Wax for the pentacle
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in making the pentacle, back when i first formed it. I used the plastic lid on the tub of Country Crock Spread and put pure wax in it, and put it in the freezer,
Did anyone else have better ways of doing it.. I have to re-make this pentacle..
King
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@Kingsolomon said
"in making the pentacle, back when i first formed it. I used the plastic lid on the tub of Country Crock Spread and put pure wax in it, and put it in the freezer,
Did anyone else have better ways of doing it.. I have to re-make this pentacle."
Your idea of a mold is a good idea.
Becaus ethe A.'.A.'. pantacle is 8" wide, the obvious mold for me was an 8" pie pan - one of the permanent ones with straight sides. (The only negative was a brand imprint on the bottom and, once it was all hardened, it was easy to take a torch to the bottom in easy swipes to melt the imprint off.)
The pie pan lets you easily to the 8" diameter and 1" thick standard. I had some beeswax candles I melted down (and one special candle, from a particular initiatory event, that I'd saved - I melted that into the mix). You need a hardener - I forget the name, but it's white waxy crystals or shavings that you can get from any candle making store. For engraving the top, wait until it's mostly solid then use an ice pick - have a flame nearby so you can repeatedly stick the ice pick point into the flame so you have a steel-hot precision cutting tool. This will easily engrave wax that's about 80% hardened.
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Jim
Thanks for that, I've engraved my pantacle with different symbols, some are more effective like the upward pentagram, it just seems with evocations it's mundane, one time I used the unicursal hexagram, that had great results, and then the standard "star of david" hexagram.. it's just different results.
Sometimes making your own symbol is the best.. but different pantacles for different workings.
this probably should be a separate post, but i always wanted to ask what symbol someone else used produced what result for them..
But each persons magickal experience is different
at any rate. thanks jim.. i'll try the 8' pie pan
King