Getting wood is an issue for me in a couple of ways.
Cardboard is less expensive to use as a source. Is there any rule preventing thick cardboard from being used as a pentacle source?
With either colored pencil, chalk, or acrylic paint used to color it with?
Or for that matter the flyflot cross?
No, there is no issue with cardboard. In Baal Kadmon’s book on the pentacles, he says paper works fine.
Perfect, thank you!
I’ve had elaborate ideas on crafting a powerful one, namely round copper plates, a cross of iron, beaded gemstones inside the pentacle and sealed with glue.
But, as money is tight (on SSDI and I’m in a care home for 600 a day), and my sister is helping me as much as she can in terms of visiting me, doing my laundry and bringing me snacks, I don’t want to be asking her to go shop at Michael’s for me…
I found out through an Adept in the HOGD that Mathers or Westcott used virgin paper and cardboard to craft their Rose Cross lamen.
So the solution appears in agreement, this dilemma is resolved.
Using Activities and Arts and Crafts hours to make my Earth Pentacle out of cardboard and paint? Use silver color and glitter for Air dagger blade.
I thought I saw paints in the activities room today, which would be a nice change of pace to actually do this work, instead of putting a puzzle together. Upside is coffee is available.
I think I will put this together this week. Starting tomorrow morning.
As it was not yet implemented, today I will do during arts and crafts, the initial design for the Pentacle, and then the Pentacle itself made out of cardstock or cardboard.
I’ve no excuse for not starting this early, even on paper.
I bought one online a decade ago, and had it for a few years before losing the tools while moving.
So I’ve experienced what art and craft goes into designing one. Or at least will.
It’s the same design on each side by original concept or tradition, but there are variations which exist.
Tomorrow I will try to be on top of designing and making one. Perhaps to design all tools of construction paper during arts and crafts day/times.
We will see.
It has on each side four wedges of 90° each. Each wedge is a different color. Each wedge shares a certain symbolic meaning. Citrine, russet, olive, black flecked with gold. Outside of this circle has a sign of the cross and names. On the edge are spirits and their sigils from the rose.
So there’s that.
Today in the Activities room, I am going to be working off cardstock/construction paper and later glue the two (top and bottom) pemtavles and gofnames on each to two pieces of cardboard circles. Then paint with white acrylic paint or a bottle of white out.
At least to get it started. Then colored markets/sharpies for the four wedges.
During arts and crafts yesterday, I found a curious wooden circle, with knot magick weaves around twelve bubbles.
So not only can it be a seal around a circular seal design, but potentially function as a rainbow wand.
I am thinking of using a black sharpie to write Tetragrammaton around the hexagram, and Divine names in the pentagram:
White - Ehiyeh
Red - YHVH Tzabaoth
Green - Adonai ha Aretz
Yellow - Shaddai El Chai
Blue - Elohim Tzabaoth
I give up on for whatever reason it is that is preventing me from uploading a photo of it.
For some reason Firefox keeps crashing on me trying to upload a photo of the pentagram I made.
Here is the pic of the Pentacle:
Wednesdays and Saturdays afternoon is Arts and Crafts in the Activities Room. While others say it looks cool, the perfectionist in me does not say it looks cool, the OCD/Perfectionist in me. So Wednesday it is. Will try all three forms, round wood piece, star form, and cardboard cutouts. Glued together for height and painted on top, bottom and outer edge.
I think I’m going to write the Divine Name TETRAGRAMMATON around the five wedges of the pentagram, and in the five wedges the Divine Name of the element. So Eihieh, Elohim Tzabaoth, YHVH Tzabaoth, Adonai ha Aretz, Shaddai El Chai.
