
For about me flames the pentagram
And within me shines the six-rayed star.

Step Four: Repeat the Kabbalistic Cross
End

To perform the Invoking Pentagram Ritual, you would draw an invoking pentagram of earth instead of a dismissing pentagram of earth.

This ritual can be done to start your day or end it. It can and should be done before any magical or ritual work like spells, meditations, studying, sabbats, and esbats.

Our book of choice for beginners to learn the LBRP is Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts by Donald Michael Kraig

Altar: Pentacle

3/1/2023

Our Wiccan Altar: The Pentacle

Inner Circle Sanctuary

To practice your magical art, you need a sacred space. Many Wiccans and witches set up an altar for their craft working, and this can be anything from a small end table, or a lap desk on your bed, to a 9-foot marble behemoth.

Inner Circle Sanctuary is somewhere in between. We enjoy our craft and all the tools associated with our religion; therefore, we have a nice 6-foot table we like to use to hold all of our ritual accoutrement.
If you’ve ever been to one of our sabbats or public esbats, you’ve no doubt noticed our big and beautifully decorated altar as the centerpiece to all of our rituals. It’s full of deity statues, seasonal decorations, and tools.

Lots of magical tools.

The Altar Pentacle

The pentacle is the first thing you’ll notice on our ritual altar. It might be made of wood with the pentagram burned into it…..along with some candle wax stains. Sometimes, you’ll see a hand-painted pentacle that was lovingly traced and painted…… with a few water spots.

There’s even a huge and ornate, but scarred, altar pentacle that was designed and crafted by our founder, Lady Morgana. All were handmade and all are well-used. The scars they have only add to their beauty and power.

The pentacle is the symbol for earth, so what better element to be the foundation of our altar? It is the focal point where all the magic happens. For many Wiccans, the pentagram is the symbol of our religion and our magic: the four elements in dynamic balance, ruled by spirit, and enclosed in a circle to contain and amplify the power. This is how magic is created, so the altar pentacle is where we perform our magic.

Water and salt are turned into holy water on top of it.
Tools are consecrated by being placed on it.
Candle spells are empowered when set upon it.

It is truly the focus of our altar and it brings everything together.

Look at your altar pentacle. Is it scratched? Does it need a new paint job? Is it discolored? Good. Let it be imperfect. Let it be well-used and loved. Let it be the tool of your Craft.

by Lady Anwyn

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The Pentagram for Inner Circle Sanctuary

6/7/2017

Inner Circle Sanctuary pentagram criteria

There are five things needed to start with Inner Circle Sanctuary (ICS). Something you may already have is the pentagram pendant, ring, or other jewelry. The pentagram is not only an ancient protective symbol, it is also the premiere symbol of our religion and ICS has specifics in regards to its appropriate style. Our specifics are definitive for us and may differ for any other Wiccan group.

The star must be an openwork woven line star. Non-woven stars may be acceptable but it cannot be a solid star. Each point of the star represents one of the five elements and those elements work in synthesis with one another as represented by the unbroken line traveling through each element.

The star must have one point at the top.

The circle must be complete and unbroken as it is the symbol of unity linking each point with one another.

The star must be WITHIN the circle with the points of the star touching the edge of the inside circle. A closed circle amplifies and directs energy back into itself creating a stronger, more powerful symbol.

In our tradition, we believe the walls of our magical ring is a barrier that should not be broken by human, animal, or a paper plate on the wind. To create a 'boundary between the world of men and the realms of the Mighty Ones' we must be secure in knowing that the 'place that is not a place and a time that is not a time' is a secure precinct.

We choose to have the symbol our members wear reflect this understanding.

In the photo, one through four are unacceptable as a pentacle for our group.

1. The points extend outside the circle breaking the secure barrier.
2. The pentacle rests ON the circle instead of being in conjunction with it.
3. The star is neither woven or within the circle.
4. Same as number two.

In the photo, five through eight are acceptable as a pentacle for our group.

7. As decorative as this pendant is, all the criteria is met. The star is with the circle and the the circle itself is unbroken.
8. The star within the circle is a complete piece. The overlay of the symbol of the goddess makes it pretty but more importantly, does not interfere with the symbol itself.

During the first year, we administer a long lecture on the history & symbology of the pentagram.

For the other items needed to start in our classes, please see the 1st degree class page on our website: http://www.innercirclesanctuary.com/1st-degree-classes.html

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