Septagram - Seven Pointed Star

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.

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.