5 Pointed Star Jewelry

The five pointed star, a Sumerian symbol for Venus, originates in the astronomical observation by those ancients of the movement of the planet through the seasons. In Pythagorean mysticism, the pentagram stands for the human being (a figure with arms and legs outstretched). Pythagoreans used the symbol as a wish for good health. Pentagrams in circle and their magickal iterations are HERE.

Heptagram/Septagram Jewelry

The Septagram is the symbol known as the “Seven Pointed Star.” It’s a particularly apt and powerful symbol for a complete planetary magick system because it shows the powers of the seven planets of classical astrology in balance. Balancing the seven powers, not avoiding one or the other, is the ultimate accomplishment of any practitioner of planetary magick. The Septagram is a symbol of the completed work: the seven planets in equipoise You can view each point in the star as belonging to a Planet. This way, each day of the week easily fits into your construct. Generally a canny practitioner would put Sol at the top, as the most important force in the Solar System, and ring the other points in order. Septagram in the Thelemic Pantheon Aleister Crowley chose the Septragram to be his glyph for Babalon, the “Great Whore”, his vision of the synthesis of the Universe in many ways. For more on the Star of Babalon go here.

The significance of the number seven should be obvious in most occult writings. Seven represents the triumph of Matter over Spirit 4/3 or Spirit over Matter 3/4, depending on your viewpoint. The Septagram as symbol of balance is unerring. It shows all seven major planetary energies in the form of the seven ancient planets of the philosophers in equipoise.

8 Pointed Star Jewelry

The 8 pointed star is a Gnostic symbol, known as the "Octagram of Creation." It is associated with Venus, and is also sacred to Ishtar. In Nordic tradition, the octagram is used to invoke magick and also as a protecting ideogram. Chaospheres have 8 points - order 90 degrees and chaos 45 degrees.

8 Pointed Star/Compass Star Jewelry

The compass star is composed of eight points - four tall ones which stand for the primary four directions (N, S, E and W - duh!) and four short ones (NE, SE, NW and SW). I'm not sure why N, S, E and W are considered more important (long points) than NE, SE, NW or SW (short points) since whatever direction one needs to go would seem to me to be at least as important as the direction one didn't need to go if not more so....but then, what do I know. The design also references the conjunction of Jupiter and Venus that occurred in 2 BCE. This design is also used a lot in heraldry.

8 Pointed Star/Octagram Jewelry

This is the traditional Star of Ishtar. Composed of two intertwined squares, this is a symbol of regeneration. It is a symbol for the natural universe, interweaving order and disorder, yin and yang, to create an ultimately harmonious and balanced design. Here the jump ring is placed between the points.

13 Pointed Star Pendant

Now I get to talk about: triskaidekaphobia (from Greek tris=three, kai=and, deka=ten + phobia=fear), fear of the number 13. The number 13 is considered unfavorable by many though it was a lucky number in ancient Egypt and China. There were 13 people at the Last Supper. And several mass murderers have 13 letters in their names: Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy, Richard Cheney. Witches, perhaps to clearly oppose themselves to a Christian superstition, sometimes have groups of 13 known as covens. Some think 13 owes its bad reputation to Loki, the Norse god, who started a riot when he crashed a banquet at Valhalla attended by 12 gods. Some cities skip 13th Ave., but not Sacramento, CA, which has an intersection where 13th Street crosses 13th Avenue. Some buildings skip from the 12th to the 14th floor, which, of course, means that the 14th floor is actually the 13th floor. The Death card in a tarot deck is numbered 13 and represents transformation. Those cultures with lunar calendars and 13 months don't associate 13 with anything sinister. According to a 1996 Gallup poll, 9 percent of Americans are superstitious about the number 13. In 1881, an influential group of New Yorkers came together to put an end to this and other superstitions. They formed a dinner cabaret club, which they called the Thirteen Club. At the first meeting, on Friday 13 January 1881 at 8:13 p.m., 13 people sat down to dine in room 13 of the venue. The guests walked under a ladder to enter the room and were seated among piles of spilled salt. All of the guests survived.

Related is the specific fear of Friday the 13th, called paraskevidekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia. Great words!

The 13 pointed star below is probably our limit for stars with internal cuts, unless you want a star much larger in diameter (say 3" or more), in which case you could probably have 24 points - or 26! This piece can also be had without a stone and without a circle. Email us.