Pentacles of Solomon

Pentacle Activation – Prayer Version

General Outline for Pentacle Activation

To use the Seals or Pentacles of Solomon correctly, you would typically follow a set of guidelines from the grimoire known as the Key of Solomon (Clavicula Salomonis). Here’s a general outline of what’s involved:

Preparation: Create a clean, sacred space for your work. This often involves rituals of purification for yourself and your environment, such as bathing or ritual cleansing.
Timing: Perform the ritual at an appropriate time. In traditional practices, this often means during specific phases of the moon or on certain days of the week, depending on the nature of the pentacle and its associated planet or entity.
Materials: Prepare the necessary materials, which usually include:
- The Seal or Pentacle itself, inscribed on paper or another medium.
- A wand or sword for directing energy.
- Candles to symbolize the elements or deities associated with the ritual.
- Incense for purification and to create a spiritual atmosphere.
- Other ritual tools as specified by the grimoire or your specific tradition.
Invocation: Follow the specific invocations or prayers given in the grimoire. This often involves calling upon divine or spiritual entities to assist you in your work.
Inscription: Draw or inscribe the Seal or Pentacle with precision. This can be done on paper, metal, or another material. Ensure you follow the exact design and symbols as described in the Key of Solomon.
Visualization: Focus your intention and visualize the desired outcome of your work. The clarity of your intention is crucial for effective results.
Offering: Some rituals include offering specific items or performing particular actions as a gesture of respect or gratitude to the entities you’re working with.
Ritual Closure: Complete the ritual by thanking any entities you’ve invoked, closing the sacred space, and ensuring that all materials are properly stored or disposed of as per the instructions.
Follow-Up: In some practices, there may be follow-up actions, such as carrying out additional prayers, making offerings, or noting the outcomes of your ritual work.

Remember, these practices can vary based on different traditions and interpretations of the Key of Solomon, so it’s important to consult the specific instructions within the grimoire or the tradition you are following.

Traditional Activation

Pentacle preparation

If you would like to be super traditional and follow the instructions to the letter, each seal is made from a specific metal. In the modern versions, we draw or print out the seal. But it’s important for you to know that this is a modern adaption of what was traditionally required. There is also a certain day the seal should be prepared, and this corresponds to the planetary day appropriate for the seal. And there is also a suggested time for preparation. Even with modern preparations, I do recommend you follow preparing your seal on the right day in the right time.

Proper seal manufacturing increases their effectiveness.

Day

To properly make your Pentacles they must be made on the appropriate day, at one of the appropriate hours, be of the correct color and the appropriate metal. Try to ensure that your seal was made on the weekday that corresponds with the seal’s ruling planet. Pentacles of the Sun should be made on Sunday. Mondays are dominated by the Moon. Mars rules Tuesdays. Mercury rules Wednesday. Jupiter’s seals should be made on a Thursday. Influential Venus seals are created on Friday. A powerful seal of Saturn would have been made on Saturday.

Time

The hours of the day that the Pentacles should be made are 6 am, 1 pm, or 8 pm.

Use your seal on the day and time ruled by the seal’s planet. Every planet rules at least three specific times each day. For example, if you cannot wait until Sunday to use a Sun pentacle, you may use it Monday at 3 a.m., 10 a.m. or 5 p.m., the hours the Sun rules over. If you need to use your Saturn seal on a Thursday, you may do so at 5 a.m., noon or 7 p.m.

Metal

Just as the day and time of manufacturing increases effectiveness, so does the natural metal from which the seal is made. Pentacles of Saturn should have a large lead component. Jupiter seals are ideally made from tin. Medals for Mars should contain an iron component. In keeping with the color of the Sun, the best Sun seals are made of pure gold. Copper is associated with Venus. As implied by the planetary name, seals of Mercury should contain Mercury. Moon seals should be made from pure silver.

Color

Pentacle:	Day of the Week:	Color:	Metal:
Saturn	Saturday	Black	Lead
Jupiter	Thursday	Blue	Tin
Mars	Tuesday	Red	Iron
Sun	Sunday	Yellow	Gold
Venus	Friday	Green	Copper
Mercury	Wednesday	Mixed Colors	Mercury (POISON)
Moon	Monday	Silver	Silver

Other Tools & Materials

Frankincense and/or Myrrh
Seals – Pentacles of Solomon.
- Amazon also sells the seal sets, and it may be quicker and faster for you to buy these directly from Amazon
Pen or Markers of various colors

Preparation

Before the consecration ritual you’ll need to take a cleansing ritual shower or bath.

Take a shower. The Key of Solomon recognizes that using the seals is an opportunity to pray to and petition the God of Israel. The petitioner is better received while clean.

TIP – Even if you were on the left-hand path, you should prepare your own body and make sure you look at least presentable in front of the ancient Gods aka Demons.

Petition God

Petition the God of Israel directly by scribing one of His names. Use a pen or marker with a color ink that corresponds to your seal’s planet. Example: Mars would require red ink while Venus would require green.

Using the appropriate colored pen, draw 2 large circles on a piece of paper, one inside the other.

2. Between the two circles write the names of God that correspond to your wish: The name Elohim Gibor is called to punish evil. Elohim Tzabaoth is called to ask for mercy. El Shaddai is called to ask for blessings.

Elohim Gibor – to punish evil
Elohim Tzabaoth – to ask for mercy
El Shaddai – to ask for blessings

3. Place the Pentacle(s) inside the double circle you’ve chosen

4. Facing East, hold your Pentacle Seal (still inside the double circle) in the smoke of frankincense and/or myrrh incense to purify the seal.

5. While doing this read the following Psalms in this order: 8, 18, 26, 21, 31, 50, 28, 71, 53, 133.

6. To start spell recite “The Oration” found in Chapter 8 of the Key of Solomon to consecrate the seal.

The Oration/Spell

“O ADONAI most powerful, EL most strong, AGLA most holy, ON most righteous, the ALPHA and the OMEGA, the Beginning and the End; thou who hast established all things in thy Wisdom; thou who has chosen Abraham thy faithful servant, and hast promised that in his seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed, which seed thou hast multiplied as the stars of Heaven; thou who hast appeared unto thy servant Moses in flame in the midst of the Burning Bush, and hast made him walk with dry feet through the Red Sea; thou who gavest the Law to him upon Mount Sinai; thou who hast granted unto Solomon thy Servant these pentacles by thy great Mercy, for the preservation of Soul and of Body; we most humbly implore and supplicate thy Holy Majesty, that these pentacles may be consecrated by thy power, and prepared in such manner that they may obtain virtue and strength against all spirits, through thee, O Most Holy ADONAI, whose Kingdom, Empire, and principality, remaineth and endureth without end.”

8. Once consecrated, hold the Pentacle in your left hand and recite the scripture to activate the Seal. You will do this last action each time you want to use it.

You need to also learn the scripture associated with your Pentacle and recite it each time you use it.

For example VENUS PENTACLES

1^st Pentacle of Venus	Angels: Nogahiel, Acheliah, Socodiah (or Socohiah), Nangariel
2^nd Pentacle of Venus	Canticles 8:6
3^rd Pentacle of Venus	Genesis 1:28
4^th Pentacle of Venus	Genesis 2:23-24
5^th Pentacle of Venus	Psalm 22:14