He as the house of the pentagram
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Hey all,
There is an excellent thread here about the tzaddi he tarot swap and I have a question that relates somewhat to that. I am wondering what people think of He and it important relations to the pentagram. Along with many important correspondences, I can see a nice relationship to the Emporer, Aries and Mars, but am wondering what people think about the Star and Aquarius. Obviously the pentagram is a star but the Star of Aquarius has 8 points.
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@Coagvla said
"Along with many important correspondences, I can see a nice relationship to the Emporer, Aries and Mars, but am wondering what people think about the Star and Aquarius. "
My view: The Pentagram gets a lot of its 5 symbolism from G'boorah, which would provide all the martial etc. things you are seeing regardless of any other consideration. From Hé it gets other things.
In fact, the pentagram draws on several overlapping sets of symbols, of which G'boorah and Hé are only two. It has exceedingly important symbolism from 5 being the representation of Spirit's relationship to the four elements (the Y.H.Sh.V.H. formula etc.). Also from 5's place in the Fibonacci series of numbers, of which the pentagram is the primary geometric expression. I think, therefore, that we should speak be concerned that this symbol - which is martial yet far, far more than martial - should have some of its symbolism come from something martila (G'boorah), and some from several other things.
I think some of the main points that Hé and the pentagram express in common are these:
** It is the letter, in YHVH, that expresses the Great Mother, and is barely separable from many Biynah ideas. Remember that Nuit gives her own symbol as a five-pointed star of a particular kind, and all power, brilliance, world-formation, and even the blood are powerful female symbols. (This tends to get ignored in male-dominant thinking. Blood as a male symbol is primarily a matter of death. Blood as a female symbol is primarily a matter of birth in particular, and creativity in general.)
** The pentagram is a symbol of creative power. Hé's symbolism is intensely creative in several ways, both physical and metaphysical. (The full explanation of that would take another short essay, but you probably know the points. Most of it is in the attributions of the 15th Path commingled with the historic images attributed to Aquarius, etc.)
"Obviously the pentagram is a star but the Star of Aquarius has 8 points."
Only 8 points in some decks. (PFC has obviously influenced quite a lot the thoughts that led to this post.) 7 points in the Thoth Deck, for example. Either is as much an artistic as a doctrinal distinction. I think of The Star as the essence of all stars, not one specific, narrow, geometric form.
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Thanks Jim. In reading your post it occurs to me that, though I wasn't conscious of it, I seem to regard the pentagram as a masculine symbol (perhaps because of Mars, microcosm as son, the figure of a 'man' ideas) think I need to do some meditation on the feminine here, some Venus, Binah and He associations with the penatagram, which after all is a figure of the balance of E A F W under spirit.
If the Star is an archetype of stars there will be food for meditation here too. In just reading and replying to this cooment there feels like there are some potentially very beautiful vistas on the horizon.
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