First Pentacle of the Sun

What this is

The First Pentacle of the Sun is the chief seal of the solar set in the Key of Solomon, cut to repress the pride and arrogance of the solar spirits and so to bring them into rightful order. It is the master-seal that humbles even the proud spirits of the Sun before the divine authority. It opens the solar work by setting its powers in their place.

What it governs

It governs the repressing of the pride and arrogance of the solar spirits. Its sphere is the rightful ordering of solar power: the humbling of overweening pride, the setting of the radiant spirits beneath the higher authority. It rules the bringing of the Sun's powers into proper humility before they are put to use.

Its properties

It is figured in gold on the day and hour of the Sun, its centre often bearing the figure that signifies the divine countenance. The upright virtue of the seal is the rightful authority that humbles even the proud, the order that sets every power in its place; its shadow is the danger of meeting solar pride with a greater pride of one's own. The pentacle teaches that even the brightest powers must bow to a higher order, and that the answer to arrogance is the quiet authority of the true centre.

Where else it appears

This seal that humbles pride is the talismanic skin of the same rightful solar order that Och embodies in the Arbatel as the generous centre and that the salmon shows in its faithful return to its true source rather than its display. The solar spirit's true centre, Michael's rightful command, and the drawn seal that represses arrogance are facets of one Sun that humbles the false centre. Set them together and the same rightful authority looks back.

Where you meet it on the Oracle

On The Day, the First Pentacle of the Sun appears as a tradition-face of Sunday, the day of Sun, beside the planet itself, the angel Michael, and the planet's other daily faces. When it surfaces it colours the day with its single purpose, recorded in the old grimoire as one to represses the pride and arrogance of solar spirits. Read it not as a literal talisman to cut but as the day's invitation to that exact work under Sun's hand: a pointer to the matter the day is shaped for, the door that stands open today.

Why it matters

It names the truth that even the brightest powers must bow to a higher order, and that real authority humbles pride rather than competing with it. It matters because the solar day asks you to hold your centre without arrogance. It asks you to set your own pride in its place before you shine.

Correspondences

planet

Sun

element

Fire

zodiac

Leo

sephirah

Tiphareth

day

Sunday

colour

Gold

metal

Gold

stone

Diamond

tarot

The Sun