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Don’t take the lyrics too seriously. I don’t really give a shit.

In the 90′s an earnest subset of non-initiate and non-British-Traditional Wiccans insisted that all Wiccans and witches only used the point up version, and that Satanists exclusively used the point down version, because they had stolen the pure and good symbol of the Wiccans and inverted it for their use exactly the way they used inverted crosses.  And there was much hand-wringing whenever Hollywood used upright stars in circles for “the bad guys” or inverted stars in circles for “good witches”.

In the 00′s there was a new definition that gained traction for a time that a pentacle was a five-pointed star in a circle, and was therefore “contained” and “safe”, and a pentagram was a five-pointed star without a circle, and was “dangerous” to use or wear because it could… summon things on its own?  use wild magic?  attract spirits? become a portal?  I’m a little fuzzy on this part.  But it was chaotic and “unbound” and therefore only suited to chaos magicians, reckless practitioners, and the most advanced witches, and should be kept out of the hands of children and new witchlings who needed to be protected from uncontrolled magic until they learned to defend themselves properly?  Anyways, it became very important among adherents to this philosophy to check all the penta-whatever pendants on a jewelry display to see if the points of the star were completely contained by, joined with, or extended beyond the circle, because these meant different things about how its magic worked and who it would be “safe” or “appropriate” for. Oh and now I remember that for a time there were people who ascribed great meaning to whether the lines of a penta-whatever amulet or inscription were flat-joined or interlaced like celtic knotwork, and if they were interlaced, whether the overlapping happened in one particular direction or the other.  But I never quite caught the meanings they associated with those things.  Darn.

A competing meme in the 90′s and 00′s was that the point up was for summoning, and the point down was for banishing. In the 10′s, the dominant story in the next generation of witchlings seems to be that the pentacle is any five-pointed star, in image or object (there is no differentiation between the shape and the physical object, that meaning has pretty much disappeared), with the point facing up, and is symbolic of “white witchcraft” (a racist distinction for another rant) or “good magic”, and the point down is a pentagram, which is used by Satanists, necromancers, demonologists, and “black magic”.

This new definition has become viral and I think we in the older generation are outnumbered now.  I think we’ve lost this meme war.  

But hey kids, if you’re reading books published before the turn of this century, please be aware that the author is probably using the older definitions of the terms and not these newer things.

Now what interests me is how it’s going to change in the next memetic shift.  Anybody want to place bets? I have a small bet that the new wave of “true meaning” will be that a pentacle has to be cast in silver, and a pentagram is anything made in a different metal, such as bronze, copper, iron, steel, pewter, gold, brass, etc.

Yes, there are all these wonderful and not so wonderful entities that wander the planes of existence. Aka dimensions. But NONE of these are automatically GOOD or BAD just because they are what they are. I’ve known great demons and asshole angels. So here’s a list of misconceptions of these beings that come from the etheric plane.

=Angels= Angels are NOT holy beings. They are NOT messengers or servants of “god”. They have a powerful hierarchy of 9 classes or chiors of angels leading up to someone considered an angel king or queen. They are NOT automatically good. Heaven is NOT a sanctuary for when you die. It just is a place in the upper etheric. 50% of angels are very “noble” and prissy. The other half are pretty nice.

=Demons= Demons are NOT automatically BAD. Hell is just a place in the lower etheric, and you need to stop with all of the “hell is for bad people” shit. Christianity is 80% wrong about hell and demons. 50% of demons are actually pretty honorable. The other half are rogue and act on their own accord.

=Reapers= There is NO SUCH THING as the GRIM REAPER. Get that out of your minds right now. Reapers are entities that guide souls, cause “accidents” and “coincidences”, and also do odd jobs here and there. They come from a realm called the void that is made of pure nothingness and able to be manipulated by imagination, if you have creation rights to a sector or plot. No, they are NOT gods or spirits of death in the TRADITIONAL way of thinking. That’s just silly. And yes, they CAN cause deaths, but only when it is your time to go. They can also HELP you, by changing your own fate. That is, if you contract one as a spirit guide.

=Shadow People= No, they are NOT always bad. Yes they are sometimes creepy, but what do you expect from a damn SHADOW? It’s not like they can turn into anything else. Other than that, I don’t know of any other stereotypes. They also come from the void.

=Shades= These are more animalistic shadow people that are less humanoid. They are in between metamorphosis of a shadow person and a void beast. Some shades stop metamorphosis and become full shades, others continue transforming. Again, these are NOT always bad. Just pretty damn scary if you see one. But sometimes they’re even cute, in a sick twisted way. Poor things, they don’t mean to be, half the time!

=Void Beasts= These are very animalistic entities with the desire to kill. Void beasts are extremely bloodlusty. And they have to keep this under control, otherwise it may consume them. But this bloodlust also makes them extremely powerful. HOWEVER, this does NOT mean that they are BAD. But I will admit, void beasts who DO become corrupted are actually EXTREMELY malign. And extremely powerful. Corrupted and crazy void beasts are sometimes interpreted as demons, in the malign religious sense. BUT. NOT ALL void beasts are this corrupt. Only around 40% of them.

=Spirits= If you’re playing around with Ouiji boards, you’re a dumb fuck. Because that attracts a lot of negative shit. Not kidding. It’s not just used to communicate with spirits. And poltergeists are most definitely real. But they’re basically spirits that have been corrupted and consumed by negativity. Spirits are usually bound to a location or object, and that is why they can’t pass on, oftentimes. And some are even attached to a person or entity. It all really depends.

=Ghosts= Ghosts are NOT SPIRITS. Ghosts are basically fragments of souls and imprints on time and space, sometimes even memories, that keep repeating themselves over and over and over again for eternity. The memories are usually events with a lot of emotion, or a repeated act that involved a lot of energy. They can also be emotions themselves, that are bound to a certain spot. For example, you might feel a ghost of anger and fear in a bathroom where someone was murdered out of rage. Just like a field or feeling of anger and fear whenever you go into that bathroom.

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