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I've been feeling a bit better, but I don't want to get everyone at school sick tomorrow...
Anyway, here's an article about pentagram.
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The Pentagram

The Pentagram is a symbol used by most Witches, Wizards, Wiccans, and Pagans. In its simplest form it is a five-pointed star drawn in an unbroken line. Such a star within a circle is the most popular and recognized symbol of modern Witchcraft. In ancient Babylon, the pentagram represented the Star of Ishtar (Venus). For Pythagoreans, it was a symbol of health. For early Christians, it represented the five senses, or the five wounds of Christ. However, occult writers like Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa again popularized it in its Pythagorean form during the Renaissance. Eliphas Levi and other 19^th century occultists held that the pentagram symbolized the four elements of matter, with spirit over all. For Levi, the pentagram represented the human microcosm, or tiny universe. An encircled pentagram is also known as a pentacle, and is used on tarot cards and altars to represent the Element of Earth. When placed in a window, or worn as a pendant, the pentagram repels evil. In ritual, pentagrams are drawn to both invoke and devoke the elements.

The inverted pentagram, with two points up and one point down, has been called evil by many occultists and non-occultists alike. But, that is not always the case. An upside down pentagram is reminiscent of the head of a goat with horns and a beard, so some witches use it that way to depict the Horned God, Pan. Aleister Crowley used the inverted pentagram in his Thelemic system to represent the descent of spirit into matter. Witches who have reached the Second Degree in the Gardnerian Tradition wear the pentagram with two points up as a reminder that their spirit and will are still subservient to matter, and that they will have to face their own darkness before attaining the Third Degree. However, the inverted pentagram has gotten so much press time as an evil symbol that a lot of witches won’t wear it in public.

There are pentagrams that appear in nature. A form of sea urchin known as a sand dollar looks like a pentagram with slightly rounded points, and is a particularly lucky thing to find on the beach. Sea stars, of course, present us with a wonderful variety of natural pentagrams. Cutting an apple horizontally reveals that the shape of the seed cavity is a pentagram. Finally, the path that the planet Venus takes, as observed from Earth, makes a beautiful form of pentagram that looks like a gently pointed five leaf clover inside overlapping concentric circles; it is called the Pentagram of Venus.