First Pentacle of Venus

What this is

The First Pentacle of Venus is the chief seal of the Venusian set in the Key of Solomon, cut to control the spirits of Venus and so to open their whole bounty of love and grace. It is the master-key to the spirits of the planet of attraction. It is the foundation of the Venusian work.

What it governs

It governs the control of the spirits of Venus. Its sphere is mastery over the powers of attraction: the spirits of love, beauty, and grace that Venus commands. It rules the opening of the Venusian work and the summoning of its spirits to the heart that seeks connection.

Its properties

It is figured in green on the day and hour of Venus, its border carrying the names by which the Venusian spirits are bound to service. The upright virtue of the seal is love rightly drawn, grace and affection summoned to a worthy heart; its shadow is the compulsion that would force a heart rather than win it. The pentacle teaches that the love worth having cannot be coerced, only attracted, and that grace is given to the gracious.

Where else it appears

This master-seal is the talismanic skin of the same Venusian attraction that Hagith grants in the Arbatel, making the unloved loved, and that the angel Anael bears over Friday. The love-spirit's grace, the deer's disarming gentleness, and the drawn seal that controls the Venusian spirits are facets of one Venus. Lay them together and the same drawing love looks back.

Where you meet it on the Oracle

On The Day, the First Pentacle of Venus appears as a tradition-face of Friday, the day of Venus, beside the planet itself, the angel Anael, 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 controls the spirits of venus. Read it not as a literal talisman to cut but as the day's invitation to that exact work under Venus'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 love is drawn, not seized, and that grace comes to those who give it first. It matters because the Venusian day favours connection and affection. It asks you to be the kind of person love is glad to come to.

Correspondences

planet

Venus

element

Earth, Water

zodiac

Taurus, Libra

sephirah

Netzach

day

Friday

colour

Green

metal

Copper

stone

Emerald

tarot

The Empress